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What is the most powerful flying bug? This poll is closed. |
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| 🦋 |
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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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12 | 2.97% |
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67 | 16.58% |
| dragonfly |
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94 | 23.27% |
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14 | 3.47% |
| 🐝 |
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87 | 21.53% |
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Comrade Koba posted:lol, not even close 
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Jan 17, 2023 10:46
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Comrade Koba posted:lol, not even close yeah. europeans are practically howling for a war to distract us from declining material conditions. I think the worse things get, the more eagerly we want war, to give it purpose and meaning.
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Jan 17, 2023 11:02
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Tankbuster posted:What if he is Otto Skorzeny? he should kill himself (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jan 17, 2023 11:03
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Zodium posted:yeah. europeans are practically howling for a war to distract us from declining material conditions. I think the worse things get, the more eagerly we want war, to give it purpose and meaning. lol yeah, and in a way we've even gone past the distraction part. current mode of reasoning seems to be to acknowledge that yes, the declining material conditions are real and extremely bad, but it is your patriotic duty to endure them without questioning, because to do otherwise would be treason against democracy and enabling putinist fascism.
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Jan 17, 2023 11:05
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looks the Soledars been taken, now lets see how and if the russians will manage Bakhmut
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Jan 17, 2023 11:27
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Here in the UK, nurses striking over repeated real-terms pay cuts have been called Putin enablers, and trades unions are portrayed in the press as basically taking orders from Moscow.
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Jan 17, 2023 11:36
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Mr. Xi. End this farce already.
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Jan 17, 2023 11:37
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I will give you one US dollar for it.
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Jan 17, 2023 11:38
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Al-Saqr posted:looks the Soledars been taken, now lets see how and if the russians will manage Bakhmut you messed up, im sure you meant to say quote:looks like russia finally bungled their way to a victory in soledar, let's see how many months they stall and lose all momentum before they throw lives at attempting to take bakhmut
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Jan 17, 2023 11:40
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Frosted Flake posted:Beforeigners season 1 is pretty funny and occasionally clever, but they run out of ideas in season 2 and start leaning more heavily on the time travel stuff and that makes it much worse
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Jan 17, 2023 11:42
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Al-Saqr posted:looks the Soledars been taken, now lets see how and if the russians will manage Bakhmut Who Soledares Wins
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Jan 17, 2023 11:50
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Comrade Koba posted:lol yeah, and in a way we've even gone past the distraction part. current mode of reasoning seems to be to acknowledge that yes, the declining material conditions are real and extremely bad, but it is your patriotic duty to endure them without questioning, because to do otherwise would be treason against democracy and enabling putinist fascism. the prime minister of norway has been rejecting the idea that the government of a country has its first duty to the citizens of that country. there's a war on! today, the former editor and main political commentator of a news paper started by maoists called the class struggle said that the Red party's line about how it is problematic to contribute to a NATO proxy war and that this justifies not sending arms implies that the party cannot be in favour of a military defence of norway so long as the country is in NATO it's a very weird situation to be in and the war is making everyone very stupid
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Jan 17, 2023 11:53
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V. Illych L. posted:the prime minister of norway has been rejecting the idea that the government of a country has its first duty to the citizens of that country. there's a war on! today, the former editor and main political commentator of a news paper started by maoists called the class struggle said that the Red party's line about how it is problematic to contribute to a NATO proxy war and that this justifies not sending arms implies that the party cannot be in favour of a military defence of norway so long as the country is in NATO 
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Jan 17, 2023 11:58
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I'm stupid as gently caress.
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Jan 17, 2023 12:00
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it reaches the point where i have to pause and think through things because people whom i have previously respected get themselves to say things which seem completely inane to me without anyone reacting. at this point, either i'm actually going crazy or there's something quite bizarre going on
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Jan 17, 2023 12:03
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There's probably a Ukrainian and Russian soldier somewhere taking a break to talk about their waifus right now.
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Jan 17, 2023 12:03
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Frosted Flake posted:So much here explains events since 2014 I'm frustrated that nobody has written about it much yet. One thing I will say, it does make the election of Zelensky almost incomprehensible as well as the "Big Israel" comments, since Ukrainian nationalism considers war against Jews as one in the same as war against the "Imperial" powers: Austria, Poland, the USSR, and the Russian Federation, that they associate with protecting Jews, and of course oppressing themselves, in the province. What you might be missing here is that Galicia is still not Ukraine, and people outside of Galicia have, or had, different ideas.
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Jan 17, 2023 12:06
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V. Illych L. posted:it reaches the point where i have to pause and think through things because people whom i have previously respected get themselves to say things which seem completely inane to me without anyone reacting. at this point, either i'm actually going crazy or there's something quite bizarre going on The post-90s period was just a pause until eventually the wheels would come back in motion. America's political economy is simply too unstable to lead to a longer period of peace, and eventually the world would come back to the geopolitics of old. I think the tricky part is that Europeans and many Western leftists thought they were "above the fray" when clearly they were as tied to the American imperium as much of the rest of the world. In addition, there have always been far leftists who seemed always oddly protective of the structure of the American state. Ukraine is a necessary win for the United States to re-establish complete dominance of not only Europe but to corner Russia and eventually lead to containment strategy versus China. Without victory in Ukraine, the US is in genuinely a tricky position. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 12:36 on Jan 17, 2023 |
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Jan 17, 2023 12:15
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:There's probably a Ukrainian and Russian soldier somewhere taking a break to talk about their waifus right now. I hope to live long enough to see a peace process break down because one side will be Asuka chads while the other is full of Rei virgins
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Jan 17, 2023 12:33
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Comrade Koba posted:lol yeah, and in a way we've even gone past the distraction part. current mode of reasoning seems to be to acknowledge that yes, the declining material conditions are real and extremely bad, but it is your patriotic duty to endure them without questioning, because to do otherwise would be treason against democracy and enabling putinist fascism. War as justification for declining material conditions caused by neoliberalism. V. Illych L. posted:it reaches the point where i have to pause and think through things because people whom i have previously respected get themselves to say things which seem completely inane to me without anyone reacting. at this point, either i'm actually going crazy or there's something quite bizarre going on It's not you. We are in a period comparable to the immediate 9/11 aftermath in how many people have just completely lost their loving minds. What gets me the hardest is people who you would have expected to understand ideology and class to also go completely off the rails. Like say, Zizek. Orange Devil has issued a correction as of 12:37 on Jan 17, 2023 |
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Jan 17, 2023 12:34
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Al-Saqr posted:looks the Soledars been taken, now lets see how and if the russians will manage Bakhmut is there even anything left standing in that whole area?
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Jan 17, 2023 12:37
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Orange Devil posted:It's not you. We are in a period comparable to the immediate 9/11 aftermath in how many people have just completely lost their loving minds. Things are slipping quickly, and I think more than simply rage...this is really down to control. The West is losing it, and even very reasonable people will support anything to keep it together. This why this war isn't really about Russian revanchism, Galician neo-fascism, or protecting Europe from invasion, it is about that critical pawn on the chessboard that would flip the game.
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Jan 17, 2023 12:40
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Ardennes posted:Things are slipping quickly, and I think more than simply rage...this is really down to control. The West is losing it, and even very reasonable people will support anything to keep it together. that's right
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Jan 17, 2023 12:42
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Orange Devil posted:War as justification for declining material conditions caused by neoliberalism. Yeah, except I'm not surprised about Zizek.
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Jan 17, 2023 12:49
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genericnick posted:Yeah, except I'm not surprised about Zizek. here’s a fairly long article about this that just came out: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/01/02/capitalisms-court-jester-slavoj-zizek/
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Jan 17, 2023 12:53
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otoh that article contains this line which...idkquote:Not unlike Elvis, who notoriously rose to fame in the music industry by appropriating, domesticating, and mainstreaming music from Black communities that was often rooted in very real struggles, Žižek became a front man in the global theory industry by borrowing his most important insights from the Marxist tradition but subjecting them to a playful postmodern cultural mash-up to crush their substance, thereby commodifying them for mass consumption in the neoliberal era of anti-communist revanchism
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Jan 17, 2023 13:00
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tennis drama in Australia https://www.yahoo.com/now/russia-belarus-flags-banned-australian-004556074.html Russia and Belarus flags banned at Australian Open after Ukraine protest quote:Mon, January 16, 2023 at 9:20 PM PST
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Jan 17, 2023 13:01
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marxist appropriation
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Jan 17, 2023 13:01
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Ardennes posted:Things are slipping quickly, and I think more than simply rage...this is really down to control. The West is losing it, and even very reasonable people will support anything to keep it together. Great ep of my favourite Canadian podcast about that Liberalism is out of gas, and in Canada the “far right” is going to sweep into power because they are the only ones even talking about doing something different. The media is straight up telling people food being expensive is good because it fights obesity and fasting helps with mindfulness. The consent manufacturing machine around The End of History ratchets up with every failure and it’s leading to insane levels of resentment, which in the absence of an alternative vision of society or economy, led to the Truckers. The NDP, demoralized from the 90’s or something, has decided that propping this up, rather than challenging it, amounts to moral good and so has become sidelined during a crisis of capitalism. So, Canada is unravelling but the Edmonton Police are throwing the book at a journalist who is accused of defacing a Nazi monument and the media is both sidesing the Holocaust in order to defend Ukrainian nationalism lol. Anyways, solid ep, “Apologies for the late episode - both Dan and Riley have been on tour, but we've got this one for you (recorded a while back). Contained herein: ideas for new recipes, Nazi statue watch, and the Tory leader "uniting the country" with a very thin gruel of vibes alone.” Frosted Flake has issued a correction as of 13:05 on Jan 17, 2023 |
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Jan 17, 2023 13:01
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genericnick posted:Yeah, except I'm not surprised about Zizek. I always thought post-structuralism including Lacan was always about distracting people from the very clear vertical structures of power in the West and there was a reason it was always promoted by academics who lived in fairly comfortable material circumstances. Zizek more than most danced the line a bit by hanging pictures of Stalin in his place or giving some praise to the material achievements of the PRC...but when push came to shove it is obvious he would choose one side. That said, big names in Western academia don't get that way by accident, and you got to play the game if you want your boat. A Bakers Cousin posted:otoh that article contains this line which...idk To be fair to Elvis, I think he was always pretty upfront with what he was doing while Zizek always did a little more mugging. It isn't the best comparison but I could see that Zizek was always a bit of a fraud, entertaining no doubt, but his analysis especially from the historical side really felt thin. I wouldn't even say he didn't have nothing to say either but he wouldn't contest the end of history. Anyone remember Mark Blyth? Frosted Flake posted:Great ep of my favourite Canadian podcast about that Yeah, part of that is just the way of things in the West at the moment, but also I think just that specifically Alberta as a province never fully fit in the Confederation even as so much Quebec. The NDP at their core though are very much still reformist liberals, it is just their turn was perhaps a bit slower than the left-liberalism than the US but really they got their rise very much in the New Deal area and today get by with the Bernie-charade. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 13:12 on Jan 17, 2023 |
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Jan 17, 2023 13:03
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as is the case with most upper middle class intellectuals zizek knows better than to actually bite the hand that feeds, regrettable but not surprising
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Jan 17, 2023 13:06
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Cerebral Bore posted:as is the case with most upper middle class intellectuals zizek knows better than to actually bite the hand that feeds, regrettable but not surprising 
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Jan 17, 2023 13:10
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Arestovich resigned. Lol, lmao
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Jan 17, 2023 13:59
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Ukraine is literally collapsing in front of your eyes. Never has this been witnessed.
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Jan 17, 2023 14:00
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Organ Fiend posted:Arestovich resigned. lmao
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Jan 17, 2023 14:09
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lol it's because of what he said about the rocket isn't it
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Jan 17, 2023 14:10
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Lockhimupovich
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Jan 17, 2023 14:13
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I have information leading to the Arestovich of Hillary Clinton
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Jan 17, 2023 14:14
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mawarannahr posted:here’s a fairly long article about this that just came out: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/01/02/capitalisms-court-jester-slavoj-zizek/ this is mostly good but then it has pearls like "Žižek was the party’s candidate for the four-person presidency of the earliest break-away republic, which served as a wedge for dismantling the SFRY." the tragedy of SFRJ's end is probably second only to that of USSR's, but SFRJ was super fuckin dead by that time due to dumb nationalisms forming in its republics. slovenia not leaving wouldn't have done poo poo except maybe lead to even more infighting/death
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gradenko_2000 posted:I have information leading to the Arestovich of Hillary Clinton
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