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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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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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Weka posted:Is it necessary that Ukraine win for the USA to establish that dominance? It seems to me that just having the war is allowing it to do that and that Ukraine losing would if anything encourage the Euros to more willingly accept the hegemony of the USA. i feel like it could be a smidge embarrassing to first spend a year+ yelling about how this is the existential conflict of our age and how the plebs have to shut up and suffer for the sake of freedom and democracy and all that only to lose against an enemy that you've also spent that year+ describing as inept and hopelessly primitive
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Jan 17, 2023 20:41
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Cerebral Bore posted:to be fair nobody likes awareness seminars at work because you can tell that your employer doesn't actually give a poo poo and it's just a cynical waste of your time for pr purposes nah the hr people. the human capital consultants etc all love that poo poo and really believe it
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Jan 17, 2023 20:42
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Most of the Inuit people can live in desolate reservations where a head of lettuce costs $100, as long as one lucky kid gets to be a government mathematician so the Liberals can say they're helping. If you point out the communities still don't have clean drinking water, they might hire a second Inuit mathematician and do a land acknowledgement
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Jan 17, 2023 20:43
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Weka posted:Is it necessary that Ukraine win for the USA to establish that dominance? It seems to me that just having the war is allowing it to do that and that Ukraine losing would if anything encourage the Euros to more willingly accept the hegemony of the USA. Europe already pulled the trigger on itself and the USA can do whatever it wants with the body. But the corpse is already rotting and resources need to be sent to the next project. Too many resumes are tied up in the current project to just take the loss and move on. That’s a black mark that could affect future earnings. Instead it’s going to take a decade plus for the stakeholders to make their exit and the failed project handed over to the designated fall guys.
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Jan 17, 2023 20:54
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Chamale posted:Most of the Inuit people can live in desolate reservations where a head of lettuce costs $100, as long as one lucky kid gets to be a government mathematician so the Liberals can say they're helping. If you point out the communities still don't have clean drinking water, they might hire a second Inuit mathematician and do a land acknowledgement It’s pretty upsetting. Everyone loses.
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Jan 17, 2023 21:06
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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/ I like this quote: quote:The mystery man from the East—a literal caricature of the ‘crazy Marxist,’ best captured by the sobriquet ‘the Borat of philosophy’—rose like a perverted phoenix publicly masturbating over the flames that had destroyed Soviet-style socialism.
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Jan 17, 2023 21:25
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zizek eats from the dumpster of history and he'd be the first person to tell you that probably
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Jan 17, 2023 21:51
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I don't think I've ever seen or heard anything from Zizek implying anything other than "this guy kind of sucks rear end"
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Jan 17, 2023 21:58
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Ytlaya posted:I don't think I've ever seen or heard anything from Zizek implying anything other than "this guy kind of sucks rear end" He’s an entertaining podcast guest, and that ain’t nothin’.
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Jan 17, 2023 22:06
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He sniffs a lot and sounds funny when he talks. Not like humorus funny, but weird funny.
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Jan 17, 2023 22:13
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Cerebral Bore posted:i feel like it could be a smidge embarrassing to first spend a year+ yelling about how this is the existential conflict of our age and how the plebs have to shut up and suffer for the sake of freedom and democracy and all that only to lose against an enemy that you've also spent that year+ describing as inept and hopelessly primitive I mean that's a western tradition at this point
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Jan 17, 2023 22:14
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Ytlaya posted:I don't think I've ever seen or heard anything from Zizek implying anything other than "this guy kind of sucks rear end" the Pervert's Guides are pretty fun
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Jan 17, 2023 22:21
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Cerebral Bore posted:i feel like it could be a smidge embarrassing to first spend a year+ yelling about how this is the existential conflict of our age and how the plebs have to shut up and suffer for the sake of freedom and democracy and all that only to lose against an enemy that you've also spent that year+ describing as inept and hopelessly primitive You are ascribing normal people emotions to neo-liberal processes. Losing a war to the Taliban seems to have been all but forgotten.
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Jan 17, 2023 22:24
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Lostconfused posted:He sniffs a lot and sounds funny when he talks. Not like humorus funny, but weird funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HLUZKXrWzQ
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Jan 17, 2023 22:25
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Bar Crow posted:Europe already pulled the trigger on itself and the USA can do whatever it wants with the body. But the corpse is already rotting and resources need to be sent to the next project. Too many resumes are tied up in the current project to just take the loss and move on. That’s a black mark that could affect future earnings. Instead it’s going to take a decade plus for the stakeholders to make their exit and the failed project handed over to the designated fall guys. Lol if you think failure makes too much of a dent in these peoples' careers and even if it does, they're still just grist to the mill, capital doesn't really care about this fail kids, the best they can hope for is a better quality of life. Iraq didn't work out too well in terms of profit (although those Syrian oil wells are nice) but it's not like it was a serious stumbling block to hegemony.
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Jan 17, 2023 22:28
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quote:According to his biographer Tony Myers, Žižek disliked the communist culture of his homeland. Surely clued into potential opportunities for personal socio-economic advancement in the larger capitalist world, this venal young intellectual devoted himself to imbibing Western pop culture. “As a student,” Myers writes, “he developed an interest in, and wrote about, French philosophy rather than the official communist paradigms of thought.”[23] His Master’s thesis on French theory “was deemed to be politically suspicious” because, in the words of his fellow Slovenian philosopher Mladen Dolar, “the authorities were concerned that the charismatic teaching of Žižek might improperly influence students with his dissident thinking.”[24] In retrospect, they turned out to be right 
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Jan 17, 2023 22:43
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gently caress this vivec guy
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Jan 17, 2023 22:48
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Weka posted:You are ascribing normal people emotions to neo-liberal processes. Losing a war to the Taliban seems to have been all but forgotten. yeah no, the shitlibs will believe what they're told to believe of course, but the rest of the population might take a somewhat dimmer view to being forced into further misery for no reason Cerebral Bore has issued a correction as of 22:58 on Jan 17, 2023 |
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Jan 17, 2023 22:55
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Futanari Damacy posted:Praying for this guy's safety- it takes courage to speak the truth. Given how that regime operates that may be the last time he's seen in public ever again. Or at all.
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Jan 17, 2023 23:03
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Atrocious Joe posted:The US is going to start treating Europe like it's treated Latin America for the past century This was inevitable once enough demographics in upper USA power structures diversified to other ethnicities and backgrounds. The old blood thinned out.
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Jan 17, 2023 23:05
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Majorian posted:He’s an entertaining podcast guest, and that ain’t nothin’. But I don't think he is; he talks in a way that is unpleasant to listen to and doesn't really say anything interesting while doing it. I usually end up thinking "this is kind of awkward/boring and it's not clear to me what point Zizek is trying to make."
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Jan 17, 2023 23:12
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zizek is an interesting person and i have learned things from reading and listening to him
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Jan 17, 2023 23:15
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Ytlaya posted:But I don't think he is; he talks in a way that is unpleasant to listen to and doesn't really say anything interesting while doing it. I usually end up thinking "this is kind of awkward/boring and it's not clear to me what point Zizek is trying to make." Eh, I just go into it with the expectation that the weird sniffing man will string together words in a random manner. That usually amuses me, but hey, I’m easily amused.
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Jan 17, 2023 23:16
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tbh i still haven't forgiven zizek for murdering nerevar
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Jan 17, 2023 23:19
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He's a somehow more disgusting Matt Christman i.e. someone who can string a few Marxist phrases together but after a few minutes you realize they aren't really *saying* anything.
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Jan 17, 2023 23:20
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That article is good, I never realized that he was always an anarcho-natoist.
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Jan 17, 2023 23:24
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i'm anarcho stalinist no gods, no masters, only gulag
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Jan 17, 2023 23:29
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BadOptics posted:He's a somehow more disgusting Matt Christman i.e. someone who can string a few Marxist phrases together but after a few minutes you realize they aren't really *saying* anything. Less woo woo, not married to a comedienne.
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Jan 17, 2023 23:30
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Truga posted:i'm anarcho stalinist Commenting on recent scandals involving Joseph Stalin, Russian Orthodox archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin wrote on Facebook this Wednesday that the infamous Soviet leader was actually a divine servant sent to punish the men responsible for the Bolshevik Revolution and the Red Terror. Addressing recent scandals involving Stalin — the restored memorial plaque at Kutafin Moscow State Law University and a new survey showing that Russians consider Stalin to be the world’s all-time most remarkable person — Chaplin blamed the uproar on people who “tremble at thought of a strong hand,” which he argues is essential for the future of Russia. “Yes, Stalin was an atheist, at least for most of his life. And yes he is responsible for the deaths of many innocent people — especially peasants, Cossacks, and clergymen. But he was God’s scourge against the bloody authors of the revolution and the ‘Red Terror.’ An unwilling (or perhaps willing?) servant of God — ‘a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil’ (Romans 13:4), like the Roman emperors, persecutors of Christianity,” Chaplin wrote on Facebook. Chaplin went on to say that Russians who “tremble” today at the mention of Stalin’s name are the “biological, ideological, and spiritual descendants” of the “executioners” whom Stalin righteously destroyed.
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Jan 17, 2023 23:32
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Zizek scolded for Biden
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Jan 17, 2023 23:37
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Turned out Stalin was an angel after all
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Jan 17, 2023 23:38
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bedpan posted:Zizek scolded for Biden 
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Jan 17, 2023 23:40
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bedpan posted:Zizek scolded for Biden he said that he preferred trump to clinton and got no ends of poo poo for it including a public berating on channel 4, so he likely didn't think it worth it
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Jan 17, 2023 23:44
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Jan 17, 2023 23:51
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DancingShade posted:Given how that regime operates that may be the last time he's seen in public ever again. Or at all. Arestovich is one of those well-connected, amoral guys that floats around the political spectrum, he'll be fine. Even if he isn't, who cares?
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Jan 17, 2023 23:54
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:Arestovich is one of those well-connected, amoral guys that floats around the political spectrum, he'll be fine. Even if he isn't, who cares? True enough. It's a shame Ukraine had a grain focus instead of banana plantations.
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Jan 18, 2023 00:11
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:Arestovich is one of those well-connected, amoral guys that floats around the political spectrum, he'll be fine. Even if he isn't, who cares? every life is precious except for russians of course
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Jan 18, 2023 00:23
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CODChimera posted:every life is precious Every life is “Precious,” based on the novel “Push” by Sapphire.
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Jan 18, 2023 00:54
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:Arestovich is one of those well-connected, amoral guys that floats around the political spectrum, he'll be fine. Even if he isn't, who cares? how hard it looks like he's punished will have an effect of how much future officials will have to adhere to the current propaganda narrative and tells us how strong and/or desperate the current administration is
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OhFunny posted:Kazakhstan ends indefinite stays for Russians this has always been a really dumb loophole for countries that have these kinds of visa agreements and i dont know why more of them dont fix it
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