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Creamed Cormp
Jan 8, 2011

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
Ok, time out, is this supposed to be a joke thread?

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Mc Do Well
Aug 2, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
If the American left and right united against liberalism/globalism they wouldn't be friendly to Russia.

ugh its Troika
May 2, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

WitchFetish posted:

Ok, time out, is this supposed to be a joke thread?

No, but there's quite a lot of funny things in it anyways.

Shayu
Feb 9, 2014
Five dollars for five words.
Thanks for the article I enjoyed it a lot! :D

Dilkington
Aug 6, 2010

"Al mio amore Dilkington, Gennaro"

Math Debater posted:

Yeah, I've previously seen that photo of Dugin with David Duke. And I actually listened to the David Duke interview with Syrian Partisan Girl that you previously linked to in its entirety! My opinion of Syrian Partisan Girl is honestly much higher than my opinion of either Brown Moses or the late Vilerat.

Thanks for the book recommendations about fascism, Dilkington! I think I get what you're saying about "mystical" fascist literature. I've read the first 12 chapters of Revolt Against the Modern World by Evola thus far, and I feel inclined to want to dismiss the work as "the well-constructed yet totally irrelevant lamentation narrative of a sad aristocrat who is sad about the decline of aristocracy". I'm going to keep reading it though, because it is interesting to me and I feel like it's expanding my consciousness.
Evola is too influential for his work to be considered irrelevant. Looking at Revolt Against the Modern World not as a Fascist, it's definitely camp and weird, and enjoyable for that, but to the extent it provides a weltanschauung, it's about as good as Dianetics. If you are really enamored with the idea of a "aristocrat of the soul," I would read Nietzsche and Joseph Conrad instead (or hell, Marcus Aurelius), who did it first and did it with a lot more intellectual vigor.

My experience with Fascism is primarily through working-class Italians, whose Fascism is very non-intellectual, and involves venerating men like Mishima and D'Annunzio more for their exploits than their art- I think if they read Evola they would consider it effete bullshit.

Math Debater posted:

Judaism, eh? I thought Judaism was a non-proselytizing religion and I thought converts to Judaism generally weren't welcome. I honestly don't see myself wanting to become a Jew in the future. But thanks for the suggestion!
Well, Judaism has historically been non-proselytizing because non-Jewish authorities tended to make it illegal for them to proselytize. After a few thousand years, Jews stopped trying (and of course, everyone looks non-proselytizing next to Christians and Muslims).

Up until a few decades ago here in the US, it was traditional for Rabbis to turn away people looking to convert- the idea being that those who were really interested would return a second or even third time. That's changed since the 90s, when leading Reform and Conservative Rabbis asked Jews to actively seek converts (although Conservatives tended to prioritize getting non-Jewish spouses to convert rather than just anyone). The effort didn't really catch on. Nonetheless, anyone can convert if they make the effort.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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I thought that there was already an ideology that was supposed to be about the left and the right uniting against liberal democracy and it was called fascism.

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

Fojar38 posted:

I thought that there was already an ideology that was supposed to be about the left and the right uniting against liberal democracy and it was called fascism.

Not really, as fascists despise the left, and the "left wing" parts of say the Nazis tended to only a little leftist on economic policy and completely rightist on everything else.

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
hello goons. im glad your in this thread right now, because this is a post that you and youre family cant afford to miss. as usual our corporations overlords are doing their best to decept the masses. this is a new advertisement by nike, which was paid for stratfor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaNM_T1d1as

you can follow along as i analys this piece from the nike press release on vox i'm cross referring to

http://www.vox.com/2015/7/15/8970099/nike-flyease-letter-cerebral-palsy

the long and short of it is that in an attempt to anestethize people to the harsh reality of a world ruled by corporate interests, this ad came out to show corporations as "human," or "people" or "human interests." it revolves around a "16 year old" "boy" "matthew walzer."

here's "matthew" with probably his hero lebron james because nike makes dreams come true because they are so beneviolent



"matthew" suffer from cerebral pozy, and so he allegedly cannot put on his own shoes on. we'll come back to this later. nike cares about "matthew" very much, because corporations are people and have humans emotions you see. they "feel" bad for "matthe" because he is crippled. they do not care about buying elections for people who worked at nike in college. they do not care about saving money on making shoes by having them made at foxconn. and they certainly dont care about making the public docile so that they can keep on "pull the wool." no, they care about matthew. so what do they do for matthew? they made him a show that you can supposedly put on yourself if you have cerebral pozy.



yes its very designed for disabled people and not just a normal shoe. probably one that lebron james will be wearing his next games. you should buy it to support "matthew". theyre nice.

of course, nike wouldnt know anything about how to make a shoe that fits people with cerebral pozy because rich people can afford to not get cerebral pozy. speaking of rich people not getting cerebral pozy, lets take a look at "michael" in the video. notice that we dont get a clear view his face, and that he has sticks



people with cerebral pozy cant walk well because their legs are kind of bent, so they need to have sticks to help them. someone who had cerebral pozy would know this. now lets look at a picture nike made of "matthew" to show how excited he was to be blessed by his friend the neighborhood coporation. the inconsisticies are super obvious



the truth is that no corporation has helped anyone like "matthew" ever, and its because they only care about money and power but they need for the people of america to think that they help people like michael because if they never helped "michael" then people would start to ask if the corporations have ever helped ANYONE. and we cant have that. so they paid an actor to pretend to have cerebral pozy and mixed that with video of someone who actually has cerebral pozy (im not aware of how nike actually got a man with cerebral pozy. odds are they pulled him out of a for profits prison) in a big fake video that was filmed in qatar for a big pr boost. "matthew" actually can put on his normal shoes. he can put them on quite well. if youre outraged by this you havent been paying attention

stay safe everyone

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Volkerball posted:

hello goons. im glad your in this thread right now, because this is a post that you and youre family cant afford to miss. as usual our corporations overlords are doing their best to decept the masses. this is a new advertisement by nike, which was paid for stratfor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaNM_T1d1as

you can follow along as i analys this piece from the nike press release on vox i'm cross referring to

http://www.vox.com/2015/7/15/8970099/nike-flyease-letter-cerebral-palsy

the long and short of it is that in an attempt to anestethize people to the harsh reality of a world ruled by corporate interests, this ad came out to show corporations as "human," or "people" or "human interests." it revolves around a "16 year old" "boy" "matthew walzer."

here's "matthew" with probably his hero lebron james because nike makes dreams come true because they are so beneviolent



"matthew" suffer from cerebral pozy, and so he allegedly cannot put on his own shoes on. we'll come back to this later. nike cares about "matthew" very much, because corporations are people and have humans emotions you see. they "feel" bad for "matthe" because he is crippled. they do not care about buying elections for people who worked at nike in college. they do not care about saving money on making shoes by having them made at foxconn. and they certainly dont care about making the public docile so that they can keep on "pull the wool." no, they care about matthew. so what do they do for matthew? they made him a show that you can supposedly put on yourself if you have cerebral pozy.



yes its very designed for disabled people and not just a normal shoe. probably one that lebron james will be wearing his next games. you should buy it to support "matthew". theyre nice.

of course, nike wouldnt know anything about how to make a shoe that fits people with cerebral pozy because rich people can afford to not get cerebral pozy. speaking of rich people not getting cerebral pozy, lets take a look at "michael" in the video. notice that we dont get a clear view his face, and that he has sticks



people with cerebral pozy cant walk well because their legs are kind of bent, so they need to have sticks to help them. someone who had cerebral pozy would know this. now lets look at a picture nike made of "matthew" to show how excited he was to be blessed by his friend the neighborhood coporation. the inconsisticies are super obvious



the truth is that no corporation has helped anyone like "matthew" ever, and its because they only care about money and power but they need for the people of america to think that they help people like michael because if they never helped "michael" then people would start to ask if the corporations have ever helped ANYONE. and we cant have that. so they paid an actor to pretend to have cerebral pozy and mixed that with video of someone who actually has cerebral pozy (im not aware of how nike actually got a man with cerebral pozy. odds are they pulled him out of a for profits prison) in a big fake video that was filmed in qatar for a big pr boost. "matthew" actually can put on his normal shoes. he can put them on quite well. if youre outraged by this you havent been paying attention

stay safe everyone

makes you think

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8rSexNF4Ts

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vapoursquid
Sep 28, 2013

none other
I think that humans are really terrible at collectively making decisions.

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