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Cpt_Obvious
Jun 18, 2007

THS posted:

all adversarial sports and competitions should be banned in favor of bringing back synchronized swimming

I remember watching the old Japanese "Ninja Warrior" obstacle courses. Competitors were so friendly, and you couldn't help but cheer for every single one of them. Even though they were technically in competition with each other, they viewed the course as the adversary and it was truly adorable to watch some of the younger contestants fawn over the older vets like kids meeting a rock star.

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T-man
Aug 22, 2010


Talk shit, get bzzzt.

any game you can win or lose is anticommunist, bougie propaganda teaching our children to alienate themselves and those around them

watching anime will be the only sport allowed, with points awarded based on trivia remembered and ability to act like the characters. there are no losers in anime.

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
only the watchers are the losers.


anyway sports are fun but watching sports in general is lame. unless it's soccer, which pwns. i don't understand hockey but it is also fun to watch

cenotaph
Mar 2, 2013



GalacticAcid posted:

Fidel loved baseball, like me

https://twitter.com/PicturesUssr/status/1332150903600603137?s=20

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES

Very cool, I’ve never seen this thanks

How!
Oct 29, 2009

Whats the deal with the Peace and Freedom party?
They seem good, but I’ve only just started checking them out.

At the very least, Riva helped me tick a box that wasn’t for Biden.

e: I tried hanging with the DSA and thought they were a bit toothless and cannibalistic during their meetings. I also went to one meeting of the fourth international when I was in school and that was a stupid poo poo show.

Basically, which socialist or communist group can I support without hemorrhaging my time to assholes?

How! fucked around with this message at 05:37 on Nov 27, 2020

biceps crimes
Apr 12, 2008


T-man posted:

any game you can win or lose is anticommunist, bougie propaganda teaching our children to alienate themselves and those around them

ok but what about sports anime, like my favorite anime Chihayafuru

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


Talk shit, get bzzzt.

gay_crimes posted:

ok but what about sports anime, like my favorite anime Chihayafuru

*head explodes* liiiiiiiiiberalsssssss

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

How! posted:

Whats the deal with the Peace and Freedom party?
They seem good, but I’ve only just started checking them out.

At the very least, Riva helped me tick a box that wasn’t for Biden.

e: I tried hanging with the DSA and thought they were a bit toothless and cannibalistic during their meetings. I also went to one meeting of the fourth international when I was in school and that was a stupid poo poo show.

Basically, which socialist or communist group can I support without hemorrhaging my time to assholes?

they're a random party that more or less falls in line with PSL, presumably because PSL itself has the wrong type of tax structure to do political campaigns.

Trash Ops
Jun 19, 2012

im having fun, isnt everyone else?

T-man posted:

any game you can win or lose is anticommunist, bougie propaganda teaching our children to alienate themselves and those around them

watching anime will be the only sport allowed, with points awarded based on trivia remembered and ability to act like the characters. there are no losers in anime.

but what about you, the biggest loser

dead gay comedy forums
Oct 21, 2011


Centrist Committee posted:

sports are good but football is bad

football, as in "foot-to-ball", is the prime leftist sport

Doc Hawkins
Jun 15, 2010

Dashing? But I'm not even moving!


no matter their sport, a true leftist athlete would use both legal and illegal means to win

Victory Position
Mar 16, 2004

Doc Hawkins posted:

no matter their sport, a true leftist athlete would use both legal and illegal means to win

spear your opponents with your pole before you vault

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


Talk shit, get bzzzt.

Trash Ops posted:

but what about you, the biggest loser

have you heard the term "philosopher king"? it's like that but for having correct anime opinions

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Happy Birthday to Engels, unfairly labeled the "Luigi of Socialism"

https://twitter.com/oktyabrvperedi/status/1332451332272295937

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

Plutonis posted:

Happy Birthday to Engels, unfairly labeled the "Luigi of Socialism"

https://twitter.com/oktyabrvperedi/status/1332451332272295937

that led me to see this tweet so now you all have to see it too

https://twitter.com/justaflatbat/status/1331829427777511424

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

why would you retract a doxxing because someone was dead. yeah, it may cause distress in a the wider family, but so does getting someone fired, arrested, or just beat up.

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?
eh I can sort of see an argument for taking it down. now that they’re dead it does nothing except possibly upset the family, so why fight them on it if they ask

Victory Position
Mar 16, 2004

Plutonis posted:

Happy Birthday to Engels, unfairly labeled the "Luigi of Socialism"

https://twitter.com/oktyabrvperedi/status/1332451332272295937

wow, the big 200. happy birthday to you, Engels!

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
Engels' "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific" is one of my favorite reads and one that helped guide my journey, his enthusiasm for Marx's biggest ideas and his own contributions as well are vital to everything that has been built thus far

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?
yeah that one’s a banger

dead gay comedy forums
Oct 21, 2011


Plutonis posted:

Happy Birthday to Engels, unfairly labeled the "Luigi of Socialism"

https://twitter.com/oktyabrvperedi/status/1332451332272295937

the greatest "I am totally gay for my bro" ever, we salute you comrade

ToxicAcne
May 25, 2014
What makes Trotskyist groups so pervasive in the Anglo left. All of these tiny rear end groups seem to be completely ineffectual yet manage to last decades. They're basically the tardigrades of the left.

Edit: It's not covert state funding is it?...

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

ToxicAcne posted:

What makes Trotskyist groups so pervasive in the Anglo left. All of these tiny rear end groups seem to be completely ineffectual yet manage to last decades. They're basically the tardigrades of the left.

Edit: It's not covert state funding is it?...

as opposed to the non-Trotskyist groups which have huge memberships and are super effectual?

dead gay comedy forums
Oct 21, 2011


indigi posted:

as opposed to the non-Trotskyist groups which have huge memberships and are super effectual?

:drat:

hahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

ToxicAcne
May 25, 2014
Nah I meant that those mass orgs got blown the gently caress apart but these guys still manage to hang on for god knows how long.

Victory Position
Mar 16, 2004

Leon Trotsky, the Waluigi of communism,

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
does that make Bakunin wario?

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?
Lenin is Yoshi

I got the tude now
Jul 22, 2007
*thinking hardly* why would those who believe in permanent revolution continue to struggle endlessly?

Emmideer
Oct 20, 2011

Lovely night, no?
Grimey Drawer
Can Trotskyists see why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch?

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

ToxicAcne posted:

What makes Trotskyist groups so pervasive in the Anglo left. All of these tiny rear end groups seem to be completely ineffectual yet manage to last decades. They're basically the tardigrades of the left.

Edit: It's not covert state funding is it?...

There's a certain appeal in a left tendency that distinguishes itself specifically apart from whatever value judgement is laid down against the USSR, or the PRC, or more bluntly, the so-called excesses of "Stalinism" and Maoism.

This is not to say that this is the only reason people pick it up, but it's similar to "Democratic Socialism" and "Libertarian Socialism" in the sense that it allows one to be a leftist, but a leftist that hopefully has a credible defense against being accused of supporting genocide.

Microcline
Jul 27, 2012

It's the result of direct (funding, infiltration) and indirect (media control and propaganda) methods to cultivate an "anti-communist left" that's compatible with US/European imperialism and white supremacy

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJXdLxQ1/

ilhans daughter owns

e-dt
Sep 16, 2019

I got the tude now posted:

*thinking hardly* why would those who believe in permanent revolution continue to struggle endlessly?

EYYYY THINKIN HARD OR HARDLY THINKIN!!

Ferrinus
Jun 19, 2003

i'm finding this quite easy, i guess in part because i'm a fast type but also because i have a coherent mental model of the world
trotsky basically wrote the left anticommunism playbook and is somewhere in the ancestry of basically every western org

THS
Sep 15, 2017

gradenko_2000 posted:

There's a certain appeal in a left tendency that distinguishes itself specifically apart from whatever value judgement is laid down against the USSR, or the PRC, or more bluntly, the so-called excesses of "Stalinism" and Maoism.

This is not to say that this is the only reason people pick it up, but it's similar to "Democratic Socialism" and "Libertarian Socialism" in the sense that it allows one to be a leftist, but a leftist that hopefully has a credible defense against being accused of supporting genocide.

this is exactly right i think, it’s a way to absolve ones self of having to defend any communists who took power, other than the first years of the russian revolution

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

lol

ToxicAcne
May 25, 2014

THS posted:

this is exactly right i think, it’s a way to absolve ones self of having to defend any communists who took power, other than the first years of the russian revolution

I remember some posters a while back saying the same thing about Anarchism, except replace the Russian Revolution with Anarchist Catalonia.

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Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
i think if you are unable to defend stalin or mao, you have not actually read any history. but that's just my opinion.

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