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Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




dogs are animals

gold is mineral

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Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




Fallen Hamprince posted:

bob dole


bet stalin's ghost pops a spooky boner every time u bomb the poo poo out of some "pre-feudal" village with thermobarics

dole wasnt planning to win just to take the loss so no rising star had to

also he wanted to help the gop downticket

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




DOCTOR ZIMBARDO posted:

read the McCaine critique of market socialist nonsense and then read Cockshott and Cottrell's book on central planning. the calculation problem envisioned by Austrian economists has been decisively solved and many of the largest capitalist firms today perform central planning indistinguishable from that required of a socialist government

haha cock shott

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




every time zerg or hamprince posts in this thread pm me and when i see the pm i will 6 them

maybe just the one who posted maybe both of them

this is an excellent thread and i will not abide it becoming suck zone b

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008





holy smoke

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




https://discord.gg/3qVrHJE

you can and should make an lf freaky ghost bed channel

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




https://twitter.com/chartsweb/status/925874329564442624

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




we interrupt this struggle session for a message from idiot komrade squizzle

Squizzle posted:

spend $5 to buy a gangtag (buy it as an av) and i will, for free, restore yr prev av (w the new gangtag below it if desired) and give the gangtag to up to 8 posters of yr choosing. limit: you cant have a huge fuckin field of tags under yr av, i will prune down to 2-3 tags if you want to give it to someone w too many

forums fundraiser

Squizzle posted:

if you buy a tag and im not posting on literally the same page where you mention it, pm me

also pm me if you have any title text or something you need restored along with the av. sometimes yr moderation action history will have an old title in entire, but more often, all i can get to is yr av image.

use w/e means you prefer to gimme a list of the 8 people

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




https://twitter.com/althusserina/status/1035983184499011584

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008






Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




happy marxmas, may the world-sized ghost give you communism instead of icepicks

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




beb

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




Maximo Roboto posted:

Aside from Trotskyists and Tankies, what's the next most loud and online leftist tendency? Anarchists?

shitposters

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




:siren: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3910043 :siren:

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




exmarx posted:

lol if you didn't go through the report forum archives to figure out who reported you

oh poo poo that sounds like fun

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




CJSwiss posted:

There aren't exactly many thriving Marxist message boards.

https://mobile.twitter.com/TravisDBartley/status/1235963091566751744

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




Terrorist Fistbump posted:

Did someone just buy me this av??? Thanks, it's great.

redistribution

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




T-man posted:

where's my free avatar

so much for the tolerant left

did you pay for the one you have now

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




T-man posted:

corona-chan is a girl, and my friend, and my waifu

we still dont know about corona-chad tho

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




https://mobile.twitter.com/coom_boy/status/1242340440377946112

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




Homeless Friend posted:

thats the wonderful thing about the toxx policy, squizzle doesn't have to do work but individual posters do. IKs have to enforce it and Lowtax still gets paid. squizzle wins, lowtax wins, everybody else pays. I had no idea our mod worked at brookings

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




in case you dont look at the stickies you might wanna look at this one because we are actively soliciting feedback wrt cspam: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3921561

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008





this is like a bizarro world interpretation of the villainous boardroom from symbol of justice condorman (the show from the 70s not the disney film)

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008






feelin that cussedness

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




https://mobile.twitter.com/VanComrade/status/1281332986386853888

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




super sweet best pal posted:

I think we should do something to increase awareness of the rising communist sentiment in America. Something to freak out libs and conservatives who aren't terminally online. Shift the Overton window and have it be a discussion point as we get closer to November.

Whatever it is needs to be visible. Maybe we could get an ad company to print up some door hangers with a few brief statements about the benefits of communism and put them on the door of every home in a major suburb. Most of the people will just ignore them but it'll put the idea in their head that communism is trying to make a comeback.

found the trot

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




GalacticAcid posted:

Steve Buscemi as trotsky

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




exmarx posted:

veggies rule

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




https://mobile.twitter.com/marysuewriter/status/1302271589233303557

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




The modern American workplace is a communist dictatorship — and we must admit it if we're going to fix it
David Goldstein
Sep 4, 2020, 9:07 AM

If there is a silver lining to the COVID-19 pandemic, it's that it is finally opening the eyes of many Americans to the profoundly unfree and illiberal nature of the modern American workplace.

For millions of essential workers forced back on the job in unsafe conditions without adequate personal protective equipment or hazard pay, the immense imbalance of power between employer and employee has never been more perilous or more stark.

Meanwhile, millions of more fortunate Americans, suddenly getting their work done from home far from the prying eyes of the boss or the relentless tyranny of the clock, are beginning to question if the daily commute and the daily grind were ever as necessary as they seemed.

Americans are waking up to the fact that there is something intuitively wrong with the modern American workplace. Not just the hours or the pay or the commute, but the institution itself. And it is something that we have all been blinded to for the past 150 years.

In her book "Private Government," the political philosopher Elizabeth Anderson asks us to imagine a government that assigns all of us a superior who we must obey — a superior unaccountable to either the rule of law or to those they order around.

This government can tell us what to do and what to wear, can snoop on our emails and record our phone conversations; it can sanction our behavior or our speech, and can even order us to submit to medical tests. This government offers us no say in how it governs or voice in electing its leaders; it owns all the means of production, and it organizes production through central planning.

This government, Anderson provocatively asserts, is one of the many "communist dictatorships in our midst." And of course, what Anderson is referring to is the modern American firm.

As Anderson explains on a recent episode of the podcast Pitchfork Economics, we've long been taught to equate markets with freedom.

But the labor market is different from all other markets: "If I sell my apples that I own to you, I walk away as free as I was before my apples were sold. But if I sell my labor to you … I cannot walk away from that transaction. What I've really contracted into is a relationship of subordination to my employer."

And, absent sufficient regulation or enforcement from our public government, the private government of the firm has accumulated immense power to dictate our lives both in the workplace and at home.

"The biggest scam in the world is to think that deregulation is a thing," said Anderson. "There are regulations that favor the powerful people, and there are regulations that favor ordinary regular people, but there's no such thing as a market without any regulations at all."

Within the context of the workplace, what neoliberal policymakers refer to as "deregulation" is merely a shift of regulatory power from the elected leaders of our public government to the unelected dictators of the firm.

Of course, in a free market, we are always free to quit our jobs and go to work at a different communist dictatorship, but as Anderson asserts, this sort of "free market" is little more than a "rhetorical trick."

It doesn't have to be this way. For the 6% of private sector workers who still benefit from collective bargaining, the power of their employer is less than absolute.

And in many other industrialized nations, workers receive some sort of representation in company management and on corporate boards, without any negative impact on economic competitiveness. For example, German workers have long participated in the management of the firms they work through the statutory right of "codetermination," and German companies are some of the most competitive in the world.

But by far the most important thing we can do now to genuinely move toward the sort of individual freedom and liberty the free market has long promised us, is to open our eyes and see the modern workplace for what it is: a private government that dictates far too much of our personal lives and our daily routine. Only then can we start to imagine a post-pandemic workplace that is more prosperous, more free, and more humane.

This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author(s).


SEE ALSO: At a time when authoritarianism is on the rise again, the lessons offered by world-renowned economist John Maynard Keynes are more timely than ever >>

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




https://twitter.com/haymarketbooks/status/1305506362043105283

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




In Training posted:

jacobin sucks...shame there's no us lefty publisher with a big nice newspaper. like physically big. I like to drink coffee and flip crinkly pages around. should be able to do so reading about the despicable ruling clsss and the heroes working to destroy them.

found the trot

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




Fortaleza posted:

This isn’t an example of a “puppet master” post at all. How can you know anything about posting and get that wrong

i think i hit the wrong post but who cares he'll be back in less than a day

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




Slanderer posted:

go back to the trump thread with the other fail mods and revel in never having made a single insightful, funny or even interesting post

i made a good pun about masturbating ghosts

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




Squizzle posted:

a good name for ghosts that possess folks to masturbate would be, jackin dybbuks

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Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




Slanderer posted:

and for your next trick are you gonna barge into a thread to compare a poster who is mean to your low iq crew to taintrunner?

maybe tomorrow. its like 2am now

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Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




THS posted:

good idea can we turn this into the warhammer 40k lore discussion thread

the chair makes him alive still, but not real alive

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