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Mar 4, 2005

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i say swears online fucked around with this message at 02:15 on Dec 28, 2020

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Mar 4, 2005

Jewel Repetition posted:

Interesting that its "developing" economy was so bad while it was so powerful otherwise. Maybe there was something wrong with its economic system.

Btw not everyone who shops at a grocery store is "petit bourgeois."

bernie's right flank must be made up of some pretty strange people

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Mar 4, 2005

No, they say "American" because they have no earthly idea what their ancestry is. There was definitely a lot of intermingling in the 18th century in that area and whole regions just kinda lost track.

My family goes back like this, but the records are incomplete either out of shoddy keeping or an intentional obfuscation of "embarrassing" relatives. They all swear up and down my grandma was Dutch but lol pictures from 60 years ago may as well have been taken on a Reservation

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Mar 4, 2005

etalian posted:

The South didn't attract much immigrants which is another reason why it lost the Civil War against the more industrialized higher population north.

Yeah, other than New Orleans and maybe Houston and Atlanta, it pretty much took until the widespread adoption of air conditioning before rapid urbanization came to the South.

edit looking at the numbers, ehhh. Southern cities pretty much didn't exist in 1850 but lots of them popped up and became huge during the next hundred years; Dallas, San Antonio, New Orleans and Houston were all within the ballpark of half a million people in 1950, but surprisingly Atlanta was only about half that.

i say swears online fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Aug 14, 2016

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Mar 4, 2005

Pener Kropoopkin posted:


Mass deportations of the Chechen and Ingush was pretty bad, but they shouldn't have sided with the dang Nazis. That's also an internal affair of the Soviet Union, and not really comparable to imperialism.

uhhh

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Mar 4, 2005

Dead Cosmonaut posted:

I don't miss the government of Sadam Hussein. I don't miss the Tibetan government either.

hahaha goddamn this is quite a Post

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Mar 4, 2005

Deimus posted:

For fucks sake.

We've been giving liberals a business school 101 lesson for 10 loving pages already. This is just embarrassing and not interesting

i do this all the loving time in b-school

we're going over peter thiel's Zero to One and not a single one of the people presenting on the book recognized that when he says "monopolies are good" he means "[for that specific business]". it's also peter thiel though so you never know

one of them argued back with me with "inherent conflict? but private monopolies will have the incentive to innovate because they know they'll be rewarded for their work!"

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Mar 4, 2005

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Neoconservatives were reformed Trotskyists who reinvented permanent revolution for liberal democracy.

how committed were neocons anyway? tillerson's speech today announcing america doesn't give a poo poo about democracy when dealing with other countries just seems to put a public face on what we've already been doing through the military and later the CIA since the spanish-american war. besides iraq and afghanistan, what other countries have we pre-emptively invaded for the explicit reason of installing a democracy?

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Mar 4, 2005

Plutonis posted:

known shithead Christopher Hitchens was a trot too

https://twitter.com/getfiscal/status/859209466952257536

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Mar 4, 2005

lol?

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Mar 4, 2005

quote some poo poo for us proles without archives

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Mar 4, 2005

krugman columns in Fall '08 radicalized me from left-Dem toward Literal Stalinism

hamprince is being intentionally disingenuous and has been for a long time and deserves to be evicted from his loving posting vacation home

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Mar 4, 2005


i've never seen anything like this out of north korea

how diverse

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Mar 4, 2005

GalacticAcid posted:

I am hoping someone can recommend some reading on the radical experimentation underway in Jackson, MS.

I'd never heard of this before, but they have a website

http://www.cooperationjackson.org/

and an active facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/CooperationJackson/

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Mar 4, 2005

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8je64jy5Nds

holy poo poo this loving dude

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Mar 4, 2005

perma'ing slashie earns HE a lifetime "yeah he's alright" in my book

okay this isn't the thread but it's about as good a time as ever: i have a friend on fb who says slavs aren't white and claims to be a poc, the gently caress is up with that? he's whiter than i am, but it's a pretty severely-held conviction, does that poo poo have a history?

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Mar 4, 2005

Autism Sneaks posted:

Slavs aren't one monolithic ethnic group: there are commonly held to be three subgroups (West, East and South) distinguished by geography and very different histories and cultures. They have mixed with Finno-Urgic peoples, Turkic steppe peoples, Iranians, Huns, and other smaller groups that might be considered "non-white".

slavs are white as hell

somebody post the ethnoeuropean mspaint

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Mar 4, 2005

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

the truth is that all whites are descended from Slav 🥔

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Mar 4, 2005

R. Guyovich posted:

irony twitter makes fun of liberal figures because they have clout. what clout does phil "never leaves his basement" greaves possess that can't be measured in piss bottles

uh his name is phil strenger

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Mar 4, 2005

Jose posted:

there was an article in the guardian back before the 2010 world cup about the North Korean team and they stopped to use the toilets somewhere in switzerland and had to pay 20c or whatever to use them and one of the footballers commented "So this is capitalism" and i can't find it ffs

The first time I had to pay to piss was in Israel, fwiw

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Mar 4, 2005

hoxma beer

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Mar 4, 2005

i took a few months during college to get around eastern europe on trains and i brought some Nietzsche with me and i was instantly embarrassed for what i had done

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Mar 4, 2005

The real question is if bomber jackets and jeans are acceptable

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Mar 4, 2005

Pod Save Cuba

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Mar 4, 2005

gradenko_2000 posted:

I was basing my initial impression off of a Hearts of Iron mod that allowed Germany to switch to it, which in retrospect was probably not the most unbiased source.

loving lol

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Mar 4, 2005

vicky 1 as state-capitalist russia is insanely easy but is Tedious As All Hell

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Mar 4, 2005

GalacticAcid posted:

A guy at a party who otherwise had good taste and decent politics recommended House of Government by Yuri Slezkine. Anyone have takes on him or the work?

The TLS review didn't inspire much confidence in me.


#1 Best Seller in Moscow Travel Guides

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Mar 4, 2005

Oh good, history time

Was there a good side in the Boer wars

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Mar 4, 2005

Dreddout posted:

National Bolshevism is proof that we need to be extremely careful when it comes to irony

i think i'm shia now

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Mar 4, 2005

Dreddout posted:

National BolShiavism (incidentally a good username/Twitter handle)

deutschland uber Ali

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Mar 4, 2005

Aliquid posted:

deutschland uber Ali

hey this was really good

good post aliquid

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Mar 4, 2005

gradenko_2000 posted:

My argument is that Nazi Germany wasn't some DOTA 2 creep, and the US shouldn't get credit for last-hitting them.

at least the soviets denied east germany

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Mar 4, 2005

Peanut President posted:

"gg noobs italy didn't buy any FUCVKIGN WARDSS"--A. Htiler 1944

italy was definitely sixth position and chose to spend their time in bottom lane getting killed lmao

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Mar 4, 2005

Dreddout posted:

Who believes this

polish socialists

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Mar 4, 2005

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

PSL has the correct take on Lenin, where they acknowledge him as dialectically instrumental, but that the dialectic has also moved on in the last 100 years.

first-world factory workers and indentured rural labor will always be my base of revolution

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Mar 4, 2005

i heard the runner up in the DPRK's last election kept slaves in her mansion

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Mar 4, 2005

so about twenty years ago, tankies hated on trotskyists handing out pamphlets on college campuses, while acknowledging trotsky himself was good on theory

now he himself is targeted, and i'm not sure what changed

so, uh, what changed

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Mar 4, 2005

GalacticAcid posted:

One thing that struck me reading it was how many of the leading Bolsheviks had been trained in the Orthodox seminary or in Rabbinical school.

I think that condition of rigor and self-obviation was critical for conditioning a generation for revolutionary theory & struggle.

i figured they were just pissed off, like i was after eighteen years of pentecostalism

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Mar 4, 2005

Wheeee posted:

broadly speaking, small business owners are the biggest pieces of poo poo I've ever engaged with

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