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Coolguye posted:you impress nobody by scanning over texts with a closed mind. 
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Coolguye posted:if you are opening a book with this mindset and are not a writer looking to pan it for the purpose of selling your own books you really need to re examine why you are reading in the first place. you impress nobody by scanning over texts with a closed mind. It seems to me that sitting around listening to what the other side has to say is the furthest thing from having a closed mind.
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Apr 3, 2017 14:25
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Fergus Mac Roich posted:It seems to me that sitting around listening to what the other side has to say is the furthest thing from having a closed mind. so, you havent ever read dnd have you
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Apr 3, 2017 14:41
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Fergus Mac Roich posted:It seems to me that sitting around listening to what the other side has to say is the furthest thing from having a closed mind. listening is the thing that is not happening when you approach something as the text and product of the 'enemy' nobody's expecting you to totally change your mind about everything because you read an ann coulter book but if you look at her on the dust cover and think "THIS IS THE FACE OF THE ENEMY" then you can probably find something better to read.
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Apr 3, 2017 15:11
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Coolguye posted:listening is the thing that is not happening when you approach something as the text and product of the 'enemy' have you ever actually read one of ann coulters books though shes p open about wanting a lotta folks dead
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Apr 3, 2017 15:12
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Coolguye posted:listening is the thing that is not happening when you approach something as the text and product of the 'enemy' theres no way to get rid of your preexisting notions about George Bush. the best you can do is try to understand him. you do that by listening to him, reading the book, whatever. I dont see what the better alternative is.
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Apr 3, 2017 15:50
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if you see george bush on the road, read a book about him whatever
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Apr 3, 2017 15:51
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mrbradlymrmartin posted:have you ever actually read one of ann coulters books though Fergus Mac Roich posted:theres no way to get rid of your preexisting notions about George Bush. the best you can do is try to understand him. you do that by listening to him, reading the book, whatever. I dont see what the better alternative is.
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Apr 3, 2017 18:49
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manufacturing consent - noam chomsky bcum woke
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Apr 5, 2017 06:15
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is ghost wars good/reputable?
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Apr 5, 2017 08:49
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The West Wing for American politics. First Among Equals and House of Cards for British politics.
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Apr 5, 2017 09:19
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cargo cult posted:is ghost wars good/reputable? It won the Pulitzer Prize. You should also read The Looming Tower, the two together are a great primer on what lead to 9/11 and the War on Terror.
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Apr 5, 2017 09:20
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if im gonna read one or two comprehensive books about the CIA what do i pick? I have heard mixed things about legacy of ashes and thats really the only book i can think off of the top of my head. also planning on reading imperial life in the green zone
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Apr 5, 2017 09:27
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Read Norman Mailer's book Harlot's Ghost.
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Apr 5, 2017 09:32
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Matewan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RSaBoDl_9k
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Apr 5, 2017 09:34
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i watched a movie called the battle for sevastopol about the soviet lady sniper that killed over 300 fascists and met woody guthrie and met elanor roosevelt. the movie was okay but it was mostly about how horny all the snipers were and how she kept falling in love with dudes that were doomed to die. anyway it was recent and russian made but seemed decently pro soviet so i rate it a b+ because there's a good woody guthrie song in it.
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jarofpiss posted:i watched a movie called the battle for sevastopol about the soviet lady sniper that killed over 300 fascists and met woody guthrie and met elanor roosevelt. the movie was okay but it was mostly about how horny all the snipers were and how she kept falling in love with dudes that were doomed to die. anyway it was recent and russian made but seemed decently pro soviet so i rate it a b+ because there's a good woody guthrie song in it. It's shockingly good for a post-Soviet Russian movie, but it felt like the big takeaway was that the biggest casualty of the war was normal domestic life. Anyway, best Eleanor Roosevelt I've seen on film in a long rear end time. Best Woody Guthrie too. But only because they never make any movies about Woody Guthrie.
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Is the charles lister Syria book good? someone got it for me but ive also heard he's a gulf monarCuck
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Judgment at Nuremberg is good. The Mortal Storm was apparently how a lot of Americans first learned about Hitler being a dick re: Jews, and is also good. Maybe watch something by Mel Brooks in between those two so you don't get clinical depression. Volcott has issued a correction as of 03:16 on Apr 6, 2017 |
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mrbradlymrmartin posted:jsut read moby dick instead moby dick ownnss hot take
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Apr 6, 2017 07:27
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VOTE YES ON 69 posted:I tried to read Das Kapital the other day but HOO BOY is marx a lovely boring writer All philosophers do that, they take NOTHING for granted. "We can agree, for instance, that black is black. Black is not white. If someone were to present you with the colour white and state that it is black, they could only do so if they were deliberately deceiving" (goes on for 94 pages - and the article is about the colour green)
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Apr 6, 2017 12:29
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that's CHAIRMAN bob avakian to you, thank you
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Apr 6, 2017 12:49
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 No "Wag the Dog" mention? Watch it again and learn to hate Slick Willy and Dubya all over again.
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Apr 6, 2017 15:24
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I dated a person in the media who really liked Network, but said the best movie/show about the media is The Newsroom. What do I do?
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Apr 6, 2017 16:32
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http://readsettlers.org
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fr0id posted:I dated a person in the media who really liked Network, but said the best movie/show about the media is The Newsroom. What do I do? How can they hold both of these opinions
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Apr 6, 2017 16:59
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Nixon - It's been sorta forgot today but it won Anthony Hopkins his other back-to-back best actor Oscar I first saw it shortly after the fuckerage that elected GW Bush, and the Bit in the 1960 election where Republicans don't wanna contest JFK's win because of the damage it could do played like searing satire.
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Apr 6, 2017 20:46
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Zas posted:moby dick ownnss why does everybody think im putting them on 
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Apr 7, 2017 02:23
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keep meaning to do this
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Apr 7, 2017 12:46
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Zas posted:moby dick ownnss that's not a hot take, that is a cool take a hot take would be if you said something like "jane eyre is well written and charlotte bronte is worth reading"
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Apr 7, 2017 16:09
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Coolguye posted:that's not a hot take, that is a cool take jane eyre is worth reading to understand wide sargasso sea better
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Apr 7, 2017 16:10
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reading jane eyre i learned ejaculate used to be a synonym with interject or exclaim that's the only interesting moment i experienced in all of those terrible pages of meandering drivel
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Apr 7, 2017 16:38
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i watched network last night, it was pretty good
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Apr 7, 2017 16:41
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VOTE YES ON 69 posted:i watched network last night, it was pretty good Same but I watched The Net and it was bad.
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Is there a good explanation of the "housing bubble" and how the banks caused it for people who don't know poo poo about economics that I could read
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Hemingway To Go! posted:Is there a good explanation of the "housing bubble" and how the banks caused it for people who don't know poo poo about economics that I could read Just say "Mark Blyth" three times in front a mirror
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Hemingway To Go! posted:Is there a good explanation of the "housing bubble" and how the banks caused it for people who don't know poo poo about economics that I could read The Big Short (I've only seen the movie) explains it pretty well
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:The Big Short (I've only seen the movie) explains it pretty well Also: https://m.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/355/the-giant-pool-of-money
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Hemingway To Go! posted:Is there a good explanation of the "housing bubble" and how the banks caused it for people who don't know poo poo about economics that I could read 1) houses houses are worth lots of money, and keep increasing in value always* (for some values of always) people always* want to buy houses because they are worth lots of money and keep increasing in value always* (also you can live in them) 2) risk these days, mortgage originators don't bear any risk whatsover -- you loan some schmuck some money, and sell that fuckin loan to some bank for a bit off the top BAM cash in your pocket banks own like a gazillion mortgages and package them up into derivative instruments (bets on bets on bets etc) and sell them to other banks, so THEIR risk is abstracted and leveraged out to other people anyway plus if you take like 28 good loans and 2 bad loans, put them in a package, tada its the same as 30 PRETTY good loans and then if you do that enough, soon if you take like 15 good loans and 15 poo poo loans and put them in a package its PRETTY CLOSE to the same as 30 pretty good loans originators don't give a poo poo as long as banks buy their loans, banks don't give a poo poo because as long as they can sell the debt in leveraged packages to other banks, everybody is makin money hand over fist, people buyin mad houses 3) foreclosure everyone thinks that because houses are worth a lot of money always*, and keep increasing in money always* it's fine to loan money to some schmuck with a low credit score because gently caress 'em you can just take the house and sell it to somebody else ART OF THE DEAL BABY (and because all the risk is packaged and sold as a derivative financial product anyway, absolutely no one gives a poo poo at all about anything because they're makin money) so all that goes on for a bit and gently caress yes  so much money4) reality sets in so it turns out that lending a ton of money to people who cant pay it back is actually not great, and those schmucks cant actually keep up with a 0% down 500k mortgage monthly payment so now all of a sudden the bank owns some houses and is like fuuuuuck gotta sell these cribs and then remember how everyone was incentivized to make a ton of bad loans, well yeah now there's actually a lot of foreclosures and the bank owns a lot of houses and it turns out, when there are a shitton of houses for sale................. house prices actually go down   oopsand then holy poo poo those trillion dollar derivative financial instruments are worth suddenly, zero dollars because they were so leveraged and the underlying mortgages asploded 5) rinse repeat now banks are freaking out, people are freaking out, economy takes a bump and SURPRISE that actually makes things EVEN WORSE etcetera etcetera
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