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Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Cool that BLM has apparently gone all urban guerilla nowadays.

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Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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MizPiz posted:

Those "Elsa Cheats on Spider-Man with Mickey Mouse" videos are helping our children become the posters of tomorrow. By the time they're in 6th grade, they'll be posting at a CSPAM level.

The les enfants shitposters project is bearing fruit.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Patrick Spens posted:

No it's about a bunch of leftier than thou jackasses trying to ruin our ability to use words to talk about politics by pretending that everyone to the right of the DSA is a "neoliberal". Words have meanings, and the guy calling for large scale reparations is not neoliberal.

Cornel West, noted "leftier than thou jackass" and his nefarious plot to destroy political discourse.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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I think the salient part here is that most of the people who are mad at West for criticizing TNC can't muster up a reason for it beyond the objection to the word "neoiliberal". The substance of West's argument almost never comes up.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Jeb! Repetition posted:

He's referring to the rise of "illiberal democracy" but you basically can't have liberalism without democracy

You're supposed to post hot takes ITT, not make them yourself.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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You just know that this dork would crumble the moment he was actually faced with a nazi threatening him.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Serf posted:

that's what he's saying. he would let them beat him up because then he would somehow win

Nah, he's saying that he'd let nazis beat up other people because then he would somehow win.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Serf posted:

so when the nazis come to beat him up he'd actually fight back? all i can see is this shiny-head motherfucker laying on the ground getting his poo poo kicked in and realizing he's made a terrible decision

Most likely scenario is that he'd grovel at their feet and disawow everything negative he's ever said about them.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Posting anything even remotely connected to the Economist is cheating.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Liberals being unable to articulate any kind of political plan of action beyond pining for some billionaire to swoop in and fix all their problems is more of a sad take, yes.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Junkiebev posted:



Holy poo poo

But don't you dare to even suggest that this poo poo is anything like McCarthyism.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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hackbunny posted:

I guarantee there has been a non-trivial amount of high fashion designs directly inspired by Catholic clerical clothing. It's seeing it in the context of such a blatant celebration of wealth and the pursuit of decidedly non-eternal goals that makes me angry. With the complicity of the Church, no less!

Careful, pal. Remember what happened when this one monk in Germany felt this way.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Guns don't kill people, trench coats kill people.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Jose posted:

there have been some real bad bourdain takes but i think this one wins because of the included picture

https://twitter.com/David_Leavitt/status/1005128596351004672

Really normal of Dave here trying to get the last word in to a dead man.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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The funny thing is that the final nail in the coffin for the Western Roman Empire was when they tried to gently caress over some immigrants.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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TetsuoTW posted:

2016 will never end will it

It's literally the only shred of credibility that the brain worm brigade still has left, so of course it won't end.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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The Graun has always been liberal garbage, hth.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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get that OUT of my face posted:

more and more, the prime directive of big business isn't to make a profit every quarter, it's to pursue spite even if it costs billions. that's why the NY Post keeps going at full power while the Daily News laid off half of its staff and why the Washington Times has never made a profit but still exists

What you gotta realize that for the upper class it's never primarily been about profit, it's been about power. If you're already rich enough to get all your whims catered to you care more about the power to protect your privileged position than you care about some arbitrary numbers on a bank account.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Pirate Radar posted:

love how this suddenly pinballs into Shakespeare and the Vedic mysteries

:umberto:

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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fool_of_sound posted:

Yeah that was also a thing. Barely anyone seriously gave credence to the idea that Donald J Trump could become the loving president.

And let's not forget that the people who actually saw the possibility were shouted down by the Cult of Clinton.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Not gonna lie, it was real hilarious to see the melt talking points shift from "Corbyn is electoral poison and will never win" to "Why isn't Corbyn ahead by 20 points" pretty much overnight.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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R. Guyovich posted:

obama built the freakin jails! the family separations are all trump but "unaccompanied minors" got to live in cages under the watchful eye of barack.

Look at this here Russian agent who doesn't think that the kiddie concentration camps appeared fully formed out of the ether the moment that Trump was sworn in.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Neon Belly posted:

Independent political spending post-Citizens United is almost double for the GOP than for the Democrats :ssh:

I think you're making the mistake of assuming that the Dems are an actual political party as opposed to a grift and patronage machine here.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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I thought the slogan was Peace through Power?

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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ate poo poo on live tv posted:

Yep, hence the idea of "useful day to day measurements." Base10 was arbitrary bullshit that followed the same ignorant common sense as intelligent design arguments do.

Now this may come as a shock to you, but the decimal system does, in fact, exist.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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To hazard a guess, it's JEREMY CORBYN BAD.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Zeroisanumber posted:

I feel like Michelle Obama might be some sort of counter-argument.

Funnily enough, the suspicion there is that Barack married Michelle in order to get cred in Chicago's black community.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Tulip posted:

I've completely lost track of what bappin is and I have no regrets.

some kinda reverse posadist?

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Hodgepodge posted:

a nobel laureate

lol and i guess the type that's even more propaganda than the other ones?

he got the fake nobel prize, yes

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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look, i live in finland and can confirm that we definitely don't actually exist

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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exmachina posted:

Because the transition was pretty hard and only truly became successful after some pretty hefty ideological compromises

i can already tell that you have no earthly idea what you're talking about, but don't you find it slightly curious that the only third-world countries that actually managed to industrialize successfully without massive outside aid are the communist ones and Japan?

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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indigi posted:

in this specific case, idk how you can argue that what really spurned the success of industrialization in China wasn't the hefty ideological compromise. China lifting a billion people out of poverty happened mostly after the liberal market reforms

this was not the point of contention, the claim that communist countries are somehow especially bad at industrializing was and it's laughably false as a very basic understanding of history ought to show anyone

exmachina posted:

Singapore as a counter-example?

Yeah I don't know poo poo, as opposed to every other poster in this thread, I guess

tiny-rear end statelets that lucked into wealth by way of fortunate geography don't exactly work as counterexamples because not every country can sit smack in the middle of one of the most vital shipping routes on the planet.

exmachina posted:

I have never said that China wasn't an example of a Marxist-Leninist(-Maoist) success story but industrialization of both the Soviet Union and the PRC did not go smoothly.

and which country exactly would you say that managed to industrialize "smoothly"?

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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taiwan was also a us client state propped up by massive amounts of aid

also in general the process of industrialization doesn't ever go "smoothly" as it requires poo poo like uprooting an economic system based on massive rural populations in favour of one that requires a massive urban population, mandatory education of the workforce and the destruction of feudal rights and obligations in favour of a strict wage labour system

which is basically why the only third-world countries that have succeeded in making the transition made it by way of massive and heavy-handed government intervention to force the process through

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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if socialist economic systems inevitably cause famine it's kinda interesting that the famines in the soviet union stopped in the late forties

or to be more direct, the whole talking point is basically just a buncha well-off libs blaming poor countries for being poor for propaganda reasons

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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don't really see what that has to do with what i was saying, but going on about lysenkoism is another funny example of libs throwing stones in glass houses

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Spergin Morlock posted:

lol. if I cant choose brand then not freedom. beep boop

its even dumber than that because capitalism sure as poo poo doesn't let you choose whatever you want, but only what you can afford to pay for

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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the missing piece, a weapon to surpass getfiscal

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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V. Illych L. posted:

reinhard and rogoff, no? yeah it turned out to completely mess up a central hypothesis about public debt ratios when the entire case group was included, which is a mind-boggling error at that level

do mind that austerity had little to do with the actual quality of the academic work meant to justify it, though, it emerged as a consensus because there was a political coalition in place to do it and this is how the EU is set up

the error is not mind-boggling at all because mainstream economics is a pseudoscience that's all about manufacturing an intellectual justification for neoliberalism, hth

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Antifa Turkeesian posted:

Like, why have a running tally of all the things you’re going to make sure are outlawed and punishable once you’re the party chairman? It’s serial killer poo poo, because otherwise why would you bother?

this might very well be the dumbest thing i've read in quite some time. congratulations, in a way

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Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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takes one to know one i guess

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