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BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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seriously that nancy pelosi is still the top congressional democrat is ridiculous and she needs to go IMO! go go go. get out.

if this was a parliamentary system wouldn't she have been tossed by now? or years ago when the democrats got blown out of congress?

that's my contribution to the suck zone: pelosi bad.

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BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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if politics is war then you need to cashier your old-guard generals if they don't measure up. that's how we got eisenhower who was an obscure colonel in 1941. also ulysses s. grant.

haven't any of you studied military history???

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv9XNFpRdhg&t=72s

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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mormonpartyboat posted:

thats an exact quote, thats how mao talked
yeah well what did mao ever accomplish huh explain that

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ3j5jp5IoY

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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ThndrShk2k posted:

IMO the whole Russia hacking(not Russia Trump) thing is like to me as predictable actions and more of a condemnation of our government's competency than it is about a sacred process almost being violated.

The US Government has known for longer than I've been alive that Russia likes to mess with us. Birds sing, the sky is blue, Russia likes to get their fingers in our food.
They used to take precautionary measures, but neoconservatism and neoliberalism basically ignored poo poo as "everything is good" due to how markets were going. It's the corruption that allowed it to stagnate because america is already the best.


I believe in an alternate reality where we kept actually playing the cyber shadowgame that we used to in the past that the Russia thing wouldn't even have gotten so far with fake news and hacking because we'd be one step ahead of them.

But greed is more important apparently. :smith:
Also although there's media talk about a new Cold War, it isn't the Cold War and anti-Russianism doesn't have the same effect that anti-communism did in uniting the parties. Anti-communism as a Democratic and Republican position meant that Soviet meddling was contained more to the left, radicals, etc. There's still some holdover here with Russia massaging Jill Stein in addition to Trump's people. But there's no ideological consensus anymore.

The last time I can think of a senior U.S. official being compromised by Russia is maaaaybe Henry Wallace, FDR's vice president whom Truman had placed under surveillance when he served as his secretary of commerce. But that was during a fluid period when the Cold War hadn't really picked up in earnest yet.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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https://twitter.com/RyanLeeHagemann/status/878328594073739265

this really is our future :rip:

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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Mutant Standard posted:

uuuuuuuuhh this thumbnail


It brings back the Bourbon Democrats and gives it a whole new meaning

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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Concerned Citizen posted:

I've dated a Wisconsiner before so I know they have low standards.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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Lastgirl posted:

how much is one american citizen worth afaf
u can probably ask some colombian gangsters or somali warlords for the current going rate

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/878674683083849728

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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Martha Stewart Undying posted:

i dont get the difference between here and the Anus thread as y'all agree on the most important thing: dsa would be better if they were actual terrorists
they should be called the Snowflakes

seriously that would be a good name for a left-wing terror group

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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welcum 2 da chuck zone

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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Woah I've already found footage of Zuckerberg debate prep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOVJsTc_HMU

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/879007699530260480

:bisonyes:

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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That's a HA HA YES.

"He can't possibly win" they say. "My vacuum cleaner could beat him" they say.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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this person lives in the same town as me as their tweets own

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwaiyjh1dGk

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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i'm in the suck zone

i'm in it deep right now guys

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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Raskolnikov38 posted:

join DSA and be free
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GJMeaHEHI4&t=105s

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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https://twitter.com/JoeBerkowitz/status/879723616878899200

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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DSA should be like the NRA.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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DNC Dating Simulator really fucken lame

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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H.A. Badman

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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Zuck's point about how Americans lack meaning and purpose is absolutely true IMO

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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'We built it already, now it just needs to run.'

Americans works pointless / meaningless jobs and have no higher purpose, and shallow entertainment can't fill the void so everyone is existentially hosed up all the time. Oh I also think this is what's giving us these charismatic false prophets like Obama and Trump.

Ideally there'd be socialism or some kind of UBI so people don't have to work so many pointless lovely jobs and can do more self-fulfilling things.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNpl71gNBCU

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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my election night was horrible. i was visiting some friends in austin and it was pouring down loving raining like loving cats and dogs and loving. ENDLESS. RAIN. also my friends handled the loss badly and got paranoid. like a weed high paranoia except without the weed, or the chill for that matter.

we decided to go to some election parties but it was all over for hillary before we set out. first party was a socialist city council candidate, who won. largely hispanic and left-wing crowd who had a steelier attitude about the whole thing. and they were at least happy they won the city council seat.

next party was like... tumblr feminists? there was at least one hillary shirt. they did not handle it well. one of them grabbed a trump pinata and ran outside and started bashing it on the ground with a baseball bat while screaming YOU SON OF A BITCH. it was like the apocalypse. people crying, etc.

it was a bad scene

BrutalistMcDonalds has issued a correction as of 16:17 on Jun 28, 2017

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbuImlQ7be8

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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Lastgirl posted:

material excess is a big problem in measuring self worth indeed especially even more so in late stage capitalism where wealth means having a big dick

but i still see that even that is shed, the ego sometimes remains fed with access to materials that provide you knowledge so that you run online and try to prove other people wrong instead of creating content with it

so lol if you own things and double lol if you think you know everything as a consequential result that some inevitably fall into

this is why people get insufferable with their political theorycrafting and fan fiction instead of taking some tenets and seeing what can be done to improve it or modify it instead of treating it like a veritable bible of purity, because if I have to hear about how Das Capital owns Wealth of Nation out of the water, you're only fighting on other dead people's ideas and fighting for a world previous. Relics of a different time that we deign to scry and glean super secret insights that only your trained eyes can pick up the nuances of that passage, as well as if different system models were tested over time, you also cherry pick factors that made it work so that you can try to ram it down other's throats asynchronously in this timeline. We stand on an film of their civilized dust while the up-to-date modern world continues to turn indifferently because you haven't tailored certain elements of those tenets to reflect a modern standard, so you just parrot it instead and thats really sad imo

I mean uhh

lol if you don't take your time to order mcdonalds while you lol about material worth and egoism attached to it
this is my kind of post

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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https://twitter.com/jamespoulos/status/880838200075448321

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxaNpgCAGhc

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmbyWGCwX90

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAzTyZgDRF4

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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The Muppets On PCP posted:

the funny thing there is her public favorability declined pretty rapidly in the wake of the lewinksy scandal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPhylYXsNX8&t=55s

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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*2020 presidential debates*

Zuck: Four years ago, President Trump, you promised to make anime real. But look around -- anime is not real. The American people know this.

Trump: Whaaaaaaaa!?!!@?!

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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Office Pig posted:

His legitimacy (lol) aside, you have to admit there's something funny about Mark Zuckerberg of all people sending the Democratic into a panic.

and very, very sad

BrutalistMcDonalds has issued a correction as of 18:54 on Jul 5, 2017

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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Hahahahahahahahah! YES

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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Concerned Citizen posted:

oh my god




enhance


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AySXu8x-RnA

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