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- Lawman 0
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this is no place of honor aliens, leave our accursed homeworld.
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Dec 27, 2017 22:49
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- maskenfreiheit
- Dec 30, 2004
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Ufo emoji didn’t work in title 😡
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Dec 27, 2017 22:52
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- Karl Barks
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The best concert I ever went to was Weezer/Blink-182
Jesus
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Dec 28, 2017 01:02
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- super sweet best pal
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It's a weather balloon.
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Dec 28, 2017 08:16
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- Dreddout
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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Your regdate makes it even more shameful
Also;
The best concert I ever went to was Weezer/Blink-182
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Dec 28, 2017 13:12
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- maskenfreiheit
- Dec 30, 2004
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Your regdate makes it even more shameful
In my day we used smilies not emojis
Uphill
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Dec 28, 2017 20:35
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- maskenfreiheit
- Dec 30, 2004
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In my day you didn't have to pay to
loving millenials
did you just assume my age>?!
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Dec 28, 2017 21:10
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- Trumps Baby Hands
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Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.
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did you just assume my age>?!
nobody likes you when you’re 23-34
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Dec 28, 2017 22:31
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- maskenfreiheit
- Dec 30, 2004
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nobody likes you when you’re 23-34
the idea of an 11 year old on these forums would explain a lot about some of the new posters
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Dec 28, 2017 22:33
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- BrutalistMcDonalds
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Lipstick Apathy
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For Posadas, it is not the case that we must assume aliens have only made it to space through socialism. If the UFO phenomena are of interest to socialism, this is because they testify to the possible overcoming of non-artificial/artificial conditions, those same conditions from which Posadas suspects capitalism derives its power. Whether this is the case, Posadas invites us to think: could a post-scarcity energy economy properly be said to be capitalist? If the capitalist has to be concerned about UFOs, it’s because the UFOs might be proof of a post-capitalist future, a higher order of social organization excessive to capitalism insofar as capitalism relies on non-artificial/artificial scarcity. Posadas:
[C]apitalism tries […] to spread the impression that this is fantasy, so people will not think that there are superior forms of relations and that capitalism is incapable of reaching this level. [28]
UFOs demonstrate the possibility of progress, of power, beyond the profit-motive. Posadas suggests that capitalism chains us to the profit-motive to the exclusion of the power-motive. “Our audacity is thus very limited,” Posadas writes, “because it stops as soon as this interest [in profit] is satisfied” [29]. But Posadas, you will object, interest in profit can never be satisfied, it will motivate us into the stars. Posadas is not so naive as to think the impetus that sends humans to space will be pure, profit-free motivation. He does, however, remark on the strangeness of motivation that seeks power beyond accumulation of wealth: “If the human being goes further than this, he has the feeling of having gone too far.” [30] Posadas is concerned with the potential for unprofitable acquisition of power – species of power which we do not yet know how to capitalize on, or species of power which, once acquired, may supply us with motives beyond that of profit. What sort of power is this? Power excessive even to military power. [31] It is the power of thought itself:
Why does the bourgeois want twenty cars, a hundred factories, the rank of general – why? What does that give him? Power over others? And what then? … It does not give him any capacity to raise and develop his intelligence. On the contrary, it limits it. [32]
For Posadas, the acceleration of thought itself is constrained by capitalism, or any capitalism that relies too heavily on scarcity conditions to pursue post-scarcity energy economy. Thought itself has to be set free from the constraint of the profit-motive:
The speed of thought depends on the dominant material means. Thought is still very limited today. Tomorrow it will be infinitely more powerful, and quicker, too. [33]
The liberation of thought entails the abolition of the university system, which is predicated on the scarcity of access to education propped up by capitalist interest in class stratification:
Universities exist insofar as a division, a separation is made. They serve the exploitation of society for the sake of capitalist profits. That is what universities serve for. Tomorrow, we will have no need for them. Progress will be common amongst everyone: audacity facing up to nature. [34]
Furthermore, Posadas holds out hope for the abolition of the couple as the reproductive unit of the human species, envisioning amoeba-like self-reproduction along the lines of his goal of indefinite metamorphosis. [35]
Posadas is audacious, never backing down from the audacity of his infinite project. He even suggests the supersession of Marxism itself:
Means of interpretation superior to Marxism will arise – not because Marxism is incorrect – but because humanity will reach some better understanding. The dialectic will be part of some superior tool. [36]
The descriptive, explanatory, and predictive utility of Marxist discourse and method is tied inseparably to a set of conditions – scarcity conditions that, if Marxism becomes successful in achieving post-scarcity, should bring about the irrelevance of Marxism itself. Marxism works for its own destruction, for the advent of a social organization not describable, explicable, or predictable according to Marxist theoretical tools. “Marxist knowledge is unlimited” [37], he writes, and the project of socialism is un-limiting.
Socialism is the aspiration for pure activity, the un-limiting of energy from matter and thought from capitalist constraints:
In socialist society, society’s capacity will be unlimited. The notion of life, existence, society, will be measured by the objective interests of life and progress. Existence and progress will be identified with one another. Notions of conservatism, parasitism, passivity, will no longer exist. Progress will be existence itself […] [38]
Socialism is the liberation of thought from its chains:
Socialism, on the contrary, has no fear in being compared with or integrated into higher forms of progress. On the contrary, it seeks out this progress. ‘We have nothing to lose but our chains’. This phrase of Marx’s can be applied to everything. [39]
Socialism seeks progress in the direction of the liberation of energy from matter, the liberation of thought from capitalism. Do Posadas’ aliens need to be socialist in order for them to be useful for the projective socialist project? No, because socialism has no fear in being integrated into higher forms of progress. How could capitalism, conservative in its commitments to scarcity, be considered a higher form of progress?
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Dec 28, 2017 22:50
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- Trumps Baby Hands
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Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.
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Yea they are
They haven't visited us here tho
how do you know
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Dec 29, 2017 00:40
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- Dreddout
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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In my day we used smilies not emojis
Uphill
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Dec 29, 2017 01:01
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- maskenfreiheit
- Dec 30, 2004
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I remember some preteen goonlet posting cosplay pics of himself in a TVIV thread a while back.
i thought it was a rule you need to be 18?
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Dec 29, 2017 01:03
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- maskenfreiheit
- Dec 30, 2004
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luckily your millenial hysteria has turned that emoji into a water gun
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Dec 29, 2017 01:05
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- hallebarrysoetoro
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watch the aliens be here for szechuan sauce because they're all a bunch of goony goonlords
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