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smdf pro-reading pro-prolix mods stickying this poo poo thread smdd (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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heres a good periodical: stop loving reading prolix bullshit (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jun 9, 2018 09:57
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anyhow the only prolix bullshit i read is the economist
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Jun 9, 2018 09:58
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GalacticAcid posted:Shear Modulus said in Le Zone du Suqq that I should have included League of Men in my n+1 highlights and it is, in fact, a stunning essay on the lupine, sinister rituals of male bonding. Wowzers that was an astonishingly good article
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Jun 9, 2018 16:00
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Guess what Baloogan's word is this week
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Jun 9, 2018 20:48
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Jeb! Repetition posted:Guess what Baloogan's word is this week is it electroejaculation? because that is a cool af word and thing
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Jun 9, 2018 21:00
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genuinely impressed that a toddler was able to use their parents' card to pay for the account tbh
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Jun 9, 2018 21:05
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thread has the stamp of balooval we can continue posting
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Jun 9, 2018 21:31
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iirc The Economist chat was the genesis of this thread. In it's defense, I'll say the cover art is often really good, even when espousing horrid ideology. Also when I was young, the only way I learned about what was happening around the world was the international news dump they had in the first few pages of the magazine.
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Filthy Hans posted:iirc The Economist chat was the genesis of this thread. In it's defense, I'll say the cover art is often really good, even when espousing horrid ideology. Also when I was young, the only way I learned about what was happening around the world was the international news dump they had in the first few pages of the magazine. The news dump is actually pretty decent
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Filthy Hans posted:iirc The Economist chat was the genesis of this thread. In it's defense, I'll say the cover art is often really good, even when espousing horrid ideology. Also when I was young, the only way I learned about what was happening around the world was the international news dump they had in the first few pages of the magazine. 
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Jun 10, 2018 06:17
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Why does anybody read the loving Atlantic
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GalacticAcid posted:Why does anybody read the loving Atlantic "have you heard of tawnayheesee coats? hes very woke and so articulate i love his articles"
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Jun 10, 2018 18:58
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they actually have a convenient listing of all their covers: https://www.economist.com/printedition/covers
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Jun 10, 2018 21:47
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Baffler and Jacobin are good. Nathan J. Robinson is a strong writer but needs an editor and to not dress like Jacob Rees-Mogg. Counterpunch has some good rotating writers but will literally publish anything (with no regard to spelling/grammar/that sort of thing) and still holds it against certain lefty people that they didn't support Milosevic. Don't even think about reading The New Inquiry, unless you want to have a laugh at some of the most self-important people in the world.
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Jun 11, 2018 05:47
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Nathan J Robinson is a total loving egg and is dying for an editor but his heart is in the right place and he's never boring, just overlong The Baffler is the most mixed bag because it's half interesting poo poo about actual people doing stuff and half a handful of weirdos with English lit degrees who took the name as a challenge
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Jun 11, 2018 08:20
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Troy Queef posted:Counterpunch has some good rotating writers but will literally publish anything (with no regard to spelling/grammar/that sort of thing) and still holds it against certain lefty people that they didn't support Milosevic. whaaat
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Jun 11, 2018 08:21
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https://twitter.com/getfiscal/status/1006132860934336512 https://twitter.com/curaffairs/status/1006135985913126912
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Jun 11, 2018 13:13
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nathan robinson speaks with a fake british accent irl to sound smart
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Jun 11, 2018 15:25
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Crane Fist posted:whaaat the Balkan conflicts were a very weird time for the left, where because Slobodan was "socialist" and the Croatian forces especially had a hard-on for neo-Nazi movements, they just went and ignored Srebenica and the real motivation for Milosevic, which wasn't socialism/re-building Titoist Yugoslavia but a vision of Greater Serbia
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Jun 11, 2018 18:26
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So even the socialists aren't immune to the old American creed of not really caring about the wholesale slaughter of Muslims as long as you like the guy doing it
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Jose posted:https://twitter.com/getfiscal/status/1006132860934336512 Insanely good trolling from this sentient beef jerky
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Jun 11, 2018 21:08
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My mother was a longtime Newsweek reader so when they first went out of business I got her subscriptions to The Nation, The American Prospect, In These Times, and The Progressive. And now she might not have become a frothing socialist but she hasn't resubscribed to Newsweek.
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Jun 11, 2018 23:01
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Action Jacktion posted:My mother was a longtime Newsweek reader so when they first went out of business I got her subscriptions to The Nation, The American Prospect, In These Times, and The Progressive. And now she might not have become a frothing socialist but she hasn't resubscribed to Newsweek. it's a good thing she hasn't re-upped, since the new owners are devoted to a Korean evangelical pastor and his profit margins
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Jun 11, 2018 23:27
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Jose posted:https://twitter.com/getfiscal/status/1006132860934336512 lol
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Jun 12, 2018 07:03
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 where are the articles about wooden trains?
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Jun 12, 2018 08:28
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Two things. 1) I forget to include Invisible Exploitation by Eva Swidler in the Monthly Review highlights. 2) In retrieving that link, I discovered that Monthly Review is doing a really good deal on books right now (they have a publishing imprint) -- $5 a book and five free books on $40+ orders.
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Jun 12, 2018 18:31
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Science for the People is renewing publication this summer.
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Jun 13, 2018 16:42
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GalacticAcid posted:Science for the People is renewing publication this summer. That sounds good as hell op
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GalacticAcid posted:Science for the People is renewing publication this summer. i loving love science (for the people)
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Jun 14, 2018 00:32
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R. Guyovich posted:i loving love science (for the people)
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Jun 14, 2018 01:34
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I read a bit of n+1. Pretty good. Any writing that uses the term bae makes me question it, but good stuff none the less.
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Jun 14, 2018 01:46
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Zas posted:yeah that one is searing. lrb ftw Not politics-based but Sheila Fitzpatrick's LRB review of Kotkin's new Stalin biography was also ice cold in classic LRB fashion
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Jun 14, 2018 14:10
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I think this is the best thread to share this in: https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...3bbe_story.html
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Jun 15, 2018 07:15
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The DSA's quarterly came out today, The Democratic Left. I probably won't read it but let me know if anything is good.
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Jun 15, 2018 21:16
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https://twitter.com/adamserwer/status/1007556840014655488?s=21 I've never heard of Commentary before but it seems like dog poo poo tbh
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whomupclicklike posted:https://twitter.com/adamserwer/status/1007556840014655488?s=21 I saw this a few times on Twitter and assumed it was some old cover from the 70s that had been unearthed. Then I checked the date. 
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Jun 16, 2018 08:24
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I mean, metaphorically it's true. The tweet that is. The mentally ill orphan and the distrusted racial minority realise their struggle is based on fear and lies, that they are spiritual brothers, and the true enemy is the capitalist who pits them against each other
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I mean, metaphorically it's true. The tweet that is. The mentally ill orphan and the distrusted racial minority realise their struggle is based on fear and lies, that they are spiritual brothers, and the true enemy is the capitalist who pits them against each other framing it as a recent phenomenon is lol tho the phrase "mentally ill orphans" is  btw
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Aliquid posted:framing it as a recent phenomenon is lol tho I know, right?  (also I meant that specifically in reference to Batman)
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