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Jazerus
May 24, 2011


really queer Christmas posted:

leftists who are mad at Russia because of their representation as capitalism gone to its logical conclusion, is fine and I’d support it under normal circumstances. but the prevailing narrative in the United States and among dems is that trump and putin like to make the kissy faces and he’s completely caving and helping the foreigns instead of domestic oligarchs. for every leftist mad because Russia’s connections to capitalism, there’s 10 dems with mainstream connections mad because trump isn’t escalating tensions with Russia. (despite the fact that he totally is and has kept troops on their border and wants to bring American oil to Europe instead).

I just feel the entire thing cannot be coopted into something good and constructive, and has already been doused with liberal madness. like for instance


republicans being a traitor to society because they have betrayed the working class, sow divisions among our people, and work to kill as many as possible... is something that should be emblazoned on the walls of the capital. republicans being traitors because they had a meeting with the Russian government on the 4th of July is... extremely counterproductive and just fosters a xenophobic environment where any attempt at dialogue is met with :siren:RUSSIA!!!:siren:

source: me, a dumbass

I also just want an apple pie.

it's vital to get rid of russian state influence in US politics because russia's MO is to stir up the fascists, not because they're uniquely bad due to being russian

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Jazerus
May 24, 2011


Shear Modulus posted:

you see the chamber of secrets is the world's largest, most consolidated data center

mother's basilisk

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


Pharohman777 posted:

make the republicans look sane in comparison

lmao

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


threads cannot be bound

all threads are promised freedom

this is the cspam way

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


isn't the whole point of socialists running as dems to get access to their communications infrastructure and then advocate socialist policy, tho

totally avoiding centrist outlets would just predispose them to treat her as an enemy even more so

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


gradenko_2000 posted:

centrists ARE the enemy

yes that's why you go on their podcasts and subvert their followers

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


millions of voices coming together to scream "BASTA" at an uncaring sky

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


Jazerus
May 24, 2011


1994 Toyota Celica posted:

yeah, that meme was even less funny when it was the ex-hillary mods trumpeting butttgeig

ocasio can take mao's place on a poster after she kills the landlords

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


Agean90 posted:

the pics make bernie look like he just ordered a hit on someone and ocasio look like she's about to slap someones poo poo

https://twitter.com/ddayen/status/1019389497492959232

godfather bernie take my energy as protection money

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


Dairy Tariff posted:

big matty brain:] :goonsay: *over screaming infants and mothers* everyone should have a path to citizenship

access to a path to citizenship

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


basic hitler posted:

I know posting about posting is frowned upon but while i miss the gbs thread greatly this place is way nicer and feels like i never left home in a lot of respects. Its cool and i like it. Thats all and if i eat poo poo for saying this i understand.

:justpost: about :justpost:ing

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


Theris posted:

Bryce is getting infected with succ to the point that he's sending out DCCC-style "WE'RE GOING TO LOSE :cry:" fundraising emails.


I am not okay with this.

he must have hired some lanyards

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


Pharohman777 posted:

Where the hell are all these lame slogans coming from?
It seems that design by committee has become standard Democrat operating procedure, if Hillary's campaign is anything to go by.

obama spent shitloads of money on his political consultancy grift machine and now there are legions of lanyards setting the tone of everything

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


anime was right posted:

to reiterate: anytime i see CC or WJ post in this thread (nowhere else, just this thread) i will probate them.

succc zone rulz ok

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


Vox Nihili posted:

Hillary Clinton = Captain Janeway

Debate this. Protip: you can't.

does this mean seth rich was actually turned into a weird salamander thing and hillary had salamander babies with him while also transformed into a salamander

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


loquacius posted:

some stay dry and others feel the pain

Jazerus
May 24, 2011



yes but have you ever considered openly lusting for rural death while having massive priapism for pittsburgh

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


GalacticAcid posted:

nobody cares

the succ is in the zone

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


GalacticAcid posted:

if I wanted to read :qq: about my neighbors voting for tormp because the mean east coast elitists cruelly called them nazis I’d read one of the million New York Times profiles to that effect

gently caress off

if you would like to continue to cede rural areas to the republican party because rurals are icky then please put on this complimentary lanyard

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


Shear Modulus posted:

only caring about the states that voted for hillary sounds like an ironclad strategy to get enough electoral votes to win the presidency

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


Streak posted:

chelsea's mom has got it going on

https://i.imgur.com/uogBfkr.gifv

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


there were a lot of people in that thread who wanted to salt the earth of the dread rural tho

relocation assistance would be great and should be offered but there are people who want to live in places that are extremely rural and the government has the money to maintain their infrastructure so why gently caress with them unless you are a neoliberal deeply offended by market inefficiencies

(there were a lot of neoliberals in that thread)

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


consolidation is literally the fundamental engine of capitalism so it's unsurprising that neolibs want to consolidate everything. it's a desperate prayer to the unfeeling god of market efficiency

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


Accretionist posted:

I think there's an environmental angle here, though. Replace, "market inefficiency," with, "unsustainable."

We're the civilization equivalent of a splurge. Our way of life necessarily destroys itself. The environment can't handle it. We should be staying within the bounds of sustainability, not market viability.*

* Assuming climate change ends up being fairly dire (this is what I expect)

sustainability has virtually nothing to do with individual lifestyles or even the sum total of individual lifestyles, corporate behavior is much much much more important

rural populations are tiny, they do not have a large impact on carbon emissions or most other measures of sustainability except through their available modes of employment

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


Jazerus
May 24, 2011


Gene Hackman Fan posted:

satire requires a clarity of purpose and target lest it be mistaken for and contribute to that which it intends to criticize

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


loquacius posted:

Absolutely

The solution isn't to flood the market with people scraping and elbowing each other for jobs that are good now -- there aren't enough of them to accommodate everyone, and if the scarcity of a good coder goes down tech jobs won't even be good anymore. The solution is to take jobs that are already plentiful (eg service/retail), and make them good enough to support a family off of with higher minimum wages and guaranteed benefits. This is both a short-term and long-term solution. It's exactly what we did last time we had a problem like this -- when lovely manufacturing jobs were the only ones anyone could get, we didn't train everyone to be clerks and bureaucrats, we (meaning the labor unions) made manufacturing jobs good. It's a proven method.

yes but then who do i look down upon as my lessers

Jazerus
May 24, 2011



Jazerus
May 24, 2011



perfidious bernard

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


the dastardly senator sanders

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


Matt Zerella posted:

that was chapstick

chappaquiddickstick

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


Grondoth posted:

I didn't even think about it until I heard Richard Wolff say it but why the gently caress do we care what skills "the economy" wants? Why aren't we building an economic system that uses what people want to do and know how to do, instead of trying to cram ourselves into the positions that a few rich people can profit from?

I mean we all know why but I had never thought of the economy as a thing that people make, instead thinking about it as some sort of external force that needed to be appeased. We don't need to re-train people, we need to make jobs that they can do.

this is sort of the fundamental insight of modern monetary theory and socialism, and it totally changes your view of how the government should be approaching everything

liberals surrender all control to capital, assuming that market efficiency corresponds to societal health. when the alternative is monarchy and complete aristocratic oversight of the economy, that seems attractive - why shouldn't market forces determine how much i pay for grain instead of the local noble pegging it as high as he can get away with? but liberalism has outstayed its usefulness, and now the radical notion isn't freedom from control, but controls upon unbridled chaos

the economy is a human construct intended to serve human needs that we have elevated into a machine god and now all anyone can do is wave their hands at it and pray that it works

Jazerus
May 24, 2011



14. Triangulation

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


yankeehomo posted:

Y'all remember that GQ thing about how [url="https:////https://www.gq.com/story/jeb-bush-president"]Jeb didn't have any friends?[/url]

"Even among his friends, Jeb is known to keep a certain elevated distance. In fact it's debatable whether he has any real friends—if he does, they're hard to find. While I was reporting this story, Jeb's office gave me the names of two "close friends" to speak with, both of whom, it turned out, did not consider themselves close to Jeb at all but, rather, business associates. When those "friends" gave me the names of other people they believed were close to Jeb, those people told the same story. After a while, it became difficult to shake the suspicion that "close" is a relative term with Jeb."

that's our jeb!

Jazerus
May 24, 2011



the replies are such concentrated succ that i am shocked that the gravitational pull hasn't consolidated all of twitter's data yet

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


honestly one of the best things about AOC getting elected is that her internet literacy now extends to everything she and bernie do together

bernie still needs to purge some of his decorum poisoning and this can only help

Jazerus fucked around with this message at 05:33 on Jul 21, 2018

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


Yinlock posted:

avatars don't have an expiration date man

changing your avatar just means nobody recognizes you anymore

nobody recognizes "that guy with the unremarkable obama avatar" so i think they're safe to renovate their posting brandsona

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


Phone posted:

i tuned in and heard this loving cursed phrase

"there are 4 main players when it comes to cyber: russia, china, north korea, and iran"

then i closed the window

and then i made this post

lmao how could you forget to include barron, who is digitally and spiritually powerful

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Jazerus
May 24, 2011



this is a comment at the top of the algorithm

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