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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > C-SPAM > [AOC] (D), fund the police
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Drunkboxer
Jun 30, 2007
 your mom’s canceled, op

* # ¿ Dec 21, 2020 18:02
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Drunkboxer
Jun 30, 2007

Loveshaft posted:

https://twitter.com/jimmy_dore/status/1341076911280156673?s=20
https://twitter.com/richimedhurst/status/1340822627322105860?s=20

wow yeah this seems v important, much to discuss

* # ¿ Dec 21, 2020 19:41
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Drunkboxer
Jun 30, 2007

tiberion02 posted:

Challenge: Name 8 members of Congress better than AOC

jesus, donald j trump, donald j trump jr, eric trump, barron trump, trump, the lord jesus christ, and bernie

* # ¿ Dec 21, 2020 20:47
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Drunkboxer
Jun 30, 2007

A Buttery Pastry posted:

A liberal would not critique the weak organizational underpinnings of an "activist" group, as that is precisely how a liberal prefers them. To reflexively defend posting pals however, even when they've started down a harmful ideological path, is the seed of ideological rot that will eventually allow tendencies entirely hostile to socialism to take hold in an organization.

Take PMC for example. The enemy here is no longer one arm of modern imperialism, but instead the person or persons whom the poster has a direct adversarial relationship to. The priority here is clear; the personal interests of the poster trumps the interests of the peoples being ground to dust under the wheels of imperialism. The tendency of American posters to treat existence within the US as uniquely bad is the more general result of this tendency, to favor the lived experience of themselves or the in-group - largely other Americans - over structural analysis, one that at times tips over into pure nationalism and racism.

This is in fact the near opposite of the terms BEB and PMC. There is no obscurantism, just pure demand for material improvements in the language of the common person.

A Buttery Pastry posted:

Esoteric terms like BEB (or PMC as used in C-SPAM) are shibboleths used by groups who are, to put it in modern terms, "extremely online", so as to enforce strict insularity within the community. The terms do not exist to help the reader achieve a better understanding of the world, nor to help them build a more just society, rather they exist to create a world of pure ideology divorced from the material. An impossibility of course for the materialist ideology these groups claim to adhere to. The tension is inevitably resolved by the group abandoning materialism entirely, retaining only a socialist branding and turning into a millenarian cult.

You can just say it sounds loving dumb, it’s quicker and obvious to everyone

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Drunkboxer
Jun 30, 2007
 *dennis miler voice*

hey beb

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