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1779, from French crétin (18c.), from Alpine dialect crestin, "a dwarfed and deformed idiot" of a type formerly found in families in the Alpine lands, a condition caused by a congenital deficiency of thyroid hormones. The word is of uncertain origin. By many it has been identified with Vulgar Latin *christianus "a Christian," a generic term for "anyone," but often with a sense of "poor fellow." Related: Cretinism (1796).

tokin opposition posted:

What are the material conditions for the internet? Correct answers only plz

i say swears online posted:

cellphone'd

BRAKE FOR MOOSE posted:

brains don't work that way. it's a developmental disorder

indigi posted:

holy poo poo it's real??

ArfJason posted:

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

ArfJason posted:

Я

Stairmaster posted:

surely there must be a better poster than this

ArfJason posted:

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

The hippies were pretty reactionary if you dig underneath the surface level liberal appeal of "free love," which was more often than not an excuse to trick women into accepting your philandering. When hippies tried forming communes to realize their utopic visions they almost all turned out to be absolute disasters where an insular clique ruled over everybody else with an iron fist. Liberationist rhetoric isn't a substitute for political discipline, and if there isn't a structure to check reactionary tendencies & petty tyrannies then the most charismatic people will take advantage of everyone.

vyelkin posted:

also trotsky had the brilliant idea of "no war, no peace" which was basically neither sign a peace deal nor keep fighting and the germans said lol okay and just kept advancing into russia with no organized resistance until the bolsheviks figured out how stupid trotsky's idea was

AnimeIsTrash posted:

Do you think that trotsky would travel forward in time to prevent you from making posts like these?

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Despite all the attempts by the Soviet Union to curb alcoholism and smoking, you could still be an antisocial piece of poo poo chain smoking alcoholic. So what is really the problem here? That you're being forbidden from engaging in vices or that a problem is being recognized at all?

Ardennes posted:

It pretty much shutdown every small time dealers and started seriously eating into available retail space until point there are shops on every other block. (Some have to be laundering money)

But also, anecdotally speaking, I don’t think it was great for the mental health of a lot of friends who developed a psychological dependency with limitless cheap supply. That said, I would say the same thing about alcohol being too cheap as well.

I wouldn’t have a issue with just giving people a certain amount of weed every month but if there was a cap.

Ardennes posted:

Honestly, it sounds like you're afraid of the nanny state (shrug). It has never been difficult to actually find weed in Oregon, the question is if they should be a unregulated but authorized for-profit market.

Ardennes posted:

I would say decriminalization solves that issue since the state doesn't really care either way at that point. The question really is if you have a for-profit market or not. A socialist state could have a non-profit market for weed but it would likely have some type of restrictions.

The Voice of Labor posted:

tbf, oregon just passed an onerous tax on tobacco and a minimum price for alcohol that almost doubles the price of bottom shelf liquor (while leaving the cost of anything that passes through my bourgeoisie hippy dilettante lips unchanged) . hating the poor, but in an especially patronizing way is kinda the prevalent attitude.

like, the mindset that thinks someone on the margins starving because all the substances that give them a brief reprise from their misery, subsequently also necessary for their survival, have doubled in price is some sort of moral good is real perverse, but it's also real common. libs gonna lib

Atrocious Joe posted:

https://twitter.com/ericfish85/status/1400845981097381888?s=20

someone hook me up with some pure socialism

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/AshleyRParker/s...ingawful.com%2F

quote:

TRUMP
Thou losest labour:
As easy mayst thou the intrenchant air
With thy keen sword impress as make me bleed:
Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests;
I bear a charmed life, which must not yield,
To one of intellectual facilities functioning.

BIDEN
Despair thy charm;
And let the angel whom thou still hast served
Tell thee, Biden was from his cognitive abilities
Untimely ripp'd.

Cerebral Bore posted:

at some point i thought that anarchism could be cool but then i realized that the anarchist explanation for why they haven't ever really succeeded in overthrowing capitalism always boiled down to "well we tried but then we got crushed by those evil capitalists/communists/whateverists" and upon about half a second of further thought i realized that maybe this implies some kind of fundamental impossibility of their position and that's when i decided that this whole anarchism business is actually very silly

Mr. Lobe posted:

That sounds like one of those things that you'd see on a conspiracy theory meme with the iceberg and different levels of derangement

It'd be one of the deeper tiers for sure

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

I used to think that too, but the spigot won't turn off once those balance sheets are secured. So one of the places all that extra money will go into is commodity markets.

Larry Parrish posted:

Based

The Voice of Labor posted:

how revolutionary, on a scale of 1-10, would you say a trail mix consisting of rock salt, dried garbanzo beans, and khat leaves is?

indigi posted:

wtf is a khat leaves

https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/laboraction-ny/1945/v09n05/lenin.htm posted:

The history of modern civilized America opens with one of those great, really liberating, really revolutionary wars of which there have been so few among the large number of wars of conquest that were caused, like the present imperialist war, by squabbles among kings, landowners and capitalists over the division of seized lands and stolen profits. It was a war of the American people against English robbers who subjected America and held it in colonial slavery as these “civilized” blood-sucker,s are now subjecting and holding colonial slavery hundreds of millions of people in India, Egypt and in all corners of the world.

Since that time about 150 years have passed. Bourgeois civilization has borne all its luxuriant fruits. By the high level of development of the productive forces of organized human labor, by utilizing machines and all the wonders of modern technic; America has taken the first place among free and cultured nations. But at the same time America has become one of the foremost countries as regards the depth of the abyss which divides a handful of

brazen billionaires who are wallowing in dirt and in luxury on the one hand, and millions of toilers who are always on the verge of starvation. The American people, who gave the world an example of a revolutionary war against feudal subjection, now appears as a new capitalist wage slave of a handful of billionaires; finds itself playing the role of a hired assassin for the wealthy gang, having strangled the Philippines in 1898 under the pretext of “liberating” them, and strangling the Russian Socialist Republic in 1918 under the pretext of “protecting” it from the Germans.