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Toph Bei Fong
Feb 29, 2008





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My girlfriend (22f) and I (24m) are having a disagreement about a picture.

I met my girlfriend, Sam, 8 months ago at a house party and we’ve been pretty much inseparable since then. She’s witty, intelligent, funny and gorgeous and we are almost the perfect couple.

The only issue I’ve been having recently is a framed picture she keeps over her bed. It’s of an older gentleman lying in bed with a scowl on his face. She lives with roommates and I live alone so we spend most of our time together at my place and I’ve only been in her room a couple times so I’ve never really brought it up.

For a while I just figured it was a relative of some sort (Sam is African American but this is a picture of a white guy) until recently I met her extended family at a birthday party for her cousin. On the way back I asked who the picture in her bedroom is of, since it’s not anyone I met at the party. She started laughing at me and explained that the picture is of some apparently famous philosopher guy named Slavoj Zijek (I don’t know if that’s spelled right) and she doesn’t know him. WTF. We started arguing about it, I said it was weird to keep pictures of random people in your bedroom and she said it was somehow ‘pomo’, I don’t know what that means, her major is philosophy and mine is computer science.

TL;DR: girlfriend keeps picture of a philosopher on her bedroom wall. I’m weirded out and kind of jealous that this guy is apparently so important to her that she has a random picture of him above her bed. Am I overreacting though?

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ELTON JOHN
Feb 17, 2014

Trabisnikof posted:

zizek endorsed biden lol

oh no

Buck Wildman
Mar 30, 2010

I am Metango, Galactic Governor


drat mark hamill is hardcore

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010


yeah as far as modern US presidents go, trump was pretty average lol

Animal-Mother
Feb 14, 2012

RABBIT RABBIT
RABBIT RABBIT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80X0pbCV_t4

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005


the dusty balls joke is probably the best zizek joke, its rather perfect

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Trabisnikof posted:

the dusty balls joke is probably the best zizek joke, its rather perfect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwDrHqNZ9lo

Good soup!
Nov 2, 2010

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

FormaldehydeSon
Oct 1, 2011


He says dickbutt

Hodgepodge
Jan 29, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 243 days!

FormaldehydeSon posted:

He says dickbutt

heck, same

Bootleg Trunks
Jun 12, 2020

spacemang_spliff
Nov 29, 2014

wide pickle

lmao

Private Cumshoe
Feb 15, 2019

AAAAAAAGAGHAAHGGAH
he's just a guy with funny affectations that rips on capitalism op nothing more

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Preen Dog posted:

I can't tolerate watching Peterson for any length of time, even just to pick out the best moments he got owned.

Is there a specific clip or highlight reel anyone can recommend?

Zizek and Peterson's debate is interesting to watch for just one reason: how much Zizek totally outclasses Peterson. And what makes it even more interesting is that Jordan Peterson appears to recognize this. Peterson fawns over Zizek and seemingly displays the aspect of a novice in the presence of a master.

Peanut President
Nov 5, 2008

by Athanatos

(and can't post for 7 days!)

Trabisnikof posted:

zizek endorsed biden lol

so did chomsky and the revcoms

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.




http://dismagazine.com/blog/44489/abercrombie-zizek/

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

had a dream last night that I was riding a bus and zizek came on and then sat in my lap

what could this mean?

oscarthewilde
May 16, 2012


I would often go there
To the tiny church there

Trabisnikof posted:

zizek endorsed biden lol

he might even have a point. another 4 years of trump would've made trump into even more of a figurehead/scapegoat for all the ills of America. you'd have 4 years of omnipresent outrage, but it would've begun and ended with trump. now, with biden as president, the failing system and liberal hegemony cannot as easily place blame beyond its sphere. perhaps biden was the accelerationist choice after all

ELTON JOHN
Feb 17, 2014

my bony fealty posted:

had a dream last night that I was riding a bus and zizek came on and then sat in my lap

what could this mean?

maybe that was reality and this is the dream

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Cithen
Mar 6, 2002


Pillbug

Trabisnikof posted:

zizek endorsed biden lol

he also endorsed trump with the rationale that he would disrupt the consciousness of everyone enough to bring about the end times

Brain Candy
May 18, 2006

Cithen posted:

he also endorsed trump with the rationale that he would disrupt the consciousness of everyone enough to bring about the end times

and since that clearly failed and people just became more insane i understand him chickening out

Orange Devil
Oct 1, 2010

Wullie's reign cannae smother the flames o' equality!

Cithen posted:

he also endorsed trump with the rationale that he would disrupt the consciousness of everyone enough to bring about the end times

Zizek gazed into the abyss.

net work error
Feb 26, 2011

I like his story on how he got an n word pass

22 Eargesplitten
Oct 10, 2010



On a scale of 1-10 how many grams of coke does Zizek do in a given day?

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

After Yuri Gagarin, the first cosmonaut, made his visit to space, he was received by Nikita Khruschev, the general secretary of the Communist Party, and told him confidentially: “You know, comrade, that up there in the sky, I saw heaven with God and angels — Christianity is right!” Khruschev whispers back to him: “I know, I know, but keep quiet, don’t tell this to anyone!” Next week, Gagarin visited the Vatican and was received by the pope, to whom he confides: “You know, holy father, I was up there in the sky and I saw there is no God or angels …” “I know, I know,” interrupts the pope, “but keep quiet, don’t tell this to anyone!”

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

nate robinson's bowtie spinning like a helicoptor about to take off

fabergay egg
Mar 1, 2012

it's not a rhetorical question, for politely saying 'you are an idiot, you don't know what you are talking about'


Brain Candy posted:

and since that clearly failed and people just became more insane i understand him chickening out

what makes you think it failed?

Hodgepodge
Jan 29, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 243 days!
we can't say for sure that being utterly pathetically wrecked to the point he looked like a drunk monk stumbling out of the whorehouse and falling before the feet of the Buddha himself was what sent Jorp into the depths of a benzo addiction that ended in a coma. i think his wife got cancer as well or something serious like that. but i doubt its a coincidence that he hit the literally in a coma stage of his difficulties shortly thereafter.

Wheeee
Mar 11, 2001

When a tree grows, it is soft and pliable. But when it's dry and hard, it dies.

Hardness and strength are death's companions. Flexibility and softness are the embodiment of life.

That which has become hard shall not triumph.

Hodgepodge posted:

for sure that being utterly pathetically wrecked to the point he looked like a drunk monk stumbling out of the whorehouse and falling before the feet of the Buddha himself was what sent Jorp into the depths of a benzo addiction that ended in a coma.

Here is something you can't understand



How I could just kill a man

Apples McGrind
Oct 13, 2013

I would gently caress him tbh

Wheeee
Mar 11, 2001

When a tree grows, it is soft and pliable. But when it's dry and hard, it dies.

Hardness and strength are death's companions. Flexibility and softness are the embodiment of life.

That which has become hard shall not triumph.

well no poo poo who wouldn’t

Hodgepodge
Jan 29, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 243 days!

Wheeee posted:

Here is something you can't understand



How I could just kill a man

i hear in japan they call him "garabagu tanuki no shinigami"

Trash Ops
Jun 19, 2012

im having fun, isnt everyone else?

zizek is an academic whose good work is about hegel and then just rewrites and republishes a handful of dumb essays to make cash

The_Rob
Feb 1, 2007

Blah blah blah blah!!
zizek is the only self aware philosopher and he seems to have fun while getting to say whatever he wants. he’s good.

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

Trash Ops posted:

zizek is an academic whose good work is about hegel and then just rewrites and republishes a handful of dumb essays to make cash

he also has good work bout lenin and lacan

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

"The fool is a simpleton, a court jester who is allowed to tell the truth precisely because the 'performative power' (the sociopolitical efficiency) of his speech is suspended; the knave is the cynic who openly states the truth, a crook who tries to sell the open admission of his crookedness as honesty, a scoundrel who admit the need for illegitimate repression in order to maintain social stability.

Following the fall of Socialism, the knave is a neo-conservative advocate of the free market, who cruelly rejects all forms of social solidarity as counterproductive sentimentalism; while the fool is a multiculturalist 'radical' social critic who, by means of his ludic procedures destined to 'subvert' the existing order, actually serves as its supplement."

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:


this picture made me laugh

Trash Ops
Jun 19, 2012

im having fun, isnt everyone else?

https://twitter.com/YawnieChan/status/1430023446403198978?s=20

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Trash Ops
Jun 19, 2012

im having fun, isnt everyone else?

lol this is terrible bait

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