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gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/ElectGallardo/status/1509573388527800321

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skipmyseashells
Nov 14, 2020
https://twitter.com/prolenarrator/status/1509798010393350154?s=21&t=sBFwWUShW54oo09waNfWEg

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES

i’ve never actually seen a bound physical copy of it before lol

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

A lot of those books look like they've never been touched in their lives. Lol

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

AnimeIsTrash posted:

A lot of those books look like they've never been touched in their lives. Lol

I'm sure she's read the Mueller Report

CoolCab
Apr 17, 2005

glem

AnimeIsTrash posted:

A lot of those books look like they've never been touched in their lives. Lol

yeah...haha...who would buy a bunch of books and never actually read them. c-couldn't be me.

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

CoolCab posted:

yeah...haha...who would buy a bunch of books and never actually read them. c-couldn't be me.

This is why you only buy the really beat to poo poo books from the used book store. So all the people who come visit think you're smart and read a lot.

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

Also no copies of open veins or Nkrumah, shameful really.

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

@_@ no lenin

CoolCab
Apr 17, 2005

glem

AnimeIsTrash posted:

This is why you only buy the really beat to poo poo books from the used book store. So all the people who come visit think you're smart and read a lot.

back during the zoom year of uni i made a game out of noticing how conspicuously all the professors and deans and stuff made sure to include their bookshelf in the frame. the overall winner was for sure i think it was the finance director, who had both a full bookshelf behind her and just a stack of loose books to her left as tall as she was, lmao.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

AnimeIsTrash posted:

This is why you only buy the really beat to poo poo books from the used book store. So all the people who come visit think you're smart and read a lot.

used book stores are also the only stores where you can actually find any decent books anymore

all the bookstores where I live are just full of pop culture crap

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

gradenko_2000 posted:

used book stores are also the only stores where you can actually find any decent books anymore

all the bookstores where I live are just full of pop culture crap

Those + thrift shops are my gotos for books. I have no idea how people afford stuff like B&N, I went in there last week to see if they had a book and everything was $20+.

Thriftbooks is also good if you want an online thrift book store.

https://www.thriftbooks.com/

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

I keep my bookshelf stocked to let the dimes I bring home know they're dealing with an intellectual.

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde
I haven't gotten around to reading Settlers yet but I'm currently working through Far-Right Populism in America which is cowritten by a student (but not a complete follower) of J. Sakai. It traces the history of mass movements in the US that combine anti-elitism and anti-marginalism, starting from Bacon's Rebellion. I think it really helps fill in blind spots where the appeal of these movements has been obscured by apologetics or performative dismissals (the wishful apologetics of "they don't represent us").

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

https://twitter.com/dulce_base_/status/1499501436732080130

mark immune
Dec 14, 2019

put the teacher in the cope cage imo
the virgin professor: slovenly shelf full of books bought with blood money
the chad pirate: an elegant kobo aura one mounted on a tasteful pedestal

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

https://twitter.com/GeoffYoung4KY/status/1564698010398990336

lumpentroll
Mar 4, 2020

lol

F Stop Fitzgerald
Dec 12, 2010

how did that guy win a contested dem primary lol

skipmyseashells
Nov 14, 2020

F Stop Fitzgerald posted:

how did that guy win a contested dem primary lol

just had to convince voters they were living in the belly of Babylon

The Atomic Man-Boy
Jul 23, 2007


Ok, now I know settlers was written by the FBI

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
Pokemon Go Read Settlers

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

The Atomic Man-Boy posted:

Ok, now I know settlers was written by the FBI
that's pretty funny because the infrared people were boosting that guy, who is a perennial candidate in a no-hope district, because he's a well-meaning but somewhat (innocently) naive boomer who will retweet or share stuff that people send him. so he was sharing some of their stuff, and then i reckon that someone sent him settlers and told him to read it, so he's like "oh this book is interesting" and now the infrared people are mad and are complaining "that we made who you are, maaaaan!" like he owes them something.

it's all incredibly stupid and involves assclowns who don't know how to act like normal people but i think that's pretty much what's happening

F Stop Fitzgerald
Dec 12, 2010

are the patsocs really mad this crank read settlers lmfao

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
yeah among other things like saying he supports LGBT people which creates the effect of a blue-check congressional primary winner engaging with a guy who goes by @StalinismUSA

https://twitter.com/GeoffYoung4KY/status/1564764873086668813
https://twitter.com/GeoffYoung4KY/status/1564692304648101890

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

F Stop Fitzgerald posted:

are the patsocs really mad this crank read settlers lmfao

There are a lot of people that hate settlers for no reason. I think it’s been read by a total of 5 people.

MLSM
Apr 3, 2021

by Azathoth

gradenko_2000 posted:

used book stores are also the only stores where you can actually find any decent books anymore

all the bookstores where I live are just full of pop culture crap

One of the few things i missed about living in San Francisco

Like Barnes and noble and books a million don’t even carry marx lmao. The “political section” is full of bullshit pushed out by thinktanks and institutes owned by billionaires or intel agencies.

They do have some dope hardbacks of Dune though

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

The only book that alluded to marx I've seen in a "normal" bookstore is this lol

larper
Apr 9, 2019
I want the amerikkka emote back

Got deleted sometime between 2006 and 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20060615021401/https://forums.somethingawful.com/misc.php?action=showsmilies

croup coughfield
Apr 8, 2020
Probation
Can't post for 94 days!

30bux make it happen

skipmyseashells
Nov 14, 2020
use your superprofits on something decent

lumpentroll
Mar 4, 2020

oh they made the ik star only show in the thread you have buttons in

larper
Apr 9, 2019

croup coughfield posted:

30bux make it happen

Im not paying 30 dollars to clean up lowtaxs mess. that's jefferey's job

the bitcoin of weed
Nov 1, 2014

drat this is a funny thread can't believe i missed it. the guy who later got permabanned for insane anti-japanese racism going off about Sakai being a settler colonialist is comedy gold

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
CaptainACAB did end up getting the Liberals to cut ties with the Moonies

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

MLSM posted:

One of the few things i missed about living in San Francisco

Like Barnes and noble and books a million don’t even carry marx lmao. The “political section” is full of bullshit pushed out by thinktanks and institutes owned by billionaires or intel agencies.

They do have some dope hardbacks of Dune though
rockafellas in amerikkka

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

There is a type of southern blue lib who is 1 book away from becoming a swamp/appalachian style maoist.

Epitope
Nov 27, 2006

Grimey Drawer
Reading more of this. There's some elements in common with a conservative talk show, or a Yudkowsky blog post. Self assured and self satisfied to the point of incapable of seeing anything to the contrary. Not that he's wrong, rather there is indeed lots of "well duh" stuff. But also some bits where he bends reality to fit his narrative. Which ends up undermining it, rather than bolstering it

Sunny Side Up
Jun 22, 2004

Mayoist Third Condimentist
Just finished Critique Of Maoist Reason by J. Moufawad Paul and he has a whole chapter on the ideology of this book. Very fair & balanced, highly recommend: https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/N05-Critique-of-Maoist-Reason-3rd-Printing.pdf

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skipmyseashells
Nov 14, 2020
bumping this thread because I want amerikkka to die

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