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Sounds like a you problem. Might I suggest a time management app? We have those too now.
July 22, 2021 at 00:43
Man those who whine about 'postmodern obscurantism' at this point are just telling on themselves. Like, there is so much amazing literature and helpfu...
July 21, 2021 at 18:16
What's that? Got nothing apart from your cut n' paste 30s Google search propaganda? Yeah, thought so. Run along.
July 21, 2021 at 16:29
Gosh I have a whole reading list on money backlogged under my bed. Maybe, maybe.
July 21, 2021 at 14:42
Indeed, in this connection it's worth mentioning that the Nazi's explicitly looked to America as a model of how to implement state racism: https://www...
July 21, 2021 at 14:34
Yeah, I remember reading that when I came out. I'm pretty sure I even linked it here at some point. They're a great idea, but even then they would be ...
July 21, 2021 at 13:28
Literally the only thing worth mentioning about the whole "affair", before moving on to discuss literally anything else. Or to quote Adam Kotsko: "It ...
July 21, 2021 at 12:58
In point of fact they did default - or rather, they simply stopped paying, and the whole issue was held in abeyance, at least until after WWII. But on...
July 21, 2021 at 12:56
You mean: was the US just supposed to give up it's cash cow which had yielded over 3 times in repayments on interest than the principal of its loan? A...
July 21, 2021 at 05:51
Ah yes, the 'ol "I am completely and utterly ignorant about this topic so here's a cut n' paste from a propaganda website which I found after half a m...
July 21, 2021 at 05:48
Introductions to Deleuze are a mixed bag, although they've tended to get better over time, as the community has had more time to digest what is going ...
July 21, 2021 at 02:10
Correct. Which is why the Europeans did almost everything they could to be leniant when it came to enforcement of repayment, knowing very well the utt...
July 21, 2021 at 01:18
But for the US, whose ruthless pursuit of debt-claims in Europe after WWI virtually guaranteed continental depression and political fragmentation acro...
July 20, 2021 at 16:59
Whose the pessimist now hmmm? And yes all power should be unrelentingly critiqued, for all time, until eternity.
July 20, 2021 at 13:25
Sure. The US can stop funding terrorist states like Israel, evacuate its imperial presence across the globe, redraw its ridiculous trade treaties whic...
July 20, 2021 at 12:56
Well the US created ISIS so they're on the same side and objectively the US has enabled and carried out far more terror than ISIS could carry out in a...
July 20, 2021 at 12:30
Yes.
July 20, 2021 at 12:11
There seems to be some struggle to identify the novelty of postmodernity here, but I would suggest it is to be found in an area which seems to be rela...
July 20, 2021 at 06:12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE0Xf3cHJ58 God bloody dammit Jordies make a point that I totally missed and now I'm even more mad - we literally have...
July 19, 2021 at 16:09
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jul/19/former-nsw-labor-ministers-eddie-obeid-and-ian-macdonald-found-guilty-of-corruption-charges Som...
July 19, 2021 at 08:56
No, of course you didn't, you're simply parroting the blueQ line which, with nothing to say about the billions of dollars poured in from American corp...
July 19, 2021 at 03:06
The 'answer to the variance in the groups' is that an enormous majority of Americans are extremist lunatics who, incapable of admitting it to themselv...
July 18, 2021 at 17:20
Because Americans are the most politically shallow people on Earth.
July 18, 2021 at 01:24
In which direction exactly? Wealth inequality is higher than ever, you run the world's largest gulag system, corporate capture of government power has...
July 17, 2021 at 04:32
No. Significant change does not occur so long as the ruling classes do not feel threatened. If their conditions of life and social reproduction are no...
July 17, 2021 at 04:17
Ugh, go collect your CIA pay, but don't bother me with this shit.
July 17, 2021 at 04:06
Yeah yeah, the organizers have been so tremendously successful so far. In any case you're right, hence my edit before your post :) The funny thing is ...
July 17, 2021 at 04:03
You're comparing a whistleblower journalist held in appalling conditions with one of the most powerful media moguls on Earth? Get a grip.
July 17, 2021 at 03:59
They were also almost entirely ineffective, with police brutality continuing unabated in the US today. Not enough police stations were set on fire.
July 17, 2021 at 03:55
I can't watch that now but of course he's being used by Putin for propaganda purposes. That's what anyone would do. Assange exposed US war crimes thro...
July 17, 2021 at 03:26
Why would you think that?
July 17, 2021 at 02:57
I agree, but this thread isn't about that. If anything, the cruelty imposed on Assange is all the more reason why what the OP is about ought to be opp...
July 17, 2021 at 02:35
Really? A misdirect? That's your response?
July 17, 2021 at 02:20
Yeah but you're naive enough to think that handing yet more power to a set of actors who have caused immesurable loss of life and acceleration of glob...
July 17, 2021 at 01:46
Sad to see you lick boots this way.
July 17, 2021 at 01:35
Wrong. This isn't some abstract argument over bookworm principles. This is about letting the most bloodthristy government on the planet work with the ...
July 17, 2021 at 01:32
Way to miss the issue entirely.
July 17, 2021 at 01:15
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/07/16/biden-administration-completely-kills-the-its-a-private-company-so-its-not-censorship-argument/ "The most comm...
July 17, 2021 at 01:10
On this issue I happen to agree. If Trump had moved to work with private companies to censor speech, liberals would have had cried and moaned like the...
July 17, 2021 at 01:03
Because the maximal horizon of US 'progressivism' amounts to nothing more than capitalism with a human face, where everyone gets to be exploited with ...
July 16, 2021 at 07:34
There is no left wing in the US. Just a bunch of effete liberals - all of whom are centre right - who confuse politeness and table manners for politic...
July 16, 2021 at 06:37
July 15, 2021 at 23:19
Sure, and I'm just pointing out that the kind of thing he describes - which to anyone with a modicum of comprehensive ability would recgonize as funny...
July 15, 2021 at 22:40
Or try like, most of Asia. Anyway, I couldn't ask for a better illustration of why this comedy can lead to problematic results: when even the particul...
July 15, 2021 at 22:18
Pfft. Typical American chauvinism. Someone tells you to your face that not everyone experiences masculinity in this weird fucked up way that Americans...
July 15, 2021 at 21:43
It's funny - it's a good clip. But still, it's like - when you live a world where that overwhelming anxiety of being seen as 'unmasculine' is simply n...
July 15, 2021 at 13:27
Gosh, I've seen Match Point, but like, a decade ago. I barely remember it. Not Blue Jasmine, which is on the list next!
July 15, 2021 at 13:18
Hendrik Spruyt - The Sovereign State and Its Competitors: An Analysis of System Change
July 15, 2021 at 13:16
My own issue with that style of comedy is that sometimes - not all the time - the 'guts on the table' approach can be used as a kind of armor. It's a ...
July 14, 2021 at 16:29
I don't think so. Like, I hated Diane Keaton's character (love Diane Keaton tho). The way she was played was just pure male fantasy (as are all of All...
July 14, 2021 at 15:59