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So I watched Annie Hall for the first time last night and gosh its male fantasy for the intellectual class. Just the height of bourgie self-aggrandise...

I kinda like it. I especially like that it's only positive and not negative (no downvotes). I do miss seeing postcounts tho. Wish there was a way to s...

Banned @"MikeListeral" for low quality posting.

Yeah, it wouldn't be wrong to see this as another angle of attack with respect to meaning as use. Importantly though, I'm expressly not comparing it t...

Out of curiosity, why not?

I'm not sure it's apathy so much as cowardice. Australian national culture is generally one of petty minded fear of losing the little we think we have...

The most terrifying aspect of this is that this kind of looking-out-for-each-other's-corruption is that it becomes structural - if everyone is comprom...

The Iraq war was a complete success. The companies - oil, arms, agriculture, and finance - that employ the US government got fabulously rich. Dead Ame...

It was better when he was in hiding.

Lmao, yeah Nietzsche who never complained about anything ever.

Perspective? You're the one that thought to compare a single country to genocidal acts carried out by entire continents. Which is an apt comparison, s...

Spoken like a true bootlicker.

You're missing the most important rule. The more powerful the country/institution/person/actor, the worse it ought to be judged.

Carried out by a single nation? Yes.

Why stop there? Why not go back to the stone age and claim that the 'foundations' involved the first bloke to knock over another bloke with a bone? In...

As would anyone who understands that it is the most prolific exporter of world misery there has ever been. But good to see you ignore the point of the...

That would be naive and blind to the facts. The ill will involved on behalf of the US was codified, illegal, and monstrous: This kind of shit, which b...

The problem with this kind of analysis is to assume that the US ever had even the slightest intention of solving Iraq's problems, as opposed to using ...

Yeah, the burden of too much oil and strategic control of world resources. And considering the US operates the world's largest gulag system, the issue...

...which they percipitated and maintained. If foreign aggression counts as a criteria for invasion by the US, the first country it ought to invade is ...

No, no, this is quite off topic. I'm not here to address Israel. I'm just using discourse around its genocide of Palestinians as an example.

Enabling the death of 2.5% of the Iraqi population on the basis of a lie while authorizing state sponsored torture by the most brutal regime on Earth ...

You would indeed find out that Israel is far worse than anything remotely achieved by apartheid South Africa, as reported by Nelson Mandela's grandson...

They are just random examples. But it's undoubtable that civility politics is a thing, that, when faced with expressions of incivility motivated by, s...

How so? A disagreement would normally occasion an attempt to refute the claim. Whether or not you agree or disagree is irrelevant to, well, the irrele...

Ah, just waiting to scratch a particular itch are you? In any case, your response misses the point. What's central here - and I should have made this ...

Charles Tilly - Coercion, Capital, and European States, A.D. 990-1992 :up:

https://reneweconomy.com.au/australia-ranked-dead-last-in-world-for-climate-action-in-latest-un-report/

Yeah, we celebrate the deaths of narratively acceptable 'bad guys' all the time. Bin Laden was, by any measure, a small fry compared to the suffering ...

Would it be that Rumsfeld were just meat and bones. That he wasn't is the issue.

Yes. To which your response was that this is somehow negative... on account of the fact that it is negative. Circular reasoning begets a return to beg...

There's nothing negative about celebrating Rumsfeld death. It's a quite positive thought. Good feelings all around. It's in the name - celebration.

Then what are you referring to? You haven't done much to define it other than to equate between war crimes and celebrating someone's natural death.

There's nothing inherently wrong with 'negative energy'. We discipline children with 'negative energy'. We eliminate killers with 'negative energy'. A...

It's not the only metric, but it sure does help. Call it example setting.

Neither does this response, but OK.

A world without an extra genocidal war criminal in it is better than one with him in it. By celebrating Rumsfeld's death I'm participating in the tort...

Huh? No one killed Rumsfeld. There were no 'evil acts' committed. There was no 'ritual'. He died. The world is a better place as a result. That's wort...

Why? The death of evil people ought to be celebrated. They are joyous occasions. "Respect for the dead", irrespective of who are what they were in lif...

How could you not be having a fun time? https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/06/donald-rumsfeld-obituary-iraq-war

To be fair I'm not celebrating too hard because he died a natural death rather than by exsanguination or horse-drawn quartering. Either of which he de...

Nah, reckon it's Kissinger next. We can throw a party.

I'm not ruling it out!

Waking up to the news that Donald Rumsfeld died is a good way to start the day. May more American political leadership similarly drop dead.

https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1410223635567038466 Anthony Blinkin even had the temerity to refer to them as 'self-defense'. Fuckers.

Even the most cursory knowledge of human history will expose as laughable the idea that the 'rule of the mob' could even be considered as a viable thr...

You're being obtuse. Whatever the US says about itself or others is totally irrelavent to assessing democracy in China. Democracy is not, and has neve...

What? No. Whether or not A is rubbish has nothing to do with whether B is rubbish.

And whether the US is democratic or not is totally irrelevant to this. I take it as obvious that the US is an excellent example of what to avoid when ...