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No, I think I will continue calling you out for being an apologist and propagandist for power and its abuse.
December 25, 2020 at 00:46
Ah yes, those 'accidental' extrajudicial drone strikes, those 'chance' deportations, the 'bad luck' of aggressively trying to crush whistleblowers. Yo...
December 25, 2020 at 00:38
So many words, so much nothing. Obama slaughtered hundreds and thousands overseas, deported about as many people domestically, persecuted whistleblowe...
December 24, 2020 at 23:54
Obama was arguably the single most powerful man in the world. If you think he needs some kind of kid-glove treatment, you don't understand what 'propo...
December 24, 2020 at 23:29
Tim is basically a Trump supporter, but for Obama. He will excuse the fact that he is a war criminal who literally killed children by bombing hospital...
December 24, 2020 at 22:43
Yall need to storm some Bastilles.
December 24, 2020 at 17:22
I got books spilling out from under my bed atm haha. If it helps, I bought Robin Blackburn's two books on Atlantic slavery as part of the sale. Saved ...
December 23, 2020 at 02:44
Sorry is this a debate proposal or am I locking this thread?
December 20, 2020 at 01:58
The US is a terrorist nation. https://theintercept.com/2020/12/18/afghanistan-cia-militia-01-strike-force/
December 19, 2020 at 22:03
Ah, Peter Navarro, the only economist whom Trump could find who thought that a trade war with China was a good idea, and who was promptly installed in...
December 19, 2020 at 08:07
Interesting! I'm doing alot of reading around states and state trans/formation recently, but the intersection between cities and law sounds awesome to...
December 19, 2020 at 00:47
:up: Plan to read this soon too! Incidentally, am currently reading Joseph Strayer's On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State.
December 18, 2020 at 23:20
:up: Anti-Natalism is basically a series of grammar mistakes themselves mistaken for substantive philosophy. A position lacking even the dignity of be...
December 18, 2020 at 10:02
Imagine being so illiterate that you can't even properly read statements that you think you agree with. To be expected from those who belive in fairyt...
December 17, 2020 at 02:23
Ah yes the good 'ol 'look around you' standard of proof. Trash.
December 16, 2020 at 02:36
:up: Yep. One of those mythic stories, not unlike jaguar spirits in the jungle or haunted chairs in grandma's house. Unempirical trash.
December 16, 2020 at 02:29
They choose people for the reproduction of their power, and (the same thing) the satisfaction of their donor base. Nothing strange about it.
December 16, 2020 at 02:25
Either hexis or ethos, depending on context.
December 16, 2020 at 02:24
https://twitter.com/davidsirota/status/1338921612175806464 Well gee Biden being a cynical shit of a politician with zero principles wow what a surpris...
December 16, 2020 at 01:49
Proud owner of the means of pontification. Dictatorship of the prattleariat.
December 15, 2020 at 10:50
A little off topic, but a nice quasi-review of Obama's new memoir, predictably chock full of self-aggrandizing rubbish and fawned over by every other ...
December 15, 2020 at 07:52
Repubs singing onto the lawsuits and contuining to show public support for Trump makes perfect sense and is exactly what anyone in their position woul...
December 13, 2020 at 12:47
Some more than others certainly - especially those in power responsible for making the world a worse place, like Obama. And you did call me a racist a...
December 13, 2020 at 05:42
*yawn* An inconsequential footnote to history, if it is remembered at all.
December 13, 2020 at 05:19
I'd like him to drop dead painfully. More adjectives?
December 13, 2020 at 05:17
To point out that you haven't, and watch on as you flail every which way with irrelavencies in meantime - including this.
December 13, 2020 at 00:48
No, I am absolutely not. I am interested calling out your shitty analogies for those who might otherwise be suckered in by lazy appearence mongering. ...
December 12, 2020 at 23:04
Really, don't worry your pretty head about it. If you really can't figure it out, I don't want your brain to fry from over-exertion.
December 12, 2020 at 22:43
https://thesuburbiareport.com/2020/12/12/we-cant-be-hand-wringing-about-fraudulent-elections-every-four-years/ "All of the hand-wringing after 2016 ab...
December 12, 2020 at 22:39
Ah yes, take the reply 5 or 6 posts down from your initial shitty post after you changed the subject about as many times and wonder if that's the rele...
December 12, 2020 at 22:31
No, it was an invitation to address what I said. Which you still haven't. I'm sure you still think you've made a Very Important Point regardless. Mayb...
December 12, 2020 at 22:23
No you don't. If you did you would actually address what I said, instead of playing trivia host. You're point scoring, don't pretend to yourself like ...
December 12, 2020 at 22:01
Wealth is an indicator, a symptom. What matters more are both the means of production and the social and political systems which constrain and enable ...
December 12, 2020 at 15:43
Again with the confusion of arbitrary social constructs with - this time - literal organs. It's such a strange pathological compulsion: this idea that...
December 12, 2020 at 15:16
Welcome to the club, comrade.
December 12, 2020 at 14:45
Ah yeah, you're the kind of person to ask if age is 'just a number' and 'what's the cut off point?' for that. But as a heuristic let's say at the poin...
December 12, 2020 at 14:34
Oh I was entertained, just not the way you think. Imagine comparing extreme wealth - an utterly extrinsic, completely contingent, socially bestowed in...
December 12, 2020 at 14:06
You didn't have a funny thought. You had entirely unoriginal thought regularly regurgitated by those whose depth of political analysis starts and stop...
December 12, 2020 at 13:53
The world as it is, is structured through and through by 'regulations imposed from above', enforced by continually exercised violence along with the t...
December 12, 2020 at 04:49
It is absolutely the case that anyone is susceptible to this. The goal is to design social mechanisms which blunt or neutralize the effects, rather th...
December 12, 2020 at 04:04
https://theintercept.com/2020/12/11/democrat-tom-vilsack-usda-secretary-farms/ Oh would you look at that Biden re-hired the same shitty agri fuckstick...
December 12, 2020 at 03:45
https://commongood.cc/reader/the-one-percents-50-trillion-dollar-tab/ "A staggering $50 trillion. That is how much the upward redistribution of income...
December 12, 2020 at 02:45
Age of the anthropocene indeed! There's no 'going back to nature' now - only coming to grips with the now natural artifice of this world.
December 11, 2020 at 00:17
Wtf is Brett whining about lol
December 09, 2020 at 01:57
Also fuck anyone who calls themselves a 'centrist' or 'moderate' which is just another name for 'conservative in disguise', including Joe Biden: https...
December 08, 2020 at 15:46
So this wildly fascinating clip is doing the rounds - retweeted by no less than Trump himself and taken up and ran by Tucker Carlson and general anti-...
December 08, 2020 at 14:25
Biden picks Raytheon board member to be SecDef. Mainstream media can only talk about how he's the first black SecDef. Fuck Biden's intersectional impe...
December 08, 2020 at 05:24
Sure, but precisely to the degree that these trends hold across the class is prima facie evidence that the drivers for them are sociological - that is...
December 07, 2020 at 07:43
I mostly agree. I did very much like this tendency chart that was doing the rounds a while ago though - it's from Ruby Payne's A Framework for Underst...
December 07, 2020 at 05:03
The whole problem with the current discussion is in trying to cash out the OPs question in terms of personality traits or personal psychology - it’s a...
December 07, 2020 at 04:39