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Waddles. It waddles.
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how is tom by the way
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Mike Nelson here.
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gyrofry posted:

how is tom by the way

he is doing well. workin', earnin', livin', thrivin', survivin'.

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when tom thrives around the house, he really thrives around the house
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worthless posted:

.custom212029{}NoFreeWill posted:also anyone who thinks the future will descend into fascism is lacking imagination and an understanding of history. at least invent some plausible political system that is contemporary.

I'm lacking both those things you mentioned. from my feeble-minded and ignorant position it just seems like the increasing desire for decreasingly available resources will push governments into a fascist corner as a way of projecting social instability onto other countries/ethnic groups/what have you. but really i'm here to learn so it would be cool if you or anyone else could explain what you're getting at for me, a worthless dummy


just as US "imperialism" is very different from Roman imperialism and therefore deserves a different name, whatever happens next is not going to be neo-feudalism or fascism and will likely need to be named and theorized differently. nationalism is not as important, war over resources (water, last drops of oil/the arctic) is likely but not on WWI/WWII scales, death camps are out of fashion (indefinite solitary confinement is much more ethical), etc. etc.

i guess corporatism is a good word that sort of encompasses the semi-feudal aspects while highlighting the way things are organized.

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i found grumblefish's music faves
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has anyone said 'heat death' the answer is 'heat death'

also

c_man posted:

i found grumblefish's music faves



where is this from? its like it tapped into my brain stem

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roseweird do you ever post something interesting that you don't immediately edit out. who censors your posts, the CIA?
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http://www.salon.com/2014/02/02/why_youre_wrong_about_communism_7_huge_misconceptions_about_it_and_capitalism/
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Superabound posted:

http://www.salon.com/2014/02/02/why_youre_wrong_about_communism_7_huge_misconceptions_about_it_and_capitalism/

the author:

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Salon, it might as well have run in The New Inquiry. That article only exists to get pageviews from "communists at heart" who are already concerned that the little ordinary people may suffer from 7 Huge Misconceptions About Communism
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well hes wearing a bowtie, so clearly his economics credentials check out
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See what I mean

A longer version of this article ran in the Winter 2013 issue of Unopened Forwards to Uncles Magazine

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swampman posted:

Salon, it might as well have run in The New Inquiry. That article only exists to get pageviews from "communists at heart" who are already concerned that the little ordinary people may suffer from 7 Huge Misconceptions About Communism



This German Jew Discovered How To Abolish Class And Implement Global Economic Utopia Using One Weird Trick

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getfiscal posted:

Superabound posted:

http://www.salon.com/2014/02/02/why_youre_wrong_about_communism_7_huge_misconceptions_about_it_and_capitalism/

the author:



Why it's our very own Mr. Horton Huxtable Saffafrass Landedgentry Junior. Since finishing law school he's grown a beard but I'd recognize that bowtie anywhere.

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i guess this is the price that the gop is paying for all of their "obama is a socialist" rhetoric
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Marx Gordon Gecko

lol put Jamie Dimon or someone real in there
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welll i liked it
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this entire forum is cia-run bob arctors talking to one another
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political car tune
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gyrofry posted:

this entire forum is cia-run bob arctors talking to one another


OPSEC duder, seriously

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somebody tell that guy if he just sells casino adspace on his 5head he wont have to be a communist anymore
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c_man posted:

i found grumblefish's music faves



hahaha what the fuck do blatnyak and anime have to do with each other

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the funny thing is that blatnyak has all the stuff neofolk has- a silly name, synth horns, noodly out of tune real horns, enough volkische to gag you- but it lacks macho doughy poseurs who wear SS militaria, and that's why it's at the bottom of grumblefish-hierarchy.jpg
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the most important thing about ubermenchen is that they're snappy dressers
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Superabound posted:

http://www.salon.com/2014/02/02/why_youre_wrong_about_communism_7_huge_misconceptions_about_it_and_capitalism/


Communism necessarily distributes property universally, but, at least as far as this communist is concerned, can still allow you to keep your smartphone. Deal?


No deal.

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Stalin, in his paranoid cruelty, not only had Russian revolutionary leaders assassinated and executed, but indeed exterminated entire communist parties. These people weren’t resisting having their property collectivized; they were committed to collectivizing property. It is also worth remembering that the Soviets had to fight a revolutionary war – against, among others, the US – which, as the American Revolution is enough to show, doesn’t mainly consist of group hugs. They also faced (and heroically defeated) the Nazis, who were not an ocean away, but right on their doorstep.

So much for the USSR. The most horrifying episode in 20th Century official Communism was the Great Chinese Famine, its death toll difficult to identify, but surely in the tens of millions. Several factors evidently contributed to this atrocity, but central to it was Mao’s “Great Leap Forward,” a disastrous combination of applied pseudoscience, stat-juking, and political persecution designed to transform China into an industrial superpower in the blink of an eye.



trot alert. give the author another twenty years and he'll be writing for the national review

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american communists who disown the history of the movement and counter right-wing propaganda by saying, well, it's sorta true BUT our communism won't be like THAT are the worst. the Worst.
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that picture tells you everything you need to know about its creator who felt it necessary to stress k-pop, j-rock and animes as separate genres with the same generality as hip hop and r&b
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i dunno, there's still a lot left unanswered. like presumably the person's russian or a russophile or something, given the presence of the terms "batya rock" and blatnyak, and this would explain why chanson is given such a high ranking- they meant russian chanson. blatnyak is usually thought of as being part of the broader heading of russian chanson, though. what if maybe the minds of grumble-hierarchy.jpg just love Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel? Like boyd rice's flamboyant gayness so impressed that other gay things became important in its wake?