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Kurdt
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The Stalin society of North America Presents: An evening with Grover Furr
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hi
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Grover Furrsuit
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Kurdt
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yes, but not in a gay sexual way
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old people shouldnt argue with young people, its not fair. to make it fair old people should only argue with young people when they are drunk or have given themselves a concussion, like a golf handicap
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Poronto
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Panopticon posted:

given themselves a concussion like a golf handicap



that's not how golf handicaps work you idiot!!!!

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Poronto
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what. did you make it to extended adolescence somehow believing that when two plutocrats of whatever grade square off on the course one of them beats the other in the head with a five iron until, a literal, mental "handicap" is achieved. what the blazes. what shit. your dad was lying to you
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the stalin society of north america's award for excellence in the field of stalin and stalin studies
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Poronto
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awarded to an weird ugly little jewish guy who lives in mexico and goes by Levin Taubsky
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is this the dude who insulted getfiscal on facebook
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Mike Nelson here.
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Ironicwarcriminal posted:

is this the dude who insulted getfiscal on facebook

you're thinking of louis proyect.

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postposting posted:

the stalin society of north america's award for excellence in the field of stalin and stalin studies

Ive done my own work onthe monster

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where on that chart would the cenobites be placed? how does cenobite hierarchy, if there is any, manifest itself? how can one reconcile clive barker and revolutionary consciousness?
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and what the fraggles?? forgot about the fraggles!!!
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isnt the empire from star wars clearly leftist?
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im pretty sure labor and production are covered exactly nowhere in star wars
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a better version of that chart would be if the bottom half were the star trek federation on the left and the star wars rebels on the right
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Mike Nelson here.
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c_man posted:

im pretty sure labor and production are covered exactly nowhere in star wars

uhh... there are moisture farmers, smugglers, trade federations, markets for power converters, all sorts of shit, man!

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Grover furr
I hardly know 'er
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getfiscal posted:

c_man posted:

im pretty sure labor and production are covered exactly nowhere in star wars

uhh... there are moisture farmers, smugglers, trade federations, markets for power converters, all sorts of shit, man!


so we have trade of industrial goods, black markets and agriculture, but the laborers producing the technology used everywhere as well as the production process is completely invisible

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Mike Nelson here.
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c_man posted:

so we have trade of industrial goods, black markets and agriculture, but the laborers producing the technology used everywhere as well as the production process is completely invisible

this was one of the first zizek things i read. he had a blurb about how in hollywood movies there's no production process, the most invisible thing is hard work. i wrote a paper based on it for a business class and he failed me.

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lol
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how did grover furr own mccaine

not saying that's an impress feat or anything, though
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Mike Nelson here.
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tpaine posted:

what is mccaine up to these days, is he still writing serious academic things with a twinky shirtless pic of himself attached to it

he's completing his phd dissertation in london and yes

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MindMaster posted:

isnt the empire from star wars clearly leftist?



http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3514675&userid=118075&perpage=40&pagenumber=1

read supermechagodzilla's posts itt for all your marxist-leninist star wars needs

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getfiscal posted:

tpaine posted:

what is mccaine up to these days, is he still writing serious academic things with a twinky shirtless pic of himself attached to it

he's completing his phd dissertation in london and yes



his website is broke

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Mike Nelson here.
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babyhueypnewton posted:

his website is broke

works for me?

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Mike Nelson here.
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the prompt for the management class was something like: "explain how the workplace in the film 'office space' was dysfunctional". and you were supposed to be like oh the guy had excessive ownership over his stapler and should have been a team player or something. and too many TPS reports. but i stayed up all night trying to force myself to write that bullshit and i was like naw. so i wrote a long essay about how no productive work is performed in the film and that everything they do is ultimately meaningless because they are not producing use-values or whatever. i said that the tendency to lie and steal was rational given that their work was meaningless. i wasn't trying to be dumb i just really thought that that was what was up.
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getfiscal posted:

babyhueypnewton posted:

his website is broke

works for me?



hmm nm im redtarded

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getfiscal posted:

c_man posted:

so we have trade of industrial goods, black markets and agriculture, but the laborers producing the technology used everywhere as well as the production process is completely invisible

this was one of the first zizek things i read. he had a blurb about how in hollywood movies there's no production process, the most invisible thing is hard work. i wrote a paper based on it for a business class and he failed me.

i saw your post about transcripts on the ol 'book and didnt reply because some things are simply too embarrassing to put next to my real name in front of everyone, but I have failed linear algebra *inhales deeply* a total of three times. I'm not going to take it again probably.

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getfiscal posted:

the prompt for the management class was something like: "explain how the workplace in the film 'office space' was dysfunctional". and you were supposed to be like oh the guy had excessive ownership over his stapler and should have been a team player or something. and too many TPS reports. but i stayed up all night trying to force myself to write that bullshit and i was like naw. so i wrote a long essay about how no productive work is performed in the film and that everything they do is ultimately meaningless because they are not producing use-values or whatever. i said that the tendency to lie and steal was rational given that their work was meaningless. i wasn't trying to be dumb i just really thought that that was what was up.

I did a really vulgar materialist analysis of sufism for a class i was taking, on sufism.

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getfiscal posted:

the prompt for the management class was something like: "explain how the workplace in the film 'office space' was dysfunctional". and you were supposed to be like oh the guy had excessive ownership over his stapler and should have been a team player or something. and too many TPS reports. but i stayed up all night trying to force myself to write that bullshit and i was like naw. so i wrote a long essay about how no productive work is performed in the film and that everything they do is ultimately meaningless because they are not producing use-values or whatever. i said that the tendency to lie and steal was rational given that their work was meaningless. i wasn't trying to be dumb i just really thought that that was what was up.



post the essay if you still have it

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Mike Nelson here.
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stegosaurus posted:

i saw your post about transcripts on the ol 'book and didnt reply because some things are simply too embarrassing to put next to my real name in front of everyone, but I have failed linear algebra *inhales deeply* a total of three times. I'm not going to take it again probably.

harden the fuck up because you're going to need it for socialist planning, of the economy, which we will do when we take power. i have never completed university-level algebra though yet either.

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Bablu posted:

post the essay if you still have it

i probably could access it somehow but maybe some things are best left to the mists of time.

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babyhueypnewton posted:

MindMaster posted:

isnt the empire from star wars clearly leftist?

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3514675&userid=118075&perpage=40&pagenumber=1

read supermechagodzilla's posts itt for all your marxist-leninist star wars needs



these are a fun read thanks

Obsessive fandom (of the sort that results in Wookiepedia) is fueled by fantasy of total positive knowledge. Star Wars fans desire 'answers' that will provide a complete picture of the Star Wars virtual universe, so that its entire teleological design can be fully comprehended. (What are the clone wars, how did Yoda use a lightsaber, etc.) Since no such design actually exists, the point of fandom is the desiring itself. Fans do not 'actually' want these answers. It's just endless desire. And Lucasarts has gladly catered to with the endless supply of tantalizing 'Expanded Universe' materials cataloged as Wookiepedia.



YES!

i think tolkien understood this very well in a conservative way, with tolkien things were mentioned (the "lost continents", the background of the bad guy), but they were always in the background, consciously intended to function similar to the skybox or low-res renditions of distant buildings in a videogame, not to be examined too closely. the proper radical thing to do is to create a fiction which approaches these barriers without making them "clear", since making them clear simply creates a barrier of the real which recedes forever

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