#121
UNUSUALY COOL
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farms or Kevens young curvy posting career
#122
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that was pretty lol-worthy, also agree w/ur conclusion. i wish every leftmag had one article in it written in MaoSpeak on a minor split over opportunism in a party in turkey
#123
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they should have assigned us one article each or something. im not reading a whole magazine
#124
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#125
Dont Mess With Sucess
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no, when I suddenly suffer some terrible public humiliation that forces my retirement from my animal business, then i will have time for it again.
#126
Dont Mess With Sucess
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discipline wanted me to mention that i declined the subscription and gifted it to george w bush.
#127
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swampman posted:

gifted it to george w bush.





the contest is over

#128
tardy on these heaters
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thats pretty funny
#129
Online
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did the baffler editors actually name swampman a winner?
#130
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#131
Mike Nelson here.
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imagine i edited the bush 9/11 reading book to kids picture with the berfler instead
#132
Online
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discipline posted:

he was chosen a winner by upvotes. I'm not sure the baffler editors read the entries at all.

i thought the baffler editors read all our posts

#133
UNUSUALY COOL
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make teh baffler forum and make thebaffler mod. Through their readership we could add literally 5-10 new users to this baleful fuckhole
#134
Kurdt
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i am extremely disappointed to find that the baffler hasnt even tweeted once about this
#135
Dont Mess With Sucess
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I wonder what kind of critique would have inspired a response. probably Summers was hoping to have xher ego backstroked by somebody saying, "oh, you ultra-Leftists are always so pessimistic, there's still revolutionary potential at MIT"
#136
Dont Mess With Sucess
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getfiscal posted:

imagine i edited the bush 9/11 reading book to kids picture with the berfler instead

Haha, could somebody with elite skills at ph't'ch'ps, please, as the title image for the front page. Finishing edits now. Also please put conec's response on the front page. Hahaha i love dissing this zine

#137
tardy on these heaters
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i googled baffler and it looks like the onion av club style thing, why are we shitting our diapies abt this magazine exactly
#138
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u might even say that ur.......... baffled ?
#139
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baffled more ppl arent punnin
#140
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the name of the magazine is the baffler
#141
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its also a verb denoting bewilderment and confusion
#142
tardy on these heaters
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i would say that i am indeed quite baffled
#143
tardy on these heaters
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i cooked a whole bowl of asparagus and mushrooms and now im not hungry at all so im just eating the piece of toast on the side
#144
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most of my gen x lefty friends are really sentimental about da bafflah. apparently there was nothing else to make them giggle at and feel extra cool about at the time. proto-jacobin
#145
UNUSUALY COOL
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babyfinland posted:

i googled baffler and it looks like the onion av club style thing, why are we shitting our diapies abt this magazine exactly



they asked

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Kurdt
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Senorah posted:

most of my gen x lefty friends are really sentimental about da bafflah. apparently there was nothing else to make them giggle at and feel extra cool about at the time. proto-jacobin

maybe it was cooler back then like lawn darts and the Sandinistas

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tardy on these heaters
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daddyholes posted:

babyfinland posted:

i googled baffler and it looks like the onion av club style thing, why are we shitting our diapies abt this magazine exactly

they asked



does someone know someone who works there or some shit

#148
Kurdt
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t money knows a guy
#149
tardy on these heaters
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i bet she does lol!!!!!!
#150
Kurdt
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#151
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an editor reads the rhizzone. But definitely not your posts, because they are really shit
#152
objekt-a.tumblr.com
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swampman posted:

Backus posted:

swampman thta was incredible, i lolled repeatedly and will steal some of your jokes for irl

maybe you should use them as part of the recruitment script for tHE rHizzonE rEGistration drivE

i admit i am pretty proud of this and am editing it up for front page, but i really crave baffler to acknowledge feeling the slap. I want the attention. Give it to me the attention

The jokes felt autogenerated by the content and I can easily keep up with three issues a year, so, i'm ready to play again. i would love multiple subscriptions to the baffler so i can leave dozens of issues around on my coffee table, to "baffle" my guests with, Lol

I would definitely like criticism of weaker parts, and bad/unexplained logic. You can tell that I started getting lazier after the initial burst, but anyway this ended up being 4000 words, a good length for long-form article. I think most of you could do this for any given "left" magazine, you just need to find 1 or 2 points per article, and hammer on them like they're the only thing that matters. If you finding the good points it seems to end up that they are. I was surprised that baffler was so weak, having never read it, but maybe the topic "play" caused it to be particularly twee.



despite all this, it is still good.

#153
objekt-a.tumblr.com
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The Baffler is a long running inside joke @ da C.I.A
#154
objekt-a.tumblr.com
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Crow posted:

an editor reads the rhizzone. But definitely not your posts, because they are really shit



#155
tardy on these heaters
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#156
Online
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swampman posted:

getfiscal posted:

imagine i edited the bush 9/11 reading book to kids picture with the berfler instead

Haha, could somebody with elite skills at ph't'ch'ps, please, as the title image for the front page. Finishing edits now. Also please put conec's response on the front page. Hahaha i love dissing this zine

ok guys listen up swampman's article cant go up until someone gets this done. i wanna see it

#157
Dont Mess With Sucess
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Edited by swampman ()

#158
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here's the back cover
#159
Dont Mess With Sucess
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you know what he's doing in that picture? trying to remember which building the world trade center is. he's thinking "world trade center, sounds important" lol
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discipline posted:

Like, the caliber of work here is kinda bad, even articles posted to the front page seem sometimes like a proud mom putting her kid's art on the fridge (many of them are mine full disclosure). We all have the capacity to produce work that exceeds the Baffler or anywhere else in quality but we hate ourselves, which is how you know we're sincere about our politics. Joey saw the promise and build us this wonderworld. That's why daddy left us forever.


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