Neon_Night_Rider posted:does anybody have a photo of j. sakai
gyrofry posted:Neon_Night_Rider posted:does anybody have a photo of j. sakai
came to post this
https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/status/599586804950552578
https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/status/599828189637177344
HenryKrinkle posted:congrats on getting like 10,000+ notes on your tumblr post getfiscal
http://lets-get-fiscal.tumblr.com/post/112363639495/12-year-olds-in-1955-i-need-some-cash-ill-get-a
I choose to believe that this isn't 12,000 people appreciating the slightly funny (sorry gf) joke but 12,000 12 year olds on twitter who, growing up in the tumblr age, are already filled with existential horror and are ironically not ironically celebrating their perpetual desire for self annihilation
drwhat posted:slightly funny
KilledInADuel posted:Apparently the raid that killed OBL and the film celebrating the raid that killed OBL were planned simultaneously and with direct coordination
https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/status/599586804950552578
https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/status/599828189637177344
Holy shit
--From Autobiographical Reflections by Eric Voegelin
HenryKrinkle posted:check out Louis Proyect's graphic novel about his life http://louisproyect.org/2015/05/15/my-days-in-houston-on-assignment-for-the-socialist-workers-party/
(we had our own kind of trotskyist sharia law)
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HenryKrinkle posted:check out Louis Proyect's graphic novel about his life http://louisproyect.org/2015/05/15/my-days-in-houston-on-assignment-for-the-socialist-workers-party/
lol
babyhueypnewton posted:Were these people always such attention whores and the internet finally gave them a place to shine? Or does "the blogosphere" create it's own monsters from self-important white leftists?
proyect predates blogs a bit. he would post constantly on leftist email lists. i could never get into them because you'd click to download your mail and you'd get 200 new emails and most of them would be people talking about how like iran was a socialist country or like making death threats about small controversies over trotsky's favourite mexican recipes. he was also well known because he would review virtually every independent film that came out from a left perspective, and usually in the same language he reserves for real enemies.
This morning I went down to the Clearview Chelsea Theater for a 9:30 press screening for a documentary on herring fishermen. I got up early just to make it there on time. My guess is that I probably would be the only person attending.
Anyhow, I stopped at the table in the lobby to check in but was told that I was not in the database. That didn’t surprise me since I never applied for press credentials. As a blogger (but with 650 film reviews on Rotten Tomatoes), I figured that I would not pass muster.
But I had been invited by the film’s publicist to attend the screening. Even though she vouched for me, I was still not admitted. It was a “security issue” they told me, as if I was concealing a pressure cooker bomb. When I told them “Fuck you and fuck the Tribeca Film Festival”, the off-duty cop serving as a security guard got up from his chair with his hand on his gun to tell me to shut up. I said that since there is no law against telling someone to fuck off, he should sit back down.
If I ever run into you on the street, Bobby, I am going to tell you this to your face. With your fucking connections to Jonathan Tisch and your idiotic red tape and your bourgeois red carpets, you can take your fucking film festival and stick it up your ass.
Yours truly,
Louis Proyect
HenryKrinkle posted:
Tankies will often argue for persuasive definitions about genocide regarding the Ukrainian Famine, arguing that Stalin didn't intend for all of those people to starve to death and realizing he is still responsible for not feeding his people. In addition, Timothy Synder's Bloodlands argues that policies were instituted specifically targeting Ukraine to exacerbate the famine which may or may not have arisen from natural causes.
article on "brocialism": 876 words
Up here, in the North you have the same thing. The Democratic party don’t do it...they don’t do it that way. They got a thing that they call gerrymandering. They maneuver you out of power. Even though you vote, they fix it so you’re voting for nobody; they’ve got you going and coming. In the South, they’re outright political wolves. In the North, they’re political foxes. A fox and a wolf are both canine, both belong to the dog family. Now you take your choice. You going to choose a Northern dog or a Southern dog? Because either dog you choose I guarantee you you’ll still be in the dog house. This is why I say it’s the ballot or the bullet. It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
America today finds herself in a unique situation. Historically, revolutions are bloody. Oh, yes, they are. They haven’t never had a blood-less revolution, or a non-violent revolution. That don’t happen even in Hollywood. You don’t have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don’t have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems. A revolution is bloody, but America is in a unique position. She’s the only country in history in a position actually to become involved in a blood-less revolution. The Russian revolution was bloody, Chinese revolution was bloody, French revolution was bloody, Cuban revolution was bloody, and there was nothing more bloody then the American Revolution. But today this country can become involved in a revolution that won’t take bloodshed. All she’s got to do is give the black man in this country everything that’s due him. Everything.
I hope that the white man can see this, 'cause if you don’t see it you’re finished. If you don’t see it you’re going to become involved in some action in which you don’t have a chance. And we don’t care anything about your atomic bomb; it's useless because other countries have atomic bombs. When two or three different countries have atomic bombs, nobody can use them, so it means that the white man today is without a weapon. If you want some action, you gotta come on down to Earth. And there's more black people on Earth than there are white people on Earth.
I only got a couple more minutes. The white man can never win another war on the ground. His days of war, victory, his days of ground victory are over. Can I prove it? Yes. Take all the action that’s going on this earth right now that he’s involved in tell me where he’s winning. Nowhere. Why some rice farmers, some rice farmers, some rice eaters ran him out of Korea. Yes, they ran him out of Korea. Rice eaters with nothing but gym shoes, and a rifle, and a bowl of rice took him and his tanks and his napalm, and all that other action he’s supposed to have and ran him across the Yalu. Why? 'Cause the day that he can win on the ground has passed. Up in French Indo-China those little peasants, rice growers, took on the might of the French army and ran all the Frenchmen...you remember Dien Bien Phu. No.
The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa, they didn’t have anything but a rifle. The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on, and a white man can’t fight a guerrilla warfare. Guerrilla action takes heart, takes nerve, and he doesn’t have that. He’s brave when he’s got tanks. He’s brave when he’s got planes. He’s brave when he’s got bombs. He’s brave when he’s got a whole lot of company along with him, but you take that little man from Africa and Asia, turn him loose in the woods with a blade that’s all he needs, all he needs is a blade and when the sun goes down and it’s dark, it’s even-steven.
babyhueypnewton posted:I'm reading Fredric Jameson's Postmodernism or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. It's pretty good and very dense, he has so many asides you have to stop and think about. It's like what reading Zizek would be like if he wasn't a fraud.
yeah i liked that book and it made me Think
