getfiscal posted:

babyhueypnewton posted:

homonationalism will be the primary force of imperialism from now on

my guess is it will be the military

the US military hasnt won shit in 40+ years. but when you have chinese people watching Modern Family and lamenting the lack of gay rights in China, that's imperial power.

getfiscal posted:

babyhueypnewton posted:

the US military hasnt won shit in 40+ years. but when you have chinese people watching Modern Family and lamenting the lack of gay rights in China, that's imperial power.

i'm glad you've become an idealist and believe that the battle for ideas is primary, which is your position now, as an idealist.

In Terrorist Assemblages I propose a rapproachment of Foucauldian biopolitics and Achille Mbembe’s critique of it through what I call a ‘bio-necro collaboration’, one that conceptually acknowledges biopower’s direct activity to death, while remaining bound to the optimalization of life, and necropolitics’ nonchalance towards death even as it seeks out killing as a primary aim. I allege that it is precisely within the interstices of life and death that we find the differences between queer subjects who are being folded (back) into life and the racialized queernesses that emerge through the naming of populations, thus fueling the oscillation between the disciplining of subjects and control of populations. The result of the successes of queer incorporation into the domains of consumer markets and social recognition in the post-civil rights, late twentieth-century era, these various entries by queers into the biopolitics optimalization of life mark a shift, as homosexual bodies have been historically understood as endlessly cathected to death, from being figures of death (i.e., the AIDS pandemic) to becoming tied to ideas of life and productivity (i.e., gay marriage and reproductive kinship).

The fundamental feature of necrocapitalism is accumulation by dispossession and the creation of death worlds in colonial contexts . The historical context of contemporary practices of accumulation by dispossession, violence and death is situated in the early years of European colonialism. The ideology of the new empire reflected the needs of colonial modernities where older justifications of empire through civilization were reconfigured by economic conceptions of progress and development resulting in a form of capitalist imperialism

cars posted:

"homonationalism"

in queer times.

le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

This is an odd sense of wit. Scalia is not just wrong. He is wrong in the same way that the thousands of anonymous conservative Twitter accounts with default egg avatars swarming liberal politicians and pundits are. He writes his dissents using the same jokes and the same arguments. If Scalia’s ostensibly witty writing displays a keen legal mind, then we are witnessing the blossoming of a new age of legal scholarship in Hillary Clinton’s at-replies. Because Antonin Scalia is, essentially, a Twitter egg.

antonin scalia is a fascist aligned with a fascist layer at the mid-level leadership of the roman catholic church, a sedevacantist-friendly strain that assisted u.s. central intelligence agency death squads in asia. but thanks gawker.

thirdplace posted:

The opinion is couched in a style that is as pretentious as its content is egotistic. It is one thing for separate concurring or dissenting opinions to contain extravagances, even silly extravagances, of thought and expression; it is something else for the official opinion of the Court to do so. Of course the opinion’s showy profundities are often profoundly incoherent. “The nature of marriage is that, through its enduring bond, two persons together can find other freedoms, such as expression, intimacy, and spirituality.” (Really? Who ever thought that intimacy and spirituality were freedoms? And if intimacy is, one would think Freedom of Intimacy is abridged rather than expanded by marriage. Ask the nearest hippie. Expression, sure enough, is a freedom, but anyone in a long-lasting marriage will attest that that happy state constricts, rather than expands, what one can prudently say.)

i have goatstein on ignore and id thank you not to quote his posts

corey posted:

i have goatstein on ignore and id thank you not to quote his posts

one of the best things about posting or tweeting or whatever within the Great LF Dyspora is that you can call something "goony as fuck" and everyone knows what you mean

babyhueypnewton posted:

the US military hasnt won shit in 40+ years.

elaborate

Themselves posted:

i love the *shield eyes from light and squint, emphasizing how worthless the questioner is* move

actually he's nearsighted from years of reading from a teleprompter, so his long distance vision is impaired. this is also why he will never be allowed behind the wheel of a car for the rest of his life.

Guyovich posted:

freddie's at it again

those comments on his "proof i'm a leftist" manifesto

i feel like it must hurt someone's head to be a left liberal in the U.S. i believe all these things and they're pretty popular ideas! not radical at all! and in this beleagured land of the free and freedom's liberal heritage and true democracy they can't even get a hearing! this is preposterous and then all analysis ends. they turn on the TV and rachel maddow and the young turks and various comedy central twerps are all nodding manically, yes it's preposterous! ridiculous! you're totally right so the left liberal figures hmm, i better check with some sympathetic authority figures to parse this impossible situation & see what i can do to help... not that person though, they're too weird to be on cable next to henry kissinger.. okay it says here that the problem is "money in politics" and that we need to vote for democrats to get "money out of politics"..

then maybe they get hit on the head Daffy-Duck-style and get all their missing memories back and they think, huh, we already tried that & the democrats are funded by investment bankers, and when they passed campaign finance legislation the supreme court shut it down... well we'll have to just keep electing Democrats then! forever, so that they're in power when someone in a lifetime position goes senile or dies... and in the meantime, i guess the democrats have to take money from all these extremely wealthy and powerful capitalists (who will never ever give up their grip on power & will always circumvent legislation preemptively because their employees wrote it) but we need to elect those democrats and man, think how awful it would be if the supreme court justice death wheel showed my number but it paid out to the conservatives and what i don't get is how you can live like that and consider yourself interested in politics, it's like a Rube Goldberg machine for self-harm. it would hurt you less as a bourgeois-valued Westerner to fuck off and go fishing.