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looking back on the local scene, too often lately i've been staying silent and letting stupid shit and bad politics run rampant for the sake of group cohesion (that never works anyways,) should have more aggressively advocated for things I knew to be correct. simple laziness and cowardice i suppose.

the rancid spread of 'feminist porn' keeps contaminating groups, events and people that i once respected, and i feel like there's nothing i can do about it. i just stay home disappointed and grumpy with increasing frequency.

i've settled into some organizations that are just treading water, and have spent far too long doing stressful work for a pittance (or free) that will never lead me to anything more gainful. when i was younger it was easy to be self-righteously satisfied with being perpetually broke, but it's starting to get to me. i need a change of scenery before i start to visibly despise everyone around me.
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discipline posted:

way darker than spooks


the steady dread and nausea i felt reading spooks was hard enough. i can't wait.

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I downvoted the OP by accident when I meant to upvote it. This is of the utmost importance
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discipline posted:

I honestly don't know why I'm writing anything anymore.


it's better than not writing anything at all *stares at self in the mirror blankly*

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I had sex and finally finished reading Philosophical Investigations. Not a bad year!
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discipline posted:

thirdplace posted:

are you going to write any more novels discipline?

yeah I started a sequel to spooks which takes place maybe a year after the next book. I purposefully avoided talking about the middle east in my first novel because it freaked me out. but now I'm going to confront it in a really unbelievable view of the future. it'll be really dark though, way darker than spooks.

im gonna write a deus ex fanfic about gary webb and the deep state.

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discipline posted:

I honestly don't know why I'm writing anything anymore.

Probably bc writing has become a normal part of your daily adult life by this point so unless you want to try and totally reivent yourself and let that part of your brain atrophy, you should probably just keep writing anti-capitalist, anti-fascist books.

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laika posted:

I downvoted the OP by accident when I meant to upvote it. This is of the utmost importance

Try up-voting it (yes, even now) and see what happens. It may not be too late...

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Syriza turned out to be worse than its degenerate predecessors, Syria is an absolute nightmare and I'm supposed to hate Arabs who aren't dumb enough to find work in backwater areas of the South and therefore are tangibly outside of my social space. The situation is confusing and the next financial collapse based on fucking up on 0% interest loans up north makes me think total war is conceivable.
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discipline posted:

thirdplace posted:

are you going to write any more novels discipline?

yeah I started a sequel to spooks which takes place maybe a year after the next book. I purposefully avoided talking about the middle east in my first novel because it freaked me out. but now I'm going to confront it in a really unbelievable view of the future. it'll be really dark though, way darker than spooks.

i'm reluctant to try and steer you in any direction other than the one you're on because I want to read that book, but fwiw spooks worked as SF just as well as it did polemic/satire (source: have read all the science fiction) and if you ever wanted to explore/expand on that side of it i could really see you finding a publisher/larger audience

not talking about downplaying the polemical side, le guin sold a bunch of books, just that i thought it was one of the best sf books i read this year but probably the only other sf fans who ever heard of it were the ones who are also hypertrophied marxoteens

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damn you people are depressed. today i'm going to the art meausem and tonight i may finally have sex
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in spite of everything, i still believe in the goodness of this forum, and it's meme's
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"Jpg." - Hank Hill
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discipline posted:

way darker than spooks.



that's racist

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My sexhaving is still been dormant for awhile, but after reading "Getting swole is revolutionary" here, I've been working out, and I'm quite happy with my progress. It's almost at the point where I want to post a pic of myself shirtless on facebook. It seems like women are becoming more receptive towards me, although I always tend to be non-aggressive, since many of my friends are female and I would hate anyone to think of me the things they think of guys who are creepily hitting on them. The few times women are aggressive with me I love it though.
in more revolutionary news, I've been in the IWW for a year or so, but my presence has been very intermittent, partially by the fact that the majority of it is in French. But I finished a french class and it's getting better. Perhaps if it improves further, I can attempt to make contact with RCP-PCR.
Somewhat related to both, I saw a female friend I haven't in awhile, and she actually said that she didn't want to hear anything more about anarchism during our discussions, which really turned me off. I mean, I'll acknowledge I was getting a little carried away, but her arguments previous were particularly selfish, and it's really turned me off. Thankfully as soon as my roommate got home she talked about how she wanted to unionize her coworkers, and my admiration for womankind thus was in no way diminished.
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Red_Canadian posted:

Somewhat related to both, I saw a female friend I haven't in awhile, and she actually said that she didn't want to hear anything more about anarchism during our discussions, which really turned me off. I mean, I'll acknowledge I was getting a little carried away, but her arguments previous were particularly selfish, and it's really turned me off. Thankfully as soon as my roommate got home she talked about how she wanted to unionize her coworkers, and my admiration for womankind thus was in no way diminished.


Red Salute

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cool
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Poronto
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everyone here follows the company line that unions suck and only help anyone be greedy and lazy
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swirlsofhistory posted:

I had sex and finally finished reading Philosophical Investigations. Not a bad year!



Congrats mate.

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I tried to go up weight too fast and tweaked my back with shitty form but I'm running almost competitive times for a 5k so I'm still making progress. Improv is going fine now none of them want to volunteer for anything so it's basically just my show and as usual as soon as we got in front of people I became good. Other than that I've accepted that I'm just sitting in the middle of nowhere and wasting my time for a year. It's crazy to me that dicipline got sick of nyc though I think she burned out on work. I can't describe how much I love being there and the energy of it and how good it is to constantly be around hungry people. Another thing I like is it doesn't get dark at 2 pm and blockbuster video isn't open. Well that's my life now. I'm in motion. I no longer am willing to live my life as if I give a shit that I'm a big fat mouth eating human suffering and will continue to be for as long as I live. In 2016 let's all try and learn one new word every day.
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lifting owns, i have been working out 3-4 times a week for about 2.7 years and have noticed a measurable increase in self confidence. unfortunately, while ive gained considerable strength and obvious tone, i have not bulked up at all. still, skinny-buff is better than just skinny. thank you for reading my post
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I wasn't gaining at all and I looked at my intake and realized I was barely eating anything so now I'm sucking down whey like all the rest of the noobs... We will see how this works out for old Keven.
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wattaup swole thread
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"Jpg." - Hank Hill
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i should open a gym that doesnt play fox news anywhere
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Congrats to all those who had sex in 2015 and remember you've still got 27 days left those who haven't. Here's to many more in 2016.
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kind of interesting that discipline makes a post and then certain persons pile in to talk about like pounding muscle fiber or snorting bull sperm or whatever
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Congratualtions to those who have maintained their purity for another year and if you are struggling i will pray for you
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a car rolled over my foot when i was blocking traffic at a blm thing. im going to finish capital vol 2 by the end of 2015 and go through vol 3 in 2016. after that im either gonna read something by wallerstein or hobsbawm, or something more specific like killing hope or caliban and the witch. maybe another car will roll over my other foot.
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Good point swamp man, I'm trying to show off in front of discipline so she'll be my web girlfriend. You can see my first post neg followed by the web equivalent of Napoleon Dynamite rolling up his sleeves and chugging milk in front of a babe in the early third act of the film Napoleon Dynamite. Let's not even get started on my weird quasi-sex brags. Frankly the whole thing is disgusting, especially when you consider that I fled back to Alaska rather than meet in person. I'm a letch and a coward and nobody likes it.
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TG posted:

lifting owns, i have been working out 3-4 times a week for about 2.7 years and have noticed a measurable increase in self confidence. unfortunately, while ive gained considerable strength and obvious tone, i have not bulked up at all. still, skinny-buff is better than just skinny. thank you for reading my post

if you have the discipline to make consistent strength gains then bulking should be a piece of cake with a few adjustments, strength is way harder than size/mass

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i prefer sitting on my ass and wallowing in self pity thank you
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Hell I mean I don't know much about treating people good but I'm willing to try my very best for u. Yes. I'll be your boyfriend.
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discipline posted:

Keven posted:

It's crazy to me that dicipline got sick of nyc though I think she burned out on work.

I didn't get sick of it. ffs. I went there when I was burnt out on work!!



I thought you left in the first place because you were alternating between super long shifts and literally working at the economist and were pretty fed up with it all.

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It's too bad she left that job, she probably could have helped Sam Kriss get an in.

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