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The Bad Dominicana
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twitter is a huge writhing pile of self proclaimed writers and comedians who believe they are at varying stages in actual careers deserving of respect and remuneration. so yeah, its pretty bad.
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chickeon
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lmao "venezuela was doing very well before hugo"
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back in 2011 the deterritorial support group compiled all the tweets from a terrible twitter account into a book as a joke and even sold a few copies....cant think of any better response to bad dominicana

http://www.lulu.com/shop/the-activists/activism-tips/paperback/product-18766446.html
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YUNG JIRO AKA SHOWA STUNNA AKA
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i support women of color by parroting the us state department line on venezuela
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roseweird posted:

Bablu posted:


if someone has the italian pdf i could do it over the summer a few pages a day as an exercise



hey bablu did u ever get this? think u have time for it? would be really cool to see. going to try to get back to my translation project nxt weekend



yeah i found the book in my uni library. will get on translating it after exams, so like early july

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Tfw you have to send bricks to fam in Cuba just so they can get lit
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im reading monique wittig boy
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Dont Mess With Sucess
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Here is a box of books sent me by a special young poster. Can you guess who it is?

Followup question, have you considered sending me a box of books? I reimburse for shipping and time spent shipping these books. The destination for these books is, technically speaking, a public library! Please note that I do filter books for latent fascism before allowing them in the library, although there are notable exceptions (for example, Bloomberg by Bloomberg).

e: This is not the correct use of the word "technically." I think the word I meant to use was "euphemistically"

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whole lot of nazi books in that stack so im gonna guess it's from mustang
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Right now I'm reading The Witches by Stacy Schiff and also a biography of Van Gogh *takes swig of beer*
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Mike Nelson here.
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Nice!
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Dont Mess With Sucess
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aerdil posted:

whole lot of nazi books in that stack so im gonna guess it's from mustang

Beside Zizek, which do you consider most Nazi of these

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im reading The Poverty of Theory right now and thompson seems to really have althusser's number, like real bad. on the other hand a lot of his points about the importance of materialism are really muted by his apparent knee-jerk distaste for anyone involved in actually building socialism or trying to
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Dont Mess With Sucess
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camera_obscura posted:

i associate this remark and really all remarks about cultural marxism with lyndon larouch and friends, though i'm not surprised to learn it comes from nazism

Heh this reminds me I also have LaRouche's "Now Are You Ready to Learn Economics" which has a Heironymous Bosch painting of Hell as its cover

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What a deal. All i got to do is take my things, which I own and belong to me, and take the time and do the work of putting them in the mail by going to the post office, so that a stranger can own them instead. In return for this, I will be called a nazi online.
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Dont Mess With Sucess
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Keven posted:

What a deal. All i got to do is take my things, which I own and belong to me, and take the time and do the work of putting them in the mail by going to the post office, so that a stranger can own them instead. In return for this, I will be called a nazi online.

If putting them in the mail is such a big problem for you, you can just schlep them over to me in person when you get to NYC.

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I may or may not actually send you books over the winter b/c there's no way I'm taking that weight with me.
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swampman posted:

Followup question, have you considered sending me a box of books? I reimburse for shipping and time spent shipping these books. The destination for these books is, technically speaking, a public library! Please note that I do filter books for latent fascism before allowing them in the library, although there are notable exceptions (for example, Bloomberg by Bloomberg).

e: This is not the correct use of the word "technically." I think the word I meant to use was "euphemistically"


Curating org libraries and purging them of crap is one of my favorite activities. Soon I'm gonna be in a position to do it again

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c_man posted:

im reading The Poverty of Theory right now and thompson seems to really have althusser's number, like real bad. on the other hand a lot of his points about the importance of materialism are really muted by his apparent knee-jerk distaste for anyone involved in actually building socialism or trying to



That work is basically an anti-communist screed disguised as a polemic against Althusser. It only makes sense when you're reading it because the language is so strong it seems like it has to be right but tastes rotten the longer it sits in your mouth. From the vantage point of 2016 and the collapse of what's left of 'English Marxism' into a CIA front it is an embarrassing vestige of a different time when the anti-communist left could pretend it didn't exist to justify imperialism to guilty liberals.

Interestingly, despite the constant attacks on Althusser (most notably from himself) and the betrayal of his students, his work has only become more relevant since the collapse of the USSR.

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tpaine posted:

BadNewzKennels posted:

Right now I'm reading The Witches by Stacy Schiff and also a biography of Van Gogh *takes swig of beer*

A Biography of Van Gogh *Takes a Swig of Beer* by Preston Q. Fuckworthy



he was basically the greatest failson in history (van gogh not preston q fuckworthy)