le_nelson_mandela_face posted:*wipes tear* our boy is all grown up
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-what-happened-review_us_59c16721e4b0186c22066d72?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004
like most recent deadken articles, it's well written, witty, and about something that doesn't actually deserve discussion
ilmdge posted:he does the grotesque intro every time
why does he start with grotesque but end with tragedy? doesnt make sense.
tpaine posted:almost like he's a terrible poster/writer
in the land of the bloggers, the one-gimmick poster is king
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littlegreenpills posted:deadkens short stories were good
he had one about stumbling onto an ancient byzantine tank battlefield or whatever that was good. id read more of that type of stuff definitely.
ilmdge posted:he does the grotesque intro every time
lol Keven
Wow! Great week for @sam_kriss ! Huge reaction on the Hillary book review & now he's written the comprehensive Uber takedown at The Atlantic pic.twitter.com/I07JbyyRRr
— "Big" Keven Strange (@ChurdChamp) September 22, 2017
AZ_IZ_OT posted:Identitarianism is a fever of the body politic and allowing it to run its course should generate systems with less of the current barriers to organizing
IMO
I agree... I too like dialectic's
What I believe now is that What Happened is a memoir about power, one that accomplishes through the sympathetic portrayal of a heroic character a vision of danger more subtle and persuasive than could be achieved by way of a more straightforward polemic. It is no mistake that the book begins with former Presidents of all parties brought together by wariness of newest member of their club, how they console one another with social offers, how above all they are civil to one another, how more than half of them come from only two families. This is a book about how power preserves and reproduces itself, at times through the naked domination of a Trump figure, but more often, and perhaps more alarmingly, through the slow churning transformation of an idealist like the Hillary Clinton we meet here.
It is a book about how the structures of capital and empire turn even the brightest young radicals into its servants, how it can turn a student who implored her college class to discover “ecstatic modes of living” into a candidate angered by black activists’ impatience. The true plot of this book is about an anti-Vietnam War radical who later finds herself celebrating the “values-driven” foreign policy of American Empire. It is about an heir apparent who is felled by international antagonism and the malfeasance of covert operatives but who does not ask how all this spy craft came to power in the first place. It is about how a bright, ambitious politician can believe, truly believe, that she has been fighting for the same values all her life and yet become someone who could only be unrecognizable to her younger self.
Some of the most convincing moments in this memoir concern Clinton’s apprehension about the enormity of the power she is trying to inherit. It is an immense and monstrous thing, beyond the capacity of any human being to take on without some practice. Clinton tells us how she pauses and breathes and makes herself ready by setting aside her anxieties and qualms. These moments are a microcosm for the whole project here. They are infrequent and easy to miss. But you can find them hidden between the long passages about her daughter, whom she truly, clearly loves, and who appears in this book like nothing less than the next Clinton meant to take up quest for American power.
The true intentions of this book were hiding in plain sight from the beginning. On page nine, Clinton writes that the core feature of authoritarianism is “attempting to define reality.”
“This is what the Soviets did when they erased political dissidents from historical photos. This is what happens in George Orwell’s classic novel Nineteen Eight-Four, when a torturer holds up four fingers and delivers electric shocks until his prisoner sees five fingers as ordered. The goal is to make you question logic and reason and to sow mistrust toward exactly the people we need to rely on: our leaders, the press, experts who seek to guide public policy based on evidence, ourselves.”
That is, authoritarianism is the malicious campaign to make ordinary people distrust authority. This book is about how someone can come to believe that. How despite play-acting conflict between its factions, power exists to remake itself. How it intoxicates and corrupts beneath a veneer of good intentions. How it makes you forget what happened, to the country, to the world, to yourself.
tears posted:paste magazine, a magazine for people who eat paste
In her latest interview, Clinton borrowed a prison phrase to accuse Comey of costing her the election by re-opening the investigation into her private email server.
“He did shiv me, yeah…
if she wanted to avoid prison violence she should have stuck it out as a slave in an executive's mansion
cars posted:In her latest interview, Clinton borrowed a prison phrase to accuse Comey of costing her the election by re-opening the investigation into her private email server.
“He did shiv me, yeah…if she wanted to avoid prison violence she should have stuck it out as a slave in an executive's mansion
this is what she gets for being a superpredator
swampman posted:Biannual reminder of what happens within 10 years of liking hillary clinton hillaryis44.com
lol honestly i can see that happening again as this crop of hill stans already is supporting prison labor, arguing against a $15/hr wage, thinks single payer SHOULD never ever happen etc
then into ur other one