this sort of shit is so stupid and pathetic to me. "it's actually really interesting how a socialist movement today would mean everyone crying constantly and thrashing around on the floor gushing blood from their nose and ears and eyes, it's insanely weird and cool how I project my crippling anxiety and neuroses onto everyone who shares my politics, funky fresh wild how I can declare with self-satisfaction that politics now needs some ineffable Zizekian component to advance beyond its current state which I just imagined while typing this"
i realize it probably comes from their sheer individual isolation from other people with socialist politics, but it's hard to fight the belief that someone who writes like this is willing themselves not to accept the real world because it might get their hopes up and risk disappointing them again
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cars posted:this sort of shit is so stupid and pathetic to me. "it's actually really interesting how a socialist movement today would mean everyone crying constantly and thrashing around on the floor gushing blood from their nose and ears and eyes, it's insanely weird and cool how I project my crippling anxiety and neuroses onto everyone who shares my politics, funky fresh wild how I can declare with self-satisfaction that politics now needs some ineffable Zizekian component to advance beyond its current state which I just imagined while typing this"
i realize it probably comes from their sheer individual isolation from other people with socialist politics, but it's hard to fight the belief that someone who writes like this is willing themselves not to accept the real world because it might get their hopes up and risk disappointing them again
lets all thank the smart twitter man for coming up with the idea that never before in history have the people making a revolution known about a previous one.
Sinistra Publishing acquires rights to Losurdo's book on Stalin
— Sinistra Publishing (@SinistraPublish) August 16, 2018
https://t.co/RTcKTzTni1
*richard dawkins* it was a basically benign and civilising faith
you are like baby... watch this...
Thus it was the US along with and in rivalry with the USSR that deliberately supported initially minority and artificial ‘national independence movements’ that helped wreck the European empires. ‘Anti colonialism’ was either hyper capitalist or oppressive state socialist.
— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) August 17, 2018
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Corbyn has the mind, analysis, emotions and self-righteousness of a 14 year old leftist geek. He has now to go.
— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) August 14, 2018
Arguably British people are far more stressed because of lack of space. We should consider contriving a much greater spread of population throughout the islands, linked to programmes of ecological and regional renewal. Eire needs to be part of this. Its separation is a fiction.
— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) August 17, 2018
tears posted:somehow this thread is actually worse than twitter
Here’s something else, that’s worse than twitter
saw someone mention that wil wheaton was leaving twitter. Apparently he's going to this mastodon instance and... it is a lot pic.twitter.com/wCKdUzksap
— bcj (@bcjbcjbcj) August 15, 2018
cars posted:everyone on Twitter apparently had these severe performative fake panic attacks today how this time, THIS time, they were all DEFINITELY going to get "purged" by Twitter's 5,547th "we are seriously not kidding about really doing it this time" policy, and started suggesting a bunch of truly laughable shit like switching over to some no-name alternative micro-blogging platform. forums supremacy continues unabated i guess.
mastodon isn't really no-name, old man. it had a pretty big user uptick from the past few days, twitter does seem to be legitimately cracking down on people.
https://mastodon.social/@usercount
200,733 accounts
+50 in the last hour
+9,509 in the last day
+21,275 in the last week
Petrol posted:hahaha thank you for reminding me that "the jester" exists
wow. the mastodon instance was bad enough
ilmdge posted:tears posted:somehow this thread is actually worse than twitter
Here’s something else, that’s worse than twitter
saw someone mention that wil wheaton was leaving twitter. Apparently he's going to this mastodon instance and... it is a lot pic.twitter.com/wCKdUzksap
— bcj (@bcjbcjbcj) August 15, 2018
They had the wrong Syrian flag there the last time I saw like a year ago
cam, you're missing an opportunity to advance the rhizzone line by not debating the stupid internet maoist, please do this for the rhizzone central committee
why dont you come on my channel for a debate
lol
— The Chaser (@chaser) August 21, 2018
elemennop posted:cam, you're missing an opportunity to advance the rhizzone line by not debating the stupid internet maoist, please do this for the rhizzone central committee
that's a parody account unfortunately, already suspended
odobenidae posted:that's a parody account unfortunately, already suspended
hold on a second, there's a jason unruhe who is supposed to not be a parody?
odobenidae posted:that's a parody account unfortunately, already suspended
there's no need to disparage babyfinland in this manner
Parenti posted:stephen colbert said late stage capitalism. omg. we're almost there, it's happenin
This is the best thing I've ever read. pic.twitter.com/tLQ4HEmpYA
— I write for ClickHole (@grumpstorm) August 25, 2018
shriekingviolet posted:
that just seems depressing, i can’t muster the sadism to laugh at that person.