TheIneff posted:

I feel like y'all should've played more team sports or something growing up because solidarity is a part of day to day living whether you choose to recognize it or not

actually this is a very good example of what i was going to reply to you with: yes, people DO cooperate.....to smear the other group of cooperating people across the field under their cleats. Its called Tribalism, and its caused by inherent human chemical physiology. Which is why i support government mandated autism and oxytocin eradication through massive global WHO vaccination campaigns. Your Welcome

babyhueypnewton posted:

blogs, twitter/facebook, reddit are all naval gazing or lazy echo chambers and old school LF effortposts always sucked

i think we can praise the rhizz for having good content w/o shitting on everything else indiscriminately.

...and why exactly did LF effortpost suck?

HenryKrinkle posted:

i've recently obtained the 1st 12 issues of covert action information bulletin from an inter-library loan but i have a really shitty scanner. not sure what to do.

take it back to the liberry and use their scanner

palafox posted:

hey Petrol, you said that peter dale scott was "hit-and-miss," what were the flawed books/articles that you were thinking of here? I've only read 2 things by him but they were great (and I think some of his poetry rules)

His stuff is mostly very good, I just find he is prone to relying on questionable sources at times and linking certain events on tenuous grounds. He always seems to want to draw a straight line between JFK, 9/11 and (insert current event here). For the most part I try to avoid reading stuff directly concerning JFK or 9/11 because there's too much crap out there and anyway, who cares what happened as long as americans died. God bless Peter Dale Scott tho.

HenryKrinkle please please find a scanner tia

daddyholes posted:

HenryKrinkle posted:

saddam hussein was demonized, sanctioned & overthrown for spending his country's oil wealth on actual development and economic progress. i've held that belief for a long time and i don't care what anyone says.

A lot of it stems from pure chauvinism more than anything, imo. There's a reason why, for example, Israel is the only country that can use foreign aid to invest & improve it's own nation's capital, rather than be confined to a passive client state role and Host:dependent binary other countries are forced to accept.

Likewise, why neo-nazis in sweeden get police protection and anti-fascist protesters who show up get literally trampled by police cavalry.

There is a non-stated or perhaps, subconscious, ideological superstructure underpinning the motives and actions of those in power, namely, the implicit view of who they perceive as possessing the ideals of reproducing capitalist institutions—regardless if their actions are favorable to the West, in the case of Israel. Even though Qaddafi was becoming one of the "good ones" towards the end of his regime, he still had to go for a couple of reasons 1.) capital needs new markets, needs to constantly expand, as well as destroy current existing forms of capital to be rebuilt/consolidated 2.) pure ideological chauvinism in that we didn't like him when we drew up the plans to re-contour the entire M.E. in some post-enlightenment western centric ideal of a proper neo-liberal colony

w/r/t saddam, the first Iraq war, and when we turned on him in the late 80s, I think the aforementioned #2 had a lot to do with it just as much as western capital desiring to consolidate foreign capital. White supremacy is real and people often overlook it's influence in politics, & focus on the operations of the ruling class through the lens of what would be most rational, efficient and lucrative for capital. It's not always the case.

Petrol posted:

Here's a piece of Anti Communist history you can take home and cherish forever



ASK away any Questions.



I have been selling items from the Civil War in El Salvador & Central America since 1998.



BID with Confidence.

Richard Metzger posted:

Noam Chomsky, the father of modern linguistics, doesn’t have much respect for the sesquipedalian bad boy of postmodernist philosophers, Slavoj Žižek, and he doesn’t mince words expressing his disdain, either.

In an excerpt from an interview with Veterans Unplugged in December of 2012, Chomsky was asked about Žižek, Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida. Here’s what he said:

What you’re referring to is what’s called “theory.” And when I said I’m not interested in theory, what I meant is, I’m not interested in posturing–using fancy terms like polysyllables and pretending you have a theory when you have no theory whatsoever. So there’s no theory in any of this stuff, not in the sense of theory that anyone is familiar with in the sciences or any other serious field. Try to find in all of the work you mentioned some principles from which you can deduce conclusions, empirically testable propositions where it all goes beyond the level of something you can explain in five minutes to a twelve-year-old. See if you can find that when the fancy words are decoded. I can’t. So I’m not interested in that kind of posturing. Žižek is an extreme example of it. I don’t see anything to what he’s saying. Jacques Lacan I actually knew. I kind of liked him. We had meetings every once in awhile. But quite frankly I thought he was a total charlatan. He was just posturing for the television cameras in the way many Paris intellectuals do. Why this is influential, I haven’t the slightest idea. I don’t see anything there that should be influential.

reminds me of that woody allen movie where there are a bunch of people in line for a movie and some toolbag quotes a famous author and then the author shows up and lays down the pwnbags. so im curious why zizek is shitty exactly beyond his excessive theorycraft, i certainly don't defend him i just wanna know