#81
Mike Nelson here.
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the real problem is sexting.

you try to start a mass movement rooted in the working class and you end up getting a bunch of messages that say things like U R A Q T and Is your dad a dealer? 'Cause you're dope to me.
#82
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haha discipline you use the smartphone thing any time you need examples of western decadence. But have you tried an iPhone before they are pretty neat, I used one to read your blogpost and write this reply. At Christmas we used them to videochat with far-away family, it was just like a google commercial. Freaking love phones
#83
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#84
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Fucking off on your smartphone at work instead of generating surplus value for your capitalist oppressor is a revolutionary activity.
#85
Mike Nelson here.
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Will posted:

Fucking off on your smartphone at work instead of generating surplus value for your capitalist oppressor is a revolutionary activity.

the joy of being communist *laughs*

#86
political car tune
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whenever people find out imma socialest i get less texts over all. ((HoW do yyou get less than 0??? Taht's not p0ssible LOL!)
#87
Dont Mess With Sucess
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i wish all correspondence was written on dry erase marker board and sent via underground pneumatic tubing, that would be a good pace for me.
#88
Dont Mess With Sucess
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Just a disclaimer though, I am the heir to my father's dry erase conglomerate and my mother's overseas pneumatic tubing factories.
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#91
political car tune
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tpaine posted:

i'm a pneumatic tube repairman in her employ, you see.


Oh ok

#92
political car tune
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tpaine posted:

i'm a pneumatic tube repairman in her employ, you see.


Oh ok

#93
penitent
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t-money got a smartphone. 'i use it to listen to music" she said. decadence
#94
penitent
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im making this post on a smartphone. i also use it to take photographs, read articles, watch videos, talk to my friends and acquaintances, laugh, cry, love, fuck, live, and die. all that exists is within my smartphone, it has built a new reality within itself and left the old one to wither away. it no longer makes any sense to speak about me or myself or my illusory subjectivity. i am my smartphone, a node in a vast fabric of innumerable connections, and nothing more. extinction is bliss.
#95
Poronto
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I am very gay and like to bum
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deadken posted:

im making this post on a smartphone. i also use it to take photographs, read articles, watch videos, talk to my friends and acquaintances, laugh, cry, love, fuck, live, and die. all that exists is within my smartphone, it has built a new reality within itself and left the old one to wither away. it no longer makes any sense to speak about me or myself or my illusory subjectivity. i am my smartphone, a node in a vast fabric of innumerable connections, and nothing more. extinction is bliss.



same, except for the loving, fucking

#97
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jools posted:

im good im just pretty sure smartphones arent why the populace of the US does nothing or whatever thats all

right but it seems like anymore you make 1 post a week saying 'this sucks' and thats it

#98
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This Sucks and That's It: Joolsin' Through the Smartscape
#99
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To be fair, I also get preternaturally (credit: Guyovich) upset when I read minor rhetorical flourishes
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stegosaurus posted:

jools posted:

im good im just pretty sure smartphones arent why the populace of the US does nothing or whatever thats all

right but it seems like anymore you make 1 post a week saying 'this sucks' and thats it



yeah youre right i do. but now ive taken out some of the mouldering trash here i might have a bit more desire to write something more...

anyway though i dont see how going "this sucks" at people who are really saying nothing more than "this sucks" themselves is all that much of a problem

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Crow posted:

To be fair, I also get preternaturally (credit: Guyovich) upset when I read minor rhetorical flourishes



zizek: "n****R N****R N****R N****R N****R N****R N****R N****R N****R N****R N****R N****R zig raus"

crow: "its a minor rhetorical flourish"

#102
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jools posted:

Crow posted:

To be fair, I also get preternaturally (credit: Guyovich) upset when I read minor rhetorical flourishes

zizek: "n****R N****R N****R N****R N****R N****R N****R N****R N****R N****R N****R N****R zig raus"

crow: "its a minor rhetorical flourish"


More trotskyite garbage

#103
Kurdt
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#104
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Crow posted:

jools posted:

Crow posted:

To be fair, I also get preternaturally (credit: Guyovich) upset when I read minor rhetorical flourishes

zizek: "n****R N****R N****R N****R N****R N****R N****R N****R N****R N****R N****R N****R zig raus"

crow: "its a minor rhetorical flourish"

More trotskyite garbage



accusations of trotskyism: the final resort of the forums f*scist

#105
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i mean its good that you are dodging responsibility for your vacuous critique of form by mentioning that you also have a vacuous critique of a guy you havent even read, but its also not good, so fuck along now
#106
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haha i had a few too many to celebrate the holidays and bid on a lot of gulf war topps cards, haha fuck yeah
#107
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Crow posted:

i mean its good that you are dodging responsibility for your vacuous critique of form by mentioning that you also have a vacuous critique of a guy you havent even read, but its also not good, so fuck along now



have you actually read zizek yourself, because i'm unconvinced

#108
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like when i've tried talking to you about this you just dodge shit incredibly unconvincingly, it's gross and very New Inquiry
#109
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God, saying that Zig Raus is bad... So Vacuole
#110
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what are you guys talking about. I have a smartphone... he'll Yeah
#111
objekt-a.tumblr.com
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jools posted:

im good im just pretty sure smartphones arent why the populace of the US does nothing or whatever thats all



its mike & molly

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jools posted:

like when i've tried talking to you about this you just dodge shit incredibly unconvincingly, it's gross and very New Inquiry



i'm talking about your retarded broadsides here in this very forum, not about zizek, Of which your opinion is unremarkable

Any way, Time to Game

#113
Mike Nelson here.
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i can't remember if i made this post before but i agree with jools basically.

there's a big pressure to write when you've got a situation where there is massive underemployment of mental labour and when most avenues for radical action are seen as either discredited or in requiring far more sacrifice for potentially little gain. like in the anglo world there are basically no viable party-building efforts, even if that were the solution, and most other opportunities are NGO positions that look like traps to me. traditional politics is full of crass compromises and you end up phonebanking for obama or something terrible. so it's way easier and respected to try to get into writing as a sort of radical pundit. most people do this for free on terrible blogs and tumblrs but at the top of this pyramid there are opportunities for some paid work. almost all of this writing is very predictable, too, and it never advances to some sort of specific resolution. like no one learns anything from it that they then put into practice.

i'm not smart enough to come up to an alternative to that, like, i don't know what people should do instead of writing all these blog posts and shit, and people should do what they feel like (anarchy now), but i'm skeptical. i'll think of an alternative and post it and then we can all do that, capice?
#114
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I've a broad side if u kno what I mean. TNI 4 lYfE
#115
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try this on for size: write like BEckett
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#117
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jools posted:

stegosaurus posted:

jools posted:

im good im just pretty sure smartphones arent why the populace of the US does nothing or whatever thats all

right but it seems like anymore you make 1 post a week saying 'this sucks' and thats it

yeah youre right i do. but now ive taken out some of the mouldering trash here i might have a bit more desire to write something more...

anyway though i dont see how going "this sucks" at people who are really saying nothing more than "this sucks" themselves is all that much of a problem

I wasn't giving you a hard time or anything I was just wondering what the reason for the fact that you haven't been posting as much was. Work, school.... Love

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stegosaurus posted:

jools posted:

stegosaurus posted:

jools posted:

im good im just pretty sure smartphones arent why the populace of the US does nothing or whatever thats all

right but it seems like anymore you make 1 post a week saying 'this sucks' and thats it

yeah youre right i do. but now ive taken out some of the mouldering trash here i might have a bit more desire to write something more...

anyway though i dont see how going "this sucks" at people who are really saying nothing more than "this sucks" themselves is all that much of a problem

I wasn't giving you a hard time or anything I was just wondering what the reason for the fact that you haven't been posting as much was. Work, school.... Love



haha i know man dont worry. ive had some Shit to deal with of late. i will flesh out my argument regarding the stuff me and crow (and khamsek) have been clashing about recently though, if only for the sake of getting a more fleshy response

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Crow posted:

jools posted:

like when i've tried talking to you about this you just dodge shit incredibly unconvincingly, it's gross and very New Inquiry

i'm talking about your retarded broadsides here in this very forum, not about zizek, Of which your opinion is unremarkable

Any way, Time to Game



if you don't get how the trenchant and cultish defense of zizek from people who haven't even read him is intimately connected to mental labour pyramid schemes and the weird dishonest intellectual formations that result then i dont know man, i just dont know

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