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Post by Lord Lucan on Dec 6, 2017 17:12:50 GMT -5
The Chinese Politburo is evidently uniquely invulnerable to Justin Trudeau’s charms. If their discipline is that steely, perhaps their guardianship of the Chinese people shouldn’t be questioned after all.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Dec 18, 2017 11:24:38 GMT -5
1. I don't like the formulation "late-stage capitalism" because, really, how would we know? Perhaps we're just in the early stages of capitalism's thousand year reich. This is your depressing thought to ponder for today. I think the phrase is a mistranslation of a German term meaning “mature capitalism” that’s stuck. I got into philosophy in high school (mid-2000s) and did a dive into basically everything and that’s where I first encountered the term “late capitalism,” but at that point it seemed like a lot of the critical theory-inspired stuff had completely run out of steam by the mid-1990s so I’m surprised to see the term so often again, at least in a sort of middlebrow sense. I wonder if there’s some kind of cyclical effect, where people who got their PhD’s from the late eighties/early nineties American critical theory boom finally have taught a critical mass of students or something, or whether people who were taught during that boom are finally influential enough. |
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Post by dＬᵒ on Dec 21, 2017 1:11:32 GMT -5
When Putin dies, is Russia fucked?
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Post by Mr. Greene's October Surprise on Dec 21, 2017 3:10:15 GMT -5
When Putin dies, is Russia fucked? That depends. |
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Dec 24, 2017 23:52:06 GMT -5
Can someone explain to me why The Baffler is so enamored of articles whose writing is abstracted beyond the point of comprehension, hiding the fact that the premise of said writing is in fact pretty wrong? I'm not just talking the shitty purple prose and pointless psychoanalysis characteristic of Sam Kriss' thinkpieces back when he was still a writer for them, because piece of shit though he is, he usually did have a decent point beneath the nigh-unreadable prose. Mainly I'm talking about this phenomenally stupid piece by fiction author/poet Anis Shivani arguing that capital has literally become sentient. It's not that the piece is especially inaccurate about the effect that neoliberalism has had on the world, but it feels like it's assuming that financial happenings which have elements that we would typically associate with intelligence must mean that capital is a sentient entity with all the same motivations and insecurities characteristic of the human mind. Which, I feel like if I wanted to/were a little better at writing, that I could just as easily write a 20,000 or whatever word piece arguing that concept of natural selection was literally sentient because of how goal-oriented it seems to be as an evolutionary mechanism, and that such a bullshit argument would come across as just about as persuasive as Shivani is in his argument that capital has attained sentience. Basically what I'm asking is can someone who actually understands economics confirm my suspicions that this piece is pretty much bullshit? |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Dec 27, 2017 15:28:18 GMT -5
Malapportionment strikes again, this time in CataloniaI’ve gotten interested lately not just in how often democracy just completely misfire, across systems—in the US (and formerly UK?) we think of this in terms of district line drawing and uneven representation, but the various formulas and thresholds in multiparty systems are pretty fallible too (and in systems with a lot of not-so-strong parties leads to having to put a lot of thought into strategic voting, which per my Dutch friends is a headache in and of itself).
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Post by sarapen on Jan 2, 2018 9:18:14 GMT -5
Reminder: the ruling class will "earn" your annual salary before lunch today, the first working day of the year. www.cbc.ca/1.4462496Also the report is from Canada, which last I checked has a slightly lower income gap than the US, so who knows how quickly Mark Zuckerberg earned your pay today. It's possible he's already made more money by 9:30 than you will for all year. |
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Post by Lord Lucan on Jan 2, 2018 16:08:55 GMT -5
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Post by sarapen on Jan 2, 2018 17:02:28 GMT -5
2018, you're off to a good start.
And then it just keeps snowballing from there.
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Post by Lord Lucan on Jan 8, 2018 21:09:26 GMT -5
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Post by Lord Lucan on Jan 17, 2018 23:12:04 GMT -5
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Post by sarapen on Jan 19, 2018 8:55:48 GMT -5
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Post by Lord Lucan on Jan 19, 2018 19:47:29 GMT -5
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Post by Lord Lucan on Jan 23, 2018 15:51:04 GMT -5
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Post by Lord Lucan on Jan 24, 2018 1:44:18 GMT -5
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Post by ComradePig on Jan 24, 2018 20:28:41 GMT -5
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Post by Lord Lucan on Jan 24, 2018 21:42:22 GMT -5
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Post by ganews on Jan 28, 2018 16:57:20 GMT -5
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Jan 30, 2018 10:27:38 GMT -5
These people have the SHEER AUDACITY to go and be BORN OUTSIDE OF A VAGUELY DEFINED GEOGRAPHICAL AREA and now they want to just waltz into MY vaguely defined geographical area and expect to have RIGHTS just because we all happen to be the same species. THE NERVE OF SOME PEOPLE.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Feb 6, 2018 18:55:28 GMT -5
Not just that, "peoplekind" is a horribly awkward word, where "humankind" or "humanity" work much better if you don't want to use "mankind." |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2018 19:11:41 GMT -5
Not just that, "peoplekind" is a horribly awkward word, where "humankind" or "humanity" work much better if you don't want to use "mankind." We have a conclusion!: |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2018 22:30:20 GMT -5
I don't know the history in any depth, but I remember him years ago from the Adam Curtis film, It Felt Like A Kiss - haunting seeing the footage of him captured with In Dreams playing, I always remembered that. (it's the first couple of minutes of the video) |
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Feb 7, 2018 9:25:06 GMT -5
I found out from the one asshole conservative on my friends feed (that I had snoozed*, but apparently the 30 day time is up) that Ben Shapiro apparently wants to debate some talk show host on something or other, and may even be raising money to make this happen. My prediction: - The debate happens
- Conservative argument is thoroughly dismantled, because reality has a known liberal bias
- Conservative claims victory anyway
- Nobody cares except the hard right wing
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Feb 14, 2018 13:28:12 GMT -5
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Post by ganews on Feb 14, 2018 17:18:02 GMT -5
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Post by Pastafarian on Feb 15, 2018 13:06:15 GMT -5
Don't you mean Prime Peoplesplainer? |
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Post by Pastafarian on Feb 15, 2018 13:06:56 GMT -5
I think I just wrote an entire movie script in my head. |
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Post by Lord Lucan on Feb 15, 2018 19:10:14 GMT -5
I wasn’t aware of the three brackets practice before, but it’s easy to imagine how it would function to self-sustain the paranoia of the dull, easily deceived, antisemitic mind. Someone in the habit of using or watching for them would, in so doing, be encouraged to believe that the targets had hitherto been seeking to and succeeding in concealing their spoor, whereas in reality they are prominent and openly Jewish and therefore the bracketing isn’t clever unmasking, but demented underscoring. |
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Post by ganews on Feb 15, 2018 21:38:03 GMT -5
I wasn’t aware of the three brackets practice before, but it’s easy to imagine how it would function to self-sustain the paranoia of the dull, easily deceived, antisemitic mind. Someone in the habit of using or watching for them would, in so doing, be encouraged to believe that the targets had hitherto been seeking to and succeeding in concealing their spoor, whereas in reality they are prominent and openly Jewish and therefore the bracketing isn’t clever unmasking, but demented underscoring. Really? You see it constantly online, though in liberal circles it's done to defiantly self-identify. Monty used to do it. Even fucking Megan McArdle (who has just been hired by Fred Hiatt, ha ha whatever) does it. |
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