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Oberleutnant posted:Very little. Some of his prison writings, but not enough of anything to be able to discuss him with any confidence. I have a big gramsci reader at home and I'm tempted to make it the next thing on my list, but every time I look at it I wanna die for some reason. Is there anything that you particularly recommend? I love Gramsci and I would totally recommend not even bothering with his stuff directly to begin with. Read up on the basic concepts (you can easily find online guides) and then go for some of the later Italian thinkers, like Hardt & Negri, Paolo Virno, or Mario Tronti. I'd recommend Hardt & Negri to start with. You might also like Maurizio Lazzarato's "The Making of the Indebted Man", it posits how the debtor-creditor relationship has replaced the worker-employer relationship as the primary method of proletariat exploitation (I addressed this in my dissertation which I think you've read?).
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Oberleutnant posted:My unimpeachable reputation be damned: Planetes is the mythical Good Anime. I'll allow it
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LemonDrizzle posted:
Starting that thread is my greatest regret.
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I dunno, giving the forums a honeypot for all the nazis and attempted nazis is pretty useful. Only shame is the Finnish swamp nazis won't stop leaking out of their own boggy ghetto.
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It's depressing that the UK is not the most nazi place in europe.
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This is one of my worries about the EU. They've already shown that they're far more worried about far-left parties than they are about far-right parties, and as much of Europe moves further to the right there might come a point where the EU is a force that stops the UK government getting better rather than one that stops it getting worse.
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Guavanaut posted:there might come a point where the EU is a force that stops the UK government getting better rather than one that stops it getting worse. I hate to tell you but 2006 was a decade ago
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Jan 26, 2016 20:38
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feedmegin posted:Both those places are swimming with guns, old Soviet military hardware, and people with extensive military experience and a habit of fighting foreigners who invade their country. Here? Not so much. What are you going to do if a Challenger 2 rolls down the street, attack it with a kitchen knife? Eh, I own a copy of Marighella's Minimanual of the Urban Guerilla, we'll (probably) be fine.
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Jan 26, 2016 20:41
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Tesseraction posted:I hate to tell you but 2006 was a decade ago
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OwlFancier posted:It's depressing that the UK is not the most nazi place in europe. It makes me happy that we're not the worst
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Namtab posted:It makes me happy that we're not the worst Yeah but we're kind of bad, that means there's a lot of places where it's much worse.
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Jan 26, 2016 21:02
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Well, yes. Not sure where you'd consider 'good' to be honest.
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Anime is mostly bad but sometimes compelling so you should watch it and then feel bad after. Akira is the exception to this. feedmegin posted:What are you going to do if a Challenger 2 rolls down the street, attack it with a kitchen knife? Wait for it to stop on a corner for too long, laugh when the roadwheels turn up for scrap in cash converters. Alternatively, wait for it to fall into a pothole and never emerge.
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Pork Pie Hat posted:Eh, I own a copy of Marighella's Minimanual of the Urban Guerilla, we'll (probably) be fine. Same, it's a good'un.
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Guavanaut posted:What's this referring to? Data retention? RoHS? Eurovision? 2006 Eurovision was pretty fantastic now you make me think of it. That was probably the high point. Everything since then has been freefall.
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Oberleutnant posted:My unimpeachable reputation be damned: Planetes is the mythical Good Anime. The plot looked interesting until I got to this bit quote:But in an example of a non-scientific idea, one character, born on the Moon, grew to be abnormally tall due to the lesser lunar gravity, looking like an adult at the age of 12.
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Jan 26, 2016 21:07
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As I recall that exists purely for a joke and isn't referenced otherwise.
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Oberleutnant posted:My unimpeachable reputation be damned: Planetes is the mythical Good Anime. Legend of Galactic Heroes
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OwlFancier posted:Yeah but we're kind of bad, that means there's a lot of places where it's much worse. I mean, we're not really that bad, comparatively.
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Jan 26, 2016 21:12
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Namtab posted:I mean, we're not really that bad, comparatively. Well no, that's sort of the point.
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Jan 26, 2016 21:13
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Or even objectively.
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Jan 26, 2016 21:14
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The UK is, objectively, the third best country in the world.
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Maybe if you have low standards?
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the UK is P. decent. as much as you guys like to think that the sky is going to fall down tomorrow, a lot of places are a lot, lot worse.
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I suppose that depends on whether you believe the means of a state dictates the degree of its obligation to provide for its people, in which case we're pretty poo poo.
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Jan 26, 2016 21:20
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not compared to a lot of places, in fact not just a lot of places, but the vast majority of places
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Pissflaps posted:The UK is, objectively, the third best country in the world. I'm intrigued why which two you think are better Flaps.
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LemonDrizzle posted:There's quite a bit of coverage on Der Spiegel's English language site: http://www.spiegel.de/international/ Thanks
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thespaceinvader posted:I'm intrigued why which two you think are better Flaps. It's not my list http://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries
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Pissflaps posted:It's not my list I suspect this is a list of "best countries to immigrate to if you are already pretty well off and want to be more well off" or something, in which case I can't really argue with them thinking that the UK is one of the best.
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I don't think the focus is on immigration is it? It's just an objective measure of a variety of parameters.
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Pissflaps posted:I don't think the focus is on immigration is it? It's not immigration, it's worse than that, it's capital. Methodology posted:The 2016 Best Countries report and rankings are based on how global perceptions define countries in terms of a number of qualitative characteristics, impressions that have the potential to drive trade, travel and investment and directly affect national economies.
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Well I guess we'd better pack it in lads, we're objectively unsexy.
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'Cultural Influence' and 'Entrepreneurship' sure do sound like some completely objective parameters.
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Well maybe we should come up with our own parameters and create a better list? Come on gang, it could be a fun project.
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Full communism? Yes/No. If no, get in the bin.
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It certainly comes off as a list of countries that are best for cosmopolitan types to swan around in and maybe get some business interests so they can lunch in London, rather than those that are best for the people than live there and have little say in the matter. It'd be nice if, using all of those stats they collected, you could weight them for how important they are to you and it'd generate a list. Like say if 'income inequality' was far more important to you than 'favorable tax environment' or 'has a rich history'. Or 'sexy'.
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Tesseraction posted:As I recall that exists purely for a joke and isn't referenced otherwise. Actually it means she can't endure Earth gravity so is basically trapped on the Moon (basically a cross between a slum and an international airport), iirc.  Planetes is legit awesome hard-ish scifi and actually somewhat topical given the increased concern over space debris cluttering satellite orbits. I also believe Cowboy Bebop to be a valid alternative answer. Yes, in spite of that.
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Kegluneq posted:Actually it means she can't endure Earth gravity so is basically trapped on the Moon (basically a cross between a slum and an international airport), iirc. Oh, HER. Right yeah now I remember. Man it's been ages since I watched it. Also if you like Cowboy Bebop but also like mondo baps then Space Dandy works pretty well.
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this is what anime leads to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLmD_69pXpk
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