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Rated PG-34
Jul 1, 2004




Propaganda and indoctrination work :eng101:

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Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

i blame phil greaves

Deimus
Aug 17, 2012

resar posted:

stalin and mao did nothing wrong

NumberLast
Jun 7, 2014
Trotsky 4 lyfe

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012
i still hate tankies

The_Politics_Man
Aug 25, 2015
pfffft, comrade hoxha says everything is revisionist and promises bunkers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LF33TJ18Cg

namesake
Jun 19, 2006

"When I was a girl, around 12 or 13, I had a fantasy that I'd grow up to marry Captain Scarlet, but he'd be busy fighting the Mysterons so I'd cuckold him with the sexiest people I could think of - Nigel Mansell, Pat Sharp and Mr. Blobby."

I'm in the tank..... for socialism!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDX7Ul9Kx7A

Edit: Actually considering what I've just said and linked: not a tankie, although my intro to socialism is Trot so...

namesake fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Nov 15, 2016

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Was talking to a German from the east who's family fled from central Europe to avoid the Red Army, and my dislike of Rowling caused a bigger argument than my admiration of the Soviet Union.

The entire interaction was CSpam as hell.

Pop culture criticism is apparently going to be more divisive for the younger generations than opinions on the Holodomor

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe

resar posted:

Annoying how tankie went from meaning "khrushchev did nothing wrong" to "stalin and mao did nothing wrong" to left of liberal.

Same thing happened to the word Nazi and now we don't have a good word to describe Bannon.

"Firebrand" really doesn't cut it!

100 degrees Calcium
Jan 23, 2011



resar posted:

Annoying how tankie went from meaning "khrushchev did nothing wrong" to "stalin and mao did nothing wrong" to left of liberal.

I'm still red-in-the-face from when I missed this transition and ended up trying to lecture Homework Explainer, of all people, on misuse of the term.

100 degrees Calcium
Jan 23, 2011



Babies need their blankies and Stalin needs his tankies.

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
Tho there are tankies aplomb itt.

Victory Position
Mar 16, 2004

Atrocious Joe posted:

Pop culture criticism is apparently going to be more divisive for the younger generations than opinions on the Holodomor

less people have thought of the atrocities committed by capitalism than have spoken about how Suicide Squad was unfairly savaged by the critics :cripes:

The_Politics_Man
Aug 25, 2015

Atrocious Joe posted:

Was talking to a German from the east who's family fled from central Europe to avoid the Red Army, and my dislike of Rowling caused a bigger argument than my admiration of the Soviet Union.

The entire interaction was CSpam as hell.

Pop culture criticism is apparently going to be more divisive for the younger generations than opinions on the Holodomor

why is it always harry potter?

Doc Hawkins
Jun 15, 2010

Dashing? But I'm not even moving!


Because it has broad appeal, but gleefully depicts an appallingly classist society. It's like if They Live was a heartwarming coming-of-age adventure.

Deimus
Aug 17, 2012

resar posted:

why is it always harry potter?

Breakfast All Day
Oct 21, 2004


im glad i can now pretend my dislike of harry potter is driven by ideological superiority instead of just milquetoast writing

AHungryRobot
Oct 12, 2012

Apparently not tough enough to beat Donald Trump

Doc Hawkins
Jun 15, 2010

Dashing? But I'm not even moving!


YA readers raus

Slow-Scan Shep
Jul 11, 2001

we need more ironic communists in order to counter the ironic fascists

Peel
Dec 3, 2007

papa_november posted:

we need more ironic communists in order to counter the ironic fascists

i have bad news for you w/r/t irony in politics

Deimus
Aug 17, 2012

papa_november posted:

we need more communists

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

papa_november posted:

we need more ironic communists in order to counter the ironic fascists

Jacobin's design team often includes a lot of ironic calls for violent revolution in the paper magazine



So basically in 3 years DSA is going to have a guerrilla wing as these become unironic

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
I unironically think nobody will ever take Marxists seriously as long as they mentally overlap with the retarded anti gun at all costs crowd

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
So, joining the NRA to give out literature is probably not a bad idea

deadgoon
Dec 4, 2014

by FactsAreUseless
what sort of person doesn't already associate american marxism with the black panthers?

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

deadgoon posted:

what sort of person doesn't already associate american marxism with the black panthers?

Older conservatives

Morzhovyye
Mar 2, 2013

Pretty sure most marxists aren't anti gun for reasons that should be obvious. Anti-gun is just a hill that liberals choose to die on to avoid bringing up the actual causes of gun violence.

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
imo you guys need a reboot, "communism" is a crappy word with a horrid bloody history.

Fiction
Apr 28, 2011
honestly "socialism" is probably the best we'll get.

Woof Blitzer
Dec 29, 2012

[-]
Yeah, national socialism :troll:

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


i read jacobin and heck, i like it

deadgoon
Dec 4, 2014

by FactsAreUseless
communism is good and the human race will continue to attempt suicide until it is achieved.

Deimus
Aug 17, 2012

Baloogan posted:

imo you guys need a reboot, "communism" is a crappy word with a horrid bloody history.

You're right to a degree. McCarthyism and the Cold War made it a permanently 'naughty' word and I don't think that will change here.. though capitalism is associated with much much more atrocities and poo poo, including US funded coups of like over 30 countries that's supported leftists since ww2. Coups for no other reason than to open the countries resources for western investment and have their people participate in the global labor market. Usually in the 3rd world ML communists are the forefront of these very same anti-colonialist struggles and cool stuff like that. So idk..

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

Darkman Fanpage posted:

i still hate tankies

congratulations

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

Baloogan posted:

imo you guys need a reboot, "communism" is a crappy word with a horrid bloody history.

this is only a commonly held opinion in the us and bits of western europe, just so you know. and it's getting less and less common here even, now that the cold warriors are dying off

VirtualStranger
Aug 20, 2012

:lol:

papa_november posted:

we need more ironic communists in order to counter the ironic fascists

All Hail Comrade PissPigGrandad

mike12345
Jul 14, 2008

"Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries."





can't tell if that guy is really fighting in Syria, or not

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


mike12345 posted:

can't tell if that guy is really fighting in Syria, or not

he is

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Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
As retarded as war tourism is, it's hard to hate someone who puts their money where their mouth is.

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