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The Chicago political machine under Richard J. Daley was the most communist institution in US history
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Pomp posted:This makes sense if words don't mean things Communism is basically just a synonym for totalitarianism I guess. Makes sense if you don’t think about it.
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OpenSourceBurger posted:I will never understand having so little personality that you get angry over people enjoying entertainment in a way you don't. People out there stealing Call of Duty valor
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Taintrunner posted:https://twitter.com/birth_marxist/status/1211754544373190656 What exactly about this is incorrect
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xrunner posted:Communism is basically just a synonym for totalitarianism I guess. Makes sense if you don’t think about it.
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Algund Eenboom posted:What exactly about this is incorrect it paints the entirety of the indigenous population in broad, patronizing strokes of mythology. plenty of indigenous people in the Americas had destructive relationships with their environments. slash and burn farming was a fairly common practice among agricultural civilizations, for instance. obviously it's nothing in comparison to what industrialized methods of exploiting the land would ultimately accomplish, but it's not like the indigenous people didn't have industrialization because of the purity of their souls.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:It seems like it might be an argument that would convince the people that it is (probably?) trying to convince, even if it's factually false in every way. So I guess it should get half a point for trying. Yeah there's a broad swath of boomers who associate communism entirely with Soviet Union as understood by US media in 1960s/70s. They mostly just associate the word with totalitarian governments and don't even think really hard about the economic stuff. Also see that hot take from a couple months ago about Trump being the most Marxist president, and the classic "Nazis are communists they have socialism right in the name."
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Dec 31, 2019 16:59
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Algund Eenboom posted:What exactly about this is incorrect They didn’t eat that much meat.
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Mr. Lobe posted:it paints the entirety of the indigenous population in broad, patronizing strokes of mythology. plenty of indigenous people in the Americas had destructive relationships with their environments. slash and burn farming was a fairly common practice among agricultural civilizations, for instance. obviously it's nothing in comparison to what industrialized methods of exploiting the land would ultimately accomplish, but it's not like the indigenous people didn't have industrialization because of the purity of their souls. All of those things are true, but industrial capitalism is the only economic ideology to threaten the planet existentially, which i think is the most important part of the tweet, and the guys main point
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Dec 31, 2019 17:22
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Platystemon posted:They didn’t eat that much meat. The extraordinary lengths Americans will go to in their quest to make all-bacon diets not merely acceptable but morally righteous is one of their most distinctive features and cuts across political lines.
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Mr. Lobe posted:obviously it's nothing in comparison to what industrialized methods of exploiting the land would ultimately accomplish correct, it was nothing in comparison with industrial farming.
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Capitalism sells class signifiers for well-off morons, socialism provides needed services???
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Comrade Carvey is right, capitalism is like a giant tacky store that sells over-priced fisher price toys to gullible idiots. Socialism is like a government entity that ensures public safety.
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Dec 31, 2019 20:05
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my department of motor vehicles rules. very fast and actually decently maintained
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Dec 31, 2019 20:58
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my DMV is kinda a dump and there's no Apple store within like 50 miles. If only the same could be said for capitalism.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1212131644951261184
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the Philadelphia understander has logged on
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Platystemon posted:They didn’t eat that much meat. Ah, the Inuits and their vast corn fields. Also many, if not most North American natives ate a diet that was extremely reliant on meat and especially animal fat
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steinrokkan posted:Ah, the Inuits and their vast corn fields. Yes, the people of the Americas had extremely diverse diets, suited to local conditions. Isn’t that an argument against “indigenous people ate hella meat & we could too if we were just like them”?
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steinrokkan posted:Ah, the Inuits and their vast corn fields. This is a really, really great example of being able to have two related facts very close together but not actually having them in conversation.
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Algund Eenboom posted:What exactly about this is incorrect without enhancements that have been developed along the way we wouldn’t have enough people on the planet to justify the level of consumption we have today. that’s not to say only white people could have come up with them, or whatever other bs people might think, but there’s also no reason to believe the development trajectory wouldn’t be at least similar since a lot of choices are based on available resources. And effort vs reward would likely still be a driver even if we were implying that greed would be an impossibility mass production and industrialization without responsibility are the problems and it’s difficult to extrapolate what indigenous peoples would become when most of them didn’t have the chance to develop before being colonized it’s very much noble savage type of stuff because the comparison in this manner implies they would do better**. the most we know is white people throughout history really enjoy thinking they’re the hottest poo poo around and have no qualms murdering people to prove it to themselves industrial capitalism is the only version of massive industry* we’ve had, so that’s the opposite side of the same argument * of fully developed nations... and ones not at war I guess ** I guess worth noting here that I mean avoiding pitfalls like hoarding resources still when all your needs are actually met just fine. it’s hard to go from always looking to survive (which every race has gone through) to having well more than enough and losing the habit of trying to hoard resources, and everything that sort of spills out of that Ugato has issued a correction as of 06:06 on Jan 2, 2020 |
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CharlestheHammer posted:my department of motor vehicles rules. Extremely same.
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Jan 2, 2020 06:34
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DMV jokes seem to be a Boomer thing that no one else really cares about.
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Apple is the worst company to buy from, or was before Tesla got creative. “Make an appointment for next month so you can give us three thousand dollars for a laptop.” The DMV has many excuses for poor service. Apple has none.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:DMV jokes seem to be a Boomer thing that no one else really cares about. Imagine bitching about the service at the DMV or the post office while also being a customer of any ISP
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Minecraft Holmes posted:Imagine bitching about the service at the DMV or the post office while also being a customer of any ISP Or cable companies.
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I feel like this article is overcomplicating something that is better described as the natural result of the market for comics decreasing to the extent that they can only be sold for high prices as a relatively niche product (which in turns makes the primary audience middle class). It also doesn't help that, as it briefly mentions, Japanese manga are now widely imported/translated, and the manga industry is frankly way more "developed" to an extent where Western comics can't really compete in the domain of "serialized titles aimed primarily to entertain with stories of action, romance, etc."
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Jan 2, 2020 08:50
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Western comics used to be before censorship wiped out everything but capes, and never recovered.
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Platystemon posted:Apple is the worst company to buy from, or was before Tesla got creative. my DMV has long lines but they let you enter the line online and they'll text you when you're 30 minutes from being helped so you can drive and show up to the DMV and only wait 5 minutes. I think 10 minutes might be the longest Ive had to wait at my DMV
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I read this and as the resident Comic Book Girl there's like four points where you could start to make an argument and they just swerve off into dipshit town
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Ytlaya posted:I feel like this article is overcomplicating something that is better described as the natural result of the market for comics decreasing to the extent that they can only be sold for high prices as a relatively niche product (which in turns makes the primary audience middle class). Manga had a crash in the 00s and while it's recovered it's not the dominant force it was You know what is? Single serving graphic novels aimed at kids. Reina Telgemeir (I butchered her name) is a loving juggernaut and she writes kids novels that are also comics If it had drilled down into low art being coopted as high art but only the right kinds you probably could have gotten something a little interesting but this is just incoherent Edit I guess you could also talk about how there's no easy access to weekly comics like there is for manga. The marvel unlimited app gets you stuff a couple months after it hits shelves, the shonen jump and Crunchyroll manga apps have the new chapters the same day as Japan does and theyre cheaper to boot. I thinj I pay 3 bucks a month for jump and I only read it a couple times a year in big binges BENGHAZI 2 has issued a correction as of 15:22 on Jan 2, 2020 |
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Western comics used to be before censorship wiped out everything but capes, and never recovered. Some people will scoff at the the idea that the code was influenced by DC to help crush competition but uh Reality disagrees, they absolutely jumped at the chance to help clean up comics and in the process kill everything that outsold capes
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Minecraft Holmes posted:Imagine bitching about the service at the DMV or the post office while also being a customer of any ISP DMV and USPS are the best customer service I've experienced in my life, the way rich fucks talk about it is baffling. There's this weird thing among the privatized medicine camp where they talk about the poor customer service of public services but people regularly die because their healthcare provider gives them the run around for 6 months for life saving treatment.
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Eliminating comics is an example why censorship is good.
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steinrokkan posted:Eliminating comics is an example why censorship is good. I mean the earliest superhero comic as we think of them now was largely about beating the poo poo out of corrupt politicians and bosses and landlords Superman rules
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Tulip posted:DMV and USPS are the best customer service I've experienced in my life, the way rich fucks talk about it is baffling. I think millionaires are probably used to a different standard of customer service than schmucks like us.
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