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GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES

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GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
lol how’d I miss this

https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/974273781140205568

WhiskeyJuvenile
Feb 15, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo

our tankie president

Arcteryx Anarchist
Sep 15, 2007

Fun Shoe
trump accidentally ends Korean War

MizPiz
May 29, 2013

by Athanatos

lancemantis posted:

trump accidentally unifies Korea

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
joining the Authoritarian Tankies of America

motto: we're not cops but we wanna be

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

lancemantis posted:

trump (((accidentally))) ends Korean War

Doktor Avalanche
Dec 30, 2008


OVER9000D chess

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
I'm glad our corrupt imperialist empire is probably going to collapse like a house of cards since we put all the power and responsibility of maintaining it into the President's office for some reason

ClassActionFursuit
Mar 15, 2006

Larry Parrish posted:

I'm glad our corrupt imperialist empire is probably going to collapse like a house of cards since we put all the power and responsibility of maintaining it into the President's office for some reason

unironically same

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013


President Oaf rules.

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

LastInLine posted:

unironically same

It's good but like, drat, can't we at least be good at doing bad?

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

I'd rather be bad at doing good.

https://twitter.com/kulturalmarx/status/974387815831158784

Pener Kropoopkin fucked around with this message at 13:14 on Mar 16, 2018

Rhukatah
Feb 26, 2013

by Nyc_Tattoo

Gotta be a heckova German word for that one.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
Zizek's droopy face seems to be gradually returning to its natural state of being only normally droopy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MWO-hZfZDQ

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

this just autoplayed after that and the background is amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEWQQH5yofo

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

Rhukatah posted:

Gotta be a heckova German word for that one.

paranoid schizophrenia

Yossarian-22
Oct 26, 2014

america is already great because america is bad

Prav
Oct 29, 2011

america the great satan

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/974730919411142656
https://twitter.com/SFtheWolf/status/974738800210362369

Yossarian-22
Oct 26, 2014


not wrong

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991


this idiot goes totally bonkers in the comments lol

https://twitter.com/SFtheWolf/status/974764823467577344?s=19

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/DanyaLagos/status/974854629266808838

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

why they spelling post malone weird

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
Phenomenal essay by Daniel Finn on Portuguese politics, in particular on how the Portuguese Communist Party and the anarchist / Trotskyist Left Bloc exert pressure on the Socialists and build militant power - Luso-Anomalies, New Left Review.

It’s from summer 2017 so if anybody can direct me to something on this topic that’s more up to date that would be grand.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
Oh I guess Postone is still alive. He's apparently not doing great, though.

--

https://twitter.com/MiamiHerald/status/973286757130055684
A lot of them are over 50. Turns out universal healthcare is a pretty good deal when you're nearing retirement age.

Porkie: "Shaddup, you!" *shoves you into retirement home and takes your money*

BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 05:07 on Mar 19, 2018

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/ciccmaher/status/975745163577516032

quote:

After all, [Henri] Falcon is up against not just a powerful President Nicolas Maduro but also an election system widely considered unfair and an opposition boycott that will deprive him of votes.

And yet, a clutch of opinion polls show Falcon ahead, bolstering his campaign mantra that he is a natural transition candidate with appeal to a moderate majority fed up with political polarization and economic chaos.

Widely-followed pollster Datanalisis, for example, put him more than 10 percentage points ahead in voter intentions.

...

In line with his promise of a government of “national unity”, Falcon is reaching out to opposition leaders like former presidential candidate Henrique Capriles to relax the boycott and join his campaign.

He has picked a Wall Street bank analyst, Francisco Rodriguez, to head his economic team.

...

Falcon, whose energy is evident in his daily pre-dawn jogs, plans to start street campaigning in the next few days. He vows to keep popular welfare benefits but also open Venezuela’s economy along more business-friendly lines.

His adviser Rodriguez recommends dollarizing the economy, seeking $15-20 billion in annual foreign funding, lowering taxes for oil investors, and dismantling currency controls.

Falcon faces a tough job persuading western nations to withdraw their objections to the May 20 vote.

The United States has been vociferous, threatening to extend sanctions on the Maduro government to hit the oil sector if it goes ahead with what critics are calling a “coronation” on May 20.

Its top diplomat in Venezuela, Todd Robinson, met with Falcon recently, sources close to the candidate said, trying to persuade him to withdraw as his challenge was undermining U.S. efforts to isolate Maduro.

Washington seems to be calculating that if Maduro scores a Pyrrhic victory, and is left governing a ravaged economy, military and social pressure will become unbearable.

“If Maduro wins, as looks likely, it will be a very unstable government,” said Caracas-based consultant Dimitris Pantoulas. “At home, he is flirting with a coup d’etat and abroad he will be a pariah.”

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
Good thing there's a resurgent electoral Left in US politics capable of standing up to US imperia-

https://twitter.com/akahnnyc/status/969391947046670336

Rated PG-34
Jul 1, 2004




BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

Oh I guess Postone is still alive. He's apparently not doing great, though.

--

https://twitter.com/MiamiHerald/status/973286757130055684
A lot of them are over 50. Turns out universal healthcare is a pretty good deal when you're nearing retirement age.

Porkie: "Shaddup, you!" *shoves you into retirement home and takes your money*

after reading the article, i feel that all those kulaks should be made to lie in the bed they made

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

I really enjoyed this interview and maybe you will too

https://newsocialist.org.uk/the-bolsheviks-dared-interview-with-lars-t-lih-on-lenin/

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
Huh, the American Federation of Teachers’ official fb page linked to this People’s World article —> Arming Teachers: A Threat to Black Children Everywhere

Link to fb post here —> https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10155745226049160&id=215968684159

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

GalacticAcid posted:

Huh, the American Federation of Teachers’ official fb page linked to this People’s World article —> Arming Teachers: A Threat to Black Children Everywhere

Link to fb post here —> https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10155745226049160&id=215968684159

surprised no one has outed peoples world as the cpusa paper yet. half expected the post to be gone when i clicked the link

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
Yeah that’s why I was surprised they linked to it. There’s a couple conservatives caremad in the comments about the article’s content but you’re right, nobody’s called it out.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
:rip:

https://twitter.com/rosswolfe/status/975942725047607296

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Darn, not another dead old person I never heard of before. God is cruel

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011

GalacticAcid posted:

Phenomenal essay by Daniel Finn on Portuguese politics, in particular on how the Portuguese Communist Party and the anarchist / Trotskyist Left Bloc exert pressure on the Socialists and build militant power - Luso-Anomalies, New Left Review.

It’s from summer 2017 so if anybody can direct me to something on this topic that’s more up to date that would be grand.

shocked that abandoning austerity and governing with comminists would lead to a centre left government with high approval

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES

tekz posted:

shocked that abandoning austerity and governing with comminists would lead to a centre left government with high approval

I know this is :spergin: but they're not governing in coalition with the Communists or the Left Bloc. The Communists and Left Bloc are allowing the Socialists to govern alone provided they adhere to the agreed-on policies. So it's external support.

Seems like an arcane difference but should the Socialists capitulate to the troika it puts the Communists and Left Bloc in a position to gain electorally from their subsequent collapse as they are not actually administering at this point.

An Apple A Gay
Oct 21, 2008

hellooo getfiscal

helloooooo

WhiskeyJuvenile
Feb 15, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo
looking forward to him coming down to DC this weekend

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GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
Speaking of getting fiscal, Peter Peterson died lol

He funded a lot of deficit hawk “research” that did tremendous harm

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