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Cooler Reds Will Prevail
23rd April 2009, 14:59
Pretty straightforward question really... Assuming you see a successful revolution in your lifetime, is there anything you'll miss about capitalism?
I think I'm going to miss the Geico gecko, personally. Can we keep him? Pweeeeeeeeease?
Anyway this should be interesting...
WTF geicko gecko is?:confused:
Im gonna miss the time where i throw all the coins i have on me to fascists:lol:Can we keep coins?Pweeeeeeese? :p
Tower of Bebel
23rd April 2009, 15:11
My complete freedom to pick a job and personal property like clothing and personal computers.
Sean
23rd April 2009, 15:13
Revleft.com, although I think Malte's contingency plan is to rename her keepstuffthewayitisnow.com
Le Libérer
23rd April 2009, 15:16
My glock 9.
Cooler Reds Will Prevail
23rd April 2009, 15:17
Revleft.com, although I think Malte's contingency plan is to rename her keepstuffthewayitisnow.com
Lmaooooooooooooo :laugh:
Fuserg9, Geico is a car insurance company in the US... Their mascot is a gecko with a British accent, and he kicks ass.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTXm1zvWf9I
Tower of Bebel
23rd April 2009, 15:32
I want to exchange this cat i have on my apartment for that gecko :tt1:!
Sean
23rd April 2009, 15:38
That guy is Max Branning in Eastenders.
http://media.entertainment.sky.com/image/unscaled/2008/4/29/Max-Branning-Jake-Wood-0308.jpg
Holden Caulfield
23rd April 2009, 16:06
prejudice against rich people for my own amusement
cheisgreat
23rd April 2009, 16:20
High-street shops? Hmm I don't know really, it's hard to think. I'm unclear as to what would be accepted or what it would really be like.
Bright Banana Beard
23rd April 2009, 16:20
Pepsi Cola, Mountain Dew, Wendy and McDonald. :crying::crying::crying:
apathy maybe
23rd April 2009, 17:15
Masturbating at work.
Wait, I'll keep doing that.
Dhul Fiqar
23rd April 2009, 18:26
Ask what you will miss about capitalism is one thing, what this thread seems to involve is products and concepts you believe will disappear with capitalism. I find the premise faulty.
What I'd miss about capitalism is that fleeting dream you sometimes get after a bit too much beer, or in the old days coke, that you'd one day be rich and make everyone pay for being such dicks. With your awesome money and power.
Also, I'll miss Swiss Miss. A capitalist enterprise produces that cocoa powder and will no doubt be first up against the wall.
Sean
23rd April 2009, 18:34
Ask what you will miss about capitalism is one thing, what this thread seems to involve is products and concepts you believe will disappear with capitalism. I find the premise faulty.
Precisely. The end of capitalism doesnt mean ashes and sack cloths, thats a stereotype invented by capitalism itself. The reality of an anarcho-commie world does not mean some kind of throwback to medieval times. Communication, production and trade will remain, it is only the hierachy that leeches off it that conjure the illusion of underpinning it that will be removed. Don't worry, you'll still have your ipod!
ÑóẊîöʼn
23rd April 2009, 18:36
Precisely. The end of capitalism doesnt mean ashes and sack cloths, thats a stereotype invented by capitalism itself. The reality of an anarcho-commie world does not mean some kind of throwback to medieval times. Communication, production and trade will remain, it is only the hierachy that leeches of it that conjure the illusion of underpinning it that will be removed. Don't worry, you'll still have your ipod!
True, but I can't imagine anyone would be willing to work in a fast-food outlet post the revolution.
Sean
23rd April 2009, 18:41
Really? I'd love a Bakunin burger with Lenin fries.
Sean
23rd April 2009, 18:43
^ Although some bastard would probably steal it then debate with me about the very idea that I can "own" a burger.:laugh:
Angry Young Man
23rd April 2009, 19:12
A few adverts. Not the shit ones. But we can log all the funny adverts in history. And I hope to fuck that we can get the secret recipes of things like Dr Pepper, Cadburys (no Cadburys and I will have a tantrum), kfc and tetleys.
Also, pray to Marx that Charlie Brooker's gonna side with us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm4GiyyVKQQ&feature=PlayList&p=6DD223447015D017&index=0&playnext=1
See what I mean?
Finally, we could keep the Daily Mail going as a satire of itself! We just need to exctract some of the concentrated hatred from Hell.
Sugar Hill Kevis
23rd April 2009, 19:31
Subway, Starbucks, Dolce and Gabbana, Burberry, Paper Money, Jack Wills, Chains (http://streetknowledge.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/crayons.jpg), Electricity, Myspace, Pedigree Dogs, Wall Street, Bottled Water, Lil' Wayne, Laptop Integrated Webcams and Speed Limits.
Sam_b
23rd April 2009, 20:29
My textile factory in the Phillipines.
Cooler Reds Will Prevail
23rd April 2009, 20:58
Precisely. The end of capitalism doesnt mean ashes and sack cloths, thats a stereotype invented by capitalism itself. The reality of an anarcho-commie world does not mean some kind of throwback to medieval times. Communication, production and trade will remain, it is only the hierachy that leeches off it that conjure the illusion of underpinning it that will be removed. Don't worry, you'll still have your ipod!
Sean, thank you for that, I couldn't agree more. A lot of leftists seem to feel that in order to destroy capitalism we have to destroy variety and technology... Why can't we just have the state/people take over, for example, Mountain Dew and Dr. Pepper and produce them for public benefit + consumption instead of for profit? I ain't trying to refresh myself with Pee-Green Colored Socialist Carbonated Beverage or even worse, water :laugh:. I'm totally in favor of keeping the selection and improving the quality of existing beverages... And keeping the snazzy names.
We seem to forget that if we use environmentally friendly methods of production, there are plenty of resources in the world for everybody to have access to a computer, cell phone, television, etc. Getting rid of planned obsolescence, for one, makes a huge difference in and of itself.
Angry Young Man
23rd April 2009, 21:14
My textile factory in the Phillipines.
No love for your cattle farm in Brazil?
Sam_b
23rd April 2009, 21:51
Vegetarian.
Dr Mindbender
23rd April 2009, 21:55
Pretty straightforward question really... Assuming you see a successful revolution in your lifetime, is there anything you'll miss about capitalism?
I think I'm going to miss the Geico gecko, personally. Can we keep him? Pweeeeeeeeease?
Anyway this should be interesting...
No, nothing.
Even the things i enjoy under capitalism now, will be better under socialism anyway. Its common sense really, a scarcity society can't compete with an abundancy one.
GracchusBabeuf
23rd April 2009, 22:51
The question is absurd.
This is capitalism:
http://thebreakthrough.org/blog/2008/04/14/india%20poverty.jpg
There's nothing to miss in capitalism.
TheCultofAbeLincoln
23rd April 2009, 22:54
I have the goals of helping the revolution along, but at the same time I dream even more about owning my own sports franchise.
I'll miss some luxury items.
TheCultofAbeLincoln
23rd April 2009, 22:56
There's nothing to miss in capitalism.
Really?
http://ultimategto.com/1967/67_00051_1.jpg
Angry Young Man
23rd April 2009, 23:00
Yes. Really.
http://www.beyondthepale.org/userfiles/gaza3.jpg
TheCultofAbeLincoln
23rd April 2009, 23:03
Don't see how that relates to Capitalism in and of itself, but OK.
Angry Young Man
23rd April 2009, 23:05
It's a Palestinian boy. I don't see how a car that isn't made anymore, looks like shit and possibly popular among African dictators is something to miss. If you like it that much, get one and maintain.
Dr Mindbender
23rd April 2009, 23:27
I have the goals of helping the revolution along, but at the same time I dream even more about owning my own sports franchise.
I'll miss some luxury items.
I don't know about you but i'd prefer an electric hover-car.
GracchusBabeuf
23rd April 2009, 23:31
Really?
http://ultimategto.com/1967/67_00051_1.jpgWe'll have such cars and better ones in a workers' self managed economy.:laugh:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Lada_1600.jpg/800px-Lada_1600.jpg
I don't want to drive around in just Ladas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lada_Riva)!
frozencompass
24th April 2009, 00:13
I'm gonna miss the racist jokes on 4chan. :(
Also, Microsoft Windows.
Cooler Reds Will Prevail
24th April 2009, 00:18
The Palestinian people weren't consulted. And they'd been living there for centuries. It usually will start a conflict if you shoo a whole population out if their homes. You deserve to be called a **** for your flagrant ignorance as to the I/P conflict far outdoing your right to have an opinion. Now fuck off, you ignorant twat.
Dude chill the fuck out and pull the chainsaw out of your ass... We're having a little fun, I'm sorry that's so intolerable to you. At the very least, don't blame the Geico Gecko for the deaths of Palestinian children, that's cold. He's just trying to save you 15% or more on your car insurance.
And calm your misogyny, we don't need words like "****" and "twat" in a revolutionary left forum. I disagree with CultofAbe's analysis on Palestine too, but you're acting like you need an animal tranquilizer shot into your bloodstream. On some New Edition shit man, "cool it now, you got to slow it down".
Anyway back to the topic, I'm also going to miss the cheesy infomercials for knives that can cut through a pineapple in one swipe. I saw that one like three nights ago at like 4 in the morning and was almost convinced that it was worth three easy payments of $14.95. :lol:
Dr Mindbender
24th April 2009, 00:20
I'm gonna miss the racist jokes on 4chan. :(
Racism isn't funny.
Also, Microsoft Windows.
Oh nooes.. no more shitty laggy buggy operating systems that keep freezing and crashing before it lets you save a document that you've been working for hours on.
:glare:
TheCultofAbeLincoln
24th April 2009, 00:21
Anyway back to the topic, I'm also going to miss the cheesy infomercials for knives that can cut through a pineapple in one swipe. I saw that one like three nights ago at like 4 in the morning and was almost convinced that it was worth three easy payments of $14.95. :lol:
Peace! Bread! Snuggies!
And yeah sorry to derail your thread. Hopefully a mod will split off the I-P discussion.
Cooler Reds Will Prevail
24th April 2009, 00:28
http://www.kaitaia.com/funny/pictures/ThreadHijack/thread_direction.gif
Angry Young Man
24th April 2009, 00:29
Dude chill the fuck out and pull the chainsaw out of your ass... We're having a little fun, I'm sorry that's so intolerable to you. At the very least, don't blame the Geico Gecko for the deaths of Palestinian children, that's cold. He's just trying to save you 15% or more on your car insurance.
And calm your misogyny, we don't need words like "****" and "twat" in a revolutionary left forum. I disagree with CultofAbe's analysis on Palestine too, but you're acting like you need an animal tranquilizer shot into your bloodstream. On some New Edition shit man, "cool it now, you got to slow it down".
Anyway back to the topic, I'm also going to miss the cheesy infomercials for knives that can cut through a pineapple in one swipe. I saw that one like three nights ago at like 4 in the morning and was almost convinced that it was worth three easy payments of $14.95. :lol:
Dude, they have a knife that can cut through a pineapple in one swipe?:drool: We must establish a spy network and steal the capitalists' blueprints for this kitchen knife! Right after cadburys. Who wants to be a spy!
GracchusBabeuf
24th April 2009, 00:33
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Cooler Reds Will Prevail
24th April 2009, 00:34
Dude, they have a knife that can cut through a pineapple in one swipe?:drool: We must establish a spy network and steal the capitalists' blueprints for this kitchen knife! Right after cadburys. Who wants to be a spy!
That's the spirit!
I couldn't find the infomercial because I don't remember what it's called, but here's a home movie of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHqqx5Jakf4
Angry Young Man
24th April 2009, 00:41
Uggh We have strong ties with Israel because there's a very vocal group of people who carry a lot of weight in politics, business, and media who back Israel unequivacally because they are.....The same reason we don't have relations with Cuba.
Israel is there because Israel defeats any power that threatens it.
Chicorazan obliged me to be nicer so I'll just say that they do so with American and British weapons and privilege everyone with an appropriate Clash song (there's always an appropriate Clash song. Always).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy3l3JXroeY
TheCultofAbeLincoln
24th April 2009, 01:14
We'll have such cars and better ones in a workers' self managed economy.:laugh:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Lada_1600.jpg/800px-Lada_1600.jpg
I don't want to drive around in just Ladas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lada_Riva)!
That is exactly what I would imagine replacing everything :lol:
Of course, it seems like every car is already moving to the point of looking like everything already. Cars have such a lack of style these days. Beautiful cars are the one advantage over the US that Cuba has gained because of the embargo LoL
If I owned a car company I would bring back tail fins :cool:
TheCultofAbeLincoln
24th April 2009, 01:49
Racism isn't funny.
Jokes about it though can be funny, and can show how retarded racism is.
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Bilan
24th April 2009, 03:31
Subway, Starbucks, Dolce and Gabbana, Burberry, Paper Money, Jack Wills, Chains (http://streetknowledge.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/crayons.jpg), Electricity, Myspace, Pedigree Dogs, Wall Street, Bottled Water, Lil' Wayne, Laptop Integrated Webcams and Speed Limits.
Burberry will live on forever.
Communist Theory
24th April 2009, 03:36
I would have to say.
Donald Trump.
Although I would love tickets to the execution. :lol:
Angry Young Man
24th April 2009, 03:49
Yea it has to be either the chair or we go a bit medieval: burning at the stake. Just as the executioner lights the fire, he goes 'Yer Fired!'
bcbm
24th April 2009, 08:18
My glock 9.
from my cold dead hands, revolution or no.
Yehuda Stern
24th April 2009, 09:37
Uggh We have strong ties with Israel mainly because there's a very vocal group of people who carry a lot of weight in politics, business, and media who back Israel unequivacally because they are.....
No, really, I'm intrigued. Because they are..... what?
Martin Blank
24th April 2009, 09:58
I dunno, I think a lot of the consumer products we have now will still be around. The difference will be that they're made under workers' control, so the quality control will be better and cost won't be an issue.
I will miss cheesy commercials and infomercials -- no more sing-alongs with the FreeCreditReport band or laughable testimonials for ED pills. This will be especially sad on Super Bowl Sunday (assuming there still is a Super Bowl Sunday!), since the commercials on there are usually more entertaining than the halftime show (or the game).
Of all the things, though, that will no longer exist in a post-capitalist society, I think the one thing I'll really miss (not in the sense of being sad it's gone, but in the sense that its absence will be so noticeable) will be the shitty automated customer service computer systems you get when on the phone.
That, and the Catholic cable TV station, EWTN. I sorta got hooked on their 537-part series on heresy when I was in the hospital. :D
frozencompass
24th April 2009, 10:32
Racism isn't funny.
Your opinion. I don't put moral restrictions on jokes. Also, racist jokes does not equal racism (it depends on your perception of humor though). And no, I'm not racist.
ZeroNowhere
24th April 2009, 11:04
Chicorazan obliged me to be nicer so I'll just say that they do so with American and British weapons and privilege everyone with an appropriate Clash song (there's always an appropriate Clash song. Always).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy3l3JXroeY
Technically, that song isn't appropriate in context.
apathy maybe
24th April 2009, 11:22
I'm going to miss dancing. Wait, screw that, if I can't dance I don't want your revolution.
Also, why miss MS Windows? Why not use ReactOS (http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html) (not yet ready for prime time) or WINE (http://winehq.com/) (ready for use right now, for certain applications).
Sugar Hill Kevis
24th April 2009, 15:48
Burberry will live on forever.
Fancy running it as a coop?
Sam_b
24th April 2009, 16:00
Your opinion.
racist jokes does not equal racism
Congratulations! You're a moron.
Wanted Man
24th April 2009, 16:03
I'm really going to miss the ability to boss you peasants around.
frozencompass
24th April 2009, 16:07
Congratulations! You're a moron.
Congratulations! I don't care about your thoughts on me.
Angry Young Man
24th April 2009, 17:19
Fancy running it as a coop?
You'll have to move to one of the shittiest towns in the north, if the factory's still there.
And I realised today that I'll dreadfully miss Spillers Records in Cardiff. It's one of the best music shops I've been to and it's the oldest in the world. But it will probably be capitalism finishes it off rather than socialism. Thanks much, hmv:glare:
Dr Mindbender
25th April 2009, 11:23
Jokes about it though can be funny, and can show how retarded racism is.
References to racism on 4 chan are always in a racist context.
Black Sheep
25th April 2009, 14:08
My 3 guitars ( i guess i 'd be able to keep one, but i could never decide..) :(
Dr Mindbender
25th April 2009, 14:29
My 3 guitars ( i guess i 'd be able to keep one, but i could never decide..) :(
Eh? Why do people have it in their heads they'll have to give up their posessions.
Some of you lot need to revise manifesto i think :glare:
Jazzratt
25th April 2009, 16:42
Getting out of social events with the excuse that I have no money.
frozencompass
25th April 2009, 19:05
My 3 guitars ( i guess i 'd be able to keep one, but i could never decide..) :(
Come on, I'll give you mine. :closedeyes:
Angry Young Man
25th April 2009, 19:13
Nobody wants your guitar! It's probably only ever had Ted Nugent songs played on it, Ted Nugent!!!
j/k.
Black Sheep
25th April 2009, 20:20
Come on, I'll give you mine. http://www.revleft.com/vb/../revleft/smilies2/closedeyes.gif
You don't have one, but i ll take your keyboard :D
Angry Young Man
25th April 2009, 20:23
You mean his Hammond organ!
:cool: zing!
frozencompass
25th April 2009, 20:49
You don't have one, but i ll take your keyboard :D
Actually I do have, a very old one. Don't be fooled by the fact that I only know how to play 4 chords on it. :)
Communist Theory
26th April 2009, 06:19
Will we still have soda?
TheCultofAbeLincoln
26th April 2009, 06:29
I would not mind if all food and drink of no nutritional value and composed of nothing but empty calories were eradicated in full. I overwhelmingly feel that we need to stop making all that shit.
If you have the right to state-sponsored healthcare you should not have the right to eat a double-quarter pounder with cheese and a 32oz Dr Pepper with large fries more than once a year.
Communist Theory
26th April 2009, 06:33
Can we just keep soda?
Angry Young Man
26th April 2009, 06:38
I would not mind if all food and drink of no nutritional value and composed of nothing but empty calories were eradicated in full. I overwhelmingly feel that we need to stop making all that shit.
If you have the right to state-sponsored healthcare you should not have the right to eat a double-quarter pounder with cheese and a 32oz Dr Pepper with large fries more than once a year.
Piss off! We shouldn't be able to eat unhealthy food in excessive quantity, just like anything else. But if you take my mini eggs away from me, I'll be using your bollocks as a telephone receiver.
GracchusBabeuf
26th April 2009, 06:50
http://www.allfavourites.com/lucky-threadz/the_communist_party_large.gif
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~pbrinson/images/Communist%20Party.gif
Communist parties are nothing without...
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2282/2037424648_5a7cc484f2.jpg
Communist Theory
26th April 2009, 06:51
You post a dead palestinian kid to discount the Pontiac GTO, something that has no logical, direct connection in any way, shape, or form.
Yet you have a taste for a product whose main ingredient is mainly gathered through what is practically third world slave labor involving, for the most part, young children.
What the fuck?
Read about it here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_in_cocoa_production). What's next, are you going to miss your taste for the liver of abandoned orphans?
You sicken me.
Win.
Angry Young Man
26th April 2009, 07:43
So in order to like chocolate you have to be some kind of face-stomping neo-liberal nazi imperialist. There was me just thinking I have a sweet tooth. What happens to the communities who farm cocoa when Chairman Cultofabelincoln burns all the plantations down? The link didn't work. If you can write it up, that'd be great. I was always under the impression that cadburys paid comparatively reasonable amounts.
But on the other hand, since when do I take moral advice from a zionist who wants to steal my chocolate bars?
Module
26th April 2009, 09:08
My complete freedom to pick a job and personal property like clothing and personal computers.:confused: Why do you think I'm not going to have personal possessions post-revolution?
Wanted Man
26th April 2009, 09:17
Slave-made chocolate is one thing I won't be missing. It's pretty sickening when you read about what the big chocolate companies like Nestlé get up to. 60% of the cocoa comes from the Cote d'Ivoire, and 15-20% of it comes from farmers who use child slaves. And not even the biggest optimist would suggest that the remaining percentage must then come from honest, well-paid unionised labour, to say the least...
This became a big subject in the Dutch media several years ago, when a consumer tv program journalist tried to get himself jailed for "handling stolen goods" for eating chocolate, because the cocoa has been acquired through felonious means, and the consumer can reasonably be aware of this fact.
After losing the case against himself, he marketed his own slave-free chocolate from Ghana. A Swiss chocolate importer then sued him for making this claim (and tried to have his tv show banned!), because they felt that he could not guarantee that his chocolate is slave-free, and because marketing slave-free chocolate implies that all the other chocolate is slave-made. But the company lost this case, and the slave-free chocolate was allowed to show a fair trade label.
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Tony & the Slave-free Chocolate Factory
Chocolate is something you eat for pleasure, until you discover the appalling things that happen on cocoa plantations. In the production of cocoa beans even children are being exploited. Slavery still exists.
Dutch journalist and documentarian Tony van de Keuken met with former child slaves from Burkina Faso who worked without wages and under atrocious conditions on cocoa plantations in the Ivory Coast.
"Knowing this," Van de Keuken said, "Eating chocolate makes me a criminal."
From art. 416 of the Dutch Penal Code:
Whoever receives goods...while knowing at the time he receives them or when they are made available to him...that it concerns unlawfully obtained goods is guilty of wilfully receiving...unlawfully obtained goods and shall be punished by a term in prison of maximum four years or a Category Five fine.
And he ate another chocolate bar...
Criminals belong behind bars. So Tony van de Keuken turned himself in. In the meantime, he decided to produce his own chocolate bar.
www.chocolonely.nl
Note: The uploader of the video is not the copyright owner of the footage. It was uploaded to spread the message (for instance by embedding it into a weblog).
Footage source: http://www.rvu.nl/kvw/index.php?i=8&a... (http://www.rvu.nl/kvw/index.php?i=8&n=1137)
Dóchas
26th April 2009, 11:10
i gues ill miss all the oppression and pain in the world...man i love that bit of capitalism, you know that part that makes every day feel like monday? :lol:
RedAnarchist
26th April 2009, 12:36
The Palestine debate has been moved to http://www.revleft.com/vb/status-palestine-t107403/index.html?t=107403
ÑóẊîöʼn
26th April 2009, 12:42
http://www.allfavourites.com/lucky-threadz/the_communist_party_large.gif
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/%7Epbrinson/images/Communist%20Party.gif
How comes Engels never gets invited?
frozencompass
26th April 2009, 13:31
How comes Engels never gets invited?
That's not a question. The question is how come I never got invited.
ÑóẊîöʼn
26th April 2009, 13:43
That's not a question. The question is how come I never got invited.
You're capable of making a decision, so invite yourself. :star:
Holden Caulfield
26th April 2009, 17:40
i will miss all my anarchist mates after we purge them all.
Black Sheep
27th April 2009, 00:12
Wow! A philosoraptor! It's like half-dino, half philosopher!
Don't be a fool, such a thing cannot exist.
I think you lack a basic understanding of natural and evolutionary history, as well as evolution itself.
Dinosaurs were the dominant vertebrate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertebrate) animals of terrestrial (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landform) ecosystems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem) for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triassic) period (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Period_%28geology%29) (about 230 million years ago (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annum)) until the end of the Cretaceous (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous) period (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Period_%28geology%29) (65 million years ago), when most of them became extinct in the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Tertiary_extinction_event). The 10,000 living species of birds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird) have been classified (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cladistic) as dinosaurs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur
They became extinct for reasons we are (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Tertiary_extinction_event) not sure of yet. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%E2%80%93T_boundary)
By the studies of fossils, we know that these lifeforms had not developed advanced logical thought patterns,but were limited to basic instincts of survival and marvellous sex intercourse.
Philosophers on the other hand came to be much later.The first and last great thinker, from which the term originated, was Joseph Stalin, (aka Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin)), great leader of the narwhals (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narwhal) who lived happily ever after.
Robespierre2.0
28th April 2009, 02:54
I guess I'm going to miss all the completely insane but terribly interesting characters who have cracked under the pressure of the capitalist system and basically post a slice of their batshit point of view online for everyone to see- people with bizarre fetishes, who post their wank material online, conspiracy theorists who post giant walls of insane text describing the reptilian shadow government, autistic man-children obsessed with video games that whine about their inability to find a girlfriend online...
I'd think that under socialism, part of being a more collectivist society is looking out for the mental well-being of your fellow workers, plus since work would no longer be an alienating experience, we shouldn't have many people who escape to their own bizarre fantasy worlds to escape a reality they don't want to accept.
TheCultofAbeLincoln
28th April 2009, 03:33
Ummm.....
So you're saying that "bizarre" fetishes won't be around....what exactly is a bizarre fetish?
Robespierre2.0
28th April 2009, 04:00
Ok, maybe I shouldn't have included fetishes there, as what we consider sexually attractive is subjective.
However, I can't help but feel that furries and people that make video recordings of themselves humping baloons are pretty bizarre.
Pirate Utopian
28th April 2009, 04:01
Dont discriminate against me Mantis, you balloonophobe!
TheCultofAbeLincoln
28th April 2009, 06:12
I got a thing for tennis shoes.
Cooler Reds Will Prevail
28th April 2009, 10:20
A certain part of me is going to miss people totally overreacting over stupid shit like Janet Jackson's wardrobe mishap at the Super Bowl Halftime Show a few years ago or Michelle Malkin's assault on sweet, innocent Rachel Ray's paisley scarf*. It's almost funny when you're not entirely creeped out.
*Disclaimer: Don't interpret this as sexism please... That would be extremely petty.
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