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Sentinel

12th March 2010, 00:36

This is the thread for offtopic/non-serious posting in Opposing Ideologies. Such posts made anywhere in OI outside this thread will lead to punitive administrative action.

Board rules are in effect: zero tolerance will be shown to socially reactionary or discriminatory comments.

RedAnarchist

12th March 2010, 01:36

I believe this would the comment commonly known as "FIRST"? :p

Robert

12th March 2010, 02:53

Todavia no entiendo tu problema con la "etiqueta" post...

Post-objectivism (http://www.anonym.to/?http://folk.uio.no/thomas/po/post-objectivism.html)
Post-metal (http://www.anonym.to/?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-metal)
Post-apocalypse (http://www.anonym.to/?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-apocalypse)
Postmodernism (http://www.anonym.to/?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern)
Post-punk (http://www.anonym.to/?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postpunk)
Post-anarchism (http://www.anonym.to/?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-anarchism)
Post-humanism (http://www.anonym.to/?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posthumanism)
Post-Marxism (http://www.anonym.to/?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Marxism)
Post-capitalism (http://www.anonym.to/?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-capitalism)

Es necessario que continue? Ya no me importa, carnal. Me destrozaste el wa para siempre con ese desfile de horrores.

Havet

12th March 2010, 11:04

Ya no me importa, carnal. Me destrozaste el wa para siempre con ese desfile de horrores.

hahaha

RaÃºl Duke

12th March 2010, 16:36

:lol:

Havet

12th March 2010, 18:03

And let's not forget!

Post-scarcity! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-scarcity)

Ele'ill

12th March 2010, 18:58

592_r4MIkpY

Bud Struggle

12th March 2010, 21:14

Now here's a GREAT song about Capitalism and Entrepreneurship. Focus less on the babe and "love" angle and think that he's singing about the Jag and making money.

Lonely street of dreams, indeed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3MXiTeH_Pg

[Edit] Lots of guys in Jags and Bentleys and Benz's singing along to this one when it comes on the radio. :D

Bud Struggle

13th March 2010, 19:27

Some questions.

Where can I find out who Marsella is? So seems to quite the mystery vamp of RevLeft. Pretty cool is she was whore.

Where's Apathy Maybe? He was quite the Anarchist in the day.

How 'bout Dros? Miss him, too.

#FF0000

14th March 2010, 14:46

Some questions.

Where can I find out who Marsella is? So seems to quite the mystery vamp of RevLeft. Pretty cool is she was whore.

Marsella was a user that got banned awhile back but keeps making sockpuppets. btw I don't think she was the user whore, because Marsella tends to make really, really excellent, in-depth posts, which whore didn't really do.

Where's Apathy Maybe? He was quite the Anarchist in the day.

Left for some reason.

How 'bout Dros? Miss him, too.

idk

Robert

14th March 2010, 15:39

Marsella tends to make really, really excellent, in-depth posts

STOP CALLING ME MARSELLA OR I'M GOING TO JAZZRATT. I MEAN IT.

Damn.

Jazzratt

14th March 2010, 15:45

When I read that at first I read "Jazzratt" as a verb. I think it's funnier that way.

Bud Struggle

14th March 2010, 19:49

Pay for my ticket to Amerikkka and give me some spending money, and you can find out yourself.

Well I'm a fan! Maybe I will. ;) Please keep me informed of your exploits. You're kind of like Zorro, or Jack Sparrow!

Will they let you be (just) restricted? Or you on their shit list forever?

Jazzratt

14th March 2010, 21:05

Well I'm a fan! Maybe I will. ;) Please keep me informed of your exploits. You're kind of like Zorro, or Jack Sparrow!

Will they let you be (just) restricted? Or you on their shit list forever?

Oh for fuck's sake. :rolleyes:

Bud Struggle

14th March 2010, 21:10

Oh for fuck's sake. :rolleyes:

The trouble with you Commies is that you aren't Romantics. :D

Jazzratt

14th March 2010, 21:51

The trouble with you Commies is that you aren't Romantics. :D

I can't think of anything less "romantic" than Marsella's struggle against this site having been banned for years. It's pathetic, more than anything.

Bud Struggle

14th March 2010, 22:15

I can't think of anything less "romantic" than Samara's struggle against this site having been banned for years. It's pathetic, more than anything.

Well, I don't actually know the story. And I certainly wasn't around when the story really happened, but I just see it as a lone Communist bucking the RevLeft establisnment.

Again--I'm romanticizing. But part of being a member of the Bourgeoise is being a Laughing Cavalier.

http://www.oceansbridge.com/paintings/artists/h/hals_frans/oil-big/the_laughing_cavalier_1624_XX_wallace_collection_l ondon.jpg

One of the more interesting things I've found here on RevLeft isn't the differences of opinion of Cappies and Commies on Economics or Politics, but it's the actual worldview about what life really means and how it should be lived. What's fair and unfair or what is good and what is bad or what is funny or what is tragic. There's a real human dimension to what goes on here in OI that is really pretty dynamic and in a lot of ways productive if on wants to see the true diversity of the human understanding of what it means to be alive.

It's why I hang around. :)

RaÃºl Duke

15th March 2010, 01:30

:lol:

Ele'ill

15th March 2010, 15:18

Anyone on here live near I-80 (anywhere)?

Ele'ill

15th March 2010, 15:28

1CR5139AXnE

Ele'ill

15th March 2010, 16:31

http://submedia.tv/

the latest one is pretty good :thumbup1:

Ele'ill

16th March 2010, 00:58

We should have a revleft LAN party and cook-out. I think it would be really fun.

Havet

16th March 2010, 01:00

We should have a revleft LAN party and cook-out. I think it would be really fun.

Totally. I can't wait to see a che-guevara modded pc...:rolleyes:

Bud Struggle

16th March 2010, 01:03

Totally. I can't wait to see a che-guevara modded pc...:rolleyes:

I bet if RevLeft had ra REAL cook out there still would be Mods. :D

Ele'ill

16th March 2010, 01:14

It would be a really great get-together and us OI'ers would have our own table. It would be the adult sized table while the rest of the party goers get the tiny snap together plastic tables with the funky colors.

Lord Testicles

16th March 2010, 01:14

Someone has pointed out that opposing ideologies should be renamed Lulz'R Us, I agree.

Havet

16th March 2010, 01:27

http://www.icanhasmotivation.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/lulz.jpg

Ele'ill

16th March 2010, 01:28

Someone has pointed out that opposing ideologies should be renamed Lulz'R Us, I agree.

Agreeing is one thing non OIers on this site are REALLY comfortable with.
(:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:)

Bud Struggle

16th March 2010, 02:07

Agreeing is one thing non OIers on this site are REALLY comfortable with.
(:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:)

Revlefters (non OI) are always agreeing with one another. I guess it's the way Communists assure one another

Lord Testicles

16th March 2010, 02:12

Revlefters (non OI) are always agreeing with one another. I guess it's the way Communists assure one another

Yeah, the admins and mods have trouble stopping the trots and the stalinists agreeing, infact theory is full of threads like "Stalin and Trotsky: the best of buddies" or "Makhno and Lenin: Good times."

Sentinel

16th March 2010, 02:13

Revlefters (non OI) are always agreeing with one another.

And here I was thinking we couldn't even agree on the colour of shit. It's good to see that we give the image outwards of being an 'united front'.

(Yeah, I'm pretty sure you weren't serious)

Bud Struggle

16th March 2010, 02:19

(Yeah, I'm pretty sure you weren't serious):thumbup:

Robert

16th March 2010, 03:55

A corruption of “LOL” or “laugh out loud,” “lulz” means the joy of disrupting another’s emotional equilibrium.

I do not like this word. It makes me think of Hayenmill's heart, soaring like a hawk as he relentlessly assaults what is left of my wa.

Havet

16th March 2010, 10:49

Bud Struggle

16th March 2010, 12:57

Robert

16th March 2010, 14:18

hahahaha, will you give it a rest with your wa?

You mean you want to make a deal?

Ele'ill

16th March 2010, 14:37

It's good to see that we give the image outwards of being an 'united front'.

A united front of revolutionary self congradulatory direct action.

Robert

16th March 2010, 14:59

From what I've seen, they all hate Ayn Rand, the Libertarians, and Ludwig von Mises.

That's something to fight against collectively, I reckon: A Triumvirate of Evil.

I can't quite see the difference between their stateless society and the Libertarian (?) An-cap society, except that the former won't allow capital, and they will enforce this prohibition with local, democratically-elected, worker councils.

I'm not sure what they are going to do if one of the democratically elected council members stands up and says "let's talk about this 'money' thingy again like they had in the old days, shall we?"

Havet

16th March 2010, 19:06

You mean you want to make a deal?

Depends, what do you want?

Bud Struggle

16th March 2010, 21:32

You know what we ought to do? Forget this Communism stuff and start our own branch of Scientology. Maybe Social-Scientology. We do the same stuff as the real religion--we just have a more Socialistic view and better yet we collect and split the cash from those pius people willing to believe.

Why should any religion have a monopoly on a religion? I think there gunna be big bucks in it for us all. :thumbup1:

Who's in?

Let's get some of these and make them start earning us some money:

http://religioncompass.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/761px-scientology_e_meter_blue.jpg

A also vote we give all the money we make to the Goddess Marsella. :)

Havet

16th March 2010, 21:49

I'm only messing with Scientology once I have a stronger legal team. For precaution, you know...

Havet

16th March 2010, 23:10

THIS fucking OWNS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oD3pbOBP50

Bud Struggle

16th March 2010, 23:13

He's good--but take it from a guy who's played in bands for years this drummer is better:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsrxYKm1htY

Havet

16th March 2010, 23:16

He's good--but take it from a guy who's played in bands for years this drummer is better:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsrxYKm1htY

lmfao xD :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

Robert

17th March 2010, 00:19

When I do a google search for revleft (I didn't realize I was typing in the search engine space), I get this of all things:

RevLeft (http://www.revleft.com/vb/../../)

- 111 visits - Mar 15Welcome to revleft.com, one of the world's largest leftist forum communities where over 10000 leftists from around the world come to discuss politics, ...
www.revleft.com/ - Cached (http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:-XPY2cggd-sJ:www.revleft.com/+revleft&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a) - Similar (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=PtL&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=related:www.revleft.com/+revleft&sa=X&ei=EBGgS5mrGo-Ytgf3lIT9DQ&ved=0CAkQHzAA)
Anti-Fascism (http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.revleft.com/vb/anti-fascism-f42/index.html&ei=EBGgS5mrGo-Ytgf3lIT9DQ&sa=X&oi=smap&resnum=1&ct=result&cd=1&ved=0CAoQqwMoADAA&usg=AFQjCNEEt0iKuhr4WKb72ltIIK4RlqebBw)
Your CP (http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.revleft.com/vb/usercp.php&ei=EBGgS5mrGo-Ytgf3lIT9DQ&sa=X&oi=smap&resnum=1&ct=result&cd=2&ved=0CAsQqwMoATAA&usg=AFQjCNHG9GQLKCQ7G68sG4TTWofpIOk-hQ)
Join RevLeft today (http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.revleft.com/vb/register.php&ei=EBGgS5mrGo-Ytgf3lIT9DQ&sa=X&oi=smap&resnum=1&ct=result&cd=3&ved=0CAwQqwMoAjAA&usg=AFQjCNEgPQLaJk6fajY7sMjIn5L8XGfIRg)
Language study group (http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.revleft.com/vb/group.php%3Fgroupid%3D71&ei=EBGgS5mrGo-Ytgf3lIT9DQ&sa=X&oi=smap&resnum=1&ct=result&cd=4&ved=0CA0QqwMoAzAA&usg=AFQjCNHN_U0NR1wQgHwWnbGT7sxmiCF2uw)
Jazzratt (http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.revleft.com/vb/member.php%3Fu%3D12069&ei=EBGgS5mrGo-Ytgf3lIT9DQ&sa=X&oi=smap&resnum=1&ct=result&cd=5&ved=0CA4QqwMoBDAA&usg=AFQjCNHESg20pYBrMPhf4dcMJHvbdPfMSA)
Radio (http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.revleft.com/vb/radio.php%3Fname%3Dradio&ei=EBGgS5mrGo-Ytgf3lIT9DQ&sa=X&oi=smap&resnum=1&ct=result&cd=6&ved=0CA8QqwMoBTAA&usg=AFQjCNH3q1OQsXIUXL9hxW5KJuMwE-BaSQ)
Hoxhaists (http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.revleft.com/vb/group.php%3Fgroupid%3D7&ei=EBGgS5mrGo-Ytgf3lIT9DQ&sa=X&oi=smap&resnum=1&ct=result&cd=7&ved=0CBAQqwMoBjAA&usg=AFQjCNFLRYEFkfd3YS7CDVaBh7ILyfPwGA)
Articles (http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.revleft.com/vb/revleft-articles-f30/index.html%3Ff%3D30&ei=EBGgS5mrGo-Ytgf3lIT9DQ&sa=X&oi=smap&resnum=1&ct=result&cd=8&ved=0CBEQqwMoBzAA&usg=AFQjCNE1ZUYncgpFUVdo2brgMApeYWT82Q)
More results from revleft.com » (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=PtL&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=+site:revleft.com+revleft&ei=EBGgS5mrGo-Ytgf3lIT9DQ&sa=X&oi=smap&resnum=1&ct=more-results&ved=0CBIQrAM)

Anybody notice anything ... surprising there? :lol:

Robert

17th March 2010, 02:45

Anybody know the song that the tractor group's playing? Bet I'm the only one here who's performed it live. (Or dead?:lol:) It's from 1925!

Hey, what do you call that music that Venetian Snares video?

Pirate turtle the 11th

17th March 2010, 09:26

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtU7ERJ3cTw&feature=related

Havet

17th March 2010, 13:53

Hey, what do you call that music that Venetian Snares video?

What do you mean? The name of the song is Gentleman, if that's what you're asking.

Bud Struggle

17th March 2010, 15:21

HtU7ERJ3cTw

They are doing a movie about BobKKKindles? :D

Anybody know the song that the tractor group's playing? Bet I'm the only one here who's performed it live. (Or dead?:lol:) It's from 1925!
Sweet Georgia Brown. ;) :D

Robert

17th March 2010, 15:46

The name of the song is Gentleman, if that's what you're asking.

No, I meant what is the genre.

Havet

17th March 2010, 17:05

No, I meant what is the genre.

Oh. It's breakcore (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakcore). It's somewhat similar to IDM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Dance_Music) as well.

Robert

18th March 2010, 06:28

Yeah, well that drummer is great. The music is pretty convincing, too, though I'm not sure of what exactly I am now completely convinced.:lol:

It's a lot better than that apocalyptic post rock stuff you guys posted last week. Post. Damn, now you got me sayin' it. Next thing you know, I'll be wearing bell bottom jeans and flowered shirts and protesting the Vietnam War.

You think they'll unrestrict me?

Bud Struggle

18th March 2010, 18:07

It's a lot better than that apocalyptic post rock stuff you guys posted last week. Post. Damn, now you got me sayin' it. Next thing you know, I'll be wearing bell bottom jeans and flowered shirts and protesting the Vietnam War.

You think they'll unrestrict me?

Robert--is that you?

http://blogs.nashvillescene.com/pitw/2004798186927324063_rs.jpg

Bud Struggle

18th March 2010, 19:32

MY hero:

http://www.theradreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/donald-trump-and-wife.jpg

Robert

18th March 2010, 20:56

Robert--is that you?

I am SO busted, man. :cool:

Bud Struggle

19th March 2010, 00:00

Good Soviet daughter plays cello in this Communist song at school:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8tBz8Z8Vrk&feature=fvw

Skooma Addict

19th March 2010, 17:36

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq7LXn4KSrM

Havet

19th March 2010, 18:26

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq7LXn4KSrM

Old, but still a classic :)

mollymae

19th March 2010, 20:01

Bananas... the atheists nightmare :scared:

Qwerty Dvorak

20th March 2010, 05:58

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjVuMX7GSSk

Havet

20th March 2010, 21:07

Current favourite post-rock song + videoclip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_P00lvNiOU

Saoirse Ronan kicks ass ^^

Robert

20th March 2010, 21:16

She's too young for you.

Havet

21st March 2010, 00:47

She's too young for you.

There's nothing wrong with having a crush :blushing:

Besides, isn't a person with 16yo of age?

mollymae

21st March 2010, 08:25

Besides, isn't a person with 16yo of age?

Here in Washington they are. Not sure about everywhere else.

Reminds me of this thing I heard on the radio today about sex offenders. They interviewed this guy who had a sexual relationship with his 15 year old girlfriend when he was 18, and therefore is a registered sex offender, and it's damn near impossible for him to get a job and everything. That's BS if you ask me. :glare:

danyboy27

21st March 2010, 15:40

Here in Washington they are. Not sure about everywhere else.

Reminds me of this thing I heard on the radio today about sex offenders. They interviewed this guy who had a sexual relationship with his 15 year old girlfriend when he was 18, and therefore is a registered sex offender, and it's damn near impossible for him to get a job and everything. That's BS if you ask me. :glare:

depend, was he in a position of authority toward her?

mollymae

21st March 2010, 16:42

Nope, they were just a high school couple, and everything they did was consensual.

I'm sure someone will argue that a 15 year old cannot consent to sex, but wherever you stand on that, you still have to admit that there's a huge difference between this 18 year old having a sexual relationship with a 15 year old, and a true rapist or a creepy pedophile sitting outside of a school or something.

Che a chara

21st March 2010, 16:52

Robert

21st March 2010, 16:55

Robert

21st March 2010, 17:41

sorry, double post.

mollymae

21st March 2010, 18:02

I don't want to sound controversial, but young teenage girls (13-17) are impressionable and are easily swayed by emotion and affection and it's not beyond the realms of possibility that 18+ year old men know this and would be willing to take advantage of that fact. Either way, for me it's creepy and wrong for a person of 16 and under to be in a relationship with an 18+ year old. But that's just me. I'd even go to saying that anyone under the age of 18 shouldn't be in a relationship with anyone over the age of 18.

So 16 and 17 year old teenagers can have sex with each other, but when one of them turns 18 its suddenly not okay? :rolleyes:

Eh, I disagree with that. These are all broad generalizations, but 16 is about the age where people are conscious of their decisions. Even if they make the wrong decisions, they can realize where they went wrong and take responsibility for it. I think 16-19 year olds have a similar level of maturity, so any relationship within this realm shouldn't be considered too "out there".

*shrug* it just depends on the individuals, I guess.

Che a chara

21st March 2010, 18:34

Eh, I disagree with that. These are all broad generalizations, but 16 is about the age where people are conscious of their decisions. Even if they make the wrong decisions, they can realize where they went wrong and take responsibility for it. I think 16-19 year olds have a similar level of maturity, so any relationship within this realm shouldn't be considered too "out there".

*shrug* it just depends on the individuals, I guess.

I don't really subscribe that a 16 year old has the same level of maturity to have the same judgement as someone of 18-19. In some countries 16 year olds are still classified as children and are treated as children, so I just can't see how they would have the same experiences or education in life to make certain 'conscious' judgements, especially one that may involve an 18 year old who might have influenced that person's decision.

So 16 and 17 year old teenagers can have sex with each other, but when one of them turns 18 its suddenly not okay

I see where you're coming from here. But I feel there needs to be boundaries and limits set.

Say a 15 year old who is 16 next week and engages in a relationship with an 18 year old, would that be ok ?

(we might have to start a separate thread on this :p)

mollymae

21st March 2010, 18:57

Well, we could recite "what ifs" ad nauseum. My whole point is that although there should be boundaries, the boundaries should be more fluid because it all depends on the individuals.

gorillafuck

21st March 2010, 20:14

I'd even go to saying that anyone under the age of 18 shouldn't be in a relationship with anyone over the age of 18.
That's absolutely ridiculous.

And just because 14-18 year old girls are easily swayed by affection doesn't mean they're not capable of being mentally mature enough to have sex. "Easily swayed by affection" and "uninformed about safe sex" are two entirely different things.

(By the way, the age of consent in the majority of states in the US is 16)

Havet

21st March 2010, 20:53

In the USA, it varies from 16-18, the majority sets it at 16. 18 in Oregon, which surprises me a little. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_North_America#Oklahoma

In the UK, it's 16. The age of consent in England and Wales (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England_and_Wales) is 16, as specified by the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_Offences_Act_2003) (section 9) (http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2003/ukpga_20030042_en_2#pt1-pb5-l1g9). However it is illegal for a person to engage in sexual activity with an individual under the age of 18 if they are in a position of trust in relation to that individual (teacher, warder, carer, guardian, etc)

In Spain, it's still 13. In Mexico, it's as low as 12.

Looks like Hayenmill's off the hook legally. But I detect sheepishness on his part. So deep down he knows she's too young for him. (I should charge for all this psychiatric advice.:lol:)

The girl needs a more sensitive and mature individual to bring her along... someone like ... oh, I don't know.;)

on edit, looks like it's 17 in Ireland. This girl's Irish.

Dammit, when the hell did this conversation degenerate into sex?!!

Jesus, I only find the girl cute, and a good actress.

Che a chara

21st March 2010, 21:34

That's absolutely ridiculous.

And just because 14-18 year old girls are easily swayed by affection doesn't mean they're not capable of being mentally mature enough to have sex. "Easily swayed by affection" and "uninformed about safe sex" are two entirely different things.

(By the way, the age of consent in the majority of states in the US is 16)

having an opinion is 'absolutely ridiculous' !??

If we're not going to show some sort of boundary or approach that tackles an issue that could well be paedophilia or someone taking advantage of someone then let's drop the age consent rule altogether :rolleyes:

I don't know about you but I take such an issue seriously and I would hope that there is law in place that prohibits anyone vulnerable being a victim of any abuse of trust or being taking advantage of. A message needs to be sent out that this sort of behaviour will not be tolerated and i think that this 'borderline ok' mentality is dodgy.

gorillafuck

21st March 2010, 21:44

Thinking a 17 year old shouldn't be allowed to have sex with a 19 year old is absolutely ridiculous in my opinion, yes.

Che a chara

21st March 2010, 21:54

Thinking a 17 year old shouldn't be allowed to have sex with a 19 year old is absolutely ridiculous in my opinion, yes.

well as i say, it's a shady area that's dodgy. If there's no tough legislation, who's to say that there wont be those who take advantage of it or go a step further ?

gorillafuck

21st March 2010, 21:59

well as i say, it's a shady area that's dodgy. If there's no tough legislation, who's to say that there wont be those who take advantage of it or go a step further ?
Take advantage of it? A 17 year old person is mature enough to have sex. Your logic behind making it illegal is that some people might get into relationships thinking only about sex while their partner think it's something more meaningful. In other words, you want it to be a criminal offense to have a purely sexual motive going into a relationship because it might end up hurting someones feelings.

Che a chara

21st March 2010, 22:05

I'll start a new thread on this

Bud Struggle

21st March 2010, 22:12

There's a line in this video where Clarkson is talking about you Commies--he doesn't name you specificly, but I KNOW he is talking about you guys. :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8YZzGaprtA&feature=related

(Hint: when he parks the car on the street.)

Havet

21st March 2010, 22:20

Havet

21st March 2010, 23:16

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuF5HVZKSBM

Pretty interesting video.

Robert

22nd March 2010, 00:05

It makes me nervous when he drives that car on the left side of the road, especially going around a blind curve.

Isn't he worried there's an American coming the opposite way?

"People spit in it." :lol: Not THIS cappie!.

Bud Struggle

22nd March 2010, 00:06

Havet

22nd March 2010, 00:10

Why is it always me, Robert and Bud who end up talking in Chit Chat ? :lol:

Bud Struggle

22nd March 2010, 00:13

Why is it always me, Robert and Bud who end up talking in Chit Chat ? :lol:

We're sexy.

(And Commies have no personalities. You can't win a Revolution if you can't even get a date.)

Havet

22nd March 2010, 00:17

( You can't win a Revolution if you can't even get a date.)

Blast it!

Robert

22nd March 2010, 01:02

Sexy ... yeah, that's me!

On an unrelated note, I just discovered that there is a cooking social group on revleft! http://www.revleft.com/vb/group.php?groupid=56

If some moderator happens to float in here, please tell me how I can join that social group without becoming unrestricted. I am highly agitated that I cannot get in on it. I will consider singing L'Internationale wearing a beret and post it on youtube if you get me in there.

Jazzratt, you've got major stroke around here and you should find a way to get me in there. You owe me for telling you how to make fish and chips a while back. (I think that's the way it went down, more or less. Right? Pal 'o mine? Hello? Operator???)

Bud Struggle

22nd March 2010, 02:38

Robert

22nd March 2010, 04:30

We should stage a cou-- oops, I almost said "coup," but that sounds fascist. I could say "putsch" but ... that sounds worse!

Oh well, we can always exchange recipes on reactionary chatter. The fish and chips recipe I sent jazzratt called for dredging the fish in "reactionary chatter batter."

Isn't that adorable?:lol:

mollymae

22nd March 2010, 06:40

Hey guys, just for fun: best and worst presidents of your lifetime.

I was born in may 1992, so for best I have to choose between Clinton and George Bush Sr. :| But I'm kind of ignorant of the latter so I'm not sure.

Worst would definitely be George W. Bush.

IcarusAngel

22nd March 2010, 06:51

I was born during the evil "Reagan years" which proved deregulation to be a failure (once again). Reagan also engaged in funding military dictatorships all around Latin America, which killed hundreds of thousands directly and millions indirectly. He also supported Suharto, and even aided Pol Pot. His policies are why we're in the mess we're in.

Bush I had the first Gulf War, which was a huge lie as well and had nothing to do with Kuwaiti democracy. Clinton's wars were a tad different, but at least he got Indonesia out of East Timor.

Worst Reagan.

Best: none; can't really say.

Robert

22nd March 2010, 13:52

Doing my part to have chatter remain chatter, I decline to participate in the poll.

Plus, we are dealing from different decks of cards politically, so the left and the right here won't even agree on what makes a good or bad president.

Havet

23rd March 2010, 00:32

Sigh...another lonely night at OI...

Robert

23rd March 2010, 11:22

The few comrades who do deign to wander in here can't refrain from citing Marx or bashing the Miseans, Ronald Reagan or Margaret Thatcher anyway, so we'll have to just make this our own little corner of OI. Like a few old blue-haired ladies meeting for tea and biscuits in the sunroom, discussing ... whatever it is blue-haired ladies discuss in the sunroom. Their dogs, I suppose.

I have two dogs. They're called Ronnie and Maggie.:lol: Not really.

I did make baked artichokes for dinner, however. Yes, baked. Not steamed. Really good.

Bud Struggle

23rd March 2010, 13:11

I did make baked artichokes for dinner, however. Yes, baked. Not steamed. Really good.

Sounds good. So how did you do that? How long did you cook them?

Last night we had this:

Catalan Chicken

1kg firm beef tomatoes
4 tbsp olive oil
1 small chicken, jointed, or 4-6 joints such as breasts and legs
1 large onion, halved and sliced
2-3 garlic cloves, chopped
1 red pepper, deseeded and sliced
150ml dry sherry
6-8 strands saffron, soaked in 2 tsp boiling water
1-2 bay leaves
1 short stick cinnamon
Salt and freshly ground pepper

To finish
1 tbsp paprika
1 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp fresh breadcrumbs
1 tbsp chopped almonds

Halve the tomatoes, discarding the seeds.
With the curved side in your palm, grate the flesh on a coarse grater; stop before you reach the tomatoes' skin.
Heat the oil in a heavy pan on a medium heat. Fry the chicken for about 10 minutes until golden. Remove and reserve. In the fat that remains in the pan, fry the onion, garlic and pepper until golden. Add the tomato pulp, sherry and saffron with its water, and bring to a simmer. Cook for 10-15 minutes to evaporate excess liquid - you want a fairly thick sauce at this stage. Return the chicken to the pan with the bay leaves, cinnamon and seasoning. Bring to a simmer, cover loosely and cook for about 30 minutes until the chicken is tender and the sauce thick and jammy.
Meanwhile, to finish, heat 1 tbsp oil over a medium-high heat and fry the breadcrumbs and almonds until golden. Stir in the paprika and tip over the chicken just before serving.
The best part is that as a rich Bourgeoise is that it cost me $.07 per serving so the whole dinner for four cost under $.50. If I were a poor Proletarian we would have gone out to Burger King and dinner for four would have been $30. Being a Bourgeoise does have its perks. :D

Robert

23rd March 2010, 13:38

Heavens, that Catalan chicken sounds good. I'm going to try it. For true. They don't exactly give away saffron, though, right? $9.79/gram! http://www.thespicehouse.com/spices/coupe-grade-spanish-saffron

Allow me to share my Moroccan chicken recipe after I try your Catalan.

The artichokes came in a sealed plastic bag at Target with a recipe for steaming and a recipe for baking. To bake, you have to spread out the leaves (press them nose down on the counter first, and maybe slice off top1/2 inch with serrated knife), then pour fresh lemon juice and a Tbsp of olive oil right down in there so that they both drizzle down to the heart. Also chop some garlic (1 clove each, at least, but you can put 10 and it won't hurt anything). Add a little broth if you want; I did not.

Sprinkle with sea salt and wrap tightly in aluminum foil. Bake at 425 for 45-70 minutes depending on size. The garlic was tasty, but a bit of a chore to get it to go down into the leaves. Maybe mince it and mix with the olive oil & lemon juice next time to help it penetrate down. (My cooking is like my politics ... off the cuff!:lol:)

I added bread crumbs before sealing. Next time I'll add a half tbsp of wooshishshushshishshistashire sauce too.

Happy cooking.

Bud Struggle

23rd March 2010, 19:00

Heavens, that Catalan chicken sounds good. I'm going to try it. For true. They don't exactly give away saffron, though, right? $9.79/gram! http://www.thespicehouse.com/spices/coupe-grade-spanish-saffron

Robert, WE (we rich Capitalists) don't buy saffron--let me let you in on a Bourgeoise secret (Commies avert you eyes!) I buy Annato Seed Achiote from Badia. It cost $.79 a packet and if you follow the directions it works and looks and tastes EXACTLY like saffron. Let the Commies buy saffron, and let the rich stay rich! :D

Allow me to share my Moroccan chicken recipe after I try your Catalan. Excelente!

The artichokes came in a sealed plastic bag at Target with a recipe for steaming and a recipe for baking. To bake, you have to spread out the leaves (press them nose down on the counter first, and maybe slice off top1/2 inch with serrated knife), then pour fresh lemon juice and a Tbsp of olive oil right down in there so that they both drizzle down to the heart. Also chop some garlic (1 clove each, at least, but you can put 10 and it won't hurt anything). Add a little broth if you want; I did not.

Sprinkle with sea salt and wrap tightly in aluminum foil. Bake at 425 for 45-70 minutes depending on size. The garlic was tasty, but a bit of a chore to get it to go down into the leaves. Maybe mince it and mix with the olive oil & lemon juice next time to help it penetrate down. (My cooking is like my politics ... off the cuff!:lol:)

I added bread crumbs before sealing. Next time I'll add a half tbsp of wooshishshushshishshistashire sauce too.

Happy cooking.

I'll definitely try it. That might sound pretty good on the grill too.

And later I'll share my father in law's recipe for artichokes. (A poor Italian raised in the depression that made a fortune building a small chain of Italian restaruants in Connecticut--of course such an accomplishment is a TOTAL ABERRATION.) :D

Bud Struggle

28th March 2010, 23:51

Sarah to Putin--"Not on my watch!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MJCvHMtwE4&feature=fvw

Qwerty Dvorak

29th March 2010, 22:07

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAsV5-Hv-7U

Che a chara

30th March 2010, 18:51

It looks like it's our fuhrers birthday. Have a good one chap

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d67/RuthieSmooshie/CommunistPartycopy.jpg

Bud Struggle

31st March 2010, 01:14

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rk78eCIx4E"Russians"

In Europe and America, there's a growing feeling of hysteria
Conditioned to respond to all the threats
In the rhetorical speeches of the Soviets
Mr. Krushchev said we will bury you
I don't subscribe to this point of view
It would be such an ignorant thing to do
If the Russians love their children too

How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toy
There is no monopoly in common sense
On either side of the political fence
We share the same biology
Regardless of ideology
Believe me when I say to you
I hope the Russians love their children too

There is no historical precedent
To put the words in the mouth of the President
There's no such thing as a winnable war
It's a lie that we don't believe anymore
Mr. Reagan says we will protect you
I don't subscribe to this point of view
Believe me when I say to you
I hope the Russians love their children too

We share the same biology
Regardless of ideology
What might save us, me, and you
Is if the Russians love their children too

Kingpin

31st March 2010, 02:36

Ele'ill

31st March 2010, 03:47

Tips?

What do you do when non-communist girls want to hang out with you?

When the inevitable questions about politics, what do you think about Obama, whose side you are on, etc.

A really hot republican girl just asked me to "accompany" her to a festival. :p

I wouldn't date a teapartier or a neo nazi but I see nothing wrong with getting to know someone who is as relatively moderate as a Republicrat.

Your purpose in life is to learn and grow and you don't accomplish this by closing yourself off. Be a sponge!

#FF0000

31st March 2010, 06:34

I'm going to hug Jeff Tweedy in little more than 16 hours.

RaÃºl Duke

31st March 2010, 06:40

Tips?

What do you do when non-communist girls want to hang out with you?

When the inevitable questions about politics, what do you think about Obama, whose side you are on, etc.

A really hot republican girl just asked me to "accompany" her to a festival. :p

This an issue?

I don't know how I could put my tip/actions into words but I somewhat deal with this easily.

Kingpin

31st March 2010, 21:38

Guess I need to move.

Lots of girls here will only hook up with you if you share their political beliefs.

Lots of fundamentalists.

Havet

31st March 2010, 21:40

Guess I need to move.

Lots of girls here will only hook up with you if you share their political beliefs.

Lots of fundamentalists.

Just be honest. Best advice I would give you.

Havet

31st March 2010, 22:03

For anyone who played Portal, this is a must see:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m5TuxdkfkE

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

Qwerty Dvorak

31st March 2010, 23:04

Bud Struggle

1st April 2010, 19:56

"Shut up and fuck me"

My office at work:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/MercutioTomK/88303454gRdcBn8mrevolution04.jpg

Morgenstern

1st April 2010, 20:08

Guess I need to move.

Lots of girls here will only hook up with you if you share their political beliefs.

Lots of fundamentalists.

"I'm a communist because seeing you stirred a revolution in my pants." :p

It's just dating, so if a girl wants to date you despite your beliefs go ahead. Not like you plan to marry her right? If you do it would be kind of humorous... and sad... :(

Bud Struggle

1st April 2010, 20:17

Our Admins:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_s_30zQFJp4g/STMtfWuYKtI/AAAAAAAALEI/IX5Kw5HBUus/s1600/Mysterians%2B(7c).jpg

Robert

2nd April 2010, 01:41

Turn those turbo bionic glass cones over, fill' em with tequila, and you're ready for a major par-tay.

On edit: you know what I just noticed? That third guy from the left appears to be the great Takashi Shimura, who played the lead samurai in my favorite movie of all time, The Seven Samurai.

http://www.timothyscottralston.com/iWeb/In%20Japan/Images/takashi_shimura.jpg

Havet

2nd April 2010, 14:44

BTW, this type of music pwns, and I think Bud and Robert might enjoy as well (no, it's not post-rock...:D)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feMJx8ldhbQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ4zObtAOuI

Tango meets electronic. Nice.

Robert

2nd April 2010, 19:09

You bet I like it. Elegance and class on the boardwalk.
Very skilled and harmonious dancers.

En una palabra: magnífico.

Bud Struggle

3rd April 2010, 17:26

Happy Easter all you Commies! :)

Skooma Addict

5th April 2010, 03:48

This is so great...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZczIgVXjg&feature=player_embedded#

Havet

5th April 2010, 11:32

Lol, is he high?

Havet

9th April 2010, 11:51

This kicks ass (drum and bass):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc-htp9Hw_s

Havet

9th April 2010, 11:59

And this (electronic):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XTSZ9TFk7A

Jazzratt

9th April 2010, 20:23

As you've no doubt noticed you guys can thank people now. Sing the praises of the glorious adminship.

Havet

9th April 2010, 20:58

As you've no doubt noticed you guys can thank people now. Sing the praises of the glorious adminship.

Thank you thank you thank you thank you

Though it wasn't that much of a big deal. One kind of gets used to not be able to say thanks, to not be able to give rep, to not be able to know who gave him rep, to not be able to join a group, to not be able to make a blog post, to not be able to resume discussions he/she started before he/she was restricted...

Jazzratt

9th April 2010, 21:29

Thank you thank you thank you thank you

Though it wasn't that much of a big deal. One kind of gets used to not be able to say thanks, to not be able to give rep, to not be able to know who gave him rep, to not be able to join a group, to not be able to make a blog post, to not be able to resume discussions he/she started before he/she was restricted...

Aye, I'm sure there is lots that's frustrating about being restricted. On the other hand we don't ban you outright (allegedly some sites do, I've never seen them but whenever someone calls for the shutting down of OI they mention them) and we're no longer allowed to arbitrarily edit your posts, signatures and user-titles for shits and giggles (to my eternal chagrin).

Left-Reasoning

9th April 2010, 22:22

Aye, I'm sure there is lots that's frustrating about being restricted.

Indeed. Especially when you aren't even sure why you were in the first place.

Bud Struggle

9th April 2010, 22:30

Indeed. Especially when you aren't even sure why you were in the first place.

Comrade: this is Communism! Confess your crimes and be happily executed. Hasn't thirty years of Stalin taught you anything? :blink:

Che a chara

10th April 2010, 04:58

I hope ALL can go through my previous posts and thank were necessary.

thanks in advance for the 180+ thanks ;):)

Ele'ill

10th April 2010, 19:51

I don't think it's frustrating being restricted. I love it!

Ele'ill

10th April 2010, 19:52

As you've no doubt noticed you guys can thank people now. Sing the praises of the glorious adminship.

I pushed for this a long time ago. Why all of a sudden?

Jazzratt

10th April 2010, 23:17

I pushed for this a long time ago. Why all of a sudden?

Because someone we give a rat's about suggested it ;)

Bud Struggle

11th April 2010, 00:23

Che a chara

11th April 2010, 01:44

Bud Struggle

11th April 2010, 02:03

Yeah you can, click on the post thanked in the 'Thread' column (user control panel) and it will link you to your thanked post, and below that post is the person/s who thanked you.

Yea, that's for the THANK. I'm talking about the REPUTATION log in your user CP. Sorry if I didn't make myself clear.

Che a chara

11th April 2010, 02:49

Yea, that's for the THANK. I'm talking about the REPUTATION log in your user CP. Sorry if I didn't make myself clear.

Right. :) I maybe wrong, but are they not the same thing ? you're rep is 306. does that mean you were overall plus repped/thanked 296 times (as we are started with +10) ??? not sure. hope someone can verify ?

Jazzratt

11th April 2010, 14:56

And thank again--how about one more thing?

Over here in OI when people give us a reputation point (for good or ill) the author of the point isn't shown. So we never know who it was who said what we wrote was wonderful or wishes we die in hell. We just get the point, a comment, and the location of the post being commented on. We never see who exactly make the comment.

Not that I care about the points--but I would like to be able to thank people that said something nice to me.

Thank you for your consideration.

I have literally no idea why this is the case. Perhaps it's a side-effect of not allowing you guys to add rep to people or something. I'll perhaps talk to a more technically inclined admin about it.

Right. :) I maybe wrong, but are they not the same thing ? you're rep is 306. does that mean you were overall plus repped/thanked 296 times (as we are started with +10) ??? not sure. hope someone can verify ?

No. He couldn't have been thanked that many times because we've only just been able to thank restricted members. Before that people will have given him positive rep, which modifies his rep score by the rep power, given that a number of members have a rep power in the low 20s to mid 30s means he'd have been positive repped a lot less.

LeftSideDown

11th April 2010, 22:30

Why does my reputation suck? Fix this! I demand equality with everyone here!

Havet

11th April 2010, 22:33

Why does my reputation suck? Fix this! I demand equality with everyone here!

Some are simply more equal than others. Deal with it :P

LeftSideDown

11th April 2010, 23:56

Some are simply more equal than others. Deal with it :P

But... I believe that all reputation should be tallied up and distributed out evenly to everybody! All this inequality (that is in no way related to merit) is going to oppress me and my fellow negative reppers until material conditions are right for me to overthrow this dictatorial reputation scheme and seize power for me and my fellow negative reppers in which we will control the means of reputation forever!

Havet

13th April 2010, 18:09

Fuck whoever it was that gave me negative reputation for a "bare assertion" pertaining this (http://www.revleft.com/vb/capitalism-without-monopolies-t132936/index.html?p=1718491#post1718491) post.

If my post was a bare assertion, then Icarus' was just as bare as mine. FUCK YOUR DOUBLE STANDARD.

[/rant]

Anyone tried rickrolling on chatroulette yet :D ?

IcarusAngel

13th April 2010, 18:42

Agreed as Stiglitz also made that remark about communism - although it was clear he was talking about state communism (i.e. state capitalism).

LeftSideDown is constantly making invalid claims without even citing source, not even Mises forums.

He has recently been attributing to "the founders" quotes they didn't even say: such as Jefferson opposing majority rule (which he favored) and the misattributed quote to Franklin about two wolves and a sheep.

"Liberty for the wolves is death for the lambs." (not franklin either, but that's the truth.)

There has to be liberty for all, which necessitates libertarian-socialism, or some democracy.

LeftSideDown

15th April 2010, 02:57

My reputation is sooooo low. And those quotes I got from a website, I didn't make them up. So yeah, sorry for that I guess.

UP MY REPUTATION. THIS WEBSITE IS SUPPOSED TO SUPPORT EQUALITY.

#FF0000

15th April 2010, 03:43

My reputation is sooooo low. And those quotes I got from a website, I didn't make them up. So yeah, sorry for that I guess.

UP MY REPUTATION. THIS WEBSITE IS SUPPOSED TO SUPPORT EQUALITY.

Oh you guy.

Bud Struggle

15th April 2010, 14:37

Commie wine! (A red wine, of course!)

http://www.laurelglen.com/laurelglen/catalog/view_product.jsp?product_id=1013&cat_id=1001

http://www.laurelglen.com/laurelglen/imageresolver?path=cms/images/Products/products/che07_200px.jpg

LeftSideDown

15th April 2010, 22:33

Oh you guy.

No, this is serious. What have I done. Bud Struggle has a positive rating? Is it because my points are hitting home and you all don't like it?

RedAnarchist

15th April 2010, 22:36

No, this is serious. What have I done. Bud Struggle has a positive rating? Is it because my points are hitting home and you all don't like it?

Maybe you should pay less attention to your rep?

Havet

15th April 2010, 22:43

Maybe you should pay less attention to your rep?

That's like saying to a worker:

"Maybe you should pay less attention to your exploitation?"

...

Or maybe not

Jazzratt

15th April 2010, 22:44

No, this is serious. What have I done. Bud Struggle has a positive rating? Is it because my points are hitting home and you all don't like it?

You'll also notice Bud has been here longer, has pretentions to "social democracy"* and isn't a bellend. You on the other hand have been here for fuck all time, have vastly different politics and are, I'm afraid to say, a bit of a bellend; your status as a bellend is further cemented by your sour grapes claim that we only don't like you because you're right. We don't. If we thought you were right you'd have a positive rep and I wouldn't be calling you a bellend.

*or at least his weird liberal-catholic version

LeftSideDown

15th April 2010, 23:23

Maybe you should pay less attention to your rep?

Maybe you should pay less attention to the revolution :laugh:!

Bud Struggle

15th April 2010, 23:36

No, this is serious. What have I done. Bud Struggle has a positive rating? Is it because my points are hitting home and you all don't like it?

Whoa!

I say what I want to say--F the ratings. I'm a businessman and a Catholic and a Social Democrat. I get plenty of "moron" or "I hope your family dies" comments. I got lots of nice ones, too. I say what I think is fair and honest nothing more or less. When I think Communism is right, I say so, when I think it's wrong, same thing. I think I have a decent reputation around here and I think I've earned it over thousands of posts.

I've been "hitting home" a long time before you got here Comrade.

LeftSideDown

16th April 2010, 00:23

Whoa!

I say what I want to say--F the ratings. I'm a businessman and a Catholic and a Social Democrat. I get plenty of "moron" or "I hope your family dies" comments. I got lots of nice ones, too. I say what I think is fair and honest nothing more or less. When I think Communism is right, I say so, when I think it's wrong, same thing. I think I have a decent reputation around here and I think I've earned it over thousands of posts.

I've been "hitting home" a long time before you got here Comrade.

Woah woah woah. Why should reputation have to be something you earn? The point of communism is to provide a basic standard of living even to those who cannot "earn" a living. Since I'm obviously deficient at earning reputation it should be given to me from the accumulated reputation of those already on the site!

RedAnarchist

16th April 2010, 00:25

Woah woah woah. Why should reputation have to be something you earn? The point of communism is to provide a basic standard of living even to those who cannot "earn" a living. Since I'm obviously deficient at earning reputation it should be given to me from the accumulated reputation of those already on the site!

I think you're placing too much value on it - too little or too much of it probably has less effect than if someone has a middle-of-the-road amount.

Jazzratt

16th April 2010, 00:26

Woah woah woah. Why should reputation have to be something you earn? The point of communism is to provide a basic standard of living even to those who cannot "earn" a living.

You don't live off rep-points do you, arsehole?

Since I'm obviously deficient at earning reputation it should be given to me from the accumulated reputation of those already on the site!

We get it. You've thought of a brand new and hilarious way to present a tired old strawman. We got it the first time you tried and failed to make the same point. Do you not think that's it's this sort of fuckwittery that got you the negative reputation in the first place?

Skooma Addict

16th April 2010, 00:38

You guys should make some kind of market where we can speculate on peoples reputation and whatnot. We can buy stocks and bonds and form trusts and whatnot. That would be pretty sweet.

As of now I would sell LeftSideDown and buy Bud Struggle.

We could also loan rep points. So lets say I loan LeftSide some points. Since it appears that the more bad rep you have, the more you are bound to get and vice versa, such a loan could pay off. So then I would be payed back with interest.

Bud Struggle

16th April 2010, 00:50

#FF0000

16th April 2010, 00:57

Buds is higher cause he is funny and every so often says some things that we like whereas a lot of the time I feel that you sometimes miss "the point", whatever that might be, completely and it's frustrating so people neg rep you.

LeftSideDown

16th April 2010, 01:37

#FF0000

16th April 2010, 01:45

Whats your point? :D

I didn't want to do it but you made me do it dsfafnjad

#FF0000

16th April 2010, 01:47

I gave out too much rep in the last 24 hours.

You dodged it this time, Leftside.

Jazzratt

16th April 2010, 01:49

You know in the admin forum you can read through all the rep given to any member. Reading restrictees rep comments is a comedy goldmine. Although I'm not sure if that's a productive use of admin powers.

#FF0000

16th April 2010, 01:49

You know in the admin forum you can read through all the rep given to any member. Reading restrictees rep comments is a comedy goldmine.

Copy paste please.

Jazzratt

16th April 2010, 01:55

Copy paste please.

To be fair most of it is one long list of various ways of saying "fuck you". One set of reps I did like was a resent tirade against leftside by about four different members where each one was a single word profanity apart from the last which was "unconstructive". I dunno, it's something about the sudden change in tone that made me smile.

Bud Struggle, by the way, hasn't had a single negative rep for ages.

Ele'ill

16th April 2010, 18:49

Drama Hooray

We should just get rid of rep points, personal messaging, usernames and only go by our avatars.

Havet

17th April 2010, 10:52

Drama Hooray

We should just get rid of rep points, personal messaging, usernames and only go by our avatars.

We could probably do away with most of the posts, as well...

Bud Struggle

18th April 2010, 22:29

So last night----

I play a open mike night on occasion at the local wine and cheese bar in my neighborhood, it's reasonable well heeled with a good smattering of Bourgeoise in attendance. And I played:

"I Never Did No Wandering" (from A Mighty Wind.--GREAT movie)

"The Snows They Melt the Soonist" (a Sting song--kind of a response of a really cute woman that HATES men singing songs she wrote like "You Made Me a Whore!")

"Poncho and Leftie" (getting there.)

And then for a finale "the Internationale". I sang it slow and deliberate and enunciated the words. I got a REALLY good response. A number of the the BMW (760)/Bentley/Quattroporte set there came up and asked me about the song and we discussed Radical politics a bit. I'm not selling anything, but I'm reasonable well known and I do think people value my opinion.

I'll do more songs of that ilk in the future. Hey, it's not storming the baracades but I have a little audience in my part of the world and I figure I just may get a point or two across to some people.

Any suggestions for other songs? (And it's just me and my guitar, with limited ability--and it should be a bit subtle--no FUCK THE RICH stuff. :D)

#FF0000

18th April 2010, 23:43

Any suggestions for other songs? (And it's just me and my guitar, with limited ability--and it should be a bit subtle--no FUCK THE RICH stuff. :D)

Don't think you could go wrong with some Woody Guthrie. For something more current, you can try some stuff from Tom Morello's sideproject, "The Nightwatchman". Don't know how easy they are on guitar, though.

Havet

18th April 2010, 23:52

Any suggestions for other songs? (And it's just me and my guitar, with limited ability--and it should be a bit subtle--no FUCK THE RICH stuff.

Try Radiohead - Electioneering, i'm sure you could find an acoustic version of the song.

Here's the original one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl-pXpXxK00

Here's an acoustic cover I just found on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tseyW227o5A

LeftSideDown

21st April 2010, 16:11

My reputation is so unduly low. I'm complaining. Lets fix this. Let the community take vote whether or not to give me more reputation! Here here!

#FF0000

21st April 2010, 17:28

Drace

22nd April 2010, 00:30

Any suggestions for other songs? (And it's just me and my guitar, with limited ability--and it should be a bit subtle--no FUCK THE RICH stuff. http://www.revleft.com/vb/../revleft/smilies/biggrin.gif) Buckethead is amazing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlAJd3k6OgU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7cmHh72-j0

Also...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ScFU0UxKWA

:P

gorillafuck

22nd April 2010, 04:08

My reputation is so unduly low. I'm complaining. Lets fix this. Let the community take vote whether or not to give me more reputation! Here here!
http://www.revleft.com/vb/showpost.php?p=1727746&postcount=2

I was totally going to positive rep that because it made me laugh but now I won't.

LeftSideDown

22nd April 2010, 04:36

http://www.revleft.com/vb/showpost.php?p=1727746&postcount=2

I was totally going to positive rep that because it made me laugh but now I won't.

Theres still a chance! Please! I'm impoverished.

Havet

22nd April 2010, 11:33

Theres still a chance! Please! I'm impoverished.

You're not using proper rethoric

Go read Atlas Shrugged and then come back.

Jazzratt

22nd April 2010, 12:22

If he can reproduce the money speech but change it to be about rep, I might think about giving positive :lol:

LeftSideDown

22nd April 2010, 16:54

If he can reproduce the money speech but change it to be about rep, I might think about giving positive :lol:

What money speech? In Atlas Shrugged? I've never read that book, and the most I've read of Rand is Fountainhead (didn't some parts of that novel just kill you? Jesus woman if you want to tell people what you believe write a manifesto but don't fill up pages of a novel with your dogma, amirite?)

#FF0000

22nd April 2010, 17:24

What money speech? In Atlas Shrugged? I've never read that book, and the most I've read of Rand is Fountainhead (didn't some parts of that novel just kill you? Jesus woman if you want to tell people what you believe write a manifesto but don't fill up pages of a novel with your dogma, amirite?)

We're still not unrestricting you.

gorillafuck

22nd April 2010, 18:40

Theres still a chance! Please! I'm impoverished.
Hmm, I see that you are.

I'll give you a couple rep points if you work in my dildo making factory.

Left-Reasoning

22nd April 2010, 20:35

What money speech? In Atlas Shrugged?

You've never read Fransisco's money speech?

You're quite an ignorant "an"cap, then. But I repeat myself.

Left-Reasoning

22nd April 2010, 20:36

I'll give you a couple rep points if you work in my dildo making factory.

Your factory? What do you mean by that? Do you work there?

gorillafuck

22nd April 2010, 22:17

Your factory? What do you mean by that? Do you work there?
I don't actually own a dildo factory.:p

Havet

22nd April 2010, 22:34

If he can reproduce the money speech but change it to be about rep, I might think about giving positive :lol:

GIVE ME THE REP!!!!!! Pleaaaaaaase!!!!

"So you think that rep is the root of all evil?" said Francisco d'Anconia. "Have you ever asked what is the root of rep? REPUTATION is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are good posts produced and men able to produce them. Reputation is the digital shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Reputation is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your posts by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Reputation is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?

"When you accept reputation in payment for your effort in posting, you do so only on the conviction that you will exchange it for the product of the effort of other's posts. It is not the moochers or the looters who give value to reputation. Not an ocean of tears not all the guns in the world can transform those pieces of digital display in your account into the forum attention you will need to survive tomorrow. Those digital signs, which should have been an objective value, are a token of honor--your claim upon the energy of the men who produce posts. Your rep bar is your statement of hope that somewhere in the world around you there are men who will not default on that moral principle which is the root of reputation, Is this what you consider evil?

"Have you ever looked for the root of production of posts? Take a look at hayenmill's posts and dare tell yourself that it was created by the muscular effort of unthinking brutes. Try to grow a pure logical post without the knowledge left to you by men who had to discover it for the first time. Try to obtain your reputation by means of nothing but physical motions--and you'll learn that man's mind is the root of all the good posts produced and of all the posts "wealth" that has ever existed on earth.

"But you say that reputation is made by the strong at the expense of the weak? What strength do you mean? It is not the strength of guns or muscles. postage wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. Then is reputation made by the man who invents a fallacy-free post at the expense of those who did not invent it? Is reputation made by the intelligent at the expense of the fools? By the able at the expense of the incompetent? By the ambitious at the expense of the lazy? Reputation is made--before it can be looted or mooched--made by the effort of every honest man, each to the extent of his ability. An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more Thanked Posts than he has produced in Thankfull Posts.'

"To trade by means of reputation is the code of the men of good will. Reputation rests on the axiom that every man is the owner of his mind and his effort. Reputation allows no power to prescribe the value of your effort except the voluntary choice of the man who is willing to trade you his effort in return. Reputation permits you to obtain for your good posts and your intellectual labor that which they are worth to the men who thank them, but no more. Reputation permits no deals except those to mutual benefit by the unforced judgment of the traders. Reputation demands of you the recognition that men must work for their own benefit, not for their own injury, for their gain, not their loss--the recognition that they are not beasts of burden, born to carry the weight of your misery--that you must offer them values, not wounds--that the common bond among men is not the exchange of suffering, but the exchange of good posts. Reputation demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason; it demands that you thank, not the shoddiest they offer, but the best that your reputation can find. And when men live by trade--with reason, not force, as their final arbiter--it is the best post that wins, the best performance, the man of best judgment and highest ability--and the degree of a man's productiveness of posts is the degree of his reward. This is the code of existence whose tool and symbol is reputation. Is this what you consider evil?

"But reputation is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. It will give you the means for the satisfaction of your desires, but it will not provide you with desires. Reputation is the scourge of the men who attempt to reverse the law of causality--the men who seek to replace the mind by seizing the products of the mind.

"Reputation will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants: reputation will not give him a code of values, if he's evaded the knowledge of what to value, and it will not provide him with a purpose, if he's evaded the choice of what to seek. Reputation will not buy intelligence for the fool, or admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent. The man who attempts to thank the brains of his superiors to serve him, with his reputation replacing his judgment, ends up by becoming the victim of his inferiors. The men of intelligence desert him, but the cheats and the frauds come flocking to him, drawn by a law which he has not discovered: that no man may be smaller than his reputation. Is this the reason why you call it evil?

"Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit reputation--the man who would make his own reputation bar grow no matter where he started. If an heir is equal to his reputation, it serves him; if not, it destroys him. But you look on and you cry that reputation corrupted him. Did it? Or did he corrupt his reputation? Do not envy a worthless heir; his reputation is not yours and you would have done no better with it. Do not think that it should have been distributed among you; loading the world with fifty parasites instead of one, would not bring back the dead virtue which was his reputation bar. Reputation is a living power that dies without its root. Reputation will not serve the mind that cannot match it. Is this the reason why you call it evil?

"REputation is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life. If the source is corrupt, you have damned your own existence. Did you get your reputation by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability to post deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing posts you despise for thankers you scorn? If so, then your reputation will not give you a moment's or a point's worth of joy. Then all the things you thank will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame. Then you'll scream that reputation is evil. Evil, because it would not pinch-hit for your self-respect? Evil, because it would not let you enjoy your depravity? Is this the root of your hatred of reputation?

"Reputation will always remain an effect and refuse to replace you as the cause. Reputation is the product of virtue, but it will not give you virtue and it will not redeem your vices. Reputation will not give you the unearned, neither in digital posts nor in spirit. Is this the root of your hatred of reputation?

"Or did you say it's the love of reputation that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know and love its nature. To love reputation is to know and love the fact that reputation is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort of posting for the effort of the best among men who post. It's the person who would sell his soul for a lousy post, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of reputation--and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of reputation are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it.

"Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns reputation has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
"Run for your life from any man who tells you that reputation is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another--their only substitute, if they abandon reputation, is the muzzle of a gun.

"But reputation demands of you the highest virtues, if you wish to make it or to keep it. Men who have no courage, pride or self-esteem, men who have no moral sense of their right to their reputation and are not willing to defend it as they defend their life, men who apologize for being rich in reputation--will not remain rich for long. They are the natural bait for the swarms of looters that stay under rocks for centuries, but come crawling out at the first smell of a man who begs to be forgiven for the guilt of owning reputation. They will hasten to relieve him of the guilt--and of his life, as he deserves.

"Then you will see the rise of the men of the double standard--the men who live by force, yet count on those who live by trading reputation to create the value of their looted reputation--the men who are the hitchhikers of virtue. In a moral forum, these are the criminals, and the statutes are written to protect you against them. But when a forum establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law--men who use force to seize the reputation of disarmed victims--then reputation becomes its creators' avenger. Such looters believe it safe to rob defenseless men, once they've passed a law to disarm them. But their loot becomes the magnet for other looters, who get it from them as they got it. Then the race goes, not to the ablest at production of posts, but to those most ruthless at brutality. When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket. And then that forum vanishes, in a spread of ruins and slaughter.

"Do you wish to know whether that day is coming? Watch reputation. Reputation is the barometer of a forum's virtue. When you see that thanking is done, not by consent, but by compulsion--when you see that in order to produce posts, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing--when you see that reputation is flowing to those who deal, not in good posts, but in favors--when you see that men get richer by reputation by graft and by pull than by posting, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you--when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice--you may know that your forum is doomed. Reputation is so noble a medium that is does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a forum to survive as half-reputation, half-loot.

"Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying reputation, for reputation is men's protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize reps and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of negative rep. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Digital rep was an objective value, an equivalent of reputation produced. Misleading rep is a mortgage on good posts that do not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it. Misleading rep is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the day when it bounces, marked, 'Account overdrawn.'

"When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce good posts, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, 'Who is destroying the world? You are.

"You stand in the midst of the greatest achievements of the greatest productive forum and you wonder why it's crumbling around you, while you're damning its life-blood--reputation. You look upon reputation as the savages did before you, and you wonder why the jungle is creeping back to the edge of this forum's digital "walls". Throughout men's history in internet forums, reputation was always seized by looters of one brand or another, whose names changed, but whose method remained the same: to seize good posts by force and to keep the producers bound, demeaned, defamed, deprived of honor. That phrase about the evil of reputation, which you mouth with such righteous recklessness, comes from a time when good posts were produced by the labor of slaves--slaves who repeated the posts once discovered by somebody's mind and left unimproved for years. So long as production of posts was ruled by force, and reputation was obtained by conquest, there was little to conquer, Yet through all the centuries of stagnation and starvation, men exalted the looters, as aristocrats of the sword, as aristocrats of birth, as aristocrats of the bureau, and despised the producers, as slaves, as traders, as shopkeepers--as industrialists of forums.

"To the glory of mankind, there was, for the first and only time in history, a forum of reputation--and I have no higher, more reverent tribute to pay to Opposing Ideologies, for this means: a sub-forum of reason, justice, freedom, production, achievement. For the first time, man's mind and reputation were set free, and there were no rep fortunes-by-conquest, but only rep fortunes-by-work, and instead of swordsmen and slaves, there appeared the real maker of reputation, the greatest typer, the highest type of human being--the self-made man--the RevLeft Opposing Ideologist.

"If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of OIers, I would choose--because it contains all the others--the fact that they were the people who created the phrase 'to make reputation.' No other ideology or forum had ever used these words before; men had always thought of reputation as a static quantity--to be seized, begged, inherited, shared, looted or obtained as a favor. OIers were the first to understand that reputation has to be created. The words 'to make reputation' hold the essence of human morality.

"Yet these were the words for which OIers were denounced by the rotted cultures of the looters' forums. Now the looters' credo has brought you to regard your proudest achievements as a hallmark of shame, your prosperity as guilt, your greatest men, the OIers, as blackguards, and your magnificent posts as the product muscular labor of typing, the labor of whip-driven slaves, like the pyramids of Egypt. The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between the power of the rep and the power of the whip, ought to learn the difference on his own hide-- as, I think, he will.

"Until and unless you discover that reputation is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When reputation ceases to be the tool by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of men. Blood, whips and guns--or reputation. Take your choice--there is no other--and your time is running out."

Left-Reasoning

22nd April 2010, 22:44

"Have you ever looked for the root of production of posts? Take a look at hayenmill's posts and dare tell yourself that it was created by the muscular effort of unthinking brutes."

HAHAHA!

How long did it take you do that?

Havet

22nd April 2010, 22:46

RaÃºl Duke

22nd April 2010, 23:01

That was pretty good...although I only read a part of it before I found it a little boring...I bet the original would have bore me sooo fast in comparison.

I wish Bud Struggle's little workplace was in Ft.Myers instead of Key West so I can ask him to give me a job when I return from the summer instead of having to go through the pain of looking for a job and hoping to get hired. Or maybe not...I don't know what kind of work it is exactly...but I bet its better than working at a call-center doing mind-numbing 30-min phone surveys with supervisors on your back berating you to keep up with some arbitrary pace when in reality there's nothing in your power to make most people do your damn survey.

Ele'ill

23rd April 2010, 09:58

I'm drunk. Wah

Havet

23rd April 2010, 10:09

I'm drunk. Wah

Wrong Thread

Jazzratt

23rd April 2010, 14:15

Oh lol

Havet

23rd April 2010, 22:34

Oh lol

Do i get the rep?

Do I?

Do I?

Do I?

Pleaaaaaaaaase?

---

Footnote: all childish remarks aside, I really couldn't give a crap about my reputation. It's just that I made a bet with Bud a while ago, and he is still ahead...

Jazzratt

23rd April 2010, 22:37

I'm fairly sure I gave you the rep, you might even catch bud up one day.

Havet

23rd April 2010, 23:46

I'm fairly sure I gave you the rep, you might even catch bud up one day.

Yeah you did, Thanks!

Did anyone read this last part, at all? :

"To the glory of mankind, there was, for the first and only time in history, a forum of reputation--and I have no higher, more reverent tribute to pay to Opposing Ideologies, for this means: a sub-forum of reason, justice, freedom, production, achievement. For the first time, man's mind and reputation were set free, and there were no rep fortunes-by-conquest, but only rep fortunes-by-work, and instead of swordsmen and slaves, there appeared the real maker of reputation, the greatest typer, the highest type of human being--the self-made man--the RevLeft Opposing Ideologist.

"If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of OIers, I would choose--because it contains all the others--the fact that they were the people who created the phrase 'to make reputation.' No other ideology or forum had ever used these words before; men had always thought of reputation as a static quantity--to be seized, begged, inherited, shared, looted or obtained as a favor. OIers were the first to understand that reputation has to be created. The words 'to make reputation' hold the essence of human morality.

"Yet these were the words for which OIers were denounced by the rotted cultures of the looters' forums. Now the looters' credo has brought you to regard your proudest achievements as a hallmark of shame, your prosperity as guilt, your greatest men, the OIers, as blackguards, and your magnificent posts as the product muscular labor of typing, the labor of whip-driven slaves, like the pyramids of Egypt. The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between the power of the rep and the power of the whip, ought to learn the difference on his own hide-- as, I think, he will.

RedAnarchist

23rd April 2010, 23:53

drink some aclohcol and ce the communist that your dmidns iwhes tou to be 1

RedAnarchist

23rd April 2010, 23:54

that ykou8r mind wishes you to be

RedAnarchist

23rd April 2010, 23:54

oh man i am wasted!

RedAnarchist

23rd April 2010, 23:54

Yweah heya ghahyy hyheah i am wastyed man?¬

RedAnarchist

23rd April 2010, 23:55

Hey look i can post eightiout needing the tyhrity secomds in betwen ia m a god ion this fucking fiorunm yeah!

RedAnarchist

23rd April 2010, 23:56

Ph mani so ned this opiza and water

Bud Struggle

23rd April 2010, 23:58

Yeah you did, Thanks!

Did anyone read this last part, at all? :

I put you up over 200 so you'd get three thingies!

And no--no one actually reads you stuff. :D :D :D

(Kidding)

Bud Struggle

23rd April 2010, 23:59

oh man i am wasted!

Sounds like you're haveing a great time! :thumbup1::p:)

RedAnarchist

24th April 2010, 00:04

Sounds like you're haveing a great time! :thumbup1::p:)

you got that right! i just had my pizza, now for some corabvonated beveraegs and the wosme water and then siome sleep so i should be sober in thye morning/1

Bud Struggle

24th April 2010, 00:10

I gave you a rep point and put you over 1000. I'm like the freakin' rep fairy around here today. :D

Hope you don't have a hangover. What were you drinking?

RedAnarchist

24th April 2010, 00:12

I gave you a rep point and put you over 1000. I'm like the freakin' rep fairy around here today. :D

Hope you don't have a hangover. What were you drinking?

io was drinking a pint of strongbow then i had a shit,oadof magners cider! thanks indeed for the rep!¬

RedAnarchist

24th April 2010, 00:12

dont worry i have a bottle of water enarby so that i drink it adn sdontr get a handgover in the morning! thankfior trye concern thougl1/

Bud Struggle

24th April 2010, 00:47

io was drinking a pint of strongbow then i had a shit,oadof magners cider! thanks indeed for the rep!¬

I kind of like Strongbow. Here in sunny Florida we have a pretty large community of British retirees and every supermarket have a good selection of cidars.

Also in Florida (where you can get a tan waking from your car to the supermarket) there is NO ONE WHITER than an Englishman that just flew in for their Holiday. It's amazing to see how white their skin is.

Sleep well.

RedAnarchist

24th April 2010, 00:48

I kind of like Strongbow. Here in sunny Florida we have a pretty large community of British retirees and every supermarket have a good selection of cidars.

Also in Florida (where you can get a tan waking from your car to the supermarket) there is NO ONE WHITER than an Englishman that just flew in for their Holiday. It's amazing to see how white their skin is.

Sleep well.

you should see mie in the mron ingsn because u am very very vey opale and my hair looks ralely dz\rk compared to my very palke sin.

i hope id ot slepe qwell adn i hoppe you that skleepo well as well

LeftSideDown

24th April 2010, 01:50

you should see mie in the mron ingsn because u am very very vey opale and my hair looks ralely dz\rk compared to my very palke sin.

i hope id ot slepe qwell adn i hoppe you that skleepo well as well

Win.

RedAnarchist

24th April 2010, 01:57

Win? Wien twhat/

Bud Struggle

24th April 2010, 02:24

Win? Wien twhat/

You won't be sober till Sunday. :D

#FF0000

24th April 2010, 03:09

RedAnarchist is my favorite admin/drunkposter.

He banned me from IRC once when he was drunk. good times.

Jazzratt

24th April 2010, 12:11

We have the best admin team ever.

Bud Struggle

24th April 2010, 13:27

We have the best admin team ever.

I have to say--at least from an OI point of view--you guys are pretty decent to us peons down here.

Bud Struggle

24th April 2010, 13:43

The most memorable Si-Fi planets.

http://techland.com/2010/04/22/better-than-pandora-the-most-memorable-sci-fi-planets/

http://timenerdworld.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/490_solaris.jpg

Bud Struggle

24th April 2010, 19:07

Maoism--why I love it: (Sigh)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETegyBzAQnc

Now THAT'S a Maoist philosophical ideology we all can sign on with. :D

Bud Struggle

28th April 2010, 00:14

And now for the best of Stalinism, Ladies and Gentlemen I give you Alina Stalina!

http://fetish.cultsirens.com/alina-stalina/index.html

Havet

28th April 2010, 09:54

And now for the best of Stalinism, Ladies and Gentlemen I give you Alina Stalina!

http://fetish.cultsirens.com/alina-stalina/index.html

Mamma Mia!

Bud Struggle

28th April 2010, 12:28

Mamma Mia!

I found her trying to google what I though was Stalin's daughter.

And on the subject of daughters---

I thought this was interesting. I (with other parents that graduated high end colleges) was at an informal info session at my kid's HS for top IB kids (incoming juniors) on how to get into the best colleges next year and how to plan their careers--and the OVERWELMING intrest of these kids these days is to go to Princeton and to go to work for Goldman Sachs. I already knew most of these kids--they're friends of my daughter--and before the Government sued Goldmen they had a diversity of career plans (my daughter an anesthesiologist, for example.) But when they saw how much money Wall Streeters make, they became VERY interested in that career path. ("Daddy, I'm not interested anymore in running your business or becomming a doctor--those guys on Wall Street are making 50 million dollars a year--that's REAL money." There you go.)

The Goldman suit was the best infomercial Wall Street has had in a long time.

#FF0000

28th April 2010, 18:02

I found her trying to google what I though was Stalin's daughter.

And on the subject of daughters---

I thought this was interesting. I (with other parents that graduated high end colleges) was at an informal info session at my kid's HS for top IB kids (incoming juniors) on how to get into the best colleges next year and how to plan their careers--and the OVERWELMING intrest of these kids these days is to go to Princeton and to go to work for Goldman Sachs. I already knew most of these kids--they're friends of my daughter--and before the Government sued Goldmen they had a diversity of career plans (my daughter an anesthesiologist, for example.) But when they saw how much money Wall Streeters make, they became VERY interested in that career path. ("Daddy, I'm not interested anymore in running your business or becomming a doctor--those guys on Wall Street are making 50 million dollars a year--that's REAL money." There you go.)

The Goldman suit was the best infomercial Wall Street has had in a long time.

Welp, guess I"m gonna take up alcoholism. That is depressing.

LeftSideDown

29th April 2010, 05:42

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpxhKFmG_qI

I've never been so disgusted at human ignorance... never.

Drace

29th April 2010, 05:51

Im SURE they were just joking. They had to be...

LeftSideDown

29th April 2010, 06:15

I'm really... really not sure. Lets hope they were...

Bud Struggle

29th April 2010, 12:32

(The other) STALIN!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK8wQ8UrYh8&feature=related

Interesting.

Bud Struggle

29th April 2010, 19:51

E-mail making the rounds:

Goldman Sachs to the United States of America

You want the truth? You can’t handle the truth. Son, we live in a country with an investment gap. And that gap needs to be filled by men with money. Who’s gonna do it? You? You, Middle Class Consumer? Goldman Sachs has a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Lehman and you curse derivatives. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what we know: that Lehman’s death, while tragic, probably saved the financial system. And that Goldman’s existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves pension funds. You don’t want the truth. Because deep down, in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want us to fill that investment gap. You need us to fill that gap.

We use words like credit default swaps, collateralized debt obligation, and securitization? We use these words as the backbone of a life spent investing in something. You use them as a punchline. We have neither the time nor the inclination to explain ourselves to a commoner who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very credit we provide, and then questions the manner in which we provide it! We’d rather you just said thank you and paid your taxes on time. Otherwise, we suggest you get an account and start trading. Either way, we don’t give a damn what you think you’re entitled to!

Those brave men and women made the ultimate sacrifice - of living in unthinkable luxury, cut-off for ever from the common man!

I salute those heroic individuals who have made America what it is today! :D

#FF0000

29th April 2010, 20:58

I'm sure billions of poor workers would be more than happy to relieve them of their overwhelming responsibilities. You know. Violently.

That was supposed to be a little more clever but uh.

Bud Struggle

29th April 2010, 22:41

A Somali Pirate press release:

Somali Pirates Say They Are Subsidiary of Goldman Sachs
*** Could Make Prosecution Difficult, Experts Say ***

NORFOLK, VIRGINIA (The Borowitz Report) – Eleven indicted Somali pirates dropped a bombshell in a U.S. court today, revealing that their entire piracy operation is a subsidiary of banking giant Goldman Sachs.

There was an audible gasp in the courtroom when the leader of the pirates announced, “We are doing God’s work. We work for Lloyd Blankfein.”

The pirate, who said he earned a bonus of $48 million in dubloons last year, elaborated on the nature of the Somalis’ work for Goldman, explaining that the pirates forcibly attacked ships that Goldman had already shorted.

“We were functioning as investment bankers, only every day was casual Friday,” the pirate said.

The pirate acknowledged that they merged their operations with Goldman in late 2008 to take advantage of the more relaxed regulations governing bankers as opposed to pirates, “plus to get our share of the bailout money.”

In the aftermath of the shocking revelations, government prosecutors were scrambling to see if they still had a case against the Somali pirates, who would now be treated as bankers in the eyes of the law.

“There are lots of laws that could bring these guys down if they were, in fact, pirates,” one government source said. “But if they’re bankers, our hands are tied.”

(Aren't you Commies glad have me around to tell you the latest in Bourgeoise jokes? :D)

Jazzratt

29th April 2010, 23:23

If you guys notice a sudden drop off in negative rep and perhaps an increase in positive from about sunday onward it's because mayday always makes me happy (although I won't be on revelft on the actual day, obviously) :)

Bud Struggle

29th April 2010, 23:34

Robert

1st May 2010, 02:55

I'm actually fantasizing (really) about what I am going to do with all this positive rep about to shower down upon me.

This is right up there with Christmas Eve!!!

Bud Struggle

1st May 2010, 03:09

I'm actually fantasizing (really) about what I am going to do with all this positive rep about to shower down upon me.

This is right up there with Christmas Eve!!!

I just got my first neg rep in a LOOOOOONG while. It's good to get a refresher on the great and important job we OIers do at RevLEft. :D

mykittyhasaboner

1st May 2010, 03:12

You did deserve it. Keep up the good work.

LeftSideDown

1st May 2010, 03:37

Working on a traditional Friday night Pizza... what is OI up to?

IcarusAngel

1st May 2010, 03:42

Checking and matching census addressed. Need extra money for some stuff right now.

By the way, I'm leaving a record here:

Just in case I get killed by an anti-government (i.e., "Wal Mart" should run the country) I have no death wishes.

Seriously though, if I turn up dead I want people to know it was because someone killed me for coming to their house as an agent of "obama" or something.

Robert

1st May 2010, 03:46

I just got my first neg rep in a LOOOOOONG while.

Well, that's what happens when you diss Uncle Joe. Only on ... Revleft!

http://vulpeslibris.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/stalin_clown.jpg

Hey Icarus, if a guy invites you inside for some fava beans and a nice
chianti ...

Run!!!

Ele'ill

1st May 2010, 08:17

Happy MayDay, gang. Be safe and remember- there's no solidarity in isolation.

Bud Struggle

1st May 2010, 18:34

Happy MayDay, gang. Be safe and remember- there's no solidarity in isolation.

Indeed Commies, Happy May Day--may all of your wildest dreams come true.

#FF0000

1st May 2010, 22:37

how many of you think i wear pants on the weekends

think again

Robert

1st May 2010, 23:39

That's pretty wild, Love-dude, but I don't even wear jockey shorts on the weekends, hence my nickname ...

The Swinger.

LeftSideDown

2nd May 2010, 02:29

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLNhPMQnWu4

I wonder who thinks what side does this!

IcarusAngel

2nd May 2010, 02:36

lol. That video is great.

Robert

2nd May 2010, 03:07

I wonder who thinks what side does this!

Well, I dunno, kinda both, I guess, sorta. Whatever the majority thinks is okay.

Probably. :mellow:

Bud Struggle

2nd May 2010, 12:28

Well, I dunno, kinda both, I guess, sorta. Whatever the majority thinks is okay.

Probably. :mellow:

The Soviet need to decide. :)

Havet

2nd May 2010, 12:32

What the hell is May Day?

Bud Struggle

2nd May 2010, 13:07

What the hell is May Day?

It's for people that don't know that Labor Day is celebrated on the First Monday in September. :D

RedAnarchist

2nd May 2010, 13:37

What the hell is May Day?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers'_Day

Havet

2nd May 2010, 17:05

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers'_Day

I meant why is it called May Day instead of Labor Day or Worker's Day?

#FF0000

2nd May 2010, 17:09

I meant why is it called May Day instead of Labor Day or Worker's Day?

Just sort of took the name from the original May Day.

Robert

2nd May 2010, 19:03

Hayenmill, I chanced across this drawing while looking at a photo of a Miami Dolphins cheerleader. Is this frustrated diesel punk or a post-modernist satire of the Book of Kells (http://www.rrr.org.au/assets/chi-ro-page-from-the-book-of-kells.jpg)?

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s46/aldin3033/1261339417164.jpg

Bud Struggle

2nd May 2010, 19:51

Excellent picture!

You know these Commies should let (at least some of) us IOer into the Art, Film, Music and Science forums. We'd have a lot to add.

Not the Learning and the Politics, etc. stuff, but I think we would add a bit of sophistication to what is going on in those artsie forms, at times.

But that's up the Junta of the Admins that run this burg. Sigh.

Bud Struggle

2nd May 2010, 20:04

Speakin of music---any of you Commies that play guitar listen to this: if you want a GREAT amp I suggest you buy a knock off of the Fender Tweed Deluxe. It is FANTASTIC. You can get one for under a grand.

In my youth M+P got me a Magnatone M15 (for many dollars that they really work hard to earn) and it was OK--it completely missed the point on great tone, though--I gradually moved away from electric and got myself into acustic guitar.

A week ago on a whim I bought a Tweed knock off--and it's FREAKIN' the best amp I have ever heard. 15 amps a bit of head room and then just this beautiful BEAUTRIFUL tube distortion. Think Neil Young's "Alabama."

It sounds really good on a Strat, but it's HEAVEN on a Les Paul.

Here's somebody's Youtube on the subject.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-PPHkKjdHs

Robert

3rd May 2010, 00:45

That is a great sounding amp. And those Brits can really wring a lot of "country" out of those Teles and Strats.

Bud Struggle

3rd May 2010, 01:15

That is a great sounding amp. And those Brits can really wring a lot of "country" out of those Teles and Strats.

the problem is that not many people can actually PLAY guitar anymore.

It doesn't matter though--after the Revolution when the entire Soviet votes on what music we are going to all listen to (young and old alike)--well here it is---

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHJCvJSnyyg

They are the only lyrics that will pass by the poets sub committee of the Politburo.

Robert

3rd May 2010, 03:32

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. that is one glad-ass singing commie.

You know who that is for real though, right? His name is Frankie Laine. He recorded the famous theme song to the American TV show "Rawhide" in 1959 before defecting to the Soviet Union in 1961. He couldn't ever learn to speak Russian but had a great voice, hence the Oh, Yah Yah, Yay yay yay yay monotony.

It was the best he could do under the circumstances.

MarxSchmarx

3rd May 2010, 11:08