What's on your mind XVI

[Sentinel]

Continued from here (http://www.revleft.com/vb/whats-your-mind-t193119/index29.html)

[cyu]

Speaking of drinking and writing, I was watching reruns of Heroes the other day and this reminds me of http://heroeswiki.com/Isaac%27s_paintings

[The Intransigent Faction]

On CBC radio this morning, there was some call-in thing about a non-profit helping Syrian refugees. One caller gave an awesome little speech about how such organizations were burdened with picking up the slack thanks to the xenophobic government's treatment of refugees. That made me smile, but the host kept interjecting with thinly-veiled half-assed apologetics for the government. Not that they were ever anything but bourgeois media, but those funding cuts and scandals really seem to have the CBC intimidated into a new level of passivity.

On another note, I finally finished the Starcraft II campaign mode last night after switching from "Normal" to "casual" difficulty. I am seriously terrible at that game.

[Faust Arp]

So, um, it's 3 AM, I'm having problems with my shower hose leaking and the sound just makes me unable to sleep. Being the sensible, practical and subtle person that I am, I did this.

https://scontent-vie1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/t31.0-8/q84/s960x960/11782349_867406400016399_6820688151172303835_o.jpg

[Zoop]

Finally think I'm starting to master perspective. It was really damn complex at times, but it feels great knowing how great my drawings have become as a result of it. They have started to have that professional look. Years of hard work has paid off.

[Ro Laren]

My job sucks, my boss is an asshole, I'm tired as hell, and I have a blister on my foot.

[Atsumari]

I just got a date with this cute half-Japanese guy! Gonna grab some ramen with him tomorrow and hope for the best :wub:

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

I just got a date with this cute half-Japanese guy! Gonna grab some ramen with him tomorrow and hope for the best :wub:

Yellow fever, check ur privilege, pls ban

[Atsumari]

Got back from my date and it went so much better than expected and the best first date I ever had. Second date is most certainly going to happen and he was perfectly relaxed with me being trans and carried on like it was nothing.

[Sewer Socialist]

I had a date. She got really drunk and I didn't. It was pretty disappointing.

Also, I worked 45 hours in the last 4 days.

[Aurorus Ruber]

I have often wondered whether preparing tofu, falafel, and so forth constitutes cultural appropriation considering that I am white and have no cultural or ethnic connection to any of those foods. Would it only constitute appropriation if I opened a restaurant and sold falafel despite not being Arab, etc.?

[BIXX]

I have often wondered whether preparing tofu, falafel, and so forth constitutes cultural appropriation considering that I am white and have no cultural or ethnic connection to any of those foods. Would it only constitute appropriation if I opened a restaurant and sold falafel despite not being Arab, etc.?

No you will be banned from radicalism for appropriating tofu better not eat it

[StromboliFucker666]

I have often wondered whether preparing tofu, falafel, and so forth constitutes cultural appropriation considering that I am white and have no cultural or ethnic connection to any of those foods. Would it only constitute appropriation if I opened a restaurant and sold falafel despite not being Arab, etc.?

Dude....

Yes, you are a piece of reactionary scum for eating tofu. You should be restricted ASAP! HOW DARE YOU ENJOY FOODS DESPITE NOT BEING PART OF THE SAME CULTURE AS THE PERSON WHO INVENTED THEM?????????????? It's not like there are people who actually do racist things!!!!!!!!

/s


I doubt anyone is going to shit on you for making food and if they do, I think they're being kinda melodramatic.

[StromboliFucker666]

I had a decent day today. :)

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

I have often wondered whether preparing tofu, falafel, and so forth constitutes cultural appropriation considering that I am white and have no cultural or ethnic connection to any of those foods. Would it only constitute appropriation if I opened a restaurant and sold falafel despite not being Arab, etc.?

Please tell me this is a joke.

[cyu]

I appropriate bacon, but I eat it with chopsticks, so it's all good :laugh:

[Aurorus Ruber]

Please tell me this is a joke.

It's not a joke. I've always been rather confused about the protocols surrounding cultural appropriation and its precise definition.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Then don't you think it's better to abandon this sort of ritualised ersatz-nationalism?

People eat food from "other cultures". Big deal. Anyone who thinks this is "racism" is obviously living in a very special bubble of their own.

[StromboliFucker666]

I took a nap and had a horrible dream. I am disturbed by it. I know it's just a fucking dream but I don't handle that shit well.

[Atsumari]

I have often wondered whether preparing tofu, falafel, and so forth constitutes cultural appropriation considering that I am white and have no cultural or ethnic connection to any of those foods. Would it only constitute appropriation if I opened a restaurant and sold falafel despite not being Arab, etc.?
The food you get at your Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Greek, or Thai restaurant was very likely prepared by a Latino cook. 80 percent of Japanese restaurants are owned by Koreans, my restaurant is owned by a Jew, I know a few owned by Armenian, and most are managed by non-Asians. And I have seen ramen bars staffed by black and white staff only.

[StromboliFucker666]

Ya know, the bourgeois really aren't doing a good job at proving us wrong like they claim they can. Oh wait, that's because we aren't wrong and it's just getting more obvious.

[Bala Perdida]

My family is mad at me. A little late, I've been mad at them for a while now lol.

[Aurorus Ruber]

The food you get at your Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Greek, or Thai restaurant was very likely prepared by a Latino cook. 80 percent of Japanese restaurants are owned by Koreans, my restaurant is owned by a Jew, I know a few owned by Armenian, and most are managed by non-Asians. And I have seen ramen bars staffed by black and white staff only.

And it doesn't bother you or strike you as appropriative for white people to profit off of selling food from your culture?

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Somehow I don't think Atsumari would profit even if "her people" were selling food from "her" culture. I remember that, years ago, a small Croatian restaurant (!!!) opened in Tokyo - it was called Doburo or something like that. It was owned by Japanese people. I didn't receive any money from it. If it had been instead owned by Croats... I still wouldn't have received anything. The existence of that restaurant didn't affect me in any way. Well, alright, the image of someone from Dalmatia as wearing a striped shirt and jaunty beret did make me laugh, so there's that.

Also good grief, if we're going to keep cuisine pure and free from influence of devious foreigners the Japanese can kiss some of their most popular food goodbye. In fact most of us can go back to chewing roots and boiling grains into a mush.

[cyu]

http://rlv.zcache.com/love_me_im_liberal_shirt-r046fd1c2d2eb4995b7b7e752ab592e06_804gs_512.jpg

Once i was young and impulsive
I wore every conceivable pin
Even went to the socialist meetings
Learned all the old union hymns
But i've grown older and wiser
And that's why i'm turning you in

[Faust Arp]

Well, alright, the image of someone from Dalmatia as wearing a striped shirt and jaunty beret did make me laugh, so there's that.


So are you trying to tell me that you guys don't look like the EVA walrus?

[Comrade Jacob]

Some loyalist bastards were running around my village at 1am singing "Fuck the IRA" about 20 yobos jacked up on crack and cheap booze. Some guy went out his house and yelled: "If you don't shut the fuck up and crawl back in your holes I'll be calling the police for anti-social conduct".
I was in my garden at that point smoking a fag. I yelled "Up the IRA!". I thought they were gunna stab me with a broken bottle of buckfast.
It was some night.

[Cliff Paul]

Somehow I don't think Atsumari would profit even if "her people" were selling food from "her" culture.

Nope, cultures can't mix, ever. Also what's the deal with Irish folk and potatoes? Way to culturally appropriate something from the native american subaltern you imperialist swine!

[Cliff Paul]

I was in my garden at that point smoking a fag. I yelled "Up the IRA!". I thought they were gunna stab me with a broken bottle of buckfast.

Not sure where you live but that probably wasn't the greatest idea

[Comrade Jacob]

Not sure where you live but that probably wasn't the greatest idea

A loyalist stronghold village in Scotland. Orange marches happen down the main-road every year. Bastards.

[Comrade Jacob]

Not sure where you live but that probably wasn't the greatest idea

I'm just assuming they are loyalists because of my area, they were chanting something about the IRA but I couldn't make out what they where saying.

[Art Vandelay]

I almost got my ass kicked in Dublin once for hanging out with some loud mouth IRA supporter. We must have been ten deep and a political disagreement turned into him in the middle of the bar, his finger in someone's face, spit flying out of his mouth, screaming shit like: 'what fucking right do the british have being in my country? you all bastards sold out me and my brothers in the north. up the IRA! up the IRA!' I just backed off and slipped out, wasn't my fight and wasn't interested in seeing how out of hand things were just about to get, since it was essentially me and him standing there with about five guys looking like they were ready to rip his head off.

[StromboliFucker666]

http://rlv.zcache.com/love_me_im_liberal_shirt-r046fd1c2d2eb4995b7b7e752ab592e06_804gs_512.jpg

Once i was young and impulsive
I wore every conceivable pin
Even went to the socialist meetings
Learned all the old union hymns
But i've grown older and wiser
And that's why i'm turning you in

If you turn liberal on me, I'll...DO SOMETHING BAD!

[Aurorus Ruber]

Somehow I don't think Atsumari would profit even if "her people" were selling food from "her" culture. I remember that, years ago, a small Croatian restaurant (!!!) opened in Tokyo - it was called Doburo or something like that. It was owned by Japanese people. I didn't receive any money from it. If it had been instead owned by Croats... I still wouldn't have received anything. The existence of that restaurant didn't affect me in any way. Well, alright, the image of someone from Dalmatia as wearing a striped shirt and jaunty beret did make me laugh, so there's that.

Also good grief, if we're going to keep cuisine pure and free from influence of devious foreigners the Japanese can kiss some of their most popular food goodbye. In fact most of us can go back to chewing roots and boiling grains into a mush.

Then what exactly does constitute cultural appropriation? I always had the impression that it meant people from a privileged group borrowing cultural elements from less privileged groups and especially profiting off those elements. Thus quite often I hear white people wearing dreadlocks or Japanese fashions, twerking, and so forth as racist cultural appropriation.

[StromboliFucker666]

How is a white person wearing dreadlocks profiting?


I'm half Indian. There is an Indian resteraunt near my apartment. I eat there sometimes. It's owned by an Indian but most of the workers are white. Should I get half of their profits?


No. Because making food is not cultural appropriation

[Cliff Paul]

tbh trump reading graham's cell phone number at a campaign speech was pretty damn funny

[Aurorus Ruber]

How is a white person wearing dreadlocks profiting?

They aren't, but I have always seen white people with dreadlocks cited as a prime example of cultural appropriation.


I'm half Indian. There is an Indian resteraunt near my apartment. I eat there sometimes. It's owned by an Indian but most of the workers are white. Should I get half of their profits?


No. Because making food is not cultural appropriation

So you would say that food differs from fashion or music in a way that makes cultural appropriation inapplicable? Thus a white designer using Japanese influences or a white musician rapping is engaging in cultural appropriation, but a white restaurateur making falafel is not?

[Cliff Paul]

Thus a white designer using Japanese influences or a white musician rapping is engaging in cultural appropriation, but a white restaurateur making falafel is not?

Um as a white person I am very pissed at Japan appropriating lolita culture from all of us white people. And who does this Kurosawa guy think he is ripping off Shakespeare?

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

So are you trying to tell me that you guys don't look like the EVA walrus?

Haha, I'd completely forgotten about that.

This wasn't quite like the EVA walrus, though, it was a sort of despondent version of a stereotypical French mime. In a stripy shirt. No, I don't understand either.


Then what exactly does constitute cultural appropriation? I always had the impression that it meant people from a privileged group borrowing cultural elements from less privileged groups and especially profiting off those elements. Thus quite often I hear white people wearing dreadlocks or Japanese fashions, twerking, and so forth as racist cultural appropriation.

You can hear all sorts of nonsensical things on the Internet. "Cultural appropriation" is one of those things. It's a "struggle" carried out by a section of the petite bourgeoisie with "ethnic" roots, who want exclusive rights to "their" culture.


Um as a white person I am very pissed at Japan appropriating lolita culture from all of us white people. And who does this Kurosawa guy think he is ripping off Shakespeare?

And that Tezuka guy ripping off Walt Disney? Horrible.

Also, the Japanese sort of appropriated metalworking from the Koreans, literacy from the Chinese, and so on... not that this is unusual. If "my people" hadn't appropriated left and right I would probably be riding a horse through the steppes today. Maybe I'd see Links and Faust on the way, then probably wave a pointy stick at them because we wouldn't want to appropriate the Romans by having settled polities.

[Sewer Socialist]

Do people who have this line of thought think people can appropriate the culture of their own race? Isn't, say, 50 Cent appropriating and selling a highly fetishized version of blackness, often to white suburban teens?

[Cliff Paul]

Also, the Japanese sort of appropriated metalworking from the Koreans, literacy from the Chinese, and so on... not that this is unusual. If "my people" hadn't appropriated left and right I would probably be riding a horse through the steppes today. Maybe I'd see Links and Faust on the way, then probably wave a pointy stick at them because we wouldn't want to appropriate the Romans by having settled polities.

On a slightly different note, I recommend this:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x23yv5y_stewart-lee-on-immigration-paul-nuttall-and-ukip_fun

[Sinister Intents]

I fucking hate this business. I fucking hate the bourgeoisie and liberals. I hate this fucking world. I hate fucking capitalism. Why can't an asteroid hit this fucking planet? It all needs to fucking end.

[Spectre of Spartacism]

I grew up and spent most of my life in the pacific northwest. Right now I can't be there for professional and personal reasons. Missing my family. :unsure:

[StromboliFucker666]

So you would say that food differs from fashion or music in a way that makes cultural appropriation inapplicable? Thus a white designer using Japanese influences or a white musician rapping is engaging in cultural appropriation, but a white restaurateur making falafel is not?
I believe that it should be taken on a case by case basis. Using the music example, would I be allowed to play metal? Metal was invented by a white person and only half of me is white so would it be "cultural appropriation" for me to join a metal band?

As for food being different, I see it that way. When you live in a country like America where a shitload of cultures shit all over each other, shit happens.

( I tried to word that better but was too stupid.)

[Aurorus Ruber]

I believe that it should be taken on a case by case basis. Using the music example, would I be allowed to play metal? Metal was invented by a white person and only half of me is white so would it be "cultural appropriation" for me to join a metal band?

Cultural appropriation refers to someone from a privileged culture borrowing elements of an oppressed culture, so a person of color playing heavy metal would not constitute it. On the other hand, I have often seen white rappers accused of cultural appropriation because they are using a genre created by another culture living under white oppression.

Regarding the question of food, I ask because I have always wondered how a white person like me is supposed to go vegetarian/vegan when traditional European cuisine relies so heavily on meat and other animal products. I have long worried that switching to tofu, falafel, and so forth constitutes cultural appropriation.

[Quail]

Cultural appropriation refers to someone from a privileged culture borrowing elements of an oppressed culture, so a person of color playing heavy metal would not constitute it. On the other hand, I have often seen white rappers accused of cultural appropriation because they are using a genre created by another culture living under white oppression.

Regarding the question of food, I ask because I have always wondered how a white person like me is supposed to go vegetarian/vegan when traditional European cuisine relies so heavily on meat and other animal products. I have long worried that switching to tofu, falafel, and so forth constitutes cultural appropriation.

I really don't think that eating certain kinds of food is cultural appropriation. It's not like you're taking recipes from other cultures, passing them off as your own and making lots of money. You're just eating delicious food which is widely available to everyone. I guess if you feel bad, you could always buy tofu from a Chinese supermarket and boost their business (plus it will be cheaper).

[Comrade Njordr]

Just saw a post on Facebook liked by someone on my friend list. The poster had a confederate flag and a cross with the words southern and proud as a profile pic. I had to laugh, he's fucking Canadian.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

I was reading something about the "Kitty" Genovese case, and isn't it just hilarious how the murder of a gay woman was used by the homophobic police authorities and the New York Times to invent this great liberal fable about how Cities Are Evil and how everything would be better if people live in the sort of tight-knit communities liberals and reactionary communalists fantasise about.

Those always turn out so well for gay people, I'm sure Genovese and her partner would have a blast in one of those.

[Cliff Paul]

I was reading something about the "Kitty" Genovese case, and isn't it just hilarious how the murder of a gay woman was used by the homophobic police authorities and the New York Times to invent this great liberal fable about how Cities Are Evil and how everything would be better if people live in the sort of tight-knit communities liberals and reactionary communalists fantasise about.

Those always turn out so well for gay people, I'm sure Genovese and her partner would have a blast in one of those.

you don't like other people do you?

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

you don't like other people do you?

I like people so much I want as many of them around me as possible. Individuals, that depends. I get along with some of them just fine. Others, I prefer to keep at arm's length. A city enables you to do that more than a small community does, and I have lived in several. I also don't like the thought of depending on the personal approval of various people, for obvious reasons, and of people poking around in my affairs even though I don't care for them, again, both things that happen in cities today, but much less than in small communities.

[The Intransigent Faction]

"My friend the communist holds meetings in his RV. I can't afford his gas, so I'm stuck here watching TV." :cool:


Just saw a post on Facebook liked by someone on my friend list. The poster had a confederate flag and a cross with the words southern and proud as a profile pic. I had to laugh, he's fucking Canadian.

Yeah, but I'm guessing he's Albertan, so for all intents and purposes he's practically a southerner. :p

[StromboliFucker666]

Cultural appropriation refers to someone from a privileged culture borrowing elements of an oppressed culture, so a person of color playing heavy metal would not constitute it. On the other hand, I have often seen white rappers accused of cultural appropriation because they are using a genre created by another culture living under white oppression.

Regarding the question of food, I ask because I have always wondered how a white person like me is supposed to go vegetarian/vegan when traditional European cuisine relies so heavily on meat and other animal products. I have long worried that switching to tofu, falafel, and so forth constitutes cultural appropriation.

It only applies to white people now? Does being mixed change the issue? Like by this logic, am I allowed to do anything Indian? Or does having a white father make it cultural appropriation for me to do anything other than what white people do?


Are you looking for some kind of permission? lol

if that's what you want, my Indian half gives you permission to eat Indian food. You can now walk into any Indian restaurant and order anything off the menu!:laugh::laugh::laugh:


In all seriousness, as long as you aren't saying "oh yeah my people invented this" when they really didn't, I do not see an issue with cooking food from another culture.

[cyu]

Besides biological survival, there is only one law: Feed their ego.

As long as you're feeding their ego, just about anything is permitted. Doesn't just apply to cultural issues, but all sorts of other issues, from relationships to military service. Some generals are so good at this that they can even get you to sacrifice your life for them.

[Ele'ill]

i was at the gym today and saw on the news that green peace folks are dangling from a bridge in town to protest Shell's arctic oil drilling. They are blocking a ship. I don't understand the logic behind the activism to lobbying strategy that I guess this is, it seems like a useless game of wack-a-mole that only offers personal emotional reward throughout the years. If these businesses existence inherently means the destruction of the environment which I think it does then putting pressure on them through legally allowed channels really doesn't do anything other than seal their existence as acceptable, as a starting point, it's the given. It's like a choose your own ruined future kid's book.

[Comrade Njordr]

"My friend the communist holds meetings in his RV. I can't afford his gas, so I'm stuck here watching TV." :cool:



Yeah, but I'm guessing he's Albertan, so for all intents and purposes he's practically a southerner. :p
Alberta truly is the arsehole of Canada.

[Црвена]

Aaaah, my crush hasn't replied to my last message and I sent it three days ago...did I say something wrong???

I have literally spent the whole day overanalysing our exchanges. There is something wrong with me.

[Sinister Intents]

How did they transpire?

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Aaaah, my crush hasn't replied to my last message and I sent it three days ago...did I say something wrong???

I have literally spent the whole day overanalysing our exchanges. There is something wrong with me.

Hey, people sometimes... time out, for lack of a better term. Personally, I'm infamous for that, in that I tend to reply to email/PM very, very late. Some people probably think I'm dead, and given how hot it is, I sort of wish they were right.

Also, you're hardly the first person to go over old conversations. Heh, I remember going over pages of IM logs when I had a bad fight with one of my friends. Ah what an interesting life I lead.

[StromboliFucker666]

Aaaah, my crush hasn't replied to my last message and I sent it three days ago...did I say something wrong???

I have literally spent the whole day overanalysing our exchanges. There is something wrong with me.


Here's my assholish advice.

Give them some time. If they don't reply back in a few more days, send them something asking if they are okay. Don't do it like in a desperate way but in a way like "hey i haven't talked to you in a while so i figured I'd see what was up. Is everything okay with you" (don't quote me exactly. i have the romantic skills of a dead animal)

If they don't respond and they are okay (IE alive and not too sick) then you should probably just move on and see what happens in the future.

As for something being wrong with you, I doubt it. I don't know you and I'm no doctor but it just seems to be a little anxiety. You want to impress this person so when they stop responding to you, you freak out thinking you did the opposite. (there may be more to it but as for that action in itself, you are probably okay and just anxious about it)

[Црвена]

Thanks guuuys. I think I just really need to stop thinking so hard about all this. I wish we could meet up (I prefer to speak to people in the flesh) and I could get a better idea of what his intentions are, but he doesn't live too close and my parents would not approve of me sneaking out the house to meet a guy...

[Sinister Intents]

Have you Even talked to your parents? And distance could be a factor. Are there others you like or that like you?

[cyu]

When I look at young people in relationships, I think to myself "why are they taking things so seriously, they're too young to know what really matters, and they'll think completely differently 10 years later" ...then I catch myself and imagine an even older me thinking the same thing about people my age.

[Црвена]

Have you Even talked to your parents? And distance could be a factor. Are there others you like or that like you?

I know they won't approve - they're G1 immigrants from India, very protective and quite backward when it comes to things like this. I need to finish secondary/high school before I'm allowed to date, and right now I'm starting my GCSE courses so they'd call any romantic anything a distraction. Besides, this guy is older and my parents don't know him directly (we met at an extra-curricular politics thing) so...

Unfortunately not, and part of the reason why I'm so obsessed with this guy is that I can't find anyone else to distract me. I know for a fact that there are people who like me, but I don't like anyone back because my bar has been raised so high because the guy I like appears to be exactly my type.

[Црвена]

When I look at young people in relationships, I think to myself "why are they taking things so seriously, they're too young to know what really matters, and they'll think completely differently 10 years later" ...then I catch myself and imagine an even older me thinking the same thing about people my age.

I get that, but it really does feel serious in the moment.

[PhoenixAsh]

Today I had the all important "which critter to sacrifice during the different phases of the moon cycle" with my fiancee....because tonight is blue moon.

I have learned that hamsters make for a poor sacrifice and they are much better suited for potions and cremes (seriously...don't ask). That you use rats during the Sabbath to divine the potential future...but...it would be better to use birds and fish on non Sabbath days. Rabbits and chickens are the best (also because you can apparently eat them after you used them). But goats and sheep are to be considered life sacrifices that you only use in the most dire of circumstances when all other magic has failed. You also...and I quote... "don't generally" sacrifice humans.


....She is not getting a kitten for her birthday

[cyu]

My first big crush was in elementary school. She was smart and pretty - she wasn't the smartest and probably not the prettiest either, but nobody else really left much of an impression on me to remember if they were prettier or not. She stood up for kids who were bullied. That's probably what I admired most about her. In middle school, we were supposed to pick an instrument to study. When I found out she picked the flute, I decided to pick the flute too. We ended up in the same class, which is exactly what I wanted. But shortly after the school year started, my family moved to a different state, and I never saw her again.

In high school, I was "in love" with another girl that was smart and pretty. At least I could remember enough about other girls in my class to know she wasn't the prettiest, but there was nobody else I respected as much in terms of her grades (?) ...or maybe it was just the way she carried herself. I would get lost staring into her eyes. She had a boyfriend though, and I considered her out of my league.

Looking back on it now, I doubt any relationship with them would have worked out in the end. Not that I think they had any invisible character flaws, but best plausible case scenario would be that they would have just evolved into mutual-admiration friendships.

[Cliff Paul]

Today I had the all important "which critter to sacrifice during the different phases of the moon cycle" with my fiancee....because tonight is blue moon.

Actually animal sacrifices were part of the old covenant which was rendered outdated when God sacrificed his only son for the sins of man. Thus the only sacrifice you should be taking part in is the consumption of the bread and wine at mass (which through sacrament are trasubstantiated into the body and blood of Jesus).

ALSO DONT HURT BUNNIES

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Actually animal sacrifices were part of the old covenant which was rendered outdated when God sacrificed his only son for the sins of man. Thus the only sacrifice you should be taking part in is the consumption of the bread and wine at mass (which through sacrament are trasubstantiated into the body and blood of Jesus).

Revisionist.

[PhoenixAsh]

Don't try to confuse me with your weird new age christian mumbo jumbo... :sneaky:

We all know God is just a myth and that it is Eon or Frigg who are more important...and they'd never sacrifice their own children.


...also they love bunny souls...apparently

[Counterculturalist]

I had a literature professor (British modernism) who was an extreme right-wing Catholic with borderline fascist opinions (though, strangely, outspokenly anti-homophobic). He was convinced that TS Eliot, Virginia Woolf and others were arguing, in their works, in favor of bringing back human sacrifice. He seemed to be in favor of this position himself.

Only in academia, folks...

[cyu]

Would you sacrifice humans to keep banks from collapsing?

The Troika would.

[StromboliFucker666]

I know they won't approve - they're G1 immigrants from India, very protective and quite backward when it comes to things like this. I need to finish secondary/high school before I'm allowed to date, and right now I'm starting my GCSE courses so they'd call any romantic anything a distraction. Besides, this guy is older and my parents don't know him directly (we met at an extra-curricular politics thing) so...



My parents were sorta like that when I was growing up although not as strict. Basically they wanted me to focus on getting an education instead of getting girls. Well my 15 year old self fell in love with a 22 year old girl. I tried to sneak her into my house one night after my parents were asleep and holy shit I thought they were going to kill me. It took a shitload of convincing to calm them down and not call the police. (I lied and said she was 16 but they knew it was bullshit)

Before anyone says anything, she wasn't a pedo. I was mature enough to make that choice on my own..although not mature enough to not get busted apparently haha.


Sorry for sharing details about my early sex life but your post reminded me of that story.

[Црвена]

My parents were sorta like that when I was growing up although not as strict. Basically they wanted me to focus on getting an education instead of getting girls. Well my 15 year old self fell in love with a 22 year old girl. I tried to sneak her into my house one night after my parents were asleep and holy shit I thought they were going to kill me. It took a shitload of convincing to calm them down and not call the police. (I lied and said she was 16 but they knew it was bullshit)

Before anyone says anything, she wasn't a pedo. I was mature enough to make that choice on my own..although not mature enough to not get busted apparently haha.


Sorry for sharing details about my early sex life but your post reminded me of that story.

Oh my gosh...if my parents suspected that I'd been fucking someone, I would be on the streets. I'm not even kidding.

I hate the whole "studies first," thing. It's not as though being in a relationship is going to affect your studies any more than crushing on someone who you can't be with.

[cyu]

After you graduate and get a job, all they'll talk about is when you'll get married and have kids. It would be so ironic, except that the time difference makes the joke too long to be funny.

[Hermes]

Today I had the all important "which critter to sacrifice during the different phases of the moon cycle" with my fiancee....because tonight is blue moon.

I thought that most neopagan religions/'spiritualities' generally frown on any kind of animal sacrifice?

[StromboliFucker666]

Oh my gosh...if my parents suspected that I'd been fucking someone, I would be on the streets. I'm not even kidding.

I hate the whole "studies first," thing. It's not as though being in a relationship is going to affect your studies any more than crushing on someone who you can't be with.
Holy shit lol


After that I basically told them that I was going to do what i want anyway so they got off my back about it as long as "I agreed to let them meet the person first and didn't have sex"

I had sex anyway and they hated every person I was with so I just kept that stuff secret and told them I was single after a while.


Trust me, I would have made a LOT better grades and stuff if I would not have had to hide so much from EVERYONE. (If one person found out, I would panic thinking my parents would find out)

[StromboliFucker666]

After you graduate and get a job, all they'll talk about is when you'll get married and have kids. It would be so ironic, except that the time difference makes the joke too long to be funny.
Sadly my parents never got to nag me about that :(

[Sinister Intents]

My parents said: "No more Marxism tonight Jay. " I've been reading a lot

[StromboliFucker666]

My boss is fucking stupid and lazy. I come back home after a few days and decide to check on the office and him. Almost NOTHING got done. How the fuck is he going to manage once I finally leave this job?

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

So the media in this cretinous third-rate country are completely obsessed with "our" dispute with Slovenia - over a few metres square of dirty sludgy sea. I mean good god, nationalists are generally stupid but this kind of takes the cake.

I don't care they can have the entire Istrian peninsula only crazy people come from theme, in fact let's give Venetia et Histria to Russia to piss off our europhiles.

[Quail]

My cousin babysat last night while I went to a gig with my partner. Then we came back with a couple of friends and had some drinks and smoked some weed with him. Now I feel embarrassed...

[Ele'ill]

Lol I think I know exactly who this sockpuppet is and also there's a new EchoShock. Thanks for the rep on useless posts in the homeopathy and cures thread.

Now does this PM make a lick of sense? Or the subsequent one Placenta Cream sent me? I'll be honest of what I think of members here. There certainly are some I've lost all respect for.

PMing a mod or admin would probably be better than spreading drama all over the forum and not starting fires you can't put out is probably better advice and doesn't involve the mods or admins at all. I don't know what your problem with PC is but you've made lots of references and threads and it's kind of enough forever I think, probably already too much.

[Sinister Intents]

Then you can delete your reply

[Ele'ill]

Then you can delete your reply

sometimes people need to just hear it from someone else not within their little sphere of expected replies and interactions

[Sinister Intents]

I knOw how I am and I'm getting therapy for it.

[Comrade Jacob]

It be Yorkshire day t'day. Arm 'aving nowt of t' bollocks from't Lancashire crowd, they carnt even addle their own brass without it being down the ginnel sellin' smack, they c'un't* even mek any class puds n' pies. Lancashire tea is a load of wank, not lark are God's own tea 'Yorkshire tea'.
Are ale be 50 tarmes be'er than their shitety brews.




*That is how we pronounce 'couldn't'


(P.S: no offence to Lancs)

[The Intransigent Faction]

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/?cobrand=asus13.msn.com&ocid=ASUDHP&pc=ASU2JS

Bullshitfest has started early!
Also, my sister is back from Spain after spending 6 months studying there. :)

[Sinister Intents]

I think Troika was a sock puppet

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

From what I've seen of Troika, they acted pretty reprehensibly, but you (and PC) need to stop dragging these things out of threads where they happen.

[Sinister Intents]

From what I've seen of Troika, they acted pretty reprehensibly, but you (and PC) need to stop dragging these things out of threads where they happen.

Eventually I will, especially when I get better with theory I'm sure. Plus I start therapy tomorrow! Within months I'm sure that my mental health will stop being as big of a factor on my posts. I, admittedly, do shitpost a lot, but that's because I'm not very advanced with politics as of yet despite there having been years I've been into it.

[PhoenixAsh]

I thought that most neopagan religions/'spiritualities' generally frown on any kind of animal sacrifice?

They do. She is not neo pagan though.

Edit: She would call that revisionist :D Although she is not above adopting aspects.

[BIXX]

I don't think that Troika is a sock, and furthermore I don't really think that's appropriate discussion for here. If you think someone is a sock or something take it to the BA.

ON ANOTHER NOTE, I applied for a dishwashing job at a college. Round 2.

[Comrade Jacob]

I was gunna say in the sexism thread that sexism against men is real but it's done by other men. Women pretty much can't be sexist against men but working men can be against other working men. The patriarchy only benefits the capitalists.

I'm sorry if this violates the mods wishes by basically adding to the thread and I don't want this to turn into that thread, that thread was awful.

[StromboliFucker666]

Jeez what's up with the fucking drama on here?

[BIXX]

Jeez what's up with the fucking drama on here?

You are young
The world has been kind to you
You will learn

[StromboliFucker666]

I sure don't feel young after today haha
I suppose it has been kinder to me than some. There are people starving and in worse conditions than I can ever imagine.
I hope I do someday. Will you educate me?

[Redistribute the Rep]

I didn't sleep last night.

Rafiqs posts are really long

[Quail]

I didn't sleep last night.

Rafiqs posts are really long

Are these two statements related?

[Cliff Paul]

Jeez what's up with the fucking drama on here?

quit being dramatic

[cyu]

It occurs to me that if you've spent your career pushing for neocolonial policies that rape a Third World country, you would want tight immigration controls to prevent anybody from coming for personal vengeance.

[Cliff Paul]

for the next week I think at least 50% of my caloric intake will be alcoholic beverages

[Sinister Intents]

Whai?

[Cliff Paul]

Whai?

Oh I forgot this is the forum where I post my love life. Anyways I got really drunk a few nights ago and hooked up with my ex's best friend and it's been a real shit show for the last few days. Obviously the only way to make it all better is to drink more.

[BIXX]

Are these two statements related?

How could they not be I never sleep when I know rafiq is lurking the forum.

[Cliff Paul]

How could they not be I never sleep when I know rafiq is lurking the forum.

maybe they were just really interested in rafiq's posts and spent all night reading them. ever think of that, huh? huh? huh?

[StromboliFucker666]

quit being dramatic
quit being dramatic

[Cliff Paul]

quit being dramatic

defensive? you calling me defensive?
_6gOtkwYbao

[StromboliFucker666]

Alright, you beat me. What do you want? A cookie? A beer? 15$? A ring that I found?

[Cliff Paul]

Alright, you beat me. What do you want? A cookie? A beer? 15$? A ring that I found?

Nah remember that time where Luke Babbitt went for 20 when he was guarded by Harden? I do!

[Sinister Intents]

My first therapy appointment today! !!! It went well and I think this doctor is gonna be really good ^-^

[cyu]

quit being dramaticquit being dramatic
quit being dramatic

[We should split this off into its own thread]

[Cliff Paul]

quit being dramatic

[We should split this off into its own thread]

yeh well, you should split off like a eukaryotic cell and undergo cellular mitosis.

that's right I got a c in bio 101

[Sewer Socialist]

How could they not be I never sleep when I know rafiq is lurking the forum.

Rafiq is like a dialectical JAWS

[BIXX]

Rafiq is like a dialectical JAWS

I always assumed jaws (the shark and the body part) were inherently dialectable.

Shut up its a bad puns that doesn't make sense but that's OK.

[Danielle Ni Dhighe]

Just about 11 hours left 'til my road trip to eastern Washington State and Oregon begins. I'll be home Thursday evening. I'm just finishing up last minute preparations now.

[StromboliFucker666]

Well I just finished cleaning up a shitload of vomit off the floor.

[StromboliFucker666]

Holy shit only 1 other person is on the latest post thingy atm

[Atsumari]

So close, yet so far
http://puu.sh/joHP3/3d15a8eca8.png

[StromboliFucker666]

So close, yet so far
http://puu.sh/joHP3/3d15a8eca8.png


I feel proud...holy fuck I've become pathetic if this makes me proud.

[BIXX]

That used to be a game on this forum

Also we should bring back rep wars

[StromboliFucker666]

That used to be a game on this forum

Also we should bring back rep wars
Cool, I didn't know that. We should bring it back haha

[Cliff Paul]

you guys everything is good. just remembered that counterparts released a new album this year.

[Sinister Intents]

Yay my new checks came in now I can pay bills easier

[StromboliFucker666]

Got my dog cleaned.

[The Intransigent Faction]

Lo and behold, less than 24 hours after my post in the Canadian election thread about the lousy media coverage, the media is up in arms over Stephen Harper referring to Justin Trudeau by his first name.

:closedeyes: It's gonna be a looong 11 weeks.

[StromboliFucker666]

I was actually somewhat productive today

[StromboliFucker666]

Lo and behold, less than 24 hours after my post in the Canadian election thread about the lousy media coverage, the media is up in arms over Stephen Harper referring to Justin Trudeau by his first name.

:closedeyes: It's gonna be a looong 11 weeks.
So he called a guy called Justin, Justin and the media is all over it? dafuq

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Two days of military parades celebrating ethnic cleansing, someone invade Croatia already pls.

[cyu]

parades celebrating ethnic cleansing


When dealing with sociopaths, just make veiled threats against them - nothing they can hang you with, but enough to get you on government watchlists ;)

[cyu]

Believe it or not, they use stuff like that to gauge public reception of their political positions. The more veiled threats they hear, the more likely they will backpedal their pronouncements. Usually in the media, say something like "Bowing to public outrage / backlash against so and so..." and don't actually say the words "veiled threats" but it is always a contributing factor to their measurements.

[cyu]

enough to get you on government watchlists

The more watchlists you're on, the bigger your audience among some of the most powerful people in the power structure. That's not a lemon, that's lemonade. Use it, and abuse it ;)

[StromboliFucker666]

I just realized something about myself and I feel stupid because of it. I call myself a marxist yet I only know the very basic fundamentals of marxism. And I've went from a borderline anarchist to a leftcom. Why are my ideas changing so much?

[cyu]

The ruling class has propaganda to make everyone accept Coke as the one true beverage. For the really tough nuts to crack, they introduce Pepsi, so they can catch all the hipster / contrarian types.

If you manage to break free from the propaganda of the ruling class, then you realize just how many beverages are possible - there's always an adjustment period in which you can't decide which beverage is best ;)

[Aurorus Ruber]

I have been looking forward to participating in radical politics, at least when I manage to move somewhere that presents opportunities for that. But now I am concerned that I am simply too old to participate in a movement where young people predominate. I fear that it would look ridiculous or suspicious for someone around 30 to hang out with teenagers and college students.

[BIXX]

I have been looking forward to participating in radical politics, at least when I manage to move somewhere that presents opportunities for that. But now I am concerned that I am simply too old to participate in a movement where young people predominate. I fear that it would look ridiculous or suspicious for someone around 30 to hang out with teenagers and college students.

Hey dude I'm 18 and my best friend is in their 30s and we hang out all the time and sometimes go to meetings and shit which we then talk about how much we hate but still some people might be weirded out but fuckem.

[StromboliFucker666]

You're never too old to not support capitalism

[cyu]

To all the people defending nuking Japanese people today, what if we executed every surviving American involved in the mission to nuke Japan, and also executed their families, and their descendants since 1945? Many would be horrified and say, "WTF? You want to kill kids who had nothing to do with the bombing?"

So innocent American lives deserve our sympathy, but innocent Japanese people don't, because they're not really people, right?

When the anti-Japanese propaganda was green-lighted in the US, it was for political and military expediency. They wanted support for the war effort, and manufacturing hatred was one way to do it. It was so successful that those who approved the dehumanization project were caught up in their own propaganda, and began to see the Japanese as subhuman as well. Today the same approval of atrocities against Muslims can be seen in the West, because the media campaign against Muslims has been in effect for a long time.

Humans will never be an intelligent lifeform until they stop believing their own lies.

[StromboliFucker666]

To all the people defending nuking Japanese people today, what if we executed every surviving American involved in the mission to nuke Japan, and also executed their families, and their descendants since 1945? Many would be horrified and say, "WTF? You want to kill kids who had nothing to do with the bombing?"

So innocent American lives deserve our sympathy, but innocent Japanese people don't, because they're not really people, right?

When the anti-Japanese propaganda was green-lighted in the US, it was for political and military expediency. They wanted support for the war effort, and manufacturing hatred was one way to do it. It was so successful that those who approved the dehumanization project were caught up in their own propaganda, and began to see the Japanese as subhuman as well. Today the same approval of atrocities against Muslims can be seen in the West, because the media campaign against Muslims has been in effect for a long time.

Humans will never be an intelligent lifeform until they stop believing their own lies.

Someone told me that we should nuke them again "just for good measure".

It's fucked up.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Well, my headache has escalated to the point my eyes are tearing up just from the pain, so that means either a break from revising or my long-delayed suicide.

I seriously hate my "job" (it's not like I get paid for it much anyway). I should have been some sort of metalworker, or maybe a pastry chef. I like cooking and I like working with metal. But no, everyone told me I was smart and too good for that kind of work when I was a kid (like hell I am) so now every new exam is like, hey, remember the Wick theorem? Well I heard you liek Wick's theorem dawg so here's a proof more obtuse than the last one so you can calculate contractions while you calculate contractions. Also you need to reproduce the proof line by line.

[Quail]

I hate it when lecturers think it's okay to set like a pages long proof as an exam question. If you understand it, I guess you can try to learn all the steps or derive it from the parts of it you actually manage to remember, but I don't know if being able to reproduce a huge long proof is the best demonstration of how well you've digested the information you've learned.

[#FF0000]

Dang dude I was supposed to go out and do things today but I didn't do anything at all.

Dang.

[Aurorus Ruber]

You're never too old to not support capitalism

Maybe, but practically speaking, the radical left tends to be a movement for the young, stereotypically associated with college students, punk rockers, etc.

[Danielle Ni Dhighe]

815 miles (1312 km) of driving over three days. I had a great time.

[StromboliFucker666]

Maybe, but practically speaking, the radical left tends to be a movement for the young, stereotypically associated with college students, punk rockers, etc.
And that matters because?is there an age limit on intelligence now? I understand that most of us are young however I don't think being past 25 or whatever bars you from leftist politics. I know a leftist that is turning 42 next month. Most popular leftist writers also continued to write about leftist politics even when they were not exactly young. (Look at Marx for example. )

Most leftist politicians were also in their 30's and 40's when they took power.

If you are worried about looking creepy at protests and stuff, no one should care. The protests are about the topic they are protesting, not the age of the people that attend. If anyone takes issue, they are probably there for the wrong reasons. (IE to look cool)

[StromboliFucker666]

My GF finally got the correct papers and stuff so she'll be moving here on Thursday. I'm actually exited about something for once :)

[cyu]

the radical left tends to be a movement for the young, stereotypically associated with college students, punk rockers, etc. When you're young, your future is open. You do not live a life of security, but you also do not live a life of dependency. You think you can keep your integrity forever, but when you're old and actually in a position to leak government documents, you begin to behave like a battered spouse - reminded me of this from someone who isn't even suffering from domestic violence:

How do you break free of it though? I've got a wicked case of it right now with my current relationship. I've been questioning it for 3 years and am terrified to keep going round the same circles but im even more terrified of breaking free and trying to piece together a life alone.

I'm more scared of the practical side of things. Moving out and finding some place new and what about my furniture and my cat and can I even afford to live alone. We work together and I love my job but how fucking awkward would that be?? I have no family within 4000 miles and I don't have any friends i could stay with either. I am afraid to leave him and have nothing left.

[cyu]

The old ways of building credibility are fading with the internet. It used to be an adage among politicians that "You are no better than your credibility" and candidates would spend years carefully crafting their image, shaking hands and kissing babies, each bit of credibility they add to their name contributing to their future ability to use association fallacy to get their bad ideas implemented. When society is structured like a pyramid, people want to be sure those above them are trustworthy.

This is already starting to fade with the internet, and years spent on crafting credibility and honing reputation in the future will become more and more a waste of time. Those who are successful will be the ones who are good at packing all the good stuff into one idea bomb. With ideas coming from all directions and distances in the network, people will spend less and less time checking your credentials, and more and more time on the idea itself, before quickly moving on to the next idea. Even identity itself is becoming less permanent - people flit between accounts - or post completely anonymously. The old political tactics dealing with credibility and reputation are fading as well - character assassination doesn't work on those who change accounts or are anonymous - trying to paint Jewish or Chinese people as sneaky isn't going to work if the politician you're trying to target is always a faceless 4chan or reddit commentator.

If Paul has a close friend who has good ideas, he might often share those ideas with his twitter or youtube following. But if one day he decides Jesus is off his rocker about some topic, he might instead add in some points from his new acquaintance Muhammad. But what do Paul's followers do with Paul's ideas? They treat them like Paul treats the ideas of Jesus and Muhammad - to them, they are all just random internet inputs - some they disregard, some they take to heart, some they forget, some they won't remember until years later - and it's on to the next twitter or youtube posting from some other random prophet.

[The Intransigent Faction]

I'm not sure how I feel about this whole uproar over "Cecil the lion". Poachers are douchebags and everything, but as someone pointed out to me, how many of the people so angry over this consumed a bunch of nameless animals so far this year? Are there not people even more deserving of scorn who aren't getting it on the same level?

Also, sadly, the poacher is right about one thing: There are plenty of 'causes of the week' which flare up and fade away as soon as the media and their capitalist masters deem that appropriate.

[Zoop]

^ The fact that people are outraged shows that people are progressing when it comes to the issue of animal rights. It definitely is hypocritical to denounce hunting whilst biting into a hamburger, but I think those who condemn these acts the most passionately are the ones who are capable of shedding that hypocritical lifestyle and living more morally consistent lives.

Really though, fuck hunters, the sadistic flannels of shit.

[Danielle Ni Dhighe]

I'm not sure how I feel about this whole uproar over "Cecil the lion". Poachers are douchebags and everything, but as someone pointed out to me, how many of the people so angry over this consumed a bunch of nameless animals so far this year?
There's a difference between hunting or eating meat for sustenance and "trophy hunting" because you enjoy killing things.

[The Intransigent Faction]

There's a difference between hunting or eating meat for sustenance and "trophy hunting" because you enjoy killing things.

Absolutely. I should clarify that I'm not trying to excuse "trophy hunting". That was just something that was said to me, and even if there were no difference, that perceived hypocrisy would not excuse poaching anyway. That was just my knee-jerk reaction to the 'selective outrage', but when I stop and think, yeah, it's not that the outrage is without merit (far from it).

EDIT: On a completely unrelated note, Robert Conquest has died.

[BIXX]

Why is the closest Comcast building so far from my house

[StromboliFucker666]

It's funny when you make an innocent mistake and someone thinks there's more to it.

[BIXX]

Anyone down to post in a thread dedicated to uploading vocaroos of us screaming and nothing else? We could get high and listen to them and try to imagine what sleep was like.

[StromboliFucker666]

I wouldn't be opposed to the idea.

[Os Cangaceiros]

I don't really like hunting either. It's boring. I prefer more of the "crime of opportunity" aspect of killing helpless woodland creatures.

Eh, I haven't even killed that much. A few deer, a few rabbits, some ducks, one squirrel. I ate all of them, though, with the exception of the squirrel. Been a while since I got back in touch with my hick roots...TOO LONG

[Ele'ill]

murderer

[cyu]

In the distant past, the lack of technology limited the amount of information people could get. As a result, it was very difficult to hear about people beyond your immediate vicinity. Thus very few people were famous. You might know the name of a religious figure, and possibly the name of your king, but very few others had an impact on your life. If your king was replaced, you might not know for weeks, maybe even never.

As technology improved, it was easier to get information about outside your immediate area. More people got famous, but because there were more of them, each took up less mindshare among those who knew about them. It became more difficult to become God-King because people didn't obsess as much about a single person anymore.

In the internet age, it is now very easy for millions of people to hear about a great many other people, but it is getting much more difficult for individuals to dominate mindshare like they did in the past. For people who dream of being happy when they are famous like their legendary idols, they will be disappointed. If they can't figure out other ways to be happy, then they will be in for unfulfilled lives.

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/6f/88/5b/6f885b05a54ca0626bc01c8deb777146.jpg

[Ele'ill]

^ The fact that people are outraged shows that people are progressing when it comes to the issue of animal rights. It definitely is hypocritical to denounce hunting whilst biting into a hamburger, but I think those who condemn these acts the most passionately are the ones who are capable of shedding that hypocritical lifestyle and living more morally consistent lives.

Really though, fuck hunters, the sadistic flannels of shit.

I actually completely disagree with this. What is 'outrage'? Tweets? Protests? Rights? Liking pages? Meme's? Didn't these animals have rights but were poached anyways? I also think the people most passionate about these things usually have something invested in it to begin with i.e. organizations of varying stripes that tend to rally and campaign which of course benefits the organization more than anything else. Conservation is complete shit.

[Comrade Jacob]

I paid to go see Stirling Albion lose again. But at least Hull won.

[motion denied]

Feeling feels should be illegal.

[StromboliFucker666]

I am tired as fuck

[Comrade Jacob]

Feeling feels should be illegal.

I'd be executed by now

[StromboliFucker666]

My boss is a dick. I came very close to punching him. He was going off on a customer for being 2 days late on her payment for this month. I understand he must be hard on people or they will not pay but he took it waaaay too far with that lady.

[DOOM]

Lol who are those Rafiq guys
top kek though

[StromboliFucker666]

Lol who are those Rafiq guys
top kek though
Yeah I noticed that too. Why are there so many Rafiq's here?

[BIXX]

Everyone has their suspicions as to who it is. I know that I've been accused once or twice.

In fact in response to those accusations I almost requested that my name be changed to "The Puppeteer" but then I realized that people might not understand it was a joke.

[StromboliFucker666]

Huh. I just don't get why someone would do this though. It all seems rather stupid to me

[Comrade Jacob]

I like to pretend my rep are communism-points. The more I get the closer I am to transform into the ultimate communist.

[StromboliFucker666]

I like to pretend my rep are communism-points. The more I get the closer I am to transform into the ultimate communist.

What is the reward for being the ultimate trve kvlt proletarian communist?

[Cliff Paul]

What is the reward for being the ultimate trve kvlt proletarian communist?

A hundred stab wounds to the chest and head

[StromboliFucker666]

A hundred stab wounds to the chest and head
Euronymous!!!!!!

[Bala Perdida]

Euronymous!!!!!!
Holy dicks! Illuminate changed their name and you took their old avatar. I was so confused.

Anyways. I had to get a new fucking phone because my old one was getting terrible with the memory. Like deleting all my texts and an app to be able to receive/send texts. I even tried rooting it and tried hacking it to trick it into using my SD as RAM. Didn't work, and I ended up with even less memory. Couldn't recover skype, and talk to my skype homies on the go. Also lost flixter and yelp. I didn't even bother re-downloading taptalk, to inconsistent. Oh yeah, lost cracked too. Also every time I opened up the app it would stretch the memory. I got a phone with internal memory. Used and cheap off ebay. Also a fancy new MP3, being my old phone. So I can save the other off-brand phone I've been using for such. More than 16 Gigs of mostly Mexican and Colombian music. I was just moving my old collection of rap on there, for normal people to hear, when I found out I stretched the SD. Got a new one though, cheap too. I'll move it to my old phone, and hopefully have a faster interface. yeeeee

[StromboliFucker666]

Holy dicks! Illuminate changed their name and you took their old avatar. I was so confused.

That's kinda why i took it. I wanted to fuck with people, plus it's an awesome album haha

[StromboliFucker666]

I complain about my boss a lot. He's really not as bad as he sounds. He's doing my GF and I a huge fucking favor. I almost regret getting pissed at him so much.

[BIXX]

I complain about my boss a lot. He's really not as bad as he sounds. He's doing my GF and I a huge fucking favor. I almost regret getting pissed at him so much.

Any favour done by your boss comes with the threat of violence.

[StromboliFucker666]

Any favour done by your boss comes with the threat of violence.
I don't think he would hurt me. Sure, he's a dick and he does exploit my labor but would he actually harm me?

I grew up with his family so I think he would not hurt me or my girlfriend. His son was one of my best friends growing up.

[BIXX]

I don't think he would hurt me. Sure, he's a dick and he does exploit my labor but would he actually harm me?

I grew up with his family so I think he would not hurt me or my girlfriend. His son was one of my best friends growing up.

Violence isn't just cuts and bruises.

[StromboliFucker666]

Violence isn't just cuts and bruises.

What exactly do you think he's going to do? fire me?

[StromboliFucker666]

yes

[Cliff Paul]

That's kinda why i took it. I wanted to fuck with people, plus it's an awesome album haha

I keep seeing your posts and being like "wtf I wouldn't have written that shit" and then realize that its not me.

jk, still love you even if you tried to spy on me Miloti.

[Ceallach_the_Witch]

last two weeks were kind of good, last weekend i went to liverpool, finally on reasonable talking terms with one of my best friends again, then this weekend i went to a metal festival, saw Napalm Death and Godflesh, ate questionable processed meat products and drank warm beer in a field and smoked decent weed for the first time in a fucking year.

[DOOM]

Everyone has their suspicions as to who it is. I know that I've been accused once or twice.

In fact in response to those accusations I almost requested that my name be changed to "The Puppeteer" but then I realized that people might not understand it was a joke.

lol please do it

[StromboliFucker666]

I keep seeing your posts and being like "wtf I wouldn't have written that shit" and then realize that its not me.

jk, still love you even if you tried to spy on me Miloti.

You better love me, my party has a large amount of influence over yours now. (You are part of the democratic party, right?)

If you're ever in Shkodra, tell those goddamn liberals fuck you for me. Why do the liberals take over ever every good thing?

[Quail]

I keep seeing your posts and being like "wtf I wouldn't have written that shit" and then realize that its not me.

jk, still love you even if you tried to spy on me Miloti.

I can't deal with people changing both their avatar and user name.

[Sentinel]

The other day I changed my name into Raçavkirin, which means Sentinel in Kurdish, but had to change it back as it simply felt too damn weird as I've had the usersame for 10 years. I still want to change to it though, so now I have it as user title instead, in order to get used to it first..

[Sinister Intents]

Yay!!!! I ordered Lenin's Selected Works Volumes one, two, and three! ^-^

[StromboliFucker666]

My GF is about to get on the plane. YAY. She should be here by this time tomorrow!

[Cliff Paul]

I can't deal with people changing both their avatar and user name.

It doesn't make sense for me to be cliff paul without the avatar to match though

[DOOM]

damn I wish I had more $$$ for books

[Atsumari]

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/

[Futility Personified]

Supposed to be going to a festival today, though I lost my ID so getting in when I actually paid this time is going to be a problem.

Because we aren't leaving until the afternoon, I thought it would be an excellent idea to go out drinking last night, and had a few pints of old rosie. Now I feel like soundboard. Ow.

[Redistribute the Rep]

Bernie sanders supporters are starting to get really annoying. I hope he doesn't win

[StromboliFucker666]

Bernie sanders supporters are starting to get really annoying. I hope he doesn't win
I just want all of them to go away. No Sanders, no Trump, no Clinton, none of them.

[BIXX]

I keep seeing your posts and being like "wtf I wouldn't have written that shit" and then realize that its not me.

jk, still love you even if you tried to spy on me Miloti.

I keep seeing you thank my posts and thinking "who the fuck is this?"

[Cliff Paul]

I keep seeing you thank my posts and thinking "who the fuck is this?"

don't worry, when you finally get used to my new username I'll change it back to illuminate

[Sinister Intents]

Ohhhhhhhhhh that's who you are X', D

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Bernie sanders supporters are starting to get really annoying. I hope he doesn't win

I hope he does. Watching people backtrack is fun (see also: SYRIZA, Obama, Libya...).

[Cliff Paul]

I hope he does. Watching people backtrack is fun (see also: SYRIZA, Obama, Libya...).

Which side for the Libya conflict though?

[StromboliFucker666]

The plane ended up getting in 30 mins earlier than planned somehow. Oh well, I won't question luck :)

[Hermes]

Bernie sanders supporters are starting to get really annoying. I hope he doesn't win

I've been feeling the same way, and then I just get really down because I feel like those around me think I'm always being pessimistic/contrary simply for the sake of being so. I wish I actually knew one or two people in real life who either shared most of my viewpoints or just wouldn't make me feel like shit for holding them.

in the same vein, I recently got a facebook, at the urgings of family, and I've been feeling like shit because I'm dragging myself in to these idiotic arguments that I know have no purpose, but at the same time it's really my only interaction with people in general.

going back to college soonish, failed to find a job over the summer, spent the majority of it wasting time playing games. despite them saying that students with significant financial aid will be given priority for jobs, and my submission of applications every semester, I've only been contacted by them once. I'll probably either have to look for work at the gas station near the college and hope the hours fit my schedule, or try going in to the office.

[Cliff Paul]

bright eyes are not good work out music

[Sewer Socialist]

Got fired from another job. I've been fired from a lot of jobs.

[Os Cangaceiros]

I've been feeling the same way, and then I just get really down because I feel like those around me think I'm always being pessimistic/contrary simply for the sake of being so. I wish I actually knew one or two people in real life who either shared most of my viewpoints or just wouldn't make me feel like shit for holding them.

Really? Your non-political friends give you crap? That sucks man.

I think a few of my close friends probably have some idea that I hold extremist political beliefs/viewpoints, and maybe even recognize them as far left views, but it's not really a subject that comes up almost ever. I'll do what everyone else does from time to time and mock some ridiculous political issue but I don't really talk about the kind of advanced political topics you find on here a lot in "real life". It is always good to connect with more leftists, though

[BIXX]

don't worry, when you finally get used to my new username i'll change it back to illuminate

9646

[Cliff Paul]

Come at me you leftist

[Ceallach_the_Witch]

had another argument with my mum, i dont know why i bother because she only regurgitates talking points and soundbites about 'hard graft', 'you've just got to want it enough', 'get yourself noticed, get yourself out there'. Everything is about individual effort and choice, anything else is an excuse.

[BIXX]

I'm thinking about starting a martial arts studio where all I do is teach students complete bullshit on how to defend themselves, call it tactical fighting, and probably say something positive about my martial art's effect on LEOs or military, like how it was what was used to kill bin laden.

Then I will use that money to fund my actual martial arts training.

How does that sound as far as a financial plan?

[Counterculturalist]

Really? Your non-political friends give you crap? That sucks man.


Most people I know think I'm incredibly negative, cynical and pessimistic. I don't see myself that way at all, but since I never have anything good to say about mainstream politics (or much of anything mainstream) I can see how it would look that way to them.

I'm actually very positive and optimistic... it's just that I'm positive and optimistic about things that are beyond the pale for most people to even imagine, let alone discuss.

[Fourth Internationalist]

In a few interactions that I have seen with Stalinists and non-Stalinists, many Stalinists don't like to be called "Stalinists" and instead prefer to be called "Marxist-Leninists". We Trotskyists are perfectly fine using the name of Trotsky to specify what our beliefs are. Stalinists should be the same way about it. Both Stalinists and Trotskyists claim to adhere to Marx and Lenin, so it makes sense to use "Stalinist" instead of "Marxist-Leninist". It is a more accurate term to describe their tendency and it is also fair to all non-Stalinist Leninists. It'd be just as absurd if, say, Trotskyists identified their tendency as merely "Marxism". I would, of course, agree Trotskyism is a tendency of Marxism, but trying to monopolize this term for ourselves would be a dishonest way to try to delegitimize our political opponents that also identify as Marxists. If Stalin is worth standing behind, don't be afraid to stand behind him openly.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

I swear there was a German guy who founded a self-proclaimed "Stalinist-Hoxhaist" international (membership approximately one) when he left the main German "anti-revisionist" party after it had fused with the German USEC section (yes really). Then again he seemed a bit, ah, problematic to me.

[DOOM]

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/

Yeah I already know about this site, but for some reason reading pdfs with 200+ pages seems really inconvenient to me.
I love proper books becaue I can take notes, mark passages and show stuff to other people easily. Never understood the e-book frenzy tbh.

The downside however is obv my lack of money.

[human strike]

I have piles. It is excruciatingly painful. :(

[StromboliFucker666]

Mao

[Comrade Jacob]

Smoked some dank hash in the park today over the course of 4 hours, it was a good day. I had the nicest high ever, last time I "hit the blunt too hard" as the dank-crew says and ran across the road to get away from the NEDS "trying" to set me on fire.

[StromboliFucker666]

Smoked some dank hash in the park today over the course of 4 hours, it was a good day. I had the nicest high ever, last time I "hit the blunt too hard" as the dank-crew says and ran across the road to get away from the NEDS "trying" to set me on fire.
Are you sure that was just hash? Must have been some strong shit. I wish I had some right now...

[Comrade Jacob]

Are you sure that was just hash? Must have been some strong shit. I wish I had some right now...

They were talking about MDMA so I don't know if they laced that with it or not.
It was a double bucket hit actually.

[BIXX]

I have my account set to login automatically when I get to the site and I looked in the top right corner and I thought for a second it said "Sinister Intents" instead of "Placenta Cream" and so many thoughts crossed my mind all of them ending with the thought of "holy shit is this forum all just me trolling myself?"

[cyu]

holy shit is this forum all just me trolling myself?


That's what happens when intelligence agencies are poorly coordinated and go after the same political activists ;)

[BIXX]

http://www.revleft.com/vb/showpost.php?p=2848132&postcount=174

I cannot understand why this was done in threads that as far as I can tell weren't posted in for years.

[cyu]

When you want to change the outcome of an experiment, you must change the initial conditions. This also applies to history ;)

Like if you want my support for some hair-brained scheme, show a fake post of mine supporting it from 6 years ago, and say, "See? You supported it back in 2009!" And I'll shrug my shoulders and say, "Hell if I know, I was taking LSD then." xD

[StromboliFucker666]

I'm tired as fuck. I'm tired a lot, aren't I?

[Cliff Paul]

I'm tired as fuck. I'm tired a lot, aren't I?

check your vitamin d levels

[StromboliFucker666]

check your vitamin d levels
Maybe. I thought I got enough from the the sun but maybe I don't.

[Comrade Jacob]

I got an e cig again and now I remember why I smoke real cigarettes.

[BIXX]

Maybe. I thought I got enough from the the sun but maybe I don't.

Judging by how much you post on revleft there's no way you get enough Vitamin D from the sun.

[StromboliFucker666]

Judging by how much you post on revleft there's no way you get enough Vitamin D from the sun.
There is this thing. It is called a smart phone. You can access the internet from it almost anywhere. Even outside! I also post a lot in one sitting. I will make like 3 posts in one sitting and then post more later.

[Ro Laren]

I got an e cig again and now I remember why I smoke real cigarettes.
Using one has increased my desire to start smoking actual cigarettes(not going to happen, too cheap and also my mother would be so disappointed...). But I fucking love nicotine. I don't care about the flavor or making huge clouds, I just love chain vaping until I get a nicotine rush. I just wish it didn't look so stupid.

I feel a little weird about not really posting in political threads here. I read them but I don't have the time/energy/desire to be anything other than a committed lurker. :rolleyes:

[Zoop]

I got an e cig again and now I remember why I smoke real cigarettes.

I smoked an e cig once. It really is nothing compared to a real cig.

[BIXX]

I want to smoke cigarettes again but I want none of the negative effects except for cancer.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Can't sleep again.

If the socialist revolution happened tomorrow, would that mean anything to me? I'm 26. I'm pretty sure I've gotten the "best" I could get out of life and it was pretty shit, even if I woke up in a classless society tomorrow it would mean a lifetime of dealing with everything that has happened up to this point until I die.

Scared to death of death.

Nonetheless if I have to go it would be common courtesy for the world to go with me. Burn it all down.

[Sewer Socialist]

I had my first coaching session today (I'm the coach), and holy fucking shit.

This 22 year-old's time in the 4000m pursuit went from 5:26 down to about 5:00 (in one day). I don't even understand how that's possible, and he's now about 8 seconds away from a track record. I was double checking my math, being like, am I massively fucking this up, or is this kid just suddenly faster than I ever was?

I still don't even understand where it came from - he's been sort of an average racer all year, and somehow he pulled out faster times than everyone else at the track, except for maybe a couple people.

Anyway, this is late in the season, we're just getting some specific practice in a technically difficult event (pacing is harder than it seems) before he goes to race at the Canadian National Championships. With some hard work over the winter, we can be pretty ambitious for next year. I'm pretty excited, for the first time in a while.

[willowtooth]

I was just thinking about one my best friends since childhood who is in jail for life, hes never getting out for a crime that he totally did fucking commit, and when i think about problems in my life, or how things are unfair, or how i a upset I am about some problem i am having, i just remember this guy who was damn near just like me as and child will never be free for the rest of his life.

[cyu]

Sometimes revolutions come with prison breaks. As for whether it is a good idea to free all prisoners, that depends on the strength of the society the revolutionaries bring.

[Ceallach_the_Witch]

Can't sleep again.

If the socialist revolution happened tomorrow, would that mean anything to me? I'm 26. I'm pretty sure I've gotten the "best" I could get out of life and it was pretty shit, even if I woke up in a classless society tomorrow it would mean a lifetime of dealing with everything that has happened up to this point until I die.

Scared to death of death.

Nonetheless if I have to go it would be common courtesy for the world to go with me. Burn it all down.

wow i always assumed you were like, 38

[Cliff Paul]

wow i always assumed you were like, 38

I agree. Xhar-Xhar is too young for his level of cynicism.

[Os Cangaceiros]

If the socialist revolution happened tomorrow, would that mean anything to me? I'm 26. I'm pretty sure I've gotten the "best" I could get out of life and it was pretty shit, even if I woke up in a classless society tomorrow it would mean a lifetime of dealing with everything that has happened up to this point until I die.

Eventually you get to a part in life when everything you will experience is pretty much just a variation of something you've already experienced. That's just part of getting older I guess. I'm 26 too. If I died today I'd be somewhat satisfied with how my life turned out, there's not really much that I haven't done that I have a burning desire to accomplish. I know quite a few old folks (like my parents) who still get a lot of pleasure out of just doing basic things, though, and that keeps me from feeling too sorry for myself.


Using one has increased my desire to start smoking actual cigarettes(not going to happen, too cheap and also my mother would be so disappointed...). But I fucking love nicotine. I don't care about the flavor or making huge clouds, I just love chain vaping until I get a nicotine rush. I just wish it didn't look so stupid.

You could always just chew nicotine gum.

[human strike]

I have piles. It is excruciatingly painful. :(

Turns out it was actually an abscess. Nasty, ugly business. I'm in a lot less pain now though. :) A couple of times I almost passed out from the pain. Nasty business.

[cyu]

Was thinking about Machiavelli's opinions about fear and love the other day. Seems fear can get you immediate obedience, but is actually what people resort to when they are unable to achieve love. What makes love more powerful? Not only do they do what you want, but they also try to figure out other things you might want and do it without you asking for it, or even without you knowing you actually wanted it in the first place. Fear, on the other hand - well, there was a long period in Rome, where basically all emperors got in power by killing the previous emperor...

[Ele'ill]

For those in the US, 7-11 sells nicotine gum now which was a really big thing for me to quit since I'd otherwise have to get on public transit and spend several hours going to get more. It's also less expensive, it's like 3.99 for 10 pieces and they often have coupons for $1 off. Since I quit smoking I have more energy and spend less on nicotine since the gum lasts longer and is less of a physical habit. I am also sick a lot less and it usually doesn't last very long when I am. Although my main reason for posting in the thread is to say that I've been really sick for over a week. I thought it was a cold but now I'm thinking it was the flu even though I never got a high fever that I was aware of. Still have a cough and sinus congestion but it is that flu sinus congestion feeling.

[Comrade Jacob]

If anyone want to add me on Facebook just PM me and I'll give you my name.

[Црвена]

I broke 200 posts! Yaaay!!!

[cyu]

You know those experiments where they take the average of everybody's face, and it's basically the face of an attractive person? I guess the theory is that internally, everyone averages all the faces they see, and use that to determine what a "normal" person looks like, and that's defined as attractive - if you're not "normal" then you're weird looking.

So what happens if you're some old, ugly, wrinkled guy who wants to be considered attractive? Take control of as much visual media as you can, and put both your face, and people who look like you, everywhere. This skews the averaging process people do in their heads. The more people read your magazines or watching your TV shows, the more your face becomes the standard of "normality" in their minds. For people who consume no visual media, they'll be mostly immune since they will be averaging the people they see in their daily lives.

Kind of interesting is what happens when cultures clash? You might come from a culture where your face and body type has been plastered all over the visual media, so you are considered attractive in your culture, and you show up in some remote location, where they have an entirely different standard of beauty. What will they think of you? I would say that even though your visual stature may have no power there, you may still carry with you the air of someone who is used to people being attracted to you. So you already walk, talk, and act like someone that is used to people thinking you're attractive. How does this affect people in a different culture? If their version of attractive people also display many of the behaviors you do, then Pavlovian conditioning may result in those people feeling an unexplained attraction to you too.

[Ceallach_the_Witch]

i have escaped the Salt Mines for another year by being accepted onto a masters course

[Os Cangaceiros]

The salt mines have been tearing my body up, consider yourself lucky. The pain in my lower back/spine is pretty bad whenever I'm bent over (which is often, because I'm always hunched over a net). My legs are frequently numb and cramped and spasm. This season has really messed me up. But the good news is that it'll be over in about a week, then I'm off for another eight months or so.

Plus there is something about physical labor that is somewhat satisfying. I kick back at the end of the day, take a couple pulls out of a bottle of vodka & smoke some weed and think I accomplished some shit today...it wasn't easy but I did it!

[A Revolutionary Tool]

I probably had one of the most irritating customer service moments of my life last night. If there's one thing I can't stand it's when these fucks try getting free food out of people by blaming the people who work there. I don't give a shit if you want free stuff, if you ask me for a water cup I'll give you a soda cup and you can do whatever the fuck you want. During the graveyard shift there are no managers there, just two of us workers.

This lady comes through the drive thru ordering a simple sandwich and instantly she is taking it out of the bag to check on it. Already I know she's going to be an annoying prick. So she calls me over to the window and starts whining about how one of the pieces of meat on her sandwich is too thick. Okay, I'm going to do whatever to get her out of here as quick as possible so I tell her that I'm sorry and that I can have it remade. Nope, that's not good enough for her. She DEMANDS me to bring the cook over, hand him the piece of meat that is too thick for her, discipline him in some sort of fashion, and have him apologize to her. What the actual fuck, obviously I refused to do this, I'm not going to humiliate my coworker in front of a customer like that, I don't know what weird fucking enjoyment she gets out of this. Then she gets mad I won't do this so she starts asking for free food. "You're not even going to give me something for free, like a milkshake or a fry?" The standard thing to do was to give them something for free but fuck that, there was no way in hell I'd give her anything, I told her all I would do is remake her sandwich. She tells me one more time to bring over the cook to apologize and I said no so she starts yelling at me that I'm a pussy. Just starts yelling into the window how we're both fucking pussies so I close the window on her and walk away.

My boss was then mad at me because I didn't give anything to her for free! Not surprising she takes the "let the customer trample on your spirit," stance. Most people complain about working with customers, I don't think it's that terrible though. Most of the people I interact with just want a sandwich and some fries and they're on their way but it's these other customers that make me hope there's a fire that burns down that whole area.

[cyu]

I didn't have many friends in high school so I hung out with this other kid who didn't have many friends either. He was a bit conceited, which may have been one of the reasons he didn't have friends. I could tolerate a lot then - I guess I had to. I lost touch with him after high school.

Anyway, the thing that sticks in my mind about him was that he was Dungeon Master of a long D&D campaign we were in. I think I was a Lawful Neutral cleric or something - not exactly an anarchist yet ;) At the end of the campaign, he wanted to kill off all our munchkin characters, so he set up this impossible battle with a beholder. We all died, but his favorite NPC escaped - an illusionist gnome I think - usually helpful to our party, but kind of mischievous. I guess I still imagine that rascal running around out there somewhere. Perhaps the wisest thing he taught me was that so much of our game world was an illusion, and to constantly repeat the phrase, "I disbelieve!" ...especially when those unavoidable magic missiles were coming at you :lol:

[Atsumari]

I didn't have many friends in high school so I hung out with this other kid who didn't have many friends either. He was a bit conceited, which may have been one of the reasons he didn't have friends. I could tolerate a lot then - I guess I had to. I lost touch with him after high school.

Anyway, the thing that sticks in my mind about him was that he was Dungeon Master of a long D&D campaign we were in. I think I was a Lawful Neutral cleric or something - not exactly an anarchist yet ;) At the end of the campaign, he wanted to kill off all our munchkin characters, so he set up this impossible battle with a beholder. We all died, but his favorite NPC escaped - an illusionist gnome I think - usually helpful to our party, but kind of mischievous. I guess I still imagine that rascal running around out there somewhere. Perhaps the wisest thing he taught me was that so much of our game world was an illusion, and to constantly repeat the phrase, "I disbelieve!" ...especially when those unavoidable magic missiles were coming at you :lol:
lol that clears some things up about where you got your analogies from

[cyu]

Stop analyzing my history - it's no more important than any other gamer's history :lol:

[Bala Perdida]

I just finished up a 5am breakfast sandwich only to find out that I forgot to pick-up gum when I got it. Oh well. Hopefully this rockstar can freshen up my breath.