What's On Your Mind XVII

[RedAnarchist]

The last thread reached 500 posts and can be found here - http://www.revleft.com/vb/whats-your-mind-t193673/index26.html

[Ele'ill]

I am the 1st post, this is a big win for me

[Aurorus Ruber]

There is a show I want to watch, but I cannot seem to get around all sorts of obstacles. Hulu doesn't work on my computer and browser for some reason, and even if it did, that site only have part of the first season so I could hardly get caught up.

[Guardia Rossa]

Third post.
Because I want to be here for eternity haunting the first page.
(Or at least until the next thread.)

[Comrade Jacob]

My zionist nan is visiting from Spain. She needs to stop going on and on

[human strike]

"Edinburgh University astronomers find sunless world"

You'd have thought astronomers in Edinburgh would have noticed a lot sooner that there's no sun in Scotland.

[cyu]

Meme fidelity

In the old pyramid command model, meme fidelity is preserved by authoritarian methods. Everyone throughout the system is forced by various methods to obey the top of the pyramid as accurately as possible.

In a network, where each node is potentially linked with every other node, or has to rely on bridge nodes to relay the meme to new networks, meme fidelity has to rely less on authoritarian methods, and more on how much each node likes the meme. If they don't like it, then the meme transmission is immediately stopped (although other nodes may still transmit the meme around the blockage). If a node doesn't think the meme is perfect, then the node may rewrite it in a way that they think is better. If some parts of the meme are liked so much by some given node, that node may obsess over it, and transmit that part of the meme even more earnestly than the source.

Each node in the network applies their own filter to the memes passing by. Unpopular (or incomprehensible) memes are quickly contained and filtered out. Popular ones spread like wildfire, spawning all sorts of variations and improvements, even applications in unintended branches of knowledge. Attempting to maintain fidelity is a losing battle though. Eventually the meme will have to cross the language barrier, where fidelity is very difficult to maintain. Even if you manage to preserve a language across centuries, the changing context around which the language operates, will result in different interpretations of the original message.

[cyu]

Not sure if there are more, but there seems to be 3 reflexive ways people assign blame.

1. Blame yourself - these are the people who (either naturally or have been conditioned to) blame themselves for everything wrong in their lives. They are easily scapegoated by sociopaths since they don't fight back. As a result, they see their lives as a string of failures, and eventually withdraw from society into depression.

2. Blame others - these are people who blame others for everything that goes wrong. Whether they believe it deep down doesn't matter. Blaming others is a learned behavior, a defensive mechanism used to protect their own ego, and their status among others. These people live lives filled with conflict with the people around them.

3. Blame environment - these are people who shift the blame into the world around them, they blame the culture, they blame society, they blame the system. This helps protect their own ego, and reduces conflict with those around them. These people probably tend to become revolutionaries.

(Of course everyone falls into a spectrum between these types of behaviors, although some are much closer to one extreme than others.) Also interesting is how these types of people interact. For example, two type 1 people end up each blaming themselves for things that go wrong with their relationship - while conflict is minimal, it may eventually lead to both sides giving up on the relationship, or some other tragic ending. Type 1 dealing with type 2 might lead to an abusive relationship, in which type 2 becomes the abuser, and type 1 believes they deserve everything they get. Type 1 dealing with type 3 would probably require the revolutionary to overthrow the oppressive regime around them - hurry up guys ;)

[cyu]

When pro-capitalists attempt to ram through legislation like the TPP, ironically they're unintentionally fanning the flames of anarchism.

http://quotes.lifehack.org/media/quotes/quote-Louis-D.-Brandeis-if-we-desire-respect-for-the-law-40293.png

[The Intransigent Faction]

My city's got this thing online where we can 'customize a budget'. I want to cut winter maintenance service and increase funding for libraries, but it keeps giving me some message about how people, especially seniors, will be more likely to get injured and take legal action against the city or something.

I want to leave a comment saying I will personally shovel every driveway in my neighbourhood all winter if it means getting better selection in the political science section of the closest library than fucking Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity (almost anything good has to be ordered from another branch). That would also be great exercise. Sadly, I don't think I'll be taken seriously. :(

[BIXX]

Can you cut the police budget 100%

[human strike]

Looks like I might have a commission that could hopefully lead to a permanent job further down the line. If I weren't so quashed by anxiety I'd probably be a relatively successful filmmaker or photographer by now. As it happens though I'm a freeloading anarchist who is either really fucking lazy or a nervous wreck when it comes to anything professional. I'm proud of the lazy part, but it'd be nice to feel a little less scared of things that have always actually been simple and worked out well for me.

[Bala Perdida]

Maaaaan I hate having a cold sore pop up. The cream ain't fast enough. I didn't even get herpes having any fun with a partner, like on TV. It was passed down genetically or whatever. You know, parent had it so I was born with it.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

It really annoys me how terms like "socialist" and "communist" have been taken over by people who think "small is beautiful", the market appreciation crowd, the artsy people, "decolonisers", people obsessed with autonomy, with "the indigenous" etc., there needs to be a term for us humourless, dour planned industrial economy types.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Full clipboardism now.

[The Intransigent Faction]

Can you cut the police budget 100%

I fucking wish. The most it would allow is 5%. :(

[Comrade Jacob]

Deathcore, grindcore, hardcore all fucking suck. It's time for applecore!

[cyu]

The more people who are happy with their lives, the more they want order and predictability. They fear losing what they have, so they fear change.

The more people who are unhappy with their lives, the more they find hope in chaos and turmoil. They fear the lack of change, since that just means continued unhappiness.

Traditionally, it seems those on the side of structure and predictability favor authoritarian hierarchies. Everything is tightly controlled and rigid - every caste has their place. They can easily predict what is going to happen next - or at least, what is *supposed* to happen next.

Those on the side of change operate more fluidly - unpredictability becomes their arsenal, something they celebrate. Even societies with strict top-down pyramid structures have always allowed a certain level of anarchy within their societies, because those at the top can see the value of the creative introduction of new ideas from the chaos.

If there is too much unhappiness, the chaos overwhelms existing lattice structure, and old hierarchies are torn down - revolution. Over time, new structures are built up again - but if it's just another top-down pyramid structure, the corruption it facilitates eventually builds up enough unhappiness, and another revolution follows.

I guess the question is, is there a societal structure rigid enough to keep happy people feeling secure and living predictable lives, while still providing enough fluidity around unhappy people such that they too can quickly crystallize into a structure that they enjoy?

People in power can already easily make their own worlds happy - they can promote only people that they like, and so surround themselves with an inner circle of people that they like, and if they're lucky, live out their happy little lives surrounded by their favorite people. Of course, if their power structure is creating misery among the masses, sometimes their inner circle is pierced by assassins, ending their illusion of utopia.

But what if there was no pyramid and everyone spent their time looking for people to promote into their inner circles? Either that eventually leads to a structure in which everyone is happy with those around them, or they are in constant fluid motion, always looking for people they get along with more to put in their inner circle.

[Comrade Jacob]

Thinking about Value, price and profit

#JustMarxistThings

[The Intransigent Faction]

Thinking about Value, price and profit

#JustMarxistThings

Hashtags are reactionary. :mad:

[willowtooth]

Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

[The Intransigent Faction]

Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

Wow, that really resonates with me.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/microsoft-s-new-emotion-detecting-ai-is-hilariously-bad-at-detecting-emotions-1.3314852

Computers can't read emotions with complete accuracy...Surprise!

[Sewer Socialist]

666 rep B) B) B)

[Comrade Jacob]

Thinking about Dialectical and Historical materialism

[olahsenor]

Thinking of studying photography, excel in the profession, sell my photographs through a website, and use my earnings to start breakfast club for poor indigents, homeless persons and the like. From that I can experiment on rabbit, pigeon and quail sausages using sheep or bovine casings. The leanest meats!

[Црвена]

Something that happened today:

Me: I failed that maths test. I look forward to my parents burning me alive when I get home.
Friend: It's because you're Asian, right?


...My friend was dead serious.

[Redistribute the Rep]

Does anyone remember that 'socialistlawyer' guy or whatever his name was? That ohlasenior user reminds me of him

[olahsenor]

Well, Tim Cornelis was really giving me sh***. I've apologized so many times for some imagined 'crime' I did not do... Ban me. I am trying to behave but I would not condescend that much to my abasement..

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Stress is really getting to me, to the extent that I'm having hallucinations, so I'll be away from RL and leftbook for a couple of days at least.

[The Intransigent Faction]

That moment when someone you consider a casual acquaintance says you're a good friend. Hm.

[#FF0000]

That moment when someone you consider a casual acquaintance says you're a good friend. Hm.

This happens to me pretty often. Never sure what to make of it.

[Quail]

Thinking of studying photography, excel in the profession, sell my photographs through a website, and use my earnings to start breakfast club for poor indigents, homeless persons and the like. From that I can experiment on rabbit, pigeon and quail sausages using sheep or bovine casings. The leanest meats!

:crying::crying::crying:

[Os Cangaceiros]

This happens to me pretty often. Never sure what to make of it.

You assume it's bullshit and leave it at that.

Someone gave me a compliment that I thought was really good at the time, so I remembered it: "I like you, you carry yourself well". I'd never heard anyone use the expression "carry yourself well" before.

[motion denied]

TRA TRA TRA TRA, o sistema vai modelar
matéria prima sem valor pra polícia desfigurar
tabaco, álcool, crack, fuzil anti-aéreo
a linha de montagem começa no berço e vai até o cemitério

[Comrade Jacob]

I'm ok at German, but in my dreams I'm very fluent. I look up what I said in my dreams and it makes sense to the situation. :confused:

[Counterculturalist]

I'm ok at German, but in my dreams I'm very fluent. I look up what I said in my dreams and it makes sense to the situation. :confused:

Sometimes it really seems like we can be more competent and intelligent in our sleep than awake.

Several times in university, I went to bed with an essay I had to write on my mind but no idea how to get started or even approach the topic. Then I'd have a dream that I was writing the essay. I'd wake up in the morning and the thing would write itself. I don't know how that's possible, but it saved my ass a few times!

[Црвена]

I'm ok at German, but in my dreams I'm very fluent. I look up what I said in my dreams and it makes sense to the situation. :confused:

So geht es mir auch! I also recall random vocab in my dreams that would have been really useful when I actually have a test, but for some reason my brain only decides to finally remember it when I don't need it. Thanks a bunch, brain.

Also, my English is going a bit funny because of the 3 other languages I'm studying...today I said "that has sense" instead of "that makes sense." Weird.

[willowtooth]

Wow, that really resonates with me.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/microsoft-s-new-emotion-detecting-ai-is-hilariously-bad-at-detecting-emotions-1.3314852

Computers can't read emotions with complete accuracy...Surprise!

93% of communication is non-verbal so we never know what anybody is really saying ;)

[Shinyos]

Stress is really getting to me, to the extent that I'm having hallucinations, so I'll be away from RL and leftbook for a couple of days at least.

I hope you feel better soon. Dealing with stress is very exhausting, and not something to play around with.

I am currently going through antidepressant withdrawal, from Effexor. I had to switch to a different mediation as the maximum allowed dosage wasn't helping me. My psychiatrist didn't taper down on it and simply gave me an increased dosage of another medication. I can sense that he doesn't gave a damn about what he's doing so as long he gets a paycheck in the end.

[cyu]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8rbHwMXMT8

"They're not sending you out there to be a hero, they're sending you out there to be a bully."

[Zoop]

"Muslims" is one of the top trending topics right now on twitter.

Sigh.

[The Intransigent Faction]

"Muslims" is one of the top trending topics right now on twitter.

Sigh.

"400-billion tweets and not one useful bit of data was ever transmitted." - The Onion

[cyu]

If the only things told are lies, you can piece together the truth from what they are intentionally trying to avoid.

[motion denied]

the world is a fucking horrible place, i mean wow

really, this is shit fucking sucks lmao

[Os Cangaceiros]

One useful trick to influence other people or at least get them to notice you: remember names. You will often ingratiate yourself fast to someone if on another occasion you can successfully recall their name (which people like, because I think it registers subconsciously as "I must be a unique-enough individual that this person actually remembered my ascribed moniker!) and (if applicable) how you know others who they also know. You'd think that this would be an obvious thing for people to do but surprisingly many people choose to put no effort at all into remembering someone's name. If you just devote some of your memory to names & associations, I think it's actually pretty easy to infiltrate social circles and you can end up knowing quite a few different people.

That is my RL life-coach for the day.

[motion denied]

The other day I met this girl. We talked for like 10 minutes and at the end of it I couldn't remember her name at all. I was embarrassed.

[Quail]

^ That seems to happen to me all the time. I always try to repeat people's names to myself in my head but I seem to have real trouble remembering them.

I got anxious at this jiu jitsu thing I was at and just left without telling anyone. Now I feel anxious about what people will think of me for disappearing. It's relentless.

[Comrade Jacob]

The other day I met this girl. We talked for like 10 minutes and at the end of it I couldn't remember her name at all. I was embarrassed.

I don't remember the names of people I've been talking to for years

[Ceallach_the_Witch]

im stuck on an assignment thats a week laite. i can't concentrate or move forward and i'm so depressed its manifesting as pain and i feel incredibly sick all the time. i don't really have any friends left and i can't stand living in my body, this stupid wrong body. something is wrong with my tuition fees and i might get kicked off the course even if i finish this asssignent and even if they accept my circumstances of mental illness and stress. this masters degree is the only thing i really had any hope for any more and as silly as it is is the only thing thats really letting me consider staying alive. and i dont want to stay alive. it's rubbish. its been rubbish for years. i've wanted to die in my sleep every night for weeks because that seems so much better than facing another morning. i've woken up tired every day, tired and weak. i dont feel i'm in control of anything i do because i keep doing things that i don't want to and not doing things i want to. where exactly did i go wrong.

fuck

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

The other day I met this girl. We talked for like 10 minutes and at the end of it I couldn't remember her name at all. I was embarrassed.

...10 minutes? That's not much, really. I've spoken to a lot of people whose names I don't know for over 10 minutes. Maybe I'm just a freakazoid, though, don't know.

[Counterculturalist]

I'm always nervous and uncomfortable when meeting new people, which leads to me having a hard time remembering their names (or, in the worst cases, even following the conversation.)

On the other hand, I also have a knack for remembering people's names and other things about them even after not having seen them for years, which people do generally find quite flattering. In fact, not to get into TMI territory, but this directly led to a very enjoyable evening at least once :).

[Црвена]

...10 minutes? That's not much, really. I've spoken to a lot of people whose names I don't know for over 10 minutes. Maybe I'm just a freakazoid, though, don't know.

Yeah, I'm usually terrible at asking people's names. Unless someone asks me first or I need their contact info, their name shall never be known to me. -_-

Is everything ok, by the way? You mentioned being really stressed out a couple of days ago.


On the other hand, I also have a knack for remembering people's names and other things about them even after not having seen them for years, which people do generally find quite flattering. In fact, not to get into TMI territory, but this directly led to a very enjoyable evening at least once

That's a useful skill...it's especially helpful when the person you're talking to is someone you don't really know or particularly like, from my experience!

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

I'm fine, I decided to take a few days off and it worked. Unfortunately today I had to drive for around 6 hours in the car of someone who speeds like a maniac, so I'm still full of adrenaline. But I'm not stressed out anymore. How did it go with the exam and your folks?

[cyu]

where exactly did i go wrong.


When slaves are born into a slave society, it is not their fault.

The same applies to wage / debt slaves born into a society of wage / debt slavery.

[Shinyos]

When slaves are born into a slave society, it is not their fault.

The same applies to wage / debt slaves born into a society of wage / debt slavery.

I don't really think that's helpful...

[Shinyos]

im stuck on an assignment thats a week laite. i can't concentrate or move forward and i'm so depressed its manifesting as pain and i feel incredibly sick all the time. i don't really have any friends left and i can't stand living in my body, this stupid wrong body. something is wrong with my tuition fees and i might get kicked off the course even if i finish this asssignent and even if they accept my circumstances of mental illness and stress. this masters degree is the only thing i really had any hope for any more and as silly as it is is the only thing thats really letting me consider staying alive. and i dont want to stay alive. it's rubbish. its been rubbish for years. i've wanted to die in my sleep every night for weeks because that seems so much better than facing another morning. i've woken up tired every day, tired and weak. i dont feel i'm in control of anything i do because i keep doing things that i don't want to and not doing things i want to. where exactly did i go wrong.

fuck

I cannot give you anything to make you reconsider suicide, as it is something that also comes to my mind as well. But you don't necessarily want to kill yourself, you just want the pain that you endure in everyday life to end. Suicide may accomplish this, but once you die, you're taking away the subtle possibility of life getting better for you. Please realize that having those thoughts is not a sign of weakness or cowardliness, and anyone who says otherwise is an idiot, and that is a word that I don't normally use.

I've found that the best way to deal with those thoughts is to put them off for a later day, and distract yourself to something that you enjoy. Make time for you to indulge for yourself and relax, and see if it can be helpful for you.

[cyu]

Some people accept the bars around them, and try to learn to live well within the confines of the prison.

Other prisoners do not.

The former are less likely to be revolutionaries.

[Guardia Rossa]

First time I shoot with something not related to handcrafted school-wars bow/crossbow/catapult/chalk-thrower. My aim is quite good with a pressure carbine (Although my hand shakes too much and I take too long to aim, hey, first shots), horrible with the bow. Can't wait to shoot with the .22 rifle, although the ammo is either legally scarce or illegally expensive.

The pressure carbine and the .22 rifle belongs to my friend, the one I'm attempting to bring to Marxism (Quite hard, he was raised a reactionary. I gave him Rousseau, Owen and some history books in order to soften him up enough for Marx.)

I still prefer to read and write, though. :P

[Comrade Jacob]

Ireland just put themselves in front!

[Црвена]

I'm fine, I decided to take a few days off and it worked. Unfortunately today I had to drive for around 6 hours in the car of someone who speeds like a maniac, so I'm still full of adrenaline. But I'm not stressed out anymore. How did it go with the exam and your folks?

Glad to hear it :) (not about the speeding!)

Still haven't told 'em yet...I'm going to have to wait until parents' evening to be fried. But I've been fried so many times that I don't really care that much anymore. They'll just have to accept that I'm not the little genius they want me to be.

[cyu]

Government advice for sociopaths coming into power:

1. Try as hard as you can to fix domestic problems.

2. After that fails (sociopaths always fail), distract attention away from your domestic failures by trying to start a war.

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

Holy smokes, Downtown Abby is getting pretty crazy rn; somebody stole a spoon! I'm on pins and needles. I'm just so excited they make cat broth so I can make all my kittens soup for lunch ^-^ and! I finally have time to finish knitting some of their Christmas outfits, ahhhhhhh, needed this day off

With what? My awesome "if I'm sitting I'm knitting" pillow my frans got meh lolol

[Comrade #138672]

Computers can't read emotions with complete accuracy...Surprise!Me neither.

[Guardia Rossa]

Guide for "Marxist" Dogmatism (Weirdo Maoist and Faux-Stalinist-turning-into-another-Weirdo-Maoist (Nazbol) in this case):

1) Say that we should support IRA because Marx said in 17th century that liberating Ireland from UK would make a revolution there easier (Yea, right now the Labour Party could start the revolution as soon as N.I. is freed -_- )
2) Say that we should support IRA because Lenin said a century ago that Marxists should support national liberation (Even when the nation doesn't wants to be free and is actually quite autonomous) (Even weirder, Stalin divides nationalities according to language, quite stupid really, but this guys don't follow Daddy Stalin's orders! WTF?)
3) Say that Ireland is actually an opressed colony of UK, and that we should free it because we are against imperialism (As if Ireland was deeply exploited, was just a market for English goods, if they died en masse, etc... like in 17th century and before)
4) Ignore that liberating Ireland from UK now won't do a shit because UK is not opressing it anymore, joining the two Irelands may result in a civil war, etc...
5) Ignore that at the same time Rosa Luxembourg was against the policy of national liberation because it fueled nationalism and chauvinism (Or something like this, not an expert)
6) Ignore that Northern Ireland actually gets shitloads of subsides and that the only nations with big independence movements in the UK are actually Scotland and England (!)
7) Put Syrian flag on Facebook profile
8) Call me liberal imperialist english-dick-sucker
9) Ban me from the group (He became the moderator when I left)
10) Repeat

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

I wish they made like a car version of absinthe so my cats could drink with me rn :( I know they make a cat wine but I hate wine and it wouldn't be the same :( what a cruel world, maybe I'll just get me some wine. All I know is I got me sals pizza and spirits and cats and AHS and I'm content

[human strike]

I've never dated anyone who went to private school before, but now I find I'm seeing two people who did. One of them, their dad was Bini Netanyahu's accountant or banker or some such. The other's dad was Russell Howard's accountant. I think this says something about their respective class backgrounds.

My dad is a teaching assistant in a special needs school. To be honest, I wish he were a banker, cuz if he's gonna be a wanker at least he could be a rich one.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

I've been coughing and keeping quiet (i.e. not talking to people) for so long my voice sounds like a frog being strangled in a tin barrel. :unsure:

[Bala Perdida]

I've never dated anyone who went to private school before, but now I find I'm seeing two people who did. One of them, their dad was Bini Netanyahu's accountant or banker or some such. The other's dad was Russell Howard's accountant. I think this says something about their respective class backgrounds.

My dad is a teaching assistant in a special needs school. To be honest, I wish he were a banker, cuz if he's gonna be a wanker at least he could be a rich one.

Them: Do you know who I am? I'm the heir to one of the most successful concrete laying companies in the peninsula!

Me: And do you know who I am? I'm the #1 dish washer at Original Joe's in downtown!

That's not actually where I work for obvious reasons but it parallels.

[cyu]

Next time someone mentions "conspiracy theorists" online, I should ask them if they think this is a conspiracy theory:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

[cyu]

The more authoritarian an organization, the more concentrated their media companies, the more centralized the society's ideation, the more likely the society will drift into self-delusion.

[The Intransigent Faction]

As part of an assignment I have to attend, and write an article about, a talk by this man to a crowd business students next week:

DVxU66FVyu4

Apparently, the private sector is leading the way on investment in green technology, and it's government interference through oil subsidies that's threatening the environment. Oh, if only the government stayed out of corporations' business, the planet would be safe...

Seriously, I'm racking my brain trying to figure out what to ask attendees and/or this man himself. I need to at least appear to respect the vaunted "objectivity" of journalism, while still calling bullshit as I see it in order to maintain my sanity.

[Vee]

What does kek and topkeks mean? i keep seeing people use it and i've never heard it until recently.

[#FF0000]

What does kek and topkeks mean? i keep seeing people use it and i've never heard it until recently.

it's basically "lol".

"kek" came from World of Warcraft.

"topkek" is like a Hostess cake from Europe.

v:mellow:v

[BIXX]

What does kek and topkeks mean? i keep seeing people use it and i've never heard it until recently.

It's a corruption of lel, which in turn is a corruption of lol

[Futility Personified]

Is Red Dave actually banned or is he being silly with the text under his name?

[Guardia Rossa]

Is Red Dave actually banned or is he being silly with the text under his name?

I have been wondering the same. I saw it now on that old thread (I guess you saw that there too?)

[Art Vandelay]

Is Red Dave actually banned or is he being silly with the text under his name?

Red Dave went down in the 2011 purges.

[Futility Personified]

Whoops, was reading an old thread.... why did he get banned though? Was he one of those close the borders type or a homophobe?

[Guardia Rossa]

Red Dave went down in the 2011 purges.

But I think I saw a post of his some days ago??

EDIT: Yea, prob another old post someone resurrected.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

it's basically "lol".

"kek" came from World of Warcraft.

"topkek" is like a Hostess cake from Europe.

v:mellow:v

"Kek" is a shortening of the Korean "kekeke", an onomatopoeia for laughter, if I recall correctly. "Topkek" (top cake) is a cheap and nasty little cupcake thing from the Turkish company ETI, responsible for bringing to the world such joys as Tutku, Popkek and that thing in the fridge what I don't remember buying and it kind of scares me.

(But not Kat Kat Kat, as I said in an earlier version of this post. That was by Uelker. I know all of these horrible Turkish confectionery things because they were extremely popular in our student cantina back in the day. By the way, the thing in the fridge is not a joke - I have some sort of awful Turkish cherry doughnut... thing... that I don't remember buying, I can't find the receipt for it and whenever I open the fridge I just avert my eyes from the spot where it stands because it's freaking me out.)

[Art Vandelay]

Whoops, was reading an old thread.... why did he get banned though? Was he one of those close the borders type or a homophobe?

It was during the time that the alleged 'fascist infiltration' happened and I believe the official reason for his banning was that he played a part in it, or was a security threat of some sort.

[motion denied]

yfw people call other people 'post-modernists' when what they really mean is 'faggot'

[Guardia Rossa]

yfw people call other people 'post-modernists' when what they really mean is '[REDACTED]'

Well, my guess is all postmodernists are [REDACTED]s.

Now, to a more serious answer, non-postmodernists usually hate postmodernism.
Either because it is too complicated (I admit I only know very little of it, mostly through contact with postmoderns and Zizek), because they [The people that dislike P.-M.) are really conservative idiots or (My case) because they see it not as revolutionary, but a acceptance of the capitalist logic and the defeatism of not believing in the possibility of a revolution. Or, reformist.

[Futility Personified]

Post modernism is a mess of contradictions. In many instances you can say it is self-aware, innovative (I fucking hate that bloody word) and aims to build upon the foundations of what came before. At the same time you can say it is a poor attempt to fight cultural stagnation, weakly recycling superior things that came before and tearing them from their original context. The latter springs to mind regarding nearly anything with a 'leftist' theme. Originality has long since passed, look at websites like TV tropes....

I think an interesting argument would be along the lines of: Is hip hop post modernist?

Merely on the basis that when it initially came around it was the product of combining existing songs and rapping over them, and then building upon or referencing other people's work. Is it enough to reference other things or to use a pastiche approach, or does the title of post modern require more?

Despite enjoying quite a few things that are definitely post modern, as an analysis of culture is always struck me as pro-capitalist and soulless.

[The Intransigent Faction]

That feeling when you learn a prospective employer has just laid off a few hundred people...

[Zoop]

I like MMA, but the infantile, macho posturing is just so fucking embarrassing.

[The Intransigent Faction]

Business Student: "What does financial independence mean to you?"

Oh, the series of smartass responses...so many to choose from.

[human strike]

The amount of pro-Russia shit I see on the internet from leftists is fucking ridiculous.

[cyu]

infantile, macho

http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2012/10/4/3451586/mma-analysis-fan-data-shows-bright-future-ufc-combat-sports

"the 12-17 and 18-34 male demographic is the bulk of the fanbase"

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

Everclear, more wings than I could count, some worm clamoring for my attention, this is going to be a splendid evening indeed lol (knock on wood)

[BIXX]

I like MMA, but the infantile, macho posturing is just so fucking embarrassing.

One thing I've noticed is that while it happens in my old gym, its a lot different. Like there would be macho bullshit but it was really less intense and people really were just there to learn.

[Sewer Socialist]

White supremacists shot up my home town, by any definition a "mass shooting," a "hate crime," an "act of terrorism," and yet I've barely heard anything from the media about it. A mass shooting of people already protesting the racist state, the racist police, the city which to this day remains highly segregated. A mass shooting which was ignored by the police station on whose property it occurred, literally steroids from the doors of it, except to pepper spray people demanding medical attention.

The mayor apologized for the police gunning down someone who was lying inn the fetal position in another city I used to live in, only a full year after the incident, and presumably long after he had a chance to review it; only making sure the guilty cop was charged with murder when it seemed likely the reformists were going to be unable to contain civil unrest and popular action against the racism of the state, maybe even the state itself and the exploitation it upholds.

Racist threats were made good as a black man was assaulted, beaten, and taunted with slurs on a college campus off the city I currently live in, with

My personal life continued 100% as usual today, me the only disturbed person as far as I encountered today in this atrociously disturbing society, the lone comrade of mine being my co-worker who works in a different building but I text about all the shit I'm stressed out about.

It's all familiar, in cities I know, and yet I feel so distanced and alone.

[Zoop]

Sam Harris: "I'd vote for dangerously deluded, religious imbecile Ben Carson over Noam Chomsky."

I guess he's still bitter about Chomsky's annihilation of him.

[Counterculturalist]

He actually said that Carson - whose own advisors have publicly stated that the man can't wrap his head around the current geopolitical situation - has "a better understanding" of the Middle East than Chomsky. Unbelievable!

I know Chomsky isn't particularly well-liked here on revleft - and I have my reservations about him despite having a generally positive view of his work - but if there's one thing Chomsky knows, it's foreign policy. If this doesn't convince Harris's followers that their idol is nothing more than a reactionary bigot, nothing will.

[human strike]

John McDonnell quoted Mao in Parliament today. Chuka Umunna said he would never quote a communist because he only quotes people like Nelson Mandela. What a fucking idiot.

[Ceallach_the_Witch]

umunna should be fired. into the sun.

[Zoop]

When you apply rom-com behaviour to real life, it is far less funny, and far more creepy and disturbing.

[Spectre of Spartacism]

In New York City and have already had four shots of tequila two glasses of wine and am preparing g for some ever clear. God bless this great holiday. Seven hours left and I have no plans to stop :lol:

[Spectre of Spartacism]

Did you know the thing they pilgrims planted most of in their fist year in North America? Their dead kin and friends. Fun fact!

[Zoop]

And to think that I actually once (many years ago) admired this piece of shit:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/10/27/richard-dawkins-taught-a-lesson-by-trans-women-_n_8397344.html

[cyu]

Everyone is admirable until they get too much influence and attention. After that, they are intentionally corrupted by the people in power.

[The Intransigent Faction]

The head of the RCMP recently said he wants police to have warrantless access to data from ISPs.

...I'm pretty sure a bill calling for that was already debated and rejected even by many of the erstwhile government's own supporters. So, someone's acting like a child who keeps asking for a toy no matter how many times he or she is told "No."

Yeah, this is political, but I didn't want to make a serious thread about it. I just wanted to say I'm tired of seeing the same debates rehashed every few years. If people would realize in just ONE of those recycled discussions that the same old dichotomies are false and narrow ones ("liberty/security", taxes/profits...) then maybe discussions would become less repetitive.

[cyu]

then maybe discussions would become less repetitive.

When the king doesn't want the peasants involved, they distract the peasants with useless conflict.

http://flickeringtubelight.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2004/05/eggs.jpg

[Vee]

i can't sleep because it's too cold even with the heater on. arrgh

[human strike]

I can't believe the things shops throw away. I got an incredible haul from bin diving tonight. We were looking for food but we found a bin full of brand new clothes. I got a new coat, new boots, new shirt and some new socks (probably worth at least £60 in all). There's shit loads more which we're gonna donate to local houseless or refugees either here or in Calais.

[cyu]

The only way to keep prices up is to create artificial scarcity.

http://www.takepart.com/article/2012/12/14/new-report-shows-california-farms-leave-food-unharvested

If volumes are too large for food banks within a reasonable distance to accommodate, it usually will end up in a landfill.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

If I am being monitored by some kind of government organisation, they're probably wondering why I'm searching for "rainbow ladder" right now. Physics terminology is weird.

[The Intransigent Faction]

I just got my schedule for next semester. The one person I've really connected with as a friend will be in none of my classes.

I guess I have to get to know more people. :unsure:

[Zoop]

On the Ripper museum:

http://www.classwarparty.org.uk/category/ripper/

https://johnnyvoid.wordpress.com/2015/12/02/fuck-the-rich-lets-shut-down-the-ripper-museum-and-start-taking-our-communities-back/

People become so desensitised to misogyny to the point where a Ripper museum is considered fun and appropriate.

Imagine if a Dahmer museum opened up in a community with a prominent lgbt population.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

There is any number of museums dedicated to the Church or the British Empire, or any number of institutions that killed more gay people (and women) than Dahmer. The world is already fucked up.

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

On the Ripper museum:

http://www.classwarparty.org.uk/category/ripper/

https://johnnyvoid.wordpress.com/2015/12/02/fuck-the-rich-lets-shut-down-the-ripper-museum-and-start-taking-our-communities-back/

People become so desensitised to misogyny to the point where a Ripper museum is considered fun and appropriate.

Imagine if a Dahmer museum opened up in a community with a prominent lgbt population.

You mean like a serial killer museum?

.....I might actually visit such a thing.

[BIXX]

Unless I'm missing something about the ripper museum (does it glorify killing women?) I don't see an issue with it, I would go to a Dahmer museum too and I am a queer. I don't get the issue.

[The Feral Underclass]

Unless I'm missing something about the ripper museum (does it glorify killing women?) I don't see an issue with it, I would go to a Dahmer museum too and I am a queer. I don't get the issue.

It's because the people who own the museum originally claimed they were building a museum to celebrate women in the East End. That's how it was proposed to the community...When it was revealed that it was actually a Jack the Ripper museum, people were obviously pretty annoyed.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

Damnit, not only is it fucking freezing and my heater isn't working but the shower I'd use to escape the cold for ten minutes only let's out cold water because our water heater is fucking ancient and rusty. So now I'm cold and my ass stank! I'm thinking of boiling some water over the stove and taking a bath :mad:

[A Revolutionary Tool]

It's because the people who own the museum originally claimed they were building a museum to celebrate women in the East End. That's how it was proposed to the community...When it was revealed that it was actually a Jack the Ripper museum, people were obviously pretty annoyed.
Oh God, the irony actually made me laugh out loud, that's terrible.

[Comrade Jacob]

I'm thinking about thos dialectics.

[The Feral Underclass]

Oh God, the irony actually made me laugh out loud, that's terrible.

Yeah, it's a pretty sick thing to do.

[The Intransigent Faction]

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/12/02/can-you-answer-the-exam-question-that-stumped-the-internet.html

:grin:

The answer, by the way, is "True".

[The Feral Underclass]

^That made me lol.

[cyu]

If I am being monitored by some kind of government organisation, they're probably wondering why I'm searching for "rainbow ladder" right now.

The more power you have, the more you can record and store for longer periods of time. The more power you have, the more you can monitor simultaneously. Even if they don't have time to look at what you're doing now, if you ever give them a reason in the future, they can look back at their older records.

If you become important at the national scale, then you'll be monitored at the national level. If you become important at the galactic scale, then you'll be monitored at the galactic level. If you become important at the multiverse level, then they'll search backups of this universe for everything you've ever done ;)

[BIXX]

It's because the people who own the museum originally claimed they were building a museum to celebrate women in the East End. That's how it was proposed to the community...When it was revealed that it was actually a Jack the Ripper museum, people were obviously pretty annoyed.

Oh my god OK yeah I think that makes sense to be pissed.


That sounds ds like shut that'd happen in a bad comedy

[cyu]

http://psych.wisc.edu/braun/281/Intelligence/LabellingEffects.htm

He had two groups of students test rats, wrongly informing them either that the rats were specially bred to be "maze dull" or "maze bright." In reality, all rats were standard lab rats, and were randomly assigned to the "dull" and "bright" conditions. The results showed that the rats labeled as "bright" learned the mazes more quickly than those labeled as "dull."

This probably explains why we do double-blind experiments, but it makes me wonder about other things, like

If you treat someone as more likely to be a racist, do they become more racist?

If you treat someone as more likely to betray you, do they become more likely to betray you?

If you treat someone as more likely to display leadership skills, do they become more likely to display leadership skills?

If you treat someone like they are more likely to be socially inept, do they become more socially inept?

Reminds me of trying to measure light as a particle or wave...

[Comrade Jacob]

I don't want to be here but I am here. All other leftist forums are very inactive.

[Bala Perdida]

After sleeping for 3 hrs I'm at work in again in the bathroom. At 5 am. At least I'm getting my hours now. Just in time too, make up for the holidays. Why do I gotta spend for people I don't even like? Idk

Hopefully I brighten the lives of the people I do like.

[Guardia Rossa]

Didn't slept today. Life is too stressing, I can't do something serious without distracting myself every now and then or I start getting really really bored and sad.

My life is going from place to place thinking on anything to let me not think on my real life.

I'm going to make a school newspaper, a marxist one, called "The Student", "O Estudante" With the anarchy symbol on O, the hammer on T and a book on A
If anyone have tips in any more symbols, PM me.

[motion denied]

Don't use hammer and sickle nor the anarchy symbol ('anabola'). Like, in anything ever.

[motion denied]

I tried to watch Hunger Games.

jesus christ how utterly horrendous

[human strike]

http://psych.wisc.edu/braun/281/Intelligence/LabellingEffects.htm

He had two groups of students test rats, wrongly informing them either that the rats were specially bred to be "maze dull" or "maze bright." In reality, all rats were standard lab rats, and were randomly assigned to the "dull" and "bright" conditions. The results showed that the rats labeled as "bright" learned the mazes more quickly than those labeled as "dull."

This probably explains why we do double-blind experiments, but it makes me wonder about other things, like

If you treat someone as more likely to be a racist, do they become more racist?

If you treat someone as more likely to betray you, do they become more likely to betray you?

If you treat someone as more likely to display leadership skills, do they become more likely to display leadership skills?

If you treat someone like they are more likely to be socially inept, do they become more socially inept?

Reminds me of trying to measure light as a particle or wave...

Yes.


Didn't slept today. Life is too stressing, I can't do something serious without distracting myself every now and then or I start getting really really bored and sad.

My life is going from place to place thinking on anything to let me not think on my real life.

I'm going to make a school newspaper, a marxist one, called "The Student", "O Estudante" With the anarchy symbol on O, the hammer on T and a book on A
If anyone have tips in any more symbols, PM me.

The International Student Movement logo (or a variation of it) could make a good T. I liked to design with it back in my student days.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

It happened again, after months of barely talking to anyone I started talking with this girl only to find out today that, yes, she's a Catholic.

Kill everyone now.

[Bala Perdida]

It happened again, after months of barely talking to anyone I started talking with this girl only to find out today that, yes, she's a Catholic.

Kill everyone now.

Like symbolic 'I believe in god' but doesn't go to church Catholic? Or the kind that goes to their local church's prayer group and all the terrible and quiet events that plan? Also the second one is always trying to drag you to those events/prayer sessions/sacrifices or whatever they wanna call them

[motion denied]

Drunk texting. Yeah this sounds like a good idea.

[The Intransigent Faction]

I'm going to make a school newspaper, a marxist one, called "The Student", "O Estudante" With the anarchy symbol on O, the hammer on T and a book on A
If anyone have tips in any more symbols, PM me.

I'd love to hear more about this as it gets going. :)

[Ro Laren]

Discussing/looking at getting my CDL. Trying to make plans for my future puts my stomach in such a knot. I end up getting scared off and not doing anything all.

And now it's 2AM and I'm tired but too anxious to go to bed.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Like symbolic 'I believe in god' but doesn't go to church Catholic? Or the kind that goes to their local church's prayer group and all the terrible and quiet events that plan? Also the second one is always trying to drag you to those events/prayer sessions/sacrifices or whatever they wanna call them

Didn't wait to find out, legged it.

[cyu]

Even though it's frown upon by many elders of the party, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missionary_dating is one way to raise the consciousness of the masses.

If Jesus could walk among the fallen, why should we only preach to the choir?

[This isn't completely serious, but not entirely joking either ;) ]

[Црвена]

I am now grounded because my parents found out there was alcohol at a party last week, even though I didn't buy it, I didn't drink it, and nothing bad came of it. They maintain that I "had to have drunk it" even though it was plainly obvious last week that I didn't.

Sometimes I feel like parents deliberately try to be difficult.

[The Intransigent Faction]

I was skimming through a court document to do research for a story, and I came across that quote in my sig. It's from a ruling against taking references to the Queen out of the Canadian citizenship oath. I thought it was ironically insightful.

[Bala Perdida]

My mom asked me to accompany her to dinner with an old priest. After about 789 calories I regret taking in, I have a headache and I'm never accompanying my mom to dinner with weird people ever again. I would've rather been at work! WORK!!! ON A SATURDAY!

[The Intransigent Faction]

Ever find yourself working on a project with someone and wishing you were working with someone else? :unsure:

[cyu]

Get a divorce - no wait, the capitalist won't let you ;)

[BIXX]

Had a dream I was stuck in a thread with cyu and ckaihatsu and somehow I couldn't leave the thread and it was just diagrams and cyu saying wiers shit about pyramids.

[cyu]

Speaking of which, here's a diagram of a pyramid :lol:

http://www.bravenewlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/hugh.png

[Quail]

Ugh I've had such a boring and draining day. First I had to write out the solution to a maths problem for one of my clients. I wanted her to be able to read it easily so I typed it up on LaTeX. It took ages to type up and was a pretty routine definition-checking type problem so it was pretty boring. Then I spent ages puzzling over how the fuck to apply for a phd. Then I tried to write a CV and it's awful. It looks awful. How the hell do I make my qualifications and experience look good? Now I have to to some admin work for my partner's business, and later her/our friends are coming round so I won't get to relax. Everything can go to hell, I want to curl up in bed.

[Counterculturalist]

Had a dream I was stuck in a thread with cyu and ckaihatsu and somehow I couldn't leave the thread and it was just diagrams and cyu saying wiers shit about pyramids.

Just had the dreaded "laugh out loud at work and spit coffee all over my keyboard and a bunch of archival photographs that I'm working with" reaction :lol::laugh:

[Faust Arp]

I hate it when I get into a debate, begin writing an actual effortpost™, only to get distracted by some AFK shit and manage to get time to continue writing the post only after a whole week. Leaving just like that mid-debate looks stupid as hell, but so does responding after a whole week, so I just end up letting it die.

[Црвена]

My German oral exam - which I had spent the entire morning worrying about - was postponed until Monday.

This was me in the corridor: http://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/64333292.jpg

[Bala Perdida]

I gotta pay back $5000 by September. Then after that I think another $4000, I thought not going to college ment I didn't have that in the game of life

[Thirsty Crow]

The moment I begin dreaming about revleft...will be the moment I stop dreaming about irrelevant and/or stupid shit.

Come cyu and chaiktsu, join me in dreamland.

[cyu]

Row row row your own boat
Nobody else will care
Mary Lee, merrily, marry me, marrily
Life is but a nightmare

The more people who fail to reach their dreams, the more people who realize society has become a nightmare, the more people who start waking up.

[BIXX]

Row row row your own boat
Nobody else will care
Mary Lee, merrily, marry me, marrily
Life is but a nightmare

The more people who fail to reach their dreams, the more people who realize society has become a nightmare, the more people who start waking up.

Lol

Trump 2016

[Zoop]

This is amazing.

https://www.facebook.com/AnarchistsforBernieSanders/

[The Intransigent Faction]

This is amazing.

https://www.facebook.com/AnarchistsforBernieSanders/

Oh my God!

https://www.facebook.com/MarxistLeninistsforHillaryClinton/

[Zoop]

Oh my God!

https://www.facebook.com/MarxistLeninistsforHillaryClinton/

There's one major flaw with Hillary though: she isn't a Bernyite.

#FeelTheBern

[cyu]

Lol

Trump 2016

When one person suffers, people think "awww" and carry on with their day.

When a significant minority suffers, people get worried, but try to make it through their own day.

When the suffering comes to them personally, they think, "WTF is wrong with this society? I'm mad as hell!"

The less empathy in the society, the more the suffering of others is ignored. If in order to control the messages in the media, you have to step on others, you have to ignore the poor so that you can focus your wealth on purchasing power, then the messages in that society will be controlled by people who have purged themselves of empathy.

[Zoop]

When one person suffers, people think "awww" and carry on with their day.

When a significant minority suffers, people get worried, but try to make it through their own day.

When the suffering comes to them personally, they think, "WTF is wrong with this society? I'm mad as hell!"

The less empathy in the society, the more the suffering of others is ignored. If in order to control the messages in the media, you have to step on others, you have to ignore the poor so that you can focus your wealth on purchasing power, then the messages in that society will be controlled by people who have purged themselves of empathy.

Bernie can solve all that.

#BernieForPrez

[cyu]

Bernie is one person. Syriza was an entire party and ended up doing diddly squat.

Bernie won't be able to fix anything unless the revolution has already happened without him, and he's merely elected as an after-thought.

[Zoop]

I wasn't being serious.

But of course, Bernie can introduce true anarchy to the world.

#BernieForPrez

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Why worry over presidential elections? Come to Croatia and inshallah you too can experience not just the joys of having a withered Barbie doll as a president but also a trouslerless, senile old man bellowing that the Serbs are too protected as your foremost human rights expert, and a clerical slimeball whose party won less than 20% votes in the election as the most important politician.

[cyu]

Ah, sorry I can't tell when I'm being trolled :lol:


But of course, Bernie can introduce true anarchy to the world

That will be a job for just me and you :wub:

[The Intransigent Faction]

So it's come to to this...


http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/alberta-firm-selling-fresh-canadian-air-in-canisters-1.3359236 (http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/alberta-firm-selling-fresh-canadian-air-in-canisters-1.3359236)


Alberta firm is making money selling fresh Canadian air in canisters. Vitality Air sells for $15-$46, depending on size.

[Quail]

I'm ill and I feel really weird and not quite human.

I'm up later than I'd like to be solving a damn maths problem for a client. I already solved it, but I used a different method so I have to do it again for her. I can't wait to go to bed.

It's kind of annoying how with this tuition thing I have to bend over backwards for my clients to avoid getting bad reviews on the website I advertise on. I don't mind working for free/less money for friends but when it's a total stranger who's expecting you to work for free it's hard not to just be like, fuck you and fuck off. Because bad reviews.

[Comrade #138672]

I'm ill and I feel really weird and not quite human.

I'm up later than I'd like to be solving a damn maths problem for a client. I already solved it, but I used a different method so I have to do it again for her. I can't wait to go to bed.

It's kind of annoying how with this tuition thing I have to bend over backwards for my clients to avoid getting bad reviews on the website I advertise on. I don't mind working for free/less money for friends but when it's a total stranger who's expecting you to work for free it's hard not to just be like, fuck you and fuck off. Because bad reviews.I am sorry that people are exploiting you (which may sound strange on this site, since it is all about exploitation, but you know what I mean). I do not know your situation, but I hope it will get better for you soon.

[Aslan]

I watched a movie called Persepolis at my school. Although our teacher left our class and probably didn't look at the movie's content (it gets graphic-ish at some points).

But anyway,the movie has made me been thinking of my own experiences. The main character's story is very similar to mine. Her childhood was similar in the fact that we had many of the same views. Although the part that specifically hit me the most was her experiences in a western nation [Austria] which were similar to my own. The blatant discrimination, the feeling of a loss, her struggle with ideology. The fact that her uncle who inspired her revolutionary fervor was a Communist (Marxist-Leninist) was incredible . As it is the first western piece to have a positive view of Communism.

[Quail]

I watched a movie called Persepolis at my school. Although our teacher left our class and probably didn't look at the movie's content (it gets graphic-ish at some points).

But anyway,the movie has made me been thinking of my own experiences. The main character's story is very similar to mine. Her childhood was similar in the fact that we had many of the same views. Although the part that specifically hit me the most was her experiences in a western nation [Austria] which were similar to my own. The blatant discrimination, the feeling of a loss, her struggle with ideology. The fact that her uncle who inspired her revolutionary fervor was a Communist (Marxist-Leninist) was incredible . As it is the first western piece to have a positive view of Communism.
Read the graphic novel if you can get hold of it. It's even better than the film.

[BIXX]

I don't know why but persepolis didn't make me feel anything. The main character I'm that just comes from such a different standpoint that I don't think it'd be possible for us to arrive at the same conclusions, or the same points in out lives where we already lost the war.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

I just realised Ernst Nolte (the pro-Nazi historian) is still alive and ranting about "Islamic fascism" now, lol. Isn't the guy kind of overdue to die anyway I mean he's ninety-something now. He's wasted enough air as it is.

[Aslan]

Read the graphic novel if you can get hold of it. It's even better than the film.

Awesome just awesome, Marjane Satrapi is a badass! There literally was a fucking scene at the end of the movie where she was met God. She made her ''spiritual awakening'' but that wasn't the best part though! Our beloved bearded revolutionary agreed with God and reminded Satrapi about the revolution.

I'll try my best to get it.

[BIXX]

My boss is telling my coworkers to stop talking to me. He is going.out of his way to prevent conversations from taking place, which could mean a lot of things. Either someone let it slip that we might get a union campaign going soon, or someone told him that his existence makes me glad that bad things happen to old people (he's getting ridiculously old).

[cyu]

My boss is telling my coworkers to stop talking to me. He is going.out of his way to prevent conversations from taking place, which could mean a lot of things.

The more infectious you become, even reality won't be able to quarantine you ;)

[Comrade Jacob]

Hull City and Stirling Albion both won today and I got high for the 1st time in 2 months and I was rekt.

[Aslan]

Its 24C here where I live. And its the middle of fucking winter!

Also, when will Justin Bieber just go away? I thought that little scumbag would just fade away! But he just stuck onto society like shit on a shoe!

[The Intransigent Faction]

Its 24C here where I live. And its the middle of fucking winter!

Also, when will Justin Bieber just go away? I thought that little scumbag would just fade away! But he just stuck onto society like shit on a shoe!

After the revolution, people will stop paying attention to talent-bereft "pop stars" who are deemed potentially profitable enough to benefit from marketing by major record labels and start paying attention to music as an art.

Also, there will be a 24-hour Red Army Choir radio station.

[cyu]

I would assume post-revolution, people would spend less time in the audience, and more time participating rather than spectating - not that they wouldn't be allowed to spectate, but the ruling class likes to discourage participation whenever they fear revolution - which is basically always :lol:

[Quail]

Beauty standards are so messed up. Being bombarded with images of "perfect" bodies that don't even look human has warped my mind so that I no longer really know how the fuck bodies are supposed to look. Does anybody not have body image issues in this day and age?

I find my body is simultaneously too masculine and too feminine. When I put on a dress I feel upset that my breasts are small, that my waist doesn't go in enough, and so on - but as soon as I replace that dress with a shirt or tank top my body suddenly turns into an hourglass figure that refuses to be bound and flattened down. It's frustrating... But at least part of it is down to having no idea what real people, real bodies look like.

Maybe I need to do some life drawing or something. How can I unlearn all this bullshit and find peace with myself?

[BIXX]

We are probably too broken

[Bala Perdida]

A customer famous for throwing a fit on me came back today and threw yet another fit because their dumb ass didn't learn the store policy. Yet again, my department manager was off, and both store managers were off as well. So I had to deal with their bullshit, and act like I didn't want to drop the customer and give them something real to complain about.

[cyu]

One day, someone is going to tell you you're beautiful just the way you are. You won't believe it, you will think it's just empty flattery, and you will send that person packing. That will be the last time you see your soulmate.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

[Synergy]

Also, when will Justin Bieber just go away? I thought that little scumbag would just fade away! But he just stuck onto society like shit on a shoe!

I have sad news comrade. Justin will be leading the revolution of the future. YOU WILL LIKE IT AND BOW DOWN BEFORE THE KING.

[cyu]

Justin is either the Second Coming in disguise, or your wingman to distract everyone, so that you can do the really important stuff behind the scenes ^^

[The Intransigent Faction]

So I was sitting in Starbucks, reading (yeah, I know, I'm a privileged dipshit :lol:) and a lady sitting next to me said "I like this Starbucks. They actually have the balls to say 'Merry Christmas'!"

I just kind of loudly sighed. On her way out, she (total stranger) put her hand on my shoulder and said "Merry Christmas!" with a big grin on her face before walking out.

Oh, that "Merry Christmas vs. Happy Holidays" debate.

:glare:

[Spectre of Spartacism]

So I was sitting in Starbucks, reading (yeah, I know, I'm a privileged dipshit :lol:) and a lady sitting next to me said "I like this Starbucks. They actually have the balls to say 'Merry Christmas'!"

I just kind of loudly sighed. On her way out, she (total stranger) put her hand on my shoulder and said "Merry Christmas!" with a big grin on her face before walking out.

Oh, that "Merry Christmas vs. Hapy Holidays" debate.

:glare:

But you have to keep the Christ in Christmas!

[cyu]

The only reason Christmas exists is because of Christ, but nobody cares about Christ, they're all in love with Christmas.

[The Intransigent Faction]

Apparently it's silly to say air shouldn't be commodified because "That's how capitalism works."

I guess when you take the whole system for granted, someone calling out its flaws is just stating the obvious, because calling for that to be changed is just unthinkable. :glare:

[Counterculturalist]

Rarely does my utter lack of motor skills and hand-eye coordination confront me as starkly as when it's time to wrap Christmas presents, and what should be a quick and harmless chore turns into a frustrating, pulse-pounding, blood-pressure increasing, cold sweat inducing nightmare. :(

[Quail]

Rarely does my utter lack of motor skills and hand-eye coordination confront me as starkly as when it's time to wrap Christmas presents, and what should be a quick and harmless chore turns into a frustrating, pulse-pounding, blood-pressure increasing, cold sweat inducing nightmare. :(

I'm not bad at wrapping presents, BUT I'm such a perfectionist I always end up having to redo them because they don't look right.

[Bala Perdida]

I'm not bad at wrapping presents, BUT I'm such a perfectionist I always end up having to redo them because they don't look right.

I just ball it up together and let those bastards be happy I got them anything in the first place. Then I unwrap it because I left the receipt with it, then I wrap it again.

[BIXX]

Anyone wanna start prepping?

[Guardia Rossa]

Yesterday I drank so much coffee that my hands started to shake and my mind was on overload, thinking too fast. But I did it, 800 words per minute at Spreeder.

Now I need to read "Leviathan", paint a 20x30 canvas with some surrealism and make a 6 pages research on Thermodynamics in two days. School is starting to get fun.

[human strike]

Fuck, my brain works so much better on MDMA. Over the years I've seen lots of people get fucked on it and turn into babbling idiots, but my experience has always been increased coherence, clear mindedness, and far better articulation of thoughts - I'm just generally more with it than I am sober. I guess it helps a lot that I don't really drink on it, but I think it highlights just how stressed and anxious I usually am and how badly it affects my cognition (not to mention self-esteem and energy levels).

[human strike]

Come to think of it, if I take a lot my working memory goes to pot and I sometimes see things that aren't there, but besides that haha

[A Revolutionary Tool]

I'd be careful with MDMA. I recently tried it and was doing it semi-regularly for a few months until I started noticing my roommate becoming a fiend for it. He'd be asking his grandma for money to buy food (that he actually needed) and then he'd spend it on that, which was a pretty bad sign for me. When he's not on it he's terribly depressed/suicidal so for me it's not really worth doing anymore.

[Thirsty Crow]

I'm starting to think, that person make-total-destroy was absolutely right all along.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

How do people get along with "normal" (for me, that mostly means straight, manly or ostentatiously feminine) people? I for one always find myself worrying about their positions, mostly if they're homophobes (most of them are), and in fact I haven't had a straight friend for... I guess eight years now, with one exception. Which really bugs me - the exception I mean.

[Aslan]

I love Chief Keef... I'M SORRY! its a guilty pleasure!

capitalism THATS THAT SHIT I DON'T LIKE!

A bourgeois THATS THAT SHIT I DON'T LIKE!

A DEGRADED WORKER'S STATE THATS THAT SHIT I LIKE!

BANG! BANG!

[Thirsty Crow]

How do people get along with "normal" (for me, that mostly means straight, manly or ostentatiously feminine) people? I for one always find myself worrying about their positions, mostly if they're homophobes (most of them are), and in fact I haven't had a straight friend for... I guess eight years now, with one exception. Which really bugs me - the exception I mean.
I dunno. Most of my closest friends are heterosexual and there's no reason to worry about their prejudice, 'cause there's seemingly none (or they're masters at the hide-and-seek of a discriminatory kind). There were also a lot of chances for suppressed opinions to come right to the surface and nope, nothing of that kind.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Then I don't even know if we live in the same city. Probably it's just that we move in different circles. As for me, I've even gay people spew homophobic nonsense.

But I don't even know why I'm complaining, I think the real truth is that I'm not really interested in meeting new people anyway. These day I even keep the old inner circle at arm's length.

[Thirsty Crow]

Then I don't even know if we live in the same city. Probably it's just that we move in different circles. As for me, I've even gay people spew homophobic nonsense.

But I don't even know why I'm complaining, I think the real truth is that I'm not really interested in meeting new people anyway. These day I even keep the old inner circle at arm's length.
Should be the circles thing, surely. I consider myself quite lucky in that.

It can be healthy to complain. I know I used to wish for different kinds of people at certain periods and hell yeah, I took some chances at complaining to vent that frustration. I wouldn't want to assume too much so here's that.

[Ele'ill]

i like how a lot of the salt-flush advice sites in their instructions specifically advise you not to fart at any point after consuming the salt water

[Vee]

this is my first christmas away from my family. i miss them.

[The Intransigent Faction]

Two of my friends are engaged. A family friend who I knew from some classes just had a baby. My cousin is now employed full-time and moving in with her boyfriend. I just turned 25 yesterday, and all I can think of, hearing all of this, is "Damn it, I've really gotta get my shit together."


I just ball it up together and let those bastards be happy I got them anything in the first place. Then I unwrap it because I left the receipt with it, then I wrap it again.

In my family, the tradition is to ball up the wrapping paper and throw it at each other. :D

[Counterculturalist]

In my family, the tradition is to ball up the wrapping paper and throw it at each other. :D

Same here, on my dad's side. We've been doing it as far back as I can remember, and I've seen home movie footage of my dad and his brother and sisters doing it well before I was born.

[Thirsty Crow]

Two of my friends are engaged. A family friend who I knew from some classes just had a baby. My cousin is now employed full-time and moving in with her boyfriend. I just turned 25 yesterday, and all I can think of, hearing all of this, is "Damn it, I've really gotta get my shit together."

A very close friend of mine is married and has two kids. Also employed full time, another friend engaged and planning her career. I'm 28.

Getting my shit together? Would be nice, yeah.
But on the brighter side of things, I was happy to see two pieces of info in the midst of all the Star Wars "frenzy". New reboot film trailer and much more importantly, a new Star Trek show announced for 2017 :wub:

[Quail]

But on the brighter side of things, I was happy to see two pieces of info in the midst of all the Star Wars "frenzy". New reboot film trailer and much more importantly, a new Star Trek show announced for 2017 :wub:

But will it be any good? I don't think I dare allow myself to feel excited about it.

[Thirsty Crow]

But will it be any good? I don't think I dare allow myself to feel excited about it.
The show is said not to be based on the alternate Abramsite reality; I'm just happy that there's further development to the storyline honestly. I hope there'll be new writing and that the story takes place post-Dominion War (though I can see the new series being based on the earliest days of the Federation, where ST Enterprise stopped with the Romulans as the big bad guys). I'll probably be happy with it even in case it isn't that good.

The biggest shock would be a series based on the Terran Empire reality :ohmy:

Now I see I assumed you meant the show; I'm also looking forward to the film even though I do think this whole time travel/destruction of Romulus thing was completely unnecessary (it also prompted some explanation along the lines "no, the good ol' Kirk exists as well but in another quantum reality").

[Quail]

I meant the show. I don't really have any hope whatsoever that the new film will be good, but I'll probably go and see it anyway :lol: The past couple of films just haven't felt like Star Trek.

[Guardia Rossa]

Does Luis Henrique being a Mod means that we have Portuguese language forum?

E parabéns Luis! Vc n tem mural então vou postar aqui mesmo.

EDIT: It's been online for at least 5 days, sometimes I feel stupid.
EDIT: It's been online since now. The time was 23 december... of 2007. Sometimes I feel more than stupid.

[motion denied]

tfw you have Portuguese sovereign and autonomous oblast

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

tfw you have Portuguese sovereign and autonomous oblast

No tracksuit, no squatting, no right to use "oblast"!

[motion denied]

The Slavic petty-bourgeoisie already claims its rightful property

Two things result from this fact:

1. Portuguese is already acknowledged by all European languages to be itself a power;
2. It is high time that Portuguese speakers should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Potuguese with a manifesto of the language itself.

[Guardia Rossa]

"The Manifesto of the Portuguese Language"

Portuguese speakers from all the world, Unite! You have nothing to lose but your funny regional accents!

EDIT: I can't into jokes.

[BIXX]

squatting,

Can so eone exain this meme to me?

[Ele'ill]

to those who don't think magic exists try explaining cats and doorways

[Guardia Rossa]

Happy First of January to everyone!

[cyu]

In my culture, it's the 11th month of the 32th year After Myshell, so there.

OK, I'm not really serious, but check your dominant calendarism, or something ;)

[Bala Perdida]

It's almost 7am. Starting trade school today. I got work after so I won't be home till after 9pm. Honestly, this doesn't feel as bad as I thought it would. I just gotta get used to waking up before the sun on weekdays. Yep, career prep alright..

[cyu]

The ones who believe they are irrelevant are irrelevant.

The ones who believe they are relevant are relevant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject-expectancy_effect =]

[The Intransigent Faction]

I'm thinking about how a right-wing militia is able to stage an armed occupation of a wildlife refuge(a federal building, apparently), yet I haven't heard about a single attempt by workers to do the same in their workplaces.

It's worrying when right-wingers have a monopoly on activity to overtly undermine bourgeois state activity...

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

Someone has been deleting posts in this thread.

At least we are keeping those naughty admins honest...:lol:

[Invader Zim]

Someone has been deleting posts in this thread.

At least we are keeping those naughty admins honest...:lol:

How long until this post is Stalinised?

[Sentinel]

Diversion trashed, general verbal warning. The Non-Political forum is not for discussion re: BA policy. Any further posts on this topic will be infracted, as will any user bringing this same discussion to other board treads.

An explanation has already been given in thread and by announcement. Opinions on that can be discussed on other platforms than the forums of board, any questions can be sent by PM to an administrator.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

But when queries are made to PMs and there isn't a satisfactory response, and when threads in the relevant fora of the board are also closed, where are members who are legitimately unhappy about recent BA actions meant to take their grievance?

It appears that the whole set-up of the board is designed to stop any dissent from members when decisions are taken that seem unfair or controversial.

I am not baiting for another infraction, but in my recent experience PM-ing an admin is about as frustrating as being put on hold on the phone by Sky.

[Lord Testicles]

I wonder how long it will be before this board is just one user sniffing their own farts.

[Ele'ill]

that's actually a lot better than a forum full of users sniffing each other's farts

[Counterculturalist]

This thread is for discussing what's on our minds. I think recent administrative activity here is on a lot of people's minds.

When we post about it, we are threatened, and our posts are relegated to the trashcan - a place ostensibly for posts deemed to be trolling or spam.

I have never trolled or spammed this board.

[Futility Personified]

I am not baiting for another infraction, but in my recent experience PM-ing an admin is about as frustrating as being put on hold on the phone by Sky.

You have sky? Clearly you are an apologist! Ban him! Ban him!

On a side note, has there not been about 10 posts from what's on your mind that are relegated to the trash can?

Why?

This is getting ridiculous!

Rafiq getting a 10 day ban to chill out, i'm not sure if that is the worst of things to happen, but he should not be kicked off this forum. If Anglo Saxon Philistine is 870 (I find it hard to keep track) he should not be booted off this forum either. The others, if they were joking, so what? They were joking! If they were serious? Then this is a site for debate! We can't just go no platform on that and cut the miserable membership of this site down even further, and then construe it as anti-fascism. ISIS is as far removed from revolutionary socialism as you fucking can be! That is not that hard to decry, for any fucking standpoint.

[Art Vandelay]

Would an admin let us know where the appropriate forum would be to open up a thread to discuss this latest purge? I think the membership of this forum should be able to call a spade a spade if they so choose, and discuss these ridiculous bannings for what they are openly and honestly.

Also, CYM originally said that documenting evidence would be compiled to support the bans, then went and edited out his post to remove the comments. Why? Can we still expect this to happen? The BA has accused revolutionary communists of apologizing for and supporting fascism. Take a moment to let that sink in. If the accusations cannot be backed up, then the BA should be absolutely ashamed of themselves.

[Ele'ill]

Is it possible to set a post length limit for just Rafiq I think that would have been a funny way to tell him to chill out.

[The Feral Underclass]

As per the guidelines, when a user accumulates five infractions they receive an automatic seven day suspension.

[Invader Zim]

Is it possible to set a post length limit for just Rafiq I think that would have been a funny way to tell him to chill out.

180 characters.

[DOOM]

the fuck though?

[Hermes]

Just came back to see that some of the most active members of the forum were removed.

pretty disappointed

[Bala Perdida]

I'm gonna miss just working for a while, having hella time for myself and others. This school thing isn't that long though. By this time next year I'll have BEEN just working for a while. Get back into my workout rythm. Hopefully be going somewhere with a sustainable career.

[Sentinel]

As my last post ended up on the previous page post-split I will give users here the benefit of doubt it went unnoticed or wasn't registered properly, and am leaving the above posts up to avoid the same thing happening again.

But here it is again, I am urging everyone to read it carefully now, as it gives an answer the questions asked: we do not discuss BA policy and actions on the forums, PMing an admin is the way to go if users have questions.


Diversion trashed, general verbal warning. The Non-Political forum is not for discussion re: BA policy. Any further posts on this topic will be infracted, as will any user bringing this same discussion to other board treads.

An explanation has already been given in thread and by announcement. Opinions on that can be discussed on other platforms than the forums of board, any questions can be sent by PM to an administrator.

I do understand some users are frustrated by the latest decisions, and that is fair enough but the only thing anyone will be accomplish by complaining about them on the forums is the accumulation of infractions for themselves. Any post even remotely on this topic will be infracted after this point.

[parallax]

As my last post ended up on the previous page post-split I will give users here the benefit of doubt it went unnoticed or wasn't registered properly, and am leaving the above posts up to avoid the same thing happening again.

But here it is again, I am urging everyone to read it carefully now, as it gives an answer the questions asked: we do not discuss BA policy and actions on the forums, PMing an admin is the way to go if users have questions.



I do understand some users are frustrated by the latest decisions, and that is fair enough but the only thing anyone will be accomplish by complaining about them on the forums is the accumulation of infractions for themselves. Any post even remotely on this topic will be infracted after this point.

All that's missing from this post is the Hitler moustache.

[Sentinel]

All that's missing from this post is the Hitler moustache.

Infraction issued.

[Бай Ганьо]

180 characters.

That's not much in the knowledge that 150 of them will be used for words and expressions like "fucking", "i will cut off my testicles", and "philistine".

[CyM]

People who have questions are free to PM me to discuss it.

[human strike]

My GP prescribed my sertraline (or 'zoloft' as I believe it's sometimes branded). Anyone have any experience of that? It's primarily to treat my anxiety rather than depression - not that I'm necessarily free from depression.

[Zoop]

My GP prescribed my sertraline (or 'zoloft' as I believe it's sometimes branded). Anyone have any experience of that? It's primarily to treat my anxiety rather than depression - not that I'm necessarily free from depression.

I've been on that for a couple of months. I'd say it's helped slightly. Mine is for depression, however, and not anxiety.

[cyu]

Not really related, but not sure if unrelated either - from http://www.occupythestage.net/solidarity/category/agent%20provocateurs


Agents will often be continually maneuvering for a forum moderator position. Once this position is obtained, the forum can then be effectively and quietly controlled by deleting unfavourable or vital posts and then agents can eventually steer the forum into complete failure and create a lack of interest among members to participate. Depending on the level of control an agent obtains, they can deliberately steer a forum into defeat by censoring postings, deleting memberships, flooding, and or accidentally taking the forum offline. This is the 'ultimate victory' as the forum is no longer active or useful in mobilizing, engaging or informing its members. By this method the forum can be quickly killed. However it‘s not always in the agent’s interest to kill a forum as it can be converted into a 'honey pot' of information and to misdirect newcomers. A compromised forum is also useful to an agent as a mechanism of control.

[Quail]

My GP prescribed my sertraline (or 'zoloft' as I believe it's sometimes branded). Anyone have any experience of that? It's primarily to treat my anxiety rather than depression - not that I'm necessarily free from depression.

I didn't get on with it very well, but I didn't really stick it out for very long. Good luck though. Obviously different pills suit different people, so hopefully it will work for you.

[Le Libérer]

Not really related, but not sure if unrelated either - from http://www.occupythestage.net/solidarity/category/agent%20provocateurs


Agents will often be continually maneuvering for a forum moderator position. Once this position is obtained, the forum can then be effectively and quietly controlled by deleting unfavourable or vital posts and then agents can eventually steer the forum into complete failure and create a lack of interest among members to participate. Depending on the level of control an agent obtains, they can deliberately steer a forum into defeat by censoring postings, deleting memberships, flooding, and or accidentally taking the forum offline. This is the 'ultimate victory' as the forum is no longer active or useful in mobilizing, engaging or informing its members. By this method the forum can be quickly killed. However it‘s not always in the agent’s interest to kill a forum as it can be converted into a 'honey pot' of information and to misdirect newcomers. A compromised forum is also useful to an agent as a mechanism of control.


Not really related, but not sure if unrelated either
What exactly are you implying?

[CyM]

Thanks, I lost my copy of the memo. Now I can remember how to take this place down from the inside. Also, honeypot? I gotta get started on flirting with sectarians to trick them into giving me info.

[Os Cangaceiros]

My GP prescribed my sertraline (or 'zoloft' as I believe it's sometimes branded). Anyone have any experience of that? It's primarily to treat my anxiety rather than depression - not that I'm necessarily free from depression.

They're pills that doctors throw at you because they're "non-addictive" (yet give nasty withdrawal symptoms for some) & might work, based on some speculative science regarding the role of the neurotransmitter serotonin in clinical depression & anxiety.

Doctors in the UK are tight-fisted as all hell when it comes to tranquilizers (i.e. diazepam, temazepam etc) and getting said drugs is about as easy as pulling teeth because some joker got addicted to valium and decided to sue the NHS. At least so I'm told :rolleyes:

For me personally, if anyone ever tried to give me an SSRI ever again, I'd tell them not to insult my intelligence, and if I wanted to do drugs I'll do drugs that actually do something, thank you very much.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

Thanks, I lost my copy of the memo. Now I can remember how to take this place down from the inside. Also, honeypot? I gotta get started on flirting with sectarians to trick them into giving me info.

Shouldn't you err...be PMing an admin to discuss this sort of thing?

Four legs good, two legs baaaaaaad.

Although to be fair it's a ridiculous accusation.

[CyM]

Shouldn't you err...be PMing an admin to discuss this sort of thing?

Four legs good, two legs baaaaaaad.

Although to be fair it's a ridiculous accusation.

Hey, I have a honeypot for you. Meet me at my hotel room.

[cyu]

What exactly are you implying?

Clearly something that will either get my post deleted or my account banned ;)

Oh a more non-political note, I'm listening to this right now http://www.infinitelooper.com/?v=fpAUGk4U8kY - I'm sure that's a bannable offense too <3

[Le Libérer]

Clearly something that will either get my post deleted or my account banned ;)



No seriously, What are you implying? Because without an explanation it sounds like you just accused the BA of being cops.

If thats not what you meant, please explain. Work with me here.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

Workers unite, you have nothing to lose but your sense of humour!

[Le Libérer]

Shouldn't

Although to be fair it's a ridiculous accusation.

Of course you would think that. Accusing people of being cops and snitches is just fun and games.