Oh wtf that’s absurd. They got subpoenas there? I can’t believe this story lol. I assumed he was single, but I guess its more like “i like him but can’t imagine anyone being his partner”. But Jenny definitely knows what she’s getting into, thats cool

Is this a joke? Or is that for real?

Disagree on the score. First half was 10/10, then it turned on a shit reading of Nietzsche and into an anti-marxist diatribe for no reason. Problem identification was great, recognition of the structure of solutions was wanting. 7/10. 8/10 if the misunderstanding of marxism is just deleted

Yeah this plus the infantile defense of nietzsche, I was very disappointed in it’s conclusions. The recognition of the problem was good though. The first half was great

Agreed, it had not nearly enough to say to justify its length.

What would be ‘not wasting their leverage’?

They can stop literally anything they want. They can make money off of any ship they want. What is lost?

Taste

up his ass

It just seems to me thay you interpreted the person you were responding to in the worst possible way and got banned for taking a discussion about cynical imperial greenwashing and making it “no they’re both bad”. I see how you interpreted it, too, and I’m sympathetic that you just take very seriously the consequences of current modes of production. But the person you responded too likely also takes that seriously and was having a completely different discussion about advanced production methods and how they are demonized cynically

Is that the one where the image gets more fucked up the more bad things he does? I remember reading that when my English got good enough, but I still don’t really understand what it was supposed to mean except “they may look ugly on the outside but be rotting on the inside” or something like that. Still had fun i think

Though I must admit I was pretty young when I read it. Just remembered that aspect hahah

I’ve read like 30 of these 100 I think, just from finding lists somewhere or references from articles which made me interested. Only a few held up to my expectations, though. Like Dostoevsky (don’t kill me, it’s just that his writing style gets me sometimes, even though hes reactionary), Bronte, Austen, Catch-22, the old children’s stories (Dracula, frankenstein), and a few about American Racism. Of the 30 or so, I’d only include like 5 on the top 100 though.

I guess its unclear what sort of criteria they expected the polled people to use, so it evens out to a mush.

I think that our problem of illiteracy is so bad that we’d be 100x better if everyone read like 20 of these at random. So for that, I’m fine with this. Even reading anything might get some brains working in a way which makes the malleable to learning and get us out of this western sinkhole. I’d prefer a different list for myself, and think a different one would be much more effective (read What is to be Done, both of em). But it’s the guardian

Yeah this list seems like the books people read before graduation that felt the most intellectual. I would guess this is related to dropping literacy and reading levels, as well as directly related to the type of person to vote on this stuff. Majority are likely just normal people who don’t read much anymore and remember a favorite high school book.

Edit: just checked methodology. It’s the best read who were polled, which surprises me a bit more… idk what to think now. I guess it’s likely what people considered impactful on their lives. So it has a huge bias towards old and for younger audience.

I really liked that book. It was the first humorous book I read as an adult and it was a lot of fun. It also did the super interesting thing of showing the disconnect between soldiers who never actually see their enemies.

Yes, the word above ‘creates’ was misplaced. However, the cultural hegemony has grown into a beast which has helped reformed that material basis many times over since

Did not even notice, I just read that like it was the simplified lol

First thing I notice is that it’s not written in simplified Chinese (at least partially). So I immediately think that this person is from Taiwan and not very likely a huge CPC fan lol. But then she was born in China so the first part isn’t true. Maybe it just looks fancier in traditional

edit: actually I’m less sure. I think I see more simplified words instead of standard throughout the page, but my Chinese isn’t good lol edit: yeah nevermind, I think it’s only the title which has the traditional word for US instead of the simplified. Maybe that’s a convention thing IDK. Now my comment is worthless.

This indeed feels like I missed a big fight or something.

Anyways, I think Losurdo has the best analysis of the split in several books but mostly in History of a Black Legend.

Honestly make the post about a general phenomenon and it’s just a very good post about comparing conditions and what that means about strategy. I know nothing about Hasan so I just don’t care too much qbout those aspects.

Yeah! Primary contradictions are determined not by importance in moral terms, but by strategic necessity and relations between axes of oppression!

Lol I thought it’d be cool then saw its a total of like 10 hours. I’d watch 30 minutes because I remember liking the game a good bit, but damn I got stuff to do lol

Did they get bit by a rodent or eat a rodent to get the virus??