Peaceful protesting is helpful. I don't see how violence helps anything. — frank

Destroying the property of a multibillion dollar company that stole employee wages is hardly "violence"

Morality is for pussies — ZzzoneiroCosm

Look out everyone, we got an edgy badass here

What is it with right wingers being morally deprived morons? Just foaming-at-the-mouth dipshits.

Yeah, but you are clearly treating this virus as a political football...which is pretty disgusting. — Chester

Moron

Nothing but love and solidarity to the Minneapolis protesters

Think of the chaos currently in Minnepolis of #BlackLivesMatter protesters. A lot of damage has been done and I imagine tons injured. If no-one was to contend these blacks, they would slaughter everyone. I say use real guns, kill all violent protestors. — Barabmob

I think the mods should ban this dude because his name is Bomb Arab backwards

100% right wing propaganda

First as farce second as farce. fuck cops

Elon Musk is most definitely intelligent, otherwise he wouldn't be where he is. — Chester

Yeah I'd be rich too if my white parents made their money through exploitation in apartheid South Africa

Leftists are obsessed with money, they see it as an expression of power...so Marx explaining time through the concept of making money from clocks is a bit of a laugh. — Chester

a knee slapper for sure!

Anyway, good posts and thread @StreetlightX, will have to check out the Jacobin videos. By the way was there a specific work you recommend that delves into Marx's concept of freedom?

This summed it up well on Elon Musk's site... — Chester

Marx never suggested anything like this and Elon never read Marx because he's not intelligent.

"Obamagate" is evidence that Trump and the Republicans are nervous about November

Good thing it takes a viral video to go national to get anything done in this god forsaken country

Sorry, I can't take anyone speaking with an Australian accent seriously as an intellectual. It's an inherently funny and ridiculous accent.

This describes several commentators here.

Only good ones are New Hope and Empires Strikes Back and the rest are at best OK.

Working-Class Formation: Nineteenth-Century Patterns in Western Europe and the United States edited by Ira Katznelson and Aristide R. Zolberg

The Red and the Black by Stendhal

Thanks for checking, although I don't think any of these are quite right, I'll keep looking

I had a period in my life after a divorce where I was promiscuous...banged any woman willing. I was a lucky guy...and there were MANY willing. I had no real bucks, but I WAS a bartender...and the bartender always has a shot at the leftovers. Yeah, some were skanks, but I've had my share of ultra-fine.

If you think you've gotten laid more than I...we can talk more. But you'd have to come up with some big numbers. Luckily, I found the right lady...and have been true blue for 35 years. — Frank Apisa

lmao

Let me say this without equivocation: “Pinning” a clothed woman to a wall and managing to “penetrate her” with your fingers…EVEN WITH THE WOMAN’S TOTAL COOPERATION…is one hell of a feat...goddam near impossible. Without her cooperation…I am saying it IS impossible without causing injury that would need immediate medical care...unless the woman is a porn star in the “fisting” section of porn sites and had just finished shooting a segment — Frank Apisa

Uh oh looks like someone's never gotten to third base

Doesn't look like this was posted yet, but yesterday Business Insider reported on a former neighbor of Reade who corroborated her story. Reade had told the neighbor in the mid-90s about Biden's assault on her. At this point there is more corroborating evidence for Reade's story than there was Christine Blasey Ford.

@180 Proof I'm looking for a Cioran quote, can't quite remember which book it was in, but the quote was basically about how he wanted to kill himself by 30 but he didn't do it. Ring any bells?

More of Gramsci's Prison Notebooks
The Age of Capital: 1848–1875 by Eric Hobsbawm

Drinking bleach sounds preferable more and more each day

Listen mack, lemme tell ya something, way back when there were only two genders and not uhhhhhh four, we used to ask the girls to the sock hop and then take her to the diner for a nice malt. And guess what, I never saw color so I always ordered chocolate! And if the girl didn't like that I would leave her there and by the way if china men I mean China doesn't own up to the coronavirus I mean if Donald China doesn't take some damn responsibility we're going to have some serious issues and I'm going to wait hold on hold on get her up her yeah yeah let me smell her hair, ok no no that's fine, ok so i would always order vanilla no sorry strawberry and if the girl ordered chocolate I knew she was a keeper, and that's why if a medicare for all bill came to my desk I would rip it in shreds

I actually think I may have had it in the first week of March but I have no way to be sure

So Bernie supporters, excited to vote for Joe now? — ssu

Fortunately I live in NY so not at all required that I vote for Joe

Biden-Klobuchar 2020 ...? — 180 Proof

Tammy Baldwin would be better

If Trump bottled his farts NOS4A2 would buy a jar and smell it 100%

Can't wait to go to a restaurant

Words simply can't describe how dumb this country is, we're beyond parody

Now for the really big project: Capital, Volume I. I have been keen to start this since seeing a thread on the forum suggesting a group reading of this work. — Pantagruel

It's so good

RIP John Prine

“The Trump organism is simply collapsing. He’s killing his own supporters.” :eyes: — 180 Proof

Death cult

If we're going to name events by the countries that provided the most deleterious responses we're, at minimum, going to have to call both the Vietnam War and the Iraq War the American War.

If the Chinese are not a race, how can it be racist to criticize the Chinese response to this pandemic? — NOS4A2

The Italians have had more deaths so let's call it the Italian Virus. When us Americans have more dead, we can call it the American Virus.

I did think I read what I posted but if I'm wrong so be it. I don't dive too deeply into all the claims and counterclaims. So much conflicting information and politicized spin out there. — fishfry

Fishfry shouting from the rooftops that he has no capacity for critical thinking.