It's fairly handy to have someone seemingly earnestly trot out les memes du jour, especially since this is a mostly left-leaning forum. Becoming familiar with right-wing arguments, and deploying/refining them in legitimate rhetorical standoffs, is really the best way to develop persuasive power over those that accept them in the wild.

As sad as this might sound, Nos is pretty much representative of the bleeding edge of republican rhetoric. Whatever he deploys here is exactly the kind of thing that we are likely to see republican echo chambers reflect. He gets a chance to test and refine his shtick, and we get the chance to map and neutralize it (if only for ourselves). — VagabondSpectre

This fundamentally misunderstands NOS and far right-wingers in general!

Every respectable place needs a resident jester. — Michael

In all seriousness I don't know what that's supposed to mean. He's a batshit goon and he adds no value to any conversation because his fundamental characteristic is that he's a dishonest interlocutor. He has the demeanor of a troll without the intelligence.

Still don't understand the rationale of having a user on this site who repeatedly cites and parrots nefarious lies of radical rightwing publications, and then acts like he never believed in it to begin with when he's called out on it, or just ignores it entirely and moves on to the next fabrication to waste everyone's time with.

Yeah, it seemed too suspicious. Fake news. — NOS4A2

I wouldn’t doubt it.

The police let them in, they got their photo-op of “democracy under attack”, killed a veteran, and dipped — NOS4A2

????????????

Just ban the guy!

Facial recognition firm claims antifa infiltrated Trump protesters who stormed Capitol — NOS4A2

lol The Washington Times has retracted this story after the firm they cited, XRVision, provided a Cease and Desist: "XRVision didn’t generate any composites or detections for the Washington Times or for any “retired military officer,” nor did it authorize them to make any such claims or representations. Additionally, The Washington Times never attempted to contact XRVision to verify their false claim prior publication. "

Can you explain that? — Brett

I could, but I won't

Facial recognition firm claims antifa infiltrated Trump protesters who stormed Capitol — NOS4A2

I heard antifa fucked your girlfriend

We're here for you America. — StreetlightX

Please help us

That’s not the cops taking selfies. — Brett

Ah right, it's just a dude in a vest clearly labelled 'police'. — StreetlightX

The guy in the red hat took the photo. — Brett

You're like, a bit dull aren't you? — StreetlightX

How? — Brett

lmao incredible

Pls don't cry

This is insane

Now they will have no one to hide behind when they continue to flush the US into the gutter. — StreetlightX

The Democrats will now also control the Senate

And as relevant to the year.....



I've got a feeling twenty-one
Is going to be a good year
Especially if you and me
See it in together

I had no reason
To be over optimistic
But somehow when you smiled
I can brave bad weather

I love this song so much, I'm so devastated by this loss

Today is the preview of tomorrow but for me
Only for a better and happier point of view
My point of view is the thought of a better or try
Reality, is today is eternity
The eternity of yesterday is dead
Yesterday is as one
The eternity of one is the eternity of the past
The past is once upon a time
Once upon a time is past
The past is yesterday
The past is yesterday
While we're searching for tomorrow

R.I.P MF DOOM

the best ways to spend your time:
1. Masturbation — TheQuestioner

The worst ways to spend your time are:
2. Pursuing a relationship. men and women were not created to get along together. Have a relationship with Pornhub instead, they won't take half your money. — TheQuestioner

Are you ok?

I bought Anti-Oedipus while in college 11 years ago and haven't managed to get past a handful of pages. Need to get through it at some point... Your BLM reading list is quite inspiring as is your History of Capitalism, and to that end I would recommend How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney and Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano

And since we're doing end-of-year lists I also wrote up the top movies I watched this year in another thread, since I assume people watched more movies this year than in other years.

Since I quite possibly watched more new movies this year than all of my previous years combined, I figured I should offer the top movies I watched (for the first time) this year. No order:

• Aguirre, the Wrath of God - Werner Herzog (1972)
• The Spirit of the Beehive - Victor Erice (1973)
• Once Upon A Time in the West - Sergio Leone (1968)
• L'Eclisse - Michelangelo Antonioni (1962)
• The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl Theodor Dreyer (1928)
• Harakiri - Masaki Kobayashi (1962)
• Napoleon - Abel Gance (1928)
• Ran - Akira Kurosawa (1985)
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire - Céline Sciamma (2019)
• The Apu Trilogy - Satyajit Ray (consists of Pather Panchali, 1955; Aparajito, 1956; Apu Sansar, 1959)
• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul - Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1974)

56 books — StreetlightX

Fuck you

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano and trying to finish up Grundrisse by Marx

Probably the last book I'll start this year so I'll do my annual reading list

• The Age of Revolution 1789 - 1848 by Eric Hobsbawm
• Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next by Timothy Faust
• The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman
• War and War by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
• The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848 by Jonathan Israel
• The Plague by Albert Camus (reread)
• Prison Notebooks (selections) by Gramsci
• The Age of Capital: 1848–1875 by Eric Hobsbawm
• 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
• Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life by Jonathan Sperber
• The Age of Empire: 1875–1914 by Eric Hobsbawm
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865–1925 by David Montgomery
• Phenomenology of Spirit (haven't finished) by Hegel
• Critique of the Gotha Programme by Karl Marx
• Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 by Karl Marx (reread)
• The German Ideology by Karl Mark (just the section on Feuerbach and Historical Materialism)
• The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914–1991 by Eric Hobsbawm
• The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert Paxton
• Male Fantasies V1: Women, Floods, Bodies, History by Klaus Theweleit
• Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism by Quinn Slobodian
• How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
• Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano
• Grundrisse by Marx

Anything Wolfgang Streeck or Mike Davis or Robert Brenner
Andreas Malm's Fossil Capital
Gindin and Panitch's The Making of Global Capitalism
Ellen Wood's The Origin of Capitalism

So much! — StreetlightX

I got a few books by Ellen Wood (already own/have read Origin of Capitalism, although I might re-read it next year). Also got Robert Brenner's tome, Merchants and Revolution, Domenico Losurdo's Liberalism: A Counter History, and a few other books.

Looks like I have to buy my fourth bookshelf!

Sunset Blvd

What books should I buy for the Verso Books holiday sale?

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney

Peterson has a new book coming out in March titled Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life. Some of the chapter titles are:

Rule 13: Don't Go On An All-Meat Diet
Rule 14: Read More Than Just The Communist Manifesto When Debating Marxism
Rule 15: Never Try Benzos
Rule 16: Don't Travel to Russia With Your Daughter

I’m loving Trump’s efforts contesting the results of the election and his refusal to concede, not only because it puts a spotlight on America’s shoddy election process, but also because it renders his opponents silly. — NOS4A2

Kant was a virgin, just jack off who gives a shit

My mistake. Sorry my eyes gloss over after about a few of your sentences. I didn’t realize you were actively excluding one of the countries under discussion. — NOS4A2

Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism by Quinn Slobodian

Trump will leave office on January 20th. This latest play is for reasons alternative to the presidential election, e.g. continued fundraising, appeasing the reaction of the base, getting GOP energized for the Georgia runoff etc.

Come January 20th we can close this thread, yeah?

I hope Trump does something drastic during his remaining days, just so I can see an anti-Trumper’s head explode one last time. — NOS4A2

Lots of cheering in NYC

Thank fucking Christ

these are always wrong, and Michelle is absolutely not running.

Like look at this shit