Why not just make it simple and condemn police brutality while also condemning lawless rioting? — BitconnectCarlos

Because police brutality is directed at people and "lawless rioting" is directed at property and guess which one I care about

Imagine seeing how militarized the police are, rolling tanks and wielding riot shields and guns as if they were an occupying force in a foreign country, seeing their unprovoked violent reaction towards protesters , running people down with vehicles, macing indiscriminately including elected officials, shoving people into the curb and landing people in the hospital....and all your consternation is directed towards a store owned by a multibillion dollar company. Capitalism is a helluva drug.

Yeah, keep punching up. The CEO of Target and the board of directors will really get the message now. Meanwhile, you've got all the (presumably lower or lower middle class) entry-level target workers out of a job and the people of the community have one less place to shop and will likely need to travel further now and possibly pay more elsewhere. But we showed the rich! — BitconnectCarlos

Oh no people won't be able to shop why won't these protesters think of the consumer??? :groan: :cry:

I think the White House may become overrun by protesters??

It's insane to think about how much money has been stolen from working class people

Thsoe figures are just mind-boggling to me. I mean, culturally, burglary an larceny are seen as paradigmatic of crime in general - but this... wage theft counting as around 2/3s of theft? What in the actual fuck?? — StreetlightX

My country sucks ass

Wait til people crying over TVs stolen from Target hear about Capitalism

Does seem like there is a bubble that is about to pop

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