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Mine is when Obama just said fuck unions and fuck organized labor every time the Democrats had a majority and could have gotten card check passed if he'd even fucking mentioned it.

she's also been caught using botnets: How A Twitter Fight Over Bernie Sanders Revealed A Network Of Fake Accounts

The Oregon stuff, basically. The Republican legislators fled the capitol to deny a climate change related bill but the governor is empowered to send the cops after them.

After saying they would indeed send the cops, militia types (3%ers and the like) stated they'd kill cops if they came to get the legislators. The_Donald celebrated this.

There was an article on Monday that pointed this out and bam, they got quarantined two days later.

Thanks for opening this can of worms. Solidarity from Russia.

Gulag jokes are extremely bad and dumb and reinforce this sub's most disgusting tankies: the ones that unironically refute even government sources, the ones that unironically support lysenkoism because of their Communist struggle in Washington State DSA, the ones that ignore realities and history of gulags to justify their bloodlust.

No fucking shit some revolutionary struggle going to require violence. I'd prefer it not to happen to multitudes of regular people on a rate of thousands of arrests per day, though. If you believe otherwise, then you just think that you will be the executioner.

Checkout this book for a complete history of 4chan/8chan.

It Came From Something Awful: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J4QMX6C/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

The author has been doing the rounds on a bunch of podcasts, very interesting and smart guy.

But basically yes 4chan (outside of the ironic racist stuff) skewed leftist, especially around the time of Anonymous becoming a real physical movement (2007-2011ish era).

Specific events like Gamer Gate (2014) and Trump’s ascension to the White House (2015-present) transformed it into the sincere Alt Right/white supremacist cesspool that it is today (although 8chan was the real epicenter for that).

I do really want to read that guys book, the history is super fascinating. I mean the 4chan community literally invented the concept of modern meme images/media!!

Wrong. Ad Nauseam is praxis.

It still loads ads and creates impressions, it just hides them from view. So the ad companies think you've viewed and clicked on every ad, which means that if they pay out per view or click, you're not taking revenue from the people who sell ad space, only from the ad agencies.

Yeah it doesn’t mean they don’t do good work. It just means to be diligent.

Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton talked about it on a recent episode of Moderate Rebels for a moment. Like, how insane is it that author of The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein, and sworn enemy of Erik Prince, Jeremy Scahill, work for the billionaire who founded eBay?

Unfortunately it’s the only game in town. You’re either begging for money on Patreon or you’re working for a billionaire. That’s neoliberalism, it’s just how it is now.

Link to the wonderful, and heavily thought through article by one of the best liberal writers America has to offer the world.

And I also highly recomend Chait's latest book. "Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail"

Exactly, even mainstream economists point this out in their own way. Capital and income are meaningless unless they are "legible" to states and recognized by property law. Poor people can accumulate tons of productive assets and use them, but as long as it all remains in the informal economy it's not going to be harnessable by mainstream industrial society, and of course it won't be reported in the official statistics.

This problem is especially acute with states that are weak and riven by local corruption, like they often are in poor countries. The stats can't be trusted, we have no idea how good or bad the poorest people actually have it.

Thomas Sankara - African Revolutionary is probably your best bet. It delves just as much into his government as it does his own personal story, which is kind of inevitable considering how intertwined both stories are.

One of the interesting things this book gets at early on about why socialism took off so well in frontier* Oklahoma, was at its base level an understanding that the place was so difficult to settle (Harsh weather, unpredictable rain patterns compared to the east coast, etc.) that unless everyone grasps the importance of working together, everyone is going to die.

*Of course that is viewed through the lens of native peoples already being there.

The best part about this is that you can buy it on Amazon, and the joke sign lists better working conditions than employees who will fulfill your order in the warehouse.

Conquest of bread.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index

It is not only the banishment of federal prisons and armed forces, but it is also the abolishment of the state and currency itself.

There's a tool used for driving fence posts. It's pretty much the same thing. You might need to add a little weight to make it an effective door fucker-upper.

MAT 901147A Steel Head Fence Post Driver with Handles https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000A1AB7G/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_CfHSCb120F2ND

Sally Albright is a PR flack who worked for Newt Gingrich and Haley Barbour. she's been caught running bot networks:

How A Twitter Fight Over Bernie Sanders Revealed A Network Of Fake Accounts

the Krassenbros got banned, but she's still shilling away. interesting.

I would argue that the Revolutionary War was less justifiable than the Civil War. The Colonies were severely undertaxed for generations, had almost complete internal political autonomy, and Britain had just run up huge debts fending off a French Invasion. When Britain tried to recoup some of those costs by imposing taxes targeted at wealthy merchants those few rich elites tried to foment revolution. There are surviving letters from some of our illustrious founding fathers talking about how the common people are not suffering enough to revolt and they had to impose hardships on them to get them to rise up against British rule. For many years before the revolution broke out they were trying to provoke British soldiers into shooting civilians in order to turn public opinion against them. The entire revolution was based on the idea that rich elites should not have to pay for the government services from which they benefit, and propagandizing to the public that this was somehow in their interest.

The Boston Massacre by Hiller Zobel covers this topic extensively.

Nobody seems to remember Crystal Clanton, their national press person who tweeted "I HATE BLACK PEOPLE" or Clanton's replacement Shialee Grooman, who had Tweeted a few years previously "I am always making racist comments lol" in the middle of using a number of racial and sexual slurs. If you work for ToiletPaper USA, you are probably some sort of Goddamned racist who is too young or oblivious to hide what you really think.

It's real, but it's a joke: https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/32508462/Avengers_Endgame_De-Feminized_Fanedit_(Anti-Cheese-Cut)

> I'm member of a Christian Alt-Right organization named Luther Institute Georgetown-Manchester-Arlington

>Luther
>Institute
>Georgetown-
>Manchester-
>Arlington

That comment sucks ass I agree. Anyway, as I've said before verbatim:

I think Cum Town is hilarious and Nick is genuinely one of the strangest and funniest people in podcasting but I wouldn't blame anyone for not liking it.

For what it's worth, here's Amber's take on the show: https://curiouscat.me/3057617662/post/41318617

The vpns are fucking up. Something about that trade show in shanghai, the government is cracking down. Im using express and VyprVPN. Which ones do you use?

Btw, which city are you in. If its shanghai, hmu, lets get a beer.

Economics: The User’s Guide

From a review: > Since no single economic theory has beaten the others, it follows, Chang writes, that there is no objective truth on which every economist is agreed. Economics can never be a science in the way that physics is; it cannot reach a consensus on its fundamental questions, let alone what the answers are. This isn't some extended handwringing, a trashing of his discipline dressed up as a mea culpa. Chang isn't looking for a formula: fundamentally, he argues, economics is politics.

Yeah, I struggled to write an accurate summary that would get people to actually read this, because it's both important and fascinating. It's also worth noting that five of drone strikes were ordered by Obama, meaning he was actively trying to murder yet another US citizen for exercising free speech which happened to be anti-America.

Coincidentally, I just picked up this book, which obviously treads into very similar territory.

How many of those books do you think he's actually read himself? He's basically picked all of the most obvious ones that everybody talks about. Even The Wealth of Nations, as though reading a 700 page book about division of labour in the late eighteenth century somehow provides insight into political economy in 2017.

Also imagine recommending The End of History to someone in twenty fucking seventeen and not realising that the person could take a single glance at the news and realise that the whole book has been proved wrong

E: His most recent post is literally saying that Bernie is a rapist oh my days

Cult City: Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco. It's a dumbass conservative "expose" of Harvey Milk but this part is funny

i remember reading a book by an anthropologist on black milwaukee. i forgot what its called. he found that, if i recall, 1/2 of black people in that city have been evicted at some point and chronically homeless because of the fucked up housing system. it's apocalyptic levels of exploitation and segregation there

edit: book is called <em>Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City</em> by Matthew Desmond

If you’re at all interested in this case, I highly recommend the book Black Hearts, which investigates the incident and everyone involved in extreme detail. It’s an exhaustive, practically bottomless chronology of military incompetence and inhumanity. Oddly enough I was exposed to it because it was on the official reading list of the Marine Corps a few years ago, ostensibly as a lesson on the consequences of a poor command environment. But anyone who has served can tell you that everything the book catalogued is just business as usual for the military.

In regards to VPNs I would recommend Mullvad over NordVPN. One indicator that might be a good idea is that NordVPN does this (taken from OP's article):

>4. We use Google Analytics and third-party ticket/live chat tools (Zendesk/Zopim). Google Analytics is used to improve our website and provide our users with the most relevant information. The ticket/live chat tool is used to provide the best support in the industry (available 24/7), but not tracking our users by any means.

I mean, they don't even bother with shielding their users from fucking Google...

Mullvad meanwhile:

>4. We have no external elements at all on our website. We do use an external email provider; for those who want to email us, we encourage them to use PGP encryption which is the only effective way to keep email somewhat private. The decrypted content is only available to us.

Way better. That's not to say that NordVPN isn't a decent choice though!

If you can't afford a VPN subscription and need a free VPN go with ProtonVPN.

Also mail! Please change to something like either tutanota.

Just another talkshow host that all the conservatives brainlessly follow. His main selling point to bring in the viewers is all about how "LIBERALISM: FIND A CURE*" and such, also takes part in a handful of conspiracies.

Example - wrote a book on the Illuminati

I would love Sargon to bust my pussy open and tell me about the SJW Cultural Marxist designs of the world. If a guy shows up with a fucking hour-long YouTube rant and a copy of Capitalism and Freedom he can hit my back walls any fucking time of day, dude. If a guy is like "I'm a Classical Liberal but people become fascists because the regressive left BLM terrorists hate white folks" I'm like just fucking take a helicopter to my pussy like it's a democratically elected government, dude.

Chomsky hates Sam Harris and regards him as a waste of time. Rogan is at least relatively humble and honest.

Did you know you can buy boots on amazon. It’d be a shame to boot a bunch of chuds cars

Oanon Wheel Lock Clamp Boot Tire Claw Auto Car Truck ATV, RV, Boat Trailers Heavy Duty Secure (Size 2) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XBXZ5JW/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_Vd85BbA3RECVF

"The main character in Nixonland is not Richard Nixon. Its protagonist, in fact, has no name — but lives on every page. It is the voter who, in 1964, pulled the lever for the Democrat for president because to do anything else, at least that particular Tuesday in November, seemed to court civilizational chaos, and who, eight years later, pulled the lever for the Republican for exactly the same reason."

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93848994

https://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ILS

I mean, technically a nickel is only worth 0.17 shekels, so he's being generous, if anything

I think this is what you're looking for.

Stan Lee was the first editor that credited the penciler, colorist, inker as well as the letterer and writer on the cover. He insisted on that. u/myqhunt gets a lot of his facts wrong.

Source: https://www.amazon.com/Marvel-Comics-Untold-Sean-Howe/dp/0061992119

If anyone wants to delve into the crediting and creative side: http://comicsalliance.com/stan-lee-legacy-jack-kirby-steve-ditko-marvel-history/

Edit: looking at myqhunt other replies makes it worse. They're not only wrong on their facts, they are willfully and negligently wrong.

I see you have never owned the libs by selling a book on Amazon called &quot;Why Socialism Works&quot; that actually only has the words &quot;It doesn't&quot; on every page

To put up some numbers, The high was 83 and she fainted at 9:30am.

She's an old lady under a lot of stress so fucking whatever, man, but the depths of delusion and psychopathy of the hillary people were truly astounding.

Don't forget that she'd include a comment about how the she thinks the internment of Japanese Americans in World War 2 was totally justified, an opinion that she literally wrote a book about.

It's one of the older things in the fascist/white nationalist playbook; they have an enemy that is simultaneously so weak that they will most assuredly be defeated, and yet so strong that that same enemy is on the verge of total victory.

It gets linked so much now because of the rise of Trump and other fascist and far right parties throughout the world, but Umberto Eco's list of characteristics of fascists and fascism is always useful.

Always relevant quote from one of the late 20th century's greatest minds.

edit - Everyone who listens to Chapo should at least read Left Hand of Darkness and the Dispossessed (in that order). Without question two of the greatest works of anti-capitalist fiction in the English language.

Conservatism is about maintaining and expanding hierarchies of power, particularly private hierarchies. There are many such hierarchies, so the "reward" you get for being on the bottom of one is being at the top of another--and for most people (especially men but women too), this means being in charge of your family/children. In other words, beating children is one of the few ways many people have to impose their will on another human, and conservatives resent having that "right" taken away from them.

(This, incidentally, is why social conservatives are so obsessed with the traditional family structure.)

https://www.npr.org/2017/11/30/567404280/graduate-students-across-the-country-protest-gop-tax-plan

Many grad students in the US are essentially used as full-time STEM researchers who have to do a shitton of work for pretty miserable pay.

Psychedelics get you into a head-space where you can sort of feel the connectedness of everything, and also think beyond the rigid thoughts your mind normally operates on (so as to see things in a different way than you always have). That's one of the reasons so many people have such a profound experience with it. That's why Leary was considering dosing an entire towns water supply, to spur real revolutionary change. I do think there is a case to be made that psychedelics could lead to a real leftward shift in popular imagination, but, then again, theres a Nazi that took acid and came up with the idea of a White Nationalist form of Twitter or something recently, so results vary.

A real good book on the subject of rethinking psychedelics (sorry abt the Amazon link): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594204225/ref=oh_aui_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1

read a book bitch

but if you don't want to, here's the wikipedia article

Imagine posting this when there's literally a Garfield's Guide to Posting (CW: Amazon link)

heh, talk to me after you've read MARXISM/SOCIALISM, A SOCIOPATHIC PHILOSOPHY CONCEIVED IN GROSS ERROR AND IGNORANCE, CULMINATING IN ECONOMIC CHAOS, ENSLAVEMENT, TERROR, AND MASS MURDER: A CONTRIBUTION TO ITS DEATH

the author of this book was taught by mises himself btw

Can y'all please do a reading series on the book about baseball and fatherhood that Ben Shapiro co-wrote with his dad? I've only read in a few pages, but it seems like a gem.

https://www.amazon.com/Say-Its-So-Championship-Season/dp/1546751734/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=ben+shapiro+baseball&amp;qid=1554745249&amp;s=gateway&amp;sr=8-1

u/packattacks if you want some examples of non-authoritarian communist and socialist attempts at government, check out William Blum's Killing Hope. It's a great book and shows many examples of democratic leftist movements that the CIA tried to destroy

He'd probably blame it on being possessed by a demonic spirit that only visits him because he is an honorary native american.

Edit: This is off topic but since this comment has high visibility I want to share that this is the book Jordan Peterson's wife is said to be reading in a FT profile: Pressing Reset https://www.amazon.com/Pressing-Reset-Original-Strength-Reloaded-ebook/dp/B07BH358BG/

Pressing Reset details a fucking ridiculous exercise regimen that encourages you to move around like a toddler with the belief that your body will relearn its potential energy levels that were lost through the aging process.

No surprise that his wife is also a nutjob.

haha they have already started posting negative reviews on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Blueprints-Sparkling-Tomorrow-Thoughts-Reclaiming/dp/0692479813

> I would recommend readers pick up Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life instead.

They are definitely not mad

> Typical neomarxist garbage. Would give 0 stars if I could.

Weird that these are all March 16th...

> garbage

Noami Klein is good as fuck. This Changes Everything is also fantastic if somehow even more brutally depressing than The Shock Doctrine. She explicitly argues that the only viable solution to climate change is socialism.

As always, with capitalism, the reality is always worse than what people joke about. Just remember every time a corporation says that excessive regulation is killing business, what they actually mean.

Also, never trust anyone who has been paid off by corporations.

Article: Here's How Much Mouse Poop The FDA Allows In Your Food

They never learned.

NYT, 1922

>But several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that Hitler's anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and that he was merely using anti-Semitic propaganda as a bait to catch masses of followers and keep them aroused, enthusiastic, and in line for the time when his organization is perfected and sufficiently powerful to be employed effectively for political purposes.

http://www.openculture.com/2016/11/the-new-york-times-first-profile-of-hilter.html

New York Tribune, 1922:

>The Fascisti movement is -- in essentials -- a reaction against degeneration through Socialistic internationalism. It is rough in its methods, but the aims which it professes are tonic. Garibaldi won freedom in a red shirt. Mussolini is fighting for normalcy and Italianism in a black one.

&nbsp;

>When Hitler’s party won influence in Parliament, and even after he was made chancellor of Germany in 1933 – about a year and a half before seizing dictatorial power – many American press outlets judged that he would either be outplayed by more traditional politicians or that he would have to become more moderate. Sure, he had a following, but his followers were “impressionable voters” duped by “radical doctrines and quack remedies,” claimed The Washington Post. Now that Hitler actually had to operate within a government the “sober” politicians would “submerge” this movement, according to The New York Times and Christian Science Monitor. A “keen sense of dramatic instinct” was not enough. When it came to time to govern, his lack of “gravity” and “profundity of thought” would be exposed.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-journalists-covered-rise-mussolini-hitler-180961407/

a woman's studies class i took once made us read a book (How I survived communism and even laughed, a doo doo ass book that sucks) that said being a woman under communism is bad because the free communal washing machines they were provided didn't work all the time, and sometimes your clothes still came out damp.

Communism is when your clothes get wet and the wetter they are the more communist it is.

She also talked about how Fidel is a monster/communism is bad because he wanted to ban cars to save the environment. This is a real book.

She also then mentions, completely self-unaware, that she doesn't let her daughter (in America now) play with Barbie dolls (the most basic toy our capitalist society gives to young girls) because they're a terrible image for women. I am making myself so angry remembering this fucking book i gotta stop

More like 1967-2016 IMO

The 6 Day War created the messianic "judeo-christian" establishment on the right.

EDIT: also this. thank you based Soros caravans. lol

I, too, feel that the "coauthor" (scare quotes because she actually plagiarized much of her portion) of Pow Wow Chow: A Collection of Recipes from Families of the Five Civilized Tribes : Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole is likely to do something tone deaf and stupid to tank her campaign, but, Clinton-stans, being as dumb as Trump-stans and who now largely support Warren, won't actually give a shit.

For a contemporary view, Dark Money by Jane Mayer.

For a historical perspective, Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean.

COYS!

lol at anyone in this thread thinking a club owned by John Henry and Fenway Sports Group is the proletarian vanguard in this CL final. Tottenham has historically been a working class neighborhood in London, and its fans have been on the receiving end of antisemitic abuse from Chelsea (whose fans were targeted for recruitment by the National Front) and West Ham fans.

I like what the LFC fans did here, but let's not forget both clubs have evolved well past their working-class roots and are now play-things for billionaire assholes.

Hey if any readers remember twitter superstar Ricky Vaughn who was thought to have more of an individual impact than MSNBC on Trump's election and made his mark supporting shit like this, be sure to give his old Dad a call and remind him why he's now disowned by his family!

https://web.archive.org/web/20180405002453/https://raddle.me/f/lobby/28422/i-m-stepping-down-as-admin-because-of-some-shit-i-did-emma

The person who originated most of the weird fucked up accusations against me has made a career out of manufacturing dozens if not hundreds of alts to talk to themselves all over Reddit (as well as filling their own dead sub with alts to make it appear life-like) and make the appearance of real conversations, usually to smear someone with some kind of fake bullshit.

I mean it's a waste of time to go into detail but I'm habitually the only person with archive links to anything which should tell you something.

That was made by this user Ziq who has had a roughly 3 year history of stalking me and losing their mind about my existence. They're deeply disturbed, express violent tendencies, and are all around a freakshow of a person. They made a bunch of subs to go after me here and populated them primarily with their own alts, which they delete and re-create every now and then (hence all the "deleted" authors on that sub).

https://www.twitch.tv/chapotraphouse/videos (skip the preshow, it's just random youtube videos)

Reminder that youtube-dl can download videos from Twitch for easy offline viewing (although without the chat, YMMV if that's good or bad).

Have you read McMafia (It's also a good TV series) by Misha Glenny?

It goes into detail how Israel became the hub for human traffic/prostitution operations in the early 90’s (mostly girls from Eastern Europe).

If yes, were you able to make some connections to Wexner and Epstein?

if not, then you should read the book first thing in the morning.

https://www.amazon.com/McMafia-Misha-Glenny-ebook/dp/B0015DYLPQ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=

Bonus Clip of Glenny talking about it:

https://youtu.be/r28674tI3uE

The book he edited called "Our Unfree Press" is essentially one of the reasons I am who I am today, both career-wise and ideology-wise.

He probably should be known as just as important of a media critic as Noam Chomsky. It amazes me that more people, especially on the left, don't know about him.

I recently read The Plot to Seize the White House: The Shocking True Story of the Conspiracy to Overthrow FDR (jesus christ, brevity would be nice)

its a pretty shit book in a lot of (jingoist) ways, but its amazing learning about the business plot.

Basically fascists in America approached Smedley Butler 4-5 times asking him to become the spokesperson for their fascist coup. He denied them every time, but being an old lonely fuck (and an admittedly decent guy) he loved having company. He basically figured out their whole plan and reported it to the feds.

Its an interesting story because its about actual fascists plotting a putsch because FDR and the new deal were socialist ideologies that threatened to turn us all into commie dick sucking soy boys or whatever. (fuck, it worked)

jesus christ , brevity would be nice: These fuckers approached Smedley a fuck ton of times and incriminated themselves telling him the whole damn scheme. Are fascists sending us their best?

Effort Post: I went to a talk by Duke University professor Nancy Maclean that detailed the historical roots of the modern far right movement. She traces it back to James Buchanan (Nobel Prize in Economics) who did his work from George Mason University, and his relationship to the Koch brothers. The title of the book derives from a quote from Buchanan that "for Capitalism to thrive, Democracy must be enchained." He also said that every constitution currently in existence is garbage and should be thrown away.

On the topic of throwing away constitutions and starting again, the book details how these guys were invited to implement their perfect government in Chile (Pinochet), and have also done so in North Carolina and Wisconsin. Their ultimate goal for the United States is to do a State-driven Constitutional Convention to throw out our constitution. The Republicans pretty much have all the states they need to do this.

Anyways, here's the book. It's the most depressing thing you'll read this year.

https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Chains-History-Radical-Stealth/dp/1101980966

>“Honestly, it’s just using Trump’s strategy against him,” LeGate said. “I studied the strategies Trump uses. He uses all kinds of psychological techniques — it appears he's read The Art of War. I understand and use these techniques back. It's controlled chaos.”

This guy is somehow worse than I already thought.

there is a book called Capitalism Must Die! by Stephanie Mcmillan which basically gives a rundown on why capitalism is garbage but does it in a way that is very straight forward without dumbing down the concepts themselves at all. it is excellent.

https://gumroad.com/l/capitalismsucks here is a free PDF link if youd rather not pay money (tell him he can skip the wordy word from the publisher at the front, it has since been moved to the back of the book in the physical print because its too wordy and goes against the grain of simplicity that the book stands for)

https://stephaniemcmillan.org/product/book-capitalism-must-die-a-basic-introduction-to-capitalism-what-it-is-why-it-sucks-and-how-to-crush-it/ here's a link to her website so you can buy the physical book for $15 (+ ~$3 shipping) if you'd rather a physical copy (i prefer physical books and i like to support mcmillans work since she's a beast)

this should outline for him why capitalism sucks in a very compelling way and make him more sympathetic to the socialist cause

here

>Well, I guess I assume it goes without saying so much that I don't say it at all: The DPRK is a very bad place to live and a literal dictatorship and I've supported multilateral military intervention in the state before it gains nuclear competency for as long as I can remember.

> HTML for Babies: Volume 1 of Web Design for Babies > > 2.0 out of 5 stars &bull; Sadly not valid html code > > January 21, 2014 > > My husband and I are both web designers, so we were ordered this book as a Christmas gift for our daughter. Sadly we then discovered that some pages contain code that is not valid - tags being closed without opening, opening without later being closed, etc. After mentioning this to the author on their Facebook Page, they confirmed that was not a mistake, and that due to layout issues they were not always able to fit all the proper tags onto a page/spread. > > For a book that is supposed to introduce babies/children to the basics of HTML, we find that very disappointing, and therefore decided to return the book. Others may think this harsh, but would you want to introduce your child to a foreign language or math or geometry, or any other subject for that matter, using a book that has errors/omissions on the most basic level?

I am reading through this

https://www.amazon.com/Generation-Sociopaths-Boomers-Betrayed-America/dp/0316395781

Right now, and it would disagree fully. There a number of trends associated with the boomers and how they lived their lives, things such as drug use, premartial sex, teenage pregancy, etc that spike up with the boomer gen when compared to generation before and after. Is it really hard to say that they are a bloc with coherent political positions when as soon as they came into power they elected the first true neoliberal president, Reagan, and haven't looked back for the last 40 years?

Filthy Rich: The Shocking True Story of Jeffrey Epstein

Like its not some obscure side project or anything, it has his name taking up half the cover, and I'm just learning that this book actually came out a month before the 2016 election and was a NYT non-fiction bestseller which is further blowing my mind

I am like actually having a Mandella effect moment with this as I can't believe I'm just learning about this book now (I've known about/been following the Epstein case for years) and that it came out when it did and was apparently read by a lot of people and also, again, the fact that Patterson was using his clout and influence to release a necessarily risky project like this and report on his own circle of friends/elites is just genuinely surprising/weird to me

> because we don’t have a mass fascist movement in the US.

Eh... The Evangelical movement lets be real is basically in every way a Fascist movement cloaked in a very thin mask of theology. Reaction of the middle classes, worshipping the nation as god, worshipping Capitalism, hero narratives and hero idol worship, Class collaboration, extreme reaction against "Degeneracy", very thinly veiled white supremacy. They don't call themselves Fascists, but they're basically a Fascist movement.

yeah wages of destruction by adam tooze really spells out in detail how wrong this is. highly recommend

https://www.amazon.com/Wages-Destruction-Making-Breaking-Economy/dp/0143113208

pdf, epub, and mobi files are on libgen and also i have them, if anyone's really interested they can pm me

edit: also the last chapter in margaraet macmillan's paris 1919, which tells the story of the creation of the treaty of versailles, basically makes the case that it didn't really start wwii and the germans could easily have paid of reparations because their payments were literally scaled to their gdp or whatever. like they couldn't rearm and pay, but they could pay.

Sorry, but it’s kind of hard for me to take seriously your arguments about how the political economy of fascism (economics being by far the topic of least interest to historical fascist movements and regime, hence often deferring their policies on that front to the ruling class that helped put them in power) is actually on “the left” when the political compass meme you’ve posted is from an online role-playing game

Felix and Amber both lived with Nick at one point, Adam has been on Chapo a few times, they’re all irl friends

I like it a lot but wouldn’t fault someone for not getting it’s appeal. Here’s Amber’s take on the show: https://curiouscat.me/3057617662/post/41318617

Not really a great place to post this, but the fucking weirdo who kept fabricating those screenshots about me just got exposed on their Reddit knock-off (called Raddle) as having spent months creating gigantic numbers of alts to troll and harass themselves and make an entire website seem filled with activity when there were only single digit numbers of users. Check this hilarious shit out.

I really understand how people can disbelieve the lengths that some people online will go to show how mad they are about forum slapfights, but once you experience it a few times nothing will shock you.

the last piece written by the guy in this tweet - ryan nobles - is this: Scalise assists on first play in return to Congressional Baseball Game, and it has all the fawning you'd expect

broadly speaking journalists are of course better than the troops just like almost anyone else is, but the idea that they deserve any special thanks relative to others is p much limited to journalists in specific areas or on specific publications who are actually serving the public interest. exposes on abusive business practices or corruption, or reporting on climate change or war crimes, yes. the rest - which is the majority - eh, whatever

For those who missed it: Throw a Shoe at Bush: The Game

It was a big fad with many versions on the interwebs see Kotaku

Rev Left is probably the best left-wing podcast I've heard besides Chapo. Their recent episode on Ho Chi Minh was a really interesting perspective on the Vietnam War.

Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels

> Socialism: Utopian and Scientific is a short book first published in 1880 by German-born socialist Friedrich Engels. The work was primarily extracted from a longer polemic work published in 1876, Anti-Dühring. It first appeared in the French language.

> The title Socialism: Utopian and Scientific was adopted for the first English edition in 1892 — the tenth language in which the book appeared. Intended as a popularization of Marxist ideas for a working class readership, the book was one of the fundamental publications of the international socialist movement during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, selling tens of thousands of copies.

Free public domain text from Marxists Internet Archive

Free public domain audiobook from Librivox

windows: use snipping tool to create screenshots

macos: shift command (⌘) 4

Drop everything and go watch this right now! Just do not watch the theatrical cut under any circumstances!

Edit: it’s the TV Cut that you should avoid like the plague.

Yeah I have lots of friends from them with awful stories growing up there.

Even here in Santa Cruz, “The Leftmost City”, the dominant force in local politics is a sort of faux progressive reactionary liberalism.

It’s made worse by the idea that we are somehow a bastion of progressivism. We have a massive homeless population that half the city wants to exterminate and that our police routinely arrest for sleeping outside, which is illegal. We are the fourth-least affordable city in the world to live in, based on median housing costs vs median income.

Organizers are currently being targeted and evicted for supporting tenants rights, and business interests control most of our city and county government. ICE ignores our sanctuary status and gets all of the release dates of undocumented people sent to them by our Sheriff, who is considered to be the most pro-immigrant LEO leader in the state.

But hey at least we have Gavin Newsome, Progressive Champion™️, bribing and ratfucking his way to the governorship to save us all.

I'd chime in here with Bloom County, but I think that might be outside the age range for Chapo Fans. When they published the new complete editions I was dismayed to see little footnotes explaining who Casper Weinberger and Henry Kissenger were so the jokes would make sense.

My favourite line from the wikipedia article on 'The Shock Doctrine' is the following, from the unfavourable reviews section:

>In the London Review of Books, Stephen Holmes criticizes The Shock Doctrine as naïve, and opines that it conflates "'free market orthodoxy' with predatory corporate behaviour."

Bartender/Server in fancy af French restaurant here. FYI, Boxed wine from overseas is actually more likely to "fresh" than one from a bottle since Bottles let in light and are more susceptible to heat changes which ruin wine.

Oh, and it's better for the environment and is a better economic value.

https://lifehacker.com/why-you-should-be-drinking-boxed-wine-1794001928

They have horrid existences though... even the 'free range' usually, it's BS.

this book - turned me veggie, it's really good - Eating Animals by Safran Foer

This reminds me of a book I read a few years ago from an ex-BP guy who talked about how they mostly just sit around watching hbo on their ipads in between brutalizing families. Francisco Cantu - The Line Becomes A River

The book is full of far too much BP apologia for my taste but relevant to the topic at hand

Been seeing these books lately written by someone named Helen Rappaport, The Romanov Sisters as well as another about the Race to save the Romanovs, and here I'm like who wants to rehabilitate the image of these bloody theocratic monarchies I thought democracy was the best.

FFS, that's not a shower head. That's called a turbo torch, commonly used by plumbers ~20 years ago before the self-lighting ones came out. Am I the only DIY plumber around these parts?

Also, there is no way that can be mistaken for a gun at any distance you could reasonably shoot someone with a service pistol. The diameter is way too small for a gun barrel, it's about 3/8".

I work with someone with this book on their desk. There’s so much to read into the title of that book alone, it’s quite fascinating/utterly depressing

I suppose I'll make some recommendations for you.

First the Seed: the Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology by Jack Kloppenburg Jr. This is a Marxist analysis of the ongoing subjugation of agricultural interests to capital. Really good book that extends beyond the general neoliberal crap you read about how GMO's are literally God and capital's extension into (or creation of) the global seed market is not the panacea to global food insecurity.

The Saga of the Swamp Thing by Alan Moore fire emoji. This shit lit, fam.

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. A fictional account of the Vietnam War from a drafted veteran. My favorite fiction book of all time.

Your Money or Your Life by Eric Toussaint. Haven't finished this one but it covers the new age of global finance and the consequences borne with it. Good read so far.

Fucking Bread Book by Anarchist Santa Clause

The New Jim Crow by an author I forget. This one's fucked up. About mass incarceration.

Grapes of Wrath is the shit.

Her religious outlook is from The Course In Miracles,Article about ACIM She has been teaching from and based her writings on these teachings since the 70's. It's an eastern style Christian themed set of meditations. It's influenced a whole generation of Oprah new agey types like Ekhardt Tolle, Wayne Dyer, Gabrielle Bernstein etc..

But I have no idea what these orbs are that people are talking about !

here’s what she wrote on it, that’s all you’re getting from me. I’m not a fan of Cumtown but handwringing over their relationship to Chapo is naive at best.

yup there's no way to use firefox on android. im a dummy.

edit: is mozilla still homophobic or are you referring to their homophobic ceo they got rid of 5 years ago?

He's a right-wing nut job: Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) | Twitter. He's also a "writer": Sidequest: In Realms Ungoogled.

Anyone who thinks the DPRK is actually communist should read The Cleanest Race.

Racial animus is actually the prime motivator behind Juche ideology. Kids are raised on propaganda telling them that the US invaded North Korea without provocation in order to force black and Jewish soldiers on Korean women. Their ideology propagates the idea that their race is the purest of all, so pure that they need the strong hand of Dear Leader to keep them away from the rest of the world. They're a fascist regime with the most superficial of communist window dressing.

I think everyone here in particular should buy the Chapo book.

edit: when I made this comment I thought I was on r/mma, turns out i was just on drunk

"I believe strongly that the color of a man's skin or the religion of his parents is, by itself, no reason to treat him differently; that a man should be judged by what he is and what he does and not be these external characteristics. I deplore what seem to me the prejudice and narrowness of outlook of those whose tastes differ from mine in this respect and I think the less of them for it. But in a society based on free discussion, the appropriate recourse is for me to seek to persuade them that their tastes are bad and that they should change their views and their behavior, not to use coercive power to enforce my tastes and my attitudes on others."

• Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

Essentially, "racism is bad, mmmmkay, but I'm not gonna do anything about it 'cause that would be bad too."