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yeha the reading group here is 100% unitarian white people.
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"Jpg." - Hank Hill
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okcomrade doesnt exist anymore
#123
Mike Nelson here.
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it was so efficiently run that everyone who joined found stable relationships and the site was wound down.
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ilmdge posted:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/yes-there-are-socialists-in-dc-you-just-havent-looked-hard-enough/2015/06/12/83a07064-0b1a-11e5-95fd-d580f1c5d44e_story.htmlcool

So, Jacobin has brought people together. What now? And what does it mean to be a socialist in 2015?

It’s not clear — and that may be the point.

“The reason that Jacobin has become a popular mag among a disaffected white bro socialist demo is that it’s sort of open about its lack of a program,” Wohl said.

There’s also the question of whether a reading group for a quarterly magazine (subscription: about $30 per year) is the right way to bring in a diverse subset of the working class.

“It was horrific at first,” Wohl said. “The first one I came to was 40 people and one woman. I said I wasn’t coming back.”

“It’s really white,” Karina Stenquist said. “It’s pretty young. It’s awfully male.”

lmao at 'unions dont fit into any perspective ive ever had'

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Mike Nelson here.
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it says that sunkara guy is 25. i thought he was like 35. this is like when they made all the coalition provisional authority guys in iraq people fresh from policy masters degrees. the best part of the soviet union was that it was run by grumpy 70 year olds.
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i thought he was older as well. at least 26
#127
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"founded Jacobin in 2010 while in college and named it in honor of the rebel slaves of the 1791-1804 Haitian Revolution."
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time to class up this thread
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Mike Nelson here.
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postposting posted:

"founded Jacobin in 2010 while in college and named it in honor of the rebel slaves of the 1791-1804 Haitian Revolution."

we wanted an oblique clr james reference in our democratic party magazine. when clr james said "You Don't Play With Revolution" he meant, don't have a revolution.

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chickeon
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stegosaurus posted:

this ross wolfe article about it is so fucking bad lol

holy shit that guy fucking sucks lmao

#133
chickeon
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pretty sure he's genuinely a spook

Edgy conspiracy theories — debunking the misinformation spread by the “mainstream media,”


does anyone take this idiot seriously, shoot him

#134
Mike Nelson here.
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he libels a high-tier poster here in that article. they should sue.
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"Jpg." - Hank Hill
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chickeon posted:

stegosaurus posted:

this ross wolfe article about it is so fucking bad lol

holy shit that guy fucking sucks lmao



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"Jpg." - Hank Hill
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Left Forum is notorious for grueling Q&A sessions, often with nary a “Q” to be found.




oh god i hate this more than anything

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"Jpg." - Hank Hill
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this article is fuckin great http://www.thebaffler.com/blog/flakes-alive/
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Mike Nelson here.
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goat are you going to phonebank for bernie
#139
"Jpg." - Hank Hill
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Honestly I might support Bernie if there was any reason to think that he can beat Hillary
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getfiscal posted:

he libels a high-tier poster here in that article. they should sue.


i cant believe they've done this to tpaine in his absence

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political car tune
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Left Forum is notorious for grueling Q&A sessions, often with nary a “Q” to be found.


there's no way that was not a tpaine edit

#142
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Yeah thats not a youtube video or 19 six word posts in a row so it's probably not a t paine edit.
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"Jpg." - Hank Hill
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can you use any sensory organ to detect the information-sending of people and otherkin allies?
indicating angry or otherwise displeased entities?
it is the transmission of a loose collective that will not use ableism to express its refusal to be misled in the future
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wait! there's barricades?
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political car tune
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wait you guys are getting paid?
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no but a better question is are us guys getting laid...hahaha

the answer is also no
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"Jpg." - Hank Hill
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a lot is made over the left splitting because they demand too much ideological purity, but that's only half the equation. the left also splits because the sole benefit and primary motivation of being on the left is the feeling one gets believing that everyone is an asshole and to be denounced, and this is accelerated by the fact that the the left is tiny and wholly useless and it makes no difference if there are 3 groups with 500 members or 10 groups with 150.
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chickeon
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that's some insightful shit my ninja, damn!
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good thing right wing ideology has nothing to do with thinking anybody else is an asshole
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Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

a lot is made over the left splitting because they demand too much ideological purity, but that's only half the equation. the left also splits because the sole benefit and primary motivation of being on the left is the feeling one gets believing that everyone is an asshole and to be denounced, and this is accelerated by the fact that the the left is tiny and wholly useless and it makes no difference if there are 3 groups with 500 members or 10 groups with 150.



yeah but thats just how Math works

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Kurdt
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le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

a lot is made over the left splitting because they demand too much ideological purity, but that's only half the equation. the left also splits because the sole benefit and primary motivation of being on the left is the feeling one gets believing that everyone is an asshole and to be denounced, and this is accelerated by the fact that the the left is tiny and wholly useless and it makes no difference if there are 3 groups with 500 members or 10 groups with 150.


#154
Mike Nelson here.
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please don't be a bill cosby of the left, complaining about how our leftist culture is broken and that we need to pull our pants up.
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le bill cosby face
#156
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We need conec back so we can be on guard for the bill cosby's of the lefft
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gyrofry posted:

le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

a lot is made over the left splitting because they demand too much ideological purity, but that's only half the equation. the left also splits because the sole benefit and primary motivation of being on the left is the feeling one gets believing that everyone is an asshole and to be denounced, and this is accelerated by the fact that the the left is tiny and wholly useless and it makes no difference if there are 3 groups with 500 members or 10 groups with 150.



I'd love to get that on a t-shirt. What a conversation opener!