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Ironicwarcriminal posted:
I don't care what anyone says: Lungfish paying people to write essays repudiating Marxism was an absolute stroke of genius and made a serious point at the same time.

lol

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Ironicwarcriminal posted:
no the point was that it was too late because the greed motive is, if not biologically hardwired, extremely common and easy to manipulate.

i don't neccessarily agree with it, but he made a good case.



nah i actually do remember that, it was funny and i commended him for exposing the ideologically weak scum for the pitiful traitors they were

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i was the first person to write one. my political convictions extends beyond having teenagers think im a revolutionary bad ass maoist super agent i guess. i spent the money on cool books
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babyfinland posted:
i was the first person to write one. my political convictions extends beyond having teenagers think im a revolutionary bad ass maoist super agent i guess. i spent the money on cool books



isn't this the same argument as the oligarchs of the early 90s but with bulletproof mercedes instead of cool books?

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Ironicwarcriminal posted:

babyfinland posted:
i was the first person to write one. my political convictions extends beyond having teenagers think im a revolutionary bad ass maoist super agent i guess. i spent the money on cool books

isn't this the same argument as the oligarchs of the early 90s but with bulletproof mercedes instead of cool books?



maybe

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i dont care what your true beliefs are, writing an essay on anything because some random computer guy who isnt your college professor paid you to is like some huge red flag that your life ended up significantly worse than you ever planned for. id rather just have showed him my dick

how much could he have even been offering for people to take that bait? please tell me it was respectably high
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Superabound posted:
i dont care what your true beliefs are, writing an essay on anything because some random computer guy who isnt your college professor paid you to is like some huge red flag that your life ended up significantly worse than you ever planned for. id rather just have showed him my dick

how much could he have even been offering for people to take that bait? please tell me it was respectably high



it was $60 for like 5 sentences

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yeah who the fuck would humiliate themselves for money nobody reasonable ever does that especially in our american society of integrity
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i didnt really find it humiliating whatsoever either
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someone pay me $60 for something
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i mean im honestly not trying to take the piss out of anybody and im sorry if that sounded hostile because ultimately anything that happens on a forum literally does not matter but still
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babyfinland posted:
it was $60 for like 5 sentences



ok, thats not too bad then. any piss-easy job you can half-ass on top of that is worth geting paid for i guess

no way that "essay" is coming out of my pen without the 5th sentence being "Fuck you, nigger." though

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yeah i just wrote like Democracy is really good because it secures freedoms for people. Freedom is the bedrock of making society a good place to live. Capitalism is the natural compliment to the democratic political system.

i donno i think i alreayd put more thought into it now than i did at the time so
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Superabound posted:
i dont care what your true beliefs are, working on anything because some random ownership-class guy who isnt your loved one paid you to is like some huge red flag that your life ended up significantly worse than you ever planned for. id rather just have showed him my dick

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hey you privileged fucklords "working on anything because some random ownership-class guy who isnt your loved one paid you to" is something 90% of the population is forced to do every day, jesus christ
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babyfinland posted:
yeah i just wrote like Democracy is really good because it secures freedoms for people. Freedom is the bedrock of making society a good place to live. Capitalism is the natural compliment to the democratic political system.

i donno i think i alreayd put more thought into it now than i did at the time so



that just comes across as unavoidably sarcastic. i guess i see now why i remember him talking about what he did, but not showing the actual essays. The concept is much more effective than the result

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Meursault posted:
hey you privileged fucklords "working on anything because some random ownership-class guy who isnt your loved one paid you to" is something 90% of the population is forced to do every day, jesus christ



dont sign ur psots

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Superabound posted:

babyfinland posted:
yeah i just wrote like Democracy is really good because it secures freedoms for people. Freedom is the bedrock of making society a good place to live. Capitalism is the natural compliment to the democratic political system.

i donno i think i alreayd put more thought into it now than i did at the time so

that just comes across as unavoidably sarcastic. i guess i see now why i remember him talking about what he did, but not showing the actual essays. The concept is much more effective than the result



i even asked him if it counted if it was like obvious bullshit and he said nope its fine

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Meursault posted:
hey you privileged fucklords "working on anything because some random ownership-class guy who isnt your loved one paid you to" is something 90% of the population is forced to do every day, jesus christ



yes but its not at bad because those people arent getting owned by literally lungfish

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he seems like a cool boss, i'd rent my labor out to him at an hourly rate
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what happened to glorp, hope he's ok
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lungfish paid multiple people $60 each just for some joke on a dead internet forum. nobody wins. /capitalism
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The trickle down effect in action...
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im glorp
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tprainge
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Goldgelbes Löwenäffchen
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lungfish owns
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Superabound posted:
mayaangelou92



ok weres my 60 $

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Meursault posted:


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Meursault posted:
someone pay me $60 for something

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Couldn't you just say "Hitler owns!" or something? i would write the sentence "Hitler owns!" in a private message to an internet man many times if i got 12 dollars every time i did it
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you could say hitler owns, but if you really cared abt him, you would get involved in your local hitler community.
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the final solution to the question of hitler's mysterious absence.
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Skylark posted:

you could say hitler owns, but if you really cared abt him, you would get involved in your local hitler community.



KONY 2012 Day of Action!


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i miss best poster ever Trundlebags
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Ironicwarcriminal posted:
I don't care what anyone says: Lungfish paying people to write essays repudiating Marxism was an absolute stroke of genius and made a serious point at the same time.