T_Doug

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago (6 children)

Reddit literally hosted one of the Internets largest forums for child pornography for years (only shutting it down after they got bad press on CNN), and even gave the man modding said forum a trophy. I couldn't be less shocked if Ghislane Maxwell really was an early power-user there.

 

Bodegas are literally just gas stations without the gas, IDK why NYC thinks they're the only city in America where you can go to a convenience store at 2 a.m

Also the thing where they'll talk about how "diverse" the staff at Bodegas are and how that makes them special, as if every 7/11 outside the North East is exclusively staffed by white coal miners.

Brooklyn delenda est

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

True, leading to one of the greatest dunks in History (which might be too good to have actually happened)

Nikita Khrushchev: The difference between the Soviet Union and China is that I rose to power from the peasant class, whereas you came from the privileged Mandarin class

Zhou Enlai: True. But there is this similarity. Each of us is a traitor to his class.

 

Beyond the obvious examples like Buttigieg.

Imagine being one of the most influential American Marxists of the twentieth century, then having your son get a job at the Soros foundation, then he later writes a hagiography for fucking Alexander Hamilton

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Answer: Idaho introduced term limits to all state offices after a 1994 winning ballot measure introduced them. Then, in 2002 the State Leglislature struck down the proposition and removed all such term limits from the State's government.

Unless the Neolibs claim that Idaho is a dictatorship, I have owned them by their own logic and surely they will have no choice but to admit that they were wrong?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

So many leftists have internalized the Liberal myth of Trotsky (he's just like Snowball from the farm animal book!!!), and in contrarianism now have an equally inaccurate view of the man. One formed almost entirely by memes, with no examination of his actual actions, and thought.

Like yeah, the guy who: led the Red army in the Russian Civil War, and supported the Chinese Communists when the Party (including Stalin) backed the Kuomintang) must've just been a huge Lib all that time.

Read "The Revolution Betrayed", its good and Trotsky's has only been vindicated in his belief that the USSR would fall as a result of a Capitalistic restoration led by the Bureaucracy.

Just because some shitty parties call themselves "Trotskyist" doesn't mean the man was bad, Euro-Communism was led by shitty parties who called themselves Marxist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

You're wrong, and Zizek has probably one of the best takes on the movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR5RgxTBPxk

His point is that Leftists authors are wrong to so frequently idealize the working class, and make them into paragons of moral actions.

Wealthy people, like the Parks, can afford to be kind, they can afford to be generous in the same way that Bill Gates can afford to be nice to everyone he meets and leave a $10,000 tip every time he goes out for dinner.

Workers being ground up under a wheel of oppression don't have the luxury to be moral, they are forced to do what they need to survive. And if they live in a society with little class consciousness (like modern South Korea) they are almost certainly going to view ruthlessly looking out for their own interests as the only actions they can take to escape from wretched conditions.

The point of Parasite is that we should address the conditions which force the Kims into behaving as they did, acting like it's because of personal moral failings that the working class doesn't band together and achieve class consciousness is plain wrong.