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u/maxwellhill has STILL not posted since Ghislane Maxwell was arrested in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 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.

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Serious question: do New Yorker's not know that 24hr gas stations and convenience stores exist everywhere else? (hexbear.net)
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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

The best evidence that material conditions (not exposure to ideas) determines ones politics, is that the children of cool -left- academic are all shitlibs in c/[email protected]
[–] [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.

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The best evidence that material conditions (not exposure to ideas) determines ones politics, is that the children of cool -left- academic are all shitlibs (hexbear.net)
 

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

Big brain time in c/[email protected]
[–] [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?

Parasite sucked, eat my ass in c/[email protected]
[–] [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.