Man, Kobach is such good evidence for the theory that sinister motherfuckers actually look sinister.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 04:23 (seven years ago) link
like most of middle school was spent kicking the shit of people
― soma's little yelpers (lion in winter), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 04:26 (seven years ago) link
yeah, exactly lion in winter. and it's hard for me bc i love a good theoretical argument. but right now i feel like, i know who my enemies are. and they aren't the other people on the left who perhaps have a different understanding of the mechanisms of inequality than i do.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 04:27 (seven years ago) link
yes, that exactly. He has the face of a locker-stuffer.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 04:29 (seven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/business/media/trump-summons-tv-figures-for-private-meeting-and-lets-them-have-it.html
so apparently this actually happened?
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 22 November 2016 04:29 (seven years ago) link
yeah, i heard katy tur and some bro from the washington post talk about it on msnbc
― Treeship, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 04:30 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVg2EJvvlF8
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 04:48 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/justinamash/status/800914868039655425
Republican Congressman from Michigan, speaking out against Trump
― I know hoes that know Ali Farka Toure (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 04:49 (seven years ago) link
Ok, "speaking out" is a bit strong. "Is critical of Trump" probably makes more sense
― I know hoes that know Ali Farka Toure (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 04:50 (seven years ago) link
― k3vin k., Tuesday, November 22, 2016 4:29 AM (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
his awful twitter fans seem absolutely cock-a-hoop about this, all those people who leave aggro comments below online articles can't believe they have a president who can actually say this stuff to journalists faces
― soref, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 04:59 (seven years ago) link
i thought that everyone in america knew they were at least supposed to pretend to believe that the freedom of the press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty, should be inviolable.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 05:07 (seven years ago) link
i really need to stop paying attention to this stuff
― Treeship, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 05:10 (seven years ago) link
Oh hey - http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/putin-moves-his-missiles-in-new-threat-to-europe-fbqpr9m9g
― who even are those other cats (Eazy), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 05:27 (seven years ago) link
(didn't mean a matter of them slavishly following their mate) xp― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, November 21, 2016 3:47 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, November 21, 2016 3:47 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
okay cool - sorry for jumping on you. just read very oddly to me in that moment.
to Tracer, re: rural black culture in the south - FWIW not that this captures even 10% of what you're trying to get at, but the cartograms linked up thread, or any map that breaks out results by county/district rather than state, still registers profoundly the black belt. depending what counts as 'country' there is good reason to point up as you do that black rural life, in the here and now (and not just before the great migration) exists and is severely underrepresented in areas like "country music"...
finally, let me just say holy shit at "Alexis de Wokeville"
― dustalo springsteen (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 05:43 (seven years ago) link
truly let it not be slept on
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 05:45 (seven years ago) link
^ nice turn of phrase
― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 05:52 (seven years ago) link
Have we mentioned that the weirdness of 2016 is never-ending, and Green Day popped up on everybody's FB feeds because they worked in a modified _MDC_ lyric of all bands into their network TV appearance?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiC9ofpzVZw
― (rocketcat) (kingfish), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 07:55 (seven years ago) link
weird, i went to see MDC last month and they sang the "no trump" version of that song. really felt pretty cathartic to jump around and sing along to that.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 08:09 (seven years ago) link
no Casino you're right, there IS black country life but it is so thin on the ground, and so completely unrepresented.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 08:26 (seven years ago) link
LOL @ Fred running amok itt
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 10:16 (seven years ago) link
FP is a bullshit move and always has been, i don't do it anymore even for dolts/tragedians
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 11:29 (seven years ago) link
https://www.bclm.co.uk
― diary of a mod how's life (wins), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 11:31 (seven years ago) link
the argument w/in black studies etc is that the truth is the reverse; race is a deeper, more deeply rooted issue w/in western philosophy that pre dates capitalism as currently constituted. The argument wd be that class is "conflict" & can be addressed through regulation and reform, but race is an antagonism, unresolvable w/in the current paradigm
D-40 do you have any recommendations for people/pieces addressing this? I've been reading a lot of colonial & imperial history recently but have not come across anything quite like this
― ogmor, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 12:17 (seven years ago) link
To see how almost a century ago Progressive (and progressive) writers elided race, check out Matthew Josephson's The Politicos.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 12:21 (seven years ago) link
ogmor, IANAD-40, but he did post this link last year: http://www.incognegro.org/afro_pessimism.html
(and a quick Google provided a longer and deeper one: http://www.rhizomes.net/issue29/sexton.html)
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 12:41 (seven years ago) link
Apparently New York Times refused to see Trump to be yelled at. He cancelled the meeting after he accused them of changing the conditions.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 12:46 (seven years ago) link
the argument w/in black studies etc is that the truth is the reverse; race is a deeper, more deeply rooted issue w/in western philosophy that pre dates capitalism as currently constituted.
not sure this is right? surely race, and hierarchical ideologies around race, were a foundation stone of capitalism as practiced by the western european nations that colonized the new world and exploited it on the backs of slaves and subjugated peoples? this was the precise moment that capitalism emerged from feudalism. it couldn't have happened without an ideology of race.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 13:29 (seven years ago) link
benedict anderson to thread
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 13:31 (seven years ago) link
I think you're agreeing there?
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 13:32 (seven years ago) link
ha ok good!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 13:35 (seven years ago) link
scene
― identity politics rooted in tolkienism (darraghmac), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 13:39 (seven years ago) link
so Trump pretty much admitting he's going to run the presidency for financial gain? cool
― frogbs, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 13:47 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/HvT8lGv.jpg
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 13:56 (seven years ago) link
lol this is too much . what a nightmare
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 13:57 (seven years ago) link
Not nicenasty tone!
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 13:58 (seven years ago) link
"the New York Times just announced complaints about them are at a 15-year high"...what is he talking about here??
― frogbs, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 13:59 (seven years ago) link
but why announce?
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 13:59 (seven years ago) link
.what is he talking about hereever??
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 14:01 (seven years ago) link
The number of complaints coming into the public editor’s office is five times the normal level, and the pace has only just recently tapered off.
My colleague Thomas Feyer, who oversees the letters to the editor, says the influx from readers is one of the largest since Sept. 11.
think this is what he means
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 14:02 (seven years ago) link
Would "failing" not have fit in the second tweet there, or is he slipping?
― dustalo springsteen (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 14:04 (seven years ago) link
I vaguely remember W Bush negging the liberal press a lot too. Does this seem orders of magnitude worse or just worse?
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 14:35 (seven years ago) link
I think Trump is a genuine threat to the 1st Amendment, which I don't remember ever thinking about Bush.
― i need microsoft installed on my desktop, can you help (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 14:37 (seven years ago) link
i wonder if perhaps there could be a link between trump's constant berating of the nyt on twitter, a medium noted for its ability to quickly and easily co-ordinate witch-hunts, and a spike in complaints to the public editor
itisamystery.gif
― trump le monde (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 14:40 (seven years ago) link
Y'all don't remember how vigorously the American press opposed the run-up to the Iraq War in fall '02?
Neither do I.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 14:40 (seven years ago) link
― i need microsoft installed on my desktop, can you help (Old Lunch), Tuesday, November 22, 2016 9:37 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Ironically he loves taking advantage of it personally
― Evan, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 14:41 (seven years ago) link
I like this confidence!!
Donald J. Trump Verified account@realDonaldTrumpGreat meetings will take place today at Trump Tower concerning the formation of the people who will run our government for the next 8 years.6:46 AM - 22 Nov 2016
@realDonaldTrump
Great meetings will take place today at Trump Tower concerning the formation of the people who will run our government for the next 8 years.
6:46 AM - 22 Nov 2016
― and this section is called boner (Phil D.), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 14:44 (seven years ago) link
D-40 do you have any recommendations for people/pieces addressing this? I've been reading a lot of colonial & imperial history recently but have not come across anything quite like this― ogmor, Tuesday, November 22, 2016 7:17 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ogmor, Tuesday, November 22, 2016 7:17 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
charles mills the racial contract is a pretty important work wrt this argument i think
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Racial_Contract
― I've read Ta-nehisi Coates. (marcos), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 14:45 (seven years ago) link
But there was definitely a lot of stuff about Bush denying access to those he didn't like. I remember people raising a big stink about it at the time. I've also read that Nixon did the same. Just trying to keep some historical perspective here to not completely freak out.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 14:46 (seven years ago) link
yea i dont think trump is actually going to "rewrite libel laws" to destroy 1st amendment but it is pretty clear that he will strive to fully delegitimize any press that is critical of him (and kind of already has at least in the minds of half the country)
― I've read Ta-nehisi Coates. (marcos), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 14:47 (seven years ago) link
― Evan, Tuesday, November 22, 2016 8:41 AM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Well, yes, he is of that contingent that engages in the cognitive dissonance of berating certain "liberal" values that they then whine about not being allowed to enjoy themselves ("Safe spaces are for cucks! But it's unfair that I don't have a safe space to complain about safe spaces!").
― i need microsoft installed on my desktop, can you help (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 14:48 (seven years ago) link