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Quote from: Dr. MD MD on January 22, 2018, 12:33:56 PM
I sometimes forget that you're slow and need everything explained slowly and in detail...but I still don't care.

Well, is what they said of you any different than assuming you live by this?

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on January 22, 2018, 12:22:34 PM
Why should I? You don't have any.

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on January 22, 2018, 11:35:27 AM
And neither have you. :

Things like this always come to mind when I see someone that still thinks Liberalism is on the Left.

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on January 22, 2018, 09:38:51 AM
TL;DR :

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on January 22, 2018, 06:26:59 AM
Yay! Hillary really cares!  :

Yes, because surely that's what it's all about.
Not every plutocrat is out for attention & book deals to prove their name, and spread brand awareness.
That's just cynicism.

“Almost as an article of faith, some individuals believe that conspiracies are either kooky fantasies or unimportant aberrations. To be sure, wacko conspiracy theories do exist. There are people who believe that the United States has been invaded by a secret United Nations army equipped with black helicopters, or that the country is secretly controlled by Jews or gays or feminists or black nationalists or communists or extraterrestrial aliens. But it does not logically follow that all conspiracies are imaginary.

Conspiracy is a legitimate concept in law: the collusion of two or more people pursuing illegal means to effect some illegal or immoral end. People go to jail for committing conspiratorial acts. Conspiracies are a matter of public record, and some are of real political significance. The Watergate break-in was a conspiracy, as was the Watergate cover-up, which led to Nixon’s downfall. Iran-contra was a conspiracy of immense scope, much of it still uncovered. The savings and loan scandal was described by the Justice Department as “a thousand conspiracies of fraud, theft, and bribery,” the greatest financial crime in history.

Often the term “conspiracy” is applied dismissively whenever one suggests that people who occupy positions of political and economic power are consciously dedicated to advancing their elite interests. Even when they openly profess their designs, there are those who deny that intent is involved. In 1994, the officers of the Federal Reserve announced they would pursue monetary policies designed to maintain a high level of unemployment in order to safeguard against “overheating” the economy. Like any creditor class, they preferred a deflationary course. When an acquaintance of mine mentioned this to friends, he was greeted skeptically, “Do you think the Fed bankers are deliberately trying to keep people unemployed?” In fact, not only did he think it, it was announced on the financial pages of the press. Still, his friends assumed he was imagining a conspiracy because he ascribed self-interested collusion to powerful people.

At a World Affairs Council meeting in San Francisco, I remarked to a participant that U.S. leaders were pushing hard for the reinstatement of capitalism in the former communist countries. He said, “Do you really think they carry it to that level of conscious intent?” I pointed out it was not a conjecture on my part. They have repeatedly announced their commitment to seeing that “free-market reforms” are introduced in Eastern Europe. Their economic aid is channeled almost exclusively into the private sector. The same policy holds for the monies intended for other countries. Thus, as of the end of 1995, “more than $4.5 million U.S. aid to Haiti has been put on hold because the Aristide government has failed to make progress on a program to privatize state-owned companies” (New York Times 11/25/95).

Those who suffer from conspiracy phobia are fond of saying: “Do you actually think there’s a group of people sitting around in a room plotting things?” For some reason that image is assumed to be so patently absurd as to invite only disclaimers. But where else would people of power get together â€" on park benches or carousels? Indeed, they meet in rooms: corporate boardrooms, Pentagon command rooms, at the Bohemian Grove, in the choice dining rooms at the best restaurants, resorts, hotels, and estates, in the many conference rooms at the White House, the NSA, the CIA, or wherever. And, yes, they consciously plot â€" though they call it “planning” and “strategizing” â€" and they do so in great secrecy, often resisting all efforts at public disclosure. No one confabulates and plans more than political and corporate elites and their hired specialists. To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people.”

Given the recent escalating tensions, it would seem that the political values of the Posadist movement are the most relevant today.

“Because ten billion years' time is so fragile, so ephemeral… it arouses such a bittersweet, almost heartbreaking fondness.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XNLHS8o73Q

“Mind that we do not seek the nuclear war. We do not reckon that such a war was the right way to get rid of the capitalist system, but this is how history has panned out. We just speak as we find. As far as we are concerned, we prepare to face this situation by treasuring every useful means that history creates along the way, determined to do everything and draw all the conclusions necessary for the construction of Socialism.

It is not that we are without feelings! From the most profound of our Communist emotions, we lament the tragedy which is coming to millions and millions of human beings. We are not those who are guilty or responsible for it. Capitalism is! Feeling this too, the proletariat is all the more determined not to feel intimidated.

The notion that the atomic war is going to crush so many millions of people fills us with appalling distress, but we do not feel responsible or guilty. Where we feel we have a responsibility, yes, is in proposing ways and means to help overcome the atomic ‘charco’ as fast as possible, and get Socialism under way.”

Further reading: J POSADAS “ON WAR”

Quote from: TigerLily on January 22, 2018, 03:06:06 AM
What is your source that makes you so sure I'm the crazy and you're the sane one. Newsite? Sources? Documentation?

The Unique and Its Property
Das Capital, volume 1; Chapter Ten: The Working-Day
Critique of the Gotha Programme
Eclipse and re-emergence of the communist movement - Gilles Dauvé and François Martin
The real death of politics
A Quick-and-Dirty Introduction to Accelerationism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtin1QiLrEE

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on January 21, 2018, 09:45:22 PM
pish posh! You're so last century. :

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on January 21, 2018, 09:28:29 PM
Got it! Homeless with delusions of grandeur.

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on January 21, 2018, 07:34:05 PM
So, you're homeless then?

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on January 21, 2018, 08:22:32 AM
Bring it, pussy!

Quote from: PB the Deplorable on January 21, 2018, 09:11:42 AM
The ''black and red'' are two sides of the same coin

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

I don't see why that's the option; if the choice is binary, assume the 3rd option then pursue it.

This stands to be an interesting decade.

Tough call: some people wouldn't have suffered as much, but he's decidedly against Russia.
Also, he's an active CIA operative that destabilizes most of the places he visits, so it certainly wouldn't have gone well for many of the world's citizens.
What I can say for sure? There would have been a lot less 'accidents' during the Osprey flight tests.

Quote from: Lord Grantham on October 13, 2017, 08:01:56 AM
Can vaporwave come and hang out at your party?

https://youtu.be/B-fxTkcbGds

https://youtu.be/M6a6WPr0Bp8

Well, the 'people with brains' tend towards either money (good at counting basically, if nothing else), or various states of alienation. Service being a form of voluntary conscription to acquire either trade or tuition expenses.
Officer corp isn't really in the same caste, they could afford education; your brigadier generals will be liberal arts majors if they're diplomatic enough.

Lately I'm told to go vegetarian, was working out well until I quit six weeks in due to stress, looking to get started again.
Considering abiding the vegetarian egg white club.