Mightyquinn [none/use name]

To be fair, the SALT tax deduction is just a reversal of trump screwing over blue state people with a mortgage. So while this will help some wealthy people, it’s mostly gonna effect middle class people who have a house.

See, its shit like that makes it so fucking obvious that the Chapos and other lefty people are wrong to do the ironic detachment and laugh this riot off. It seems pretty fucking obvious that there was a premeditated conspiracy to commit murder of elected officials.

Of course the attempt was bumbling and stupid, because the chuds are bumbling and stupid, because fascism is the ideology of the weak and stupid. All of their actions will be stupid failures until the bumble into victory.

This is where Christman (the most correct of the Chapos) is wrong. This isn’t about "who is the right amount of worried " its about “who is the right amount of prepared” You should 100% make sure you are armed if able, and join a group like SRA.

If it weren’t for the Soviets, there would have been no Marshall plan, because all of Europe would have been Germany.

DMB remix is pretty great too.

https://twitter.com/FPSpr33zy/status/1343644571121704962?s=19

Yeah , Doug lane is far more serious and should be taken far more seriously in general, but his defense of Zizek is in my opinion silly, and didn’t really address any of the serious critiques of zizek leveled in the CA piece.

I mean, the article in CA is written by an academic who teaches philosophy at Oxford I believe, and the person "ripping it apart " is a random youtuber.

I do think he’s a faux intellectual, but not a charlatan or a grifter, only because he buys his own bullshit.

I think the key point to come down to is that he’s just an obscurantist. Serious academics will work as hard as possible to make their ideas as easy to understand as possible, regardless of their complexity. General relativity, world systems theory, and quantum physics are all complex but it’s possible to describe their general ideas in somewhat comprehensible terms.

I remember plenty of zizek struggle sessions on the reddit, and cannot remember once when people are able to do the same for Zizekian Lacanism (for lack of a better phrase). Where Zizek is correct it is usually trueisms, where he is new he is usually incoherent.

He is clever and witty so he can be funny sometimes (so he is good at dealing with dummies like Peterson), but this has no bearing on his wider “work”

I’m a STEM lord: Biology and Mathematics. Now in academia.

It’s the same even in "prestige " jobs. Like my dad, I’m an academic, and the differences in salaries and expectations (in teaching/ training/publishing) between now and 30 years ago is so fucking insane and depressing.

How about a dead fish wrapped in a newspaper?