The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by Anteater

Trump has been good for politics though, especially in regards to energizing our better political idealists. At least I get a better picture at what's going on beneath the surface. Before we needed a guy like Snowden to flee the country just to get a handle on just how many people's rights were being violated.

Nah you're just a bargain basement ****lord who uses being informed as a way to distract yourself from being entertained by all the political gossip.

I want to talk about the situation in Venezuela. The. U.S. is backing a coup against President Nicolas Maduro. The U.S. is trying to install puppet Juan Guaido as President. Russia and Iran are intervening on behalf of Maduro. So we have a proxy war of USA vs Russia / Iran. The deep state will use this as an excuse for the U.S. to attack Iran and do the bidding of Israel. Fucking bullshit!

[Anteater]

Originally Posted by Dharma & Greg

Nah you're just a bargain basement ****lord who uses being informed as a way to distract yourself from being entertained by all the political gossip.

Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses...

Originally Posted by [MERIT]

I want to talk about the situation in Venezuela. The. U.S. is backing a coup against President Nicolas Maduro. The U.S. is trying to install puppet Juan Guaido as President. Russia and Iran are intervening on behalf of Maduro. So we have a proxy war of USA vs Russia / Iran. The deep state will use this as an excuse for the U.S. to attack Iran and do the bidding of Israel. Fucking bullshit!

B-b-b-ut muh Russian colluzion!

[The Batlord]

The **** do I know about Venezuelan politics? It's their **** but Jesus Christ the rest of the world can get ****ed for having opinions on the matter. To be perfectly ****ing honest the Munroe Doctrine must die. China and Russia putting their noses into it is awful but reinforcing our Doctrine is just reinforcing 3rd party authoritarianism.

I don't know, maybe make a point in the UN of letting a sovereign nation decide their own fate without imperialist interference? I know that's a pipedream but **** supporting our own imperialism.

[Zhanteimi]

If Batty's saying what I think he's saying, then I agree. I can't tell, though, with all the ****ing asterisks.

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by Zhanteimi

If Batty's saying what I think he's saying, then I agree. I can't tell, though, with all the ****ing asterisks.

I'm saying all the interfering countries can suck dick cause it's not their country. I know it's pointless to even say it cause America, China, and Russia are going to stick their dicks into everything that even smells like the Cold War but what the **** can you do but condemn it all unless you Swastika up and side with one of them?

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Dharma & Greg

The **** do I know about Venezuelan politics? It's their **** but Jesus Christ the rest of the world can get ****ed for having opinions on the matter. To be perfectly ****ing honest the Munroe Doctrine must die. China and Russia putting their noses into it is awful but reinforcing our Doctrine is just reinforcing 3rd party authoritarianism.

I don't know, maybe make a point in the UN of letting a sovereign nation decide their own fate without imperialist interference? I know that's a pipedream but **** supporting our own imperialism.

*Monroe

[OccultHawk]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/26/b...rind-tgim.html

As much as I can understand this, it’s about young people pretending that working 80 plus hours a week offers some kind of liberating enlightenment. Can someone tell me wtf is going on here?

[Psy-Fi]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/26/b...rind-tgim.html

As much as I can understand this, it’s about young people pretending that working 80 plus hours a week offers some kind of liberating enlightenment. Can someone tell me wtf is going on here?

The answer is in the article...

“The vast majority of people beating the drums of hustle-mania are not the people doing the actual work. They’re the managers, financiers and owners,” said David Heinemeier Hansson, the co-founder of Basecamp, a software company.

Mr. Heinemeier Hansson said that despite data showing long hours improve neither productivity nor creativity, myths about overwork persist because they justify the extreme wealth created for a small group of elite techies. “It’s grim and exploitative,” he said.

Aidan Harper, who created a European workweek-shrinkage campaign called 4 Day Week, argues that this is dehumanizing and toxic. “It creates the assumption that the only value we have as human beings is our productivity capability — our ability to work, rather than our humanity,” he told me.

It’s cultist, Mr. Harper added, to convince workers to buy into their own exploitation with a change-the-world message. “It’s creating the idea that Elon Musk is your high priest,” he said. “You’re going into your church every day and worshiping at the altar of work.”

Corporate cultists need subservient followers in order to maintain their wealth, privilege and power.

[OccultHawk]

You know, Slackerism was probably the most revolutionary movement in 20th C American politics.