In Other News... CEPS meme thread v 2020 - new year, new memes
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That's Emma Goldman, yo, she was a fuckin' badass. Treat her with respect dammit:D
I like how they included Foucault in that image lol. It's like one of those "one of these does not belong"-type images
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Yeah, I found that odd, too. I mean he's also a left-libertarian type, but surely no anarchist. Btw do you (or anyone) happen to know who the person on the left is? He kinda looks like Malatesta, but good ol' Errico had a more distinct mustache.
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Sorry, but could someone give a quick left-to-right rundown for those of us unfamiliar with some of the faces in that picture?
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from left:
- Like Neopunk, I'm actually not sure who the first one is
- Peter Kropotkin
- Emma Goldman
- Michel Foucault
- Nestor Makhno
- Max Stirner
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Btw fun fact regarding the anarchist gang meme that was talked about here: Max Stirner had a different name, "Stirn" means forehead in german, and apparently he had a very high one. Incidentally the only two pictures that are left of him are caricatures by Friedrich Engels :D Stirner was something like a living meme already when he lived, it's pretty funny actually.
So he might've looked very different from how we think he looked then. But then on the other hand: expectations are spooks anyway ( a little joke for my comrades ).
I really don't get your shithole country btw. How the fuck is it possible that Biden is still regarded the front runner, with all the... you know.. the thing(s). Like his apparent dementia, his own statement that his VP would need to take over pretty fast after the inauguration, because even senile Status Quo Joe gets it that he is unfit to be president. How are y'all not outraged by this? The dems are clearly putting up a puppet at this point, that will give his power to Cuomo apparently. Or Hillary. My secret bet is that Hillary really does try again with this "promising" approach, completely disregarding that everyone hates her guts and Biden would lose to Trump anyway, even if his VP pick would be a likeable person.
How is this shit even legal, or is it at all? It seems to me at least highly unusual and controversial to run a puppet for president just to switch it soon afterwards. And I don't get how people are not super mad about the apparent and disgusting rigging the DNC did from the beginning of the election cycle. This was never a Dems against Trump election, it was all about undermining Bernie. Like how Bloomberg only threw half a billion dollars in to campaign basically against my boy Bernard.
Why does it seem to make no difference whatsoever to libs and conservatives alike if the candidates have raped multiple people? In a somewhat just world this would absolutely crush his chances. But I see no significant decrease in polling for Biden while Bernie plummets. How can that be? I know they're being manipulated as well to manufacture consent, but are they really manipulated that much? I mean the US populace is arguably one of the most indoctrinated in the world.
For fucks sake, Biden was probably even dead for about a week or at least did nothing about Corona for 6 fucking days while Bernie works his ass off to help the people. HOW CAN THIS NOT COMPLETELY CHANGE EVERYTHING FOR THE DEM NOMINATION?!
I'm so fucking pissed. Y'all better make sure to tear those monopolies of power down, burn it all to the ground in case Bernie is being fucked over again in November. Everyone knows deep down that he's the only candidate that actually can beat Trump. He's got even a lot of support from republican voters, because he's one of the few politicians that actually give a shit about people, and people notice that.
Hell, he even got massive applause on Fox News. But no, another senile racist rapist it is, apparently...
US politics were always quite absurd for Europeas
Can someone explain to me why? How? Why is nobody doing anything against the very apparent election rigging?
Your country really only barely resembles a democracy, when it's a authoritarian neoliberal oligarchy.
So he might've looked very different from how we think he looked then. But then on the other hand: expectations are spooks anyway ( a little joke for my comrades
).
I really don't get your shithole country btw. How the fuck is it possible that Biden is still regarded the front runner, with all the... you know.. the thing(s). Like his apparent dementia, his own statement that his VP would need to take over pretty fast after the inauguration, because even senile Status Quo Joe gets it that he is unfit to be president. How are y'all not outraged by this? The dems are clearly putting up a puppet at this point, that will give his power to Cuomo apparently. Or Hillary. My secret bet is that Hillary really does try again with this "promising" approach, completely disregarding that everyone hates her guts and Biden would lose to Trump anyway, even if his VP pick would be a likeable person.
How is this shit even legal, or is it at all? It seems to me at least highly unusual and controversial to run a puppet for president just to switch it soon afterwards. And I don't get how people are not super mad about the apparent and disgusting rigging the DNC did from the beginning of the election cycle. This was never a Dems against Trump election, it was all about undermining Bernie. Like how Bloomberg only threw half a billion dollars in to campaign basically against my boy Bernard.
Why does it seem to make no difference whatsoever to libs and conservatives alike if the candidates have raped multiple people? In a somewhat just world this would absolutely crush his chances. But I see no significant decrease in polling for Biden while Bernie plummets. How can that be? I know they're being manipulated as well to manufacture consent, but are they really manipulated that much? I mean the US populace is arguably one of the most indoctrinated in the world.
For fucks sake, Biden was probably even dead for about a week or at least did nothing about Corona for 6 fucking days while Bernie works his ass off to help the people. HOW CAN THIS NOT COMPLETELY CHANGE EVERYTHING FOR THE DEM NOMINATION?!
I'm so fucking pissed. Y'all better make sure to tear those monopolies of power down, burn it all to the ground in case Bernie is being fucked over again in November. Everyone knows deep down that he's the only candidate that actually can beat Trump. He's got even a lot of support from republican voters, because he's one of the few politicians that actually give a shit about people, and people notice that.
Hell, he even got massive applause on Fox News. But no, another senile racist rapist it is, apparently...
US politics were always quite absurd for Europeas
Can someone explain to me why? How? Why is nobody doing anything against the very apparent election rigging?
Your country really only barely resembles a democracy, when it's a authoritarian neoliberal oligarchy.
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Because our media is funded by corporations/special interests and we're too lazy and/or apathetic to find independent news sources.
Because we think our party affiliation is more important than our values.
Because we're greedy and don't care about future generations (even parents and grandparents, apparently)
because as long as we have our phones and social media we feel safe
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Very true; there is no liberal media in the US.
"We hate trump, so hard [nipple RUBBING SO LOUDLY YOU CAN HEAR IT THROUGH THE MICROPHONE]" type CNN haters get rich and portray the US narrative as they want you to know it. CNN might be the least biased but still a conservative news outlet with conservative or moderate pundits (which is TOTALLY OK and belongs in our world of media, but it's sad when that's where the train stops) and perhaps Al Jazeera is more like center-left or closer to leftism even though it's not actually there (since 100% of funding comes from a very rich totalitarian nation; they figure they make more money telling it like it is vs. all the other "state-run media" in other nations, and they're right; people are going to want to know the truth).
There's a lot of people who care mal, I don't think it's total inhuman indifference to other people, but I respect your views.
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Lots of people are outraged, it's insanity. Of course we're also used to insanity. And what are we supposed to do about it anyway? A majority of people are so indoctrinated they will vote on party lines no matter what and invent excuses to explain away the bullshit, and we have militarized police.
True. It's sad
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Well what could one do about it? Aren't so many US citizens at least skeptical or outright dismissive of government in general? Abolish the fucking state and replace it with institutions run by direct democratic means. Organize and show retaliation against those, that fucked you, us other westerners, and especially the whole third world over for the sake of profits and dominance. This includes the state, which is only there to protect this unjust hierarchy.
We're in a very ugly situation. We've got only a couple of decades left, until the industrial ecocide that was carried out for centuries begins to really damage the foundations of our societies and systems in general. Compared to what we're expecting, the COVID-19 pandemic will look like a mere test run and people will long for the time when it was comparatively easy back then.
The rich know very well that their actions will destroy the world, but still they're hoarding their riches. And instead of meaningfully adressing the problems and acting accordingly, they're concerned about how they keep their power, when money will be worthless (it already is, because it's just made up, it's only a concept and it never had any intrinsic value to begin with), so they're imagining using restrictions on food supply and/or slave guards, etc. to fend off the mobs that will come for them, when people finally have had enough of their bullshit and see through the capitalist propaganda that manipulates us into a lifestyle of desastrous consumption and self-commodification.
How tech's richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse
In this eerie article the author describes how 5 super rich guys paid him to basically ask him questions on topics like the ones mentioned in the paragraph above the link. Sadly I'm not surprised at all, since I'm fully aware that we live in a dystopian world, and this is pretty much run-off-the-mill dystopian stuff. Still terrifying and especially enraging.
People like those have names and adresses. They are an absolute minority, but are responsible for most of humanities problems. Let's do something about it.
And now - totally unrelated and not a call for revolutionary violence at all - some music for y'all:
We're in a very ugly situation. We've got only a couple of decades left, until the industrial ecocide that was carried out for centuries begins to really damage the foundations of our societies and systems in general. Compared to what we're expecting, the COVID-19 pandemic will look like a mere test run and people will long for the time when it was comparatively easy back then.
The rich know very well that their actions will destroy the world, but still they're hoarding their riches. And instead of meaningfully adressing the problems and acting accordingly, they're concerned about how they keep their power, when money will be worthless (it already is, because it's just made up, it's only a concept and it never had any intrinsic value to begin with), so they're imagining using restrictions on food supply and/or slave guards, etc. to fend off the mobs that will come for them, when people finally have had enough of their bullshit and see through the capitalist propaganda that manipulates us into a lifestyle of desastrous consumption and self-commodification.
How tech's richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse
In this eerie article the author describes how 5 super rich guys paid him to basically ask him questions on topics like the ones mentioned in the paragraph above the link. Sadly I'm not surprised at all, since I'm fully aware that we live in a dystopian world, and this is pretty much run-off-the-mill dystopian stuff. Still terrifying and especially enraging.
People like those have names and adresses. They are an absolute minority, but are responsible for most of humanities problems. Let's do something about it.
And now - totally unrelated and not a call for revolutionary violence at all - some music for y'all:
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That's not something I can do though. That takes a certain threshold of the majority of people doing it together. The majority of people drink the kool-aid and are happy enough with how things are.
The majority of people are skeptical of government, but the majority of those people think it's the opposing political party's fault and that their party is the good guys.
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