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Sonic could have prevented 9/11 but choose not to - - GENERAL MEGATHREAD for Thursday, 14th of January 2021

Remember Sonic Hates Cops and Eggman is a Feminist and thats canon

Here is some Sonic Lore for you nerds

Sonic Mania is a good game and thats a fact that can be proven by the immortal science of Marxist-Leninism

The State and Revolution

:lenin-shining: :unity: :kropotkin-shining:

The Conquest of Bread

AMAC and ACAB, sort by new

Yesterday’s megathread :sad-boi:

Follow the ChapoChat twitter account :comrade-birdie:

THEORY; it’s good for what ails you (all kinds of tendencies inside!) :RIchard-D-Wolff:

COMMUNITY CALENDAR - AN EXPERIMENT IN PROMOTING USER ORGANIZING EFFORTS :af:

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Because the internet has shrunk dramatically, Chapo.chat occupies an incredibly disproportionate amount of psychic space
- Facebook and Twitter are flat and narrow spaces, full of old ideas and meaningless opinions. Instagram is irrelevant to the discourse, and Reddit simply tails the above.
  It’s only the novel posts that matter, these are the posts that drive history, everything else is a gagging Ouroboros and to question this idea is pure misology
  
  Yes
- Good album

Don't forget to tell the people you care about that you love them.
- I love you Comrade
  
  Love you too ❤️
- :stalin-heart:
  
  :heart-sickle:

Shadow is better than sonic because he canonically shoots and kills cops
- And the president
  
  theres also that one ending where shadow plots to destroy capitalism
  ~~by destroying the entire planet~~

Why the fuck is the vending machine in the break room a vending machine, just give me the snacks you cheap fucks :frog-no-pretext:

America is banning whatever from China becomes of slave labor and I commented on r*edit that we use slave labor in prisons and it’s in our constitution and I got told “whataboutism” I’m going to lose my fucking mind :agony-consuming: :whywhywhywhywhy: :nuke:
- whataboutism is when you make me confront hypocrisy
- This is literally why reddit debatelord shit got banned from this site. Some fucking nerd thinks he just destroyed socialism because he said the magic debate word.
  
  comparing this site to reddit is whataboutism
- Citations needed had a pretty good episode about this stuff

Little bit late for Socialism or Barbarism.
Communism or Collapse is probably an easier sell, as we’ll soon be able to point demonstratively to collapse
- My critique of capitalism is simple - it’s on fire.
  
  capitalism is bad at the best of times. we don't live in the best of times
- This quote is optimistic. Barbarism was generally a workable and functional period of time in society. We had thousands of years of expertise on how to live wifh the land and manage resources.
  What we'd end up with after a fall wouldn't be nearly so pretty.
  
  Barbarism was generally a workable and functional period of time in society
  yes, before normal indigenous people were absorbed into the death cult of production which socialists uphold. Very telling that these 1st world labor aristocrats put themselves opposite to the group of people outside the Roman empire.

My conservative coworkers think I'm a moderate because I'm not RussiaGate-brained and I will talk Biden's obvious flaws. Does anyone else have this happen to them?

lol so Biden announced his stimulus plan and the dollar went up because of the bond yield spike
to those playing at home that means inflation, maybe a recession, and riots when people realize that even in bum fuck Ohio they can’t afford rent
it also means the dollar is probably dying so whatever
- maybe a recession
  lol
  
  the us economy is in what economist consider a Wile E. Coyote State, in so much as the floor has completely collapsed but the economy hasn't realized it yet. Once it looks down, so to speak, the whole thing will fall down a canyon and go "poof"
- maybe my Iraqi Dinars will finally be of value!
- Arent we already in like two recessions and a depression, plus the ones we never recovered from in 2007?
- How's that work? Is there a scenario where bond yield spikes and the dollar stays level?

I’ve been unemployed for over a year now and I have an interview tomorrow for a solar installer position. Send me your energy, comrades.

I opened my mom's iPad today and found that she was pirating some book by Zizek :zizek-ok:

Most consistently funny genre of Tweet is when cis people get offended at the term "cis" and think it's a slur and offer no alternative to what they'd rather be called

Found out today that when you lose weight, the fat or whatever doesn't leave through shit but you breathe it out as CO2. Weird.

Once a teacher in school told us that any man that knows more than 4 colors is probably gay
I know like 7 😎

Some of the leftist response to the 'coup' (not here I think Im mostly talking about Twitter) has been extremely cringe. If your first thought to hearing that AOC was afraid for her life is some "Uh, nice try CONGRESSPERSON but actually its good that this happened and I wouldve just beat them all up" you desperately need a reality injection. You can both understand that this was an extremely vague, unorganized thrust at the capitol that had no real hope of challenging power centers, and that this was a mob of armed people constantly crowing for blood. You can support Force The Vote and recognize that a right wing mob murdering one of the three representatives that aligns with the left is bad.

i ran a simulation of earth and deleted the word "aut***itarian" from human thought and global communism was instantly achieved, also Chomsky became a benign tumor on Parenti's coccyx and he can't sit right anymore, it's sad folks.

$2000 checks with $1400 characteristics.

imagine if the next four years are boring. how do we avoid this fate

MY OWN FUCKING PARTNER WILL NOT VALIDATE ME AS THE DILF THAT I AM BECAUSE MY VOICE ISNT DEEP ENOUGH
THIS IS CRUELTY.

ayy gurl, anyone ever tell you the counterculture movements of the 1960s were a bourgeois liberal reaction to the sui generis industrialization of the USSR and a recognition of the upending potential of Maoism that aimed to provide an antithesis to the existing social/liberal order but did so in a manner that would preserve the system as a whole. The concept of a revolution within liberalism (itself the product of a bourgeois revolution) has been borne out many times. The result of this conflict was a 20 year process where institutions were infused with neoliberal thought and the concept of "the end of history" that came to dominate the post-Cold War milieu developed due to the self-aware nature of that revolution's fatal focus on issues that appealed to bourgeois academics and their privileged hippie stooges had created a distraction that has set class consciousness (both economically and an understanding of intersectional factors) back generations with pernicious, persistent ideas of anticommunism, racial apartheid, American exceptionalism, and market fetishism.
Trying to figure out why this tinder profile is not working :sadness: Is it because I'm 5'8"?

Printer at work is broke lol fuck off
- innit wild that printers have been a thing for like a bajillion years and we haven't found a way to make them not suck complete ass somehow?

Total snow chaos where I live, cars are stuck in the snow, but the trains are running on time, love my trains. :fidel-cool:
Edit: and now the train is stuck too, fuck my life

I know the subject of AOC induces struggle sessions here. But watching her video made me think what would’ve happened if something happened to her.
Personally, I think she’s decent enough within the confines of congressional liberalism. But even if I’m not a huge supporter, if chuds had gotten to her I would’ve been so heated.

Standing at my window and barking at my neighbour so my dog sees how silly he looks.

june doomerposting about bernie sanders and covid hit different man
feels like i have no posts left
god if only amy klobuchar became vp then i could just post staplers and it would be funny

Has anyone ever read a junk sci fi novel called The Moon is a Harsh Mistress? Absolutely bonkers. A Spanish professor who is a "Randian" anarchist, a computer-turned-suave-AI Lenin equivalent, a sexy men-writing-women Russian communist in blackface, and a computer technician in a loving polyamorous relationship try to turn a moon colony into an independent ancom society. Also all the men are pedophiles. It's not good or appropriate but boy is it a crazy read.
- Reads like a very toxic obscure discord lmao
- I did read it and believe me, it's par for the course with Heinlein.
- If it helps put things in context the author is reported to have a three way with the guy that invented scientology.
- I read a bunch of heinlein and all I really remember is that his space soldiers book was super fashy and he really wanted to fuck his mom.
  
  I haven't read that one, but I refuse to believe that he's written something worse than The Number of the Beast.
- literally every single one of heinlien's books is like that. Veers off into sexually abusing women or pedo shit 95% of the time.
  
  You can feel the Benzedrine vibrating through the mans work across history.
- Larry Niven wrote a Heinlein style book a few years back except it was kind of good. "Goliath Stone" 2014. I guess more than a few years back now, but it is crazy to see the style evolve especially after readying more than one of their works.
  Or, upon further inspection it may be on account of the co-author Matthew Joseph Harrington. Not sure, haven't fully researched it.

it is january 14 and joe biden is still a rapist
- it is january 14 and joe biden is still a racist

All I've done today is eat pizza and ice cream, drink coffee, and read

Okay i totally get it now, banning downvotes rocks. I can stay whatever stupid bullshit i want and the cowards who wouldve pressed the down arrow have to fight me irl to get me to stop

Wish there was a leftist version of 24hr news, even a radio/podcast version, where you could use it for like background noise to catch up on the day but not get your brain melted by the inanity of the takes

anyone having a wierd problem with the mobile site, where video posts get doubled and there are 2 players for the same video

You people wanna hear something fun™? Alright, here goes. So in my history class, we are learning about the scramble of Africa by being divided into groups representing the colonizing powers, and real soon we're going to have a pretend Berlin conference to split Africa between us. It is all incredibly cursed. I don't really have much more to say about it.
Update: we have split Africa, in this cursed timeline, the Belgians got most of central Africa and the brits got nominally screwed when it came to an empire stretching from Cairo to Cape. Oh, and the It*lians got to own Algeria. All in all, fun to debate, totally cursed subject matter to debate over, would do it again when it comes to splitting anything else, like a cake or the USA.

So, I've been following developments in the militia movement since last Wednesday. I came across this group, Peoples Rights, has been popping off in popularity.
They seem to be a petite bourgeois & working class movement, led by the petite bourgeoisie. They consider "property" important. It seems they are referring to personal property and small businesses, since they are anti-bank & anti-monopoly. They are deeply opposed to the US government, but they are rooted in American nationalism. Their founder has been pro-BLM and pro-immigration rights, correctly identifying that undocumented people are victims of government tyranny.
We have disagreements over the role of China in the world & the definition of "socialism." They oppose the ineffective and destructive lockdowns we have had in this country, and have been protesting them. However, there seems to be progressive elements within their movement.
They seem focused on organizing and solving the contradictions in their communities. They run food programs, train community members in useful skills, and are developing their own organizations for community defense.
I'm listening to a Washington chapter meeting, and here's a direct quote from a speaker:
Our founders said 'if the people cannot trust the courts, then you have lost the people.' And Martin Luther King Jr. said 'rioting and looting is the language of the unheard.' He was not supporting these things, he was just making an observation. If people aren't getting justice in the courts, they are going to get really pissed. That is what we have seen, and it's only escalating.
It sounds like they have common cause with the working class of this country, in spite of their reaction.
Communists in this country need to seriously analyze the militia movement in this country. We need to identify progressive forces, and isolate them from fascist organizations. We need to explain our position, and demystify communism.
If we do not do this, we are likely on the path to genocide as the most-armed factions of the American population begin anti-communist organization.

Dropping a communist reply on a big reddit thread and then disabling inbox replies to have the libs arguing against a wall gives me sexual satisfaction

had a dream last night that lenin was still alive, but he was a 60 year old grifter and it was an ad of him trying to shill his new book called 'fascism and bourgeois democracy' or something like that, he had like a lame wispy ponytail and it was edgy camera angles quickly cut together of him on a beach holding the book and he was wearing a shiny blue suit with a high collar, like a sort of magicians outfit. was kinda sad.

lol the Biden stimulus plan has $1400/week for businesses with sick employees but only a one time $1400 check for actual people

Stop talking about the economy bitch it's not real :agony-acid:

Slavoj Sea-sick just shat out his new article about the Capitol Hill riots. It’s about what you would expect. Making excuses for the “poor”, “working class” Trump loyalists.
- I mean, those of them that were workers do desserve symlathy for being traped by the sytem. They know its wrong but they are so stuck they cant think of anything to do about it.
  The people who had the time to travel to DC on a workday though, not as many salt of the earth types.
- The RT one? Yeh, someone posted it here and I criticised it somewhat and got told I did a bad faith reading :agony:

I finally held my presentation in religion class about 'Every sperm is sacred'. It went surprisingly well, I got everyone to laugh multiple times and even the teacher was humored. Humor wasn't a criteria, but it certainly helps when the subject matter is Christian relation to sticky nutte juice and its sanctity. :cool-dad:

The one time I see a megathread right after it goes up and I can't think of anything stupid to say :l

I love the disabling of the downvote function. It feels like a proper, old school forum now. U can be urself without suckas trying to mass downvote u.

Youtube autoplay gave me a Jordan Peterson video the other day and I'm honestly surprised how... idk not convincing he was? It was an hour long video, and I listened to about half because I was kind of fascinated. He was being interviewed by/ debating this liberal feminist and his main thesis was basically that western society wasn't patriarchal, or at least not patriarchal in a bad way, because it produced good things for women like the birth control pill and tampons. "How could a bad society produce good things?", damn dude, impeccable logic.
The only time he really "owned with facts and logic" the host is when she said some lib shit about how she doesn't deserve her nice university job because she's privileged and he told her to quit her job if she really believed that. Her only response was "well I like my job and having nice things, so I'm gonna keep it even thought it's wrong", and I feel like that's a really weak looking position if you're approaching this as a debate. Like girl, everyone deserves the quality of life you get, this is such an easy counter.
Anyway, it was nice to see that even "in context" he's just a dumb idealist whose only trick is to point out inconsistencies in some liberal platitudes and try to fill in the gaps with bootstrapped Christian conservatism.

We should start calling neolibs Necrolibs instead, in fact we should start using the term Necro-capitalism all the time, it's the only label that makes any sense anymore

So my state (New York) yesterday stated that immunocompromised people (like myself, hopefully) can now get the vaccine because we're in phase 1b of the rollout, but hasn't provided a list of which conditions they consider immunocompromised and which they don't, have no guidance out on when we can expect that list, and there's currently no mechanism for me to schedule my vaccine appointment because nobody is sure who qualifies and who doesn't. Things are going great, folks.