phoneutria
January 7, 2021, 8:53pm
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yeah but
i think the olympics are like soccer like they dont really matter to anyone no one here cares much about them
phoneutria
January 7, 2021, 9:11pm
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the US doesn’t watch soccer
i love mangos and brown people.
phoneutria
January 7, 2021, 9:30pm
45
be an american
MagsJ
January 7, 2021, 9:48pm
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Yes… diving and indoor cycling are especially amazing to watch, as they rely on great precision… of making minimal mistakes. I try catch the quarter/semi-finals, of most of the other sports though.
phoneutria
January 7, 2021, 9:49pm
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the oympics are awesome
MagsJ
January 7, 2021, 10:01pm
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Lol, hahaha! The Jamaican Brazilian bobsleigh team.
It’s definitely riveting viewing… especially the slalom and snowboarding, for me.
iambiguous
January 7, 2021, 10:05pm
49
The yak yak yak man derails another thread:
This is often what he does.
You come into ILP and there they are: 5, 10, 15 new posts from him. One line here, two lines there.
The whole point apparently being to show us how “clever” he can be.
iambiguous
January 7, 2021, 10:14pm
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iambiguous:
Right, like if Mao Zedong were around today he wouldn’t be demanding another “cultural revolution”. And a whole other “five year plan”.
Come on, China is now basically a state capitalist regime.
And the irony being that those like Trump actually envy the capacity of the government there [as with the government in Russia] to call the shots from on high.
I’ll start holding my breath.
Any number of reactionaries here want to squabble about Biden and China. About a leftist “globalist” agenda and a world run by the United Nations.
What utter hogwash. The “show me the money” nihilists that own and operate the global economy could not care less about the “superstructure”. As long is whatever it is allows them to call the shots regarding the quest for cheap labor, natural resources and markets. All that “means of production” stuff.
And, of course, here any number of the fulminating fanatics are also racist, hate the Jews, want to see the country return to the 1950s etc. Or reconfigured into one or another rendition of an Uberman world.
In other words, minds shallow practically beyond description.
On the other hand, admittedly, my own frame of mind is even grimmer.
Yes, China is basically a communist nation with a whole host of American capitalist corporations and conglomerates that have made it very wealthy the last four decades. In essence, China is state capitalism with a guiding communist aesthetic or ideology of which they want to install inside the United States. However, they want to reduce the United States role in the world that is completely subservient to China.
Oh, I see: A communist “aesthetic” and “ideology” while the actual means of productions is sustained in a way that authoritarians like Trump would droll to replicate. The Chinese won’t have to install their model here if, say, the Deep State ruling class in America comes up with a way to install it themselves. And they’re working on it. Though I suspect it has nothing to do with kowtowing to the United Nations.
Why do you care? Don’t pretend that you ever stay loyal or intellectually honest to peoples’ threads.
Smears is a joke, but, so are you.
u should really get some snow
iambiguous
January 7, 2021, 11:52pm
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Urwrongx1000:
Why do you care? Don’t pretend that you ever stay loyal or intellectually honest to peoples’ threads.
Smears is a joke, but, so are you.
Look, I can yak too: youtu.be/waf46eBajkw
the fraud is still true, and trump is still the legitimate president for those who voted for him, the system is broken
theyre probably gonna impeach him again tomorrow and he will never be allowed to hold office again
doubtful, republicans already lost their party, that would finalize the end for them
