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April 19, 2020 at 10:01 PM in reply to: Kyle Bass Blasts China’s “Most Lying, Coercive, Manipulative Government” For “Knowingly Infecting The World” #816658April 19, 2020 at 10:00 PM in reply to: Kyle Bass Blasts China’s “Most Lying, Coercive, Manipulative Government” For “Knowingly Infecting The World” #816657
scaredyclassic
ParticipantThe bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his ‘natural superiors,’ and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, callous ‘cash payment.’ It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervor, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom—Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.
The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage laborers.
The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.
Karl Marx, The Communist ManifestoApril 19, 2020 at 9:58 PM in reply to: Kyle Bass Blasts China’s “Most Lying, Coercive, Manipulative Government” For “Knowingly Infecting The World” #816656ParticipantShit, dude has a point.
April 19, 2020 at 9:57 PM in reply to: Kyle Bass Blasts China’s “Most Lying, Coercive, Manipulative Government” For “Knowingly Infecting The World” #816655Participantot the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his ‘natural superiors,’ and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, callous ‘cash payment.’ It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervor, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom—Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.
The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage laborers.
The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.
April 19, 2020 at 9:55 PM in reply to: Kyle Bass Blasts China’s “Most Lying, Coercive, Manipulative Government” For “Knowingly Infecting The World” #816654ParticipantIm kinda in the mood to be a communist today.
I feel like rising up and seizing the means of production.
But dammit, the means of productions in China and I’m stuck in riverside county.
I guess I’ll just shut up and continue being a consumptionist.
Participant[quote=spdrun]^^^
What about the 2009-10 H1N1 flu that was supposed to be similar to 1918? Turned out, it infected 25% of the world without us knowing it and ended up being about 20x less lethal than predicted?[/quote]
Would be cool if we go for it and nothing bad happens.
I guess possible.
Maybe it’s better to rip the bandaid off and just do the dying upfront, even if it’s really bad.
And if trump died hugging a protestor, man, its be worth it.
Personally, I am going to try not to catch it. I dont even like getting a cold.
I hate a cough. I love sleeping soundly.
ParticipantCV coverage is now free at nytimes.com
Experts discuss next few years.
Sounds to me like we open for business, die a lot, hunker down, open for business and just kinda repeat that until we get a vaccine.
Kinda depressing.
ParticipantBasically if you’re not healthy to start with, the odds get much worse.
I guess I’m just trying to make myself feel in control, because numerically I’m in the elderly category. I’m the group that dies.
Participant50 miles over 17 hours in dress shoes in the snow with no training.
Is it possible the nation is fearful and paranoid because we feel so insecure in our physical selves. Are the very fit and healthy as terrified as the weak and inert?
Interesting history.
Is it possible that bad health is making us less able to think clearly?
That our leaders unsound mind is at least in part a result of an unsound body?
If trump did triathlons, would he be less of a douchebag?
Would his wife not be utterly disgusted by him?
Would he become…sane.
I guess we will never know
ParticipantAh wait Bobby went solo without jfk.
Good story.
On February 9th, without any training or preparation and wearing leather oxford dress shoes, RFK set out at 5 o’clock in the morning to walk 50 miles along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal towpath. Accompanied by four of his staff members, as well as his dog Brumis, he trudged through snow, slush, and below-freezing temperatures, making his way from Great Falls, VA to Camp David, MD. Though the last of his aides dropped out at the 35-mile mark, Kennedy persisted to the end, completing the march in 17 hours and 50 minutes.
Attorney general Barr probably gas difficulty getting up from the toilet. I cant picture him doing anything.
ParticipantWhat the hell happened to us?
The protests are people sitting in their cars blocking traffic
Maybe there should be a 50 mile protest.
Protest the state of our nation. Protest to open it, keep it closed.
People, this is judt gross. Traffic orotests
ParticipantThenjfk the fucking president took up the 50 mile walkchallenge. With his bro. Did a 50 mike trek w bobby.
It started a walking craze in anerica.
We are so fucking lame, pathetic.
The Fifty-Mile Hike
Kennedy’s success was not just a matter of bureaucratic changes. Unlike his predecessor, Kennedy addressed the issue of physical fitness frequently in his public pronouncements and assigned new projects to the council. Perhaps his most famous intervention in the area of fitness was the fifty-mile hike. In late 1962, President Kennedy discovered an executive order from Theodore Roosevelt challenging US Marine officers to finish fifty miles in twenty hours. Kennedy passed the document to Marine General David M. Shoup. The president suggested that Shoup bring it up as his own discovery and challenge modern day Marines to duplicate this feat. Kennedy went on to say that:Should your report to me indicate that the strength and stamina of the modern Marine is at least equivalent to that of his antecedents, I will then ask Mr. Salinger to look into the matter personally and give me a report on the fitness of the White House Staff.
In conversations with his press secretary, Pierre Salinger, Kennedy left no doubt that “look[ing] into the matter personally” would involve Salinger walking fifty miles himself. A well-padded individual with a sense of humor, Salinger turned his efforts to avoid the hike into an open joke. He finally released a statement on February 12, 1963, in which he publicly declined the honor. Attorney General Robert Kennedy undertook the hike, clad in leather oxford shoes, and completed the full distance through snow and slush. Salinger pointed to him as proof of the administration’s fitness.
But the real impact of the fifty-mile hike was with the public at large. Many Americans took the hike as a challenge from their president. The Kennedy council capitalized on this enthusiasm with a national publicity campaign on physical fitness. The campaign was organized, extensive, media-savvy, and above all, countrywide. Material was produced for print, radio, television, and display advertising. For broadcast alone, 650 television kits and 3,500 radio kits were sent out. All of this was in addition to the continued encouragement through public relations outlets. The physical fitness theme even appeared in the comics page, as seventeen major syndicated cartoonists took up the subject, including Charles Schulz of “Peanuts” fame.
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Participant“Shortly after JFK was elected president he wrote an article in Sports Illustrated called “The Soft American”. In the article he called for greater fitness for American citizens. The article starts with a look at the Ancient Greeks and the original Olympics. He wrote: “This knowledge, the knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for the vigor and vitality of all the activities of the nation, is as old as Western civilization itself. But it is a knowledge which today, in America, we are in danger of forgetting.”
Participant[quote=outtamojo][quote=scaredyclassic][quote=sdduuuude][quote=outtamojo]I wanna join. Will there be t shirts?
Can I get another member to pay my dues?[/quote]U made soda come out my nose.[/quote]
It is odd that socialists are seen as sponging off others and freeloaders, when capitalism’s end game is kind of professional sponging of capital on the efforts of workers.
Also the memes that leftists are weak, fearful and spindly.
Yet this idea persists left wingers are not paying dues and need tshirts for spirit.
Pretty good propaganda twist really.
Worthy of the little red book.
Did mao’s need tshirts? Was he a sissy?
Who sponges off who.
Laugh now,but these guys are young, fit and mobilizing.
Black panthers.
The NRA guys look a little old in the tooth.
And stop drinking soda.[/quote]
Damn I love soda too. I was just kidding mocking socialists.
I’d rather give freebies to the little guys rather than corporate welfare.
Corporate types claim to love capitalism until things get tough, then they become socialists.
I am actually excited for when leftists can do armed take overs of federal buildings like the Bundys and not be called traitors.The SRA is gonna need a foreign sponsor. The NRA has the russians, who should it be?[/quote]
Maybe a small country looking 4 publicity. I’ll call cambodia
April 17, 2020 at 5:04 PM in reply to: Are you f-ing kidding me ? Cali paying cash to illegal immigrants. #816602Participant[quote=sdduuuude]And just you saying “pay 500 to an illegal” bothers me alot.
I’m not saying I think we should deport all the Mexicans or build the wall or even that they are, philosophically criminals – but the fact of the matter is they have broken the law. The gov is supposed to support and enforce the law of the land and if someone has broken the law, they should be punished by the “law” (aka the government). Not paid. Yes, it is deeply disturbing. Trump golfing, also deeply disturbing.
Lehman Brothers bailout – also deeply disturbing.
Adding on – even a socialist should cringe at this because if you take the US as a society that pays taxes to pool resources for the common good, why would we include those that aren’t in the club ? Why wouldn’t those funds go to help those in the social group that paid in the money in the first place.[/quote]
Lehman bros. Never got a bailout.
I guess I’m not really a socialist. I think I’m a Buddhist humanist.
But be real…the trump thing is disturbing, but the illegals makes you ANGRY.
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