Meshugger

Pure thought and no understanding - the article.

Out of curiosity, how many Americans say that they are English by heritage? I mean, we get Irish-Americans, and Scot-Americans who proudly claim their heritage (or at least the Hollywood version of their heritage and large drinking). They usually use the word "Anglo" instead.

I have to applaud Bruce in his self sactrifice for showing us that smoking weed is a detriment to your cognitive skills.

What's going on? The left being angry that the president isn't being more like a warhawk? The media being dissapointed that he didn't blame Russia for everything? What a time to be alive, kudos to Obama for behaving like a normal human being.

I have to admit that i find this whole thing quite hilarious.

Isn't this the CIA job? I thought that the CIA director would place his resignation letter alongside with the report. In any other Country there would be a sh*tstorm if the main intelligence agency issued a report that they let the foreign country to interfere in election. Imagine what Putin would do to the FIS director after such a fiasco. The CIA's main job is to suck and be a waste of money. The whole thing should be disbanded. Thread lightly with such opinions, they might turn up to be quite unhealthy.

Does anyone? What did you say? And, to go even a step further, is the practice of fist-****ing not the exemplary case of what Deleuze called the "expansion of a concept?" The fist is put to a new use; the notion of penetration is expanded into the combination of the hand with sexual penetration, into the exploration of the inside of a body. No wonder Foucault, Deleuze's Other, was practicing fisting: is fist-****ing not the sexual invention of the twentieth century, a new model of eroticism and pleasure? It is no longer genitalized, but focused just on the penetration of the surface, with the role of the phallus being taken over by the hand, the autonomized partial object par excellence. And, what about the so-called Transformer or animorph toys, a car or a plane that can be transformed into a humanoid robot, an animal that can be morphed into a human or robot. Is this not Deleuzian? There are no "metaphorics" here; the point is not that the machinic or animal form is revealed as a mask containing a human shape but, rather, the existence of the becoming-machine or becoming-animal of the human, the flow of continuous morphing. What is blurred here is also the divide machine/living organism: a car transmutes into a humanoid/cyborg organism. And, is the ultimate irony not that, for Deleuze, the sport was surfing, a Californian sport par excellence if there ever was one? No longer a sport of self-control and domination directed towards some goal, it is just a practice of inserting oneself into a wave and letting oneself be carried by it. What a coincidence, here i was listening to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-IR9oNzdrA We are talking about politics being like screwing each other, right?

Does anyone? What did you say?

Don't think it is new. Social media certainly hasn't helped it, what with sites feeding people what they want to hear and all. Internet wasn't that great an idea It's older than the Internet itself:

You misunderstand me young grasshopper, I dont think I was wrong.....the ideological objective of a world where we dont practice bigotry and respect human rights can never be wrong? "Post Truth " is more for you guys to understand how you have been manipulated ....consider this a form of catharsis and introspection ...its constructive Nah, post-truth implies that we lived in a world of truth and facts until Brexit. But keep on rolling and you get the expected answer:

Yes, how strange when the left loses it's intellectual power and cultural significance that the push of "post-truth" emerges by the very same butthurt leftists. Your lot is like the old people Bob Dylan sang about long ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVUDdQS2UxA That's what really happening, the logical end result of post-modern world and its response as it loses its grasp on its people.

The intelligence apparatus in one country working in detriment to the interests of another country, well i never! Oby is much cuter than Merkel though.

So Trump picked a former Exxon CEO as SoS, a mick to boot. So the agenda is now clear: Get lost AIPAC, there's a new king in town and it is the Celts. They are now running the show and the hibernian directive is now in effect.

Sicario Best movie about the drug war since Tropa de Elite, watch already if you haven't. That's an order. I can't believe how the director went from making this excellent thriller into making a snoozefest like Arrival, sheesh.

What's with all this talk about unfeasables, return of investments and security policies? Here we have a construction which will be the greatest wonder since the Wall of China which will serve as testament of greatness, glory and strength of the human spirit and you choose to not to take part in this history in the making? Back to the cubicle with your linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, min/max solutions and calculate the price/cost probalities of your bosses' transactions and investments, the lot of you.

Witness the face of love:

The op-eds proclaiming how empowering it is to have your organs as a commodity will be interesting to say the least. "When i sold one of my lungs to someone else, i didn't remove a part of myself, i enriched the life of someone less priviledged than me and so you should you".

See you in the stars, space cowboy. You were the archetype, along with Gagarin, of what every boy dreamed about being an astronaut

Is that a spanish proverb and is it true?

I'm sure James Monroe would agree. Teddy Roosevelt and others? Not so much. The US put out a system that slaveowners wouldn't have only after the country was torn apart in a civil war. And the reasons leading to the war were not only political and ethical, but economic as well. At the same time, you have to remember that Spain, unlike Great Britain, didn't have a long tradition of parliamentarianism. Spanish colonists, unlike their English counterparts didn't establish local assemblies and electoral processes. Socioeconomic arrangements were also different; while in the Thirteen Colonies there was no landed aristocracy to speak of, the Creoles and Peninsulars in Spanish colonies effectively became the landed aristocracy of Latin America thanks to the aforementioned caste system and forced labor schemes which, while formally retaining property of the land for the Crown, granted rights of exploitation of the natives to individuals (encomiendas and repartimientos). Why weren't there social liberal movements in Latin America? Flawed question. There were, but they failed to bring about real change for different reasons. US interference is one of them, but not the only one. Apart from the different overall systems as above you also have to consider the effects of those systems. Things like literacy and numeracy or just general education were far higher in North America, and those things tend to be highly advantageous for economic development as your potential Einstein types are less likely to be illiterate or innumerate. Unless a Cuban or Venezuelan or Colombian Einstein was born into a tiny subset of privilege they'd have spent their time cutting sugar cane or harvesting bananas. You tend to get 'socialist revolutions' for two main reasons- there are lots of poor people, and the current system tends to be ratcheted down. The US has the pressure release valve of the electoral system and knowledge that in 4 years you can vote Trump/ Obama/ Bush out. If you have a Pinochet or a Galtieri, they're there long term with no prospect of going, and you potentially have a family history of centuries of grinding poverty as well. You also tend to have literal 1% owning 99% type situations, and virtually no prospect of social mobility unless it's of the radical redistribution kind. You also have the US tending to support the interests of its companies (United Fruit Corp/ Chiquita being the best known) as a matter of policy right up to present day, per the support for the (fairly) recent Honduran Coup. I have a lot to read on the history of South Americas, kudos to both of you.

Not to be (more of) an insufferable ass, but I think you mean the Monroe Doctrine, which predates the explicitly anti-Soviet Truman Doctrine. The traditional ruling classes in South America can largely trace their origins to the upper castes of the old Spanish (and Portuguese? I don't know much about that) colonial system. Unlike in the US, you had a small minority of European colonists who ruled over a rigidly stratified society with which, for the most part, they did not intermingle. The independence movements in those countries had little to do with the dignity and rights of native Amerindians and everything to do with creole elites wanting more leeway to do as they pleased without Peninsular meddling and taxation. Left or right trappings were just superficial and cosmetic for these elites, ultimately what mattered was maintaining their privileged status. With a few exceptions, most rulers in South and Central America are of evident European descent, and it's not by coincidence. Reductionist explanation leaving out other factors of course, but as usual, if you want to understand something in history, all you have to do is keep going back... That's what i am interested in: How and why. I mean the US was founded by slaveowners who wanted to be free and the time of robber barons is well documented to boot, but still somehow the US put out a framework which resulted in better social mobility and a foundation of a functioning republic all while socialist revolutions seems to pop up in South America. It's not as the ideas of the founding fathers were new to the age either as they borrowed quite a lot from Rome and the Hellenian city states as well.

But why Allende and similar ones in the first place? Where are their Washingtons and Jeffersons?

I find it interesting that the dichotomy of heads of state in South America has most of the time been a Pinochet or a Castro. Why is that? Why not the US model? Was the weather too hot perhaps?

*Updated my alumni.txt* That explains quite a lot actually, thank you.

The... cool cheerleaders bully the nerd with... D&D metaphors? I think you may have your labels switched there. I operate in a different level of metaphors than you filthy casuals. - Did that guy just disagree with me? the hottest cheerleader in school? That's like soooo dumb! - Yeah, lets use something he said another time way back against him now, that will show him! - Yeah, and if he complains, we just belittle him and tell him to suck it up like a man! - Again? This is getting pretty retarded by now.... - Stop it right there you three! Are you girls teaming up on the Texan again? - (****, caught again! think of a quick comeback!) No Mr. principal, we were just joking along, D&D right? tee-hee! - (****, caught again! Quickly, wash away the guilt!) If you look at the school charters, you can see that this isn't really against the rules! - Since i am secretly drinking myself to death, i dont' really care and will continue with what i am doing. - You girls don't ever learn do you? Remember that i am on to you, remember... *continues down the hall* - Phew, that principal is such a stuck-up, totally! - Yeah, but we sure put that dork into his place, didn't we? - Uh-huuh, dorks should know better than trying to mess with us! :^) ... .. - Has Katie gotten too drunk to hang around us again? Where is she? Either way, everything points to dance off in the near future. It's the only way to absolve problems in my metaphors.