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Yanks and their ****ing flags.

Majority in former Soviet states believe breakup was harmful mistake About 60 percent of Russians believe there were more positive than negative aspects to life in the former Soviet Union Russian Life Expectancy shorter now compared to Soviet rule 81% of Serbians believe they lived best in the former Yugoslavia 63% of Romanians survey participants said their life was better during communism 72% of Hungarians say most people were better off under communism 57% of East Germans defended the former GDR And no, this does not equal personal support for the late-Soviet Union.

Ignoring the colossal dumb****ery of comparing the confederate flag to feminism (or saying that the Confederate flag ever represented something positive); you do realise the achievements the feminists made in the past weren't all they wanted. The feminists at the forefront of the movements of the 60's and 70's were Radical Feminists and had greater ambitions than just the pill and an end to kitchen slavery and the feminists of the first-wave had greater ambitions than just "the right to vote". **** feminists have been fighting to abolish prostitution since the first-wave. Your "the women of the past had the right idea, now they're just whining" is a complete rehash of the same bull**** that's been regurgitated over and over. Look here's some man-hating from near a hundred years ago:

A powerful and inspirational figure whose message (in the case of Malala the condemnation of U.S. imperialism, condemnation of U.S. drone strikes as well as her support of socialism) will be distorted and co-opted by those in power and bastardised by reactionaries seeking to silence dissent amongst the oppressed? I can see that. EDIT: Whedon sucks.

I thought I was being pretty transparent. I'll remain broad and brief. My "issue" with "Modern Feminism" is that it has been hijacked by neo-liberal ideology and morphed into a watered down movement that promotes a less offensive, individualist feminism focused on individual empowerment instead of mass liberation. Instead of seeking to dismantle and reconstruct existing oppressive systems they advocate "expressing agency" within these systems; one's culture, ideology, religion and beliefs are not to be critiqued but instead are "personal choices"; political praxis isn't about collective action or grassroots movements but instead limited to individual consumer choices (such as buying the next "Beyoncé" album or whatever millionaire is throwing around the feminist label this week); gender is not to abolished but "to be played with". A good look at these changes provided by Carol Hanisch:

I've seen hardcore Randians score in the lower-left quadrant. It's quite biased. Based purely on my observation of the "GG" crowd its made up of a younger generation of conservative types. (e.g. "I support the gays but stop shoving it in my face")

The lazy version of saying "That's offensive". Nah, more a nicer way of saying "you guys are dumb". In short, from what I can gather this thread is made up of people who have not read any feminist texts; are ignorant of most if not all of the theoretical grounding; are unaware of the differences between the various schools of thought; are ignorant of the history of feminism; do not know which groups do and do not have significant influence and whose exposure to feminism is limited to some stupid posts made by 15 year olds on tumblr. And now with that lack of investigation into the topic they feel they're equipped to critique "feminism".

This thread is painful.

Not really, just a silly quote. A tactic that doesn't work would be by definition "a bad tactic". Mainstream media doesn't consider "lack of ethics/corruption/whatever in games journalism" to be a story worth running. Try and explain "Gamergate" to what mainstream media considers its target audience and I guarantee they wouldn't give a flying ****.

And just like the U.S the state that "sponsors" this propaganda is commanded by and serves the interests of its own ruling oligarchy.

That assumes you can trust the court.

Said it before but I thought it was the best film of last year. Honestly, I'd probably put it in my top 10 favourite films.

You sure this is propaganda? It looks accurate to me ..... Wow.

Profit driven media produces sensationalist stories to get more clicks/tweets/whatever. Who'd have thunk it. Barely related prediction: In 50 years the Republican and Liberal parties will have died out and been replaced by the "SJW" and "GG" parties. At that point I will abandon human civilization and live in the woods.

Clearly the SJWs have gained control of the media.

Its basically just a bunch of early 20 something y/o males whining about "SJW's" under the guise of "fighting for ethics in games journalism". It's a movement insomuch that the 14 year olds on tumblr complaining about how oppressed they are being a frog/leaf/whatever are a movement.

That's a fair enough comment I suppose. As much as I dislike the NK regime and find their entire Juche ideology a crude bastardisation of anything "Socialist" that at best only pays lip service to it; I do find it annoying when leftists try to pass it off as some "right-wing" and/or "fascist" regime. That said, I still disagree with the idea that any of their modern policies are based off any kind of Socialist ideology and instead are just the desperate scramblings of a tiny, isolated country under siege (see the creation of "Special Economic Zones since the 1990's). Nope, they eventually promoted non-leftist (and explicitly anti-communist) governments into their sphere as well (e.g. Nasser and Nehru).

Not really. Not even the Soviet Union (as he was referencing) chose people's jobs for them. Switch "Socialist" to uninformed delusions of the right-wing and it'd be more accurate.

That much is clear.

**** that.

True, the culture is a major reason but so is the law and the way it is enforced. My knowledge of modern Japanese society is pretty basic however I am aware that within their police force their is a culture of keeping crime statistics low, avoiding investigating homicides without a clear culprit and labelling "unnatural deaths" as suicides. Worth noting.

Are you under the impression I have any sympathy for the Chinese state? They too are an imperial power, who follow same market logic and too continue to slash their workers pitiful wages in the pursuit of cheaper labour and greater profit. Well much like NASA, Mr. Piketty and the latest Oxfam report state churning through our natural resources with a continued system of unsustainable resource exploitation and increasingly unequal wealth distribution is simply not sustainable and is only going to continue to create greater poverty and greater wealth divide. Nothing short of a complete societal restructuring that abolishes the pursuit of profit, the funneling of wealth and the recklessly self-destructive exploitation and unequal distribution of our natural resources will fix this continued wealth gap and eventual societal decay. Of course the cynic in me doesn’t expect such a thing to happen any time soon. Instead wealth inequality will exacerbate; wages will be cut via “austerity measures”, the far-right will gain greater societal influence; some scapegoat will be found to pin societal woes on (e.g. Muslims, Jews, what have you); the West will continue to recklessly gobble up eastern markets meanwhile the east (Russia) will fight tooth and nail to maintain economic hegemony over the former eastern bloc; Africa and the ME will continue to be a playground for the imperial powers; and I will continue mutter bitterly about the whole damn thing. Or at least that's my crystal gazing prediction.

Considering every time they've diverged from the books its been handled horribly, no, not good. Can't say I care too much. I lost interest a few seasons back and only watch the occasional highlight (Red Wedding, Viper/Mountain)

The beneficiaries of centuries of slavery, genocide, colonialism and imperialism are able to placate their civilians with enough material incentive so they won't rebel. Who'd have thunk it. Why not? All these Western value nations both participated in, and still benefit from colonialism and on-going imperialism; as well as repeatedly invading foreign countries, toppling foreign regimes and installing puppet dictatorships. Going off history this all seems very "Western". Where you choose between rich representative who serves the interests of the rich A and rich representative who serves the interests of the rich B. The system that was built on slavery, genocide and mass exploitation; the system that continually funnels wealth into the hands of the few directly at the expense of the many; the system whose exploitation has been becoming more and more concentrated for decades; the system that has the richest country in the world have half its population living in poverty or near poverty; the system that in times of economic turmoil continues to attack the poor and serve the rich Bloomberg, "Top 1% Got 93% of Income Growth as Rich-Poor Gap Widened" Wall Street Journal, "The 1% Captures Most Growth From Recovery" Think Progress, "The Richest 1 Percent Captured 93 Percent Of Income Gains In 2010" Washington Post, "In 2010, 93 percent of income gains went to the top 1 percent" Business Insider, "New Study Shows How The 1% Got 93% Of The Income Gains During The Great Recovery" The system who’s top economic work of the year had today’s court charlatan astrologer desperately trying to reconcile the contradictions of capitalism and fearing even worse wealth inequality without severe (and completely unrealistic) worldwide intervention; the system whose own scientists (NASA) fear societal collapse due to the ever expanding wealth gap and the never ending pursuit of profit at the expense of our natural resources; the system that ****ing exists in Africa and has only served widen the wealth gap in the continent. That is owned by the rich, controlled by the rich and serves the interests of the rich. Haha. Even if I were to ignore literally every point I've already made this is simply not possible. The conditions that allowed "the West" to achieve its post-war prosperity were a result of very specific circumstances that we are unlikely to repeat and which have been waning for decades anyway.