Also a podcast recommendation: Philophize this. The host goes through a lot of things, but in a way even a knuckle dragger as me can start to understand some of the concepts. He also touches upon The Pedagogy of Opressed. Gotta read it!

Isaac wrote: Sun Mar 02, 2025 3:06 pm I feel like you're being honest and sincere here. I am not sure. Been a weird few weeks of your posts on this ol' board, have to say. No shade, just being honest.

I promise I'm not going to spin out of control. You aren't watching me become radicalized. I will not ask anything of anyone here, other than advise.

I do kind of recognize a collective skepticism on this board. I get it. I read the old forum - some of the names you referred to. I promise I'm not like that.

Gramsci wrote: Sun Mar 02, 2025 2:13 pm This is a decent in depth

I liked this. I was rewinding a lot because It got my brain to spin off in different directions.

Dovira wrote: Sun Mar 02, 2025 2:05 pm A kind of founding moral text for me is Aimé Césaire's 1956 letter to the French Communist Party.

This went way, way over my head. I printed it so I can take a couple more stabs at it. I fear I don't understand the context well enough...

Shananiganz wrote: Sun Mar 02, 2025 4:28 pm Also a podcast recommendation: Philophize this. The host goes through a lot of things, but in a way even a knuckle dragger as me can start to understand some of the concepts. He also touches upon The Pedagogy of Opressed. Gotta read it!

Watching this now.

Isaac wrote: Sun Mar 02, 2025 3:06 pm If so, The Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire set my head on fire when I read it nearly 30 years ago now. It set my watch in a way for how I approach that aspect of my life (which is, you know, LIFE).

I am definitely reading this, based on the pod I just listened to.

On a personal note, thanks. I'm gunna go fuck off now. Been asked to leave too many times - I can take a hint. Thanks for the reading and be well.

zorg wrote: Fri Feb 28, 2025 8:57 amblah blah blah

t's not fair to him or us to consider him some kind of voice of the people.

blah blah blah plays a journalist on TV

blah blah blah

I never said Jon Stewart was any kind of "voice of the people."

I said he's "fallen off," meaning that he's started promoting a lot of misinformation and even some apologetics to downplay the fascist nature of the Trump administration. He appears to be transitioning to the right, like TYT and so many others.

Blurring the lines between "journalist" and "entertainer" is the same excuse used by other political shitpundits from Rush Limbaugh to Alex Jones to Steven Crowder.

That's why I say he's shitting all lover his own legacy and ought to have stayed in retirement.

AttackChimp wrote: Sun Mar 02, 2025 10:10 am Gunna take a few days off and educate myself. Gunna read Marx, and take in a bunch of Wollf and Zizek lectures.

I have other reading, but I'd love suggestions for you cats. Mostly interested in socialism and communism. Not so interested in Marx-As-Christ...


Stay safe. Be well.

I guess I will just bomb in out of nowhere and recommend my guys Spencer Leonard and Chris Cutrone!

They just fired the entire department that licenses satellites to be launched into space by private companies. Totally not a conflict of interest for Elon.

cakes wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 10:10 am They just fired the entire department that licenses satellites to be launched into space by private companies. Totally not a conflict of interest for Elon.

The dozenth (?) example of this. How many more days is this gonna be allowed to happen..

JohnAlbert wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 3:04 am

zorg wrote: Fri Feb 28, 2025 8:57 amblah blah blah

t's not fair to him or us to consider him some kind of voice of the people.

blah blah blah plays a journalist on TV

blah blah blah

I never said Jon Stewart was any kind of "voice of the people."

I said he's "fallen off," meaning that he's started promoting a lot of misinformation and even some apologetics to downplay the fascist nature of the Trump administration. He appears to be transitioning to the right, like TYT and so many others.

Blurring the lines between "journalist" and "entertainer" is the same excuse used by other political shitpundits from Rush Limbaugh to Alex Jones to Steven Crowder.

That's why I say he's shitting all lover his own legacy and ought to have stayed in retirement.

Alright, I know he's popular, and I've found him funny at times, but I guess I just never considered Jon Stewart as the kind of guy having a "legacy". Also, I also haven't watched him since that Biden-Trump debate, so maybe things have really changed for the worse since then. I'll cede the floor.

penningtron wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 10:16 am

cakes wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 10:10 am They just fired the entire department that licenses satellites to be launched into space by private companies. Totally not a conflict of interest for Elon.

The dozenth (?) example of this. How many more days is this gonna be allowed to happen..

If republicans can't stop with Ukraine, which throws 80 years of global leadership and peacekeeping out the window (whether or not you agree with it, it's the most significant aspect of our foreign policy) and Trump tosses all our allies under the bus, there's absolutely no red line for them. Just last week, Lindsey Graham called Zelenksy the hero of his dreams, now he's calling for his resignation. Marco Rubio, same thing. Even though there's literal evidence of him soiling himself on national TV as Trump and Vance did their ambush. This is bigger than even domestic policy, of which they are happy to throw Americans--specifically their own constituents--under the bus as well.

So, if they are willing to allow Americans to die and go hungry and let the global world order to completely shift in favor of the BRICS, just to appease Trump, then there's absolutely nothing that will make them stand up. So we are fucked until further notice.

zorg wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 11:08 am

JohnAlbert wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 3:04 am

zorg wrote: Fri Feb 28, 2025 8:57 amblah blah blah

t's not fair to him or us to consider him some kind of voice of the people.

blah blah blah plays a journalist on TV

blah blah blah

I never said Jon Stewart was any kind of "voice of the people."

I said he's "fallen off," meaning that he's started promoting a lot of misinformation and even some apologetics to downplay the fascist nature of the Trump administration. He appears to be transitioning to the right, like TYT and so many others.

Blurring the lines between "journalist" and "entertainer" is the same excuse used by other political shitpundits from Rush Limbaugh to Alex Jones to Steven Crowder.

That's why I say he's shitting all lover his own legacy and ought to have stayed in retirement.

Alright, I know he's popular, and I've found him funny at times, but I guess I just never considered Jon Stewart as the kind of guy having a "legacy". Also, I also haven't watched him since that Biden-Trump debate, so maybe things have really changed for the worse since then. I'll cede the floor.

I don't see it. Granted, I don't look to Stewart for information. He's openly ridiculed people who've treated him as the news in the past. Obviously the show has been 98% political for ages but I look to him for humor mainly, and occasionally for his perspective. I don't need to agree with any comedian provided they have those two things.

He caught a lot of flack last year when Biden and Trump debated and his take was "both of these fuckers are too old to be president". He was not wrong. As for a rightward shift, he seems to be the same moderately progressive guy he's always been. I listened to his podcast episode with AOC and they couldn't stop enthusiastically agreeing with each other about how the Dems need to stop sucking. Similar points to those I've seen here on the PRF.

He's right that Schumer is the kiss of death.