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6196 [lbo-talk] Twitter: >40% pointless babble -- rank: 1000

On Aug 13, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Sometimes ib tgus kust I think I'm in a time warp, and I'm back in > front > of Huyck's General Store in Wakelee, Michigan, date 1938, and > listening > to the old men alternately spit tobacco and whine or growl about > what a > mess the world is becoming. I presume this is directed mainly at me. Carrol, I filed a specific complaint about Twitter (and I'll still bet that you have little or no idea of what Twitter is). There' ...

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6197 [lbo-talk] Twitter: >40% pointless babble -- rank: 1000

On Aug 13, 2009, at 5:05 PM, Bob Morris wrote: > Facebook has 300 million users and is the 4th biggest website on the > planet > now. I like Facebook, and am a frequent user. It may be the only place in the world where I've got more than 1,000 friends! Twitter, though, I just don't get. It looks like crap and is dominated by the most inane chatter. There's something damaging to the collective intelligence about a series of 140-character or less bleats. I'm no Christian, but I thoug ...

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6198 [lbo-talk] Twitter: >40% pointless babble -- rank: 1000

On Aug 13, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > And to repeat again my paraphrase of a bit of 19th-century doggerel: > > Let me sit on a throne by the side of the road, > And sneer at the fools going by. > > And they are at least obeying the Hippocratic Oath: First Do No > Harm. Or > does someone here have evidence that they are the ones bombing > villagers > in Pakistan? Oh, gee, I hadn't thought of that. Thanks.

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6199 [lbo-talk] Twitter: >40% pointless babble -- rank: 1000

On Aug 13, 2009, at 2:38 PM, // ravi wrote: > Maybe you need to post a video of you jacking off on YouTube (which > would make your point)! That would be RedTube or XTube, which is full of 'em. Doug

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6200 [lbo-talk] Angela Davis a Stalinist -- rank: 1000

On Aug 13, 2009, at 2:09 PM, Chris Doss wrote: His 9th post of the day. The limit is 3. Chris, I put you on moderation a while back because of the volume. Please limit yourself so I don't have to do that again. Doug

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6201 [lbo-talk] Twitter: >40% pointless babble -- rank: 1000

On Aug 13, 2009, at 11:57 AM, Alan Rudy wrote: > But isn't >40% still less than the percentage in everyday > conversation? But that would be in a social context. Broadcasting the news to scores/ hundreds/thousands that you are having a sandwich - or, as an otherwise very smart and literate friend of mine once inexplicably posted, "I just steamed some sugar snap peas" - is weird. Doug

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6202 [lbo-talk] Twitter: >40% pointless babble -- rank: 1000

On Aug 13, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > (only 40%? I'm shocked!) The definition is fairly rigorous. It doesn't include spam (4%), self- promotion (6%), and re-tweets (9%).

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6203 [lbo-talk] LaRouche: I started the Obama = Hitler thing! -- rank: 1000

[An actual press release from the LaRouche organization.] The Washington Times: LaRouche Originated the Obama-Hitler Poster Aug. 12 (LPAC) The Washington Times's "Inside the Beltway" column for Aug. 13 reports that "NBC, MSNBC and CNN have showcased a controversial image of President Obama depicted as Hitler during recent news coverage of contentious town-hall meetings and health care reform," noting that its originator was the Lyndon LaRouche movement. The column then no ...

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6204 [lbo-talk] Twitter: >40% pointless babble -- rank: 1000

http://www.pearanalytics.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Twitter-Study-August-2009.pdf

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6205 [lbo-talk] Barbara Ehrenreich -- rank: 1000

On Aug 13, 2009, at 9:31 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > The sad truth is that all that suffering is for nothing - it is > marginalized, unnecessary, and pointless. Nobody benefits from it, > it is not redeemed at some higher level by the creation of value, > even if that value is appropriated by someone else. It is like > rubbish - thrown away, purpose-less, and forgotten. It has no value > to anyone, even capitalists, imperialists and kindred 'enemies of > the people.' I ...

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6206 [lbo-talk] reading badiou -- worth it? (was: Review ofBadiou'sNumber) -- rank: 1000

On Aug 12, 2009, at 2:34 PM, Matt wrote: > I said to Dad: "I really do not understand why people get so > frustrated with tech support, especially offshore support! She was > awesome!" Wow. My experience with Verizon DSL support was miserable. My old office line kept dropping out. I spent hours and hours on the phone with them, talking mostly with idiots who made me go through the same idiot routine every time. They sent out three techs who couldn't find anything. This we ...

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6207 [lbo-talk] Barbara Ehrenreich -- rank: 1000

On Aug 12, 2009, at 10:13 AM, Bill O'Connor wrote: > Wojtek Sokolowski <swsokolowski at yahoo.com> writes: > >> >> Otherwise, paraphrasing one wealthy US industrialist (his name >> escapes >> me at the moment) the US ruling class has always been in the position >> to hire a half of the working (and middle) class to subdue the other >> half. In other words, no serious threat from below. > > Jay Gould. His words are much truer today than they ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 12 09:54:04 PDT 2009

6208 [lbo-talk] right appropriates Alinsky for town halls -- rank: 1000

On Aug 11, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote: > I didn't have any trouble getting through it (on the contrary, it > was a > very quick read). I didn't think it was difficult. I thought it was gratingly dumb.

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6209 [lbo-talk] right appropriates Alinsky for town halls -- rank: 1000

[Hey, and Ralph Reed is a student of Gramsci. I tried reading Rules for Radicals once, in order to write a critique of Alinskyism, but couldn't get past about 15 pages. The project could be worth another visit - as the quote about Daley at the end shows.] <http://washingtonindependent.com/54554/conservatives-find-town-hall-strategy-in-leftist-text > Conservatives Find Town Hall Strategy in Leftist Text Organizers See 'Rules for Radicals' as Blueprint for Taking Down 'Obamacare' By DAVI ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 11 07:02:13 PDT 2009

6210 [lbo-talk] get Al Jazeera English on U.S. cable systems! -- rank: 1000

Here in the land of free expression, you can hardly find Al Jazeera English on any TV set. Send your provider a message to change that: <http://www.iwantaje.net/>

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