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961 [lbo-talk] Boo! It's 999. -- rank: 1000

On Oct 31, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Barry Brooks wrote: > Simple taxes appeal to simple people who could be scared by 999 if they ever saw that it is 666 upside down. Ah but poor Herman has a sex scandal to contend with now. His defense this morning - that the organization of which he was president consented to a settlement concerning his alleged behavior about which he knew nothing - has to be one of the more hilarious self-defenses in the history of bullshit. Doug

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962 [lbo-talk] the autumn of the communes -- rank: 1000

On Oct 31, 2011, at 11:56 AM, MICHAEL YATES wrote: > Andy is mad because he has a target on his ass. Doug is tired of being a target. Carrol is sick of the jokes about how he lives in the cornfields. Shag says put her posts in a kill file. How about this? I'll be a surrogate target for all. When you get irritated, post one or more of the following: That Yates is an asshole. Give any reason you care to. I am sure there are plenty of them. Yates is a hypocrite. He says he has few possessions, ...

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963 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1736, Issue 3 -- rank: 1000

On Oct 30, 2011, at 10:02 PM, aren aizura wrote: > "Why an emphasis on people with no social power?" > > Uh yeah, because it's only the people with social power who should be out in the streets? Good luck with that. I love to see some white middle-class men rioting, I do. The reason OWS has gotten such traction is that it appeals to a broad swath of people. We were stunned, watching CNN last night, to see a long and rather sympathetic segment on the political impact of the pro ...

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964 [lbo-talk] Sarah Jaffe interview -- rank: 1000

On Oct 31, 2011, at 1:13 AM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > Sweet interview with Sarah Jaffe. Thanks. She was a last-minute replacement - Greg Graffin of Bad Religion, who is also an evolutionary biologist, canceled hours before the interview - and she worked out very nicely. Doug

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965 [lbo-talk] the autumn of the communes? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 31, 2011, at 7:43 AM, Charles Turner wrote: > I mostly blew by these threads because they were too painful to read. Not sure if Michael Smith would agree that style and content are inseparable, but I was heartened to see his apology, which I appreciated all the more because it seemed unnecessary, hence simply self-reflective and considerate. Yes. Nicely put, and I agree. But the biggest offenders are not the kind who apologize. Doug

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966 [lbo-talk] autumn of the communes -- rank: 1000

On Oct 31, 2011, at 6:29 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > So, Doug, Andy, Joanna, Miles, etc. just create a filter file. No. For at least two reasons. One, it's kind of ridiculous for me to filter posters to a forum I moderate. And two, this is a little society and I do my best to keep it from spinning out of control. I think that's one of the reasons this thing has survived for more than 12 years (though we'll see if it makes it to 13). And that means putting a lid on, as someone who wrote me o ...

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967 [lbo-talk] the autumn of the communes? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 30, 2011, at 7:51 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > Comic relief? The projection/denial thing can be pretty funny. Who has the > most outlandish history of "fantasizing the motives of those who are > interested" in political struggle, yet somehow finds the balls to accuse > you of it? Carrol. Who, against all odds, manages to be shrillest moralist > AND anti-moralist on the list? Again, Carrol. (I'm sure we all contradict > ourselves at times, but the moral/amoral pa ...

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968 [lbo-talk] occupation and situationists was Re: enemy's turf -- rank: 1000

On Oct 30, 2011, at 12:52 PM, Andy wrote: > Isn't this shag's MO in a nutshell? I've long suspected that she > doesn't actually have deep disagreements about most of the arguments > she gets into where she unloads the screaming baglady act, she just > likes to rile up the anthill for her own amusement and then sit back > and watch the chaos like an arsonist. > > Package deal and all that, but so's every abusive relationship. You > ever get tired of being called an assho ...

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969 [lbo-talk] the autumn of the communes? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 30, 2011, at 6:54 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Dennis Redmond: Let's keep things on target. OWS, eyes on the prize! > > Glad to: that's what shag, lbo335, Ian, I, some others have wanted to do but > Doug, SA, you, others are not interested in the target, you are only > interested in fantasizing the motives of those who are interested Go fuck yourself, you prick.

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970 [lbo-talk] the autumn of the communes? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 30, 2011, at 4:06 PM, lbo83235 wrote: > On Oct 30, 2011, at 9:21 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> On Oct 29, 2011, at 10:55 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: >> >>> Since I have recently begun reading rather than deleting unread Wojtek's posts, I need a replacement. I think the Great Quibbler SA will do admirably. >> >> If I hadn't known you for more than ten years, I'd be mighty tempted to kick your ass out of here. > > > This is ridiculously petty, Doug. ...

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971 [lbo-talk] the autumn of the communes? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 29, 2011, at 10:55 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Since I have recently begun reading rather than deleting unread Wojtek's posts, I need a replacement. I think the Great Quibbler SA will do admirably. If I hadn't known you for more than ten years, I'd be mighty tempted to kick your ass out of here. Doug

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972 [lbo-talk] the autumn of the communes? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 29, 2011, at 9:29 PM, SA wrote: > On 10/29/2011 9:15 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > >> Why does a bright and knowledgeable fellow like you feel the necessity of acting like a pure and unadulterated asshole with these clumsy quibbles? > > I thought we weren't doing one-liners. But Carrol is the last to follow his own directives. I'm curious, though, how he took your point as a "clumsy quibble." The whole corporate personhood critique is, to borrow one of CC's favorite ...

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973 [lbo-talk] How Do You Use This? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 29, 2011, at 7:19 PM, Slacker Faction wrote: > I would like to reply to individual posts but the digest format makes > it difficult to do so. Am I missing something here? No. That's the downside of the digest. You could quote them manually, but there's no direct response that I know of. Doug

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974 [lbo-talk] David Harvey -- rank: 1000

On Oct 29, 2011, at 5:36 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > If you still have a credit card, you borrow until you can't make the minimum payment and then default. Just make sure to file for bankruptcy, otherwise they'll bug your ass night & day.

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975 [lbo-talk] the autumn of the communes? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 29, 2011, at 2:59 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > There he goes again. Carry on. I'm off here for a while. Doug

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