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136 The Sopranos -- rank: 744

>Thing is, Gene has no power. That's why >he's at a think tank. > >mbs duh. *ding*ding*ding* max wins the prize behind curtain numbah tree, the handy dandy all-in-one lingerie washing 'n' dryer combo! wooohooo max, come on down! kelley

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Author:	Kelley
Date:	Mon Mar 4 21:01:41 PST 2002

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Kelley wrote: > > > raging masculinism is this: when a supermodel, who doesn't crawl out of > >bed > > > for less than a million bucks, dates a liberal leaning politico the event > > > is explained by reference to "power as an aphrodisiac. > > > >What do you think the real explanation is? > do you understand my comment ...

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Author:	Seth Ackerman
Date:	Mon Mar 4 20:48:03 PST 2002

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I didn't say it, but we might as well be honest. Power IS an aphrodisiac. Thing is, Gene has no power. That's why he's at a think tank. mbs raging masculinism is this: when a supermodel, who doesn't crawl out of bed for less than a million ...

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Author:	Max B. Sawicky
Date:	Mon Mar 4 20:44:44 PST 2002

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At 11:16 PM 3/4/02 -0500, Seth Ackerman wrote: >Kelley wrote: > > > raging masculinism is this: when a supermodel, who doesn't crawl out of >bed > > for less than a million bucks, dates a liberal leaning politico the event > > is explained by reference to "power as an aphrodisiac. > >What do ...

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Author:	Kelley
Date:	Mon Mar 4 20:38:20 PST 2002

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I don't know what trip you're on, but have a nice one. -- mbs On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Max B. Sawicky wrote: > I would have thought feminists would see it as an exercise > in raging masculinism. mbs Yeah, and all feminists are lesbian separatists who won't shave their ...

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Author:	Max B. Sawicky
Date:	Mon Mar 4 20:31:39 PST 2002

141 The Sopranos -- rank: 744

Kelley wrote: > raging masculinism is this: when a supermodel, who doesn't crawl out of bed > for less than a million bucks, dates a liberal leaning politico the event > is explained by reference to "power as an aphrodisiac. What do you think the real explanation is? Seth

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Author:	Seth Ackerman
Date:	Mon Mar 4 20:16:37 PST 2002

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At 09:31 PM 3/4/02 -0500, Max B. Sawicky wrote: >I would have thought feminists would see it as an exercise >in raging masculinism. > >mbs raging masculinism is this: when a supermodel, who doesn't crawl out of bed for less than a million bucks, dates a liberal leaning ...

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Author:	Kelley
Date:	Mon Mar 4 20:08:02 PST 2002

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On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Max B. Sawicky wrote: > I would have thought feminists would see it as an exercise > in raging masculinism. > > mbs Yeah, and all feminists are lesbian separatists who won't shave their armpits because they don't want to be "male-identified". Please. Miles

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Author:	Miles Jackson
Date:	Mon Mar 4 19:10:23 PST 2002

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At 07:18 PM 03/04/2002 -0500, Max wrote: >Didn't know this show had a bi/feminist fan base. I may be atypical. I like war movies and shooting guns too. But, seriously, I think it's the best show on T.V. and don't quite get why ...

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Author:	joanna bujes
Date:	Mon Mar 4 16:29:36 PST 2002

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Yeah, these are (to my mind) the right sort of qualifications. -- Luke Quoting andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>: > > Sure, but we don't have to agree with the morals for > it to be good art. The Illiad holds up an ideal that > we find repugnant. The Divine Comedy is ...

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Author:	lweiger at umich.edu
Date:	Wed Oct 6 04:56:53 PDT 2004

146 [lbo-talk] in which lbo-talk defends 'the sopranos' -- rank: 744

Brian: But Charles, wouldn't this mean that you would have to rely on kinksters and queers experience of oppression to have any knowledge of it since being a queer or a kinkster or a queer kinkster is way beyond your direct, individual experience? Just as you rely on het women ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Fri Oct 8 13:36:55 PDT 2004

147 [lbo-talk] in which lbo-talk defends 'the sopranos' -- rank: 744

Here's another passage in which Marx both claims that some "subjective states" are superior to others and draws on literature, in this case Goethe and Shakespeare, for insight both into the nature of the highest "subjective states" (i.e. states that realize the "supreme good") and into the psychopathological ones ...

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Author:	Ted Winslow
Date:	Fri Oct 8 10:04:06 PDT 2004

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Ted Winslow wrote: > > Carrol Cox wrote: > > > This is inconsistent with the idea that the "means" - a "revolution" - > can be successful when those employing them have no idea of the > "purpose" their labour is to realize and have been reduced by their > condition of absolute "alienation" to the opposite of "universally > developed ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Thu Oct 7 06:36:03 PDT 2004

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Carrol Cox wrote: > Jim Farmelant wrote: > > > > > > I don't think that the Bearded One had any such illusions concerning > > the proletariat. The proletariat would eventually overthrow > capitalism, > > not because they were inherently noble but because of their peculiar > > position within the capitalist mode of production which on the one > > hand oppressed ...

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Author:	Ted Winslow
Date:	Thu Oct 7 03:53:59 PDT 2004

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--- Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote: Traditionally, Marxist intellectuals tended to treasure what they considered to be the highest achievements of bourgeois culture. Thus, Marx's affection for Shakespeare, Goethe, Balzac, and Beethoven. Lenin and Trotsky were similarly snobbish. Stalin, I think, had a greater interest in popular culture ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu Oct 7 00:54:24 PDT 2004