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Interesting nuke angle
From:Google's Gulch - Neoliberal Globalization Propaganda Masquerading as Science Fiction
arendt Thu, 02/21/2019 - 11:06am 0
I recognize the names Norton, Tiptree, McIntyre, and Butler...
From:Google's Gulch - Neoliberal Globalization Propaganda Masquerading as Science Fiction
arendt Thu, 02/21/2019 - 10:56am 1 Thu, 02/21/2019 - 11:24am
Yes, Shelley is the very first scifi.
From:Google's Gulch - Neoliberal Globalization Propaganda Masquerading as Science Fiction
arendt Thu, 02/21/2019 - 10:53am 0
You read interesting things
From:Google's Gulch - Neoliberal Globalization Propaganda Masquerading as Science Fiction
arendt Thu, 02/21/2019 - 09:55am 2 Thu, 02/21/2019 - 08:31pm
I loved the Brunner stories
From:Google's Gulch - Neoliberal Globalization Propaganda Masquerading as Science Fiction
arendt Thu, 02/21/2019 - 09:39am 2 Thu, 02/21/2019 - 10:52am
Forever War is a classic
From:Google's Gulch - Neoliberal Globalization Propaganda Masquerading as Science Fiction
arendt Thu, 02/21/2019 - 09:28am 0
Please do let me know
From:Google's Gulch - Neoliberal Globalization Propaganda Masquerading as Science Fiction
arendt Wed, 02/20/2019 - 09:31pm 0
Read it all decades ago
From:Google's Gulch - Neoliberal Globalization Propaganda Masquerading as Science Fiction
arendt Wed, 02/20/2019 - 09:31pm 1 Thu, 02/21/2019 - 09:01am
That's what I thought
From:Google's Gulch - Neoliberal Globalization Propaganda Masquerading as Science Fiction
arendt Wed, 02/20/2019 - 07:55pm 1 Fri, 02/22/2019 - 01:28pm
Thanks, I had to look up "apa style", but thanks. :-)
From:Monotheism and Its Discontents (with apologies to Sigmund Freud)
arendt Wed, 02/20/2019 - 07:51pm 0
The media landscape is unbelievably distorted.
From:Google's Gulch - Neoliberal Globalization Propaganda Masquerading as Science Fiction
arendt Wed, 02/20/2019 - 07:38pm 1 Thu, 02/21/2019 - 09:17am
Louis XIII.
From:Google's Gulch - Neoliberal Globalization Propaganda Masquerading as Science Fiction
arendt Wed, 02/20/2019 - 07:22pm 2 Wed, 02/20/2019 - 08:51pm
Another upside to cash is they can't track you.
From:Amazon Warns Philly Over Proposed Cashless Store Ban
arendt Tue, 02/19/2019 - 08:40am 1 Tue, 02/19/2019 - 10:35am
Ignorance is (TPTB's) strength
From:Amazon Warns Philly Over Proposed Cashless Store Ban
arendt Tue, 02/19/2019 - 08:35am 0
FDR called what Amazon is doing "industrial dictatorship"
From:Amazon Warns Philly Over Proposed Cashless Store Ban
arendt Tue, 02/19/2019 - 08:30am 0
Thanks for contributing this to the thread
From:Crucified on a Cross of Benjamins
arendt Sat, 02/16/2019 - 09:42am 0
Will you stop name calling and insulting people?
From:Crucified on a Cross of Benjamins
arendt Fri, 02/15/2019 - 08:20pm 0
I asked jwa13 to please keep it cool. I will ask you the same.
From:Crucified on a Cross of Benjamins
arendt Fri, 02/15/2019 - 08:19pm 0
You keep deflecting from the issue.
From:Crucified on a Cross of Benjamins
arendt Fri, 02/15/2019 - 08:16pm 0
Please don't go there. "troll" is name calling, even if true.
From:Crucified on a Cross of Benjamins
arendt Fri, 02/15/2019 - 08:12pm 1 Fri, 02/15/2019 - 08:22pm
Friedman had an entire column. Omar had 140 characters.
From:Crucified on a Cross of Benjamins
arendt Fri, 02/15/2019 - 08:10pm 0
Here's the quote straight from Friedman's mouth
From:Crucified on a Cross of Benjamins
arendt Fri, 02/15/2019 - 07:32pm 1 Fri, 02/15/2019 - 08:02pm
Thanks for mentioning that
From:Crucified on a Cross of Benjamins
arendt Fri, 02/15/2019 - 07:17pm 2 Sat, 02/16/2019 - 01:26am
In case you haven't noticed. The membership here despises KOS.
From:Crucified on a Cross of Benjamins
arendt Fri, 02/15/2019 - 07:14pm 1 Fri, 02/15/2019 - 08:04pm
You only address AIPAC as if talking about it is CT
From:Crucified on a Cross of Benjamins
arendt Fri, 02/15/2019 - 06:40pm 1 Fri, 02/15/2019 - 08:19pm
The VOA, stepchild of the CIA. I'm so impressed. Not.
From:Crucified on a Cross of Benjamins
arendt Fri, 02/15/2019 - 05:40pm 3 Fri, 02/15/2019 - 06:38pm
You dodged the question. You labeled her.
From:Crucified on a Cross of Benjamins
arendt Fri, 02/15/2019 - 05:26pm 1 Fri, 02/15/2019 - 05:46pm
Microagressions - that really ties it to IdPol-ness
From:Crucified on a Cross of Benjamins
arendt Fri, 02/15/2019 - 02:52pm 0
Blasphemy Laws - thanks, I had forgotten that one.
From:Crucified on a Cross of Benjamins
arendt Fri, 02/15/2019 - 02:51pm 1 Sat, 02/16/2019 - 09:36am
Sorry. Added it to first para.
From:Crucified on a Cross of Benjamins
arendt Fri, 02/15/2019 - 12:17pm 1 Fri, 02/15/2019 - 08:23pm
If I understand correctly,...
From:Green Capitalism Aglow
arendt Wed, 02/13/2019 - 08:22pm 1 Wed, 02/13/2019 - 09:34pm
Its really kind of you to follow up so late with such detail
From:This is your politics on Media Drugs (new title)
arendt Wed, 02/13/2019 - 07:13pm 0
From what I can gather, the environmentalists do not...
From:The Lady in the Green Astroturf Dress
arendt Mon, 02/11/2019 - 09:24pm 0
I'm sorry, Poe's Law
From:This is your politics on Media Drugs (new title)
arendt Mon, 02/11/2019 - 05:53pm 1 Mon, 02/11/2019 - 09:05pm
Interesting new facts
From:Self Defeating "Pragmatists"
arendt Mon, 02/11/2019 - 05:48pm 2 Mon, 02/11/2019 - 09:46pm
I back up what I say with cites.
From:Self Defeating "Pragmatists"
arendt Mon, 02/11/2019 - 05:46pm 2 Mon, 02/11/2019 - 08:10pm
Pray tell, who are these "wiser voices"
From:Self Defeating "Pragmatists"
arendt Mon, 02/11/2019 - 05:37pm 1 Mon, 02/11/2019 - 05:43pm
There's a Japanese saying...
From:Some Words About the Nature of Pinocchios and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
arendt Mon, 02/11/2019 - 05:34pm 0
Mentioning people's professional behavior is not an ad hominem
From:Self Defeating "Pragmatists"
arendt Mon, 02/11/2019 - 05:29pm 0
OK. This is where I thought you stood
From:Self Defeating "Pragmatists"
arendt Mon, 02/11/2019 - 05:24pm 0
No. I'm not backing Lieberman...
From:Self Defeating "Pragmatists"
arendt Mon, 02/11/2019 - 05:22pm 2 Mon, 02/11/2019 - 09:30pm
Dude, this is Kabuki
From:Some Words About the Nature of Pinocchios and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
arendt Mon, 02/11/2019 - 05:18pm 0
It is not nihilism to refuse to put a gun to your head...
From:Some Words About the Nature of Pinocchios and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
arendt Mon, 02/11/2019 - 05:14pm 2 Mon, 02/11/2019 - 07:56pm
Great, more counterfactual time-wasting softballs
From:Some Words About the Nature of Pinocchios and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
arendt Mon, 02/11/2019 - 05:02pm 0
No party backing, but plenty of media backing post-primary
From:Self Defeating "Pragmatists"
arendt Mon, 02/11/2019 - 04:51pm 2 Mon, 02/11/2019 - 05:31pm
Just the corporate business media spin
From:The Lady in the Green Astroturf Dress
arendt Mon, 02/11/2019 - 04:35pm 1 Mon, 02/11/2019 - 07:29pm
Thank you for boiling down my wordy answer
From:The Lady in the Green Astroturf Dress
arendt Mon, 02/11/2019 - 04:24pm 0
Your question presuposes our political system still functions.
From:The Lady in the Green Astroturf Dress
arendt Mon, 02/11/2019 - 04:22pm 0
Thanks for contributing that article to the thread.
From:The Lady in the Green Astroturf Dress
arendt Mon, 02/11/2019 - 03:57pm 0
It may be bleak...
From:The Lady in the Green Astroturf Dress
arendt Mon, 02/11/2019 - 02:47pm 1 Mon, 02/11/2019 - 02:57pm
You refuse to engage on who he is?
From:Self Defeating "Pragmatists"
arendt Mon, 02/11/2019 - 02:41pm 0
I do not follow your logic.
From:The Lady in the Green Astroturf Dress
arendt Mon, 02/11/2019 - 02:35pm 3 Tue, 02/12/2019 - 02:28am
I do not have any faith in conventional politics anymore
From:The Lady in the Green Astroturf Dress
arendt Mon, 02/11/2019 - 02:27pm 2 Mon, 02/11/2019 - 03:44pm
OK, but what is it?
From:This is your politics on Media Drugs (new title)
arendt Mon, 02/11/2019 - 01:51pm 1 Wed, 02/13/2019 - 11:36am
First, is this article free? If not, lengthy quotes are illegal.
From:Self Defeating "Pragmatists"
arendt Mon, 02/11/2019 - 01:46pm 3 Mon, 02/11/2019 - 05:10pm
Salon. Another fake left website.
From:Some Words About the Nature of Pinocchios and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
arendt Mon, 02/11/2019 - 12:32pm 1 Mon, 02/11/2019 - 04:49pm
I saved "Obama in a dress" for a later posting.
From:The Lady in the Green Astroturf Dress
arendt Mon, 02/11/2019 - 12:01pm 1 Mon, 02/11/2019 - 12:11pm
They are trying hard to make her "resonate"
From:The Lady in the Green Astroturf Dress
arendt Mon, 02/11/2019 - 11:55am 0
I still don't understand what this solution is
From:This is your politics on Media Drugs (new title)
arendt Mon, 02/11/2019 - 10:23am 1 Mon, 02/11/2019 - 01:42pm
Are you referring to CRISPR?
From:This is your politics on Media Drugs (new title)
arendt Mon, 02/11/2019 - 08:19am 1 Mon, 02/11/2019 - 09:04am
Excellent. Coherent and compelling narrative.
From:The Primary and Secondary Contradictions of the American Empire
arendt Sun, 02/10/2019 - 09:43pm 1 Mon, 02/11/2019 - 06:34am
Thanks again, for the link
From:This is your politics on Media Drugs (new title)
arendt Fri, 02/08/2019 - 10:31pm 1 Fri, 02/08/2019 - 10:43pm
Thanks for getting the point
From:This is your politics on Media Drugs (new title)
arendt Fri, 02/08/2019 - 10:28pm 1 Mon, 02/11/2019 - 05:32pm
Well, the whole IdPol thing was always tribalism
From:This is your politics on Media Drugs (new title)
arendt Fri, 02/08/2019 - 10:15pm 0
Thanks for the reality check
From:This is your politics on Media Drugs (new title)
arendt Fri, 02/08/2019 - 10:12pm 1 Fri, 02/08/2019 - 10:29pm
Slight change: her role is to splinter the LEFT of the party
From:This is your politics on Media Drugs (new title)
arendt Fri, 02/08/2019 - 07:36pm 1 Fri, 02/08/2019 - 08:12pm
Thanks for the video. Spot on. n/t
From:This is your politics on Media Drugs (new title)
arendt Fri, 02/08/2019 - 06:55pm 0
This thread has been frustrating for me.
From:This is your politics on Media Drugs (new title)
arendt Fri, 02/08/2019 - 06:17pm 3 Sun, 02/10/2019 - 02:30pm
You're right. I meant to say a hard right political system.
From:This is your politics on Media Drugs (new title)
arendt Fri, 02/08/2019 - 05:18pm 3 Fri, 02/08/2019 - 10:59pm
In this case, its more like toad licking. n/t
From:This is your politics on Media Drugs (new title)
arendt Fri, 02/08/2019 - 04:57pm 1 Sat, 02/09/2019 - 09:54am
Or, there is what I'm talking about
From:This is your politics on Media Drugs (new title)
arendt Fri, 02/08/2019 - 04:56pm 2 Fri, 02/08/2019 - 11:04pm
Thanks for covering that base
From:This is your politics on Media Drugs (new title)
arendt Fri, 02/08/2019 - 04:49pm 1 Fri, 02/08/2019 - 05:46pm
The muddying goes both ways...
From:This is your politics on Media Drugs (new title)
arendt Fri, 02/08/2019 - 04:47pm 1 Fri, 02/08/2019 - 05:57pm
Its not a half-measure, its a poison pill
From:This is your politics on Media Drugs (new title)
arendt Fri, 02/08/2019 - 03:32pm 2 Sun, 02/10/2019 - 11:04am
I agree with you about oil and socialism
From:This is your politics on Media Drugs (new title)
arendt Fri, 02/08/2019 - 01:37pm 2 Fri, 02/08/2019 - 07:10pm
Details, please. I need the ammo.
From:This is Going to Ruffle Some Feathers
arendt Fri, 02/08/2019 - 11:29am 0
Discouraged is not the way I feel...
From:At long last, I simply do not care
arendt Thu, 02/07/2019 - 10:54pm 0
Had to google stammtisch
From:At long last, I simply do not care
arendt Wed, 02/06/2019 - 08:41pm 1 Thu, 02/07/2019 - 11:25pm
I recognize what you say is true
From:At long last, I simply do not care
arendt Wed, 02/06/2019 - 06:13pm 0
George Clooney, another complete disappointment
From:At long last, I simply do not care
arendt Wed, 02/06/2019 - 05:35pm 0
The volunteer army
From:At long last, I simply do not care
arendt Wed, 02/06/2019 - 05:32pm 2 Wed, 02/06/2019 - 10:36pm
Yeah, I really need to collect all of Caitlin Johnstone's...
From:At long last, I simply do not care
arendt Wed, 02/06/2019 - 05:27pm 0
Apologies. I thought about you, but I felt...
From:At long last, I simply do not care
arendt Wed, 02/06/2019 - 05:25pm 0
Yeah, Obama, the Empty Suit, Mr. Bait and Switch
From:At long last, I simply do not care
arendt Wed, 02/06/2019 - 05:15pm 0
I knew she was rich, but $100 M?
From:At long last, I simply do not care
arendt Wed, 02/06/2019 - 05:04pm 1 Wed, 02/06/2019 - 05:21pm
Wow was I unclear
From:At long last, I simply do not care
arendt Wed, 02/06/2019 - 04:56pm 2 Wed, 02/06/2019 - 05:07pm
Re: Gabbard
From:At long last, I simply do not care
arendt Wed, 02/06/2019 - 04:49pm 1 Wed, 02/06/2019 - 05:18pm
Yes, keep at it; but skip national politics and the duopoly
From:At long last, I simply do not care
arendt Wed, 02/06/2019 - 04:43pm 1 Thu, 02/07/2019 - 04:58am
...are entertaining. --- If you're not in the car.
From:At long last, I simply do not care
arendt Wed, 02/06/2019 - 03:55pm 1 Wed, 02/06/2019 - 04:15pm
The one thing about local is...
From:At long last, I simply do not care
arendt Wed, 02/06/2019 - 03:51pm 1 Wed, 02/06/2019 - 06:16pm
Stochastic camouflage
From:At long last, I simply do not care
arendt Wed, 02/06/2019 - 03:47pm 0
Back to "act locally, think globally"
From:At long last, I simply do not care
arendt Wed, 02/06/2019 - 03:41pm 1 Wed, 02/06/2019 - 05:41pm
Thank you
From:A Brief History of Monotheism - 1st of 3 essays re: Israel
arendt Mon, 02/04/2019 - 09:54pm 0
Yes, people are a package deal...
From:A Brief History of Monotheism - 1st of 3 essays re: Israel
arendt Sun, 02/03/2019 - 10:29pm 1 Mon, 02/04/2019 - 06:55pm
I looked up antisemitism, and the origins...
From:The highly contingent emergence of a Zionist state in Palestine - Part 2 (3rd of 3 essays re:Israel)
arendt Sun, 02/03/2019 - 11:21am 1 Sat, 02/09/2019 - 01:19pm
Totally agree that "Semite" is a loaded word.
From:The highly contingent emergence of a Zionist state in Palestine - Part 2 (3rd of 3 essays re:Israel)
arendt Sat, 02/02/2019 - 10:59pm 0
The answer is: I'm not a Jewish scholar, so I don't know.
From:Monotheism and Its Discontents (with apologies to Sigmund Freud)
arendt Sat, 02/02/2019 - 10:54pm 1 Sun, 02/03/2019 - 08:27am
Thanks for the link. I don't buy it.
From:A Brief History of Monotheism - 1st of 3 essays re: Israel
arendt Sat, 02/02/2019 - 09:53pm 0
Yes, I could have.
From:A Brief History of Monotheism - 1st of 3 essays re: Israel
arendt Sat, 02/02/2019 - 02:56pm 1 Sun, 02/03/2019 - 08:45am
I found my discussion of Jackson, Perle, and the Neocons
From:The highly contingent emergence of a Zionist state in Palestine - Part 1 (3rd of 3 essays re:Israel)
arendt Sat, 02/02/2019 - 02:24pm 1 Sat, 02/02/2019 - 08:05pm

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