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It’s ironic Simon because you really fit the intellectual profile of someone who would claim to be a post-modern-Marxist…so I guess it all makes sense. I’ll concede the point that someone can CLAIM to be a post-modern-Marxist. Just as a 16 year old white teenager from America can CLAIM to be a Mongolian-astronaut. Well…good for your guys. You…[Read more]

You can be a neo-Marxist.

No Simon. If you “take something” from Marxism from a post-modernist perspective then you are picking and choosing from Marxism. Not BEING A MARXIST. As atheists we can take the few tidbits in the bible that are of use and make something out of it from our atheist perspectives. That doesn’t make us atheist-God-believers. That’s absurd. Just as…[Read more]

Post-modern neo-marxist.  It makes sense to treat marxism in a post-modernist way, to take what one wants from it.

It’s all very well to say that something “shouldn’t” exist on paper, but it does in real life.

No Simon. Anyone who says they are a post-modern marxist is stupid, self-contradictory and is spouting nonsense. It’s like being a God-loving atheist. You cannot be a post-modernist marxist. Jordon Peterson was just making up stupid shit (or pointing to a small handful of werid outliers) so he could overgeneralize and straw-man a broad spectrum of…[Read more]

I’m sure it’s possible to have neo-Marxists who are also post-modernists.  If Marxism is distinct and non-overlapping with post-modernism – well neo-Marxism can take what it wants from Marxism, in a post-modern way.

Riots all across the United States. Right wing news and opinion sources will depict it as those crazy blacks can’t control their criminal impulses, but Portland is one of the whitest cities in America, yet we had a full-blown riot going on last night. It’s those anarchists who glom on to any protest and then proceed to break windows, set cars and…[Read more]

Davis wrote:
I’ve seen several shows that really take digs at Floriday (most notably Family Guy and Brooklyn Nine Nine) and on a few sites I’ve seen people encouraging you to either name a town in Florida and do a news search and see how much white-trash-crime goes on there. I have to guess that there is a lot of hyperbole but the kind of ins…

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I drive from Atlanta to Panama City in Florida. I cover about 310 miles including a straight drive down through Alabama. If I was to drive from Panama City to Orlando I would cover about 360 miles and still only be in northern half of Florida.

Davis wrote:
I’ve seen several shows that really take digs at Floriday (most notably Family Guy and Brooklyn Nine Nine) and on a few sites I’ve seen people encouraging you to either name a town in Florida and do a news search and see how much white-trash-crime goes on there. I have to guess that there is a lot of hyperbole but the kind of ins…

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I’ve seen several shows that really take digs at Floriday (most notably Family Guy and Brooklyn Nine Nine) and on a few sites I’ve seen people encouraging you to either name a town in Florida and do a news search and see how much white-trash-crime goes on there. I have to guess that there is a lot of hyperbole but the kind of insults are along the…[Read more]

Sorry Your Holiness, I mean Panama City Beach. This stupidity happened just by where I stay. However I seldom see a crowded beach as I only go there for a week around Thanksgiving. The rest of the time I stay in Atlanta.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I spend time most years in PCB in Fl.

Do you mean PBC in FL? If so, I grew up (mostly) there, in Palm Beach County. I didn’t see much bigly there forty five years ago, but saw some near the armpit states (north-east Gulf of Mexico area). I remember driving through there with a CB radio and listening to some rednecks…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
Holy crap, Unseen.

To make matters worse, there is a third faction, loosely aligned with the AntiFas, calling themselves anarchists. These aren’t the small-government free trade libertarian leave-us-alone anarchists, these are the violent bomb-throwing, fire-starting, breaking store windows anarchists. Unfortunately, they run with…[Read more]

I think the right is winning “bigly” in a lot of places. I spend time most years in PCB in Fl. and short-term vacation rentals are open again. Hardly anyone is following safety protocols anymore because “freedom”. Then they all go to church together.

In fairness, restaurants are only using 50% of their seating and tourists are not back fully yet.

I am playing Fry Cry 5 on the PS4.  The photo above reminds me of the “peggies” or cult members of Eden’s Gate that I am out to save the world from. Somebody’s got to do it!

I’m sure I would agree with the social justice agenda, and the ways in which they would like things to change.  But I think that the way they try and achieve it can sometimes be deeply silly, and exclusionary of other viewpoints.

However, like many avant-garde movements, some of the ideas can end up filtering into the mainstream.

Holy crap, Unseen.

@Reg, I think you are spot on with one addition. The efforts of the “alt-left” and the “alt-right” are paying off. Their ranks are growing. They seem to be flattening the curve, so to speak. In my town, the right is winning. Many of my previously sane friends have lost their minds into Trumpism. They are starting to resemble this……

While my sympathies as a generally liberal guy tend to align more with those of the anti-fascists (aka AntiFa around here), both sides are ready to mix it up in the streets.

John and Jane Doe, who have two kids, car payments, and a mortgage don’t necessarily identify with AntiFa’s values, especially considering that the Does may be religious and…[Read more]