alexis is awesome! also good taste in beer
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 13:50 (ten years ago) link
the gif of her throwing shade at barney over her glasses was instant classicq
I really hated how they put her on the spot by having her defend the success of OWS vs the power of Tea Party. A pro-corporate pro-Republican AstroTurf funded by billionaires and promoted by sensationalist politicians has been more successful than the genuinely grassroots OWS? No way!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 13:58 (ten years ago) link
imo her line about 'we were never about getting people into office, it's about changing our culture' is the real killer in that whole segment
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 15:28 (ten years ago) link
from email
After an almost year long fight, we're elated to announce that Jacqueline Barber has worked out a deal that will keep her and her family in their home for good! Jacqueline, a retired police detective who has been fighting a rare form of bone marrow cancer, was facing eviction when she first reached out to Occupy Our Homes Atlanta last October. Jacqueline was dual tracked and her mortgage documents were filled with forged signatures, and like millions of Americans she was now faced with losing her home. But after fighting for a year, Wall Street backed down and agreed to let Jaqueline and her family keep their home.
― HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 5 September 2013 15:19 (ten years ago) link
the previously ballyhooed 'cop facing eviction'
lewis wrote abt that hard hat thing from upthread the other day in jacobin, just incidentally
― zvookster, Thursday, 5 September 2013 15:27 (ten years ago) link
anti-Syria-strike action in Zuccotti Park this Sunday, apparently
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 September 2013 15:37 (ten years ago) link
happy birthday.
― HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 18:04 (ten years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OWXt4W68w4g/Uh-orXCB-DI/AAAAAAAAAEg/PhSE2majolo/s640/001a.png
http://greatmomentsinleftism.blogspot.com/
omg at this one. really its the text of the 2nd poster that makes it
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-javR-OzLcWs/UijN8sGURwI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/PmGn1FhY4bk/s640/001.png
― Saul Goodberg (by Musket and Pup Tent) (s.clover), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 20:33 (ten years ago) link
yes
― HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 20:38 (ten years ago) link
lol
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 21:40 (ten years ago) link
inside the tent pissing into the tent
with fire
― HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 22:25 (ten years ago) link
i love that dude has a riseup email
the mother jones one is lol (and otm)
― Rothko's Chicken and Waffles (donna rouge), Thursday, 19 September 2013 01:38 (ten years ago) link
i dont think these are funny or well drawn
― max, Thursday, 19 September 2013 11:53 (ten years ago) link
no...
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 September 2013 11:56 (ten years ago) link
max, does the Working Families Party send you cartoons?
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 September 2013 14:40 (ten years ago) link
i'm with max on this
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Thursday, 19 September 2013 14:43 (ten years ago) link
not especially funny or well drawn. just the pain of recognition.
― HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 19 September 2013 14:59 (ten years ago) link
narrowcasting
― HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 19 September 2013 15:00 (ten years ago) link
ugh, jacobin
every article i've read is just full of the kind of hyperbole (ALL THOSE WHO ACCEPT TIPS ARE SLAVES!!) that the authors no doubt picked up from all the French theorists they've been skimming.
often there are really good ideas in there but then I just hit a wall of self-righteous, snooty, condescending bravado and it's like nuh-uh, i'm out of here
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 19 September 2013 15:07 (ten years ago) link
that said that cartoon is a little wittier than some but I get the same flattery-is-not-humor hives that i get when reading tom tomorrow or whatever
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 19 September 2013 15:09 (ten years ago) link
i mean flattering-your-audience
also the cartoon is so pervasively cynical that it makes me said. in one comic, mainstream unionism is ridiculed. in another, the wobblies are ridiculed for imaging themselves to be a viable alternative to mainstream unionism.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 19 September 2013 15:10 (ten years ago) link
sad
I get the same flattering-your-audience-is-not-humor hives that i get when reading tom tomorrow
flattering? these horribly formed "jokes" are largely mocking the subsets of people who'd know the reference points at all
― HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 19 September 2013 15:15 (ten years ago) link
really, you think so?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 19 September 2013 15:16 (ten years ago) link
i guess it depends which cartoon
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 19 September 2013 15:17 (ten years ago) link
ok yeah this is just stupid and offensive. what an asshole.
http://greatmomentsinleftism.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2013-08-23T10:04:00-07:00&max-results=1&start=8&by-date=false
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 19 September 2013 15:18 (ten years ago) link
i mean, that dude exists. i've picketed with him.
― HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 19 September 2013 15:28 (ten years ago) link
oh, they mean self-styled "organizers," not legit organizers, i guess.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 19 September 2013 15:29 (ten years ago) link
when your local fast food strike is made up of a dozen SEIU employees holding down second jobs as fry cooks so they can go on strike you meet a lot of that dude.
― HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 19 September 2013 15:30 (ten years ago) link
and i'm not saying that sort of thing is without merit etc etc
again, just like despairing pain of recognition here
― HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 19 September 2013 15:31 (ten years ago) link
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, September 19, 2013 3:29 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
also yes
― HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 19 September 2013 15:44 (ten years ago) link
i thought like three of them were funny cuz of what hoos says. the solidarity one hurt a little. the north korea one doesn't make a whole lot of sense; north korea is not the 30s ussr and in my experience the western left is not under any illusions about it. that's the only one that really felt like outsider reactionary hostility to me tho. they are indifferently drawn.
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 19 September 2013 16:25 (ten years ago) link
in my experience the western left is not under any illusions about it.
ha
wish this were true in my experience
guy i produce a program for has been known to post ~support anti-imperialist DPRK against capitalist running dogs~ links
― HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 19 September 2013 16:42 (ten years ago) link
this one made me lol just for non-sequitur
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kPmk4LNoF1o/UgkYkUqkhDI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Vb-a9S0ClGU/s640/001.png
― HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 19 September 2013 16:45 (ten years ago) link
haha was half expecting you to say that re: dprk. still neglected to knock on wood.
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 19 September 2013 17:42 (ten years ago) link
The Agency of Left Sects and table w/ Trot, Stalinist, anarchist are truthbombs.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 19 September 2013 18:41 (ten years ago) link
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, September 19, 2013 11:07 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
to be fair to jacobin that article had lots more to do with the author (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Svenonius) than the general tone of the mag.
the 'nation' thing really smarts because you get this sense it likes to pretend to play nastier and lefter and smarter and younger and more r-r-radical and etc except then you have an editor going off and being a boring columnist for in these times on the side and etc.
― Saul Goodberg (by Musket and Pup Tent) (s.clover), Thursday, 19 September 2013 19:11 (ten years ago) link
I like some of what I've read in Jacobin but I can't tell exactly what they're going for other than "we're smarter"
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Thursday, 19 September 2013 19:13 (ten years ago) link
everyone is so afraid to have a program these days
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Thursday, 19 September 2013 19:14 (ten years ago) link
did everybody read the jacobin editor's "letter to The Nation"
http://www.thenation.com/article/174476/letter-nation-young-radical#axzz2fMtlXfTd
― HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 19 September 2013 19:25 (ten years ago) link
jacobin def have a program
― flopson, Thursday, 19 September 2013 20:29 (ten years ago) link
i mean, more than any mag i know. we're smarter maybe a part of it but that doesn't describe it entirely
critique of social-democracy and left-liberal policy solutions from the left, opposition to neoliberal education reform movement (charter schools, privatization) and recently concrete engagement in ctu strike, democratic socialism (influencing democratic party from the left by running candidates in primaries), harnessing technology & automation to bring about post-work socialist utopia, left unity. all of these are positions are consistently supported every issue. and i would even say rather than picking up ideas from french theorists they're riding the critical theory kickback by having dudes like vivek chibber criticize postcolonial theory from an old school marxist pov
― flopson, Thursday, 19 September 2013 20:40 (ten years ago) link
jacobin magazine
― flopson, Thursday, 19 September 2013 20:41 (ten years ago) link
basically, grad school leftism
― Spectrum, Thursday, 19 September 2013 20:42 (ten years ago) link