The clash of titans. The great debate of our age.Who is the real enemy - postmodern neo-marxists, or neo-marxist postmodernists? pic.twitter.com/OTo6SoKIRx— Rocko's Modern Basilisk 🏴 (@InnerPartisan) February 26, 2018
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 22:09 (six years ago) link
gotcha! the real enemy is white men
― maura, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 22:10 (six years ago) link
Oh my god. The Orpheum?
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 22:22 (six years ago) link
"philosophy", I may never stop vomiting
― Dan I., Wednesday, 28 February 2018 02:48 (six years ago) link
barf
re: "postmodern neo-marxists", I consider this the final word on that
hi i'm a postmodern marxist. that means i believe in the deconstruction of the master narrative and the proliferation of perspectives, but also, somehow, simultaneously, believe only in marxism.— your friend john (@johnsemley3000) January 25, 2018
― Simon H., Wednesday, 28 February 2018 02:55 (six years ago) link
Your friend John is otm. And anyone who has a problem with that position should read Sloterdijks Critique of Cynical Reason.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 10:12 (six years ago) link
whinging about postmodernism is like whinging about oxygen tbh
― https://cdn1.umg3.net/95/files/2018/01/BANNER.jpg (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 10:22 (six years ago) link
Again, otm. Fuck the metamodernists, though...
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 10:24 (six years ago) link
cute story from the Bay Area
Ten times in the last six month, Revolution Books, the far left bookstore in the Telegraph Channing Mall, has found itself under attack from far-right activists.
The latest skirmish was Sat. March 4, the one-year anniversary of the pro-Trump rally in Martin Luther King Jr. Park that saw people on the right and Antifa and BAMN activists duking it out for control. A group of people who called themselves “Berkeley Warriors” on a live Facebook feed came from Sacramento and stormed the store.
“Fucking Commie scum,” one demonstrator, Rob Cantrall, said on a video taken by bookstore staff while Reiko Redmonde, a volunteer manager at the store, tried to prevent him and others from entering. “You are commie scum. We are going to burn down your bookstore. You know that, right?”
https://www.berkeleyside.com/2018/03/07/right-wing-activists-target-berkeleys-revolution-books
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 March 2018 17:13 (six years ago) link
This headline from the LA Review of Books is so great I'm almost afraid to read the piece for fear of almost certainly being let down.
A Messiah-cum-Surrogate-Dad for Gormless Dimwits: On Jordan B. Peterson’s “12 Rules for Life”
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 9 March 2018 02:52 (six years ago) link
Real life feels like The Screwfly Solution. Mass delusion and violent hysteria
― Dan I., Friday, 9 March 2018 04:01 (six years ago) link
“The intellectual heirs to the obnoxious right-wing shock-jocks of yesteryear” is a good line from that LARB piece
― maura, Friday, 9 March 2018 08:31 (six years ago) link
How are teenage boys even hearing about Jordan Peterson in the first place? Does he show up as a suggestion in a youtube Overwatch playlist or something? Twitch advertising? It's terrifying that young men are apparently such fertile ground for that kind of shit right now.
― Dan I., Monday, 12 March 2018 15:36 (six years ago) link
It has to be mostly Youtube. All kinds of stuff on Youtube leads towards Jordan Peterson. Pew Die Pie was holding up a copy of his book last month.
― jmm, Monday, 12 March 2018 15:40 (six years ago) link
At least in Canada, he has been getting a ridiculous amount of mainstream media coverage for years at this point. The National Post opinion pages were practically functioning as his cheerleading squad for a while. P sure it would be easier than it was for teenage boys to hear about Chomsky in the 90s. xp
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Monday, 12 March 2018 15:40 (six years ago) link
last night I was in a coffee shop and the girl next to me was watching many Jordan Peterson videos. I was confused
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Monday, 12 March 2018 15:44 (six years ago) link
Adverts for his book are all over the fucking London Underground
― imago, Monday, 12 March 2018 15:48 (six years ago) link
Prepping for a blind date?
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 12 March 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
The apparently authentic enthusiasm for JP among young people--as well as its magnitude and reach--might be the most distressing thing for me since Trump was elected. If the kids aren't alright, I'm running out of things to feel optimistic about
― Dan I., Monday, 12 March 2018 16:07 (six years ago) link
My preferred response when encountering such: https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/ab9df7b8-db3b-4772-982f-bdf8e9e5c90e
― Moo Vaughn, Monday, 12 March 2018 16:07 (six years ago) link
gonna hope coffee shop girl was watching jp vids as part of a 'know your enemy' manouevre
― I’m 16 and a member of UKIP’s youth wing, young independence (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 12 March 2018 16:10 (six years ago) link
quick survey of the youth in my experience is that v v few are paying attention to JP but every one of them will start a band
― NBA YoungBoy named Rocky Raccoon (m bison), Monday, 12 March 2018 16:14 (six years ago) link
i just pray every day that none of my students tries to drop some jp ~noledge~ on me
― j., Monday, 12 March 2018 16:14 (six years ago) link
jp's stupid fucking voice has ruined 'the rainbow connection' forevermore and for that along he should be dropped down a well
― I’m 16 and a member of UKIP’s youth wing, young independence (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 12 March 2018 16:15 (six years ago) link
er, that alone
Wait, that's truly the same guy?? I just thought it was some self-help guru with the same name! The quotes they excerpt are more feel good facebook meme than alt right screed.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 12 March 2018 16:20 (six years ago) link
xxp don't let him ruin kermit (a prince)
― flappy bird, Monday, 12 March 2018 16:26 (six years ago) link
the title of the video I saw was something like "Why Men Are Going Their Own Way" (it wasn't worded that way but it definitely had the same sentiment) so I sure hope so
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Monday, 12 March 2018 16:58 (six years ago) link
oh good that's just a fleetwood mac cover and lyric video, JP sitting in his bedroom studio behind a pop shield crying about someone he met on match.com that called him a dildo while he was eating noodles
― NBA YoungBoy named Rocky Raccoon (m bison), Monday, 12 March 2018 17:07 (six years ago) link
dildos are more useful than jordan peterson
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Monday, 12 March 2018 17:13 (six years ago) link
The quotes they excerpt are more feel good facebook meme than alt right screed.
I think combining these different sides is part of the reason for his popularity. He has credibility for many young men as a source of life advice because they see him as being on the right side of the culture war against feminists and trans people.
Meanwhile, some who are leery of the alt-right see at least something compelling in what he says about psychology, mythology, archetypes, etc., and so they go to bat for him in trying to disentangle it all.
― jmm, Monday, 12 March 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link
otm esp on that second point
― flappy bird, Monday, 12 March 2018 17:23 (six years ago) link
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Monday, March 12, 2018 12:13 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
facts
― NBA YoungBoy named Rocky Raccoon (m bison), Monday, 12 March 2018 17:31 (six years ago) link
xxp so he's like rupi kaur
― j., Monday, 12 March 2018 17:38 (six years ago) link
rupi kaur for edgelord shitposters
this kind of ties back into the whole anti-psychiatry and anti-medication element of it: therapists may be bad, but jordan peterson isn't
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Monday, 12 March 2018 17:44 (six years ago) link
yikes.
― Nhex, Monday, 12 March 2018 19:59 (six years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-politics-radical.html
this sorta seems relevant
― gbx, Monday, 12 March 2018 20:05 (six years ago) link
White does mention a fondness for the controversial author and YouTube philosopher Jordan Peterson, though he's apparently only seen him talking about religion. "He's got more intelligence in his brain than his body can handle," he says. Later, I mention the anti-feminist, anti-political-correctness screeds for which Peterson is also known. "I didn't know about that," White says. "Maybe we should drop that whole thing now!"
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/jack-white-cover-story-new-album-white-stripes-w517705
― maura, Monday, 12 March 2018 22:29 (six years ago) link
rmde
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Monday, 12 March 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link
thats the funniest shit ive seen in a minute
― kurt schwitterz, Monday, 12 March 2018 22:49 (six years ago) link
jesus goddamn christ
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Monday, 12 March 2018 23:10 (six years ago) link
tomato, tomato, potato, fascism, let's call the whole thing off
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Monday, 12 March 2018 23:16 (six years ago) link
Here’s something:
https://m.mic.com/articles/188397/richard-spencer-suspending-the-rest-of-his-college-tour-because-antifa-is-winning#.PGriurKlx
He been r-u-n-n-o-f-t!
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 12 March 2018 23:21 (six years ago) link
That’s where I live and work; I was out of town last week but followed along on Twitter. Some small number of nazis met up with 500+ protestors, only about 10 people made it into his talk and like half of those were journalists. And all this happened on the first day of spring break in a cow barn in the middle of nowhere. His meeting / conference scheduled for the previous day in the Detroit burbs never happened as the venues cancelled when they figured out who had made the reservations, antifa folks were tailing them around and hassling them while they were awaiting directions and one Nazi got arrested for pulling a gun on someone. Was kind of bummed about moving back to Michigan last year but pleased if this is the thing that shuts down this aspect of his bullshit.
― joygoat, Monday, 12 March 2018 23:51 (six years ago) link
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/white-nationalist-matt-heimbach-arrested-domestic-violence-charges
― Moo Vaughn, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 23:49 (six years ago) link
God, Jordan Peterson has come to Denmark. His podcast is apparently popular.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 01:06 (six years ago) link
The Heimbach story is something else.
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 02:25 (six years ago) link
ohohoho what that TPM story doesn't say is
Matt Heimbach, leader of the neo-nazi Traditionalist Worker Party, was arrested after police say he assaulted his wife, Brooke. Brooke's father-in-law, Matt Parrott, discovered Heimbach having an affair with his wife, Jessica Parrott, before the incident. https://t.co/88UBEh2FXg— Unicorn Riot (@UR_Ninja) March 14, 2018
Matt Parrott was also Heimbach's second-in-command in the Traditionalist Worker Party, acting as a media spokesman and systems administrator. He has since taken the neo-nazi group's website, which he had been running, offline. https://t.co/88UBEh2FXg pic.twitter.com/kAh8YWWRbh— Unicorn Riot (@UR_Ninja) March 14, 2018
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 03:34 (six years ago) link
Cucks, all?
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 04:08 (six years ago) link