2. Spiked-Online just published this article celebrating the Anti-Woke Left (a.k.a. dirtbag left). I think that's telling because there are signs that dirtbag left will follow trajectory of Spiked (left to right): https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/07/04/meet-the-anti-woke-left/ …
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3. I'll add that the problem with the dirtbag left is not that it's offensive but that it's lazy. I mean, the sort of shock humor it specializes in is a pretty low grade of comedy, one that's common to c-list stand-up.
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4. Comedy is based on social discomfort, the saying of the unsayable. So easy to get a laugh by using slur based on race, gender, sexual identity. The trick is to go beyond that easy laugh & explore the discomfort, as say Pryor did. But dirtbag humor is mostly at easy level
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Stalinism was always crypto-fascism, after all.
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Yes! To spell it out even more, Stalinism and its more modern incarnations is “Fascism, but for Communists”
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Kind of like Telos, for the non-theoretical set?
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Telos for people who have rocks in their head.
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Probably also worth noting the genocide denial that Living Marxism were practicing in the 90s
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saying this to jeet lmao log off
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