The Box of Chocolates Thread (You never know what you're going to get!)

The Box of Chocolates Thread (You never know what you're going to get!)

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24 December 2022 at 08:57 AM
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by Luciom P

In fact many move to the north.

Some, once they decide to move and given we have free access to 20+ other countries, just move elsewhere.

I hope all the gender studies graduates leave btw


no they are moving to berlin. i see them here, we have wave after wave of young immigrants. you can talk italian here now, everywhere.


by washoe P

whats with all these rural coastal villages?
why are they looking like ghost towns? what is going in there?
nobody wants to live there? it looked like italy is soon gone at least the people.

The coast is mostly fine because turism tends to save it, it's the rural interior which is going depopulated fast especially the mountainous areas (which are plentiful in Italy).

Why would people live in places with few services as long as housing is available at decent prices in urban centers which it still is outside of a couple of cities that recently got very expensive?

Dynamic people move to urban centers and that's usually what's happening in most other countries as well


by Luciom P

In fact many move to the north.

Some, once they decide to move and given we have free access to 20+ other countries, just move elsewhere.

I hope all the gender studies graduates leave btw

I am definitely getting you a limited edition hardback copy of Das Kapital for Christmas.


by washoe P

no they are moving to berlin. i see them here, we have wave after wave of young immigrants. you can talk italian here now, everywhere.

You realize most of them come back yes?


According to German statistics 1.2 million people left Germany in 2022, but I can't find anywhere how many of them were German citizens.


by d2_e4 P

They did have that guy who told us the sun didn't go around the earth. And the one who gave us the general formula for solving cubic equations. And few who painted some stuff. And that dude who added a couple of numbers together to get the next one.

And as for the Romans... no idea what they ever did for us.

The Italian school of algebraic geometry was top notch and the center of the math universe for a bit. Until it almost collapsed mathematics research with a slew of incomplete proofs and flat out incorrect theorems. Algebraic geometry had to practically restart from scratch after WII in France.


by Luciom P

And Pelosi


fauci...

but what about your best soccer player? that was an indigenous spaniard, from argentinia, diego maradonna. he was the most intelligent on the field outplaying every italian soccer player.


by washoe P

fauci...

but what about your best soccer player? that was a indigenous spaniard, from argentinia, diego maradonna. he was the most intelligent on the field outplaying every italian soccer player.

Messi as well.

Both have Italian blood btw


by Luciom P

You realize most of them come back yes?


they come back, to work. and they tell us how much italy sucks.
thats what they tell us.


I don't think Luciom is a big Fauci fan.


by Luciom P

Messi as well.

Both have Italian blood btw


only one played for italy I meant.


by microbet P

And probably not Jordan Peterson because he's a religious nut I think, but lots of the same people who love to say "cultural-marxism" also love to say the left is a new religion. This is all because they are a bunch of morons who don't care what words mean and they are just trolling.



by Dunyain P

Seems like a pretty f****** stupid book.


by Luciom P

So why was Marxism about stealing assets from capital owners and not about getting freedom of movement lol

I think according to Marxist it was a strategy for liberation. Also, calling something stealing or not is a legal issue upon which other people don't agree. What is and isn't ownable and who owns it is a matter of law and opinion and not a universal truth.


by microbet P

I think according to Marxist it was a strategy for liberation. Also, calling something stealing or not is a legal issue upon which other people don't agree. What is and isn't ownable and who owns it is a matter of law and opinion and not a universal truth.

It was stealing at the time of the proposal, so at a minimum Marxism is about disregarding current laws and acting against them by force (which should suffice to close down Marxist organizations )


by Luciom P

I deny there was a class as defined by Marxism yes.

Society has always been very stratified, but people at the same status level very often fight against each others more than against people at other levels.

And that happened all the times at the top as well.

What is class useful for if most of society struggles are within a class lol

And I never said anything Marxism or Marxist was particularly good or useful. I just say you're using a stupid term when you say cultural Marxism. If you mean authoritarianism, just say authoritarianism. Are you afraid to offend fascist or something?


by microbet P

And I never said anything Marxism or Marxist was particularly good or useful. I just say you're using a stupid term when you say cultural Marxism. If you mean authoritarianism, just say authoritarianism. Are you afraid to offend fascist or something?

This.


by microbet P

And I never said anything Marxism or Marxist was particularly good or useful. I just say you're using a stupid term when you say cultural Marxism. If you mean authoritarianism, just say authoritarianism. Are you afraid to offend fascist or something?

There are different types of authoritarianism and you fight them differently depending on which is which.

If I am right about cultural Marxism you don't beat them just looking at the most current manifestation (BLM, trans activism, and so on), but by solving the core problem, IE you go against their institutional power in colleges.

For example a naive look might convince you BLM isn't a threat anymore because defund the police attempts have mostly been reversed.

If instead I get to talk with someone who understood the gravity, the threat BLM posed to society, and I can generalize it as cultural Marxism, then he can be a player in fighting against trans activism as well with the same intensity once he realizes it's the same enemy.

Which is the Rufo playbook

You start with state colleges where you annihilate their core power centers (DEI) and work from there.

You sue in court against institutionalized racism (which is how they build their ranks) in hiring and college admission (aka affirmative action).

Then you can strip private colleges of tax exempt status, reduce/remove federal money grants and so on.

Ofc you work on the student loan side as well, by reducing access so the Marxists have less free money to live on.

And so on and on.


by Luciom P

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If I am right about cultural Marxism you don't beat them just looking at the most current manifestation (BLM, trans activism, and so on), but by solving the core problem, IE you go against their institutional power in colleges.

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Not so shockingly you're a cop lover. Quit calling yourself a libertarian.


Luciom?

Get a girlfriend (or boyfriend) please.


by d2_e4 P

I don't think Luciom is a big Fauci fan.

I'm a big Fulci fan.


by Dunyain P

No, I am pretty sure it more or less started with Peterson. You can find old lectures of his from when he was a Harvard professor decades ago talking about Foccault and Derrida and the threat incorporation of their postmodern "cultural Marxism" into higher education is.


This book is more or less his Magnum Opus describing his beliefs, and it was originally published in 1999, which means he probably started coming up with the ideas even wa

Ah, Jordan Peterson...
Anyway apropos of nothing you ever see this flick?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099703/ref...


by Luciom P

I am not sure why you think I am single (I am not)

You spend all your waking hours posting extremist nonsense, that's why.


by ecriture d'adulte P

The Italian school of algebraic geometry was top notch and the center of the math universe for a bit. Until it almost collapsed mathematics research with a slew of incomplete proofs and flat out incorrect theorems. Algebraic geometry had to practically restart from scratch after WII in France.

I think it was an Italian who first thought of probability theory.

And of course they taught the French to cook.


and some credit for the nukes

and breeding like rabbits


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