book thread

[lurk]

fucking boomer parents. back in 2017 my dad (at the time hardcore bernie-bro and butthurt over his flaccid "loss") asked me smugly if i approved of how trump was doing. i told him trump wasnt going far enough... he didnt like that. used to tell him years before then that US and china are pretty much the same, practically forced his brain to reboot every time as he sputtered MSM nonsense.

 

[Quence]

the book states a lot of conclusions i already reached and some which i had said before

Yes, it can temporarily feel good when your views are validated in an echo chamber. But it's like a sugar high: you're on top of the world with lots of positive energy but then comes the crash and you realize they were just empty calories.

(and every dem president after has scooted further to the right)

I literally snorted with laughter when I read that nonsense. It's unintentionally hilarious!

imagine my shock getting home today n seeing a post from spectator index that the new syria administration is opening the economy for investors. they're gonna bulldoze historic damascus and put a f##k ugly modernist strip mall with an apple store n a mcdonalds)

I'm sure the radical Islamists will build something tasteful.

BTW, there is NEVER a wrong place for the opening of a beautiful new Apple Store!

 

[minty]

post a fucking book quence

 

[minty]

fucking boomer parents. back in 2017 my dad (at the time hardcore bernie-bro and butthurt over his flaccid "loss") asked me smugly if i approved of how trump was doing. i told him trump wasnt going far enough... he didnt like that. used to tell him years before then that US and china are pretty much the same, practically forced his brain to reboot every time as he sputtered MSM nonsense.

bernie n trump were actually p the same regarding external economic measures. neither liked nafta n thought it bled manufacturing into mexico (i agree with this) and disliked how we exported a lot of our other manufacturing over to china (also agree with this) and felt this weakened u.s. manufacturing (it did)
they simply disagreed over how to deal with it. reps ran with their populist and dems shat on theirs n continued trying to pull 20 year ago neoliberal reps into the midst and hoping the same wall street backers from the clinton era would save them after *checks notes* huge swaths of the populace lost their jobs/houses/pensions because of that mismanagement. biden i think only pulled some of the actual left out because he vocally adopted some of bernie's policies (and then promptly disregarded them after reaching office)

but yeh, the culture war started simply cuz clinton out-neoliberaled the right, n continues as a reactionary tactic to keep pitting working class against itself (you can watch this play out in real time as everybody tries to point out where st. luigi of gunpowder sits on the political spectrum)

as an aside, book mentioned (and i had no idea) bernie went to israel and spent time at a commune there? which, i had ni idea there was at one point a full on commune? b-based

 

[chuj]

an aside, book mentioned (and i had no idea) bernie went to israel and spent time at a commune there? which, i had ni idea there was at one point a full on commune

there were kibbutzes in israel even while it still was part of ottoman empire. jews always had large socialist populations and after the state of israel was born he gov had to keep them around to please the socialists, they're still around today and doing pretty fine for themselves
i think our friend @rodion mentioned visiting one

 

[minty]

there were kibbutzes in israel even while it still was part of ottoman empire. jews always had large socialist populations and after the state of israel was born he gov had to keep them around to please the socialists, they're still around today and doing pretty fine for themselves
i think our friend @rodion mentioned visiting one

i will have to research this more. i know there are plenty of leftyjews (some v prominent in current book) but a functioning commune is still a surprise. i suppose it shouldn't be, in a sense where older places are more likely to have small, self-reliant places tucked away, but my knowledge of the jews n the middle east region in general is full of gaps, and most of it in terms of recent meddling *looks over at wikileaks files, the shortest history of israel and palestine, and jihad vs mcworld* or in terms of diaspora (jewish slavers in brazil, jewish scientists who came over to manhattan project, being on the receiving end of several pogroms during the middle ages, etc) none of which really portray an uninterrupted day to day existence in non-hostile areas.

oh hey he was logged in recently! @rodion if you come back i watched a jewish horror movie on shudder a while back n i forgot the name of it but it was kinda cool n if you could recommend a solid book on jewish mythology/demons that would be dank af plz

 

[lurk]

bernie n trump were actually p the same regarding external economic measures. neither liked nafta n thought it bled manufacturing into mexico (i agree with this) and disliked how we exported a lot of our other manufacturing over to china (also agree with this) and felt this weakened u.s. manufacturing (it did)
they simply disagreed over how to deal with it. reps ran with their populist and dems shat on theirs n continued trying to pull 20 year ago neoliberal reps into the midst and hoping the same wall street backers from the clinton era would save them after *checks notes* huge swaths of the populace lost their jobs/houses/pensions because of that mismanagement. biden i think only pulled some of the actual left out because he vocally adopted some of bernie's policies (and then promptly disregarded them after reaching office)

but yeh, the culture war started simply cuz clinton out-neoliberaled the right, n continues as a reactionary tactic to keep pitting working class against itself (you can watch this play out in real time as everybody tries to point out where st. luigi of gunpowder sits on the political spectrum)

as an aside, book mentioned (and i had no idea) bernie went to israel and spent time at a commune there? which, i had ni idea there was at one point a full on commune? b-based

thing with trump is his politics hasnt really shifted much, it's big money ceos and globalist shitbags that's pushed things so out of whack that people now call trump conservative.
thought i read a rumor somewhere that bernie also spent some time in USSR, though i could be wrong and getting memories mixed up.

started reading some more evola, this time "metaphysics of war". it's a bunch of short articles that he wrote between the two world wars and goes into some of the topics Revolt covers more extensively though Metaphysics seems to be a little easier for me to digest. lately i've been leaning less NatSoc, but im still very much pro white separatist.

 

[Illuminati]

Re-reading this since first getting it a long time ago. Pretty good read with an insight into nature from the author who has been studying both crows and ravens in Washington state. Ravens are rarer to see in the city but sometimes I will see one flying around, though they are far more common in the mountains just north of Phoenix.

 

[Stony]

I'm reading (or trying to read) Stalky and Co., which is a book by Rudyard Kipling. Like a lot of his works, it's a series of stories assembled after the fact, so the collection isn't exactly complete, meaning that each time I think I'm done with it, I seem to find more Stalky stories. Not that I'm particularly upset about this; the stories not published inside the original collection have given a lot of background info that makes the stories a bit more fun to read.

They're based around a group of three teenagers, about 16 or so, in a British boarding school at some point in the mid to late 1800s. Honestly, one of the more accurate depictions of teenagers I've seen; I may not be a Victorian English schoolboy, but I think some parts are relateable despite that. The characters have a lot of words and phrases that are either unique to them or are used as inside jokes, like saying "I gloat" over and over, which might be a reference that I'm too modern and/or American to understand.

Kipling also does a good job of letting the characters be imperfect. They aren't at the extremes in any cases, being about average but each character still having their own personality traits that let the reader distinguish them.

I like Beetle the most because he has no common sense half the time, but he's a bit of a bookworm, which is basically yours truly.

The language is a little hard to get a grasp on, since I don't use that kind of slang, but context clues make it better over time. A lot of the words the author uses are bordering on archaic, so it can be a little hard to find an exact translation. Lot of Latin and French thrown in too, as well as references to a whole bunch of other books.

Best part is that one of the characters is Irish and Kipling, being an old British dude, tends to make a lot of jokes about that. McTurk isn't exactly a charicature, but his being Irish is treated more like a personality trait than any of the other boys' Britishness.

I started reading this book because I knew that Redrick Schuart from Roadside Picnic was partially based on Stalky Corkran, but I've liked Stalky and Co. quite a bit more. I already have a list of other books to read that are referenced in Stalky.