the art style made me think that the DOTA 2 characters were from disney shows

also did the combine soldier steal the demoman's gear?

at the time of reading (and still now) I hadn't read any of the bible besides 1 story so the fact that it's called ONAN flew right over my head

it's funny you mentioned House of Leaves. Because I thoroughly enjoyed IJ and did not enjoy HoL. I appreciated what HoL did well in terms of presentation but I don't think the writing itself was strong to keep me hooked. IJ had the benefit of DFW being an extremely meticulous and hilarious author. Imo he has a way of writing intelligently that doesn't come off as smarmy or pretentious or whatever, (he's the opposite of what you might find in your average NYT article). He also claimed to have physically attended AA meetings and the like before trying to put certain scenes in the book which, at the time, was felt by me (it's been years since I've read the book).

If u don't want to power all the way through IJ I recommend reading DFW's short stories or the various articles/essays that he had published.

oh and I should also add that I read the book over the course of at least 3-4 months.

it's one of those things that I think appears accusatory but imo it's a matter-of-fact observation. You aren't born in the core with the opinion: 'I approve of my raised stature thanks to exploitation of the global south'. It's tough to describe, yes all proles in the core are 'implicated' but I give those kinds of statements a charitable reading maybe. In another way, I think it's meant to enlighten rather than guilt

The central point norfield is making cannot be emphasized enough, because so many liberals and socialists in imperialist countries try very hard to put it out of their minds. h&M makes handsome profits, to be sure, but these are dwarfed by the state’s take, once taxes on wages and profits of h&M and suppliers of services to it are added to its VaT 14 iMPerialiSM in The T wenT y-FirST CenTury receipts. in 2013, the tariffs charged by the u.S. government on its apparel imports from Bangladesh alone exceeded the total wages received by the workers who made these goods. The state uses this money, as we know, to finance foreign wars, health care, and Social Security, and even returns a few pennies to the poor countries in the form of “foreign aid.” as Tony norfield argues, low wages in Bangladesh help explain “why the richer countries can have lots of shop assistants, delivery drivers, managers and administrators, accountants, advertising executives, a wide range of welfare payments and much else besides.”12 his blunt conclusion: “wage rates in Bangladesh are particularly low, but even the multiples of these seen in other poor countries point to the same conclusion: oppression of workers in the poorer countries is a direct economic benefit for the mass of people in the richer countries.”

:settlers: moment

Where in my comment did I give anyone an out? I simply added to the conversation by stating a difficulty of organizing.

congrats to them for defending their lively community from your tomfoolery

I don't like these new rules SHOW US THEIR USERNAME

it looks less angry but still angry. I like it

No witnesses, no suspects. No motive could possibly be speculated!

The literal blood-sucking class should strap this ancient fucker down and extract whatever's inside him for christ's sake he's gonna live to 120

can you link me to any reporting on that? I haven't read anything specifically but I believe it.

I began noticing individual details and painstaking craftsmanship that went into their creation. The subtle coloring and contouring of angery, the classic trim of sicko-wistful's suit, the way that individual pores take on a hypnotic pattern in took-restraint, and so much more

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/puzzling-number-men-tied-ferguson-protests-have-died-n984261

yes the shooting of Michael Brown from 10 years ago. Weird to type out, goddamn

it is one of the 3 podcasts I listen to regularly i feel like I get my news updates from them (besides the mega thread here). Or rather, they're my talk radio. Red Howard Sterns

Annoying internet arguments aside, the people on the ground in the core also face the most expansive and advanced police state mankind has created yet. This makes doing anything close to truly subversive impossible without extreme precautions. Some Ferguson organizers dying (being murdered imo) comes to mind.