@Khakjaan – your analogy is ridiculous and suggests to me a mind so primitive as to be not worth arguing with

@Khakjaan – if you give an order to shoot someone, that’s considered a violent act. If you lie and say “he’s got a gun! stop him!”…

@SebastosPublius – you like it? It just occurred to me in passing. Okay, I’ll use it in the future.

@Future_Matt – ok then I was tempted to say I dream of an economic system where people like you wouldn’t exist

@joolsd – I don’t shout or lead chants well. Maybe I’m repressed. Or maybe the political implications disturb me

@FatherMcGruder @Lowr1e – nah I’m from a working class background those guys would just make me feel like a slob and then ignore me

@OSJPC – this is disturbing. I’m trying to figure out from my publisher what happened. Feel very bad about it!

@JimNichols @LibertarianView – yes, I know, capitalism as the impossible ideal. Been dealing w that line forever

@aerdil – thanks – for what it’s worth I cut the conversation off about 15 minutes before I got there. Main problem was I didn’t have a ride

@Signal_Hill_Oil – you realize you’ve been talking to yourself for ages now? This has no relation to anything I think or said

@Signal_Hill_Oil – I disagree. Neoliberalism was itself a reaction to cultural and pol challenges of the ’60s. It isn’t minor.

@Signal_Hill_Oil – if you think feminism is the reason for the suffering of Chinese factory women no point in continuing. I just pity you

@Signal_Hill_Oil – look if you decide you want to think capitalism is undefeatable for personal reasons that’s your business

@Signal_Hill_Oil …movements means we win too. Or do you think that feminism failed utterly bcs capitalists claim to embrace it?

@Signal_Hill_Oil – sure I hate him too that wasn’t my point. I take the autonomist view.. That capitalism is forced to absorb oppositional

@Signal_Hill_Oil – I take the opposite view. Even commerce turns into something else in the absence of state power. I resist totalizatoon

@Signal_Hill_Oil – the point is it isn’t all it does. How can otherwise intelligent people fall for this purity fallacy

@Signal_Hill_Oil – if they did they could “quantitatively ease” Africa by printing dollars and giving it out just like they did for AIG

@Signal_Hill_Oil – it’s cynical to say anything capitalism touches _is_ capitalism. The quintessence of cynicism

@Signal_Hill_Oil – I was never a huge punk fan but the whole point was it’s like folk music – DIY, anyone can do it