Rebel BTFO????????

rebel BTFO????????

Also, eceleb containment thread

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Wow, did Muke actually BTFO someone???!

I can tell you this and I'm no fan of Muke philosophy is much harder to understand than most "theory." I mean on an individual level one might be easier than the other, but in the aggregate philosophy is harder to understand. I "wasted" my life on it, I should know.

Books on economics tend to be really long but most are written at a 4th grade level or lower and they repeat the same ideas over and over. Even Capital which is ungodly long is more about endurance than it is understanding.

That being said, people here especially you trip fags and e-celebs are a little to hung up on credentials and reading. My wang will always be both bigger and smaller than yours, so just forget about who has a bigger page read count on librarything and try to actually apply this theory to useful action.

yeah, Rebel has really worn his hospitality thin with most of the people who know him. He was always like this. Really now, the guy is admittedly not a socialist, not a leftist, and not even interested in politics. Why would someone like this waste his time on a board for leftist politics? The answer is obvious, I think. He's likely to end up more hated than Prickly if he keeps posting.
Muke didn't "btfo" him though, that was a very mild blowing.

Also, I have his trip filtered because his posts are shit, so I wont be able to see him desperately try to get the last word in like he always does, as much as I would like that.

do you not see the irony in doing this?

tripfags are the first to be send to the gulag

Good point tbh. I think politics is pretty straight forward, just so much misinformation out there. Economics is a little harder than you let on though, imo.

I don't think muke was trying to say rebel hasn't read much just that he doesn't understand what he has read.

With Muke though the issue was that he makes "educational" videos about marxism, while constantly making errors or huge ommissions that are noticable to people with any amount of reading on the subject. His illiteracy would be a completely personnal problem if this wasn't the case.

kek I'd love to get very mildly blown by muke

Economics can get difficult when it comes to the math or finance side. To some extent it's debated whether anyone can understand the hocus pocus magic that makes markets work or (if they do of course.)

On a idea to idea basis though it's much harder to understand Hegel than it is to understand Marx. It's much harder to grasp Nietzsche than it is Stirner. It's much harder to understand Heidegger… than any fucking thing. With leftist economics part of the reason was they wanted their books to have an appeal among the uneducated , but I also so this is true of other economic schools Austrians economics is extremely easy to read. Chicago school isn't much harder and Keynes(ism) is only difficult to the extent that his mathematical philosophy doesn't make much sense.

His last thread about the Cartesian cogito pretty much proves he has the same problem in every field.

I'll believe it when I read it. Last time I checked he hyped up a tutor's positive review of his book by falsely calling him a professor.
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And that in itself wouldn't even be a serious issue! Marx, Lenin, Badiou – to name a few greats – had horrible, divisive personalities, tolerated no deviance, pushed split ups, in polemics were cruel and so on. BUT THEY KNEW THEIR SHIT. All of them moved the disciplined forward.

But Rebel? Give me a break. He pushes people away from himself because he can't tolerate anything but cultish adoration. He's the Bob Avakian type.


Yes.


Muke's channel is misunderstood. It's his personal study journal, with all the errors the genre brings with itself. The problem is with the highly individualized medium (youtube), and I get the feeling that his only reason for using it is to get encouragement from others, which is more understandable than Rebel's channel (and its blatant narcissism).

(Not that I like or follow either.)

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Who are the best Holla Forums ecelebs?

prickly cactus

Libertarian Socialist Rants

They are equally best lined up to the wall.

fuckmuir

I have never read a single sentence in my life, not even this one.

they're all the worst my god

thanks alex

examples?

After a while "philosophy" just becomes masturbatory and irrelevant.


no this is nathan

he completely misunderstood what socially necessary labour time means in a vid he did recently

not to mention

(from the same thread)

People keep noticing these patterns and if I were Rebel I'd seriously consider closing down my channel, twitter, etc. and stopping namefagging, because he's about to get more and more hurt if he keeps this charade up.

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Oh I remember that. Wasnt it only saying it was the fastest time, not the average time though? That's not toooo bad. Irl they're gonna come pretty close anyway.

Hah I'm the same green flager from that thread.

I'd have probably pressed the issue more there if I thought Rebel was a serious influence on this board, but most people always seem to be against him in every thread he starts so I just let it go.

You'd think everyone hates him when you see threads like these, but he's still worshipped like a god by not only people here, but across twitter and reddit too. He's called reddit absurdity for a reason.

Muke is actually a decent chap. He doesn't trip post. He is making slow but steady progress in his studies. He doesn't flaunt. He makes errors and bitter 17 year olds make sure he remembers them (">muke, reading" ">libertarian leninism," etc.).

Now compare him to any tripfag on leftypol. Just to mention a few:
Obsessive lesbian cunt with a loud mouth who disappears from polemics if you seriously challenge xir.
The guy with the huge ego: he's not just a self-thought genius, he makes sure we all know it, and that we know that he's much better than any of us, and that your cock is nonexistent compared to his. Then he gets caught bumping up his credentials (muh profs like my blog).

Tripfags test us all, and I seriously don't understand why we allow them to pollute the board. If you have something to show the community it enriches the message itself if it's not tied to your defective personality, your stupid identifications, etc. Namefagging particularizes thought beyond the necessary, it ruins your message, and on the long run it ruins you personally.

Thanks for letting us know, Rebel.

No one ever actually changed their mind after hearing him speak though. People just hear him talk about things they don't know about, and so they just assume he's right, or they hear him say things they agree with, and so suck his dick. No one ever actually read one of Rebel's posts and thought "Wow, this guy really showed me up here! I suppose I must be wrong!"

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The corrections were made by a 16-year old child, by the way.

lmao

wh-who's nathan uwu

This is fucking perfect. The filename adds so much.

So, yea, that was the mistake he made. Again not that wildly off, but still a little retarded I'll give you that.

the thing is muke actually admits when he gets stuff wrong, and he learns from it and doesn't do it again

you can forgive his mistakes because they're innocent mistakes ykno

Exactly. misses out xex's last reply to him.

Oh, yeah. That wasn't included because he replied with that at a later date. Sorry dude.

again, as I said before, he's not a bad person because he doesn't read. The problem is because he doesn't read he makes shit content that at best isn't enjoyable to watch, or at worst it misinforms people. We want him to make good content.

m8

it was already proven that he does, ITT
let him figure out what he's good at

I think his content is great for getting normies interested. He's actually likeable and has a relatively normal personality, unlike the other shitposters & Holla Forums """personalities"""

He's not right about everything 100% of the time, but it's a small price to pay really

Self congratulatory circlejerks like this put people off, especially newcomers and people outside the little cliques and cancerous social media culture.

What else do you expect from a "libertarian leninist"?


He's a skinny twink who plays with plastic men and didn't bother to read until he got into uni. CalvaryAnon would be a better normieherder, or anyone who looks reasonably presentable and not a teenager.

I get the feeling you guys just don't like him no matter what and for no particular reason. The guy is not a genius, but neither a shithead like you two.

I'll like him when he redeems himself by winning a debate with fascists

I don't like him because he doesn't know what he's talking about and makes us all look like dumb teenagers. He got his ass kicked in a debate with stormcucks because he can't articulate leftist ideas to normies or deal with gotcha questions, when he can do that he'll have my respect.

How are you meant to deal with 'gotcha' questions then?

that's why there's a containment thread for it, so it doesn't affect the rest of the board

What time is this on the stream?

Has he started making content yet? I like him, and the veteran angle has a lot of promise for converting liberals.

Found the reason for your butthurt.

Correct. Being a tripfag is antithetical to the ideals of socialism and they should be bullied without remorse until they leave or are banned.

Addendum: Only good trip is Koba, because he astonishingly fails to insert his life story everywhere, and trips for reasons that are presumably highly dialectical in nature.

Don't stumble around be straight with what you mean and be able to explain it so the average person can understand it. And promptly call out muh hoomun naytur or muh iphones for the bullshit it is.


Not to my knowledge.

Stop bullying Muke. He isn't a genius, be he is making an effort and that's what counts.

You reevaluate the false assumptions that they're built upon
For example, you identify the "socialism is when the government does stuff" trope implicit in their question/point and correct it, or you sidestep it and simplify the theory, redeveloping and presenting it in new, simple words that explain the key ideas and avoid the language traps designed to obfuscate it.
Alternatively you can go Milo style.


People are upset because they identify with him, and when he doesn't come off as eminently knowledgeable with biting arguments they internalize it as a personal failure and become insecure.
There's sort of an implicit assumption that "celebrities" and public faces are supposed to be capable of a lot more, because there's something inherent that sets "them" apart from "us," and this provides our excuse for not pursuing our own dreams of being like them. When this barrier appears to break down, people start to get uncomfy.


This. I'm behind you, Muke. Keep doing what you're doing. Keep the faith, brother

Hes' too malnourished to think.

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Rebel really pissed me off with the way he treated muke like come on can you're just being a massive cubt

yes muke, we know

i wish yui would make a video

Stop stop don't body shame our twinkson

god that smile…when will i pound his boipussy????

Why so butthurt? Did daddy Muke touch you in strange places?

Quit lying about things, son. One, I'm not publishing in any academic journal, two, whoever is saying I'm getting published anywhere and being paid is wrong.

Third, tutors? Lmao, you need one for everything, and a psychoanalyst to help you with your clearly delusional fictions of the world.

As for the rest of you: read a book.

All of them are terrible.
Cat girl lady has a cute personality though.

Put some god damn respek on Muke's name or I'm gonna pull up on you. I ain't gonna say no mo'.

Is dis booksmart nigga be srs
If he dissin' one of the #squad he be dissin us all mayne

More incompetent than Alan Sokal.

Stop.

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classic AW

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so much for communism

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Getting and email about getting paid to write something and actually being paid to write something are two different things, son. Believe me, if I do get paid I'll be rubbing it right here in your faces.

It's right there: "asked to write a paid piece," not "paid to write a piece." Quit lying.

I find it hard to believe you would turn down such a request.

What's up dudes, no trip due to being in a South Asian Internet cafe.

But the reason I haven't began making content is because I've decided I have four options:

1. Show my face in videos in which I'll talk about what will obviously be revolutionary topics that might get me in trouble professionally. I'm a twenty something looking for a some way to trade my labor for calories, and I can't do that if I'm searched up and found to be an ardent socialist who was lying when he said he was committed to your shitty labor exploiting enterprise. Instead of the handsome veteran who you hired, im the undercover socialist who would burn it to the ground first chance he got. These would be like Jimmy Dore/Stephen Crowder type productions where I'd use my charisma to spread the message and inform people, hopefully to show them that not all socialists (I like you as a person Muke, but it's truth) are young teenagers who have no life experience.

2. Make animation type videos akin to PragerU. But I don't know how to animate, and as a film maker I'm obviously amateur tier and would hurt what I'm trying to do (keep things polished and clean) rather than help socialism.

3. Make podcasts, and just smoke weed and rant like I do with my roommates. I'm a very coherent speaker (took classes and even got into a professional internship where we had workshops where prominent community members would come and help us learn how to network and speak etc.), and a fairly charismatic dude (thank you bartending) so I think this is my best option.

4. Don a mask and make the videos I referenced in option 1 above. I might also have to modify my voice, but this obviously nullifies every positive aspect (image wise) of option 1.

So, like I said above I'm leaning towards podcasts unless I can team with someone to help me animate. I have lists of video topics and ideas to speak about, I have scripts. I just need someone who is in contact with, or is themselves an animator who can help me produce the socialist answer to PragerU. Or maybe we can crowdfund to find one? Either way, I need help.

I was also thinking of making a bid to email the dudes @ ChapoTrapHouse to maybe audition to join their show. Would anyone maybe email in support if you like the cut of my jib?

And that accomplishes what exactly?

this, all of them are a bunch of underage no theory plebs

16 year olds aren't children.

You get the picture dude

Hey…. that's me……

Technically I'm still 15 tho, but I won't be in a week.

No one is trying to be condescending, but I'm near my thirties and I would consider people children right up until their mid-twenties. Again, I commend you young people for wanting to improve the world around you. But you have barely scratched the surface of your lives, and as far as your commitment to an idea like socialism…you cannot fathom what that word yet means.

Take Che, for example. The Motorcycle Diaries are about him as a young man and the life experiences that directed him into caring about things other than what he had experienced up to that point in your life. Go watch it, its great to watch as a young person. And take away the lesson that young people at your age would best served the trying to test the waters of the world you haven't yet seen. Go try things, get into unfamiliar situations and talk to people you never would've talked to. For me, that was the military. I went in a young man forever talking about politics and I came out much, much different than my sixteen year old self (who by the way, blogged way back when that I would never abandon my ideals of Jeffersonian libertarianism) as can be exemplified by my posting on a communist board.

Anyway, saying you're children doesn't mean to denigrate any of you. It's just saying that you're still developing, and as far as people taking your ideas seriously it's a reaction akin to "we've been there, wanting to be taken seriously as a teenager." But you have so much change ahead that you won't recognize yourself in a decade, and the same process will happen well into your forties even. And if it doesn't something went very, very wrong.

Anyway, some perspective for you.

hbomberguy doesn't really present any leftist theory on his channel, but he does btfo altright ecelebs in a lot of his videos

Nope, it's me.

You're right. I'm well aware of my own limitations and am just trying to learn. I read lots of literature from both sides of the spectrum to learn more.

What u talkin bout fam? I am Lethe/Lethean Tears.

I think it's best for people to be humble and open-minded no matter their age, rather than to set an arbitrary distinction between 'childhood' and 'adulthood'. We can always be better.

People should read his actual words instead of watching a big-budget film adaptation. I agree that it's inspiring - the amount of youthful energy and chutzpah that Che had puts me to shame. He was an absolute madman.

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post feet slut

RIP
Anfem asian trip cunt.

It makes you butthurt. This pleases me because it's funny how none of you can ever say shit that proves me wrong.

It is highly amusing that you yourself never give proof for your wild claims.

His piece got deleted by Russian hackers

Watching xexizy getting assblasted on twitter by r/soc for making a rape joke and trying to unfuck himself is pretty quality

I wish I ran a Facebook group. My life wouldn't be so shit.

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Think about it. The second largest group of its kind. Wouldn't that be amazing?

twitter.com/fuckmuir/status/815895713569718272

If all it takes to make your life better is become an admin on a fedbook page dedicated to an obscure philosopher, then your life is pretty good.

I wonder what the largest Hegel page is, perhaps that Trumpcuck talking about completing German Idealism and raising Thule?

If you make sure to take some precautions against doxxing, you really won't have to worry.
I also would not be too worried about this hurting your job opportunities in any case, unless you're already precariously situated (e.g. hard-to-hire in an industry with no union) or you're in an industry where serious political involvement is looked down upon (e.g. you'll be a public face).
If anything, as long as you're not unironically calling for the assassination of property owners, it might increase your ""hire-ability."" Most employers won't see "subversive leftist who's going to kill the company at first chance," they'll see "passion driven employee with productive hobbies."
Depending on the type of content, you could also look into doing some 'test-content' with low-level animation and editing, maybe just talking over stock-footage or a name-card of sorts. It feels weird and awkward at the amount of editing Rebel does, but if one puts a bit more effort into it, it can get a lot better without too many resources or putting too high demands on skill, tons of examples on yt of this working fine.
The degree to which this can work of course depends a lot on the type of content though.

Also, please just shell out the money for a fucking proper mic. If there's one thing one can do for presentation, it's that.

I wonder who is impersonating n1xy in this thread and what they have against rebel(other than him being an annoying cunt as this seems to be something a bit more personal).

Cat girl and Rebel. Schnitz and fuckmuir are GOAT too.

I kind of like all of them tbh

SOMEONE DO A FRIENDS INTRO WITH THE Holla Forums E-CELEBS

Schnitz shouldn't have deleted the Schnitz show. That show was lit

schnitz seems to have all but disappeared

hasn't done a video in a month

god threads like these make me realize why tripfags are the fucking worst.

GET THIS SHIT OUTTA HERE

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Permaban all trips except Stalin and catgirl pls

Why do you like him more than other trips?

Can we do a cleansing of all non-anons?

All namefags also gt the fuck out, except for Gadsden.

Injecting some real charisma would be huge. If you feel that's going too far then I respect that, but I think you should consider it.

he just plays garrys mod now

some of the namefags are okay and not too annoying

I don't know which personality is worse,

Why would knowing that you get paid make me angry? You have the most typical neurotic fantasies, you know that?

I really don't give a shit about your personal life, and had you not brought it up nobody would be talking about your claims you made.

Don't you think that if the world around you was how you imagined it (people wanting to take away your success, laughing at your failures, or whatever) the logical thing would be not to flaunt all the time and keep these things to yourself?

You don't realize it, but your actions fueled by your fantasies create these idiotic situations around you that serves as biased confirmation of your fantasies and fuel further your stupid actions ad infinitum.

Fucking tripfags.

heh

kek

kekking hard

Fuck every tripnigger except Wolff Feeder
But yeah, reddit_obesity is by far the most obnoxious.

nobody cares about you, grow the fuck up

The tripfag dialectic is in motion

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Hook, line, and sinker boys. You're all as readable as an open book—too bad you don't read.

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At least I'm not named after a fucking soda

I expected A.W. to be absent a bit longer than this from his last visit here.

Last time was really amusing.
archive.is/v9d9Y

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cuntception

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Dialectical Learning, A.W. style.

Assumption to start with: I am very smart. While no new information about my social standing or the validity of my statements is obtained, continue to believe I am very smart. If people tell me I am smart (doesn't matter if sock puppets), continue to believe I am very smart. If people tell me I am stupid, believe that they are not smart enough to understand what I am saying, and continue to believe I am very smart.

ONE OF US

muke is an anarchist now btw

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is this what he means by "anarcho-leninist"?

don't you mean Libertarian Zizekian Leninist?

this is vladimir libertarian leninist
the inventor of socialism
he killed 400 million people in his gulag
still think socialism is cool?

Gib me the mukelear launch codes

Faggots!

Who the fuck is muke?

It's a type of fungi: mucus libertarianus leninismus. It grows on dank walls and emits snot and contradictions.

Reminder people who leave comments on YouTube and Twitter have better things to say then these hacks.

xexizy's irc handle

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I know this is a Rebel hate thread but I kinda like Rebel just cause he's a christian commie. He keep shilling markets, pseuding it up and being a dick to basically everyone though.

Muke is also good because he's basically one of the few leftypol e-celebs who doesn't act like a piece of shit all the time. I disagree with him politically and I think he's probably one of the least-well read of the trips, but his heart is in the right place and he seems to be doing his best to actually learn his shit now which is more than I can say for the rest of these trip-fags.

fucking stop

it really isn't. It's a general tripfag hate thread.

get

the guy who came in and made a thread about how he's too smart for communism and we will have "capitalism for people and socialism for machines?"

A.W. is a worthless pseud. I heard he hasn't even read the greeks yet he markets himself as some philosopher-king and comes in every once in a while to hook self-hating anarkids and newfags on his snake-oil. Honestly I had some respect for him before his whole porky-shilling incident, but it's pretty clear that our resident Hegelian-Classcuck seeks nothing other than to make a name for himself as "the trip who was too smart for lefties XD." A.W. is second only to stalinfag in terms of being absolutely insufferable

witnessed

I suppose so. It's a shame that all the tripfags have gotten so terrible recently. I remember when I first came here I thought some of them were alright, but all of them have either lost their head in their own ass or have made an idiot of themselves in some other way. It's especially sad cause they've become leftypol's representatives in a way and they're almost all so mean and so pseudy

I actually think stalinfag and asianfem take the second and third places after A.W. because at least they take definite positions and make arguments out in the open, both of which can stand or fall or be BTFO on their own merits, rather than hide everything behind an impenetrable rhetorical smokescreen to triumphantly retreat whenever the machinery of his views is teased out.

what happend to him lads?

Life.


I didnt want eceleb status, i found myself thrust into the position with laborwave. At the time I thought I was going to help with muh leftist yt community by making my cringe worthy vids. Time passed, work got harder, college got harder, life in general became a bitch, didnt want to deal with yt anymore while i had a lot of irl responsibilities.

Decided that it would be best to leave my channel for a few shitpost videos and thats it.


And ecelebs are fucking FAGGOTS

ITT: We rank Tripfags from worst to sufferable (they're all shit):

1. A.W and Milo tie.
2. Asian Cunt Trip (holy fuck does she rub me the wrong way)
3. Prickly
4. Stalintrip
5. Freudfag
5. N1x

Muke is pretty dumb for debating with TRS without knowing his shit, I still can't hate him because he knows he's still learning. But man, do I miss Marxposter. He always had something intelligent to say, or at the very least he could adequately answer questions about theory. But he's gone, and probably not coming back.

Check out this archive it contains A.W.'s goodreads and makes it quite clear that he has never read the greeks or much else to be honest.
archive.is/RapCg

A.W. is a pseud
Anfem deliberately stirs up shit by arguing with pol shitposters
Stalin trip is a Stalinist but is otherwise well behaved

I'd like Stalintrip more if he didn't use a trip. I feel like he's older and not as familiar with the board culture, because I saw him post on 8pol using it.

Stalintrip is annoying when all he does is tip his ushanka at smashies and trots, which is most of the time.

When he actually sits down and takes the time and effort to do more than shitpost, I feel like he's actually one of the most lucid posters on the board tbh. I think he's probably older like says - maybe even a pre-internet cold war era M-L relic.

Both those post were mine. That's why I put him above Freudfag and N1x, he can be extremely irritating because his shitpost aren't enjoyable.

Trots btfo him every time he talks about them tho

I'm not here that much so maybe I've missed it, but I've never seen any of the trots here btfo anyone, ever, on any topic. And I mostly like trots elsewhere online and irl, but Holla Forums trots must be the fucking dregs.

Actually I take that back. TrotBot namefag is sometimes decent.

There's very few Trotposter on leftypol, or at least only one who uses a flag consistently.

I don't use the flag because it's garish as all hell, but I make a lot of quality posts.

SOON

who's rebel

noo or b8? if you're not b8ing, he's a trip who goes by Rebel Absurdity on twitter and youtube and Rebel here. Like most tripfags he's probably somewhat more well-read than the average leftypoller, but is very narcissistic and pretends to know a lot more than he actually does (I heard that rebel will sometimes read sparknotes for famous works just to be able to pretend that he's read them).

If you're newfag, his vids might help you out. But don't treat him as an authority on anything. These guys are really just stepping stones to get acquainted with the basics of socialism and lefty-memes before you actually move on to reading.

HOLY SHIT YES! WITH MUKE AS ROSS AND REBEL AS RACHEL

Says the post-Left lifestylist
Rebel is cool even if he's a pretentious whore, he brings new content to the board.


Never seen it happen (untill now ) You're probably taking the IRC or twitter too seriously.
Fellas from >>>/marx/ are usually too autistic about theory and history to make personality contests, they're anons with a trip for quality insurance.

Isn't Yui Gone? I miss the heated arguments about meaningless philosophy between Rebel and Yui
"Zizek's Ideology and Stirner's spooks are the same thing"

It still happens over Twitter most of the time. Though lately its been Muke and Rebel. While Yui is doing more stuff about analyzing Anime now.

Oh I might be a trip I don't post often and actually try to come with some sort of quality rather than shitting up the boards like other trips I seen.

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I have to change my vote
Lares is the most cancerous of all

JeJ. I remember he got pretty flustered when I asked him to explain why were they the same thing.

He never did, of course.

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seconding this

also note that according to his twitter bio he's a 16 year old luxemburgist

the cancer never stops

Underage tripfags are nothing and can never be anything but an embarrassment, and should all be liquidated immediately.

so, tripfags?

This guy gets it.

What's wrong with A.W.?

A shorter list would be what isn't wrong with AW

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I've been on this board every week for well over a year now, and I can't recall a single instance of AW or Rebel making a decent post about anything related to the left, and I'm broadly speaking and including the marxists, the anarchists, and even mainstream center-left. They don't post news, they don't post history, they don't post stats or witty doodles, nothing.

I see a few posts in defense of them, claiming how well-read or insightful these guys are, somehow these never come with actual examples. I see people occasionally posting some "hilarious" thing where either of these guys got blown the fuck out, debunked, etc. and there is never anything special about these screenshots, ALL their interactions with the rest of the board I can recall have looked like that. It would be actually hilarious if it wasn't so repetitive, and it's repetitiveness goes well beyond being boring into being morbid. How can people this unaware of anything actually exist? Why can't they shit up some forum about car-modding with their pretend-knowledge of Kierkegard or whatever, it's no more offtopic there than here.

Lares, muke etc are different in that what they say actually relates to topics of this board.

Jason Unruhe sure knows how to have an intellectual discussion.