What are your opinions on the Mark Ames drama?

What are your opinions on the Mark Ames drama?

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who?

The Exile bunch are fun writers and all, but if the shit they wrote in the book is real, there's no two ways about it, they're monsters.

There's a 100% chance it was just an ill advised and cringy attempt at mimicking Hunter S. Thompson.

We already had a thread about this. What we learned is that Mark Ames did a boo-boo, Holla Forums needs to be fumigated for feminists, and anyone who believes that the girl's 15 years of age had anything to do with her being exploited has no proof or legitimate arguments of any kind to support their spooks.

I remember the thread, and we were far from unanimous in thinking that it's ok to exploit minors.

We were also far from unanimous in agreeing that sexual contact with someone under 18 by someone over 18 is automatically exploitation.

The Exile has always been in the crosshairs of feminism, but they stick around because they are the only ones who do what they do. What are you going to read, the Jacobin tell you why you need to side again Venezuela and Syria? The Intercept? lmao. It's the fault of the left for not creating an alternative.

Has it really? What have feminists said about them in the past?

can you fucks not ruin another thread with a slap fight about age of consent tyrany

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Can I get a redbull on this? Must have missed it all.

Is there anyone more constantly fucking butthurt than feminists? Seriously, why were these cunts ever considered progressive? Their views are almost identical to those of fundamentalist Christians.

You at feminists

The Exile was a magazine comprised of American ex-pat jurnos fucking around in late 90's and 2000's Russia living out their gonzo Hunter S. Thompson fantasies. It was a strange mix of insightful Leftist commentary and edgy gonzo LARPing that hasn't aged well. Eventually it fell apart, as you can imagine, but many of them have gone on to have decent careers outside of all that. Matt Taibbi and Mark Ames are both minor but respected figures on the Left, and Mark Ames and John Dolan's podcast War Nerd, which came out of the War Nerd column on Exiled is a favorite here on Holla Forums. Anyway, Ames wrote a book about the whole thing, kind of a memoir, and it's full of edgy nonsense about him fucking millions of women and hookers, and minors, and forcing secretaries to suck his dick, it's all obviously made up and an attempt to come off like his hero Hunter Thompson. None of it's aged very well, but because the Left has massive autism, and because they're pathologically incapable of reading books, no one can realize this and they can only take him literally at face value, not to mention that for the typical SJW just mentioning sexual assault is equally as bad as actually committing a sexual assault.

I mean that the LARPing bits haven't aged well. The old archives are fantastic.

I don't recall ever trying to ban feminism.

Oh yeah, almost forgot:

But … but that's what made it special and cool and refreshing.

Maybe, I just don't think it's aged well, all it does now is generate a twitter witch hunt every two months or so whenever some 19-year-old SJW stumbles upon it and has a meltdown because they used naughty words in 2006.

So when are we going to purge the Twitter left?

These SJWs and their style/politics are going to age a lot worse than anything about the Exile did imo.

SJWs are almost dead, really. They're only still holding on because they've seized the positions of authority in leftist organizations even though they're widely hated. The rightists who act exactly like they do are currently a bigger threat.

Soon i hope.


I've been thinking about this a lot recently, how long it's going to take for this SJW craze to die out, and what it'll be replaced by, hopefully not something worse. Remember, all those New Left babyboomers were the same faggots that ended up voting for Reagan and becoming the backbone of NeoLiberalism. Anyway, here's a link to Radio War Nerd for anyone interested.
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user, they're not only in control of these organizations, but their ideology has seeped into nearly all the mainstream media.

People hate the mainstream media now though.

Good point. But still, we're surrounded by media everywhere we go nowadays, both in real life and on the internet. All this endless propaganda might take have an effect. Also, odds are that the public trust in media will bounce back sooner or later, and if the socjus virus is still around, God have mercy on us.

I'm not seeing it.

Well I'm just guessing. I mean, public trust in media remaining this low permanently would be a major blow against Porky in the long run.

Trust is much harder to build than to destroy. Once a generation loses faith in the establishment, it doesn't come back. The only thing the establishment can do is hope the next generation is more receptive, if there's actually time to wait for it. Hence all these astroturfing campaigns trying to make it out to look like Generation Z is ultra-conservative.

no shit retard, but I never said we were. all I did was call out the dipshit on your side for his faulty memory of that thread.

All of these people will move into "prag prog" centrism, flirt with center-right ideas as a mean to showcase their maturity and openness to dialogue, laugh at their self-proclaimed "radical past" and mock you for still being a Socialist ten years from now when it's no longer cool.

Mark Ames keep saying it was Satire,

Why do Ames think its funny to joke about abusing women?

I don't know Pajeet.

I do think you should take english classes before posting again though.

so much for the tolerant left