Another lib who acts hostile towards the act of reading. Many such cases!

I’m ready for the ban, because I don’t think the people running this want actual discussion.

when you post this kind of ‘I’m ready for my internet spanking daddy’ shit you’re really undermining yourself

And you can’t really make any actual points from all that reading in a couple paragraphs.

If it can’t be described in a quick listicle it must not be true

If you want a ban my advice is just to say a slur or something bigotted and you’ll get banned in like 5 to 10 minutes, weakly prodding that people haven’t read enough won’t get you banned, we already do that to each other all the time

The ultimate defense against Russian propaganda: refusing to read anything

I’m ready for the ban, because I don’t think the people running this want actual discussion.

I’ll let you cook. Let’s see where this goes. Got my eye out though.

You’ve been arguing the same point here for weeks and you still think you’ll be silenced just because everyone here is afraid of what you have to say? Are you going to keep repeating this every few weeks?

It’s weird

It’s almost as if

It’s weird that

It’s funny that

I like it that

It’s ironic that

smug liberals with nothing to say have to preface their nothing statements like the above to try to sound smug while saying nothing.

Lol. Lmao even.

It’s weird how you guys throw “reading” in there, but you always cite hours of reading you know people aren’t going to do.

Literacy and healthcare are the cornerstones of the socialist project. Our longest running group that meets regularly is our book club, which predates the existence of the site. Our most active members tend to be at least decently well-read in terms of communist theory. Even more if you expand to nerdy fiction.

And you can’t really make any actual points from all that reading in a couple paragraphs.

I’ll bite.

I’m currently reading Inventing Reality by Michael Parenti. It’s an analysis of how, in capitalist societies, media companies consist of many stakeholders and natural social filters which influence the news to converge on simplified narrative versions of the truth which is biased in favor of capital. This process doesn’t need to happen through direct centralized conspiracy, but rather through interest convergence and socioeconomic in-group preference. It’s similar to Noam Chomsky’s work on the topic, but I prefer Parenti’s prose and structure.

You’d have to make a foothold before you can get people to spend hours of their life reading what you want.

I used to think this until I realized how many hours I spent reading and replying to long threads like this. This format is much more conducive to spreading falsehood than people recommending books.

I’m open to actual points, but all I see here is bandwagoning and attempted peer pressure. It’s like 2015 r/the_donald techniques part two.

There were people on r/t_d giving you book recommendations? I shudder at the thought.

I guess that’s on us to assume you’re willing to read more than a pamphlet of text before forming an opinion.