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there's drama happening in my review exchange group
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You ever read a book where the story keeps jumping from one character to another but also from one area to another AND one time period to another.
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>>25005524
V. kinda
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>>25005524
lower IQs will seethe at books that do this
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>>25005525
Maybe I'm a little retarded but following those kind of novels is so hard to parse through the meaning and subtext.
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>>25005532
Yeah, don't tell anyone but even though I enjoyed it, I barely had any idea what it was about. Something about identity, spies, the Suez Canal crisis, and the loss of UK global power. Fun read though with gorgeous literary ideas!
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Okay I haven't shit for 10 days again and I'm worried building a tolerance to the laxatives because I've taken them on three different nights now and nothing... I guess tomorrow I'll try 3 tablets instead of the usual 2, and if still nothing, then I'll really begin to worry.
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If cheating is a sin, gold wouldn't cucked joseph
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About to read pevear's master and margarita but it's 971 pages long on my kobo at the smallest readable font
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>write your own thoughts
What’s the purpose of these threads? Am I just supposed to dump whatever I’m thinking about even if it’s not /lit/ related ?
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I've always said I'm never going to shill my own writing and poetry here. But I shill my fanfiction, written under various pseudonyms, plenty of times. Why would my original fiction be any different?

I know why, of course, because my original fiction and poetry is written under my own name. I've always dreaded breaking Anon kayfabe. I have an autistic desire to remain an Anon and not promote my own name on here. It's one of the golden rules of this site and I don't just want to violate it, even if it might get more eyes on my own work.
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>>25005666
100 pages a day, done in a week in a half, ezpz
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I fucking hate loudspeaker niggers so fucking much. I wanna fucking smash their fucking nigger face in and shove their nigger phone up their stupid fucking nigger asshole. Every time one of these brown piece of shit sits somewhere I know he's gonna take out his nigger phone and make a nigger call with another nigger on the fucking loudspeaker. God I wish it were legal to kill these niggers who use the fucking loudspeaker. Fucking murder holy shit I fucking hate them so fucking much. This shit is turning me into a full blown Nazi.
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>>25005677
I think the original, original purpose of these threads were basically like a shared online diary for the outlet of creative impulses. Now it's more /lit/-misc and, ideally, a containment thread, but you can still use it for the former purpose too.
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The dissemination of genre fiction and the like has being a disaster for /lit/. I can respect pulp, but the shit people write and read today are terrible. Imagine writing fanfiction and thinking it's worth something.
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>>25005677
It used to be called Write What's On Your Mind, and that subtle distinction from something being on your mind and the flippant immediacy of any ine thought implied a concerted effort to express yourself in a way that might be worth reading.
Almost like a writing prompt thread, which should naturally spark discussion about literature and writing, owing to the fact that it should be this board's posters main area of interest.
Literature on is an established thing, yes, but its writers and its overall qualities are emergent, meaning their needs to be space for unvetted/unpublished expression, serving as fertile soil for legitimite literature, both in its writing and appreciation, as you might perceive it.
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>>25005677
>if it’s not /lit/ related ?
You need to read more books if you think anything isn't /lit/ related, though we will allow your frenchiness to keep slipping
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>>25005517
Qrd?
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>>25005689
Brave and stunning
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>>25005687
In the fantasy where I write the greatest novel ever written I'm still anonymous.
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Just had to piss three times in one hour, it's so over.
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>>25005511
On my wee years, my mother took me to chess classes. Well, she took me to one. First class was just a test to see if I knew the basics. The next class saw me put up against a little girl, taught about the Shepard's mate, and then made to non stop plat games against her. I lost every single one. By the third one I was frustrated and threw a piece then got kicked out.
Mother mine and the head teacher speak to eachother for a while, tells her something about me having issues; how he has prevented many children from falling into the claws of the psychology, my mother, a psychologist by trade and psychiatrist by education, is at once humilliated and ashamed. Mother mine exits the building, chews me out, we fight.
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>>25005701
Someone wasn't following the rules and also ghosted the group for a month so got kicked out then came back and made a ton of posts demanding the mods justify themselves. They've only ignored it so far
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>>25005759
We go home, apologize to eachother. Do not return ever again.
Still do not care much for chess. I guess I never actually did care for chess. Even though it was me who pushed for the classes in the first place.
I never did care to do anything much, then or now. I am waiting for death. But only waiting, of course.
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>>25005759
Reading this makes me feel like I know what it's like to have a stroke now
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>>25005771
Well, then it is not altogether worthless. What element is most baffling to you?
Please, what are its major issues?
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>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPbi3Wp8AGE
lmao oats no but for real what is this from or did someone from /lit/ make this tho
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I remember holding a real skull during physical anthropology class in college. Supposedly belonging to a woman in her 40s or 50s, from a relatively local grave dated to late antiquity, I think. It's incredibly cliche but it did put me in a solemn, existential mood. We were told that we know she was a woman because her occipital bump and brow ridge was practically nonexistent and her pelvis was obviously that of a woman's anyway. Later that class our teams had a little race as to who could put together a complete spine first, like a puzzle, from the boxful of bones that each team was handed and from which we got the pelvis and the skull of this poor lady.

I think we won, but it was quite close.
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>>25005790
Learn proper syntax and try writing whatever it is you were trying to write again
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>>25005511
>>25005512
>fine guess i'll make the
>new
what like every single other time?
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>>25005825
Nothing would make me happier than to see someone else do it. And I didn't make the one before last which is why I said that.
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>>25005793
My mother recounts that while she was studying medicine a friend and her had to work on a whole skull they had borrowed from the faculty; after finishing their practice, it sat on the kitchen table while they chatted and messed around; ocassionally picking up and playing with it. In one of these movements, from the skull fell a large white speck that my mother's friend swiftly picked up and ate. This caused them to break into shrill screams of digust.
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>>25005802
No. Learn to read my mind.
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>>25005539
I'm not a doctor, but GO TO THE HOSPITAL OR YOU WILL RUPTURE YOUR COLON. At minimum, passing a ten day turd will shred your booty hole into confetti and leave your gaping bleeding anus hemorrhaging into your toilet bowl, as you lose consciousness and die on the shitter.
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>>25005831
As someone who made a daily general for a decade, just chill my dude. It's a solemn thankless task but it really does make a difference.
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>>25005831
>>25005857
stomach-achingly awful seeing something as small as informally appointing yourself caretaker of a communal thread go to peoples heads, almost like a reddit moderator.
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I would rather let this place die than ever succumbing myself to the base position of being an OP of a general
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>>25005868
Little different. It really is a duty. This thread? No pasta, but a real thread has a pasta, has decorum, and if you're following the 2008 /sp/ general format, you also need to make an edition and select an image. While it's seemingly inconsequential, competing faggotry, unclear direction, noncircadian propagation, or any variety of lazy ambivalence can terminate a long running general in a matter of weeks. Thread wars are fucking awful and any long time poster knows this. So, most people linger 6 inches from the finish line. I'm a fan of waiting until page 8 or so on the autosage, but others opinions may differ, and if people don't know how to search the catalogue or link the thread all sorts of chaos breaks out.

The sadness isn't the task, many tasks are sad. The sadness is the perpetual thankless presumptive nature of people shorting out and shitting up the thread. If you are out and about, making it on your phone is torture. Then there's the bitching. Every thread has rules that are never written anywhere that will result in a pyroclasm of faggotry if you infringe on them, and a deluge of being called a faggot.

Mourn not for the self appointment, instead mourn for those few noble fuckers too stupid to live, too autismal to die, trying to make the world infinitesimally better.
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>>25005883
stop you’re making me ill.
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>>25005884
Don't eat the sausage if you don't like how it's made, you sausage gobbling sausage goblin.
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>>25005834
If I tried reading your mind my IQ would probably drop
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>>25005888
the sausage is a jpeg and a link.
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>>25005897
Sausage is meat in a tube. Put it in there. Go on, use your hands. The structure and the effort required to stop the world from succumbing to entropy may be small, but it's constant. Anyone could do it. Often only one person does.
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>>25005793
>>25005832
my anatomy professor juggled a human brain in front of me and a number of students.
the human brain is much heavier than you expect it to be.
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>>25005899
Delightful.
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>>25005898
are you an american?
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>>25005904
Spirituality? Yeah I'd say so. Geneologically or geographically? Not American.
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>>25005922
I knew that was coming, I read the half cropped text because I'm autistic. What book is that?
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>>25005925
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>>25005904
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjOd_trk75A
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I want to live my life with the care and dedication as the idealization of a samurai affords.
I will not remain a pigeon upon the sands of the arena my entire life, I will strive for something greater
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>>25006009
i want to be ninja
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>>25006027
Dont you mean Neenja? :/
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ringo starr and paul McCartney's granny songs were the most soulful of the Beatles discography
https://youtu.be/sDcDCZGcZj8?si=zp4NVI8Xkk6foxnP
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>>25005900
there is nothing quite like seeing a heavily mutilated human cadaver in real life.
it's great because you can dispel all the poetic waxing existential romanticism fluff that surrounds death, it's just there and there's nothing to take from looking at it or realize about your own existence other than "yuck, that bodies gross".
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Were people always this pragmatic? It's so odd when you go to a museum or an old building/church from the middle ages and you see all the detail and hard work put in to it. You can tell it took decades of hard labour and who knows how much money, especially in a time where most people were peasants who were one winter away from potentially starving. And yet they still found it important. And yet today is everything is made as fast as possible and is cheaply as one can while the average wage chases has never been in a more comfortable position financial and enjoys much more wealth and possessions than any other time of human history with maybe an exception being one or two generations prior.
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>>25006103
I think with lifelong vocations people took pride in their work and often went above and beyond to show their mastery of it.
The industrial age took care of that problem :^)
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>>25006103
The industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
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Question: Do I have to post in threads before I can post a thread of my own? Something with the anti-bot settings?
I have no problems on any other board but /lit/ and I remember that I could post threads here, too.
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I wish for attention. Constant attention. Doesn't matter if it's positive or negative. I just like to know I exist.
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>>25006281
here
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>>25006281
I think that I can give you a (You).
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>>25006286
Amazing. Made my day.
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>>25006273
Not to my knowledge.
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>>25005852
I appreciate the concern but my body is used to shitting only once a week, so it does a good job of splitting things up. Plus I take a daily stool-softener and the laxative I take liquifies most of it anyway. I'm just gonna take an extra tablet of the laxative and that should do the trick. If I stick don't go by, say, tomorrow, then I'll start looking into going to the ER. For the record, I've gone 2 weeks before, and that time I didn't use any stool softener or laxative, and yeah, it sucked, but I didn't die.
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>>25006295
Bizarre. I am eating a thread-posting ban for no reason that I can remember, but I am allowed to participate in threads.
Make it make sense.
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>>25005868
If you must know, the primary reason I care at all is because once these threads hit the bump limit, people cease to post in fear a new thread will be created as soon as they post so no one will read and reply to their post, wasting their effort, and for those who do decide to post, it ends up exactly the case, which makes me sad to see. So I make a new thread so no one has to worry about it and I don't have to see anyone make a large effort post past the bump limit that gets no engagement and the writer feels no one cared about.
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>>25006318
i’m not talking about making a new thread, i’m talking about making a thing of it.
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I'm gonna go to the bookstore today and buy Mason and Dixon. I hope they have a used copy on the self. If they don't, I reckon I'll order it online instead of buying new. I'm trying to save my money for a new car.
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I kinda hate reading a good book. Cause the more I like the faster I'll read it. Giving it little time to ferment in my brain between sessions
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a human life is like a burlap sack.
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>>25006415
alright i’ll bite, how?
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>>25006424
Orangutans love to play with them in their enclosures
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>>25006273
Someone on your IP had a spergout on /biz/ and mods issued a selective range ban. You can post in threads but you can't make any. Sometimes they ban you from posting images.
I got my whole country rangebanned several times for posting nigger gore when someone said something annoying. It took a lot of dead niggers but it was worth it. I hate my country, I hate jannies and on top of all I hate niggers and it was a joyful moment
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>>25006456
Kill if you must, but never hate:
Man is but grass and hate is blight,
The sun will scorch you soon or late,
Die wholesome then, since you must fight.
Hate is a fear, and fear is rot
That cankers root and fruit alike,
Fight cleanly then, hate not, fear not,
Strike with no madness when you strike.
Fever and fear distract the world,
But calm be you though madmen shout,
Through blazing fires of battle hurled,
Hate not, strike, fear not, stare Death out!
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>>25005511
I finished my book on food and decided it was time to read a classic. Went to my local bookstore and after looking around a bit I bought Hunchback of Notre dame.

50 pages in and I realize I've been trolled by my subconcious. Last month I had a tinderfling I wanted to become an actual relationship and she did not, and Frollo's motivation is not being able to get over a girl. I did not consciously think of this when picking the book.

Shit when I reach his chapters I'm probably just gonna go "he's just like me fr fr".

Still have (what's left of) the bottle of wine she brought when we had dinner, haven't been able to throw it away despite the wine having gone bad by now.
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>>25005883
I'll chime in with my thoughts and add that when regular creators of the OP fail the task, or shitposters begin OP wars of the "correct" general, it tends to bring very unwelcome attention of the powers that be. More self destructive members of a community might seize a perceived affront, or power vacuum, and deliberately rig a general to be deleted to impose or wrestle back the "proper" OP content. This in turn has the far more, intended, annoying impact of agitating the peons as it were, derailing the general with shitposting and arguments than whatever the topic might be. At its worst, when a general starts getting real jumpy and fighting fro creation it affects the board complaining you're hogging space and putting "pressure" to post on otherwise slower and peaceful generals. Which further derails as both sides then argue their case as to what lead to so many OPs in the first place. Each side will inevitability have that one obnoxious proponent who acts like a hall monitor or thread policeman which only serves to aggravate matters and likely causes the person(s) to double down in vindication or spite. And due to the nature of most generals and familiarity with each other by posting style habits, images, and topics, things can swiftly escalate to personal. Faster when names or social accounts are attached. Having been witness to it, you'd think these sorts of lessons would long have passed to common knowledge. Every board winds up having multiple instances of it happening while every fresh kid on the block fails to heed warnings when they're first starting out. All in all a bit of stability never hurts but there is credit to the idea of remaining impartial and not even bringing up the self appointed task. Not gonna proofread any of this.
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>>25006456
This cannot be /biz/, because I can post there, too.
/lit/ is the only place where this range ban has been set. /lit/ is also one of the few boards where I am behaving.
Maybe someone got their feelings hurt by people living in my area.
C'est la vie. I can do with a break from this place.
I will share my literary opinions some other time or never.
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>>25006496
You are right in all aspects. Particularly remaining anonymous about it. But everyone gets tired from time to time. I'm fine with maybe a quarterly bitch post. I'm also cool if someone says "ain't doing it anymore" and actually doesn't do it so someone else can pick up the mantle, but there is no reward beyond making this shit hole somewhat more coherent.

Any and all identity fagging is cancerous.
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>>25006514
In my area some dumbass keeps getting banned on /v/ and /vg/ for posting pregnant sonic porn. I'd love to find him and throttle him into the nether. Occassionally I'll hop in the IRC and be like "hey, this shitposter is in my area, feel free to rangeban that stupid containment board, I'll email you if he steals my mobile IP trying to ban evade" and normally they're cool with it.
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>>25006540
hehe xd
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>>25006538
i’ll chime and say anyone (this goes for real life too) who’s ’trying to make this place better’ is almost always making it worse. people who just be are generally ok and sometimes quietly excellent.

>Any and all identity fagging is cancerous.
no argument there
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My interpretation of the current state of the world is a perpetual purgatory. In my honest opinion there may just be a general, sustained crisis of incompetence. Our epistemology is broken in most societies. We just have no coherent vision of what the world should look like and how to organize it. And so the myriad conflicts of today might never actually end any time soon. Ukraine, Gaza, Venezuela, Iran, Sudan, etc. There may not be any lasting peace or resolution for any of these. We'll probably live to see countries like Ukraine become desolate, Gaza in ruins and the West Bank always under siege, Iran in constant decay and violence with no proper government, Venezuela still under control of the regime but looted by the U.S. with impunity. Even MAGA will lose steam and after Trump no one is sure what conservatism looks like.

I foresee a modern world composed of many metropolises, and even more wastelands -- ruined not by warring armies but people not willing to fight for any of the land they live in.
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>>25005524
I like this writing style! Thank you for the idea , anon.
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>>25006578
My interpretation of the state of the world is people who know nothing about politics keep insisting on talking about politics in places where politics should be excluded. Then the places for polite discussion about politics become places for impolite discussions of politics and the impolite places become places for absolute screaming and degeneracy that have nothing to do with anything.

There is a perpetual whittling of every space until there is only politics to discussed, and only with unqualified people, expanded to every aspect of life. The qualifications to discuss politics? Simple, having studied politics and having the decorum to discuss philosophy it politely in the polite places while shutting the fuck up everywhere else.
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>>25006578
The Middle East has been a conflict ridden shithole since the times of Alexander the Great.
When we look at maps from before the so-called Bronze Age Collapse, we see a region full of flourishing states and civilizations.
The Europeans used to look up on these fallen Collossuses. History has rightfully placed the Seven Wonders of the World around their corners.
Those who look at those countries as being less developped as ours are seeing history from the wrong lens. They are conflict ridden because they have passed a greater number of civilizational cycles than us, and sadly it looks like we are soon going to catch up on them.
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where ya grandma stay?
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Guys, I love birds, they're so smart

Good video, bird-language has syntax :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmys2abx4co


What's the >>25005831 conversation about ?
I took the initiative to make the one with the Venice picture because I saw the previous one was just full and no one made a new (I'd encourage anyone with good pictures to do the same). I have a bunch of pictures to share but I'm almost never awake when thread hits bump or close to. What are the actual complaints ?
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>>25005904
Rent free
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>>25006538
We're just a bundle of perceptions anyways
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>>25006597
>What are the actual complaints ?
OP is a faggot is an eternal truth
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>>25006584
>The qualifications to discuss politics?
Must be the same as the qualifications for voting. Ideally this would be 1 rich aristocratic oligarch per million plebs. Both your posts demonstrate the point that plebs have no place in politics.
>>25006597
Yet another prediction I confidently made 20 years ago coming true in detail.
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>>25006561
You're pretty cancerous yourself
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>>25006609
> Both your posts demonstrate the point that plebs have no place in politics.
Look at him guys, this loser is against the Miranda rights.
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>>25006609
You realize I was talking about you discussing this here, right? Couldn't disagree with the second half any more if you intentionally tried to piss me off. But this isn't the place to discuss your pop psychology view of contemporary politics. Could have been, once, but I unless you're discussing theory you should really take it to the dedicated board for these things.
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>>25006610
who me
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>>25006618
>But this isn't the place to discuss your pop psychology view of contemporary politics.
But it is for you? This is why you need a strong, rich man to put you in your place.
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>>25006623
Loser take.
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>>25006631
If you're not both women you need to check your test levels.
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>>25006635
You're the one who needs to get his test levels checked. Only women are attracted to rich men as far as I'm concerned. You're advocating for the worst form of gynocracy.
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>>25006623
I didn't tell you about my opinions on politics at all. I told you to fuck off politely, but you were too stupid to get the hint.

>>25006635
Wow, who would have thought, you post exactly like a denizen of that board with the same carbon copy unsubstantive thoughts and the same diction. Colour me shocked.
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Have you ever a dream with the girlfriend you wish you had and instead of waking up sad, you feel so calm and carry all through the day with a feeling of completeness? To me those dreams are a gift whenever they happen
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>>25006643
For me those dreams usually end up with me waking up rock hard and cum getting out of my underwear and I hate myself for having believed it was real and now having to take a cold shower and change my clothes and the day being ruined.
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>>25006597
>Birds learn second languages
We're slipping lads
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Every Scorsese movie ever:
>italians and irish people engage in tons of mob crime that is made out to look really cool with vague allusions to catholicism
>robert de niro is in there somewhere
Exact same plot, over and over.
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>>25006659
ever seen after hours?
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>>25006639
>>25006641
But you are women, right?
Why are you here? Why not go to reddit or someplace where everyone is as retarded as you? People were posting like this long before that board existed and somehow almost everyone could read the intention behind it but you still can't, after decades of this shit you still have no clue.
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>>25006661
I have a natural testosterone level of 1060 you piece of shit.
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>>25006668
I have no clue what that means. Imagine actually getting your test levels checked.
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>>25006673
I didn't check them. I know it.
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What does this /r9k/lite, blogposting faggotry has to do with literature ?
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>>25006679
what’s your favourite book?
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>>25006674
So you're both women and think lying about it scores some kind of imaginary points?
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>>25006661
No. Your style of posting is a post 2016 phenomenon, and I'm happy to discuss BOOKS on the subject but what you are doing is the type of shitposting that deserves to be quarantined on the board where it belongs.

If you were nuanced, insightful, interesting, informed, or articulate? Cool man, let's talk Fukuyama and Grotius. You aren't. If you were? You wouldn't act like this.
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>>25006683
Why do you think calling me a woman is a kind of gotcha? I'm not and I have nothing more to tell you if it's your only argument.
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>>25006695
I'm trying to understand people like you. It would make so much more sense if you were women.
>>25006693
I didn't reply to a post about books but about your poorly thought out political opinions about what discourse should be allowed where, for everyone except you. Which you then dishonestly framed as if it's not a political opinion.
Say something interesting about Grotius and you might trigger a different response.
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>>25006709
> I'm trying to understand people like you.
I'm the anon who called you out on your retarded elitist views.
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>>25006693
>No. Your style of posting is a post 2016 phenomenon
Do you notice how this is not even close to a discussion? You demand I accept your objectively false assumptions and sperg out if I even dare offer an alternative.
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Am I crazy? Legally, no. There's not a word for my condition.
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>>25006718
What the fuck could this possibly clarify retard? That you're retarded?
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>>25005511
>I so pale
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>>25006722
It clarifies you as a brown thirdie.
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>>25006709
Hey anon, that is not my political opinion. It was me telling you to fuck off. Do you know how I know? Because I didn't tell you my political opinion on any subject beyond broadly saying I disagree with you, and your are not literate enough to discuss post-structural political philosophy with in any meaningful way to imply the type of power dynamics you're describing. You wouldn't have made your initial post with the insights you had if you were. The mistake I made? Being coy and implying you should fuck off instead of telling you directly. Then you proceeded to shoot spaghetti from your pockets on the ceiling the exact way I described, further proving that this shouldn't be discussed here.

Can we fast forward three hours past the samefagging and acting retarded while pretending not to read and get to the part where you go masturbate or fumble with your chastity belt or whatever, eat a sandwich, and move on? This is not an instigation or admission of anything, it's foreshadowing based on the fact your archetype has an entire board where you share these opinions and act like this.

>>25006720
It was never a discussion. And retroactively replying to a post instead of condensing your thoughts into a single coherent argument with supporting premises and a thesis is a demonstration of why it never could have been. I love the subject; I do not want to talk to someone with your qualifications about it, and you have an entire board where you can do so. And if I did? I'd go to that board.
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>>25006729
I identified exactly what perspective you "couldn't disagree with any more if [I] intentionally tried to piss (you) off" based on your supposedly apolitical posts.
Neither of you are capable of any actual discussion about complex subjects like the benefits of distributed power vs centralization and how to mitigate the corruption of either. That's likely why it triggers you so much to simply be exposed to alternative perspectives.
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>>25006741
>Because I didn't tell you my political opinion
You are retarded my roastie friend.
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>>25006743
That's exactly where you are wrong but I know most people don't have that capability, so I'm not mad at you for the assumption.
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>>25006748
Sure. Now if you want to continue posting here, can you at least put a modicum of effort into it? Talk about taking a huge dump or the minutiae of your lunch or some shit; it would be a vast improvement.
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>>25006751
Reading Grotius does not make you capable of anything except regurgitating Grotius. I know from experience, by testing it that you're not capable of sincere discussions about anything related to politics. The methodology isn't there, feeding data into a broken process won't produce anything.
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>>25006763
I know you know nothing about politics because you have elitist views. Do you realize how much of a fucking pleb that makes you?
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>>25006759
The more you retardpost the more shitposts you will spawn. This is a law of nature you can't escape by sperging about it.
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>>25006763
Hey anon, this is what I just told you about; stop pretending to be retarded and playing this anonymous game of guess who. I was the one who told you about Grotius. I was the one who insulted you about post structural philosophy, I was the one who insulted you initially and apparently caved in your rectum to the extent you're hysterical. Do you want to talk Grotius? It would be a marked improvement. How do you feel about On Law, War, And Peace?
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>>25006768
You have no idea what my political views are because unlike you I haven't actually discussed them in this thread about literature and the written word.
>>25006776
I'm very sympathetic to the early protestant liberal ideas and the associated religious ideas but like you guessed don't know much about Grotius. Fukushima is a retard.
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>>25006782
You said Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and his likes should decide everything.
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I wish morrowind was real. Its the only thing I've vaguely enjoyed or found interesting in my entire life. I'm vaguely aware of its influences but I can't really pursue those. I'm just some white guy. I wish I could make morrowind real in some way. I've been curious about alchemy but whenever I look it up I just find mystical new age stuff instead of stuff focusing on like actual alchemy with mortars and retorts
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>>25006782
Perhaps you should read about it. Here is a PDF of the complete thing. It's axiomatic, Spinoza style. One of the first treatises ever on international law. Read it and get back to me. If you have questions I'm happy to help.
>https://historyofeconomicthought.mcmaster.ca/grotius/Law2.pdf
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>>25006786
>>25006743
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>>25006791
>get back to me
Fuck off retard. If you want to say something about your favourite protestant political idol just say it retard.
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>>25006795
Why is he my favorite? I gave you a book, read it and we'll chat about it. If you don't read it, why would I talk about it with you?
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>>25006793
That's an easy one. Distributed Power is better than centralized power for the same reason as Checks and Balances.
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Im sorry for being white
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>>25006798
You post about it on the fucking literature board. I stumble on to an interesting discussion and it motivates me to look into what these faggots are talking about.
It's precisely because this is foundational that it seems so uninteresting. Skimming it and reading a page or two doesn't arouse any interest since I heard all this a million times.
>>25006801
You are an actual idiot. You have no thought process, just parroting of dogma.
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>>25006809
> are an actual idiot. You have no thought process, just parroting of dogma
It is an established fact that the distribution of power is kernel to the establishment of good government and there's tons of historical examples that proof this. Arguing otherwise is arguing for bad government. But what is bad government? That's a question you don't want to answer because it would instantly defeat your biased and corrupt worldview.
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>>25006809
Which part have you heard a million times? Which parts are uninteresting? It's incremental and axiomatic; skimming one or two pages tells you less than nothing because you don't have the foundation to understand the part you skimmed, predicated on the previous parts of the text. If you don't read it I can hardly give you the things that build off it.

And if you don't want to read it, that's cool, you don't really want to talk about politics. It:s directly relevant to your initial post in a wide variety of ways.
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I've had a good week of writing (at night)
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>>25006817
I lean heavily toward distribution of power but it's not some fucking kernel and the retards seething like you about muh oligarchs want more centralization than anyone. Saying you don't want to and then doing everything you can to centralize power just makes you a liar on top of being an authoritarian.
>>25006819
It's the liberal "rules based order" based on Christian theology that every media retard and politican parrots every day as if they're in a cult. Consensus based rule like the Althing. Justification for war etc based on appeals to the Christian good/God like uplifting people from poverty.
>you have to blindly swallow all my pills before any discussion can start
If you don't read Siege you don't really want to talk about politics. (I never read it)
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>>25006830
I have no capacity to create
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>>25006831
>I lean heavily toward distribution of power but it's not some fucking kernel
Yes it is.
> muh oligarchs
cause bad government. It just so seems that the less rights plebs have the more plebbish they become.
> authoritarianism
The result of centralization + lack of division of power + oligarchy
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>>25006831
Impressive. You were wrong about 5 things in 3 sentences. That is not at all what it's about at all. It's about the foundational aspects of statehood, sovereignty, ethics, and the responsibility a state has to their neighbours, as well as what the responsibility a state has to its citizens. If you think Grotius is "liberal", I don't think you know enough about either concept to discuss them, and you are not ready to read that book.
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>>25006763
You misspelled Cicero
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>>25006725
stays inside all day practicing the violin
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the most important things in the world are so fragile
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>>25007065
Like what?
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>>25006725
you’re on air
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Mozart

https://files.catbox.moe/npwrgd.flac
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why are these anons using the word 'kernel' like that
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>>25007090
kernelposting
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>Displaying 174 expired threads from the past 3 days
All-time record low?
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>>25007099
It's a good thing, your fellow anons got married, published, and are spending their time living life and reading books :)
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>>25007099
Nah that used mean a raid
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There's one thing, baby, I don't understand
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>>25006514
bro i have that too and i started like three threads in my life and they were all about novels. now i can't start a thread, so if i want to talk about a book i just post it in this thread. kind of annoying, but if it cuts down on shills and spam, fuck idc like i said i made like three threads.
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>>25007103
for me it's a mix of this site sucks and i'm actually p busy, kinda 50/50. it's friday night i'd love to just fuck around on here but idk im probably going to just go to bed and maybe read for like 20 minutes before i fall asleep. also these new captchas are kind of a drag after a while ur just like fuck it.
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Hmm today I will listen to Slint
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>>25006456
Based
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>>25007313
ohhhhh that’s what the ‘i miss you’ poster has been referencing all this time
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I slept for around 3h before waking up and I literally could not go back to sleep throwing myself around in bed for over an hour. What is this fucking shit, also my vision seems blurry as It's difficult for me to read on my screen right now. Sigh, hopefully I can rectify this with a cozy afternoon nap
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>>25007313
>>25007324
i look up slint on youtube and the very first song starts with one of those bass harmonics things jaco pastorious was famous for doing, ugh, this must be pretentious doodoo i bet pitchfork loves it, yup, one of their albums got a ten lol but to be fair pitchfork tens are usually legitimately good
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Good morning my fellow figments of reality
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>>25007313
>clueless
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>>25007354
the fuck asked you
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>>25007386
lmao u gettin mad abt it bro
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>>25007390
yeah furious
no but spiderland is /mu/core it’s like one of the first albums you discovered if you ever went on mu
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>>25007397
/mu/ used to be my main board but i always ignored the low t indie shit for guys who wear ladies jeans
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>>25007402
and you never heard of spiderland? you just go there with your eyes closed?
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>>25007397
like out of that, i legit like loveless and ex-military, and i guess burial, kanye, and talking heads are ok, but i never listened to more than one song from the other shit.
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>>25007409
the thing with /mu/core is when you’re new you like it, then you turn patrician and go nah actually it’s mid, then you come round again and it’s all pretty good.
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>>25007407
i've seen that album cover but i could tell it was awful just by looking at it. a bunch of white dudes swimming in a river? no way it's good
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>>25007402
>/mu/ used to be my main board but i always ignored the low t indie shit for guys who wear ladies jeans
Metal is for children, just a friendly reminder
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>>25007415
yeah it’s probably not for you
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>>25007416
metal is fucking even worse than brooklyn by way of midwestern suburbs core
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/mu/ was the first board I regularly visited. I used to have a rym profile with scathing reviews of all the /mu/core classics and Pitchfork reccs and make threads laughing at Anthony Fantano. Sometime around 2016 I stopped using the board and never went back.
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I see that my superior taste in music has caused some consternation
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Caring enough about music to actively go out of your way to talk about it beyond casual conversation is a sign of something deeply pathetic

t. had a account on What.CD
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>>25007429
lol i used soulseek.
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>>25007429
Okay, unc
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>>25007422
It is very dismaying to see someone in that state. Like a toddler rummaging through garbage looking for something to eat.
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>>25007429
i got an account on oink and then it got shut down like a month later lol
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>>25007442
>2007
jeeeeesus
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>>25007448
damn i was still in college back then lmao was it that long ago? i thought it was at least after 2010 but maybe not. u could get the same shit off demonoid and rutracker, so it wasn't that much of a loss, i didn't really care.
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i will say that new morrisey song sucks sadly
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>>25007429
Sounds like a personal problem. Anyways what's with the anti-English bias here? This is the kind of ressentment that Nietzsche talked about.



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