Object Lesson: Periphery | 71 comments (71 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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When a whole country loses its mind (Germany seems to like its bankers and its present leadeship, Merkel is doing great in the polls up there) and makes choices which damage everyone else and ultimately destroy the foundation of Europe, I'm going to get pissed off.

And I'm not alone.

I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from them Eugene Debs

by redstar on Fri May 11th, 2012 at 06:19:05 AM EST
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Well, misery loves company. I wish you happy days in your nationalistic bedlam.

by IM on Fri May 11th, 2012 at 06:22:20 AM EST
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FRANCE! FUCK YEAH!

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

by Drew J Jones (pedobear@pennstatefootball.com) on Fri May 11th, 2012 at 06:26:29 AM EST
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guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri May 11th, 2012 at 06:30:53 AM EST
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There really needs to be a new academic discipline (as though we don't have enough of them) that can psychoanalyze nations. The idea that nations can get over past traumas after generational shifts is dubious at best. These things stick around for longer than a human life. Israel will be battling Palestinians on the 200th anniversary of the country's founding, and as my Italian economics professor at the University of Padova said when the Berlin Wall fell, "Every 40 years or so, Germany will try to take over the world!"

by Upstate NY on Fri May 11th, 2012 at 10:00:18 AM EST
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A certain sausage factory in Tanganyika springs to mind.

A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!

by A swedish kind of death on Fri May 11th, 2012 at 10:06:00 AM EST
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Object Lesson: Periphery | 71 comments (71 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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