Best onion ever

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iexist
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Jun 7 2013 21:46
Best onion ever

http://www.theonion.com/video/nauseatingly-precious-nyc-couples-to-walk-around-i,29751/

radicalgraffiti
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Jun 7 2013 22:29

at first i thought you just didn't like happy couples

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Jun 7 2013 22:39

Yeah, go straight to about 1:40 everyone. I know this is meant to be anti-communist propaganda but I'm totally on board with it.

iexist
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Jun 7 2013 22:41

I thought it was more just for fun without being pro or anti communist.

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Jun 7 2013 23:09

[yeah, me too really, but it does get sinister at the end in a way that I like to jokingly portray as the 'real agenda' of communism to my liberal-lefty friends]

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Jun 8 2013 19:59

yeah, that was pretty good
that a statement about class should get airtime even in a sardonic way like this is not a bad thing.

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Jun 9 2013 09:55

The problem, of course, is that the narration was done from the perspective of an insurrectionist. I find insurrectionists to be hugely aggravating, because they often have a very good class analysis, but they only use it to identify who is on which side. They don't use it as a guide to deciding what to do. The Onion is, therefore, misleading* its viewers about exactly what revolutionary class struggle is all about.

* Not intentionally, of course - they probably wouldn't have a clue about the differences between Anarchism & Marxism, let alone the differences within Anarchism between Anarcho-Syndicalism, Anarchist Communism and Insurrectionism. They're just trying to have a laugh.

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Jun 12 2013 15:20

I thought that this was about the bhajis I made the other day, but it was pretty good.

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Jun 12 2013 20:56

awesome! thanks for posting smile