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Hopkins only had killer-instinct if his undersized frustrated mismandatory opponent gets hurt running into a light-heavyweight shot, while chasing the giant around the ring for most of the fight.
Another thing I want to know is,... why are all Hopkins 'victories' up on Youtube,.. but his fights with Taylor and Calzaghe always seem to get flagged and taken down straight away?..
kauki, on your sig - in what sense is the internet communist? where's the central planning? where's the design for the collective benefit? the net's profit-driven and democratic: archetypally western capitalist.
Profit driven is the scarce monthly connection fee I suppose,.. but once your past that,.. we can all recieve whatever we want in one way or another,..a community sharing rapidly, that's collectively beneficial. :nono: Uh,..But let us not slip in factors of dictatorship into real communism, the only reason a communist society doesn't work in reality, is because 1 in 2 people are sociopaths.
the net has some very marxist elements, by making the powers of production more widely available. but it's also very capitalist. the internet runs according to the survival of the profitable, not survival of the good, or of the spiritually or politically beneficent. facebook, youtube (majority of videos are mindless, majority of comments are aggressive and ignorant), online gambling, internet porn (mostly misogynistic): these things are popular because they sell, because people click on them, because companies and advertisers find them effective ways to make money - not because they're good for us. china is still politically communist, and the government often prevents companies from doing things that harm the people - that's why pornography and violence and gambling sites get blocked out by the chinese firewall. (of course they also use it for some very un-'communist' ends too.) but the internet by nature is rhyzomic and breaks free of boundaries, through proxies and mirror sites and a dozen other innovative ways of facilitating free speech, and that's why it doesn't sit well with communism - companies by and large get to do what they want, even if it's toxic. if you're just saying that the net is 'communist' in that scaled-back sense of "it gives the people what they want", without any particular degree of central planning, or support beyond your own profitability, then it's not 'communist' in any way that's particularly aggravating for conservatives, in contradiction to your sig. and i think to say that the internet is 'communist' even in that scaled-back sense is tenuous. where's the net positive effect of internet use? yes internet certainly can be used well - but marxism and communism of any stripe are about the actual effect, not about possibility. not "give the people what they want", but "give the people what's good for them, what they need". let's be realistic about the major uses of the internet: buy over-fetishised trash, watch porn, shout at each other (usual for messageboards), read about pointless celebrities and whatever rubbish that murdoch and the lobbyists want to tell us, all the while with a line of 'Sponsored Links' and other adverts along the side brainwashing us further, to make us feel ugly and somehow incomplete without that latest product. look at the big news websites - they write what people will click on, not what's true, not what's important for the world. (bbc news is full of shit.) the internet is the latest incarnation of the 'culture industry' decried by marxists of all types: a new, ingenious way to sell you products and to make you want to have products sold to you.
the net's better than, and less harmful than, the previous generations of mass media, where participation is only possible for someone with a large amount of capital: the radio, the tv. i think jameson championed it as a positive, back in the early days of internet use. but im mostly cynical about it. most people have their email addresses with hotmail or yahoo; just to check your own personal messages you have to get through whatever spiritually-toxic adverts that microsoft or yahoo have sold space to, or links to news stories about some banal celeb or some "funny news story" about a bear that robbed a bank, and then have to wade through a mountain of spam telling you your penis is small.
Close, but not quite! The reason a communist society doesn't work in reality is because the MAJORITY of people are corrupt or eminently corruptible... and a substantial number will end up as megalomaniacs or sociopaths if left untempered. Thus, in a society where the few in power are in no way accountible to the masses, are not elected or under any threat of being overthrown, there is nothing to stop their innate selfishness & corruptness from seeking out what is best for them, what is best for the people they like, what is best for the people who best serve THEIR needs. So on they go, imprisoning their enemies, or those they dislike, granting government resources not according to "need", not according to "fairness", but according to their whim and fancy. The man who gives a politician a $200 bottle of scotch and Cuban cigars suddenly gets his daughter's medical treatment approved by the Community Health System. The woman who sleeps with the Commissioner of Community Property Control gets to live in the better neighborhood, and the young worker who does free repair of the Community Commodity Czar's vehicle gets extra rations of cigarettes & alcohol. The rest are DENIED these favors. Eventually, the system is pulled down into COMPLETE and TOTAL corruption, wherein the determinant of who gets what and from whom what is taken is not justice, or fairness, or according to need, or according to means, or according to community benefit.... but is simply reduced to a facade for an arcane and primitive underculture where WHO you know and how much you can DO for them and how much they LIKE or DISLIKE you today is the only governant of who gets what. Democracy faces some of the same problems, but since it has the electoral process, those corrupt people in charge are predictable in almost Pavlovian fashion - they see a threat to their gravy train and they respond. Be careful how far you go.. or get thrown out by the masses, get shunned by your peers who also are protecting their own security, and will glady dispense with you if you threaten that by going too far. In the end, all forms of government are flawed, because PEOPLE are flawed. Call it inherently evil, Jesus said were all sinners by nature, there is no denying that, just look around you. So no form of government that involves people will ever really be all that good. It just turns out that Communism, by it's structure, is one of the worst and one of the quickest to sink down into complete and utter ruin.
Yep,... just a handful, can bring the lot down, it's a very precarious system, and so therefore Capitalism, is a structure where the high-end sociopath can flourish with her sadistically amused, ideological allies in charge of keeping the 'unwashed cretins' confined to thier pens, the middle-end sociopath finds himself being cut down with corruption charges at the behest of thier bigger brothers, a routine, hypocritical in it's elements, known as 'pest control',..and the low end sociopath is simply imprisoned for distressing useable stock, by murdering, raping and mutilating women on a chronic basis, (the details aren't important, they just got to go).. ..Only a slight degree of capacity and instinct, seperates the three. The elitist sociopath, keeps the animals alive with crusts and water,.. they're useful,.......you've got live stock, you've got dead stock.
The hypocrit Roost,.. is the forum member who luxuriously enjoys the sharing of information, media, music, programs etc,.. but in the same breathe, cries,.. "You commy scum, we'll bomb you all!"... Sure there are tiny capitalist injections on the internet,... but for the common user, the mass majority,..it is essentially a monsterous community of sharing, established profit generaters can be weaved around and conquered, properghanda can be dissected and contradicted,.. spam can be filtered, and the nasty comments are a matter of how one interperates and absorbs an attempted insult, 'sticks and stones' Roost, sticks and stones,.. it's part of my philosophy as I've expressed in regards to messageboard moderating systems, I believe anarchy should be permitted as far as expression is concerned, to train the mind in psychological warefare, a natural environment whereby you toughen up, or you die off,..survival of the fittest, eventually thicker skin prevails and a harmony of sorts is created,..
dsimon writes: Ignorance of basic marxism in the USA is rampant Rooster. Marx is not taught in the universities here with regularity and in a consistant manner. Maybe Kauki is a victim of this lack of education? I don't know where he lives but reading these posts the ignorance is there. Deconstructing Kauli? Good luck:dunno::doh: The guy has a pathological hate for Hopkins despite his daddy Margarito cheating on the child support activities apparently. Kauki's hate is no more rational than Freud's id..... Kauki is having it rough as a lot of his favorite fighters are being beat up by the guys he hates.... So I wrote him this song Kauki Kauki .... thats as far as I have gotten sorry
we're all agreed then. i'm going to make an omelette. have to say dsimes, i'm a big fan of kauki: an aphorist in the grand german style.
Im afraid the internet, is a genesis that has spawned communism, it's flourishing, and it's winning, :crafty:!!...the online gambling is probably the only capitalist weapon that could be a bit tricky to snip,... the rest,... ahhhhhhh:bears:, from peer to peer, buckets of fruit, 1 and for all, it's hunting and gathering capitalism, to bring back to the commune to EAT, and eat sufficiently we shall until aaaaallllll capitalist evils.................die off.. Speaking of 'nibbling'.. I tend to think that's what your post may have been,...as I very much doubt you would have missed the copious amounts of reason I give as to why I dislike Fraud and Hopkins conduct inside and outside of the ring, and I've also expressed my thoughts about this Margarito contraversy and even excuse the current prejudice against him,... you would know that surely,..as your not ignorant.
Reed please :doh: , your a true heart-stabber,.. Hopkins has destroyed my life, these days I cant communicate on a messageboard in the manner that I wish to,.. Im not relaxed anymore,..I hate myself, he's the turbine that generates my compulsive diatribe of bitterness, he's a sociopathic criminal, a cunning, manpulative genius of exploitation, who is flourishing under a capitalist system, Bernard Hopkins is the poster-boy of what is required to live a life of paradise, in America. That makes him the ANTI-CHRIST to communism,.. I believe with conviction, that Hopkins even brought his little girl to his post-fight press conference with Calzaghe, just to shield himself a bit from the fire.
