Cheezy the Wiz

Sure, some of them are well, relatively, random. I blame Azale for the more unusual titles but at the end of the day its $7AU after P&H courtesy of Amazon so I'm scarcely complaining. Besides, I'm 3,000 kilometers from even mediocre bookshops, so I like to stock up big when I'm making my orders.

I'd be interested particularly in a sweeping history of the Soviet Union and something sweeping on Marxism. And well anything interesting that you've read lately. Hell, a compendium of Marxist stuff wouldn't go astray either. I loathe using the internet for reading books.

Recommend me some books! I've currently got on the list:

The Third Reich: A New History - Burleigh
Age of Revolution - Hobsbawm
Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty - Martin
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia - Rashid
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s - Fitzpatrick
The Making of Byzantium, 600-1025 - Whittow
The First World War - Strachan
The Struggle for Mastery in Europe: 1848-1918 - Taylor
The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000 - Wickham
The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy - Wilson

I have no idea what he thinks he's describing. I really don't. I made some quips about the Thule Society and Theosophy and I'm not wholly convinced they were off the mark.

Hell, I'm currently refuting someone on the nesing forum who thinks that Euro-centrism can be traced back to the Caucasian migrations and the 'cultural memories' of that great migration. I'm still puzzling over just how you can get that to work and apparently I'm ignorant because I just don't get it. Wikipedia links have also been flouted as evidence. The shenanigans start seemingly at random here.

And I like Diamond-aide. Although, I don't think its quite offensive enough.

I dunno bout you. But whenever I see population control threads all I see is a bunch of white well-to-do folks discussing how stupid the helpless Africa and Asian breeders are. That might just be me.

I suggest that the slaughter be outsourced to prison inmates. That would create real jobs (even careers) while reducing re-offending. And you wouldn't have to pay much than the minimum wage for the blighters to do it, nobody else would employ them. Heck, you could even tax the newly dead's estate (an estate tax on the poor) and force the family to cough up costs (billed for hours, the bullet, number of tears etc.) to help balance the budget. Manufacturing could also be stimulated by requiring that the baseball bats (recurrent costs are bad Cheezy) be All-American prison slave labor grade product. I think I've just solved America's fiscal, economic and financial woes while cleaning up the riff-raff. Not bad for a few minutes work, I reckon.

There's a difference between realizing that the current crop of representatives are suboptimal and arriving at the realization that the whole system is at fault, no? I would have thought you understood that

And death panels seem to imply fiscal imprudence -- not only do you have to convene a panel to kill someone, presumably you need to do it one person at a time -- and the whole thing smells just like something like justice.

Concentration camps ma' boi you should get your parlance correct.

Hi X 5 to you, second favorite commie!

Fifty showed me a mugshot of a guy who was arrested for huffing gold paint so I decided to avatar him for a day.

It's all right, but it's not fantastic.

I love you too. In a Comradely fashion.

I like your avatar as well. I actually have most or all of the songs of the Red Army choir.

It was an ace idea. Besides, if you really want to argue you might as well do it properly in the confines of an academic institution.

The whole fart thing. I dunno, I was just making light of a very gassy situation.

Regression to childhood is probably not a good thing. Have you had lots of stress lately?

Also, I'm starting to believe fascism is inevitable with the current system

Yeah, it's exhaustive.

...but awesome!

Hew Strachan is writing a three-volume series on the First World War. Only the first volume (To Arms) has been published so far, but it's superlative.

Thank you, Cheezy.

Lolwut?

I beheld the Beatific Vision, where Marx appeared from the void and showed me the Truth, emanating from his three hammers and sickles within a single circumference. From then-on I knew that marshmallow fluff on peanut butter was part of the Capitalist Heresy, and I never looked back since.