Jordan Peterson fills his home with Soviet art because he thinks he's "owning the Commies". Yeah, nothing says ownage like spending all your money filling your house with propaganda from an idealogy you hate. Maybe I'll pose in front of my vast collection of Nazi memorabilia...Oh, wait I don't have any of that. Because I'm not weird.

(March 29, 2021 at 7:42 pm)SUNGULA Wrote:
Jordan Peterson fills his home with Soviet art because he thinks he's "owning the Commies". Yeah, nothing says ownage like spending all your money filling your house with propaganda from an idealogy you hate. Maybe I'll pose in front of my vast collection of Nazi memorabilia...Oh, wait I don't have any of that. Because I'm not weird.

Funny - he’s ‘owning’ the people whose core ideology is the rejection of private ownership. It’s almost as though he doesn’t understand what Communism is all about.

Almost. 

Boru

(March 29, 2021 at 8:35 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(March 29, 2021 at 7:42 pm)SUNGULA Wrote:
Jordan Peterson fills his home with Soviet art because he thinks he's "owning the Commies". Yeah, nothing says ownage like spending all your money filling your house with propaganda from an idealogy you hate. Maybe I'll pose in front of my vast collection of Nazi memorabilia...Oh, wait I don't have any of that. Because I'm not weird.

Funny - he’s ‘owning’ the people whose core ideology is the rejection of private ownership. It’s almost as though he doesn’t understand what Communism is all about.

Almost. 

Boru

Well by his own admission he's only read one book by an actual communist. But hey cold war propaganda is just as good

Well, technically, Marxism has a very distinct definition of private property. He draws a distinction between private property and personal property. Owning possessions, like, for instance, Soviet artworks, is personal property. Marx was okay with this. If, however, he owned a gallery to exhibit these artworks, and made most of the profit while the people who maintained the gallery just made whatever he could get away with paying them, then that would be private property, and the sort of thing Marx would consider worthy of abolition.

That said, I'm on the fence about how weird it is that Jordy's collecting and displaying Soviet art in his home. On the one hand, well, a lot of Soviet art is striking. It's memorable enough that a few months ago, this mural appeared on a building not too far from where I live:
That said, someone of his ideological leanings, what's the fucking point? If there was some juxtaposition of these interesting artworks and some photographs or relics of atrocities the USSR committed, I suppose it'd make sense. I'd probably own and display Nazi memorabilia, but only if it was counterbalanced with relics of the Holocaust (probably more photographs than actual artifacts for practical reasons), like "Oh, you think this Arno Breker sculpture looks nice? Well, look around, because the same people who brought him to prominence were also responsible for this," this being maybe photos from the death camps, or since I used a statue as my reference for Nazi art, I'd create a copy of the Unbowed Man sculpture at the Khatyn Massacre memorial, commemorating the moment Yuzif Kaminsky, the only surviving adult of Khatyn village after the Dirlewanger Brigade destroyed it, found his burned son Adam dying in his arms. But that doesn't seem to be there. It just looks like some weird posturing that doesn't actually say anything.

The name Sookie sounds different from one show to another.

I cannot believe it took five seasons before I got to see Scott Patterson's gorgeous daddy upper body. GODDAMN, that man is fucking beautiful.

I’ve noticed that a lot of people are using the words ‘doggo’ and ’pupper’ to refer to dogs and puppies. When did this idiocy become a thing?

Boru

Regarding JBP (Jordan Peterson), his word salad about the concept of "truth" is ridiculously obtuse; why not just define that term as "stuff that I can demonstrate as a real phenomenon" and be done with it? Sam Harris had a head-to-head on his podcast were they couldn't even agree on a single term like that.

(March 30, 2021 at 7:28 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I’ve noticed that a lot of people are using the words ‘doggo’ and ’pupper’ to refer to dogs and puppies. When did this idiocy become a thing?

Boru

Your generation had its own slang, too. *not sure how old you are, so I cannot provide examples at this time*

English is such a weird language.

Examples:

1 silent "k" in "knife"

2 silent "k"s in "knuckle"

3 silent "K"s in "Republican"...