Black Lives Mater, a Marxist Organization

Will it be better or worse than the highly unequal, classist, capitalist oligarchic hellhole we have now?

The involvement of Marx's ideas in such a movement, in and of itself, is not surprising. But despite how easily conservatives and libertarians might be triggered by it, the relevance of those ideas is a long and complicated tale.

First of all, it's "Marx." Secondly, if you expect to have any credibility on any subject, you'd do yourself a favor by reading up on it.

I'm sure there are Cliff Notes somewhere.

I mean you can talk out of your ass instead but people aren’t as likely to take you seriously.

So a cofounder of BLM is a Marxist.
So fucking what? Why does that matter at all to what BLM is hoping to accomplish?

Honestly, that's like saying one could argue that nothing you're working toward matters because you dated/were married to (can't remember which, apologies) a Russian woman, ergo, you support Putin.

If you're desperate to find some excuse to dismiss someone or something out of hand, any excuse will do.

So was my poli-sci professor. That doesn't make my higher education a communist plot.

Brilliant thesis from the middle school drop out.

Watch until the end:



By the way, for those of you like me that do an annual rewatch of The West Wing, don't. It's obviously very much fictional, but it'll just depress you when you think about what rational, competent leadership in the White House looks like.

I know I was all like fuck those black people until I realized that by them mattering it made marxism. Marxism is the real reason BLM to me. I am just surprised the boy was the one to figure it all out. Who would have guess that the NY Post picked this one time to be right? Decades of being completely wrong and now all of a sudden they catch on to the plan? It is a good thing no one with a brain believes them.

What I wouldn’t give for a real Bartlet administration.

I love that show, and that's one of my favorite scenes.

I think The West Wing should be mandatory viewing for every middle-school civics class. Regardless of your political persuasion, it explains more about government ("laws and sausages," to quote Leo McGarry) than any textbook possibly could.

A Nobel prize winning economist that can communicate and lead while at the same time actually caring about all the citizens of his country? Yes, please. Sadly, I don't think that exists anymore, if it ever did, outside of the pages of fiction.

There's a theory (I don't buy into it, but butterflies wings and all that) that without The West Wing you wouldn't have Trump as POTUS.

The West Wing set expectations for a generation of political types who bought into the idea that everything could be solved through rational debate, discussion, and compromise. That the population wanted things explained rationally and evidence provided to weigh up decisions.

Those people whose views of what politics could be were formed by The West Wing became the backbone of the Obama administration. Pushing for compromise, measured steps, bipartisanship. That set the stage for a Trump style strongman to come in and present an alternate take.

I dunno about all that, but Matt Santos was definitely styled after the up-and-coming Senator from Illinois.

Wow, that's some ace sleuthing, kid. You really earned that Little Orphan Annie Secret Decoder Ring!

@Chris and @The Exception, please post more. We've missed you.

Yes it does

Does everyone who has an opinion on Trump have had read Art of the Deal?

We have Trump's actions to judge him by

I think that sentence has a few extra words.

And we have communist countries to judge them by.

We promise not to talks about cell phones.

Those are not Marx's actions.

I don't do annual rewatches of anything (Sports Night comes the closest, but still not once a year) but right after the 2016 election I rewatched TWW because I knew we were in for the total opposite of that for the next four years.

So @Federal Farmer believes that the only way we will ever have a society that does not accept the arbitrary murder of innocent black people is to embrace Marxism. Ok. Now let's see if given his beliefs, he embraces Marxism or racism.

Communism is not Marxism, and you would know that if you had read Marx.

I knew your English was bad, but I didn’t know it was that bad.

I just did a rewatch awhile back. Never gets old.


This is how to properly dress down a religious nut and for the cherry on top, steal a crab puff.