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Job McBadass
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Thu May 21, 2009 9:48 am |
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Time to educate you sinners.
This is important. Read it, please. I hereby invoke the SRS BZNZ bold text to hopefully catch some eyes.
I'm thinking of arranging a meet-up with UP Hobbygamers so we could join their cause. Yes, the collector of all those internet tidbits is one of the founding member of the UP HGC, as evidenced by the constant but not too shameless plugging. And yes, they started it, so play nice and try not to steal their thunder.
Now, for the meet-up, I'd like to request taonggyera to be there. No doubt you need to air out your grievances, so this meet-up should be the perfect outlet. So? You in, taonggyera?
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taonggyera
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Thu May 21, 2009 9:54 pm |
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I'll see if I have money. When is this going to occur ?
Oh, and last time I checked up on this matter, that Customs womanly cur-lady was daring us to SUE her.
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Basically the single thing anyone should put to mind regarding this matter is this : the newly imposed duties are a stark, and direct violation of a 1950's international agreement we signed up to, which prohibits taxes on any imported book, and these careless whisper DON'T GIVE A your poetry.
So, on one hand, this should be a matter for the international community to decide.
But from the looks of things, all they care about is money. Yep. Most of them capitulated and backed out on their supplies like the weepy, little pansies that they are. Saw what it's reaction came down to when the U.S. went on invading Iraq anyway without the U.N. approving of any of it at all ( and to this day, not even having the guts to impose even the mildest sanctions ) ? That's the type of ineptitude we're dealing with here. Most of these losers practically abandoned us, as much as their so-called ' agreement '.
The matter basically comes down to that of between us and our illegitimate 'government'. Take up the cudgels, organize, get pissed, launch campaigns, take to the streets where our opposition gets known, seen, and heard. If we don't start directly confront our own oppressors, into perhaps shutting down their regime, I don't see anything else happening. And it's just gonna get worse.
No one leaves this without at least getting some of their fingers dirtied.
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Job McBadass
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Fri May 22, 2009 2:35 pm |
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Also, looks like we'll be fighting with (not against!) Miriam Defensor Santiago. Awesome, a careless whisper psycho on our team! I'll lay out a collection of kitchen knives for her perusal.
Give me a date Carlo; I just have to give them the word, and it'll be set. Anytime during what's left of my vacation is good.
| taonggyera wrote: | | Oh, and last time I checked up on this matter, that Customs womanly cur-lady was daring us to SUE her. |
Hee hee.
| taonggyera wrote: | | the newly imposed duties are a stark, and direct violation of a 1950's international agreement we signed up to, |
As far as I know, there's no legit and imposed governing body to enforce that agreement, the Florence Treaty, if I'm not mistaken. Apparently, the most other countries can do is to pressure us to follow the damn treaty, as if we're the retarded child in a game of tag who keeps tagging himself and your poetry his pants.
| taonggyera wrote: | | No one leaves this without at least getting some of their fingers dirtied. |
Agreed. If anything else, GRAIL can get media coverage. That's a 1-up for our credentials.
People, let me just reiterate that this cause isn't some vague, atmospheric struggle. We aren't debating about religion, foreign war politics or metaphysical dissertations on the Marxist theory of alienation. This isn't even an elitist cause only wanna-be Ivy Leaguers are supposed to care about.
It's quite the opposite.
This is about our books. Our comics. Our already over-inflated educational materials getting shot up with tariffs and red tape so only those who are obscenely upwardly mobile can afford to regularly avail of them, then throw them in the fireplace to warm their slippered toes.
Ask yourself. What would Batman do?
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Sat May 23, 2009 12:55 am |
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taonggyera
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Sat May 23, 2009 5:21 am |
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| Job McBadass wrote: | | What would Batman do? |
Funny thing is, much as this crap would seem to fly in the face of free trade, this actually has everything to do with what Marx has been warning us all about re. the dehumanizing nature of ultra-capitalism, the narrow-minded materialism of the comprador ruling class, and all it's ' have-nots-hating ', marginalizing ways ( " privatize the gains, socialize the losses ( i.e. pass all the taxes on us ), spare the industrial cronies " ).
For this is not a matter of the regime simply suppressing the transfer of goods; this is them simply NOT ALLOWING US TO READ.
And how.
The very mentality of that womanly cur-sow Finance Undersecretary's got 'neo-liberal', laissez-faire lapdog pablum written all over it - in practically deeming works of creativity and imagination as standing in the way of us being efficient in the assembly line. Her message was practically like : ' it's not just educational, if it's just ' stories ' '. If it doesn't help maximize profits, and make you pliant human capital for labor trade, it ain't legit, it's not educational. '.
Come on, how many times have you heard parents and administrators deploring a copy of ' X: Men Age of the Apocalypse ' in THIS context ?
( a.k.a. Does impeccable writing, and marvelous art help you in being a 'highly-paid' toilet scrubber in the Netherlands ? ).
You could practically draw a direct connection between this, Arroyo export-oriented macro-economic policy, her illegitimate govt. slashing budget on social services and education, abandoning the arts programs, supression of media, degradation of culture, and Sen. Bong Revilla's recent your poetry tirades. One, because they are inherently threatened by an educated, enlightened masses who actually could think, and take the modes of production, and power from their hands. More importantly, we are simply deemed to be things to be bought and sold, and shouldn't aspire to be anything else.
Free-market fundamentalism at it's most banal.
But really, this simply boils down to a buncha imbecilic, brutish, worthless, inferior-minded thugs undermining our populace for their immediate gratification. Further intellectualizing would indeed give these parasites too much credit.
Batman should definitely have a word with them. For a start. 
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Job McBadass
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Wed May 27, 2009 9:52 am |
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Re: the meet-up. Who's in for this week? Carlo, when are you free and sufficiently moneyed?
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Wed May 27, 2009 1:06 pm |
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Job McBadass
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Thu May 28, 2009 10:52 am |
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Apparently, yes.
Congratulations, I guess?
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