Social War Room Lounge 244: What a beautiful sight

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Gregolian said:
Bar I worked at did a goth night and....



Yeah.....
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Guy ruining everything with that squeaky toy is an embarrassment. I hope he cringes when he looks back on this. He's all "haha guys I'm gonna be quirky at a goth party"
 
Gregolian said:
The rules surrounding whisky is nuts.

Best friend back in WA, he and his cousin are in the process of brewing beer to try and win some local comps then open up a brewery but they also both have an issue with loving whisky. The collection the two of them have built is probably worth near 20 grand now cause they have like EH, special edition Blanton's and stuff like that in it.

The way things are classified as bourbon as an example is bizarre. You can ONLY age bourbon in brand new oak casks so places like Buffalo Trace and others are constantly having to get new barrels.
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Jack Daniels makes their own barrels. Then burn the old ones to make the charcoal for filtering.
 
PolishHeadlock2 said:
Yeah, I've had it. Not as good as the Hibiki Greg referenced but it's worth grabbing a bottle to try since I don't think it's that expensive
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It's also probably easier to find as the Yamazaki and Suntory stuff all keep winning awards.
 
Trotsky said:
@Social Distance Warrior I thought you might appreciate this. I'm copying and pasting from a Facebook post.

The term white privilege was coined by labor organizers and communists, such as Noel Ignatiev and Theodore Allen, especially folks around the Sojourner Truth Organization, which was the part of the New Left in the US that most heavily focused on workplace struggle and centering that struggle on the demands of black and brown workers. They built a lot of their analysis both off of experience and from the writings of scholars like WEB DeBois and his "psychological wage" for white workers. A big part of this analysis was how the white race is a political invention, a tool of ruling class dominance that gets white workers to side with the capitalist class.

What's fascinating is that the original theory of white privilege, as they wrote it, is about how the real and material benefits of whiteness pull white workers away from solidarity with black and brown workers and enlist us in being the enforcers of the system that exploits us. What writers like Allen and Ignatiev were adamant about was that this is a "poisoned bait"- a term they used or wrote variations of over and over throughout their work. They called it this because they saw white racism as being the main thing holding back white workers from joining with the demands of colonized workers and overthrowing society. So, in the final accounting, Allen and Ignatiev tended to see white privilege as having real, material benefits for white workers, but also being fundamentally bad for working class whites. They appealed to white workers to be actively anti-racist on a basis of class solidarity.

This is a stark contrast with the way that white privilege theory is typically understood in the public conversation today. A lot of people today are introduced to the concept of white privilege through works like "Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack", by Peggy McIntosh. This paper takes the theory off of the factory floor and steel mills and into a university setting. McIntosh lists a number of privileges she enjoys, but most poor whites would easily point out (and repeatedly have) that a ton of the things she lists are benefits of her professional-class position, not solely her race. The paper, much like the whole diversity-consultant industry, makes a general call for white privilege to be "unpacked", and even vaguely hints at "systemic change" that is never concretely defined. It does not call for actual seizure of the land, capital, and wealth that colonialism and exploitation of labor has concentrated into the mostly white ruling class. It does not touch the observations of writers in former colonized nations who threw off colonialism only to find the institutions of capitalism still firmly rooted where the colonizers planted them.

By refusing to call for revolutionary social and economic transformation, this discourse is able to happily skip over the question of what sort of organizing would be necessary to allow the exploited and oppressed to carry out such a revolution. The door to fundamental social change is closed. The action it calls for, from a white middle class audience, is for recognition and naming, personal transformations into more moral people, and occasional voluntary surrenders of various amounts of disposable wealth- in short, antiracism as a form of moral charity. What Ignatiev and Allen called for, building off of DuBois and in line with their contemporaries among black communists like Fred Hampton, was for white workers to fight against racism as an act of solidarity, recognizing that they could not be free as workers as long as colonized workers were exploited and white workers duped into being a line of defense for the ruling class.


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A friend asked us to include a comment from the thread.

“We can easily demonstrate this by imagining three people involved in building 4-on-1 condo blocks. One, a white union worker, is working under a timber frame contract that keeps getting bargained down in a concessionary way because the union has low market density, a cautious ruling set of administrators, and a disconnected rank and file who don't invest a lot of energy into energizing an institution that, like every other institution in their life, does a sort of disappointing but adequate enough job. This white worker could maybe afford to live in the condo he is building, but the news feeds him a steady diet of stories about urban crime which he believes, and he doesn't want to raise a family in a neighborhood with underfunded schools. He buys a house in an exurb with very little community life, and his kids grow up pretty alienated. The news tells him to blame immigrants for keeping wages in the industry down.

The next, a Honduran roofer, isn't quite being "trafficked" by a single entity, but by his working conditions he might as well be, because the entire geopolitical set-up is trafficking him. He came to this country to send money back home and help his family escape the violence of a US-backed political purge. His home country is poor in large part because of generations of ongoing exploitation by both domestic elites and foreign capitalists. He makes more money in America than he would at home but when his boss is late cutting him the check, or when he is told to do something wildly unsafe, or when the lodging he was promised turns out to be a hotel room shared with a couple other guys, he doesn't complain because he has seen people taken away by ICE when they start organizing on the job.

The third is a developer, let's say a white man (but we could change that, and the analysis really wouldn't change much). He is making higher profits every year building gentrifying condos in former Latine neighborhoods that are easy to market as vibrant arts quarters. He looks the other way when the general contractor looks the other way at the trafficked workers the subcontractor hires, and if he's ever called on it he'll make a big show of never working with that sub again while the sub reincorporates under a new name. Using cheap labor gets him mad cash. He's glad the union doesn't mouth off much any more since mechanization and de-skilling, undercutting by subcontractors exploiting immigrant workers, and non-union training programs have weakened their market density.

One of these men is unambiguously benefiting greatly from white supremacy. One is being comprehensively and systemically exploited. Another is being exploited and having his conditions eroded, but holds on to certain benefits and is being told by authority figures in his life that his interests lie with his nation, imagined as a white country- not with his class. He might be convinced to stick his neck out for his fellow worker based on an appeal to his morality; the morality here is obvious. But, what if he were also asked to consider how the wood frame contract will continue to deteriorate if the immigrant workers are never proactively organized and protected from ICE?”

@Possum Jenkins
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Jesus dude...this is too intense for so early in the morning.

will book mark and read.. thanks.
 
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I picture @Social Distance Warrior and @Andy Capp breaking bread over shabu shabu.

When he gets together with @tonni it will be... antipasto platter? That one’s a tougher call
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@Jesus H. Sherdog, misinterpreted that one for a second. I'm more familiar with the other meaning of shabu shabu ("ice"/crystal meth).

I like this question.

At the gym so I can't articulate the questions right now, but I'd say 6 features of the worst kind of conservatism (not in order) are:

1) Faith-based epistemology that distorts facts or creates emotionally prejudiced narratives

2) Reluctance to admit that government functions such as central planning or wealth redistribution can make people better off

3) Radical self-concern that ignores collective action problems

4) Culture war obsession and misprioritization of political objectives

5) Anti-intellectualism and inability to adapt to change

6) Cringeworthy deference to money and power

So I'd be cool with questions that tapped into those.

I try not to consider "voted for Trump" as an automatic write-off but its funny how many of these that would compel that decision.

@Jack V Savage @Higus @Trotsky what do you guys think of this list? Is there some portion of the con voter base that would commit to all 6 or would such a person necessarily be a characterization?

I could suggest one or two candidates here, but it's tough because I don't think many posters who are here to "own the libs" are really committed to an alternative viewpoint - just angry or overwhelmed and lashing out reactively (or trolling).
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I think there are a few different types of rightists invoked there so you'd be less likely to find someone to give six yeses. If I had to do my own @Social Distance Warrior-style yes/no idiot screener, I'd go with:

1. The MSM regularly makes up stories to help Democrats/hurt Republicans.
2. Material fraud is common in elections.
3. Climate change might or might not be real, but the threat is definitely exaggerated for control.
4. Everyone knows that immigrants reduce wages, but elites support it because of cheap labor, votes, and/or a desire to destablize society.
5. Most academic studies are just ways to dress up the opinion of the people doing the study.
6. BLM is a terrorist organization. If they really cared about black lives, they'd protest against blacks committing so many crimes.
 
PolishHeadlock2 said:
Oh damn, I think it's like $35 around here... we also have government monopoly.....
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The way they do it here is the liquor control board marks up the prices 90-100%, then applies a similar percentage in liquor tax. For example a fifth of well liquor goes for about $23. So about 18 USD.
 
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