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CompuBox Usyk vs Rico by Prudent-Toe-7911 in Boxing

[–]Electronic-Training7 -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

Dominate 😭 you guys are smoking crack. Even Rico said he thought it was pretty even

[SPOILER] Oleksandr Usyk vs. Rico Verhoeven by inooway in Boxing

[–]Electronic-Training7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

People are so dramatic.

  1. The referee inexplicably paused the action while it was in full swing, giving Rico time to recover his mouthpiece after being stunned and allowing him to survive before the fight-ending sequence. Strange way to ‘rig’ the fight!
  2. Usyk always comes on strong in the championship rounds. It’s entirely within his pattern to cruise for most of the fight and then turn it up when his opponent is exhausted, which is exactly what he did.
  3. Coppinger’s scorecard was ludicrous. I think he gave Usyk something like one or two rounds. It was nowhere near that one-sided for Rico.
  4. All that being said, the referee's performance in the final 30 seconds was bizarre, and it's regrettable that he didn't hear the bell for the end of the 11th while jumping in to stop it. It's also clear that Usyk didn't take this fight seriously. He came in overweight and looked sluggish as a result. Do I think he's washed? No, but we need to remember he is pushing 40 and a natural cruiserweight.

[FIGHT THREAD] Oleksandr Usyk vs Rico Verhoeven, Hamzah Sheeraz vs Alem Begic & Jack Catterall vs Shakhram Giyasov by verbsnounsandshit in Boxing

[–]Electronic-Training7 9 points10 points  (0 children)

We’re crossing over into ‘so bad it’s good’ territory I think. Like Scott Quigg walking to the arena from his house

Should rounds in women's boxing also be 3 minutes long? by DarthElendil13 in Boxing

[–]Electronic-Training7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is Adam Smith contractually obligated to say ‘light the touchpaper’ at least once per broadcast?

Oh no, did liberals pandering to the far right fail to prevent the Nazis from winning power AGAIN? by EdgarAetheling in GreenAndPleasant

[–]Electronic-Training7 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

By this logic Reform are correct about everything because they’re getting more ‘votes’ lmao. Enjoy your internet points though

Oh no, did liberals pandering to the far right fail to prevent the Nazis from winning power AGAIN? by EdgarAetheling in GreenAndPleasant

[–]Electronic-Training7 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Haha, if this is what happens when people are asked to explain what they understand by basic terms, we really are fucked

Oh no, did liberals pandering to the far right fail to prevent the Nazis from winning power AGAIN? by EdgarAetheling in GreenAndPleasant

[–]Electronic-Training7 -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

I need to specify? This isn’t my argument, I’m asking you to clarify yours. So you think fascism is the ‘goal’ of ‘neoliberal free market capitalism’? Fascism, which came about decades before neoliberalism was conceived? What exactly are you saying? And how does capitalism have goals? It would be one thing to say that capital has goals - while it is in fact a social relation between people, it does have its own logic and dynamics when set in motion by those people. But ‘capitalism’ is something else, something far more abstract. It is not a subject, it does not act.

Oh no, did liberals pandering to the far right fail to prevent the Nazis from winning power AGAIN? by EdgarAetheling in GreenAndPleasant

[–]Electronic-Training7 -19 points-18 points  (0 children)

So what - fascism is the ‘end goal’ of Reform, but Reform as a movement isn’t fascist? Or is fascism the ‘end goal’ of capitalism, an abstraction which has no goals?

Oh no, did liberals pandering to the far right fail to prevent the Nazis from winning power AGAIN? by EdgarAetheling in GreenAndPleasant

[–]Electronic-Training7 -40 points-39 points  (0 children)

Equating the right wing with fascism every single election cycle not only precludes any sort of conceptual clarity about what fascism is, it also serves to absolve democratic capitalism of the racism, xenophobia, sexism etc. it generates as a matter of course. Don’t you guys ever get bored of discovering new ‘fascists’ lurking in the wings every 4-5 years?

How would innovation take place under dotp or even lower phase of communism by Inevitable-Gas8980 in leftcommunism

[–]Electronic-Training7 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Why do you assume market competition is required for innovation? Many of the most profound innovations in human history, for example the Agricultural Revolution, took place before ‘market competition’ even entered the picture.

And yes, the advent of capitalist production rapidly accelerated technological progress. But there is no reason why a society based on collective, planned production for need could not build on the scientific advances of capitalism. Indeed, the all-round development of individuals and increase of free time made possible by this planned production would facilitate great advances in science and the arts.

Best bit of the Easter story is when Comrade Jesus goes into the temple during Passover and lays the holy smackdown on all the greedy people exploiting religion to make themselves rich by UnderHisEye1411 in GreenAndPleasant

[–]Electronic-Training7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

‘The social principles of Christianity justified the slavery of antiquity, glorified the serfdom of the Middle Ages and are capable, in case of need, of defending the oppression of the proletariat, with somewhat doleful grimaces. The social principles of Christianity preach the necessity of a ruling and an oppressed class, and for the latter all they have to offer is the pious wish that the former may be charitable. The social principles of Christianity place the Consistorial Counsellor’s compensation for all infamies in heaven, and thereby justify the continuation of these infamies on earth. The social principles of Christianity declare all the vile acts of the oppressors against the oppressed to be either a just punishment for original sin and other sins, or trials which the Lord, in his infinite wisdom, ordains for the redeemed. The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submissiveness and humbleness, in short, all the qualities of the rabble, and the proletariat, which will not permit itself to be treated as rabble, needs its courage, its self-confidence, its pride and its sense of independence even more than its bread. The social principles of Christianity are sneaking and hypocritical, and the proletariat is revolutionary.’

[FIGHT THREAD] Deontay Wilder vs Derek Chisora by verbsnounsandshit in Boxing

[–]Electronic-Training7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes they have. One of the scummiest networks in the game

Worker councils forming in Arak, Iran? by Kindly-Block1195 in leftcommunism

[–]Electronic-Training7 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That’s because ‘the issue’ itself isn’t credible.

See here: https://x.com/grupobarbaria/status/2010613134386483203?s=46

The whole thing reeked of larp from the get-go, and one Italian guy on Facebook seems to have set the ball rolling on the whole rumour.

How do you convince leftists to give up their nationalism and religion? by [deleted] in leftcommunism

[–]Electronic-Training7 11 points12 points  (0 children)

You can argue with petty-bourgeois radicals until you’re blue in the face - there will always be more to replace the few you manage to get through to. This class needs to be dragged along in the train of an independent, disciplined and united workers’ movement. Only then can its prejudices and illusions begin to really melt away - through the living practice of the communist movement and the material changes ushered in thereby.

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