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Silent Majority wrote:
25 Apr 2018, 1:11pm
Yes Please! - Amy Poehler. Audiobook, read by the author. A cheerful celebrity memoir which spends a good chunk of the book complaining about how hard the writer found the book to write. I like Poehler onscreen and she's funny in places here. This served the exact purpose I wanted it to: an easy place to procrastinate away from Karl Marx.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
25 Apr 2018, 1:36pm
Silent Majority wrote:
25 Apr 2018, 1:11pm
Yes Please! - Amy Poehler. Audiobook, read by the author. A cheerful celebrity memoir which spends a good chunk of the book complaining about how hard the writer found the book to write. I like Poehler onscreen and she's funny in places here. This served the exact purpose I wanted it to: an easy place to procrastinate away from Karl Marx.
Amy Poehler: Counter-revolutionary siren.
having seen Parks and Rec, counter-revolutionary is accurate.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
25 Apr 2018, 1:36pm
Silent Majority wrote:
25 Apr 2018, 1:11pm
Yes Please! - Amy Poehler. Audiobook, read by the author. A cheerful celebrity memoir which spends a good chunk of the book complaining about how hard the writer found the book to write. I like Poehler onscreen and she's funny in places here. This served the exact purpose I wanted it to: an easy place to procrastinate away from Karl Marx.
Amy Poehler: Counter-revolutionary siren.
She and Tina Fey are standing in sweatshops and laughing.
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eumaas wrote:
25 Apr 2018, 1:43pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
25 Apr 2018, 1:36pm
Silent Majority wrote:
25 Apr 2018, 1:11pm
Yes Please! - Amy Poehler. Audiobook, read by the author. A cheerful celebrity memoir which spends a good chunk of the book complaining about how hard the writer found the book to write. I like Poehler onscreen and she's funny in places here. This served the exact purpose I wanted it to: an easy place to procrastinate away from Karl Marx.
Amy Poehler: Counter-revolutionary siren.
having seen Parks and Rec, counter-revolutionary is accurate.
Ah, comrade, the depiction of the follies of liberal democratic administration has revolutionary possibilities. The mystified bourgeoisie will regard it as an amusing diversion that reinforces the misbelief that individual autonomy still triumphs over bureaucracy, but real revolutionaries will understand each miniature play as a revelation of how the struggles to humanize an inhumane system only legitimize that system and contribute to the misery of the strugglers.
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A truly sad story...
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eumaas wrote:
25 Apr 2018, 1:43pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
25 Apr 2018, 1:36pm
Silent Majority wrote:
25 Apr 2018, 1:11pm
Yes Please! - Amy Poehler. Audiobook, read by the author. A cheerful celebrity memoir which spends a good chunk of the book complaining about how hard the writer found the book to write. I like Poehler onscreen and she's funny in places here. This served the exact purpose I wanted it to: an easy place to procrastinate away from Karl Marx.
Amy Poehler: Counter-revolutionary siren.
having seen Parks and Rec, counter-revolutionary is accurate.
It's a funny show, albeit one with terrible politics. When your most likable character is a capitalist libertarian...
a lifetime serving one machine
Is ten times worse than prison


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WestwayKid wrote:
25 Apr 2018, 2:19pm
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A truly sad story...
That his treatment of his disabled daughter maybe wasn't the worst thing Joe Kennedy ever did says a lot about how much of a villain he was.
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Silent Majority wrote:
25 Apr 2018, 2:26pm
WestwayKid wrote:
25 Apr 2018, 2:19pm
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A truly sad story...
That his treatment of his disabled daughter maybe wasn't the worst thing Joe Kennedy ever did says a lot about how much of a villain he was.
I was thinking pretty much the same thing as I was reading the book. Rosemary spent the remainder of her life living in a home for the disabled that is about 40 miles from my house in the relatively small town of Jefferson, Wisconsin.

It's just a really sad book and it is hard to not just get really angry at Joe and even Rose Kennedy.
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Silent Majority wrote:
25 Apr 2018, 2:25pm
eumaas wrote:
25 Apr 2018, 1:43pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
25 Apr 2018, 1:36pm
Silent Majority wrote:
25 Apr 2018, 1:11pm
Yes Please! - Amy Poehler. Audiobook, read by the author. A cheerful celebrity memoir which spends a good chunk of the book complaining about how hard the writer found the book to write. I like Poehler onscreen and she's funny in places here. This served the exact purpose I wanted it to: an easy place to procrastinate away from Karl Marx.
Amy Poehler: Counter-revolutionary siren.
having seen Parks and Rec, counter-revolutionary is accurate.
It's a funny show, albeit one with terrible politics. When your most likable character is a capitalist libertarian...
I always thought the characters were supposed to be indictments of those viewpoints, but maybe I'm biased.
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Kory wrote:
25 Apr 2018, 3:08pm
Silent Majority wrote:
25 Apr 2018, 2:25pm
eumaas wrote:
25 Apr 2018, 1:43pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
25 Apr 2018, 1:36pm
Silent Majority wrote:
25 Apr 2018, 1:11pm
Yes Please! - Amy Poehler. Audiobook, read by the author. A cheerful celebrity memoir which spends a good chunk of the book complaining about how hard the writer found the book to write. I like Poehler onscreen and she's funny in places here. This served the exact purpose I wanted it to: an easy place to procrastinate away from Karl Marx.
Amy Poehler: Counter-revolutionary siren.
having seen Parks and Rec, counter-revolutionary is accurate.
It's a funny show, albeit one with terrible politics. When your most likable character is a capitalist libertarian...
I always thought the characters were supposed to be indictments of those viewpoints, but maybe I'm biased.
At some point the show stops also making fun of Knope and turns into believing in Knope. That's where I jumped ship.
I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
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eumaas wrote:
25 Apr 2018, 3:09pm
At some point the show stops also making fun of Knope and turns into believing in Knope. That's where I jumped ship.
That's not an uncommon problem. Understandably, the writers/producers start to like the characters and the tone shifts. The Simpsons really went that way, from a bunch of generally fucked-up and weird people to goofy-but-decent all-Americans. To a lesser degree, in its last season Mad Men shifted the tone to give its characters some kind of happy ending after spending the decade showing them mostly as privileged rats.
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I pinpoint the shift as really happening at the end of the "recall knope" storyline.

In any case, I enjoyed the show. Amusingly written enough that it's lack of political rigor didn't make my brain explode.
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Flex wrote:
25 Apr 2018, 4:14pm
I pinpoint the shift as really happening at the end of the "recall knope" storyline.

In any case, I enjoyed the show. Amusingly written enough that it's lack of political rigor didn't make my brain explode.
Yeah, I did dig it all the way to the end.
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The shark jumping in P&R occurred for me when it suddenly morphed into a Bildungsroman about April, the real female hero of the show. I loved Ron Swanson, though, and never once got the impression he was anything other than a ridiculous caricature.The time he ate a young girls lunch in order to explain to her how government worked was outstanding comedy.

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Low Down Low wrote:
25 Apr 2018, 4:51pm
The shark jumping in P&R occurred for me when it suddenly morphed into a Bildungsroman about April, the real female hero of the show. I loved Ron Swanson, though, and never once got the impression he was anything other than a ridiculous caricature.The time he ate a young girls lunch in order to explain to her how government worked was outstanding comedy.
I think they definitely softened Ron up over the course of seasons. I'd say he ended up in almost ideologically appealing position: suspicion of centralized power but a commitment to broader social development. It would have been interesting if the writing team had actually had the political acumen to draw that out further.
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