a lib who got lost and wandered into hexbear once did the "read a book" thing about China, so I asked them what book they recommended and they recommended a completely unrelated novel and asserted they just meant read any book, not a non-fiction book about China
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lmao this was very funny
I wish I could remember what book it was, I think it was one of the english literature "classics", the kind of thing you recommend without reading when you're desperate to sound smart and well read
So it could have been any George Orwell novel.
It could have been but I recall it was completely unrelated in any way, it was genuinely like Dickens or something
What the Dickens!?
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The only value whatsoever to my business administration degree is using it as a middle finger when someone tells me to learn basic economics. I did and had a perfect GPA for that one because it was stupid baby shit for stupid shitting babies.
Revenue - Expenses = Profits
Be sure to note this for the test.
I think it was one of my macroeconomics classes that was entirely based around Econotopia, a country with an apple economy.
Every econ class I had existed to analyze data in a vacuum, I assume because trying to analyze real economic data using what we were taught would have yielded literally nothing of use
Or worse, radicalized you to reject neoliberalism.
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Kind of funny being lectured βdidnβt you learn communism bad in middle schoolβ by the bottom 10% of any given graduating class.
You're interacting with posers; REAL chuds would recommend Evola or some schlock in that vein (of course they won't have read it either but that is a given).
Those chuds fancy themselves "libertarian". 
The chuds that yell that at me are usually the type with an American flag or bald eagle profile pic and already had fully crystallized worldviews before they had a chance to learn about Ayn Rand from a friend in 9th grade
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My favourite is "move to China!"
And I go "Yes I want to"
They get all shocked
I think it'd be a lot better than here, I just worry about myself being queer there. I hear they're not exactly the best on that front, but really neither is the US, so there's that too.
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I've gotten Basic Economice by Sowell, crank that he is, in response to this very question.
Oh hey I read this recently (know thine enemy and all that). Itβs actually laugh-out-loud hilarious. He literally says at one point that price gouging is a good thing during natural disasters, because otherwise no one would be incentivised to deliver humanitarian supplies
Yep! I also checked it out a bit and yea, you're spot-on.
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Nice. You've clearly put in more hours in the posting trenches than me though.
What are the chances they panicked and googled "basic economics" two seconds prior?
Honestly pretty low, they seemed too committed to the bit.
Animal Farm
Gulag Archipelago
by George Oh Well and Alexander Soldier Nixon
During the Bush years someone suggested I start with "the historian Ann Coulter."
I'd crash out
So glad we only focus on serious and nominatively-deterministic historians now, like Samantha Power and Robert Conquest.
Well she's history.
So its close.
Clearly they meant βArguing with Idiotsβ by Glenn Beck
Ayaguing with idiots.
β This user is suspected of being a cat. Please report any suspicious behavior.
I see this joke every time someone plays loose with Cyrillic alphabets, but I still love it.
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The Prisoner of Azkaban
That's what a lib might say. If a chud ever were to reply, I imagine it would be some garbage by Ben Shapiro called Why the Left Hates Logic that gets laughed at in a Chapo's reading series.
I think the Chapos are the only people who buy these books
Other than the donors who buy them by the forklift to inflate sales, and the dads who buy them as gifts for other dads to put on a shelf
Excuse you, but dads don't buy gifts for other dads. That would be gay.
one of the bill o'reilly books
Sonic's Spacetime Adventure
lmao one time had a white guy tell me to read Thomas Sowell.
anmal ferm jorjorwell
Jorjorwell's Authoritarian Adventure
"I'm reading, I'm reading" and then show them your copy of Das Kapital?
A Brief Look at Infra-Materialism
Read a book? Add it to the fuckin reading list you think there's not a backlog already
By "book" they mean Facebook, their uncle's unhinged Facebook posts.
They usually either say 1984 or just "a history book"
They clearly mean "Universe in disenchantment: Rational immunization"
They're just really big Tim Maia fans.
Infinite Jest
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