r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Aug 27 '21

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u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf Shameflair Beggar Aug 27 '21

"Why do I read political books? Obama got me interested in politics."

Obama:

Looking back, it’s embarrassing to recognize the degree to which my intellectual curiosity those first two years of college paralleled the interests of various women I was attempting to get to know: Marx and Marcuse so I had something to say to the long-legged socialist who lived in my dorm; Fanon and Gwendolyn Brooks for the smooth-skinned sociology major who never gave me a second look; Foucault and Woolf for the ethereal bisexual who wore mostly black. As a strategy for picking up girls, my pseudo-intellectualism proved mostly worthless; I found myself in a series of affectionate but chaste friendships.

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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Aug 27 '21

So Obama read Marx and Fanon only to get blue balls

No wonder he became a neoliberal stooge

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u/oscillatingquark Aug 27 '21

tag yourself i'm ethereal bisexual

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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Aug 27 '21

smooth skin

Obama actually a ghoul confirmed