Not a fan of this guy's other work but this track is alright

Best podcast just began dropping a new season, listen to all the back episodes while you wait you imperial swine

If there were any justice in the hearts of the west, we'd insist on Jerusalem as an undivided joint capital under either a condominium or an internationally supervised military neutrality

Re: Tolkien but applies to many, many artists. I think because we live in a bizarre era of "content" which is very short lived and kinda hyper referential we lose sight of the kind of art that is serious, deliberately crafted, with great intention in it but also all-too-human fingerprints

Testing, testing...

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Damn fine prose and also depressing af We are in a post-idea moment posing as a post-ideological one

What's a movie you think is perfect?

This is why chaotic evil is usually an alignment for really stupid characters

I would always rather be us than them, every fucking day, no matter how angry or scared I get trading our humanity for the feeble hope that proximity to power will protect us is not fucking worth it we all die as we live and their picture of what "success" looks like is truly so fucking bleak

Yes to all of this and what's also interesting in a sociological sense is that Miller or neo-medievalists like Bannon and Thiel are all cribbing from earlier racist and fascist thinkers Miller's bit about "we create culture" at the Nazi funeral this weekend was barely defrosted Mein Kampf! So lazy

Obama did not give a tinker's damn about any dimension of American progress. He has as much ideology as Clarence Thomas and was entirely a wasted opportunity.

Insert the Sarah Connor "you have no idea what it is to create a life" speech from Terminator 2

By "we," he means "white men."

People heard about Kalief’s story during the dreaded Woke Times but conveniently forgot how moved they were when it was time to defend ending cash bail.

This is so routinely part of a pattern of testing new governments or, in this case, clarifying how much the US takes NATO seriously Americans are profoundly ignorant so this won't be news and I'm sure some bullshit will happen in the parking lot of Kirk's memorial and the media will focus on that

Contrary to what you're seeing in the press today, it's not ecologically friendly to bury trash

Remember that one survey that said that people throughout the Muslim world supported terrorism and we heard about it nonstop and Bill Maher and a million libs talked about how Islam bad anyway I wonder if there is any research on racism and hate in Israel oh well I'm sure they're totally normal

I hear there was a total solar eclipse when Charlie was killed and thousands reported visions of him and Jesus playing baseball in the sky

Cis white lib dudes can't even shut the fuck up for 5 minutes and listen I know, I know, lol so many bearded leftist yt men lol but again, if it's just wmmn and trans people and Palestinians that are asked to make the tough sacrifices, you see why the Democratic Party is going nowhere

If western governments had any guts they'd recognize Palestine specifically with its capital in East Jerusalem and also they'd impose embargoes and sanctions and yeah anyway it'll never happen but it's nice as a thought experiment fucking cowards

Literally every ultranationalist theory of history is false, distortion, and erasure of neighboring and preexisting civilizations. We are members of a big family, siblings and cousins. If you think you're an only child, a purebred among mutts, you're wrong. We're all human, all mutts. All kin.

the best way to earn the respect of political enemies who think you’re irredeemably immoral scum? well, have you to tried sacrificing your allies to them?

I didn't know that sections of Kamala Harris' new book sound like they were directly dictated by a campaign communications advisor That doesn't sound like English because it's designed not to clarify but to triangulate Weak, weak shit; anyways let's blame the left and Dearborn for her losing

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I'm just stopping by to clear my notifications and drop this frigid take: Insisting that we need to make space for people to share dehumanizing opinions to enshrine and uphold equality is like insisting that we need to make space for people to commit assault if we want to enshrine and uphold peace.

Jesus fucking Christ this interpassivity gonna be the death of me

this shit is so cringe and embarrassing man. I'm begging you people to engage with revolutionary leftist literature not made by mickey mouse

This photo by @staceywescott.bsky.social is insanely good.

It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times, but none of us could agree on what precisely made it so shitty

I went on cable twice between fall 2023 and fall '24 to discuss suppression. the first was Katie Phang's show to talk about Florida's anti-education/anti-"DEI" moves pushed by Chris Rufo; the second was Joy Reid's, to talk about Columbia and the student encampment movement they're both off air now

Next you're gonna tell me all kinds of Morning Joe or Bill O'Reilly or Roger Ailes or Matt Lauer shenanigans are going on in the news media

Disco Elysium is truly the most leftist game of all time, the studio immediately collapsing into bitter infighting demonstrates the depth of its authenticity

Multiculturalism has many problems, but racial purity and monoculture has one big problem: specifically that it has never existed and cannot exist in reality, like an element that combusts immediately when exposed to air

Erdoğan is definitely a piece of shit, and Turkey, like most neighbors of Russia, understands that the Russian state acts on force or the threat of force. This must be understood: the Russian people may want peaceful coexistence, for all we know, but the Russian people are not in control.

"Yeah we're gonna need a no fly zone around your biggest city. No we're not an imperial power, we smol widdle American client" Fuck this shit

They don't want consequences for themselves and their fucking donors so they won't threaten even to charge administration officials who commit egregious acts of violence This party is gutless. As the dead guy said, prove me wrong.

It's the post truth world of early Bush 2, all over again. They have the power so they just say what they want. "No leftists do what Kirk did"? Sure, just state what you want to be fact and it's fact. Eventually though, reality will be heard. It has a way of doing that.

Just finished the Jakarta Method not long ago and the dark irony is that a lot of countries did want that American-style revolution for their self-determination and America did NOT want that for them

Never forget

Here's my take on the Jimmy Kimmel stuff (complete with videos and transcripts of what he actually said): www.readtpa.com/p/read-the-j...

Interested in how Egypt and Türkiye react. It's a realignment period and the biggest military power on earth is run by a man with the attention span of a cat chasing a laser pointer

Genuinely shocked at The Economist calling out the bleak reality while so many in the US still believe this horrific status quo can go on indefinitely

I agree with Dov on the larger score. I don't consider myself a liberal but liberalism/lbrtrnsm/poli. rights must be baked into your system, and econ. rights are not enough. It is easy to see that consolidation of the means of production, by money or by the state, however, can threaten speech.

But but but every non-Jewish Israel apologist i see online says that 99% of Jews support Israel doing anything to anybody forever everywhere and then refuses to provide sources

Absolutely everything, everything! we're seeing now is precedented, in many of our lifetimes!

25 years ago SCOTUS and a bunch of rightwing activists decided a national election We then began a forever war *everywhere* on the globe and revived Cold War practices *and* added to them new practices We made an illegal prison We cracked down on speech We used new technology to make killing easier

Sometimes I read something that encapsulates present history and well 👇