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Just the other day a hundred year old Nazi guard had a trial date set in Germany. Considering Bush and Cheney, still alive, are responsible for deaths...

I celebrate the small pleasures.

A dead war criminal! The kind of thing I could get addicted to, to be fair.

I'm joyful :blush:

Apparently Powell was the same disgusting rag of a human being who was put in charge of investigating the My Lai massacre, only to find that it was al...

Yep. :party:

Another war criminal dead today. May the families of the hundred and thousands who he ushered to death on a lie - American soldiers included - sleep m...

I've heard great things about this! Let me know how you find it. When Verso has their next sale I'm planning to pick up his Against The Market. Did yo...

We have two major media conglomerates that have an effective duopoly on the press in Australia. Murdoch is one of them, and by far the largest one. In...

Some more than others.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10086479/American-anti-vaxxers-faith-groups-manipulating-vulnerable-Aussies-not-jabbed.html I know it's the D...

Hm, the comparison of sight to the other senses is not homologous. You say that what you see resembles what is seen (how could it not?). OK, a little ...

Georges Dumezil - The Destiny of the Warrior Jane Jacobs - The Death and Life of Great American Cities How is this?

Seems alright to me.

What an excellent paper. Frankly Devitt could have stopped the paper at: "Realism says nothing about truth nor even about the bearers of truth, senten...

Yeah. "We need a couple of Republicans here and there to stand up" is just the bit I thought was not very strong.

I read this when it came out and I think it's almost exactly right.

Georges Dumezil - The Destiny of a King Georges Dumezil - Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty James Baldwin - T...

Cool, not following conversations it is. Thanks for your time.

Ah yes, I too remember the post where we said we were discussing actual policy. Fine recollection you have, brother bear. And yes we were talking abou...

OK, what inspired this conversation hmm?

Oh my mistake, I didn't realize that you were incapable of tracking what the discussion is about and making the most basic of inferences. I will proba...

I'm always one to defend the plebs, who, after all, are all of us anyway, despite what we like to think. But really, I don't like culturalist 'explana...

:up: Compulsory voting - not taking away more votes - would be a move in the right direction, although hardly a panacea.

American "elections" maybe. The rest of your waffle are just excuses for more American fascism.

If you're a citizen and of age, you vote. It's as simple as that. The US regime however neither has real elections nor a working public education syst...

Yep. Among the worst effects of Trump is that he turns even his so-called opponents into fascists.

I, too, like to consider social and political punishment for underclasses who express views I do not like. There is even the slightest possibility tha...

Seriously though, advocating for so-called voting competency tests is an all round terrible idea. One could hardly think of a better way to entrench e...

Ok fascist. "I'm against craziness - I just want to institute fascist measures and accelerate support for Trump across the board, I'm so bog standard"...

Mixed feelings. I think on the whole it was better that Trump got STFU'd. But I despise that a spineless corporation like Twitter has that kind of pow...

I think worse things should happen to Trump.

I love that people like Tim, who is living through a political moment in which an entire population of people voted for Trump because they felt their ...

Having just finished the book, it's like a retrospective embarrassment to me that I haven't come to it sooner - that it took his death to kick my butt...

I've seen it. Really fantastic.

I was just thinking I need to read some Baldwin after this!

"Within these racial polities, the Racial Contract manifests itself in white resistance to anything more than the formal extension of the terms of the...

Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski - People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism Charl...

Sometimes it's not about what is said, but who is saying it. Compliments can be a fraught game of social power - especially from men, who then expect ...

Ambassadorship to France. The Liberal punishment.

Sure. Although 'peace deal' is pushing it.

Yes - as if it were ever in question. But that's par for the course for every American president. It's a job requirement. Trump just had the quirk of ...

Except that's not true at all and Biden has broken most of his campaign promises. Although I'll give him credit for pulling out of Afghanistan. And we...

Imagine people thinking that Joe Biden was going to be any better than Trump for the environment. https://www.dailyposter.com/does-not-present-suffici...

My fav article yet on the whole thing: China Panics After Learning They’ve Only Got 25 Years Until Australia Gets 8 New Submarines

Dutton hasn't moved past the developmental stage when you recognize social cues instead of mimicry: https://twitter.com/newsfighterspod/status/1438246...

Hito Steyerl on Art and Life:

A particularly unintelligent definition of intelligence, which ought to rather turn on making distinctions of significance.

For what purpose other than some mythico-religious (ie. artificial) sense of nature? You keep pointing out to differences as though the significance o...

You're being lazy again.