Don’t be silly, you can’t wear a city.

Zug zug.

That sounds like it was the inspiration for the specific timeline of the Ghorman Massacre in Andor.

If we didn’t already have an electric infrastructure, hydrogen pipes would be spreading everywhere.

That’s probably because my thoughts on the matter are not incredibly settled.

For anyone who doesn’t understand this, look up Ten Cent Beer Night. Preferably the great recap of events by the Dollop podcast.

You know what? Neoliberal democracy is dead, but there’s still a chance for liberal democratic values to rise again. I’ve been seeing some real anger from the libs since Petti. Real fucking hardcore anger from people who, before, I’d dismissed as asleep, willing to hide instead of fight.

It’s like seeing an accountant dad lose his shit and pick up a big old tree branch, shouting in rage, when some asshole punches his kid. I hope it’s not theater, and I hope it does not get catharsis from meaningless wins like Bovino.

The Democrat leadership is lost, but with enough anger, real liberal believers could just go in and hollow it out and wear the old party like a skin suit.

Excuse me, we’re Chinese trolls, thanks very much; we are unhealthily obsessed with China because it’s incredibly economically successful, it’s the last hope of actual oldschool dictatorship of the worker socialism, and it’s barely avoided being controlled by the market.

It’s incredibly centralised, it’s authoritarian, yes, but it’s also building all the solar panels and executing billionaires when they get too powerful and making the imperial nations look like chumps, so you should forgive us for our infatuation.

My lack of action and lack of building local organisation? Guilty. I’m trying to correct this. China is not the model for the West, and even the Chinese govt says that, so as a true Chinahead I do not call for Chad Xi to come save us, that is missing the fucking point. We must grow our own socialist organisations to bypass the state, and anarchists and syndicalists might be the best idea for the West, with our individualism and love of freedom.

4 minutes? Not the version I saw in theatre, my friend. Mind you, it’s not exactly what you wanted either, even though it was longer than ten minutes of music at the start: a lot of it was playing while the screen was black, then at a certain point every theme in the music came together, the glorious visuals started up, and I knew I was in for a masterpiece.

Lawrence of Arabia.

I want you to know, for almost no reason, that I thought you said “zero yoghurt” at the end there and I wondered for five whole glorious seconds what AV task is usually done with yoghurt.

They are completely useless for that, though.

Yes, a warning shot does rely somewhat on the intelligence of the opponent. But that is their problem.

In this analogy, though, if you even get 10% participation in a one-day cessation of economic activity, that is something the companies and therefore the governments notice. It is not something they want to repeat, or get more popular participation. It is in fact better than a warning shot in that respect. It is an attack on the money.

He did not lose the primary by democratic means, but by Democratic means. His primary performance cannot be used to gauge his performance in the general.

However, I agree that there’s no point complaining about the corporate Democrats using their power to win. The thing for people who believed in Bernie to do is to get power, and use it to defeat the corporate Democrats.

Are they not against ICE? What’s wrong with using that framing? I don’t think ICE is popular among the majority of the general population right now.

If you look at the denazification program the Soviets did in East Germany, and then look at the lack of such efforts by the Allies in West Germany, you get a better understanding of the different approach by each side to Nazis.

#bookz on Undernet. Still going strong for lots of pirated ebooks. I mainly buy on Google Books these days, but sometimes, when the one I want isn’t being sold anymore, I can find it there.

How much acid have you taken yourself? Because it definitely works when swallowed.

How many women got shot dead in broad daylight, by a thug who was immediately declared innocent of all wrongdoing, in the BLM protests? This time is different.

If Canada’s PM can see this, then why can’t Australia’s? Albo, are you really going to wait and hope not to be noticed while our ally turns into the Fourth Reich, doing nothing to separate ourselves before it’s too late?