@genmaicha also found a neat little historical tidbit. a letter from Leon Trotsky in 1940 (just months before he got icepicked!) to James Burnham, who was still a Trot at the time: https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/idom/dm/14-burnham.htm it reads like a boring ass reddit effortpost, but the constant references to "Comrade Burnham" are really funny in retrospect. almost makes me want to believe Burnham's fight against USSR was because he never stopped believing! revenge for Comrade Leon!
@lain >Indeed Glenn Greenwald has speculated that Tucker is dangerously close to the line and, like Glenn Beck before him, advertiser pressure could tip over into taking him off airโฆ lol
@lain >Remember in 2017 when they gave Bill Nye the Science guy a Netflix show, with no rules on content, where theyโd talk about sex and swear and stuff I wish I could forget
augustus pugin ๐ (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 07:12:27 JST
augustus pugin ๐>Iโll tell you what the real emotion behind the Arab Spring was. Actually, Beavis can tell you better. โFire is cool,โ said Beavis. Fire is indeed cool. Americans were bored and needed some better CNN. They wanted to see shit burn. Shit indeed burned, and is still burning. Which was cool. So they got what they wanted. Not too different from the crowd in the Colosseum, just less honest about how they satisfy their very simple chimp/human needs.
you're telling me that Emma Goldman, convinced some Polish guy to kill the president, by filling his head with all kinds of radical nonsense? I can scarcely believe it