Oprah has been charged with involuntary manslaughter
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Yea, it’s not great. I believe he had in mind a certain objective measure of societal development, in terms of the advancement of the productive forces. An aroma of racial science persists; but I don’t think he was exactly saying that certain peoples are biologically under-evolved.
A TikTok creator with ~100k followers blocked me because I left a random comment disagreeing with their take on Trump’s new portrait. Wasn’t even that interesting tbh, I just thought it was weird that they blocked me for having the gall to not clap and cheer just because they said Trump Bad.
It’s especially annoying because it’s the kind of person who constantly preaches open discourse as the solution to our problems - but in reality they only want that if it means their views get to suck up all the oxygen in the room.
Not likely while they have nukes.
At least Putin is a liberal. One could make a coherent argument that Putin belongs in the category, the same as any other liberal world leader. But objectively Mao does not belong in that same category.
This is the original song covered by more modern musical acts including Ella Fitzgerald, Sublime, and Lana Del Ray
It used to be as cheap as $290?! Wtf
* ʟᴀᴛᴇꜱᴛ ᴛʜᴀᴀᴅ.
It’s the same wordplay as “made with 100% real cheese” where the 100% describes real, ie real cheese is involved somewhere in the process, but not all of the cheese in the product is real. But the average person will read it as meaning that there is no “fake” (non-dairy) cheese.
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[Andor S2 E1-9 spoilers] Liberals will bend over backwards to avoid understanding concepts contrary to liberalism
(hexbear.net)
Spoilers below
: https://www.reddit.com/r/andor/comments/1jwdgwg/is_andor_a_leftist_show/mmi1lui/
Reddit comment text (spoilers)
I keep seeing leftists/progressives/Marxists/whatever praise this show while being unable to to engage in the ruthless, pragmatic sacrifices that Andor shows are necessary to fight fascism.
Part of the show is the importance of throwing people under the bus for the greater good. The first thing we ever see Cassian do is shoot a fellow Rebel. The people who see every compromise as a betrayal and every inability to respond to global crisis as a genocide would never be able to do this. They're willing to support the revolution when they picture themselves as Cassian but are they willing to picture themselves as Kreegyr?
Furthermore, all the people on "Team Luthen" seem deliberately designed to be "problematic." Maarva kidnapped an indigenous-coded kid, gave him new name, and assimilated him to her culture. Luthen sells the cultural artifacts from the victims of the Empire. Gorn and Kino are repentant fascists or fascist collaborators. Tay Kolma is a banker. Davo Sculdun is a mobster.
Saw Gerrera is so paralyzed by ideological purity that he just sits around in his cave, underfunded, not really accomplishing anything. Team Luthen, on the other hand, welcomes anyone who hates the Empire regardless of their ideologies or motivations so they actually get things done.
The ultimate theme of Andor is that if you want to fight fascism, don't expect to remain morally pure. Don't get picky about who you work with or where you get your money from. And don't expect to save everyone.
I won’t exaggerate the leftist content of Andor. It’s not an explicitly Marxist show. But there are many themes which line up excellently with Marxist themes and historical events; for example, the writer Tony Gilroy confirming that young Stalin inspired certain events and characters.
I’m excited to recommend this show to my non-leftist family to expose them to some less liberal thought with a focus on anti-imperialism. But some comments in the thread remind me how easily liberalism accommodates, and subordinates, other ways of thought into the liberal world view without being undermined.
The fact that revolution is messy doesn’t knock revolutionaries down to the same level as fascists. There can be no comparison between imperial violence and anti imperial violence, nor between privilege and oppression.
The loss of Kreegyr was a tragedy because it was predictable yet unavoidable, like a slow moving train wreck. It’s not because revolutionaries are inherently bloodthirsty and callous by nature. Luthen himself may be, but he is also correct in identifying the necessity of the action within the context of war.
Moreover Saw Guerrera was correct to refuse alliance with liberals and centrists. Mere ideological purity was not his concern. He said it himself: those organizations lacked “clarity of purpose.” They refused or were unable to formulate a theory of the struggle and were therefore unreliable, if not dangerous, as allies. History shows this to be the correct stance to take with respect to social democracy and left liberalism.
Nitpick, but Tallinn has two n’s