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puritanism is all about one's internal moral state, the inevitability of sinfulness, & competitiveness, where - to put it cynically - heroic white males compete over who's best because they

Required reading for everyone who feels that "anti-imperialist principles" or realpolitik oblige them to support the Assad regime. You're just validating systematic industrial-scale rape, torture, and murder as a means

According to pretty much every publisher I know Jeff Bezos is personally responsible for the destruction of the book industry. They can no longer pay most authors anything as it

my wife grew up in the Soviet Union and when we tried to watch .@BBCNews for a while, we had to give up because it reminded her too much of

The first major activist movement in the US after independence were the Abolitionists & I wonder sometimes if they set the tone for US activism - it's peculiar characteristic puritanism

for purposes of clarification, I didn't say the cop solidarity gestures were sincere (certainly all of them weren't), I just think it doesn't matter much since either way, this kind

we're starting to recognize that the more directly your work benefits others, the less you're paid & worse you're treated. With the pandemic, some also these 'essential' or "front-line' workers

so let's get the story straight: apparently, I am a secret social democrat who for some reason decided to publicly masquerade as an anarchist, a member of a semi-criminalised political

Remember that image when some pacifist asks "what would Jesus do?" as a way of convincing you not to take militant direct action against some injusticehttps://twitter.com/BRAVENEWEUROPE1/status/1249676794447433728 You can't throw money

I've said it before, I'll say it again. Corporate bureaucracies can't organise space exploration. Big state bureaucracies could because they were willing to put up with weirdos 1/https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/03/spacex_starship_cr

the Russians who started it all were biocosmic immortalists who want to achieve eternal life or even bring back all the dead oppressed peasants & proletarians (& therefore needed Mars,