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OMG Starship Troopers is so anti-american it's hilarious. Not the book, which Verhoeven considered juvenile fascist crap (correct). The so-called golden age of science fiction lol lol lol From what

The discovery of the existence of aliens is too often presented as some kind of potential moment of radical decentering of humanity, when in fact it's the exact opposite, a

Something not mentioned really in the death of Maradona is how football has so radically changed since the 80s. It's not so much the players – who have bulked up

Oh shut the fuck up space brohttps://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/elon-musk-mars-spacex-starship-colony-b1179088.html Instead of literally shooting excess cash into space, why don't we make Earth habitable for every

I still don't think people fully appreciate the mind-boggling magnitude of what took place at the White House: the GOP and the "conservative" legal establishment hosted a superspreader event in

In retrospect, Bush v Gore was the beginning of the end of American democracy. That fateful judicial decision made a mockery of the electoral process, enabled 9/11, Iraq, torture, John

Now that I've given up on living in the US, I can finally be honest with you people. You think you're special when you're just lucky. America is first and

So I was writing to a friend back home who was wondering what the hell is going on here in the mighty US of A. With copious French expletives I

this is the failure of America's oligarchic laissez-faire vs social democracyhttps://twitter.com/DLeonhardt/status/1277553289178071041 Social democracy - understood here as universal healthcare, workers' protections, generous benefi

It's finally beginning to sink in that the pandemic is not a three months inconvenience but a generational upheaval. I hope our elected officials and our governments take stock of

I am going to say something very controversial but motor "sports" are all bad and serve no socially beneficial purpose whatsoever. The myth that motor "sports" somehow drive engine improvements

People don't seem to understand that nothing is "getting back to normal" for a long while, a year or maybe two, if not longer. Any policy that addresses short term