This is a prolific poster! Showing posts since May 5, 2023.
once again saying: Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
Cape Verde defeats Argentina via a 2-3 loss in extra time
feels like a real landmark of impunity that major corporations are making federal crimes part of the interview process
every time you write overly defensively you should remember that you are pursuing a strategy of writing careful sentences specifically for people who demonstrably either won't or can't read them
well that was quick
"Bolsonaro has begun a twenty-seven-year prison sentence for his role in January 8, while the instigator of January 6 sits in the Oval Office...Should we in the United States try a Brazilian strategy?"
spoiler: I answer yes. me, for @bostonreview.bsky.social
www.bostonreview.net/articles/tru...
evergreen
CABO VERDE
CABO VERDE
CABO VERDE
political candidates should be tripping over themselves to run on this message (and we know why they aren't)
i'm not crying you're crying
seeing more of a particular brand of aggro post lately ("if you weren't a coward you'd be doing xyz thing that would have you dead or in jail" from posters who appear to themselves neither be dead or in jail). could just be feds/bots/trolls trying to entrap people on here but a PSA just in case
appears the US war apparatus is pivoting from general war crimes to a more openly genocidal strategy
imagine trying "I know I've been gone four months but I'll explain when I'm back" if you were a shift worker at Arby's
little to add to Platner discourse that others haven't said better. so i'll just say once again that the era of consequence free politics is no good and it is important to bring back shame
I am endlessly fascinated by right wingers' obsession with Sparta. I can understand an initial vibes based appeal I guess - like if you opened the first page of a book on timocracy and were twelve. but the thing about history is you can find out what happened to those guys
African, can confirm: every moment of your life has been spent during an atrocity somewhere, perpetuated or exacerbated by a larger number of countries and corporations than many care to admit.
old enough to remember a few years back, when a book called Elite Capture came out, and a few people asked its author incredulously why it went so hard in emphasizing that elite capture was not a special problem of identity politics in particular
"Another caller, who said she was sleeping in her home, said she heard someone say the n-word twice before she heard two or three gunshots."
"and another thing: i haven't lost the Mandate of Heaven. please don't put in the newspaper that i lost the Mandate of Heaven."
I'm not even rooting against Argentina at this point I am rooting against FIFA
good to see that public contrition and self-reflection is still a thing that happens
fun fact: Balogun in Yoruba basically means "general" or "commander" but most literally translates to "war dad"
Wonderwall as a victory song in the Azteca feels like a microaggression
historians can you confirm whether or not this is the original "t shirt raising a lot of questions answered by the t shirt"
brain poisoned, gutter misogyny. 1) that there is (thankfully) no norm for releasing the play-by-play of personal messages in cases like this and 2) the detail about being explicitly told not to come over and coming over anyway does not in any way complicate this story