Pinned
Whether I'll ever write again remains uncertain, but meanwhile I'm seeing where this other road takes me.
Roderic Day
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Roderic Day
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"You can't resist for very long a truth you discover for yourself."
- "During his 22 years in an Israeli prison, [Sinwar] became fluent in Hebrew and studied the history of the Israeli state, its political culture, and its intelligence and military apparatus. He translated by hand the memoirs of several former heads of the Israeli Shin Bet."
- Perfect summary of the terrible, idiotic changes Denis Villeneuve made to "Arrival" (2016) in comparison to the original short story.
- The "Stranger Things" fanbase realizing that the star of their "let's pin a Nazi concentration camp on the Russians" show is actually a shithead:
- No matter if you're passionate about cooking or basketball or videogames, if you pursue your passion thoughtfully and honestly enough, you eventually develop a serious awareness that capitalism is making everything worse for the sake of profit.
- I don't understand how someone who *knows* that U.S. cops plant guns and drugs on Black people cannot understand that the U.S. does the exact same thing when it manufactures accusations against China, Cuba, the Soviet Union, etc.
- I'm gonna make a thread about key resources that I encountered as I researched Xinjiang/Uyghur accusations. No particular order, maybe vaguely chronological. This documentary critique by Sun Feiyang was the first, flipping the BBC narrative on its head.
- Xi Jinping: "We're a Marxist party doing Marxism. Here's a book about our plans." Westies: "Asians are simply inscrutable." Xi Jinping: *sips tea twice* Westies: "This is a *classic* veiled threat. China's next move towards world domination will harness water as a weapon."
- Snapshots of extraterrestrial civilizations in Soviet and American films. I wonder if this tells us something about how these nations saw (and see) the world beyond their borders? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 h/t @kiranopal_
Meghan Markle's 'wellness' coffee tied to Chinese state accused of genocide trib.al/B85x0rX- Americans have - absurd police budgets - police that kill with impunity - policemen as powerful bureaucrats - per-capita imprisonment records - police-themed culture but only use the term "police state" in anticommunist propaganda. They can't even describe their own reality.
- Marx: Journalist. Lenin: Legal assistant. Mao: Librarian. Castro: Lawyer. Ho: Journalist. Cabral: Agricultural engineer. Rodney: Historian. Xi: Chemical engineer. Americans: "If you're not a muscly-man wearing a hard-hat and/or living in poverty you can't talk about communism!"
