PhD Student (On Hiatus), Living on Wurundjeri land, He/him (Cis). Historical Materialist/Marxist. Gothic enthusiast.
Joined October 2013
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30 Aug 2023
Thoughts on Ivan Sen's magnificent film, Limbo, up on Overland. A very thoughtful, haunting film.
overland.org.au/2023/08/buri…
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So the US surrendered huh
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I love spending quality time with my kid. For example, today we played "please don't pull on that cord that was painted to the wall until you yanked it off" for several hours
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Jun 14
I finally read this fantastic essay by @MitchTherieau about how modern American fascism is all about being alone and crying and killing yourself;
thedriftmag.com/into-the-rig…
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Hey you daft, unwashed, flag shagging, Poorlene lovers our African Australian brothers are doing more to lift national pride than you unwashed inbreds.
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"And they should have all stood still, away from the net, and let us shoot goals until we won"
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The world's first trillionaire begged the world's most notorious pedophile to be allowed to come to his child rape island.
That's a matter of public record
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"I've always said that The Drow are very interesting people. Well, elves, actually. Not many people know that. They love to live underground. And their Spider Queen. Enormous. Bigger than anything you've ever seen before. Those folks love their big spiders."
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RT @DomainDead: I think the only discussions anyone should be having about Elon Musk is how he should die.
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Loving these balmy winter nights. I sure hope they aren't a harbinger for unspeakable immanent doom!
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I think the true “suicidal empathy” is this forced selective empathy for a tiny fraction of a much larger ecosystem that we all share. Nationalism and racism are pointless exercises in vanity meant to please yourself, not actually create a future.
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My brain came up with a good character last night: A 35 year-old guy called Trent who's a gaming insider who works at Bethesda, and all he does is chills in your lounge and smokes ice all day
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Do not ask me how my life is going right now that my mind concocted this (met a millennial Australian man the other day)
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he’s sitting in his discomfort and interrogating whether his actions were worth the consequences… a great many of u could take notes
Famous gorilla Kiyomasa falls into deep contemplation after spat with mate — caught on camera in Japanese zoo
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Some more useful terms for newbies:
Legitimation: When something is Legit
Reification: Archaic version of "Reefer Vacation"
Hegemony: Political control by the method of creating ornate garden hedges
Bonapartism: Lol, "Bona"
Jun 7
To all new Marxists, I know the jargon can be daunting. Here's a list of a few definitions to help you get started:
Idealism = doing Marxism in the most ideal way
Revisionism = Seeing the world in a new light
Opportunism = taking opportunities
Adventurism = doing adventures
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Everything that was once cheap and essential is now $4.50, and everything that was a bit of a treat is now $6
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We've been quiet but busy. Last year we heard that a rich backer had bought the NSN a compound and set about finding where it was. This story we worked on with @Sherryn_G is the result of that investigation. theage.com.au/national/rich-…
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The Shot just exposed Australia is manufacturing nitroglycerin, nitrocellulose & RDX for Israel's bombs.
These explosives are made in govt-owned plants, leased to Thales, trucked at night to ports, sent via US/Singapore - straight to Gaza & Lebanon.
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