Pisha [she/her, they/them] @ Pisha @hexbear.net

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No surprise there. Everyone involved with publishing Angela Nagle's book should face some serious questions about their political convictions. Also, I didn't know what Rockhill what's up to now, but I guess everyone who blames French academics for the failure of the left ends up in the same place eventually.

What a cute little rat! They're really the sweetest-looking pets.

This isn't propaganda, exactly, but it has the vibes of anti-Marxist misinformation (is that a thing?): Character mask. It's absolutely incomprehensible and reads like an essay by someone obsessed with the history and theory of Marxism in a weird, unproductive way (you know those types). Naturally, it has remained essentially unchanged for a decade. Bonus points if anyone can figure out what micro-ideology its author is pushing, because I really can't tell.

Do you have "yankee" in Norwegian? A lot of Americans don't like being called that for some reason

I never liked that article because its message seems to be that we should make it easier for trans women to stay in the closet. Also, there's an unduly focus on internet interactions and politically-minded undergraduate students – that's a method with which you can make any political movement look ridiculous and extreme. Like, I can't remember the last time I heard a strong anti-male opinion expressed in earnest (and I've never seen an academic feminist work in which a contemporary author was dismissed for being/seeming male). I feel like the liberal egalitarianism the author ends up advocating for is already the mainstream opinion on discrimination, and the idea that trans women should not transition and instead sublimate their desire into higher things is certainly also popular enough.

One part of the answer would certainly be material conditions. It's easy to support socialism when it has given you a job and a place to live, but since "reunification", vast parts of the economy were dismantled and the free market was unleashed, leading to widespread poverty, brain drain, all the good stuff. And it seems to me that poverty leading people to support fascism always wins out over having received an anti-fascist education, unfortunately. Still, the Left is more popular in the East than the West, but who knows if it's due to the legacy of socialism or just because of regional differences within the party.

For the record, it's in a song sung by a child worker who's happy about the one day off she has in a year. Her song then goes on to inspire someone to kill a king, so the line is not really as optimistic and complacent as it sounds like nowadays.

As someone who spends a questionable and unhealthy amount of time online, I unfortunately have to say that to me, Bluesky is the one that's the most entertaining and the most likely to have links to interesting articles right now. But it's still a corporate social media site which sucks in a million ways, so I can only recommend it in comparison to something owned by Facebook or the like. If anyone figures out how to spend time offline as effortlessly as online, please tell me

I agree. It's really not that absurd not to find the inner life of an alcoholic cop an interesting premise. And there are hardly any games where you play a witch, much less any set in the Alps. I feel like some people here have a bit of a gamer mindset when it comes to women not liking their treats.

They even explicitly banned Hebrew:

Berlin police confirmed to the Irish Independent that there is a restriction “in that speeches can only be made in German and English and at certain times also in Arabic, and that no exclamations or chants may be made in Hebrew or Gaelic”.

North Dakota: Annual income needed to live comfortably: $52,807

That's way lower than every other state. What's up with that?

One that extols the virtues of simple working-class politics against "identity politics" and "postmodernism"? Yes, I do!

Oops! All academics

But the document also says that poverty and war is bad! I've never ever heard an influential person utter such – dare I say it – leftist positions!

I believe we are on an irreversible trend towards more freedom and democracy, but that could change.

I know it's almost cheating to use Dan Quayle, but this quote really says something about the liberal imagination of history as a march of progress that sometimes just goes in the wrong direction for a bit.

Really want to do some sociological hermeneutics on the name "9mmBallpoint". Guess Americans have trouble keeping guns off their mind

This website, "The Insider", totally looks like some fed stuff. No masthead, no owners or editors listed anywhere, but an acknowledgement that they are funded by several EU grants. Also, they've literally got an international list of enemies titles "Fakesperts", which is comically incongruent with a serious journalistic outlet both in tone and in its violation of journalistic standards.

No president in our history has done worse.

What a statement. Forget the Native American genocide, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, dozens of wars of aggression the world over, or, on an individual level, raping women and owning slaves (sometimes both at once): that's nothing compared to riling up followers on social media.

Besides, these platitudes about how important stating the obvious truth is are the kind of propaganda any side can claim for themselves. Real lack of media analysis on display here.

Reminds of a German TERF who tried to advocate for "sex-based rights". But her English wasn't very good, so in her translation, it came out as "sexual intercourse-based rights". Nevertheless, she still got a number of votes because no one pays any attention to language if hate is on the menu.

Someone needs to do a socio-linguistic study on Internet German, because it's the most grating way of writing I can imagine. It sounds like someone talking to a bureaucrat, a police officer and their close friends all at the same time. It's a policy paper crossed with a teenager. "Should the instance be blocked, users would lose access to a great amount of content. And I'm just wondering to myself, how can you solve issues like that?" How can anyone, let alone a whole country, stand this style of text?