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If any group in our community needs armed protection they must get it and it must be done by the state and democratically controlled. Any (ANY!) form of sectarian or ethnic militia is a road to madness imho. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Minns government ‘actively’ considering if Jewish security group should be armed after Bondi attack
NSW premier also announces police will carry long-arm rifles at major New Year’s Eve event in Sydney
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 10:04 AM
If any group in our community needs armed protection they must get it and it must be done by the state and democratically controlled. Any (ANY!) form of sectarian or ethnic militia is a road to madness imho. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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No one is reading long form.
The emergence of the post-literacy world is accompanied by the rise of Medieval Peasant Brain, a mental soup of superstition and magical thinking... We see this most clearly in the mainstreaming of xenophobia, conspiracies, quack medicines, and naked fascism.
The emergence of the post-literacy world is accompanied by the rise of Medieval Peasant Brain, a mental soup of superstition and magical thinking... We see this most clearly in the mainstreaming of xenophobia, conspiracies, quack medicines, and naked fascism.
December 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
No one is reading long form.
The emergence of the post-literacy world is accompanied by the rise of Medieval Peasant Brain, a mental soup of superstition and magical thinking... We see this most clearly in the mainstreaming of xenophobia, conspiracies, quack medicines, and naked fascism.
The emergence of the post-literacy world is accompanied by the rise of Medieval Peasant Brain, a mental soup of superstition and magical thinking... We see this most clearly in the mainstreaming of xenophobia, conspiracies, quack medicines, and naked fascism.
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If supply is supposed to lower prices, why are rents rising with empty units?
Because in a financialized housing market, homes and rent rolls are used as collateral, so vacancy can pay and prices stay high. That’s why adding supply alone doesn’t drop prices.
Full video: youtu.be/4-TuZ6VdeXY
Because in a financialized housing market, homes and rent rolls are used as collateral, so vacancy can pay and prices stay high. That’s why adding supply alone doesn’t drop prices.
Full video: youtu.be/4-TuZ6VdeXY
December 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
If supply is supposed to lower prices, why are rents rising with empty units?
Because in a financialized housing market, homes and rent rolls are used as collateral, so vacancy can pay and prices stay high. That’s why adding supply alone doesn’t drop prices.
Full video: youtu.be/4-TuZ6VdeXY
Because in a financialized housing market, homes and rent rolls are used as collateral, so vacancy can pay and prices stay high. That’s why adding supply alone doesn’t drop prices.
Full video: youtu.be/4-TuZ6VdeXY
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The offer made to women in the enticement to become trad wives is the same as the offer made to citizens in the enticement to embrace authoritarianism: give up. Abandon the aspiration to self rule. It’s imprisonment recast as rest and relief.
A gender lens remains one of the best ways to understand far right authoritarian regimes. Male order is imposed through a family-like structure, with women subservient and children taught that fear is the price of belonging www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why strongmen rely on women at home
Fascist regimes pushed narratives of domestic bliss, yet relied on women’s unpaid labor. In the US today, ‘womanosphere’ influencers promote the same fantasies
www.theguardian.com
September 22, 2025 at 1:11 AM
The offer made to women in the enticement to become trad wives is the same as the offer made to citizens in the enticement to embrace authoritarianism: give up. Abandon the aspiration to self rule. It’s imprisonment recast as rest and relief.
August 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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I've been talking about this for years but the fossil fuel industry has five key narratives, they haven't changed much in decades, and they just shift between them/combine them depending on what is happening in the world. Made a quick and dirty flow chart to illustrate it:
July 1, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I've been talking about this for years but the fossil fuel industry has five key narratives, they haven't changed much in decades, and they just shift between them/combine them depending on what is happening in the world. Made a quick and dirty flow chart to illustrate it:
Chaser:
Mohammed El-Kurd’s guide to responding to the most ridiculous anti-Palestinian smears.
How to Answer the Stupidest Questions About Palestinians
A guide to fielding even the most ridiculous anti-Palestinian smears.
www.thenation.com
July 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Chaser:
Mohammed El-Kurd: A drone is one thing, but a trope—a trope is unacceptable.
July 1, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Mohammed El-Kurd: A drone is one thing, but a trope—a trope is unacceptable.
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Western media enabling Gaza genocide and rewriting history, say experts - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/experts-say-western-media-enabling-gaza-genocide-and-rewriting-history
Western media enabling Gaza genocide and rewriting history, say experts
Scholars and journalists say Western media’s refusal to confront Israeli war crimes is a form of genocide denial, reinforcing impunity
www.middleeasteye.net
June 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Western media enabling Gaza genocide and rewriting history, say experts - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/experts-say-western-media-enabling-gaza-genocide-and-rewriting-history
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Every day, starving Palestinians in Gaza have no choice but to try to get food for their families, knowing full well it’s a trap and they’re likely to be murdered. This bait-and-switch starvation/extermination move will be studied for decades, after it can’t matter. Unforgivable.
June 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Every day, starving Palestinians in Gaza have no choice but to try to get food for their families, knowing full well it’s a trap and they’re likely to be murdered. This bait-and-switch starvation/extermination move will be studied for decades, after it can’t matter. Unforgivable.
Fantastic resource
Hi everyone, I'm excited to announce this new project: a website dedicated to research and data on imperialism and inequality. You're going to love this...
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Global Inequality - Global Inequality
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June 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Fantastic resource
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Just a reminder that the West destroyed Iran’s progressive democracy in 1953, deposing a leader beloved of the people, and installed a dictatorship in his place. The US and UK have been terrorising that country for as long as any of us have been alive. It’s sick.
June 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Just a reminder that the West destroyed Iran’s progressive democracy in 1953, deposing a leader beloved of the people, and installed a dictatorship in his place. The US and UK have been terrorising that country for as long as any of us have been alive. It’s sick.
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I have come to expect this sort of framing from centrists, and occasionally those further on the left. It is a willful refusal to correctly locate the agents of violence.
Latest @theintercept.com on pathetic criticisms of LA protesters: theintercept.com/2025/06/09/l...
Latest @theintercept.com on pathetic criticisms of LA protesters: theintercept.com/2025/06/09/l...
LA Protesters Aren’t Inviting Violent Authoritarianism, They’re Mobilizing to Stop It
Adam Schiff and centrist concern trolls have it completely backward: Trump’s immigration crackdown is the source of pervasive violence.
theintercept.com
June 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I have come to expect this sort of framing from centrists, and occasionally those further on the left. It is a willful refusal to correctly locate the agents of violence.
Latest @theintercept.com on pathetic criticisms of LA protesters: theintercept.com/2025/06/09/l...
Latest @theintercept.com on pathetic criticisms of LA protesters: theintercept.com/2025/06/09/l...
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Gaza is not an anomaly. It is a mirror. A reflection of our world as it really is today. And for many, a preview of what is to come.
mondoweiss.net/2025/05/huma...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2025/05/huma...
#Palestine #Israel
Humanity is being buried in Gaza. We must rise up to save our collective future.
Gaza is not an anomaly. It is a mirror. A reflection of our world as it really is today. And for many, a preview of what is to come.
mondoweiss.net
May 28, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Gaza is not an anomaly. It is a mirror. A reflection of our world as it really is today. And for many, a preview of what is to come.
mondoweiss.net/2025/05/huma...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2025/05/huma...
#Palestine #Israel
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bluesky being closed to conservative ideas is good because there's no such thing as a conservative idea
May 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
bluesky being closed to conservative ideas is good because there's no such thing as a conservative idea
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What's the deal with this clown Jordan Peterson, is he some sort of clown or something
May 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
What's the deal with this clown Jordan Peterson, is he some sort of clown or something
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The U.S. is spreading the narrative of a false genocide in South Africa while actively funding and supporting Israel as it carries out a real genocide in Gaza—one that international human rights organizations have repeatedly condemned.
May 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
The U.S. is spreading the narrative of a false genocide in South Africa while actively funding and supporting Israel as it carries out a real genocide in Gaza—one that international human rights organizations have repeatedly condemned.
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Imagine how much more effective Western labour unions would be if they coordinated actions with workers in the global South who are inserted into their supply chains and who provide so much of the labour that ends up in Western output.
May 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Imagine how much more effective Western labour unions would be if they coordinated actions with workers in the global South who are inserted into their supply chains and who provide so much of the labour that ends up in Western output.
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The fact that the White House is talking about white genocide in South Africa should chill you to the bone.
May 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
The fact that the White House is talking about white genocide in South Africa should chill you to the bone.
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And there you have it: Israel has confessed, indeed heralded, its intent to complete the Gazan genocide. And the EU? Mrs von der Leyen? Our great and good leaders? They are consenting through a studied silence. 80 yrs after its defeat, Nazism in back. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says
Bezalel Smotrich says Palestinians will ‘leave in great numbers to third countries’, raising fears of ethnic cleansing
www.theguardian.com
May 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
And there you have it: Israel has confessed, indeed heralded, its intent to complete the Gazan genocide. And the EU? Mrs von der Leyen? Our great and good leaders? They are consenting through a studied silence. 80 yrs after its defeat, Nazism in back. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
‘Housing affordability’ should never be used to describe the so-called concerns of these parasites.
“Even as a serial property investor, Mr Cox is concerned about housing affordability and the implications for future generations.”
“Even as a serial property investor, Mr Cox is concerned about housing affordability and the implications for future generations.”
May 2, 2025 at 2:36 AM
‘Housing affordability’ should never be used to describe the so-called concerns of these parasites.
“Even as a serial property investor, Mr Cox is concerned about housing affordability and the implications for future generations.”
“Even as a serial property investor, Mr Cox is concerned about housing affordability and the implications for future generations.”
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Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching.
Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.
Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.
April 30, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching.
Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.
Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.
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Australia has a media where a Nazi protest leads to multiple articles wondering if they are making a good point.
FFS.
FFS.
April 28, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Australia has a media where a Nazi protest leads to multiple articles wondering if they are making a good point.
FFS.
FFS.