I think it could be argued that wearing ostentatious and expensive clothes is a type of self-aggrandisement. Wear something flashy into any local pub in country NSW and you'd get the exact same reaction as above.

What a fucking nightmare that would be

I use Goodonyou.eco to check out fashion and beauty brand's ethical standards. It's not perfect but it gives a pretty good 'quick view' of whether they're dog shit or not.

In terms of BIFL, other than my Sunbeam Coffee filter machine, we've taken to buying second hand or locally made furniture.

Oprah herself was picked for her role because she was explicitly a neo-liberal individualist who did not believe that structural systems where as relevant as how an individual 'feels'.

There's a quote that came up in a 1989 profile of Oprah in the New York Times,

“When Winfrey was hired for AM Chicago, the station manager was, according to her executive producer, Deborah Dimaio, delighted that he had managed to find someone who wasn't, an "Angela Davis type who'd pickett the station with a gun in her hair."

The number of Americans who do not understand this is frustratingly large.

James Lindsay, a prominent right-wing pundit, had submitted the aforementioned adaptation of Marx and Engels’s work and gotten it published. The essay’s publication, per Lindsay, is proof that the far right is basically the same as the far left: that it is, in his words, part of a “woke right” corrupting conservatism from within.

The author is did it because he wants to begin his version of the night of the long knives and purify the conservative movement.

His contract said he was the only person who could play Kang in any multiverse.

Yeah they're kind of the ultimate monopolization machine

The emotional reaction I get to these stories is hard to put into words. It's a mix of deep sadness and incandescent rage. I just can't imagine being in that position and not wanting to firebomb a politician's house.

My little girl had a very high fever the other night and we were really worried about her, so we called the nurse on call hotline who advised us to wait and go to the urgent care centre in the morning unless she got suddenly worse overnight, then to head to emergency. It was all stressful enough just worrying about how sick she was. I can't imagine how much worse it would be having to worry about paying for any of those services on top of that.

Believes might makes right? But I read the headline here that he's a fascist-murderer not a Fascist who is a murderer

Remember the partition of India? Remember the Nakba?

Telling 1 million people that they no longer have a home never ends well.

I feel like if it's made a big enough impression to have a mental health disorder named after it, it might not count.