Like people will be like this guy but fail to make the connection that the current Vietnamese state is literally the north Vietnamese government.
idk that he's failing to make that connection, he's literally flying the flag of South Vietnam compradors behind him talking about 'all those who lost their lives fleeing oppression in Vietnam'. it's a defeated comprador recuperation of Liberation Day, journey to freedom
My relationship to the books is a kinda complicated. I was hooked as a teen, but feel a lot more ambivalent after a re-read because of the constant sexist garbage I spotted when I was more mature. Like, I'm kinda pissed that teen me was tricked into thinking the weird gender essentialism was a normal, healthy way for men and women to think about each other and themselves, and every other female character is a sexist stereotype.
me irl
imagine writing a 10k word literary critique of that gender essentialism when you were a teen and not once thinking that the essentialism was problematic, but just a faithful re-creation of the source myths. or even once considering the eurocentrist/colonial depictions of the non-whites. couldn't be me
it's a good hate-read. imagine wandering through the psycho-sexual power fantasy of a dyed-in-the-wool randian
but wizard bdsm pet play is a central part of the storyline of the first book (and some/most of the ones after that) which your comment got me thinking about.
Instead of admitting uncertainty
tech journalists stop assigning agency to the probability-based slop generator [Challenge: IMPOSSIBLE]
They weren't talking about Trump! They were talking about other countries impacted by the tariffs.
An issue of the New York Times published on September 10, 1906, chronicled the result:
“Several thousand persons took the subway, the elevated and the surface cars to the New York Zoological Park in the Bronx yesterday, and there watched Ota Benga, the bushman, who has been put by the management on exhibition there in the monkey cage.
The bushman didn't seemed (sic) to mind it, and there could be no doubt that to the majority the joint man and monkey exhibition was the most interesting sight in the Bronx park. Over and over again, the crowd laughed at him. If he wonders why he does not show it.”
In case you think that this is unfairly judging the paper by the standards of today:
...a group of black clergymen took obvious and immediate offence to this display.
Led by James H. Gordon, the group called for an immediate end to Benga’s incarceration.
need to shop his gun on the top left one
I can't remember how long he was on the run before they got him. a few days.
Michael Reinoehl, RIP
DEA handles scheduling and is in the DOJ I think?
objectively the moderate wing of fascism