Ember Bite Aegle

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18+🔞. Brony fanfic author and dangerous left-wing radical. Mental health, politics, and repressed longings. Not a university professor.

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The perception of an inevitable fascist victory in Europe is largely just the wishcasting of mainstream media publications saying that fascist victory is inevitable. See how the BBC spins National Rally's loss.

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Long election campaigns also put the emphasis, over and over again, ON THE ELECTION rather than on governing: like voting is all we as citizens have to do; like winning is the most important quality in a candidate. GOVERNING. The thing is GOVERNING. Elections should be a means of accountability+

Long elections waste immense amounts of money. they harass potential voters into apathy. They play into the horse-race, scandal-fed view of politics that feeds deeply unserious media coverage. They NOT INCIDENTALLY make it difficult/impossible for campaigns to deal with last-minute surprises.

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Quintessential Blair

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An article in the peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet, using the conservative estimate of 4 indirect deaths in Gaza for every one direct death (in other conflicts it’s been 3-15x), calculates that Israel has killed approximately 186,000 Palestinians. That is 8% of the population of Gaza.

Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essentialwww.thelancet.com By June 19, 2024, 37 396 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli invasion in October, 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, as reported by the UN Offi...

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When the France election results are good

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Woo! Go France, go! 🇫🇷

JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:

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Watch SCAVENGERS REIGN. Watch CAROL AND THE END OF THE WORLD. Watch BLUE EYE SAMURAI. Watch PLUTO. Netflix needs to understand that *original animated series for YA/adults* have value beyond raunchy comedy. There IS an audience for it. They’ll keep canceling them unless they see those numbers.

Realizing that I've lost my sense of smell to covid. Sigh. At least I still have taste. For now.

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I know the latest NZ election outcome was less than good, but jesus.

The etymology online dictionary's entry on the etymology of the word "bigot" is a surprisingly wild ride. www.etymonline.com/word/bigot#e...

bigot | Etymology of bigot by etymonlinewww.etymonline.com "sanctimonious person, religious hypocrite," from French bigot (12c.), which is of… See origin and meaning of bigot.

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Burst out laughing at this post, nearly dropped my phone

Thinking about Jekyll and Hyde and how it relates to cancel culture.

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

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since reddit is dying i want to share my favourite post about one of my favourite guys ever. i never really posted on reddit, just read stuff, but this post is now behind a locked wall. alt text to follow in a thread since it’s too long to fit in the alt text on the image

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oh you just found out about a horrifying secret? oh ha ha wow. ive actually known about that awful shit for a while, for years actually. i did Not tell anyone or say anything.

Rewatching Gladiator for the first time in over a decade. If the opening battle scene were shot today it would be at night and you wouldn't be able to see a damn thing, and also it would be all bad cgi.

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Even a tepid choice can be a momentous change when the alternative is evil

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The scary bit is when you realize that Bond villains were invented by Ian Fleming—former journalist, secretary to the Chief of Naval Intelligence during WW2, and UPPER CLASS NOB WHO KNEW THESE PEOPLE IRL. (By "these people" I mean rich entitled bastards with hench-thugs.)

if we ever thought Bond villainy was exaggerated, the last few years have shown us it is totally realistic

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turns out the villain monologue is actually incredibly realistic

Everyone watching any Bond movie: this is utterly unrealistic, no one would stand there and say exactly how they were going to do some awful thing, the Incredibles even made a joke about monologuing. Everyone experiencing reality: Oh. Oh, I see.

Peasants behaving well will never stop kings from behaving badly.

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Loony toon ass fucking van

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it ain't easy bein a litch nowadays (1/3)

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All US citizens should interrogate the way we are propaganzied to support militarism abroad.

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A WARRIOR FEARS NOTHING, NOT EVEN ASKING FOR HELP.

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It’s interesting that American, British, French and many other countries have politics that are so different and yet share a common link that centrists really aren’t that concerned about far right fascists taking over

Explosive reporting in Le Monde confirms what was apparent all week: Macron resisted the emergence of anti-far-right front after round 1. His PM, Attal, forced it as a fait accompli, & pressured for drop outs to block RN. Even then, Macron made some phone calls to undercut it.

Législatives 2024 : entre l’Elysée et Matignon, tensions sur le front républicainwww.lemonde.fr L’attitude à tenir face à la montée de l’extrême droite a profondément divisé Emmanuel Macron et Gabriel Attal. Leurs stratégies, parfois contraires, se sont parasitées avant le second tour des électi...

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By Sam Pink.

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Saw an AI fireworks show and a guy lost all 7 fingers on one hand.

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So hey, here's a thing I don't think a lot of folks know: That whole "Patient Zero" thing? The French-Canadian airhost who supposedly spread HIV all over America? That's not real. That's not what happened or how it happened.

Starting to fear that after dodging it for four years I may have finally caught covid.

Leaving my front door unlocked while I'm sick, partly so that if I suddenly die my friends will be able to get in when they notice I'm gone, but mainly to make things easier for burglars.