So calling out Oliver for not talking about capitalism is being media illiterate? lol
I don't know why JT from Second Thought continues to associate himself with these people.
Ran across this video, I initially thought it was a quote from Mao or one of the Kim’s, but when she said that the opposite of capitalism wasn’t socialism or communism, that’s when the alarm bells started going off. Are bourgeois feminists STILL pushing the whole “socialism is for old white men” thing?
Wendy Carlos on this track >A favorite sound-painting track of ours, Stanley also liked it, so much so that of all our preliminary music, this is the only cue he ever used. That was for the film’s teaser/trailer, which came out exactly one year before we were summoned to London to commence work in earnest. The sounds are Rachel’s versatile vocals with percussive and brassy synthesizer lines, all quite melodramatic.
The music in the trailer for The Shining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-tgsURVNrI
My 2 questions are:
Is the attached picture true?
And
What was the deal with what happened to the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee and the Night of the Murdered Poets?
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I completely agree with him and would go further to say that this "dirtbag left" shit sense of juvenile humour is past its use-by date. It was funny for a while a couple of years ago. All the jokes are old and it's time to move on.
New site tagline lol
Posted this in the other thread. Unbelievable people take this person seriously.
I don’t understand how anyone can take a person like this seriously.
Don't forget she was caught changing aspects of her life story like last year. lol
Don't forget the episode that was both right after the 2016 election AND Leonard Cohen's death where Kate McKinnon played Hallelujah dressed as Hillary.
thinking this guy was exaggerating his credentials
I never once thought he exaggerated his credentials, just that he was calling himself that despite hating a significant part of the country’s history and if he hates that, how much has his work been clouded by it even though he was taught in Cuba. As far as I’m concerned, he’s no better than Ayn Rand.
It's a mistake to think "if only this person read one more book they'd have better takes."
Passive aggressive statements won’t get you anywhere. It’s weird people are defending this guy.
Sorry, if you call yourself a historian of Cuba, but you post reactionary, anti-communist takes, than I'd argue your title and credentials have a right to be called into question especially if you defend SOSCuba protesters and bash "tankies" and PSL.
In this case, unfortunately not. I forgot to mention that he also bashes "tankies" and PSL too if you look it up on twitter.
He also defended those protesters from July 2021 that led to that whole SOSCuba thing, so sorry if I don’t take him seriously.
That’s quite literally what he wrote on his twitter page lol
Despite studying Marxist Historiography, he could have fooled me with the questionable statements he’s made on social media in the past. This isn’t me just bashing him out of the blue. Why are you defending him?
Ocasio-Cortez did not directly call Israel’s military action a genocide during a “Meet the Press” interview in late January as she sidestepped a question about whether using the term was going overboard.
“Some of your colleagues have accused the president of supporting genocide, including Rashida Tlaib. Do you agree with that word, genocide, that the president’s been supporting a genocide, or does that go too far?” host Kristen Welker asked her during the interview.
Ocasio-Cortez replied that the young people throughout the country were “appalled at the violence and the indiscriminate loss of life.” She cited a recent United Nations’ International Court of Justice decision that stated Israel has a responsibility to prevent a genocide.
“They are still determining whether it’s a genocide. Do you think that term is responsible given it’s still under investigation?” Welker pressed.
“I believe that they are. They’re still determining it. But in the interim ruling, the fact that they said there’s a responsibility to prevent it, the fact that this word is even in play, the fact that this word is even in our discourse, I think, demonstrates the mass inhumanity that Gazans are facing,” the congresswoman replied.