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mfw the workers want worker control in their socialist revolution (I am firing my socialist people's cannons at them)

Dino Grandi's successful vote ousts Mussolini in a historic session of the Grand Council of Fascism, experts say it's a massive win for Italian democracy

People who post AI slop should be treated the same as people who vote for Trump, say the N-word, and go into public crowded places maskless.

Even though Tyrell is a slave-owner and essentially a creator of a corrupt system, Batty’s method of killing him is framed as monstrous and atavistic. This choice aligns with the societal narrative because it frames the slave’s rebellion not as a struggle for rights, but as a beastly outburst of uncontrollable rage.

If Batty had let Deckard drop off the roof, the audience would likely view him as a cold, irredeemable villain. He is forced to perform an act of supreme, almost superhuman forgiveness to earn the audience's empathy. This is the ultimate proof of his othering: Deckard is allowed to be a flawed, brutal, morally compromised human, but Batty must become a transcendent, mythical martyr just to be deemed worthy of grief.

Furthermore, his speech does not describe the brutal, mechanistic reality of being a slave-soldier. Instead, he speaks of "attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion" and "C-beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate." This language is mythopoetic. It transforms his trauma into an exotic, mystical incantation. Much like the stereotypical depiction of a native chieftain recounting his tribe's lore to a white colonizer, Batty’s experiences are presented as beautiful but ultimately incomprehensible to the "civilized" protagonist. He is performing the role of the mystical Other, turning his mechanized enslavement into an exotic fairy tale that the audience is primed to consume as poetry.

In the climax, Batty strips down to minimal clothing, howls like a wolf, hunts his prey through a ruined landscape, and pushes a nail through his own hand. While traditionally read as Christological imagery, it also mirrors the tropes of shamanic endurance rituals—bodily mortification used to achieve a higher spiritual state. He ceases to be a futuristic combat soldier and regresses into an atavistic, tribal figure.

The poet stepped over to a window overlooking the square. He sat on the windowsill. He gazed out the window for a long time. People were walking across the square. In twenty minutes an entire eternity passed. Finally, in the distance, a soft approaching rumble was heard. The tsar’s automobile slowed and stopped at the entrance.

Having arrived from his private apartment on Vasilyevsky Island, the small squealing little freak on short crooked legs, waddling like a duck, Uritsky ran into the entrance of the palace. It is said that Uritsky liked to boast about the number of death sentences he signed. How many was he supposed to sign today? But the young man in the leather jacket stood up. And at the moment when the chief of the extraordinary commission was scuttling on his short little legs toward the elevator, from six paces a shot rang out at Uritsky. Leonid Kannegiser killed Uritsky on the spot.

At the beginning of the eleventh hour of the morning on August 30, a handsome twenty-year-old young man “of bourgeois origin,” a Jew by nationality, left an apartment on Saperny Lane in Petersburg, dressed in a leather jacket. The young poet Leonid Kannegiser got on his bicycle and rode toward the square of the Winter Palace. In front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where Uritsky usually arrived, Kannegiser stopped, got off his bicycle, and entered that entrance of the semicircular palace to which Uritsky always drove up.

— Is Comrade Uritsky receiving? — the young man asked the old doorman from tsarist times.

— Has not arrived yet, sir, — the doorman replied.

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Harry Frankfurt

War became increasingly abstract with the development of long-range weapons such as artillery and later military aircraft. Artillery operators do not directly experience the damage caused by exploding shells, and bomber crews cannot directly witness the destruction caused by weapons such as the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The notion that unmanned aerial vehicles introduced this abstraction is inaccurate. In contemporary conflicts, Ukrainians sometimes label Russian artillery operators as war criminals, but such accusations overlook the distinction between the remote operation of destructive weapons and the direct, personal execution of civilians, as occurred in Bucha.

Thus spoke Pointemorte

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A whole lot of NOTHING will happen tonight, never to happen again. I don’t want ANYTHING to happen, and it probably WON'T. However, now that we have Complete and Total NOTHING, where THE SAME AS ALWAYS minds prevail, maybe NOTHING can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most NOTHING BURGER moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally REMAIN IN PLACE. God Bless BENJAMIN NETANYAHU!

after the revolution all the indie devs will go to the coal mines where they belong

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foundation, asimov

It was pure fluke that 8 Mile was my first cinema experience. It was the big film at the time. If it had been Legally Blonde, I’d have enjoyed it but the impact wouldn’t have been the same. I wouldn’t have ended up a pink-clad, blond lawyer. Instead, discovering Eminem was the right thing for me at just the right time. To this day, when I’m cleaning my house, I still rap his music inside my head, sometimes in Yiddish.

The devil has taken over.

Happy Easter.

Trump was a Presbyterian until 2020, when he abruptly declared he wasn’t. God knows what he is now.

Any other president saying “Praise be to Allah” on Easter would cause a mass aneurysm among Republicans. What a time to be alive. Imagine if it was Obama ? Wearing a tan suit, eating a hotdog with Dijon mustard while he said it…

Barack Hussein Obama...

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In his time essentially everyone despised homosexuals. Pretty much everyone. Even in the 1980's in my hometown that would have been a dangerous thing to be.

If you are going to hate people who were anti-gay in the 1980's or earlier in history you better pack a lunch. That was everyone; communists, Republicans, Democrats, men, women, dogs, cats... Schools, the Government, the military, your best friends Mom, psychiatrists, all news media...

You must be very young to not know that. Or you are an old fool who thinks you can re-write history.

you got the wrong degree, idiot!!! arts and humanities? how will that help you exploit and destroy?!? you're a low value jester!

On 2 April, Trump made a speech addressing the nation, in which he said that the strikes have "dramatically curtailed" Iranian missile and drone systems, and added that the attacks on Iran will escalate over the next two to three weeks to "bring them back to the Stone Ages, where they belong."

I chortled... In my pants

The course of human history is currently being shaped by little more than the death spiral between an essentially sociopathic liberalism, dedicated to no principle other than meritocracy - and so looking just as threadbare and nasty as that principle itself - and the politics of rage and grievance being sold to meritocracy's losers by right-wing political entrepreneurs. The latter exploiting both the market-forged shallowness of the current era and the toxic and malevolent force of patriotic identity - something whose defining purpose has always been to produce a class of cannon fodder, willing to sacrifice their lives one way or another... in a trench, in a mine or factory... in service of institutions invented to serve and empower their 'betters'.

That giant leap for mankind didn't really prove to be that giant - great for the aerospace industry in Southern California perhaps (how much is this jaunt costing the U.S. taxpayer?) Interestingly, when Armstrong and co did their lunar thing, the USA was deeply mired in Vietnam and now, here we are over half a century later about to get bogged down in yet another forever war. Strikes me as a colossal waste of time, expertise and aluminum. When I want a trip to the moon, I'll just watch Wallace and Gromit

Keeping protoplasmic meatbags alive in a vacuum shot through with violent, ineluctable radiation against which there's never really enough shielding, zero-or-near-g the while hollowing out the animal's bones and doing what's now known to be all manner of irreversible physiological damage, is a insupportable waste, proximately, of the increasingly scarce resources available for extraterrestrial research and, more broadly, of the substance of an Earth awash in a score of different flavors of chaos. Grow up.

Utter nonsense. When you set foot on the surface of a lifeless orb, that foot of yours is removed by, what, 4 cm of insulation, and by the technosociopolitical force of however many millions of £€¥$ the insulation cost, from both the body on which you stand and the planet that sent you there. To do a job a robot could do -- and I hear there's this great new thing called "artificial intelligence" that supposedly works a treat for this sort of exploratory/experimental stuff, especially when attached to semiautonomous mechanisms -- in a place where only a robot can or ever will survive in any meaningful sense of the word.

Can't wait to see that Coalition of the Willing composed of joint forces from Saudi, Bahrain, Kuwait, Dubai, Israel, and the U.S. storm the shores of Iran!

Oh wait - we're only sending the Americans?

If only the Herbertists had outmanoeuvred the Montegnards, we would be living in the Eternal Republic of True Virtue right now.

Dude knew they were coming for him. Acting casual on the toilet is a surprising common tactic for wanted individuals. When I'm entering a home for someone, they know I'm there and they know why. I wouldn't let him wipe either.

People would start eating their neighbors if you asked them to eat one more serving of beans and maybe a piece of broccoli

Not to go all Marcus Aurelius on you or anything but if your fears are keeping you from living life, I’m afraid you are already dead

The officers activated their light and sound signals, giving the tractor driver a clear signal to stop. However, he continued driving across the field and did not intend to stop. At one point, one of the officers got out of the police car and ran into the field to stop the driver. When the 47 year old man saw the officer signaling him with his hand to stop, he accelerated and tried to run him over. The officer jumped aside. He then jumped into the vehicle from the rear of the tractor and, after restraining the driver, stopped the vehicle. The man did not give up and struck the officer in the head and tried to break free. The officers subdued and detained him. Already during the detention, they could smell alcohol on him. A sobriety test showed that he had nearly 3 per mille of alcohol in his system. Additionally, it turned out that he did not have a driving license, and the agricultural tractor he was driving did not have valid technical inspection certification.

On Friday (27 March) at around 5:40 p.m., the duty officer of the police unit in Łosice received information about a man driving an agricultural tractor without having the required authorization. Police officers immediately intervened and, while on their way to the scene, on a public road in one of the villages in the Olszanka municipality, they noticed an Ursus tractor whose driver, upon seeing the police car, left the road and drove onto nearby fields.

Imagine denying that Jerusalem is the capital of the Jews. What a world.

Jerusalem is the capital for the simple reason that all the government agencies and buildings are there. People may WISH that Tel Aviv were the capital, but it’s not.

They will read smut in public and call out porn addicts online. Check the mirror, you can't even wait to get home to enjoy your smut.

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Can we normalize teaching people who are asking for certain natural things to be curtailed as an act of 'normalization', which, by the way, they want enacted simply to suit their immediate visual preferences, that NATURE BELONGS IN NATURE. No more Tide pods, Toilet duck, period-soaked tissue, big processed-diet dumps in the jaxx for you Jacinta, if the dog can't dump in the sea once in its natural life.

No more growling, kitten. Alpha needs to smoke crack with the pack

Poop. It goes without saying that fostering kittens can be a crappy at times

Men spending their earnings on capital goods and a family. Women spending it on cosmetics, clothes, and bullsh!t.

High grades in Freemasonry...

Imperialism is when one really evil guy can single-handedly transform the western democratic (((nationstate))) into a “fascist techno feudal late stage capitalistic” hellhole every 4 years until wholesome antifascist fighters vote the good guys back in. Thus every election is LIFE or DEATH for MILLIONS of people. Yes, this is a stable system and yes we will go to brunch.