Every day I learn a new reason to hate this country. Image
Most people know about Canada inventing multiculturalism and spreading our shitty musicians, but there's a whole hidden substrate of ways we've made the world worse. Image
And, while I'm at it, reposting this from the Telegram where I quoted a (since changed 🤔) wiki article explaining how Canada is responsible for Mindgeek, the porn industry's equivalent to Standard Oil. Image
If someone ever asks why you're against immigration, just post that 👆. Just bringing these people here probably counts as a near occasion of sin at this point.

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1 Apr
Normies get confused when they read things like this. "That's never happened and it's nearly 100% certain it never will. How can he lie like that?"

What you have to understand is that the journo brain thinks only in narratives. It literally cannot understand external reality. Image
Once you understand this, the correct question to here isn't "why do you think a blog post will inspire murders?" but "what, exactly, do the people who pay you get out of you believing this story?"

Well, that and "how many women have you raped?" since he's a male feminist.
.@KatzOnEarth, of course, can't understand the substance of Tracey's critique. As a journalist, he can conceive of a separation between the concepts of writing, propaganda, and emotional manipulation no more than a Roman pleb could conceive of a separation between church & state.
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8 Mar
One of the things you don't realize until you have to research the genealogy of superhero stories is how literally all of American pop culture is descended from the Barsoom series. John Carter of Mars should unironically be taught in English classes.
It's weird because you'd think (like I did, going in) that Superman would've been mostly a take on Doc Savage. (The "man of tomorrow/man of bronze" epithets alone...) but no, almost everything derives from John Carter. (albeit indirectly through Flash Gordon in some cases)
And not just sci-fi and capeshit. For example: Burroughs has a good case to make for having invented what's basically the "orc" fantasy archetype with the Green Martians. He's at Marie Corelli magnitudes of influence, but barely any more people know about it. Surreal.
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6 Mar
Reposted from the Telegram: a T. A. Jacksonian guide to Academia's version of MKULTRA Image
Bonus: Image
>TFW u've been working in academic publishing since 2011.
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5 Mar
An interesting exercise for an aspiring film critic: "The Empire Strikes Back is the only good Star Wars movie. Explain why this is, both in terms of its merits and its sisters' flaws."
My answer: ESB is the closest that Star Wars gets to making the Jedi way seem as mystical as we're repeatedly told it is. The cave sequence was the height of Star Wars. 1/2
The rest of the films treat the Force either as hippies see Buddhism (original trilogy), as litRPG books treat magic (prequels) or as wineaunt-run writers' workshops treat talent. (sequels) 1/2
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27 Feb
The $2K thing was the most childish lie and anyone could've seen it. Getting you fired for unorthodox opinions is one of their strongest tools and they weren't going to sabotage that with mincome, however temporary. (which is also why Trump COULD lol)
This is also why Dems will never give you a real public option fir health care, by the way. The only reason that exists in Europe and Canada is because we can outright jail you for hate speech so we don't need to bother with indirect threats to your livelihood.
"What about welfare?" That's conditional on you participating in and following the incentives of the system, it isn't just the government paying you $2000 to fuck off. (which is exactly why liberals opposed it when libertarians proposed to convert the former to the latter)
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4 Feb
Lol, the glowies dropped their how-to book. 😂
Like what we did with menaq tweets except gαγ.
Apparently, it was dropped by Greta Thunberg, who didn't realize the implications of it lol. Autists: always on our side, even if they're not. archive.is/7sUd0
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