sometimes I think about disconcerting as it was to see people back in 2020 confusedly reaching the end of their rope during what passed for a "lockdown" in the US — just a total inability to live with themselves in one way or another. I'm a hermit. The "lockdown" didn't really change anything for me outside the massive spike in toilet paper prices. I've never had much of a problem sitting in silence and watching shadows get longer — this practice always came easy to me.

Kinda wish it didn't.

Watching Azealia Banks devour her own low level bait is what this was all destined to come to.

Someone whose career is built around being a universal аsshole as a marketing ploy for a music career that can't stand on its own accusing someone of leaning on a gimmick is adorable.

https://twitter.com/ThePopTingz/status/1628997724572876800

I was done with giggling at this chick's stuntdunks after the DMs with Grimes got posted. I've never heard a note of Grimes' music, not a fan, but like... I'm sure she's nice but fr seems kinda slow — Banks was punching down and bragging, can't take equal challengers.

People talk about how bad the state of the left is or how stupid people are on Twitter but really my biggest take away from three years here is that there are tens of thousands more extremely smart, right-thinking, revolutionary minded people in the US than I imagined in 2019. For every patsucc and/or "gender critical" аssclown on here, I can show you 50 people who wouldn't buy their line of shıt with a gun to their head. Same with any of the RageAgainstWar ops, Banderite funding, etc

I hate when people "point out" that CGI in movies is "fake" like that's some sort of incisive piece of criticism and not something we all agree to as part of the ticket purchase. Like there's something "easy" about it compared to practical effects. Both are art, both are artistic choices made during production that produce different feel and aesthetics. When CGI is bad, yeah it's bad — same with practical effects. Cinema is littered with practical effects so terrible they're LEGENDARY.

Ukraine was a "colonial subject" of the USSR the way France is currently a "colonial subject" of Germany: a state of affairs that exists purely in the minds of the deranged.

Ukraine has not recovered economically since the dissolution of the USSR and it never will.

https://twitter.com/neil_abrams/status/1607225499134074880

The steady economic growth enjoyed by the Ukraine SSR is to remain a distant memory, following thirty-some years of being ruled by its own gangsters and pounded into the ground to the rhythm of boom and bust cycles as its industrial base was hollowed out by Shock Therapy™.

Talk of revolutionary potential in the imperial core exists on a sliding scale of tunnel vision to outright chauvinism. Revolution happens from the bottom up. The IMPERIAL core upheld by a nearly 25,000 mile diameter peripheral system of extraction points and outposts 1/9 That system has to be chipped away by any means necessary at its weakest points; the most imperialized countries/nations/peoples at the farthest margins of the periphery.

This structure is heavy and requires uncompromised integrity to support its own weight. 2/9

1/10 - Know Stuff Before Posting Stuff, A Thread:

1) no one ever said this is "good," unless you define "good" as "not posting information and analysis free tripe."

2) Uh, highest number of billionaires? You didn't even double check this before pushing the tweet button? Damn.

https://twitter.com/MichaelTanuvasa/status/1382148242184437761

2/10 - lets look at both these statements that aren't so much "wrong" as they are "intellectually embarrassing."

Re: Min. Wage - you understand that yes, while China's wages are low compared to nations that have plundered the Earth for centuries, they don't stagnate, right? ...

Lmao how disconnected from reality does one have to be to think the alt-right opposes the US government? You can generally tell that there's not much government opposition when the police protect you.

https://twitter.com/CesarVargas365/status/1381411017608081410

Is this a vague reference to the 1/6 Honkey Konger tantrum? How is it opposing a government to (even if there was a plan in the first place) try to install the government you're "attempting" to overthrow with the government you would have just overthrown?