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Oh Mt God yes!!

robot mecha anime that is almost entirely about all the hundreds of mechanics and engineers that make the mech possible. the actual mech is only ever shown in parts in the bay or as a blip on a radar. the whole this is shot in a way that makes the machine as eldritch and incomprehensible as the monsters it is fighting. maybe it’s set before digital video so all glimpses of it in action are bad angles on terrible analogue monitors. such that you never even really lock down how its anatomy works. the pilot can be there and be important, but like it’s like a weird eldritch horror take on office politics.

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lets get those numbers up

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Spread the word, watch this wonderful OVA in excellent quality!

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NEW ESSAY: anarchism starts in the now: hope for a better future

there is still time

cover art: @punkitt-is-here

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Love these posts on here about "tankies in their 30s haha" cause bitch there are far more authoritarian tankies way into their 60s and 70s out there. You are getting mild tankieism here I promise, go talk to an old communist

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Many Democratic elites appear to have landed on a familiar tactic: blaming everyone’s favorite scapegoat, Big Woke. Everywhere you look, you’ll see someone—often, but not always, on CNN—railing against the far-left extremists that supposedly held the party’s mainstream faction in its vise-like grip in 2024. There’s just one problem with this: the campaign these insiders are describing bears virtually no resemblance to the actual campaign we all just suffered through. They have simply invented an alternate universe out of thin air.

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The ugly truth for these people is that Kamala Harris ran as right-wing a campaign as any Democrat in living memory. She downplayed discussions of her race and gender. She bent over backward to welcome billionaires, corporate titans, and Republicans into the fold. She told Black men that one of her priorities for them was…crypto. She made her past as a prosecutor a cornerstone of her pitch. She bragged about owning a Glock and joked that she would shoot people who broke into her house. She stuffed the Democratic National Convention to the gills with cops and Border Patrol agents while crushing even the tiniest dissent over her support for the genocide in Gaza. She promised the most “lethal” military in the world. She was seemingly joined at the hip with Liz Cheney for weeks. She even praised Dick Cheney! It’s hard to think of what more she could have done to satisfy the people clamoring for her to pander to conservatives.

11 November 2024

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“Hundreds of supporters of Maccabi Tel Aviv came to Amsterdam, held a very vocal rally in the main square before the incident, waving Israeli flags, and also took down a Palestinian flag,” she said. On Thursday, police had said on social media that they were being particularly vigilant in the wake of politically charged incidents, including the tearing down of a Palestinian flag from a building. Social media videos captured the reported incident, showing Israeli fans shouting slogans while an individual was taking the flag down. The Israeli fans instigated the violence after arriving in the city and attacking Palestinian supporters before the match, an Amsterdam city council member said. “They began attacking houses of people in Amsterdam with Palestinian flags, so that’s actually where the violence started,” councilman Jazie Veldhuyzen told Al Jazeera on Friday. “As a reaction, Amsterdammers mobilised themselves and countered the attacks that started on Wednesday by the Maccabi hooligans.”

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Israeli political commentator Ori Goldberg said the incident showed that the Israeli narrative had taken over Europe. “The fact that Israeli fans riot in the middle of Amsterdam, sing racist songs and climb the walls of homes to tear down Palestinian flags … is part of the Israeli condition at the moment: A complete detachment between actions and consequences,” he told Al Jazeera.

8 November 2024

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November 6 / 7, 2024 - Far-right Israeli hooligans of Maccabi Tel Aviv came to Amsterdam for a match against Ajax, and went around singing their fascist songs about killing arabs and destroying palestine, attacking random people's houses, ripping down and burning palestinian flags and attacking random people for looking like palestine supporters, feeling untouchable. After an evening of this, with Amsterdam police just letting it happen, people had had enough and mostly Moroccan dutch people organised to hunt down Maccabi hooligans throughout the city. One of the Maccabi hooligans jumped in the canal to escape a beating. Passports were confiscated showing that several of the hooligans were IDF soldiers.

The Israeli government has responded by calling this a pogrom and sending two planes to Amsterdam, presumably to bomb a hospital or school in retaliation.

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cannot wait for another photo of AOC crying in front of a immigrant detention camp

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Do the right thing Baron

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All the posts along the lines of like "If you voted for Trump you chose [list of evil things] over [list of good things]" are pretty much the case in point of why the Democrats as a political force have no answer to Trump or Trumpism.

They can't recognize what's actually going on around them or why it's happening. They don't understand the opposition or even the non-Democrat population in general, and they don't seem to have any interest in cultivating that understanding. Instead of it being a political contest of dealing with the practicalities of government and appealing to voters, it's instead this Manichean contest between Those Evil People and Us Good Guys. Bad Things happen when enough Bad People vote for the Bad Man, while Good Things happen when enough of the righteous vote for the Good Candidate.

It's not totally dissimilar from how the US has been behaving to foreign countries. It's a totalizing black and white view of the Good Righteous Countries and The Evil Enemy, and the only moral option when dealing with evil is to defeat it. Trying to reach compromise, build consensus, appeal to people in a material way, are characterized as "appeasement", and are treated as though trying to work out an answer that doesn't involve murder is somehow "rewarding" figures like Putin.

All these Republicans and Trump voters? They're not real people with practical concerns or essential needs which need to be met and which a politician can appeal to in order to win their vote. Instead they're just evil, so there's no point in trying to appeal to them. At best they're just to be pitied and ignored at their own self imposed suffering, but hopefully they'll be actively punished by the anointed of the righteous, if only they'll get out and vote...

It's an effective means of self gratification, but not political application. Victory is taken for granted because that's the Good Guy's due, and defeat is treated as a cosmological problem rather than a practical one. There's no reflection, no self criticism, no course correction.

This is the third time Democrats have run on "you don't want TRUMP to win, right???", and (at this point) it's looking like they're about to awarded their second loss out of three. For all their accusing "Leftists" of obsessive moral purity, it's Liberals that profess this position the most vehemently. The Democrats deserve your vote because they're The Good Guys and that's all there is to it, and if you don't agree that's because you're one of the Bad Guys. What need have they to actually offer anything when everything anyone could want is implicitly part of voting Big Good?

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screaming "we can push them Left!" when all the while they've been pushing you Right.

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I love you communism I love you anarchism I love you socialism I love you syndicalism I love you communalism I love you orthodox Marxism I love you proletarian internationalism I love you dialectical materialism I love you left unity