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"The Nimrod flip out is another brilliant story. Unfortunately, the next several fall off quality.
Fyi, I came across a story written by a Palestinian author. The title was “a short story writer who doesn’t follow army orders“. It was hilarious. The premise was that a Palestinian writer would drop Etgar Kerats name to get past Israeli check points. Alas, it didn’t work all the time." — May 16, 2026 04:22PM
"The Nimrod flip out is another brilliant story. Unfortunately, the next several fall off quality.
Fyi, I came across a story written by a Palestinian author. The title was “a short story writer who doesn’t follow army orders“. It was hilarious. The premise was that a Palestinian writer would drop Etgar Kerats name to get past Israeli check points. Alas, it didn’t work all the time." — May 16, 2026 04:22PM
“The drone that even according to the police indeed did fly over Seine-Saint-Denis last July 14th is a picture of the future in much more straightforward colors than all the hazy images we get from the humanists. That they took the time to clarify that it was not armed shows pretty clearly the kind of road we’re headed down.”
― The Coming Insurrection
― The Coming Insurrection
“Make the acvocacy of radical causes sufficiently remunerative, and the supply of advocates will be unlimited.”
― Capitalism and Freedom
― Capitalism and Freedom
“Thirty years of "crisis," mass unemployment, and flagging growth, and they still want us to believe in the economy. . . . We have to see that the economy is itself the crisis.”
― The Coming Insurrection
― The Coming Insurrection
“If you can't eat it, drink it, smoke it, or snort it... then f*ck it!”
― American Gods
― American Gods
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