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The world could end and he would find a way to keep on reading.

He's Human, and That Makes Him Scarier

Of course Hopkins likes Sartre. Of course.

Every so often, this chivalry business rises above the stuff and machismo nonsense.

There are always moments of regathering after a close encounter with a wild thing like this. You question your place in the chain of being.

Narrative's not afraid to rid itself of its chaff, at any rate.

"left-wing terrorism" really, Osterweil? Just going to throw that out without any rhetorical consistency and leave your sources to rot?

Whereas armed self-defense will always be an important part of struggles for liberation, the arms themselves have no magical property to make our movement more serious, more revolutionary, more powerful. The power of the attack on white settler society is seen instead in the broad lawlessness, property destruction, looting, and cop-free zones produced by the riot and is reflected in the attendant sense of freedom,...

Bah humbug if I'm not emotionally susceptible to the vision of a giant mongoose pulling a Brego.

"I thought it was a great way to get through life, to stick it to others by punishing myself." Jesus christ dude, call me out a little more why don't you.

Killing for property is restoring order, because worship of property at the expense of Black death is what American order is.

Well, the dragons are sexy, as expected, but c'mon fantasy England/East Asia/"Middle East", stop wasting my time.

Now I'm really veering into dangerously overloaded reading territory, but with the winter break coming up, what else do I honestly expect myself to be doing then?

Idealistic, nonviolence-trained Freedom Riders were guarded where they worked, lived, and slept by local people with guns, sometimes over [the Freedom Riders'] objections.

Likely another case of my eyes being bigger than my stomach, but the thought of this carrying me through to the new year is comforting enough for me to risk it.

The unemployed [...of 1929] faced a crisis exacerbated by an American ideology that rejected and minimized social services [...]; an utterly unprepared and fundamentally unsympathetic federal government; and a plutocratic gang of billionaire monopolists who uttered patriotic pieties and predictions of imminent economic recovery while laying off tens of thousands of workers.

White people taking Black people's things is what happens under the conditions of order, not the conditions of riot.

Can't remember the last time a book I finally found a copy of ended up being what I was in the mood for. Feels good.

Understand that your grandmother is in heaven now, and heaven has fighting cocks and Heineken, poi and dried ahi, your uncles' teasing and your aunties' cooking and your cousins laughing with you when you talk. Heaven is them acting like this is where you belong, and if that's what haole pastors call hell, then thank God you finally got here.

Someone thought they could take down a trans community flyer just outside of my workplace. Get fucked, I'm sitting right inside and have infinite printer ink.

Not to be outdone by the other branches of government, the Supreme Court in 1857 issued the Dred Scott decision, which ruled that Black people had never been allowed to be nor ever could be American citizens, that Congress was constitutionally unable to ban slavery in the territories, and that the federal government had no legal ground to free slaves whatsoever.

No more private messages between users but GRAmazon can still spam us with algorithmic trash? Go walk on legos for the rest of your days, you puerile scum.

Really shouldn't be that surprised that King Arthur tried to pull a Herod/Laius (to a similar degree of effect).

Liberals may oppose the death penalty, but they, like conservatives, believe in the efficacy of murder: they had little to say about Obama's extrajudicial drone executions, his death lists and Terror Tuesdays, and Democrats mostly critiqued Trump's 2020 assassination of Qasem Soleimani on procedural grounds: "He didn't consult Congress!"

'"_____" meets "______" meets "____" me-' Have you considered the fact that I'm looking for something to read, not a punchline to a joke involving several individuals walking into a bar?

Somewhat relieved that the main character didn't try to analytically take on Heathcliff; the latest adaptation's puerile enough.

They handed me to a refugee organisation as if I were a crumpled, dog-eared book that everyone had attempted to read before stopping midway through, having stumbled across difficult sentences, disturbing images, and then quitting and passing me on.

...I have many selves and there are a couple of those selves I'd be happy to give up.

The source of his unhappiness was that he had an overdeveloped capacity for imagining what other people thought and allowing this to change him.

It's doubtful that I'll finish this with the span of 2025 left to us, but it's been so long since I felt up to this sort of endeavor, best to strike while the iron is hot.