So easy to game this id never have to do productive work again.

The ones who look at Omelas and think “what if we scaled up the child torture?”

Love to have another torment nexus name.

Communists betray anarchism yet again.

It appears that we are both weak and strong.

Always loved how she used Tabby to lock leftists and everyone was “but she’s right tho”

There are actually recognised sovereign groups without a territory. Most notably (and ironically given the post) the Knights of Malta.

Problem is they’re ridiculous.

That’s an anti revisionist. I’m asking who the hell is pro-Khrushchev 3.5 decades after the ussr fell.

Contra has posted a silly tweet, we shall neither retweet it, nor reply.

“attempt” here seems to mean “resounding success”

Oh lol the US are so scared they sent 2 hornet sats to camp nearby!

Would be funny for China to just nationalise DeepSeek and make it free for all humanity for the lulz.

Not actually something I’m very proud of. I don’t like violence, it ruins the cuticles.

But it had to be done.

Please don’t insult Kautsky like this he at least originally had real beliefs to betray.

I really fucking hate that “encouraging antisemitism” take.

I have personally, literally punched Nazis and the only other people I know of who have also done this have been communists and anarchists. I have stood proudly beside Jewish comrades for a thousand causes including stopping the genocide.

What liberals like her truly hate is that we take their vaunted moral universalism seriously, while they see constant hypocritical “pragmatic” reasons for cowardly betraying everything every committed liberal from Robespierre to John Stuart Mill stood for.

Because doing anything else would be hard. They might lose. That wouldn’t be entertaining. It wouldn’t be good narrative framing.

It shows in how we love the great liberal heroes while she makes videos about how they were like super mean to girl boss princess who was irl trying to invent the Black Hundreds a century ahead of schedule.

I don’t hate Natalie. I quite like her, we have very similar interests. But I have absolute contempt for her as an agent.

Oh well if it’s not entertaining then no point in open opposition then.

Also loving the standard refrain of the liberal “I have predefined the left’s goal as impossible, because I do not want it”

Le Guin is actually making an even more subtle point. She first posits a utopia, and then dismisses it as unrealistic to the audience.

It’s more of a meditation of the state of those who are unsatisfied with even utopia, for not being more than that, who undergo great uncertainty and suffering to progress history.

About those who in the lack of contradictions will seek them out because a society not in progression is intolerable.

Reverse omelas, where we all suffer so that one person can actually have a good time.

Oh so that’s what that blurry flickering square is I thought it was a permanent silent migraine

The question is, what happens if too many people start doing things they can’t ignore.

Courageous move by Keir Starmer, in the Yes Minister sense.

Seriously though it’s just such an absurd overreaction. They hemorrhaging off their own politicians! They’re arresting 84 year old upper class priests!