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I raised the point that vilifying people who had party affiliation but no real participation is wrong and that’s valid

So I saw your shirt and and that made me have some questions. Explain the difference between your Nazi apologia and the clean Wehrmacht myth.

My shirt saying “I’m no nazi apologist, but…” has people asking a lot of questions that are already answered by my shirt

The German skull has a unique bump which makes them genetically fascist.

I would love to see a Gender Taliban declare war on JKKK Rowling. Like 20 years of protracted insurgency which reduces her to poverty before it wins.

Only two Republicans voted against the measure while 142 Democrats crossed the aisle in approving it.

If chess made you smarter, every Paradox grand strategy game player would be a genius. Victoria 3 is much more intricate.

My t-shirt saying “I’m no fucking predator or paedophile” has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

Apart from home appliances, seemingly all of the war trophy photos I’ve seen from either Russia or Ukraine have been looted weapons and vehicles. The only things I seem to see Israelis post photos of is them stealing from women, children, and the disabled. The trophies they’re most proud of are the kind of drepraved Einsatzgruppen shit I’ve only seen in Come and See. Beyond any condemnation of the genocide, what the fuck is pathologically wrong with them?

During the last wave in Colorado, prisoners were used as slave labour for this culling. The first case of human transmission was from one of them and they go back to overcrowded prisons full of immunocompromised people. If this cull doesn’t use them, at some point enough farms will be impacted at once to overwhelm private contractors.

Now sue the school out of existence.

Zoe Schlanger - The Light Eaters. Buy this yesterday. It’s so fucking good. All the current science on plant communication and neurology. The Factually podcast did a good interview with the author recently- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBToVPeuHX0

Michael Pollan - The Botany of Desire. Pollan is better known for his How to Change Your Mind book about psychedelics, but this a particularly good book on four materialist histories of plants.

Matt Candeias - In Defense of Plants. It’s kind of like a broader version of The Light Eaters with a focus on plant behaviour.

Richard Lewontin - The Dialectical Biologist. This and Biology as Ideology did more for me as a scientific horticulturist than any particular book about plants. To understand a plant, you need to understand the dialectic of organism and environment because a plant is intrinsically tied to one setting it mediates its whole existence around. The biggest thing that will hinder you in plant science is the way it isolates the subject into an object of study, trying to remove as many of the variables as possible. But plants exist as a product of endless variables and The Light Eaters shows that we’ve barely scratched the surface of their world or how it works. The more nuance you can build into how you approach plants- the ecology, the chemistry, the soil-atmospheric interfaces, the ethnobotany and anthropology, the environmentalist theory- the better you’ll understand them. Botany on its own is pretty narrow.

I can only imagine how many useful genes that saves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryukyu_flying_fox

They’re a fruit bat in the Southeast Asian tropics. Absolutely massive bats. You walk under a palm tree and there are a dozen large puppies looking down at you. The fruit farmers of the region are ecocidal toward them, despite deforestation being the reason why they’re congregating in the only reliable food source left. They’re a great generalist pollinator with a similar ecological niche as squirrels, shitting out edible plant seeds over an almost 2km range.

The only difference between the Washington Post and the British tabloids he came from is that the tabloids occasionally have softcore porn. They’re ideologically in the same realm as the Daily Mail.

I can’t imagine something braver than posting this photo. Thank you kind sir. You are truely a scholar and le gentleman.

Huh, that’s somehow not a joke.

And whose fault is it that the that deal, the ceasefire for hostages has not been consummated? Is it Hamas or Israel or both?

Biden: Hamas. Hamas could end this tomorrow. Hamas could say (unintelligible) and done period. And, but, and the last offer Israel made was very generous in terms of who they’d be willing to release, what they’d give in return, et cetera. Bibi is under enormous pressure on the hostages, on the hostages, and so he’s prepared to do about anything to get the hostages back.

https://teachmecommunism.podbean.com/

https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/

I really like these two podcasts for breaking down concepts, history, and significant figures. The second one has two spinoffs, Red Menace for individual works of theory and Guerilla History for historical events, which are both also great.

England should be disqualified for filling every waterway with shit. It’s like a performance-enhancing drug if you only have to swim in a little bit of it.