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This is a pretty good example of the inherent process of authority and power of representative "democracy". Because it is true. That one man gets to decide for 800 000 people what is done in government and none of them matters to his decisions. Because he makes them for them. This is why

Fascism did not yet exist in 1798 when the Alien and Sedition Acts were enacted or when the Chinese Exclusion Act was enacted in 1882. That's on democracy and the Western hemisphere not a couple of European countries tainting democracy.

I keep on waiting for this to happen.

Excellent review of Adam Kirsch's On Settler Colonialism by @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social . www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

There is this truly annoying trend as of late in animations made for adults where characters constantly talking over each other is seen as "realistic" dialogue. Honestly, when was the last time you heard anyone repeatedly talk over someone else without at least saying sorry?

Class reductionism is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Many Marxists see movements that are not centred on class as ignoring class struggle, but this happens, in part, because Marxists downplay the importance of other movements.

Jan. 8, 1925: Old and new confront each other in a fashion shoot by Edward Steichen. Clare Eames in 1890s costume, in her role as Prossie from the play "Candida," looks at a 1920s woman in contemporary office clothes.

Beavis and Butt-Head go to Silent Hill

Force, when used by the people, is called "violence" and "terror." When used by the powerful, it is called "law enforcement" and "policy."