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JudgeSabo 🏴

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JudgeSabo 🏴 @judgesabo.bsky.social · Nov 18

I've been steadily posting more and more to a substack. Check out this page as a guide to various posts I've made on anarchist theory, history, and notes I've taken on several books.
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A place for me to post long posts on anarchist theory and history. Click to read JudgeSabo's Substack, a Substack publication. Launched a year ago.

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JudgeSabo 🏴 @judgesabo.bsky.social · 13h

Few things annoy me like Christians saying God is the same "yesterday, today, and tomorrow" and how we need God to have an absolute and objective standard of morality, only for them to turn around and see them excuse God-endorsed murder, polygamy, etc. by saying "Well that's the OLD Testament"

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16h

Bullshit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

“I’m a cop. I am not supposed to feel dread. He’s a brown person. HE’S supposed to feel dread!”

Bari nods sympathetically.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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JudgeSabo 🏴 @judgesabo.bsky.social · 19h

The weirdest and most surprising part for me was the scene where the evil Dr. Septimus Pretorius starts showing off the tiny homunculi he created and dressed up in costumes.

Doctor Septimus Pretorius homunculi in front of seven jars containing small little homunculi, each dressed in a different costume

JudgeSabo 🏴 @judgesabo.bsky.social · 19h

Watched Bride of Frankenstein last night. Name is off, thinking about it, since the bride is definitely meant for the monster. I actually enjoyed this one more than the original movie, it was fantastic, though the only stuff with the bride was only in the last 5 minutes or so.

a black and white photo of a bride and groom holding hands in a room .

Alt: The 'Bride of Frankenstein' and Frankenstein's monster hold hands

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JudgeSabo 🏴 @judgesabo.bsky.social · 1d

So much of Objectivism is just them developing their own brand of Newspeak that obscures concepts for themselves and makes it impossible for them to engage with anyone outside their circle

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JudgeSabo 🏴 @judgesabo.bsky.social · 1d

Had the pleasure with arguing with an Ayn Rand Objectivist today. It was like pulling teeth getting them to even concede that a fire exists and goes out when I light and extinguish a candle. I had to call it a "flaming entity" and they were still iffy about conceding that.

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JudgeSabo 🏴 @judgesabo.bsky.social · 1d

It's the opposite though. Marx's critique of political economy argues that CAPITALISM is dictating the value of things according to its labor-time, whereas communism would abolish the value-form entirely. It is trying to move AWAY from dictating value.

JudgeSabo 🏴 @judgesabo.bsky.social · 1d

Old post, but does show you haven't learned anything in the past year. It seems like you're still working under this idea where Marxists or communists in general are trying to dictate the value of things, as if they are saying "The value of a product SHOULD be equal to its labor time."

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 3d

I have once again written a 15,000 word essay by mistake. It debunks five myths about historical anarchist views on democracy and collective decision making. 5,000 words are just on what Malatesta thought about voting in anarchist orgs. Should be finished by the end of the month.

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JudgeSabo 🏴 @judgesabo.bsky.social · 4d

The vibe of this film is weird. It's almost playing out like Death Note as a comedy, were the police officers and public just keep coming up with increasingly silly counter-measures for dealing with someone invisible.

JudgeSabo 🏴 @judgesabo.bsky.social · 4d

It's just taken for granted by everyone here that "Oh man, this guy is invisible? That power will let him rule the world!"

Bit of a surprise too, it stars Henry Travers, who plays the angel Clarence in It's a Wonderful Life!

Henry Travers (left) plays Dr. Cranley, standing next to Gloria Stuart (right) playing Flora Cranley

JudgeSabo 🏴 @judgesabo.bsky.social · 4d

Watching The Invisible Man (1933)! It is distinctly more goofy than the other classic monster movies so far and clearly having fun with the effects.

a black and white photo of a man with a tcm logo on the bottom

Alt: The Invisible Man (1933) laughing, apparently headless as only his clothes and gloved hands are visible.

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Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick.bsky.social · 4d

Trump has crossed so many lines, but I think it will be truly crossing the Rubicon if he jails Illinois Governor Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Johnson and replaces them with his cronies. At that point, which now seems all too possible, liberal democracy as we know it will be gone.

Screenshot of a Guardian article with the headline "Trump calls for jailing of Chicago mayor and Illinois governor as national guard arrives in city. President accused Brandon Jonson and JB Pritzker of failing to protect Ice officers as troops deploy to Chicago"

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𝕴𝖓𝖋𝖊𝖗𝖓𝖆𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖝 𝕾𝖔𝖕𝖍𝖎𝖆 @infernatrixsophia.bsky.social · 5d

"No! He's not transphobic! You should trust him!"

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 5d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 5d

Here’s video of the incident

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Calvinboo Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 5d

first of all, fuck gandhi. But secondly.

WE SPENT MONTHS IN 2020 WATCHING COPS BEAT AND SHOOT AND RUN OVER AND EVEN KILL PROTESTERS, AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY GAVE THEM $100 MILLION AFTER ALL THAT

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 6d

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

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JudgeSabo 🏴 @judgesabo.bsky.social · 6d

Had to confirm it, but the man playing one of the wise archeologists who knows all the Mummy's powers, Edward Van Sloan, is the same actor who played Van Helsing in Dracula too! Even more explicitly recycling it than I thought!

a man wearing glasses and a suit stands in front of a mantle

Alt: Edward Van Sloan as Dr. Can Helsing in Dracula

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JudgeSabo 🏴 @judgesabo.bsky.social · 6d

I do like the makeup on Boris Karloff.

It's surprising how much of the plot for this is recycled from Dracula too. Undead monster in a special coffin from a far away land, hypnotizing people, fixated on this white girl engaged to someone else, etc.

JudgeSabo 🏴 @judgesabo.bsky.social · 6d

The Mummy also uses his powers to make the Englishmen's Nubian servant magically hypnotized into becoming his slave, since their bloodline is susceptible. THAT kind of unquestioned racism.

JudgeSabo 🏴 @judgesabo.bsky.social · 6d

Not surprising, but this is the most racist classic monster movie by far. Extremely unreflective on it too to the point it's funny, like the English archeologists just sitting around while everyone else does the work of excavation at a spot pointed out to them, only to take the credit.

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JudgeSabo 🏴 @judgesabo.bsky.social · 6d

Watching the 1932 Mummy movie now. Funniest line so far: "The British Museum works for the cause of science, not for loot."

a black and white photo of a mummy in a museum

Alt: Boris Karloff as Imhotep in The Mummy (1932) performing a ritual

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JudgeSabo 🏴 @judgesabo.bsky.social · 6d

Maybe the lightning powered the ray? Could be that.

JudgeSabo 🏴 @judgesabo.bsky.social · 6d

I will say the explanation for his discovery is very funny. It's not just lightning that he uses. Not even clear he used that at all, honestly, it was just raining. He claims there is a ray he is shooting with a more intense frequency than ultraviolet light. So he shoots this life-giving ray at him.

JudgeSabo 🏴 @judgesabo.bsky.social · 6d

I do have to say that Colin Clive's performance as Henry Frankenstein is amazing though. Iconic for a reason, he's a fantastic mad scientist.