Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦
@sal46.bsky.social
I am interested in philosophy, religion, art and politics. I love pop music and dogs.
Allow me.
If you take Marxism to be an eschatological teleology you are dangerously dumb. If you believe a good chunk of Marx’s economic analysis wasn’t right you are also dangerously dumb.
If you take Marxism to be an eschatological teleology you are dangerously dumb. If you believe a good chunk of Marx’s economic analysis wasn’t right you are also dangerously dumb.
Marxism has done immeasurable damage to the left
Yes, I’ve made this point for 5 years or more but the reason it’s so hard to move away from this structural economic view of the political and social universe is because the center wants to believe it (to downplay social issues) and left also wants to believe it (to vindicate Marx)
November 27, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Allow me.
If you take Marxism to be an eschatological teleology you are dangerously dumb. If you believe a good chunk of Marx’s economic analysis wasn’t right you are also dangerously dumb.
If you take Marxism to be an eschatological teleology you are dangerously dumb. If you believe a good chunk of Marx’s economic analysis wasn’t right you are also dangerously dumb.
Remember hearing how an audience was outraged when some YouTuber explained exactly how LLMs work. They didn’t want to know how they work. They wanted to not know. They wanted it to be magic.
November 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Remember hearing how an audience was outraged when some YouTuber explained exactly how LLMs work. They didn’t want to know how they work. They wanted to not know. They wanted it to be magic.
I am struggling with self loathing narcissistic neurosis, manic depression, a debilitating ADHD that has me dissecting Hegel, a Girls Aloud song & a Harold Lloyd skit from a French theory pov simultaneously, with a second order consciousness that all this is happening, so please bear with me here.
November 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I am struggling with self loathing narcissistic neurosis, manic depression, a debilitating ADHD that has me dissecting Hegel, a Girls Aloud song & a Harold Lloyd skit from a French theory pov simultaneously, with a second order consciousness that all this is happening, so please bear with me here.
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Farage’s 'Racist' Abuse Shouldn’t Surprise Anyone
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Farage’s 'Racist' Abuse Shouldn’t Surprise Anyone
People can and should be forgiven for the sins of their past, but it's harder to absolve them when the behaviour never stopped.
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Farage’s 'Racist' Abuse Shouldn’t Surprise Anyone
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This isn’t some Latin American junta state in the 70s but the US. The U.K. media barely mentions what’s happening. Fucking insane. Must stop.
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This isn’t some Latin American junta state in the 70s but the US. The U.K. media barely mentions what’s happening. Fucking insane. Must stop.
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The idea that Biden's health wasn't being covered prior to the debate is one of the most shameless pieces of revisionist history I can remember. It had been one of the dominant topics of conversation for months. I was there, I remember it.
November 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The idea that Biden's health wasn't being covered prior to the debate is one of the most shameless pieces of revisionist history I can remember. It had been one of the dominant topics of conversation for months. I was there, I remember it.
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Marilyn Whirlwind. ICE accosted Marilyn Whirlwind.
They've got to go.
They've got to go.
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Marilyn Whirlwind. ICE accosted Marilyn Whirlwind.
They've got to go.
They've got to go.
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Continuing our long weekend requests with a classic called down by High Flyin’ Hank D. on our FB sister station.
#RadioFreeAmerica
youtu.be/gp5JCrSXkJY?...
#RadioFreeAmerica
youtu.be/gp5JCrSXkJY?...
Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth 1967
YouTube video by PettyYou007
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November 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Continuing our long weekend requests with a classic called down by High Flyin’ Hank D. on our FB sister station.
#RadioFreeAmerica
youtu.be/gp5JCrSXkJY?...
#RadioFreeAmerica
youtu.be/gp5JCrSXkJY?...
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My feelings on piracy are very colored by my years working as an erotic writer for hire, because every pirate was all "I'm jerking off to your work without paying for it to punish you for choosing a dissolute profession! I have the moral high ground here!"
November 27, 2025 at 3:39 AM
My feelings on piracy are very colored by my years working as an erotic writer for hire, because every pirate was all "I'm jerking off to your work without paying for it to punish you for choosing a dissolute profession! I have the moral high ground here!"
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British bass guitarist John McVie (born 26 Nov 1945) is best known as a member of the rock bands John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers (1964 to 1967) and Fleetwood Mac since 1967. His surname, combined with that of drummer Mick Fleetwood, was the source for the band's name. Happy 80th birthday! #JohnMcVie
November 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
British bass guitarist John McVie (born 26 Nov 1945) is best known as a member of the rock bands John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers (1964 to 1967) and Fleetwood Mac since 1967. His surname, combined with that of drummer Mick Fleetwood, was the source for the band's name. Happy 80th birthday! #JohnMcVie
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Fighting the good fight against ‘victim hood’ culture by running to a national newspaper to whinge because the television hurt my feelings
1/5 It was entirely predictable that The Telegraph would jump on @DavidOlusoga’s Empire series to fight its right wing culture war for control of our public history. Let’s see what they’ve done:
November 27, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Fighting the good fight against ‘victim hood’ culture by running to a national newspaper to whinge because the television hurt my feelings
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It's very striking that since 1980 the only party that gets to enact radical policies in Government is the Tories.
Even with huge majorities, the sheer, *repeated* timidity of Labour is utterly frustrating.
Even with huge majorities, the sheer, *repeated* timidity of Labour is utterly frustrating.
November 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
It's very striking that since 1980 the only party that gets to enact radical policies in Government is the Tories.
Even with huge majorities, the sheer, *repeated* timidity of Labour is utterly frustrating.
Even with huge majorities, the sheer, *repeated* timidity of Labour is utterly frustrating.
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Punching down has turned into a real post-Blair Labour habit.
It's not how much tax goes up or doesn't, it's who the changes hit hardest that matters. And freezing the tax thresholds hit the poorest, and the party knows this.
It's not how much tax goes up or doesn't, it's who the changes hit hardest that matters. And freezing the tax thresholds hit the poorest, and the party knows this.
November 27, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Punching down has turned into a real post-Blair Labour habit.
It's not how much tax goes up or doesn't, it's who the changes hit hardest that matters. And freezing the tax thresholds hit the poorest, and the party knows this.
It's not how much tax goes up or doesn't, it's who the changes hit hardest that matters. And freezing the tax thresholds hit the poorest, and the party knows this.
Nothing I’ve worried about has ever happened.
Nothing I’ve wanted to happen has ever happened.
A coincidence of positive and negative nothings.
Nothing I’ve wanted to happen has ever happened.
A coincidence of positive and negative nothings.
November 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Nothing I’ve worried about has ever happened.
Nothing I’ve wanted to happen has ever happened.
A coincidence of positive and negative nothings.
Nothing I’ve wanted to happen has ever happened.
A coincidence of positive and negative nothings.
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The opening page of 'Bleak House' by Charles Dickens is always a treat.
November 27, 2025 at 8:25 AM
The opening page of 'Bleak House' by Charles Dickens is always a treat.
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Coaches are often independent, aren’t they? It’s a mad world, coaches. ‘Jackson of Biggleswade’ ‘Stern’s Aberdeen’ ‘Cullins Travel’ etc. And the drivers *never* acknowledge anyone on the road! You’ll never get a hand signal. Impassive. Short sleeves and tie and massive 1970’s glasses. Time warp.
November 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Coaches are often independent, aren’t they? It’s a mad world, coaches. ‘Jackson of Biggleswade’ ‘Stern’s Aberdeen’ ‘Cullins Travel’ etc. And the drivers *never* acknowledge anyone on the road! You’ll never get a hand signal. Impassive. Short sleeves and tie and massive 1970’s glasses. Time warp.
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buddy you're running a government which is likely to let danny kruger set social policy for LGBTQ+ rights in the next parliament
"[...] the Labour leader said the homophobic attack left him worried for the future of the UK"
*clears throat*
I HAVE OPINIONS
metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...
*clears throat*
I HAVE OPINIONS
metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...
Keir Starmer's fury after neice and wife 'beaten by blokes for holding hands'
'I thought the days of beating up people because they were gay were well behind us.'
metro.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
buddy you're running a government which is likely to let danny kruger set social policy for LGBTQ+ rights in the next parliament
Look, the drive for physical emotional intimacy is insanely powerful and almost universal in the human animal. Don’t tell incels to not care, as though their eternal singledom can be felt to not matter at all.
Tell them to be stoic. Tell them “Yeah that must suck but just fucking deal with it.”
Tell them to be stoic. Tell them “Yeah that must suck but just fucking deal with it.”
The entire manosphere is just making men more miserable. We can't be friends with women because that's for "beta males" and we can't be friends with other men because it's gay.
And then they complain about "male loneliness."
And then they complain about "male loneliness."
November 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Look, the drive for physical emotional intimacy is insanely powerful and almost universal in the human animal. Don’t tell incels to not care, as though their eternal singledom can be felt to not matter at all.
Tell them to be stoic. Tell them “Yeah that must suck but just fucking deal with it.”
Tell them to be stoic. Tell them “Yeah that must suck but just fucking deal with it.”
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My sous chef has arrived
November 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
My sous chef has arrived
My adult self thinks it’s really overwrought, but..
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
My adult self thinks it’s really overwrought, but..
I’m waiting for this super duper robot society to emerge and all I’m seeing is decaying infrastructure. No new great inventions — no equivalent to the washing machine or train — just gimmicky SHITE.
Still have yet to see AI make my life better in any way
November 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I’m waiting for this super duper robot society to emerge and all I’m seeing is decaying infrastructure. No new great inventions — no equivalent to the washing machine or train — just gimmicky SHITE.
If one considers that Marx defined commodify fetishism as the “personification of things" (and conversely the thingification of people), then AI is nothing more nor less than the ultimate fetishised commodify. It is a fiction of what might be termed ideological capitalist mysticism.
AI is antithetical to humanity
November 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
If one considers that Marx defined commodify fetishism as the “personification of things" (and conversely the thingification of people), then AI is nothing more nor less than the ultimate fetishised commodify. It is a fiction of what might be termed ideological capitalist mysticism.
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Still have yet to see AI make my life better in any way
November 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Still have yet to see AI make my life better in any way