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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 12d

Antifascism is real.
Antifa groups are real.
Trump’s ‘war zone’ in Portland is fake.

The Intercept @theintercept.com · 12d

Liberals dismiss antifa as just an idea — instead of acting to defend the activists, researchers, and organizers facing persecution.

What Liberals Get Wrong About Trump's Executive Order on Antifa

Liberals dismiss antifa as just an idea. That opens up the activists, researchers, and organizers to a real risk of persecution.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 12d

A Shakespearian Table. Some v. interesting comments here: profadamroberts.substack.com/p/a-table-of...

A Table of Green Fields

Falstaffian lucubrations

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amethystclassic.bsky.social @amethystclassic.bsky.social · 15d

I think people admire his ruthlessness. Like they see this performance as a cynical display to pursue his enemies.

amethystclassic.bsky.social @amethystclassic.bsky.social · 24d

I love John Le Carre but most of his novels are like this when you examine them closely. Recent night manager adaptation a good example. Great show tbh

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amethystclassic.bsky.social @amethystclassic.bsky.social · 25d

Sounds like torture to read. Thank you for enduring it on our behalf. Very entertaining!

amethystclassic.bsky.social @amethystclassic.bsky.social · 29d

imo the gold levels do not fit well in the game and should be skipped. Minority opinion though. See what you think.

amethystclassic.bsky.social @amethystclassic.bsky.social · Sep 3

There are so many small articulations of ideas that eluded me for years reading these books in here. Thank you.

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amethystclassic.bsky.social @amethystclassic.bsky.social · Jul 4

Thank you

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jul 4

New, from me:
The Times published a piece accusing a man born in Africa as claiming to be African-American in a failed college admission.

They viewed this story to be newsworthy enough to grant anonymity to a eugenicist working with hacked personal data.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-afrai...

Who's Afraid of Zohran Mamdani?

And what it means to be an immigrant on July 4th

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amethystclassic.bsky.social @amethystclassic.bsky.social · Jul 4

Did he post about the insane mamdani cremieux story?

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amethystclassic.bsky.social @amethystclassic.bsky.social · Jun 26

I look forward to it!

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amethystclassic.bsky.social @amethystclassic.bsky.social · Jun 26

I read your very personal and thoughtful piece. Thanks for writing it. It helped me appreciate a game I reacted very negatively to. You spent a lot of time in the piece anticipating critiques, only some of them mine - I never found the game that 'weird'. So I get the tone of this thread now.

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amethystclassic.bsky.social @amethystclassic.bsky.social · Jun 26

I will, thanks

amethystclassic.bsky.social @amethystclassic.bsky.social · Jun 26

This blank appeal to authority is typical of kojima apologia. I'd be interested in a more substantive defense of, the long, extremely derivative dialogue scenes in death stranding 2.

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amethystclassic.bsky.social @amethystclassic.bsky.social · Jun 26

His games have 10 hours of cutscenes in them. what do you expect?

amethystclassic.bsky.social @amethystclassic.bsky.social · Jun 26

Disagree. Kojima criticism doesn’t boil down to that. He makes bad movies and if he was exposed to a wider audience it would be a disaster

amethystclassic.bsky.social @amethystclassic.bsky.social · May 29

“…while Solzhenitsyn suffered in the gulag, Amerena’s characters suffer in an environment even more soul-destroying: Melbourne literary dinner parties.”
Golden.

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amethystclassic.bsky.social @amethystclassic.bsky.social · May 8

This idea might stun you but George Lucas doesn't know much about politics and don't have much insight to offer on the topic.

amethystclassic.bsky.social @amethystclassic.bsky.social · May 8

lol. nerd

amethystclassic.bsky.social @amethystclassic.bsky.social · May 1

The idea that orthodox economic historians regard slavery as an economic positive is just straight up wrong, either way. There's a reason the south lost the war!

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amethystclassic.bsky.social @amethystclassic.bsky.social · May 1

idk what lunatic story you have invented - I didn't misread your initial post, your crackpot nonsense about slavery being a net economic benefit is still nonsense, as is your manner of defending it.

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amethystclassic.bsky.social @amethystclassic.bsky.social · May 1

You started this whole thing going off about layers of ignorance then instantly described the economic positivity of slavery as self evident. moral objections seem appropriate.

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amethystclassic.bsky.social @amethystclassic.bsky.social · May 1

People are misreading what stancil is even saying for the sake of shallow dunks. If you read the entire declaration of independence as intellectually and ideologically bankrupt becuase of it's historical context and references to slavery then you'll spend your entire life discovering nihilism.

amethystclassic.bsky.social @amethystclassic.bsky.social · May 1

If you believe social ideology should be judged entirely by their accompanying historical economic outcomes then you aren't going to have much ideology to choose from at the end of the day and you might as well check out

amethystclassic.bsky.social @amethystclassic.bsky.social · May 1

Because what? What do you imagine I'm missing here, specifically?

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