Marxist Monster Mayhem
@calderwood.bsky.social
He/him. Writer, teacher, communist. New fiction in the Dalhousie Review issue 104.3. “I’ll be around in the dark.” 🏴 🇵🇸
And he made a video explaining how he meant all of it. I hope they play it on the news whenever he gets arrested and the forensics guys are going through his hard drives.
November 16, 2025 at 4:13 AM
And he made a video explaining how he meant all of it. I hope they play it on the news whenever he gets arrested and the forensics guys are going through his hard drives.
I do think about it every time I see her in things.
November 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I do think about it every time I see her in things.
Surely a band has been named “Enormous Foreskin” by now
November 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Surely a band has been named “Enormous Foreskin” by now
Oh I know. Just that scene of Zoe Kazan talking about breakfast cereal is enough to break my heart.
November 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Oh I know. Just that scene of Zoe Kazan talking about breakfast cereal is enough to break my heart.
Also like, Philip Roth already gave you the “what would a fascist government in America look like” novel and David Simon filmed it during the first Trump administration… and nobody watched it.
November 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Also like, Philip Roth already gave you the “what would a fascist government in America look like” novel and David Simon filmed it during the first Trump administration… and nobody watched it.
It’s why I stopped teaching “Harrison Bergeron,” because when my classes did correctly interpret it, they were left with a sour lesson. *Too much* equity in society was not one of society’s main problems in 1950 and it isn’t now— Kurt was just doing a “participation trophy” rant 50 years early.
November 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
It’s why I stopped teaching “Harrison Bergeron,” because when my classes did correctly interpret it, they were left with a sour lesson. *Too much* equity in society was not one of society’s main problems in 1950 and it isn’t now— Kurt was just doing a “participation trophy” rant 50 years early.
Class warfare? Let’s gooooooo!
November 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Class warfare? Let’s gooooooo!
It is interesting. A non-zero number switched in this way for sure. I just suspect that the overall trend was “being duped into voting for a Liberal name on a ballot who finished a distant third anyway.”
November 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
It is interesting. A non-zero number switched in this way for sure. I just suspect that the overall trend was “being duped into voting for a Liberal name on a ballot who finished a distant third anyway.”
I’m sure there are individuals. I just suspect that the shifts in those ridings that swung NDP-CPC were NDP-LPC moves in far greater numbers, with the CPC vote staying still.
November 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I’m sure there are individuals. I just suspect that the shifts in those ridings that swung NDP-CPC were NDP-LPC moves in far greater numbers, with the CPC vote staying still.