Emil Paladin
@emil-paladin.bsky.social
Socialist, Cis, Male, Bisexual. Resisting despair.
Binged the Sugar series yesterday: Colin Farrell, California neo-noir. One of those shows that's worth watching, despite falling apart at the end. The twist is ridiculous. But so much is so very, very good; Fernando Mireilles directed much of it, beautifully. But it could've been so much better.
January 25, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Binged the Sugar series yesterday: Colin Farrell, California neo-noir. One of those shows that's worth watching, despite falling apart at the end. The twist is ridiculous. But so much is so very, very good; Fernando Mireilles directed much of it, beautifully. But it could've been so much better.
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They want you to feel hopeless and believe that nothing can improve.
January 23, 2026 at 6:39 PM
They want you to feel hopeless and believe that nothing can improve.
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It's incredible how effective transphobia is as a litmus test for SO many issues. Every time I find a new pro-surveillance tech stooge, they're transphobic. I think people need to understand how tightly the belief that the internet is turning everyone trans is bound up w mass surveillance efforts
Jonathan Haidt Promoted a Fringe Theory on Trans Youth — Assigned
The author of “The Anxiety Generation” told Margaret Hoover for PBS that young people become trans due to peer contagion effects. There is no evidence for this claim.
www.assignedmedia.org
January 23, 2026 at 4:18 AM
It's incredible how effective transphobia is as a litmus test for SO many issues. Every time I find a new pro-surveillance tech stooge, they're transphobic. I think people need to understand how tightly the belief that the internet is turning everyone trans is bound up w mass surveillance efforts
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The Coup In Venezuela Is An Assault on the Whole World
youtu.be/zH1CuGLXEns
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The Coup In Venezuela Is An Assault on the Whole World
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January 6, 2026 at 11:41 PM
The Coup In Venezuela Is An Assault on the Whole World
youtu.be/zH1CuGLXEns
youtu.be/zH1CuGLXEns
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January 5, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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Dear working class people,
You were never meant to pay for your own existence. The term "earning a living" is unnatural. It should be a crime for anyone to force us to pay money for our basic human needs/rights; housing, food, clean drinking water, heating, education, etc.
Capitalism is unnatural.
You were never meant to pay for your own existence. The term "earning a living" is unnatural. It should be a crime for anyone to force us to pay money for our basic human needs/rights; housing, food, clean drinking water, heating, education, etc.
Capitalism is unnatural.
December 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Dear working class people,
You were never meant to pay for your own existence. The term "earning a living" is unnatural. It should be a crime for anyone to force us to pay money for our basic human needs/rights; housing, food, clean drinking water, heating, education, etc.
Capitalism is unnatural.
You were never meant to pay for your own existence. The term "earning a living" is unnatural. It should be a crime for anyone to force us to pay money for our basic human needs/rights; housing, food, clean drinking water, heating, education, etc.
Capitalism is unnatural.
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Spoiler alert: it's around 564,000 deaths a year at the time of this article.
Half a million people die a year just from the effects of US sanctions. This is how much damage is caused just from sanctions. This is what economic terrorism looks like.
Half a million people die a year just from the effects of US sanctions. This is how much damage is caused just from sanctions. This is what economic terrorism looks like.
Effects of international sanctions on age-specific mortality: a cross-national panel data analysis
Sanctions have substantial adverse effects on public health, with a death toll similar
to that of wars. Our findings underscore the need to rethink sanctions as a foreign-policy
tool, highlighting the...
www.thelancet.com
December 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Spoiler alert: it's around 564,000 deaths a year at the time of this article.
Half a million people die a year just from the effects of US sanctions. This is how much damage is caused just from sanctions. This is what economic terrorism looks like.
Half a million people die a year just from the effects of US sanctions. This is how much damage is caused just from sanctions. This is what economic terrorism looks like.
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Like a poor marksman, liberal nationalists keep missing the target. Adam Serwer is a terrific writer, but his latest piece in @theatlantic.com is an object lesson.
#resistancehistory
How Liberal Nationalism Helps the Far Right
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#resistancehistory
How Liberal Nationalism Helps the Far Right
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How Liberal Nationalism Helps the Far Right: A Resistance History Object Lesson
YouTube video by Tad Stoermer
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December 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Like a poor marksman, liberal nationalists keep missing the target. Adam Serwer is a terrific writer, but his latest piece in @theatlantic.com is an object lesson.
#resistancehistory
How Liberal Nationalism Helps the Far Right
youtu.be/zJ49gA2cqS0
#resistancehistory
How Liberal Nationalism Helps the Far Right
youtu.be/zJ49gA2cqS0
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Parenti called out Chomsky for being the same "left intelligencia" he seems to rail against in his books. All the way in 1999. Seems like history has proven Parenti correct.
If you base your ideological standpoint and arguments from Chomsky's works, you need to rethink your decisions.
If you base your ideological standpoint and arguments from Chomsky's works, you need to rethink your decisions.
December 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Parenti called out Chomsky for being the same "left intelligencia" he seems to rail against in his books. All the way in 1999. Seems like history has proven Parenti correct.
If you base your ideological standpoint and arguments from Chomsky's works, you need to rethink your decisions.
If you base your ideological standpoint and arguments from Chomsky's works, you need to rethink your decisions.
Just rewatched Guardians of the Gakaxy 3. Was shocked at how much the High Evolutionary sounds like Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, and Elon Musk.
December 23, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Just rewatched Guardians of the Gakaxy 3. Was shocked at how much the High Evolutionary sounds like Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, and Elon Musk.
It's so frustrating reading all the anti-Trump posts that show zero historical context. So few see how the Democrats and Republicans together created the conditions for Trump's victory over the past several decades. There was no pre-Trump normalcy and there will be no post-Trump normalcy.
December 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
It's so frustrating reading all the anti-Trump posts that show zero historical context. So few see how the Democrats and Republicans together created the conditions for Trump's victory over the past several decades. There was no pre-Trump normalcy and there will be no post-Trump normalcy.
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I made a long video about the "someone's got to do it" memes, where they came from, what they're really saying, and what these posts reveal about collective trauma, political cynicism, our decaying faith in democratic institutions and so so much more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXrj...
May 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I made a long video about the "someone's got to do it" memes, where they came from, what they're really saying, and what these posts reveal about collective trauma, political cynicism, our decaying faith in democratic institutions and so so much more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXrj...