Tag: Fascism
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Emperor’s New Clothes
I wish the TV debates had gone like this interesting cutup from Cassetteboy…And I’m curious about that film, the one that caused the ‘lunchgate’ from a freelancer who couldn’t go eat on a park bench (as I would), and just moaned about Russell on behalf of his employer, who would drop you in a heartbeat!…
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On terrorism
There have been some frankly awful analyses of the attacks in Paris a week ago, and the fallout from them. Either from surprisingly from my side, the left and anarchists seemingly serving our masters by wanting to take freedom of speech away like desperate young Tankies also doing a very good impression of hand-wringing liberals,…
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Black Friday: Ferguson or Modern Warfare?
Robert Cohen of St Louis Post Despatch posted this image of Ferguson last night, it looks like a dystopian computer game, the sort that will be flying off the shelves in parts of the western world in tomorrow’s ‘Black Friday’ – but not in places like this. Sadly it’s real, it’s not a cut-scene, and…
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PREACH! On RuPaul and Hashtag Activists
Firstly, this video by TS Madison is severely NSFW, but she preaches many truths as someone trans who isn’t buying the anti-RuPaul schtick. She tells it like it is, that those who are moaning about this word or that are entitled, rich, usually white, middle class. And quite often they complain about being invisible (on…
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The gradual acid drip of fascism
Something I’ve always struggled with it certain labels, certain accusations towards the UK government and security services. ‘Police state’ ‘Nazi’ ‘Fascism’ ‘Stasi’ – all very easy to blurt out and demean the original usage, and when using them you think about some cold grey depressing country (oh it is the same!) in Eastern Europe with…
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I’m a feminist & Pride
Yes just like this video says far better than I could say it, I am, as much as possible a feminist (I hate saying I’m an -ist about anything because it suggests you’re finished, perfect, formed, kind of the reverse of ‘practising homosexual’ – it’s much more fluid than that). I don’t see a difference…