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Kimkatya in: The Thread That Wouldn't Die

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pet peeve: when a lecturer gets annoyed at singular people in an entire lecture of over a hundred people whispering somewhere. not because it’s a fan of whispering during a lecture but because the lecturer pointing it out to the hall will disrupt the lecture way more than the whispering
 
Kimkatya said:
pet peeve: when a lecturer gets annoyed at singular people in an entire lecture of over a hundred people whispering somewhere. not because it’s a fan of whispering during a lecture but because the lecturer pointing it out to the hall will disrupt the lecture way more than the whispering
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HEAR HEAR

I had the same problem in college back in 2017-not helped by the fact that the lecturer behaved and still behaves like Michael Barrymore on speed.
 
whenever it reads shakespeare it gets the sense it’s supposed to be enjoying the language and by god it never does. just read the tempest act 3 scene 1 and it wonders if it would have enjoyed it more if it gave a single shit about miranda and ferdinand, but since it was literally love at first sight it feels like the actors need to carry a hell of a heavy load to make this feel in any way real. The issues with women apply in spades too, of course.

It misses Sebastian and Antonio wittily sniping from the sidelines. As usual, shakespeare’s villains are more interesting. Virtue usually makes for less interesting dialogue.
 
Kimkatya said:
whenever it reads shakespeare it gets the sense it’s supposed to be enjoying the language and by god it never does. just read the tempest act 3 scene 1 and it wonders if it would have enjoyed it more if it gave a single shit about miranda and ferdinand, but since it was literally love at first sight it feels like the actors need to carry a hell of a heavy load to make this feel in any way real. The issues with women apply in spades too, of course.

It misses Sebastian and Antonio wittily sniping from the sidelines. As usual, shakespeare’s villains are more interesting. Virtue usually makes for less interesting dialogue.
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There's a reason two of Shakespeare's most famous three plays make the main dude the villain whether reluctantly or otherwise, I guess.
 
Liberty Bound

here lies the
Liberty Bound
shipwrecked at anchor

the sand falls between your toes -
rash-burned and weak,
skin drawing from your nails

the salt burns the wounds
of men gone to bone
there would be hubris here
if there were ambition
 
most sources on christian heresies are angry monks writing “and then they sloppily made out with the devil while screaming “I HATE BABIES AND WANT TO FUCK THE BISHOP’S WIFE” before skateboarding away menacingly. we must kill them all”
 
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most sources on christian heresies are angry monks writing “and then they sloppily made out with the devil while screaming “I HATE BABIES AND WANT TO FUCK THE BISHOP’S WIFE” before skateboarding away menacingly. we must kill them all”
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As someone flirting with Marcionism...
 
Some political thoughts:
1. the post-soviet movement of western liberal democracy towards policy-focused capitalistic compromise politics has resulted in becoming entirely unable to act with any kind of decisive action on modern extremism
2. the market’s ability to consistently and always work faster and with more authority than state institutions has resulted in state governments being unable to effectively counter the political whims of capitalists
3. the press's freedom is poisoned by these capitalistic whims, as real journalism is buried under the rapid increase of information speed with the rise of the internet, resulting in a press which serves the same goal to serve shareholders as opposed to serving a vital function as the fourth estate
4. reactionary nationalism is increasing in response to the inevitable globalisation of populations as business responds to a requirement to shareholders for constant unfettered growth
5. this vague populist nativism in the west is ideologically weak, allowing it to be captured by locally distinct forms of far-right politicians, often with no real policy ideas in themselves but often representing a feeling of general desperation
6. liberal democracy has become taken for granted in stable western nations
6. all of this has resulted in a political system in which a level of status quo acceptance is necessary to interact within it, no matter how much the status quo is in the process of being overturned, resulting in disillusionment with liberal ideas among the electorate who have a subconscious idea that those liberal institutions will maintain themselves despite their opposition to them
 
tankies online speak of the historical debate over the holodomor like it’s Brave Real Academics defending Stalin from the undue nazikranian tyrants but as far as it can tell the debate is “was it intentional discrimination or simple neglect”, which, speaking as someone who also lived in a country that experienced a massive generational famine made worse by the consistent inaction of a self-superior foreign national government, it feels is not a particularly comforting argument
 
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tankies online speak of the historical debate over the holodomor like it’s Brave Real Academics defending Stalin from the undue nazikranian tyrants but as far as it can tell the debate is “was it intentional discrimination or simple neglect”, which, speaking as someone who also lived in a country that experienced a massive generational famine made worse by the consistent inaction of a self-superior foreign national government, it feels is not a particularly comforting argument
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Also there are numerous records,written and verbal accounts,any kind of evidence you’d require that shows it was intentional,all widely available to everyone. Like with any other genocides,their main arguments are built solely on maintaining ignorance.
 
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