anachronist
@anachronist@midwest.social
- Comment on Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real 6 days ago:
Adam Curtis is the Cassandra of our age. I first saw Century of the Self when I was young. It depressed me and left me in a funk for weeks. Hypernormalization is great and yeah, a rewatch every year is warranted as more of its vision comes true.
- Comment on Shooting an unarmed woman who was just trying to walk home: just LAPD things 2 weeks ago:
That’s actually what Hollywood did until the red scare. Hence the “keystone cops” of early cinema.
- Comment on Shooting an unarmed woman who was just trying to walk home: just LAPD things 2 weeks ago:
Bombs for peace ™.
- Comment on Shooting an unarmed woman who was just trying to walk home: just LAPD things 2 weeks ago:
“Rubber” bullets are steel bullets coated in rubber.
- Comment on Remember 2 weeks ago:
It was the largest spontaneous global protest in human history and we accomplished fuck-all. 🤷
- Comment on Remember 2 weeks ago:
As a guy who spent the first day of the Iraq war trapped in a police kettle, yes I know.
When W’s rehabilitation began during Trump 1 the libs were saying “Cheney was the real bad guy”. Then along came Kamala.
- Comment on Remember 2 weeks ago:
“The American way of life is not negotiable” – Liberal hero “normal President” George W Bush.
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 1 month ago:
Renters have two options:
- get fucked
- move (and get fucked)
At least if the homeowner sells they get the windfall.
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 1 month ago:
I was living in a neighborhood that gentrified and my rent went up a “life altering” amount. I had to move to a different, shittier neighborhood and had nothing to show for it. If a property owner has the same thing happen, they may be forced to sell, but they will get a massive windfall. Renters get nothing besides a kick in the butt.
- Comment on Israeli TV producer calls for 'Gaza holocaust, gas chambers' 1 month ago:
It’s really incredible. Then again, there’s a theory I heard that Israelis like it when Jews feel/are threatened elsewhere in the world, because it promotes Zionism.
- Comment on The US is Collapsing Like the USSR – So What Comes Next 1 month ago:
Highly influential people who where loyal to Gorbachev: Purged and often imprisoned after the coup attempt.
Highly influential people who were loyal to Yeltsin: Oligarchs.
- Comment on In One Colorado Town, People Experiencing Homelessness Can Sleep in Their Car — if They Have a Job 2 months ago:
Yeah. In this case it’s the resort town not wanting to provide living wages or housing for their contingent workforce.
- Comment on This speaks for itself 3 months ago:
In both cases it’s millennials. It’s even called “millennial grey.”
- Comment on lol 4 months ago:
FDIC wasn’t on the hook for much of the SVB deposits because they were over the insurance limit, until they realized that wealthy people were going to lose money and retroactively decided to pony up.
- Comment on Hyper-Normalization 4 months ago:
This is the entire Adam Curtis documentary on hypernormalization:
- Comment on Hyper-Normalization 4 months ago:
Yeah 2015 was a revolutionary war, but the good guys were crushed and the bad guys won. ☹️
- Comment on Elon Musk uses cybertruck explosion to show Tesla can remotely unlock and monitor vehicles 5 months ago:
“Everyone may be surprised to learn that our car didn’t just explode on its own. We can prove it using the spy camera recordings we have of the owner!”
- Comment on Whoopi Goldberg calling herself 'a working person' garners criticism from 'The View' fans 7 months ago:
Don’t forget futuristic space bartender.
