Campaign to implement Height of Consent laws

As a leftist intellectual it is my JOB to build false consciousness

Remember when Carrie Fisher died and he immediately started going on about how hot they were for each other? Such a creep

Maybe if the Palestinians had voted for Hilary in 2016 they wouldn't be in this mess

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This is going to be a completely pointless comment, but I have to exorcize this demon:

• "oppressed" is already a value judgement, so none of this can be "foundational" in the way he is claiming
• oppression is a bad thing by definition, otherwise we'd call it something else
• so the oppressed are always right in not wanting to be oppressed, by definition

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He's literally saying "have you considered that bad things might actually be good"

Wow I think that might genuinely be the most racist thing I have ever read

I don't know if it's attention spans or w/e but it does feel like fewer people of all generations are reading now, and when they do read, they just want slop. Anything that demands engagement or effort from the reader is denounced as 'badly written'. It drives me a bit mad tbh, because at the same time that people smugly reject good literature, you can see that they're unfulfilled reading the same old dreck for the millionth time.

A common thing I used to see on Book Twitter was people complaining at the lack of beautifully written prose that focuses on the interior life and I just want to scream THAT'S MODERNISM YOU'RE DESCRIBING MODERNISM, READ THE WAVES, PLEASE READ THE WAVES, IT WILL MOVE YOU SO DEEPLY, but the thing is that while they want that, they also only read YA dystopian fiction written in the past simple as an iron rule.

Feel like the obvious response here is "what do we have the power to change then?" Because healthcare isn't up for debate either, or ending the regime of daily extrajudicial street executions, or doing anything to ease extreme poverty, or even reproductive rights when you consider the balance of the supreme court...

Lmao no one has any right to be surprised by this — his whole election pitch was 'I solemnly swear to govern as an awful right wing bastard, because that's what Normal Britons want'

Remarking over a coffee that there were far fewer homeless people than a couple of years previously, suddenly realizing that they had all died

But the contention here would be that the business owner has been entrusted with power — e.g. control of a factory and its workforce — ultimately by the state

The thing these people don't understand is that some of us live with other human beings, and don't want to have to spend the entire gaming session looking over our shoulder in case somebody sees us playing embarrassing teenage wank material. This is literally why I never finished The Witcher 3 lol