A lot of videos on RedNote are showing women with their scarves barely hanging or, or even not wearing head scarves, so I'm thinking the eternal battle between Iranian women and the morality police is going well.
Frank
Theres someone who carves gems on rednote but 8 can't remember the account name.
Yeah I'm just kind of shocked that there apparently isn't any evidence of federal coordination of a nation wide violent police response. It's a lot easier for me to accept "The feds helped/coordinated/did it" than believing a bunch of useless uni admins pulled together effective national scale police repression without help, especially given the enormous number of mechanisms that have been built up since 9/11 for exactly this kind of wide-spread repression.
Is gambling just totally legal now?
I would pay money to see Brace Belden kill and eat Ethan Klein live on twitch.
I'm a huge fan of any "powered/timed by/initiatied by this vial of super bad chemicals we stuck in it" device.
I remember something about radio proximity fuses being a wildly powerful innovation and the Nazis just could not figure out how the fuck the Allies made their shells explode at the correct time. And when they considered radio they were like "Nah, no fucking way, there's no way that's whjat it actually is".
For me personally; Star Wars and related woke but still corporate media have a level of removal from actual events that allows me to get through it without crying. I can't watch Battle of Algiers. It's too much. Like basically any story about real world struggle, even if it's pretty fictionalized, has me ugly crying these days. : (
The way star wars is is that there's a good one (a new hope) and then there's a gooder and more militant one (Empire) and then there is a later gooder and even more militant one (Revenge) and then an even more militant one (Rogue One) and then a most militant one where John Star War looks directly in to the camera and says "Go outside and shoot a police officer with a light saber".
I'm a big advocate of "Hey, I'm uncertain what the vibe is with us and I want to clearly state my position to make sure we're both on the same page"
Like, rather than waiting for a "Good time" to tell them. It's super awkward but it cuts out a bunch of ambiguity.
More of my days than not these days.
If you can handle tiktok style social media RedNote is worth checking out. Seeing people having class consciousness and openly supporting communism in the comments lifts my spirits. Seeing that there really are a ton of communists around the world, that it's possible for a big country to be full of people with good political education, it helps.