MolotovHalfEmpty

joined 4 years ago

A few almost certainly, but also the boomer age bracket is likely to both a) have had more actual life experience around abortion, having children, and when it's more or less responsible to do so and b) will have stronger memories of when abortion was considerably harder to access and the effects of that.

Don't know if they're Brits or not, but Roger Windsor, the chief executive of the NUM was later suspected of being a spy as documents that crossed his desk were regularly passed on to the police and Tim Bell - Margaret Thatcher's advisor, advertising executive, and supsected removed- who also claimed to have a mole in the TUC. The intelligence services also had either the same or a different informant in Arthur Scargill's inner circle codenamed Silver Fox.

The likes of Roger Windsor were active within the miner's movement and the talks over ending the strike and certainly took on helpful roles. But their other purpose was to gather documents, gossip, and intelligence to be used against the miners in negotiations by both the government and intelligence services who were also tapping people's phones.

A good way to get people to accept something or someone they otherwise wouldn't is to make it/them useful to people who would otherwise by suspicious of it/them.

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

"ok first you gotta listen to this 91 hour podcast series about belgium"

That seems like a long way to say he was a nonce. And that comes from the ukkk

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Who are you and what have you done with @FlakesBongler@hexbear.net !?

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago

It's the perfect cover because it can be both simultaneously to different audiences, creates controversy and engagement which drives publicity, and sells. Companies have been doing this since the invention of the picture record sleeve.

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Nuke Germany. posadist-nuke

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They do this every 4 years. As do the Labour party here in the UK. It has literally never worked.

BlueAnon, let's go! lets-fucking-go

I did yes. It's been the hottest day of the year here today and I have been day drinking. My phone catches typos but not the rest of my nonsense. Cheers.

You can't see it on the first kit really in that picture, but that's a map of Palestine on the sleeve. They also use the shape of the map as '1's for the numbers on their shirts

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Very. I've got these two currently:

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 12 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Club Deportivo Palestino is third division Chilean team from Santiago that was originally made up entirely of refugees from the Nakba (Santiago took more Palestinians than just about any city in the world at the time) and still advocate and fundraise for Palestine. I've got several of their excellent shirts.

 

I could do like 50 of these but I have to go to sleep.

Drop me a message comrades and we'll sit on the roof...

 

Still the best Blink 182 tune they ever recorded and one of the best pop-phnk tunes of the era.

Shame Tom DeLonge got suckered into being one of the Mirage Men.

 

Look, we all get lost sometimes.

No more so that the pseuds who decided to debate whether this was actually as song about an alien or not for years.

Desert highways all look the same.

 

Perhaps the best indie rock tune about about the UFO conspiracy ever recorded. They put it in a (really good) episode of the X Files to throw us off the scent.

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You can't put a cover on the sky

Remember the 90s? Remember when people rightly identified MIC projects? But then also built a weird (but rad) secular ideology around it.

Music was better when aliens existed.

 

Unfortunately American / British rock and roll influnence in (bad) Korea did help produce a few bangers inlcuding this fuzz soaked bit of psychadelic pop rock perfection.

Shin Joong-Hyun wasn't exactly a radical, but after the General's coup he was comissioned to write a song about the the glory of General Park Chung Hee. Instead he wrote a tune about the glory of Korea's natural beauty. He was arrested and had all his equipment confiscated.

Later he was impisoned again for selling weed, tortured, and sent to a 'psychiactic facility' where he remained imprisoned for years and banned for performing in (bad) Korea.

Unfortunately I've never known much apart from some other credits from liner notes about Lee Jung Hwa, who provides the song-making vocal.

 

A bunch of people stole a SWAT vehicle and were riding it around a parking lot. Someone add the Teriyaki Boyz track from Fast & Furious Tokyo Drift.

It's important I find it to prove my word, because what else do we have?

 

Because it's chefs-kiss

It makes me dare to dream. bloomer

 

I'm about 80% of the way through it and it's been not just a welcome distraction from a stressful couple of weeks, but one of my favourite things I've played in a long time.

Pretty chill, but still with some challenge on higher difficulties. Wonderful art style and satisfying fold-in on themselves level design. The writing is good and succinct with what could be just another cozy game unfolding into something more varied in tone and having genuine things to say about regional identity, tourism, and commerce at the expense of locals.

What really (pleasantly) surprised me was what a love letter it was to all sorts of great past video games. Sometimes via a specific mechanic, sometimes a themed level or ability. Persona, Mario Galaxy, Zelda, Ico, SSX Tricky, Fez, classic RPGs, you name it.

Anyway, I think it's pretty neat.

 

If a harcore band sings in mostly German, old fucks are wearing black and red pins by the bar, and I tell you (in English) at the bar that you're likely to get your arse kicked as American tourists, you probably shouldn't jump in with the regulars and then be all surprised-pika-messed-up when you catch a stray to the shouldershoulder to the chest.

 

"The threat of nuclear confrontation in South Africa escalated today when the ruling white military government of that besieged city-state unveiled a French-made neutron bomb and affirmed its willingness to use the three-megaton device as the city's last line of defense."

This is the news report in the actual first minute of RoboCop. Apartheid had fallen, the last retreat of capital is considering nuclear annihilation with the help of Europe. Reminder, RoboCop was made in '87, written before. If anyone has read some of the shadier history of apartheid SA at the time (bio-weapons, UK/western involvement etc) this is more of an oversimplification than something actually far-fetched.

Paul Verhoeven gets a lot of praise for big, bold, anti-capitalist and anti-fash themes. He should get more praise for the details.

 

Christmas in July.

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