#Orwell

Derek (Lid on Likes) (#Kraken Emeritus)

PereGrimmer

There is something very deep about Hume rediscovering Buddha's insight that we don't suffer because we lack the object of desire but rather because we desire it and his friend

Resist the Hologram - Stu Cvrk

STUinSD

Thread – Possible American Dystopias in 20211. Dystopia: an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one. 2. I read

Jamie

jamierusso

25 action-packed expositions to supercharge your writing mega-thread 1/ @jk_rowling "On Writing"https://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/on-writing/ 2/ @paulocoelho "How I Write"https://paulocoelhoblog.com/2012/02/16/how-i-wr

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

One of the great delights of this decade is @Scarfolk, @richard_littler's long-running art-project about a English horror-town trapped in an endless, looping Thatcherite decade, whose artifacts are pitch-perfect comments on

Counter Tyranny

TyrannyCounter

THREAD :: The Nazis & Marxist-Leninists came from the same socialist, proto-fascist nonsense. The Nazis wanted superiority of race, while the Marxists wanted domination of all equally.Both are evil. As

Rohan Sachdeva

iRohanSachdeva

Two things that definitely need to be simplified/made more accessible to the average Indian:~Understanding of Tax Procedure~Awareness of LawsFor things that make up such a large portion of our lives,

Joseph Moore

Yardsale_Mind

1. Orwell says control is complete when ppl do what you command solely because you say so. You command clearly nonsensical or false things to be sure compliance is not

Amro Ali

_amroali

Since 2011, I’ve noticed anti-Semitic books, eg Protocols of the elders of Zion etc have greatly decreased in popularity among Cairo’s book sellers. This is not to mention anti-Jewish conspiracies

Justin Podur

justinpodur

So, after reading Losurdo's book on nonviolence, a thread on why Hannah Arendt is no guide for leftists (probably most of you know this, so skip if you already knew).

Becky Horsbrugh

BeckyRLH

Just about everyone I know seems to be finding everything a bit tough at the moment.So here's a thread of writers with their pets (and those of us who have

Jared Tate ©️

jaredctate

1/12 I do not support or condone violently storming the US Capitol. It saddens me as I once worked there as a United States Senate Page. The Truth is the

Antonio García Martínez

antoniogm

SF School Board leadership is lazy, incompetent, and flat-out dumb, as Chotiner dissects so mercilessly here.Any tyranny of ideology represents an avenue to power for the thoroughly mediocre, and these

Peter Ellis

almostconverge

Mini Hungarian language lesson: entrepreneurs.Contrary to what one might think, private enterprise wasn't entirely unheard of in Communist Hungary. In fact as the 1980s was drawing to a close, more

Matthew

Matthews_angst

I think we need to stop beating about the bush and call a spade a spade.I'm tired of hearing the term deep state. since I was a boy I have

Jeannette Ng 吳志麗

jeannette_ng

I can't stop thinking about the ways in which 1984, a book all about how language can shape your ability to resist, to rebel, has given us the language to

Nathan J Robinson

NathanJRobinson

The suspension of @jeremycorbyn from the Labour party is one of the most outrageous acts of anti-left repression to occur in a democratic country in living memory. @Keir_Starmer should be

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