Nice, got a big train journey coming up, excited to listen. Cheers.

Ten Days That Shook The World covers it too, as a personal account.

Bullshit Jobs by Graeber has a very distinct voice, with it either being Graebers reflections on his own life, or him responding to letters people have sent him about their experiences.

The Michael Parenti lectures are great too. All free on YouTube. Usually he’s speaking at a lecture and reading some excerpts from his new book. His signature is that he always has a problem with the mic and complains about it in very Italian American fashion. Very witty and spirited. I find Parenti endlessly charming. I kind of love that man. Just pick a lecture you like the sound of, and have a watch/listen. They’re reposted unofficially on Spotify under ‘Not Michael Parenti’. I’d recommend the ones where he talks about movies and media to start with - they’re the most joke filled, and pop-cultureish, which makes for easier listening.

Quite dry but a lot of Engels early work is done sort of like an account, where he visits a place and reports the facts and how he felt:

You could title this ‘Engels goes to England!’

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/condition-working-class/ch08.htm

‘Ten Days That Shook The World’ is good too - an account of the Russian Revolution from an American socialist who watched it all happen.

Same, at Amazon, except one day I found out the speakers were Bluetooth connectable, and you could link multiple sections together. I put on ‘Sixteen Tonnes’ and let the bad times roll.

I posted a video of it online, and it turned out South Park already did that.

didn’t know we had so many furries

seriously I saw someone somehow reach the hexbear comment character limit and self reply with three more pages of comments of the same length

a real moment

Well, they’ve done it before, even as specifically in Ukraine - Operation Aerodynamic. More broadly for Europe - Operation Gladio.

The result? Business continues as usual. The truth is that the far right has basically never not been funded in Europe.

If there’s resistance, you get Years of Lead, ala Italy at the time of Gladio. If there’s no resistance, business continues to continue as usual.

what e bikes y’all got

I bought one but it’s so fucking heavy (20-25kg) that it’s sort of impractical

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Not that, either. I’m beginning to think it is a figment of my imagination.

I’m IP banned from Reddit for some milquetoast Israel criticism. Legit, I stumbled upon r/Judaism or something, and as a Jewish person I pointed out a couple of times (with lib-esque civility language I might add) that anti-zionism is not the same as anti-Semitism. IP-banned. No other history of Reddit bans. Any new account I make gets banned within an hour.

No, I’m aware of those too. I am somewhat sure it was a re-enactment of a famous war image by… if it wasn’t a team of journalists… it was at least someone else of that sort of class who definitely SHOULDN’T be re-enacting such a photo.

that can’t be real

that’s either fake or CIA

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Gen Z love Radiohead

I feel like they’ve got more listeners than ever as of late

37 generations doesn’t take us back to pre-human times, does it? Or is that not what you’re saying?

I think he already had that moment - when his SNL got cancelled. Listening to the old podcasts too you can tell he was quite reactionary. I think some of it still boils under the surface.

In all though, like a lot of the American comedians who have ‘alright’ moments, they tend to skew ‘apolitical’ libertarian but with free healthcare opinions. The types that Bernie could get to vote for him rather than Trump, when ordinarily they wouldnt support a different democrat demon like Clinton/Biden/Harris.

I went through a big phase of listening to MSSP. I think a big part of what they’ve got going is a feeling of authenticity, and security in themselves. I think that goes a long way in stopping true weirdo brainworms from taking hold - because so much of the Right especially is wrapped up in weird masculinity complexes and WASP self worth problems.