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Fan account for ‘Why Theory’ podcast, because Todd McGowan and Ryan Engley are beautiful souls who can’t be bothered to respond to all my thoughts about their excellent podcast

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I'd really like to read this, is there gift link

17.10.2025 19:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My favorite way to deal with conservatives irl when they try to ragebait is to answer with "whatever you say short bus" and when they get mad, which they absolutely will, I gaslight and pretend I didn't say short bus. Works every. single. time. Match their energy.

14.10.2025 20:15 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

Mark Bray and his family are being forced to move to Europe because of incitement by right-wing operatives because he wrote a book about antifascism.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

07.10.2025 16:25 — 👍 50    🔁 29    💬 0    📌 2
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Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

This is notable www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

07.10.2025 19:05 — 👍 109    🔁 23    💬 1    📌 2

One random dataset I'd love to have would be which Premier League club had the highest percentage of fans that were an only child growing up.

Then I'd write a great feature about why it was obviously Manchester United

07.10.2025 20:43 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Confronting Capitalism with Vivek Chibber Confronting Capitalism with Vivek Chibber cuts through the chaos to provide a conceptual and historical framework for understanding how capitalism functions across the globe. Conversations span politi...

'Why Theory' Psychoanalysis and Capitalism - October 8, 2019

The Origins of Capitalism
What primitive accumulation means and how colonialism actually affected European development.

08.10.2025 01:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

finished 'The Rules of the Game'
It's kind of bonkers
The ending is very reminiscent of 'Roadhouse'
Still have to finish chapter 2 of Todd's book which actually discusses the book

02.10.2025 18:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Road House (1989) ⭐ 6.7 | Action, Thriller 1h 54m | R

March 31, 2023
The Radical Western
Roadhouse is great but Blazing Saddles is sublime

01.10.2025 14:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Blazing Saddles (1974) ⭐ 7.7 | Comedy, Western 1h 33m | R
01.10.2025 14:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

2/6/2022
Superhero Film

Random thought Bond can be fearless because he has no wife or family

In 300 its the reverse, men who already have a family can be fearless

30.09.2025 19:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Lambert Simnel - Wikipedia

maybe

30.09.2025 16:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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D. B. Cooper - Wikipedia

not exactly a heist because he did it on his own

30.09.2025 13:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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1907 Tiflis bank robbery - Wikipedia
30.09.2025 13:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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September 11 attacks - Wikipedia
30.09.2025 13:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

September 1, 2024

Heist Film, great episode

Now trying to think of the best IRL heist scenarios

30.09.2025 13:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Contemplating how the NBA is such a great symbolic representation of Capitalism and Psychoanalytical theory

Jordan and the constant GOAT conversation and Male Sexuation

LeBron being a bridge to a new dynamic

Kyrie being the post collective bargaining max contract multiple kings poster child

29.09.2025 13:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The sheer volume of corporate robbery since privatisation has now been revealed Common Wealth has revealed the amount shareholders have been paid in dividends since privatisation of water, energy, rail and mail

The real face of privatisation in the UK.
If someone tells you that privatisation means "competition, lower bills and better services", show them the real-world data.

17.09.2025 13:58 — 👍 94    🔁 46    💬 7    📌 7
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I find it good communication.

18.09.2025 21:30 — 👍 200    🔁 96    💬 15    📌 7

Bernie not being a sufficiently anti racist, should basically be a non sequitur, since when does that matter. also capitalism is anti-racist, that's why there is always terrorism. Jim Crow doesn't work without the terrorism

27.09.2025 21:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

May 7, 2019
A Signifier of the Left

My Thoughts
Conservative is against Liberal
Progressive is against Conservative

Liberal is against whatever was happening in olden days, maybe?
Socialist?
Communist?

27.09.2025 21:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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More footage from the Portland “ICE fishing” as requested.

ICE is retreating from the Gen Z’s wall of donut fishing lures. They’re intimidated by the ingenuity.

#Portland #MeltICE #GenZ

25.09.2025 16:34 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

does anyone have more fotage

25.09.2025 14:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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What Was the Hipster? -- New York Magazine - Nymag A critical history of our era’s most controversial archetype, beginning with the sleazy, mocking late-nineties fetishization of lower-middle-class whiteness and ending, perhaps, with political and art...
25.09.2025 14:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What Was The Hipster?: A Sociological Investigation What Was The Hipster?: A Sociological Investigation [n+1, Mark Greif, Christian Lorentzen, Jace Clayton, Reid Pillifant, Rob Horning, Jennifer Baumgardner, Patrice Evans, Margo Jefferson, Rob Moor, Christopher Glazek, Dayna Tortorici] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. What Was The Hipster?: A Sociological Investigation

2/10/2019
Todd, the host who dresses like a hipster, says he doesn't know what a hipster is

25.09.2025 14:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Maybe I missed it but this is the first time it’s at least surfaced to my attention that a Democrat has expressed outrage at the fact that this administration is just randomly murdering people on boats

24.09.2025 13:30 — 👍 30    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

How does this not have 800,000,000 reskeets?

23.09.2025 11:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Portland has unlocked epic rage baiting through "ICE fishing."
Gen Z are rising to the occasion in creative ways.

#MeltICE #Portland #NoKings

22.09.2025 00:03 — 👍 185    🔁 50    💬 13    📌 10
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Broadview ICE Protesters Now Plan To Rally Daily, With Goal Of Shutting Down Facility Organizers are calling for people to resist ICE's immigration enforcement activity by hosting daily protests at the Broadview facility,

Broadview ICE Protesters Now Plan To Rally Daily, With Goal Of Shutting Down Facility blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/22/b...

22.09.2025 21:30 — 👍 30    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
Joe Burrow Frustrated Hospital Won’t Take Bengals’ Insurance

Joe Burrow Frustrated Hospital Won’t Take Bengals’ Insurance

Joe Burrow Frustrated Hospital Won’t Take Bengals’ Insurance https://theonion.com/joe-burrow-frustrated-hospital-wont-take-bengals-insurance/

19.09.2025 21:00 — 👍 918    🔁 91    💬 63    📌 11

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