emile wilmar

[🅱️askerville @WB_Baskerville]

Empiricist philosophers be like “Today I will fight universals” “Damn universals got hands bruh”

[emile wilmar @EmileWilmar]

@LouisABlanqui @tropicalcamatte Wait was that person pushing hegemony & socialist strategy a radical element of the DSA?

[emile wilmar @EmileWilmar]

Reading Nairn again!!!!

[emile wilmar @EmileWilmar]

@harbingerofwoke Syriza

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

Vance resembles one of those characters in Dostoyevsky who has been humiliated by life in his youth & seeks out forever afterward circumstances that instead of elevating him will humiliate him again; his humiliation then frees the resentment, rage, spite he would otherwise suppress. even if he becomes the next US president, the prediction is the same cycle repeated endlessly.

[Can't be blank @cheapncheerless]

Hearing you loud and clear, your holiness

[emile wilmar @EmileWilmar]

Brits don’t whine they moan

[Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer]

Guys this isn't a political observation it's about how my English friends don't let me whine much and don't whine to me much

[emile wilmar @EmileWilmar]

@NewLeftEViews @samhaselby Yea but that’s not too dissimilar from NZ under Savage, the working conditions my grandparents were used to are still there in Australia, question is what forces are at play that kept them in Australia & lost them in NZ?

[emile wilmar @EmileWilmar]

@NewLeftEViews @samhaselby Their government was smart enough to not fall into a Dutch trap, & they’ve got a good education system, banking system real estate market & agricultural sector, & they can’t crack down on labour too much or the world runs out of metal

[emile wilmar @EmileWilmar]

@NewLeftEViews @samhaselby They get 200 kiwis a day, many of which experienced in heavy machinery flying over. They just have strong & militant unions because of raw mineral exports

[emile wilmar @EmileWilmar]

@wychstreet Pasolini was a catholic

[henry cooke @henrycooke]

Winston Peters stops his crown car, pulls down the window to talk to reporters, tells us “the Verian poll is crap,” then drives on in.

[emile wilmar @EmileWilmar]

& electric vehicles. Spending on green infrastructure that reduces cost of living.
But instead we have the New Zealand Green Party

[emile wilmar @EmileWilmar]

If the Green Party were at all serious about gaining votes, or coming into power, in a global fuel crisis & an election year; they’d be talking about free public transport, expanding rail, renationalising the power grid & a trade deal with China to procure huge amounts of solar /

[emile wilmar @EmileWilmar]

@smithkstead Worst bit I remember was having to regularly make an inbuilt small but fixable fuckup into a prop so that a Disney executive could write in his report that he was keeping the contractor in check, because if we didn’t we’d have to remake the same prop to justify him being there

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: A worker died at an Amazon, $AMZN, warehouse in Oregon last week, per MorePerfectUnion.

Employees were told to keep working for over an hour as the body remained on the floor.

One manager told the workers, “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work.”

[New Left EViews @NewLeftEViews]

The UK is a sovereign state. Imagine, then, another state claims as a ‘buffer zone’ and issues a ‘military evacuation order’ for (read: annexes) a contiguous area 1.4x of the size of Wales with a population equivalent to London and Manchester combined (17% or 11.4m), systematically destroys every settlement therein, internally displaced the population of all Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, does not permit them to return, bombs entire apartment blocks in London and kills the equivalent of city like Oxford or Cambridge.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Hundreds of millions of people throughout the world are immersed in extreme poverty. Yet, disproportionate wealth remains in the hands of a few. It is an unjust scenario, in the face of which we cannot fail to question ourselves and commit to change things. There is no lack of resources at the root of disparities, but the need to address solvable problems related to a more equitable distribution of wealth, to be achieved with moral sense and honesty.

[Sam Haselby @samhaselby]

Inidgeneity is a concept that only makes sense in the Americas, Australia, and NZ. This "indigenous" claim (which Jeffrey Goldberg loves too) is meant for Americans and an example of the cultural power of the US reorganizing and sorting the world according to its history.