“The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.”
William Faulkner, born 25th September 1897
a bunch of radical students tried this in 1874 and all the peasants were like "what? No we love the tsar, hes my awesome dad.. Also, you're a woman." and then they reported them to the secret police
I say this in the nicest way possible. People think Mamdani has power over the NYPD bc they believe we live in a democracy. The NYPD is a mafia-like military force that protects big capital and empire. They are above Mamdani in the order of power.
The video ends with the words “an olive tree grows in Gracie”, which NYC lit nerds will recognize as a nod to Betty Smith’s 1943 novel “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.” The Mayor sent a classy message to Netanyahu right as he speaks now while paying homage to classic NYC. Immaculate.
Dass Die Linke die Partei der migrantischen Mittelschicht in Berlin geworden ist, verdankt sie auch der kompletten Dummheit der Teile der CDU, die Christian Wulff für seine Bremer Rede („der Islam gehört zu Deutschland“) verachteten
Mélenchon's presidential campaign so far:
- accelerate the great replacement
- rename the French language to "Créole"
- cancel all debt Fight Club style
- let Russia conquer Ukraine
- declared white people "ugly"
- declare war on Germany
He went from 11% to 20% in the polls
The funniest ongoing bit in my life is that I filed a bunch of FOIA requests with the CIA for my thesis in college about 10 years and 10 addresses ago, but they still find me wherever I live to send more stuff a couple times a year