@br00t4c I first foughtt the hasbarites on The American Prospect's discussion forum. They made it so poisonous that TAP shut it down. A bunch of us migrated to a FOSS forum site and established TAP Alternative which ran for a few years.
@Gargron Movie execs are timid. They aren't willing to risk the production budget on an unknown quantity, so they remake something that is already popular. That will continue until people get sick of remakes.
@crashglasshouses@inthehands@micahflee Lord Balfour, of the famous declaration, said it would solve "the Jewish problem," said problem being Jewish people existing in his vicinity.
@CosmicTrigger@violetmadder@AnthonyJK@alanhartley@SallyStrange@tzimmer_history "No politician ever helped me" is a symptom of privilege. Must be nice to be affluent enough that the party in charge doesn't matter to you. Lots of other people are dead because they live in Republican areas...fuck them, eh, Bernie bro?
@TruthSandwich@vidar@futurebird Marx was spot on with his critique of capitalism, but completely off the board with his theory of history. He thought you could predict social evolution when it is a chaotic system that can be blown one way or the other by random events. For example, feudalism was doomed by the Black Plague and the increased value of labor that came from depopulation, but aMarx posited that it was an inevitable step in social evolution.
@hamburger317@split@hazel I worked at a university facility where the only filtering on the wi-fi was for any URL with the word "sex" in it. So if you did a search for "essex" it was blocked. PornHub? OK! Went to the IT guy with an open DNS porn filter and he said "we're required to have a filter." End of conversation.