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GhostofJohnMuir)
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So he predicted the Netflix series then.
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# ? Apr 24, 2024 15:54 |
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# ? May 3, 2024 12:51 |
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it's anzac day in australia (pro-war brainwashing day celebrating the troops attempting to invade turkey and getting their asses handed to them) and some brain genius had a great idea Lube Enthusiast posted:https://x.com/lib_crusher/status/1782961303172301309?s=46&t=OS7bd-x1fz8nJt5ndsmeVw mahershalalhashbaz fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Apr 25, 2024 |
# ? Apr 25, 2024 03:55 |
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Are people more positive about Gallipoli these days then? I thought the take was “Churchill’s bright idea got a bunch of us killed for nothing” but that might have faded with time.
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# ? Apr 25, 2024 05:38 |
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Pirate Radar posted:Are people more positive about Gallipoli these days then? I thought the take was “Churchill’s bright idea got a bunch of us killed for nothing” but that might have faded with time.
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# ? Apr 25, 2024 06:00 |
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Pirate Radar posted:Are people more positive about Gallipoli these days then? I thought the take was “Churchill’s bright idea got a bunch of us killed for nothing” but that might have faded with time. it made a pretty good movie
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# ? Apr 25, 2024 06:10 |
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Pirate Radar posted:Are people more positive about Gallipoli these days then? I thought the take was “Churchill’s bright idea got a bunch of us killed for nothing” but that might have faded with time. It's pretty common for disastrous military failures to get retconned into heroic character-building moments. That way, the people responsible for the failure can draw attention away from their own responsibility, and the victims can avoid directly acknowledging just how much suffering they'd been subjected to for no good reason. Gallipoli was a military failure, but Australia (which had only been recently unified into a single country) played it up as a source of national identity. In the mouths of the propagandists, the horrible failure of the Gallipoli campaign became the tale of the heroic ANZACs charging into a hail of enemy bullets, bravely and selflessly laying down their lives in the face of an insurmountable challenge, their useless deaths demonstrating to the world just how incredible and amazing the Aussie spirit was.
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# ? Apr 25, 2024 06:33 |
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Main Paineframe posted:It's pretty common for disastrous military failures to get retconned into heroic character-building moments. That way, the people responsible for the failure can draw attention away from their own responsibility, and the victims can avoid directly acknowledging just how much suffering they'd been subjected to for no good reason. As a phenomenon I’m familiar with that yeah, but I wasn’t sure how it was seen in Aus these days.
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# ? Apr 25, 2024 09:15 |
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The average Australian. The Bruce on the street. The hoi oi oi polloi, you might say
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# ? Apr 25, 2024 09:18 |
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for what it's worth, the best general of the war was an australian jew, so there's an anzac day bit of trivia for you
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# ? Apr 25, 2024 09:46 |
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Australia gets cousin brucie on the radio too? where am I going with this see Bruce think of cousin GoutPatrol fucked around with this message at 10:11 on Apr 25, 2024 |
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:for what it's worth, the best general of the war was an australian jew, so there's an anzac day bit of trivia for you rupert murdoch's dad tried to whip up antisemitism against him
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# ? Apr 25, 2024 10:54 |
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starting to think that murdoch family might suck poo poo
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# ? Apr 25, 2024 11:02 |
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:for what it's worth, the best general of the war was an australian jew, so there's an anzac day bit of trivia for you
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# ? Apr 25, 2024 11:40 |
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i am the only online student in one of my classes and when i zoom in my face gets projected at 10x regular size onto this gigantic screen on the wall like a dictator in a sci-fi dystopia, it's mortifying
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 02:02 |
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I hope you seize the chance to imperiously shout SILENCE FOOLS every so often
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 03:26 |
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avs should have their enlarged face on every screen occasionally wildlife can also poke their head in
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 03:30 |
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it's so terrible, the camera points into the classroom at an oblique angle so as i'm talking i also get a clear view of my terrifying big brother visage addressing the long-suffering subjectsPirate Radar posted:I hope you seize the chance to imperiously shout SILENCE FOOLS every so often
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 03:59 |
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Apparently bars in San Francisco are willing to undercharge asian patrons by a lot so you can get real drink
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 09:21 |
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just found a turkish rock song from the 70s that has the exact same melody as nutbush city limits and now i don't know what is real anymore
mahershalalhashbaz fucked around with this message at 10:20 on Apr 29, 2024 |
# ? Apr 29, 2024 10:17 |
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mahershalalhashbaz posted:just found a turkish rock song from the 70s that has the exact same melody as nutbush city limits and now i don't know what is real anymore Reality is just a collective delusion that we all buy into. Welcome to my TED Talk.
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# ? Apr 29, 2024 19:41 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqPTFx7DwMs liminal
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# ? Apr 29, 2024 23:23 |
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i have been exploring modern fantasy (published in the past ten years) and wow it is bad. it feels like the genre has not evolved at all. please give me book recommendations that will change my mind and heart. i want social commentary and characters/plots that don't feel like they were designed by a committee to appeal to the broadest possible audience. please, please no more sassy protagonists defeating dark wizards/witches in hand-to-hand swordplay while delivering 21st century sitcom quips. please no more smouldering badboys with beautiful lips. i can't take it anymore mahershalalhashbaz fucked around with this message at 01:25 on May 3, 2024 |
# ? May 3, 2024 01:16 |
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does manga count?
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# ? May 3, 2024 01:27 |
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:does manga count?
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# ? May 3, 2024 01:29 |
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mahershalalhashbaz posted:i have been exploring modern fantasy (published in the past ten years) and wow it is bad. it feels like the genre has not evolved at all. The Baru Cormorant Series by Seth Dickinson aka SA's own General Battuta. No for real it's good! I have actually only read the 1st book in the series because I've been reading nothing but non-fiction lately but it's very political from an anti-colonialist perspective Professor Beetus fucked around with this message at 01:32 on May 3, 2024 |
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tomi adeyemi is the only author i've found out of the current batch who's had anything interesting to say, if that is a good starting point for what i'm looking forProfessor Beetus posted:The Baru Cormorant Series by Seth Dickinson aka SA's own General Battuta. No for real it's good! I have actually only read the 1st book in the series because I've been reading nothing but non-fiction lately but it's very political from an anti-colonialist perspective mahershalalhashbaz fucked around with this message at 01:35 on May 3, 2024 |
# ? May 3, 2024 01:31 |
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i'm thinking about it and the only books published in the last five years i've read have all been non-fiction. though i guess all along all my favorite novels have pre-dated 1980 anyway
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# ? May 3, 2024 02:03 |
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mahershalalhashbaz posted:i have been exploring modern fantasy (published in the past ten years) and wow it is bad. it feels like the genre has not evolved at all. The most recent fantasy I read was Susannah Clarke’s Piranesi which actually you might like. It’s about a guy who lives in a big magical labyrinth full of birds and writes about it in his journals.
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# ? May 3, 2024 04:03 |
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mahershalalhashbaz posted:i have been exploring modern fantasy (published in the past ten years) and wow it is bad. it feels like the genre has not evolved at all. Check out Victor LaValle. The Changeling, or maybe The Ballad of Black Tom.
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# ? May 3, 2024 04:20 |
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I usually just read the menu at Denny's and the newest edition is extremely good. They finally resolve that whole dangling plot thread with the Moons over My Hammy.
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# ? May 3, 2024 04:20 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I usually just read the menu at Denny's and the newest edition is extremely good. does the moon finally fall and end the plotline?
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# ? May 3, 2024 04:35 |
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Last time I went to Denny's it had a smoking section
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# ? May 3, 2024 07:11 |
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i can't poo poo on denny's because sometimes you're driving at 3am in the middle of nowhere and it's the only place that's open. if we had wafflehouses here i'd have the freedom to call denny's out on all its bullshit, but alas
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# ? May 3, 2024 07:31 |
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I wish there was a Denny’s or something here tbh. You can get pancakes at McDonald’s but they’re not as good.
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# ? May 3, 2024 07:36 |
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:if we had wafflehouses here
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# ? May 3, 2024 08:11 |
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mahershalalhashbaz posted:i have been exploring modern fantasy (published in the past ten years) and wow it is bad. it feels like the genre has not evolved at all. I recently checked out Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson. I read the first book in the series, Gardens of the Moon, and was blown away. Here's what others had to say about it: Wikipedia posted:The series was positively received by critics, who praised the epic scope, plot complexity and the introspective nature of the characterization, which serve as social commentary. Fellow author Glen Cook has called the series a masterwork of the imagination that may be the high water mark of the epic fantasy genre. In his treatise written for The New York Review of Science Fiction, fellow author Stephen R. Donaldson has also praised Erikson for his approach to the fantasy genre, the subversion of classical tropes, the complex characterizations, the social commentary — pointing explicitly to parallels between the fictional Letheras Economy and the US Economy — and has compared him to the likes of Joseph Conrad, Henry James, William Faulkner, and Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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# ? May 3, 2024 09:42 |
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# ? May 3, 2024 12:51 |
mahershalalhashbaz posted:i have been exploring modern fantasy (published in the past ten years) and wow it is bad. it feels like the genre has not evolved at all. have you read the spear cuts through water
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