lobster shirt posted:

matt healy, gay actor michael douglas, and hitler walk into a bar

That DICK! posted:

maybe if he was hitler's best friend he could have steered him away from doing the bad things he did. if you had hte option of being hitler's best friend it's morally super hosed up to not be.

i say swears online posted:

does jack still post or did he get sick of touching the poop in d&d

lobster shirt posted:

https://twitter.com/DionDoes/status/1079263677847502848

Grevling posted:

Austin, from San Diego, wrote on Twitter that his make-out was “an insane experience” that “made [him] feel something [he] couldn’t fully put into words”.

Wtf

Smythe posted:

it woul dbe cool if carrots gave u night vision like we were told as kids. like eat a carrot and get 10 mins of nvg mode

Smythe posted:

it woul dbe cool if carrots gave u night vision like we were told as kids. like eat a carrot and get 10 mins of nvg mode

Smythe posted:

it woul dbe cool if carrots gave u night vision like we were told as kids. like eat a carrot and get 10 mins of nvg mode

majour333 posted:

Norman Finkelstein, one of my problematic faves, was on Aaron Maté's pod Push Back.
Most of it was great, with a visceral takedown of Obama halfway thru, but follows it up with a pathetic " I will call you by your name but I will not use a pronoun which in my opinion contradicts your biological identity" jfc.
Lots of good stuff from him otherwise, his new book sounds good. It's definitely not gonna make him any more popular. He goes at Ta-nahisi Coates, Kimberlé Crenshaw and others about leftist disunity, it's a lot of good stuff, but it feels like (well it's fuckin Aaron maté) norm's going conservative in the same way a lot of old folks do. It's worth a listen even if most of maté's work is like if vaush was 20% smarter

quote:

SOME THOUGHTS ON BEING CANCELLED (13 October 2021)

Cambridge University Palestine Society asked me to appear on a Gaza panel tomorrow with two young people from Gaza. I, of course, agreed. But I just received a call from one of the organizers of the event. He said that he had some bad news. I assumed he was going to tell me that, because of pressure exerted by Jewish organizations on the Cambridge administration, I was cancelled. Well, I was cancelled, but because of pressure exerted by BDS. The two speakers from Gaza said that they wouldn’t appear on the same platform as me because of my opinions on BDS. (Did the order to cancel me come from the BDS guru in Ramallah?) The French have an expression: les extremes se touchent (the extremes meet). It’s very hard nowadays to tell apart BDS lunatics from pro-Israel lunatics: they both inhabit a delusional universe.

“Woke” lunatics want to cancel comedian Dave Chappelle because they don’t like his jokes about the LGBTQXYZABC community. A few years ago I told an utterly innocuous joke to one of Amy Goodman’s interns at Democracy Now that mentioned Michael Jackson. A couple of days later the Goddess of Wokeness rang me up. She said that everyone at the Sundance Film Festival was appalled by Michael Jackson after watching a documentary on his life. (As it happens, I’m insufficiently woke to get invited to Sundance.) The fact that I mentioned Jackson’s name in the joke breached the woke rules of etiquette. “The days of white male privilege are over,” she kept intoning over the phone. I was thereafter banned from the studio of Democracy Now! If Goodman had been Mao’s wife during the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese would not now be challenging the U.S.’s global dominance, as half the population would have been killed off.

It appears that “cancel culture” is entering a terminal phase. What’s most revealing about the notorious incident at Arizona State University, where two femxle studexts of cxlxr bullied a couple of “white cis-males,” is that every video posted on Youtube by African-Americans reacting to the incident has defended the “white cis-males”!

Abraham Lincoln reportedly observed, “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all the people all of the time.” It seems people are waking up. Good riddance to cancel culture rubbish!

AnimeIsTrash posted:

Have you ever read his piece after he got banned from democracy now from joking that Michael Jackson's pronouns were he/he?

majour333 posted:

No I never saw it before, but yeah. Him coming off like a broken vitriol spigot is not surprising after listening to that interview. He was so good on Democracy now against Dersh back in the day, and I loved his books about Palestine in the 80s & 90s, really opened my eyes when I started researching the conflict in highschool and college. I just finished his newer book Gaza, it's rough and angry and spot on. Maybe he just doesn't know what to grind his axe against anymore. What a crank. His canon stands up, but he's going down some weird tangents about gender with a real "old man yells at clouds" energy for sure.
To be clear, The Michael Jackson he/he pronoun joke is a truly perfect old uncle joke.
In short, norm go on the Adam Friedland show

Xaris posted:

lol ian coming out as straight

Homeless Friend posted:

i get emails from ian via patreon of music recommendations. ian... thank you

tokin opposition posted:

Wait there was a ufo shot down where's XCOM

V. Illych L. posted:

tbf if i can sympathise with anyone going fully embittered it's norman finkelstein

dude was legitimately cancelled and lost his livelihood for being a correct and ethical public academic and has had just about every level of power in the US come down on him

Xaris posted:

lol ian coming out as straight

Homeless Friend posted:

AnimeIsTrash posted:

Have you ever read his piece after he got banned from democracy now from joking that Michael Jackson's pronouns were he/he?

tristeham posted:

why is he against BDS?

biceps crimes posted:

the he/he joke was fine

AnimeIsTrash posted:

https://vimeo.com/36854424

You can watch for yourself. His argument boils down to he supports a Jewish state but not Israel and believes that BDS argues against the existence of such a state.

AnimeIsTrash posted:

https://vimeo.com/36854424

You can watch for yourself. His argument boils down to he supports a Jewish state but not Israel and believes that BDS argues against the existence of such a state.