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quote:Princeton, N.J. — As I write this, the sun is a hazy reddish orange orb. The sky is an inky yellowish gray. The air has an acrid stench and leaves a faint metallic taste in my mouth. After 20 minutes outside, my head starts to ache, my nose burns, my eyes itch and my breathing becomes more labored. Streets are deserted. The ubiquitous lawn service companies with their machine mowers and whining gas-powered leaf blowers have disappeared, along with pedestrians, cyclists and joggers. Those who walk their dog go out briefly and then scamper back inside. N95 masks, as in the early days of the pandemic, are sold out, along with air purifiers. The international airports at Newark and Philadelphia have delayed or canceled flights. chris is right
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 16:06 |
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# ? May 21, 2024 14:27 |
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Lib and let die posted:chris is right problem is half the potential allies have decided it's too late and gone full nihilist which is very convenient for the powers that be
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 16:14 |
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He's a good writer
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 16:29 |
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Running out of guys huh
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 16:55 |
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my mans middle name is lynn
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 17:44 |
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there was a hedges thread that was executed the commonality of killing threads about these people who share similar anti-war stances is left as an exercise to the reader
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# ? Jun 18, 2023 09:46 |
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comedyblissoption posted:there was a hedges thread that was executed there was a hedges thread before? don't remember that. got a link?
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# ? Jun 18, 2023 09:54 |
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lobster shirt posted:my mans middle name is lynn how does that make you feel?
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# ? Jun 18, 2023 09:55 |
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yeah there was a cool thread about hedges that got killed https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3951800 an tiny group of american left-liberal pundits that were the only anti-russiagaters and now anti-war advocates basically inhabit the same social media circle and humorously continue to elicit hysterical reactions
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# ? Jun 18, 2023 10:02 |
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hedges counts among one of the few american outlets that forded the gargantuan task of picking up a phone and calling seymour hersh for an interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cOWwd6zShM
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# ? Jun 18, 2023 10:03 |
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comedyblissoption posted:yeah there was a cool thread about hedges that got killed lmao you necrod a 2 year stale chris hedges thread and then it got gassed
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# ? Jun 18, 2023 10:11 |
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well, there was another thread that vacuumed up all the discussion about chris hedges and had people posting his articles and commentary there i just wanted somewhere to discuss chris hedges since he just did an interview about the war turns out youtube wasnt the only place hedges got censored...
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# ? Jun 18, 2023 10:18 |
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He's a bottom of the barrel character and doesn't seem to be garnering much appreciation. Gas
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# ? Jun 18, 2023 12:56 |
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he's big into xtinction rebellion
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# ? Jun 18, 2023 13:03 |
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I appreciate chris hedges
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# ? Jun 18, 2023 13:09 |
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Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:he's big into xtinction rebellion he's wrong b/c he's not a marxist and so he looks to dumb solutions but otherwise he's right
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# ? Jun 18, 2023 15:47 |
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He's fine. But he's boring so who cares! I'd beat his old rear end in a fight any day
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# ? Jun 18, 2023 16:25 |
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he's a stupid dipshit
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# ? Jun 18, 2023 16:51 |
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Cuttlefush posted:he's a stupid dipshit let's fight. why?
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# ? Jun 18, 2023 18:23 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7zC6EdbZN8
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# ? Jun 18, 2023 23:27 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2SaM8RJ30c&t=229s
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# ? Jun 18, 2023 23:30 |
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Brain Candy posted:he's wrong b/c he's not a marxist and so he looks to dumb solutions but otherwise he's right yep
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 03:08 |
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Fear not the man who has wrote five hundred different articles. Instead, fear Chris Hedges, who has wrote one article five hundred times.
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 03:13 |
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this the new glenn thread? anyway https://twitter.com/taylorlorenz/status/1670450219555733504?s=46&t=YjAdrC5z2HpTKJK1s-6pYw Taylor is right
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 07:52 |
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I like Chris
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 08:20 |
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hedges' morbid pessimism is the opposite of the intense optimism of the post-1991 political establishment. it's a product of a particular historical era but both outlooks are essentially irrational and more compatible with reactionary politics in the end... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fin_de_si%C3%A8cle https://twitter.com/SIRATYST/status/1635246486694023170
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 09:28 |
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a really disingenuous read of a good article by hedges from the weird sex website
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 09:33 |
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hedges writes:quote:The Jan. 6 protestors were not the first to occupy Congressional offices. Young environmental activists from the Sunrise Movement, anti-war activists from Code Pink and even congressional staffers have engaged in numerous occupations of congressional offices and interrupted congressional hearings. What will happen to groups such as Code Pink if they occupy congressional offices with Republicans in control of the White House, the Congress and the courts? Will they be held for years in pretrial detention? Will they be given lengthy prison terms based on dubious interpretations of the law? Will they be considered domestic terrorists? Will protests and civil disobedience become impossible? all the good reason to lock 'em up!
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 11:40 |
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:hedges' morbid pessimism is the opposite of the intense optimism of the post-1991 political establishment. it's a product of a particular historical era but both outlooks are essentially irrational and more compatible with reactionary politics in the end... Unlike the liberals, who celebrate bipartisanship with the fascists
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 13:33 |
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quote:High Court Judge Jonathan Swift — who previously worked for a variety of British government agencies as a barrister and said his favorite clients are “security and intelligence agencies” — rejected two applications by Julian Assange’s lawyers to appeal his extradition last week. The extradition order was signed last June by Home Secretary Priti Patel. Julian’s legal team have filed a final application for appeal, the last option available in the British courts. If accepted, the case could proceed to a public hearing in front of two new High Court judges. If rejected, Julian could be immediately extradited to the United States where he will stand trial for 18 counts of violating the Espionage Act, charges that could see him receive a 175-year sentence, as early as this week.
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 13:56 |
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Yeah. It is very grim. Don't know what else to say.
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 14:44 |
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https://twitter.com/AKIRASHINMEI02/status/1670058288413831168?cxt=HHwWgMDTscfKnq0uAAAA
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 14:45 |
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:hedges' morbid pessimism is the opposite of the intense optimism of the post-1991 political establishment. it's a product of a particular historical era but both outlooks are essentially irrational and more compatible with reactionary politics in the end... in a sense it's true, in that what else is there to do from inside the political framing other than to enact ritual? if hedges wants to summon back true democracy from the past, it's a foolish endevor, because it never existed, and the conditions that made it more real are gone. and since we're talking about the a bourgeois parlamentary democracy, there is only one tendency to change, ever to the right. because there's a fundamental compatibility will juicing every bond and a will to self-destruction in that sense he must be a reactionary and? if you read most political authors they are for the destruction of all human life in nuclear fire or boiling the planet or explicit lesser brutality. this is what you get within the politcal framing. within the framing he's better than most people for rejecting that. he rejects it will moralism and ritual so futily, but so what? no what's happening here is social democrats love their incrementalism and their place in things as a big loving tick slurping up profits from the rest of the world and so glue the right onto everyone that says mean things about it, so 'reactionary'. like with 'authoritarian' to mark stalism the same as nazism.
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 14:51 |
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:hedges writes:
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 15:04 |
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AnimeIsTrash posted:https://twitter.com/AKIRASHINMEI02/status/1670058288413831168?cxt=HHwWgMDTscfKnq0uAAAA Who did you piss off to get that avatar??
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 15:05 |
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Greg Legg posted:Who did you piss off to get that avatar?? Pics thread lmao
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 15:11 |
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comedyblissoption posted:further normalizing cops shooting and killing unarmed women protestors is going to be bad! no it's obv. good because it's in the defense of the state that acts in my interest reactionary! facist! meany!
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 16:18 |
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i heard hedges say he rejects marxism because it’s not compatible with human nature, which is why he thinks the only path to positive change is to appeal to morality
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 17:21 |
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fart simpson posted:i heard hedges say he rejects marxism because it’s not compatible with human nature, which is why he thinks the only path to positive change is to appeal to morality he's exactly as dumb as his face looks
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# ? May 21, 2024 14:27 |
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fart simpson posted:i heard hedges say he rejects marxism because it’s not compatible with human nature, which is why he thinks the only path to positive change is to appeal to morality hes right
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