I'd argue postmodernity allows hucksters to pretend to be many things. Example - Christians have been purging Jordan Peterson as they realise he's just been clickbaiting them for years.
I take Science Fiction very seriously
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I'd argue postmodernity allows hucksters to pretend to be many things. Example - Christians have been purging Jordan Peterson as they realise he's just been clickbaiting them for years.
He's wrong, he's been repeating the same lines for 5 years, but at least the Drinker has a critique.
Depression is the rebrand for the experience of being stuck in an oppressor hierarchy
Asking me if I read movie reviews is like asking an astronomer if they read Mystic Meg
I'm not saying we invented it, we chose the one that suited us at a time when our choices set norms. But, sure, other Europeans were also self aggrandising scumbags.
Basically, British imperialists devised the way of projecting maps that made Britain most absurdly oversized and all our colonies teeny
After the slave trade and centuries of colonialism you really need to admit that Britain is a nation of racist bigots, then work from there.
oh look, hour and a half of Alan Moore talking a new counter culture! ๐๐๐ LINK youtu.be/xN5cabY6bgU?...
Last saved meme is your moral philosophy.
Have you exited the vampire's castle?
"a cyberpunk dystopia so bland it can't even get a blurb from William Gibson" ๐ www.patreon.com/posts/137852...
"There was no real cyberpunk written after about 1989" says @outlawbookselleroriginal Agreed ๐๐๐๐ LINK youtu.be/gae2Qy58Xwo?...
What do I mean by "Andy Weir is the Nickelback of science fiction" ? I have been asked to explain. But I think the statement is the best explanation I can give. But it's not a bad read amzn.to/4p5Se7C
Only gen-x know this ๐๐ LINK youtu.be/Af0seTOTSj4?...
The main community is on Boomerbook
Bluesky manifesting all the same sociopathy as Twitter back in the day. It's hardwired into the "microblogging" platforms.
"You're all too adversarial" "I'm not"
"Fascism is here - it's just unevenly distributed." Have heard half a dozen variations of this now...maybe @greatdismal.bsky.social should say it so we can quote him?
I fear some of your audience might feel we resemble the assertion ๐
Has it? While you were fighting colonial wars in Vietnam, Iraq etc, mass incarcerating black peope, exploiting hundreds of millions underclass workers in Asia...Semper Eadem. Nothing changes.
I'm sure liberals do believe racism is abhorrent. But you live in a racist nation, profit from a racist economy, claim pensions from a racist shareholding system, etc etc and your political ideology supports this status quo. At least Marxists have some game.
If you really did hold those values you'd be something other than a liberal.
When my liberal friends say Trump's racist ICE immigration enforcement is "Not American" my mind does flash through the genocide of an entire continent and chattel slavery and conclude this just a return to the norm.
They're also the most cosseted soft human population in history, which results in this fetishization of the tools of violence.
Yes
The most important person to debunk is yourself
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Finally a movie J-Mo won't have to wax for
I've been calling Steven Bonnell the Jimmy Saville of YouTube for over a year
That's a shame as it's one of the most interesting videos on the channel Go and watch it ๐๐ LINK youtu.be/b2YVDhSyBVU?...
Me and Jesus down at the beach...
For the people noting how much cricket bats look like fantasy broad swords... ...cricket evolved from Things Bored Knights Waiting For Battle Can Do With Swords. And, yes, this is the video where I am rude about cricket. ๐๐ LINK youtu.be/b2YVDhSyBVU?...
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Hollywood had a problem Jodi Foster was both their highest paid female star, and a double Oscar winner And they had the perfect scifi script for her star power But they needed a male lead who wouldn't just be blown off the screen by Foster Fortunately, they did actually find... ๐๐๐๐๐๐
Guess the book BEFORE clicking the ๐๐๐๐ LINK youtu.be/gZHF0dP5_GI
For a mini-premonition of the BIG collaboration video dropping this weekend on the Science Fiction channel Obviously the movie is a big "YES" But did Verhoeven even read the book? ๐๐๐๐๐๐ LINK amzn.to/4oFjhqd
Well there's not much more violence a severed head can be prone to...
Tooling up for a collaboration with the other greatest science fiction channel on youtube Coming this weekend
Is anyone who owns a superyacht not a criminal?
Then you'll realise it is science fiction Then it'll rewrite what the words science fiction mean when you hear them You think I exagerate? Everyone thinks that. Start reading. And keep reading. Then read again. Until you understand. ๐๐๐๐๐๐ Get reading amzn.to/3V6XcmC
We keep Gene Wolfe in reserve for when newbies get cocky So you think you get science fiction now, do ya kid? *hurls Book of the New Sun onto the floor* Pick it up First you'll think it's not science fiction
read a book
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I rarely buy clothes. But I have to get testers for each new tshirt design. So yes. I now wander through the world wearing almost exclusively Science Fiction channel merch. And BOY does it start conversations.
Having the word PSYCHOHISTORY stenciled on your chest in capital letters is like broadcasting hypersonic signals at a frequency only scifi people can perceive. Try it. LAST CALL for the weekend merch store sale. ๐๐๐๐๐๐ 15% off using code NERDCORE damosays-shop.fourthwall.com/promo/NERDCORE
I rarely buy clothes. But I have to get testers for each new tshirt design. So yes. I now wander through the world wearing almost exclusively Science Fiction channel merch. And BOY does it start conversations.
"I saw a stormtrooperโฆ crushed by two logs on ropes. Bonk! Just like that. And I thoughtโฆ these Ewoks, they donโt flinch. They donโt hesitate. One moment theyโre singing โyub nub,โ the nextโWHAM!โtheyโre cooking a man in a pot. Thatโs the horror. The yub nub horror."
But Jim 4025 will be a robot whose cold machine hand can clasp the robotic claw of today's abominations.
How To Ignore A Genocide 90 minutes podcasts debating the definition of genocide
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Also there was an entire Nemo tv show called Nautilus and I only just noticed ๐คฃ ๐๐ LINK amzn.to/45x1Y1s
Class politics is the only politics
Also there was an entire Nemo tv show called Nautilus and I only just noticed ๐คฃ ๐๐ LINK amzn.to/45x1Y1s
Weโll assimilate you (the collectives there for you) Weโll assimilate you (you'll be part of us too) Weโll assimilate you (like we did to your whole crew)
"Launching my new Substack" code for "My mainstream media organisation went bankrupt"
The centrist dads are freaking out at @garyseconomics.bsky.social Guess he's doing something right
Amazing that the best idea in science fiction was written in the 1940s Come on people, think harder! ๐๐๐๐๐๐ LINK youtu.be/g7btG1q1TZc?...
I've been trying to read Hegel for longer than some of you people have been alive That's no boast
Every so often I hit a knotty problem And the existence of the problem itself lets me know I've gone wrong somewhere more fundamental Example - if I'm struggling to BRIEFLY SUMMARISE Kant and Hegel in a short paragraph That in itself is a problem However, this meme comes close
We need to set a Fascist Offramp Deadline A hard cut-off after which anyone still on the Trump train is forever branded responsible for the escalating fascist crimes of the administration
There's always a market for advice that tells you it's ok to give in and comply with authority LINK damosays-shop.fourthwall.com
America doesn't have immigrants America has slaves "slaves took my job" calling things what they are reveals all the lies
How to make friends and influence people Give unsolicited advice
Cliodynamic function Network-Information function Stimulus function The Stochastic Peturbation / "Mule" factor Now you can literally wear the entire future of humankind on a tshirt ๐๐๐๐๐๐ damosays-shop.fourthwall.com/products/psy...
An equation for Psychohistorical modeling : $$ \frac{dH}{dt} = (1-\Omega) \int_{N} \Psi(P, E_w, A) \cdot f(\kappa, \mathcal{I}) \cdot S(E, C) , dN + \xi(t) $$ Rate of historical change equals the combined interaction of the Axiom of Ignorance Axiom of Mass Action
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Why pets? We've got more than enough Republicans for this job.
It's not even Not Asimov It's Space Baywatch
Leto is trying too hard
Godfather 2 Aliens Terminator 2 and Blade Runner 2049 sequels CAN be greater than the original but how? ๐๐๐๐๐๐ LINK youtu.be/P5fbQ4hf068?...
Allowing your society to be run by business people is like letting your body be run by cancer.
"Wise men surround themselves with strong independent minds, weak little orange tanned b*tchboys surround themselves with sycophantic morons" ~Plato
The main difference between America and Russia is that one invents false economic data to cover up the devastating real world effects of massive wasteful military spending and the other one is Russia
Sydney Sweeney is a living example. Pretty in the context of North American culture of 2025. But objectively she looks and sounds like an inbred outcome of a project to breed the Master Race. Or a genestealer cult operating in contemporary California....
The thing about "genetic supremacists" is, like eugenicists before them, they don't understand genetics You can't have "good genes" any more than you can have "good events". Genes that are "good" in one circumstance can be "bad" in another.
Hot AF
I refuse to call this dude Destiny. It's like if Nigel Farage demanded to be called Galadriel.
It's not fascism It's Totalitarian Capitalism
Trump is the 1st POTUS Pedophile of the United States
The channel is all at Sixes and Sevens
The channel is all at Sixes and Sevens
MAGA refusing to realise that Trump is the pederast they've been hunting is a study in ignorance.
Thoughts and prayers for the shareholder value being lost tonight.
How many innocent corporate executives must be gunned down before America bans assault rifles?
AI has been running society since the mid 1800s
Itโs hard for us to ignore that while weโre watching this latest installment of the All American hero, America's ongoing psychotic breakdown is happening Right outside the cinema" ๐๐๐๐ LINK www.patreon.com/posts/134990...
"Like Superman collapsing exhausted into his armchair while the Justice Gang fight on outside the plate glass soundproofed windows The movieโs most Gunnian visual joke...
PROPOSAL death penalty for people who play tinny pop music on their smartphone in public
I'm making this show so much cooler than it deserves
I'm making this show so much cooler than it deserves
And if you can't see class war you don't know what's happening
If you don't talk about class, you aren't on the left
So. Commenters on my AI translated video essays on Bilibili tell me my accent is "priceless" I assume this means I sound like a south-east Londoner speaking Chinese ๐ Can any Mandarin speakers confirm? ๐๐ ใๆไปคไบบ่ฎจๅ็็งๅนปๅฐ่ฏดไฝๅฎถ-ๅๅฉๅๅฉใ b23.tv/WetPCRM
Jubilee "Surrounded" is the Only Fans gangbang for public intellectuals
vibe engineering
"ALL GOVERNMENTS SUFFER A RECURRING PROBLEM: POWER ATTRACTS PATHOLOGICAL PERSONALITIES. IT IS NOT THAT POWER CORRUPTS BUT THAT IT IS MAGNETIC TO THE CORRUPTIBLE." -FRANK HERBERT, CHAPTERHOUSE: DUNE. @damiengwalter.com -The Butlerian Jihad is NOT a warning. youtube.com/watch?v=4f1U...
The problem is that if you look at Qanon, you see it was superimposed over much more reasonable fears about elite sex abuse. Which were valid. Conspiracy theories are the outer edge of other people's fears.
What's the difference between Globalism and Globalisation? Your political affiliation.