this morning i saw videos of Palestinians in Gaza that had become disabled from the genocide competing in a marathon. their civilization deserves everything this world has to offer them. i can't imagine what it takes to find ways to stay human in the face of this gross inhumanity.

i hope to one day have empirical evidence of this

guillotines aren't enough for me anymore, i need to launch these people into the sun.

But I'll still take it without the immunity

I don't even need that, give me 10 minutes with this mf, holy shit this level of propaganda is unhinged

The "pool" narrative of Auschwitz got debunked, iirc it was actually like a retention pond and the guards put a diving board on it for themselves.

Nazis did actually make propaganda films of ghettos showing people were being "...treated humanely. They're just sectioned off from the rest of us." They'd unload people freshly deported to ghettos and film them with all their clothes. Then have them sit in "restaurants."

Once they collected footage of prisoners, they'd steal their stuff and throw them in run-down buildings. Footage was then edited and broadcasted to the rest of Germany with rhetoric like "These jews are living more luxurious lives than you, which is why the Führer made them downsize a little bit by moving them into less luxurious (but still luxurious) homes."

This was before they started sending people to death camps.

“Freedom of the press” is another of the principal slogans of “pure democracy”. And here, too, the workers know — and socialists everywhere have admitted it millions of times — that this freedom is a deception while the best printing presses and the biggest stocks of paper are appropriated by the capitalists and while capitalist rule over the press remains, a rule that is manifested throughout the world all the more strikingly, sharply, and cynically, the more democracy and the republican system are developed, as in America for example.

The first thing to do to win real equality and genuine democracy for the working people, for the workers and peasants, is to deprive capital of the possibility of hiring writers, buying up publishing houses, and hiring newspapers. And to do that the capitalists and exploiters have to be overthrown and their resistance suppressed.

The capitalists have always used the term ‘freedom’ to mean freedom for the rich to get richer and for the workers to starve to death.

In capitalist usage, freedom of the press means freedom of the rich to bribe the press, freedom to use their wealth to shape and fabricate so-called public opinion.

In this respect, too, the defenders of ‘pure democracy’ prove to be defenders of an utterly foul and venal system that gives the rich control over the mass media. They prove to be deceivers of the people who, with the aid of plausible, fine-sounding, but thoroughly false phrases, divert them from the concrete historical task of liberating the press from capitalist enslavement.

—Lenin, Congress of the First Comintern

free press if you can afford it

The press is “free” when only billionaires can have a voice

I don't know about that, in my eyes the big error is placing journalists on a pedestal. Used to be they were seen as absolute filth, writing penny dreadfuls and junk for sloppy magazines, but these days it's one of the few Hallowed positions.

That and it seems like all journalists are "taught" that they have to be "objective" but they aren't taught that it is impossible to actually be objective. And so they just kiss the feet of every western authority figure.

The press is in large part victim to being full of young starry-eyed idiots who think they know what's going on; middle aged jaded assholes who they know what's really going on; and old ghouls who knows where their bread is buttered.

In the current capitalist system I would want an actual free press - free from the censorship of government and capital. In a communist utopia I would want a free press, I think. In AES states I think it's very good they don't have a free press - noone does, but you know what I mean.

I just want them dead so they cant hurt anyone else. No matter how much I hate someone, i dont want them tortured. There's the cruelty angle but also the time and resources involved would mean we're still treating these assholes like theyre special. Pit, grenade. Done

coffee lives there, they're supposed to have it!

The only coffee I can see is the illustration on the tarpaulin, it's looks more like a net cafe than a coffee shop even

lol, i forgot about that bit.

i have been rewatching that series and certainly some jokes are offsides/not OK but its like a fully automatic shotgun. when it's firing off so many jokes so quickly, there is bound to be friendlies catching strays. especially from that yikes ass era.

i still can't get over the sheer density of jokes per minute in any scene.

i watched some episode last night where jack was writing/directing a TV movie about himself where the actor playing him (method, of course) was himself played by william baldwin. and jack corrected william for saying "Ronald Reagan" by saying, "stop. no one ever used his first name. except nancy and only during bathtime" with the most absurd level of reverence.

i can't even process how much goofy shit they stack in a given scene sometimes. the writer's room must have been a zoo.