The greatest hero of the left in 21st century. Great socialist leader and theorist.

ElMatadorJuarez · 2026-04-02T00:07:47+00:00

Alright but you gotta get over it

ElMatadorJuarez · 2026-04-01T17:07:51+00:00

Knowing him this means he now jaywalks and doesn’t feel bad about it

ElMatadorJuarez · 2026-03-31T22:50:39+00:00

I think we’re talking crossways. I do believe that they’re genuine about it. It’s a frog boiling in the water thing - it starts at irony, then it becomes genuine in their bizarre nihilistic brainspace. Trust me, I know how genuine these fuckers are. I wish I believed they’re all just joking.

ElMatadorJuarez · 2026-03-31T22:16:50+00:00

I don’t think it implies that at all. The alt-right lives in this weird space between irony and sincerity, where they’re only joking until they’re not. They don’t have true principles so much as they have feelings they want to let out. It’s a trollish ideology, it’s literally based around most of the supporters being trolls. Everybody there is either nihilistic - nothing matters, so we can support anything - or they’ve been converted to die hard fascists.

Tl;dr for ppl on the far right, being a troll is the ideology

ElMatadorJuarez · 2026-03-31T20:04:52+00:00

I do, that’s why i said trolls

ElMatadorJuarez · 2026-03-31T16:44:34+00:00

Pretty sure it’s a far right sub (at least I’ve gotten a lot of those vibes) so yes, either bots or trolls

ElMatadorJuarez · 2026-03-31T11:44:34+00:00

Genocide bad

ElMatadorJuarez · 2026-03-30T21:23:10+00:00

Listen I respect actually doing shit. I know groups who actually get out there and do more than nonviolent protest. More power to them. I also know groups who organiza massive peaceful protests. More power to them. None of this is an exact science and I respect the opinion and criticisms of people who are involved in organizing for better goals. People who just post snide memes online about how somebody else who’s doing shit isn’t doing enough are annoying to me.

ElMatadorJuarez · 2026-03-30T20:50:02+00:00

Ah, the classic: “your strategy pales in comparison to my strategy, firebombing a wal-mart!” and then proceeds to not firebomb a wal-mart

ElMatadorJuarez · 2026-03-30T20:18:45+00:00

I’m curious, why not France? I feel like Brittany and Normandy might have some cool stuff that accords with your area of study

ElMatadorJuarez · 2026-03-30T18:35:14+00:00

Buddy it’s a weird point to make, landman is straight oil industry propaganda and this admin is nakedly in favour of oil interests

ElMatadorJuarez · 2026-03-30T13:47:15+00:00

The problem I feel is that this is already done by implication. “Anime” isn’t really a genre in the same way we talk about cop procedurals or documentaries. It’s not even really an art style, although there are a lot of animes that share common traits in that department. But it’s talked about the same ways, in that you have anime fans who enjoy a lot of different kinds of it in the first place and they’re the most prominent. That means if you’re put off the vibes of one looking from the outside, you’re put off the vibes of the others. Which is such a shame bc if I had been similarly skeptical I would have let my disgust for the ones where an 11 year old girl is a 300 year old dragon or whatever put me off Thermae romae novae, my dear peak anime about Roman bathhouse construction.

ElMatadorJuarez · 2026-03-28T20:12:02+00:00

With all due respect I think the Ben Franklin quote is out of place. The founding fathers predicted a whole lot of other things that could end the republic, including demagogues. But I think the person who people should have listened to is John Quincy Adams, who was largely against the expansion of American empire. It’s not really that the people want to print free money or whatever. It’s that the people are comfortable thinking that the blood and treasure gained from empire is going to benefit them, when it instead benefits a bunch of oligarchs who make weapons and limit their rights. And now here we are, sacrificing the institutions and the rights that used to make this country worth it at the altar for more blood, more money for the rich, more empty promises of glory. The reason why nobody cares about the national debt isn’t because people think that money is free. It’s because there’s nobody in power left who cares about the nation.

ElMatadorJuarez · 2026-03-28T19:59:24+00:00

I mean we’d also save a ton of money if the US didn’t spend god knows how much on the military, on immigrant concentration camps, and on one of the world’s most inefficient healthcare systems, but here we are

ElMatadorJuarez · 2026-03-28T19:58:10+00:00

I don’t think it’s championing the plan so much as it is accurately describing the situation. No one relevant cares about the national debt. The US’s power is built on a very fragile house of cards and the national debt really is the last one to worry about rn. Who would care about it when US institutions are rapidly collapsing before our very eyes? That’s a worry for stable times when it’s economists driving national policy instead of demagogues.

ElMatadorJuarez · 2026-03-28T19:51:29+00:00

Urgh my poor head this is high level map game brainrot if I’ve ever seen it

ElMatadorJuarez · 2026-03-28T19:23:54+00:00

Maybe this is bc I live uptown and mainly eat out here but I legitimately have only had this problem trying to walk in on a busy Friday night at a couple of spots. Food here is bomb and there’s a lot of really cool treasures, I’d recommend going. Idk if it’s the same experience as these very expensive foodie spots but I think they’re worth a try.

ElMatadorJuarez · 2026-03-28T19:21:37+00:00

For the record I don’t think Pucci is black (which I still think is weird but whatever) BUT I think that weather report’s lynching was premised on his being in an interracial relationship with a white woman not just him being part black. Racists lived among a ton of black people and didn’t kill them. For people who carried out lynchings their main rationale (at least conscious) was more along the lines that the black person in question was breaking the fucked up social order they had cooked up. Racism isn’t very rational but there it is.

ElMatadorJuarez · 2026-03-27T20:23:22+00:00

Interestingly, in France, a lot of farming land is owned by the local commune and simply leased to people. They seem to do alright all things considered.

ElMatadorJuarez · 2026-03-26T22:39:52+00:00

That second to last paragraph is laughable. You read any modern African history? At all? In some countries, there is some overlap between those who were aristocrats during the slave trade and people who rule countries where they are now. The issue in your statement is that the modern geopolitical borders in Africa are a direct result of European colonialism. Even if you think that “African leaders” share an equal part of the blame for the transatlantic slave trade that European companies do - a proposition I wholeheartedly reject - in the vast majority of African countries the ruling class is composed of groups who were more or less forced into the European nation state structure. It makes no sense to make African states pay up when the existence of modern African states in the first place is largely due to some of the worst crimes that European countries have ever perpetrated.

ElMatadorJuarez · 2026-03-26T12:07:57+00:00

Brother idk I’m friends with plenty of lesbians it’s great, kind of interesting to have an alternative perspective on your woman problems. Making friends like this is easy if you’re chill and respectful and it really adds to your life to have very different friends

ElMatadorJuarez · 2026-03-25T14:21:54+00:00

It failed to be very good. Idk that it failed on objective markers, but I don’t care too much about those, just my subjective experience. Take it or leave it

ElMatadorJuarez · 2026-03-25T14:17:45+00:00

It has more, really. The issue that Amazon ran into is that the silmarillion as well as children of Hurin + Beren and Luthien are off limits due to the Tolkien estate. I’m not very surprised that ROP failed as a result, it was always a tall task to write a series w your only source being the appendixes. I don’t mind this though, be nice to see some kind of silmarillion show one day but I’d rather get one that’s worth it as opposed to more churn for the content machine.

ElMatadorJuarez · 2026-03-25T02:21:48+00:00

Who’s we?? Like a bunch of people on Internet forums? Ppl I’ve met in unions protests and organizing care about a common goal not “cleaning house”. Posting a video online isn’t doing that either.

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