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Against all nationalisms • careerist, left plastic, infantile historical nihilist • “Lausan creep” — Hemmed in like a boar between archers
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A very rad essay on the legendary 70s Biweekly collective and their use of filmmaking in their radical work activism!
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My essay "Documenting Anti-colonial Social Movements in Early 1970s Hong Kong with 16mm" is just published here in @JCMSJournal, looking at The 70's Biweekly collective's move into filmmaking to document protests in early 1970s Hong Kong: quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/images/
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Loving that Tears of the Kingdom is released on the same day my visa expires
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Important recap on the social currents "lying flat" reacted to. Drives home that when most pro-modern CCP leftists move to China to experience "real life" there, they do so as a privileged expat, without facing 996 or the crushing working class rat race that lying flat confronts
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In 2021, a Chinese worker posted a photo of himself lying in bed, captioned “Lying Flat is Justice”, that resonated with millions. Disillusioned about work, or the lack thereof, youth are staging a silent revolt against hypercompetition and productivity. labourreview.org/from-996-to-ly
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Huge lol
"'Mr. Waters knows so little, but he seems to know it so fluently,' [Ukrainian ambassador Sergiy] Kyslytsya said."
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Members of the U.N. Security Council were not impressed with Roger Waters' testimony at their gathering in New York this morning p4k.in/vNcmndR
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Important recap on the social currents "lying flat" reacted to. Drives home that when most pro-modern CCP leftists move to China to experience "real life" there, they do so as a privileged expat, without facing 996 or the crushing working class rat race that lying flat confronts
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In 2021, a Chinese worker posted a photo of himself lying in bed, captioned “Lying Flat is Justice”, that resonated with millions. Disillusioned about work, or the lack thereof, youth are staging a silent revolt against hypercompetition and productivity. labourreview.org/from-996-to-ly
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a white person will like a picture of maggie cheung, anytime, anywhere they see it
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The Girl Scouts are the biggest money laundering front in America
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"The art of labor organizing, therefore, lies in elevating workers’ expectations, and in making workers believe they deserve a truly dignified life if they fight for it."
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The Mabel Cheung controversy has really dominated the conversation in Hong Kong the past few days and is still going strong despite a certain landmark trial currently taking place. RTing Lo Hoi-ying's excellent thread again which practically covers it all.
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Ming Pao Culture revealed that Ling, one of the six students in Mabel Cheung’s highly-debated documentary To My Nineteen Year Old Self, did not consent to having the film showcased at film festivals or public screenings but the team went ahead anyway
mpweekly.com/culture/%e8%97
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Vietnam’s state media outlet, VnExpress, just published a merely partly translated and distorted piece of the latest great (but depressing) reportage of the work conditions of Foxconn workers in China. Either you fully translate it, or don’t at all.
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‘KNOCK AT THE CABIN’ is #1 at the domestic box office, dethroning ‘AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER’ after its 7 week run.
Read our review: bit.ly/DFCabin
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The Grammys are objectively the worst awards show
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Lmfao the Elon stupidity never ceases. What kind of information are we supposed to glean from "It may or may not be notable"?
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So embarrassing on all sides
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Now it’s China’s turn to admit embarrassing feelings about a balloon.
“China’s ministry of defence on Sunday said the US executed an ‘excessive attack’ on a ‘civilian’ balloon. ‘We solemnly protest against the US move’.”
ft.com/content/397bef
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Knock at the Cabin + Infinity Pool double feature AMA
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China was praising the Marcos family up to the sky, irrespective of its past of dictatorship and economic plundering, only a month ago and even all the way since Marcos Jr won the Philippines elections.
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It's actually kind of insane to me that people are engaging in this deep analysis of "realignment" this and that re: the horrors of socialism resolution non-event. It's pretty clear this is classic "flood the zone with shit" FUD?
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Me when someone says any and all criticism of socialist revolutions is CIA sponsored
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Great powers gathering intelligence on each other is one of the most banal and universal facts of international relations. It in no way threatens regular people UNLESS those countries are on the road to serious conflict.
One way to judge whether serious conflict is approaching…
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“Literal decolonization of Hong Kong” bahahaha
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Honestly thanks to @jnchien for reminding me of Lausan's, a perfect example of precisely what I was talking about. Using "decolonization" rhetoric to oppose the *literal decolonization* of Hong Kong is classic CIA shit, and the anticommunist left eats this shit up.
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This person's whole argument is "being anti-Stalinist is purism sponsored by the CIA" by way of this laughable Parenti article where he handwaves away bureaucratic aristocracy as "modest perks" and Stalin's crimes not as inevitable but the acceptable collateral damage of history
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Trotskyists and other tendencies within the Compatible Left attack the equivalence "socialism = Stalin = bad" by trying to separate socialism from Stalin. The CIA prefers this, knowing people will always (rightly) associate Stalin with the USSR and actually existing socialism.
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Someone give Bautista's agent a million bucks for working overtime these past 2 weeks on this (very effective on me) rainbow tour
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Dave Bautista wonders if he’s too “unattractive” for rom-coms:
“I always look in the mirror and I ask myself, ‘Am I that unattractive? Is there something that unappealing about me that excludes me from these parts?' […] I still have high hopes. I’ll just keep searching.”
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this is a good time to ask why the College Board, a private organization answerable only to its own board of trustees (all corporate consultants), has been allowed to operate for so long as a monopolistic quasi-government agency that runs education in the US without oversight
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language of encroachment & demolitions is classic settler colonial logic. not harmless good governance. preparation for dispossession of each & every kashmiri underway. & your property papers won't matter when they come for you. we are in this together. settler colonialism alert!
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Guy at cafe who phlegmy coughs everywhere with no mask or even hand cover and then sticks the public water nozzle straight into his bottle
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Throw some Adolph Reed on there and baby you got a stew going
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Here's why the last section of the AP AA history is biased. Fine to include all these extreme leftists. But zero balance? Nothing to counter them? And then you realize CRT despises academic freedom.
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How is this intro more compelling than the last 5 years of MCU and DCU combined
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It's been stuck in my head, so here's the I Love Maria theme song cut to the end of the trailer with the electronic intro missing from the Blu-ray crudely restored. Performed by James Wong with who I'm pretty sure is Tsui Hark on backing vocals. CC on for lyrics.
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Turned to dust when this podcast I was listening to reminded me Bullet with Butterfly Wings is 28 years old
TLOS ep 3 had some amazing acting and was boundary pushing by Disney "wow two people of the same sex touched hands look how progressive we are" standards but like... it wasn't earth shattering or anything? I dunno
The marketing budget for 80 for Brady could feed a small village for 6 months
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Lol this person used the word “COLAcels”. Deeply unserious about labor politics.
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Yes. They all in one unified voice definitely and literally said this.
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Insane interview. They literally admit that the majority of Chinese international workers are depoliticized/wary of striking and then still go “Why did the evil bargaining team end the strike early?!?” twitter.com/lausanhk/statu…
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When your student describes themselves as a TikTok influencer 🤧🤧🤧
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Deeply gratified to see this current of talented organizers helping to politicize Chinese students at the alma mater
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