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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 1h

The fascist US president in Robert Anton Wilson's _ Schroedinger's Cat_ trilogy is based on Ralph Nader

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Even hotter take: the fact that ebikes let teens in the suburbs suddenly have freedom to move around the public realm unsupervised is precisely why many older people are trying to ban them (using safety as a pretext)

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 04/05/2026

Imagine someone who, in the face of a food shortage, would spend half their time yelling about how producing junk food should be banned, and the other half yelling about how producing luxury food should be banned That's what a NIMBY sounds like

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 15/04/2025

The academic Left are paralyzed in the face of Trumpism because their Leftism was not a Marxian commitment to working-class liberation, but an anti-neoliberal commitment to closed-border, socially static welfare states. Their "revolution" looks like a bureaucrat handing out a welfare check forever

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 29/09/2026

Tortoise Media : Neil Gaiman :: Boston Globe : the lesbian mask bar Vultures can only feed where there is carrion

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Karate Bearfighter 🍞🌹 @karatebearfighter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Peter Thiel, constructing a grand armada to sail west from San Francisco to the Undying Lands:

Yes, Thiel said, perking up. "There are all these ways where trying to live unnaturally long goes haywire" in Tolkien's works. But you also have the elves. "And then there are sort of all these questions, you know: How are the elves different from the humans in Tolkien?
And they're basically - I think the main difference is just, they're humans that don't die."
"Why can't we be elves?" he said.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 28/09/2026

Dems are on Israel what UK Labour are on trans rights, and (now apparently) vice versa

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 28/09/2026

Jeff Bezos' yacht just arrived in the Waitematā. Looks like a job for some angry orca.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 28/09/2026

I will repeat that, 20 years ago, Heidegger was a set text for advanced nursing practitioners in my country. And we wonder where reactionary health woo ("MAHA" and its equivalents in other countries) comes from. This kind of "choose your own reality" postmodernism.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 28/09/2026

So: back to pre-internet mass media, then That should please the people who think that the reason we have fascism is that the weirdos were allowed to communicate with each other unsupervised online, rather than Walter Cronkite telling them what to think

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 28/09/2026

A natural outcome of postmodern/"perception is reality"/"nothing is real" politics. The thing is that when you elect a clown to run your government you might end up with Chavez, Trump, Beppe Grillo... or Zelenskyy.

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Unimpressed by this timeline @wirednavi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It is _hilarious_ how all these commie-hating hypercapitalists and libertarian heroes turn into "the aristocracy of pull" the instant they get the tiniest bit of entrenched power.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 28/09/2026

The great thing about this is if nothing is real, everything is permissible, to quote the Old Man of the Mountain. Trump clearly believes nothing is real, he gets away with it, that's why people love him. Impunity as freedom. They love him less as the magick stops working (the coyote looks down)

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 28/09/2026

Gretchen Felker-Martin was absolutely correct with this take, responding to a disgusting piece of SWERFery. The question I have that the SWERF in question was female, and I was told calling a woman "dude" was offensive misgendering. Literally asking for etiquette lessons here.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 05/07/2026

Instead of "sex-class" : "gender-caste". Is this anything?

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 27/09/2026

Told you. The media love Jordan Williams and want to help him any way they can.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 27/09/2026

Post-modern fascism, or cargo-cult fascism if you will

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 27/09/2026

It's because being a right-wing mega asshole is the path of least cognitive resistance. There are, theoretically, alternatives. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Stro...

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My Stroke of Insight - Wikipedia

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Testudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

God this is a great essay for leftists and for left liberals who want to avoid the lure of populism while moving on from the problems of neoliberalism.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 26/09/2026

A good thread because it branches off from a John Cleese discussion. Glinner fits the same pattern. Men who liked being naughty and transgressive liberals at one stage; got yelled at by feminists and queers; then became hateful fascists. The common feature is self-righteous contrarianisn.

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 26/09/2026

I've finally seen the light. I urge everyone to visit taxpayersunion.org.nz and see the good work that they've been doing on behalf of the hard-working taxpayers of New Zealand

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

YIMBYism (which codes moderate but which is also just good policy) is extremely helpful for left-wing politicians as a shibboleth that they're not like THOSE leftists.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 26/09/2026

We're bringing back *scientific* socialism, the best technocrats and experts working to bring abundance and ease for the working classes, not your postmodern vibes-based populism which inevitably turns back to defending the petty property values of academics and car dealers

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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Increasingly convinced the police should be replaced by an all-conscript militia to remove the factors that make them so awful, like detachment from the general public and political capture. Essentially an analogue of jury duty for law enforcement

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 25/09/2026

You see this time and time again here: people huffing that the reason Labour doesn't have a socialist platform is cowardice or corruption, and you just need "staunch Lefties" in charge to fix that. As Ross says, this is liberalism and populism. When SYRIZA replaced PASOK it became PASOK 2.0.

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the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

critical support to the Just Stop Oil coalition (the AFU and Ansarallah)

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leon @lacroixboi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the fact that people are afraid to air these grievances publicly for fear of right wingers turning it into a circus is exactly how abusers are able to thrive in left spaces though

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 24/09/2026

I'm still upset there aren't more GenZs called Delenn

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 24/09/2026

Similar to how Vincent van Gogh cut off his ear in anticipation of another bad song by the same artist

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 24/09/2026

This is like the advent of digital hard-disk music recording 30 years ago. Now every fool can make an album in their bedroom. And every fool does, which is why the value of recorded music is now zero.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 24/09/2026

Despite the guillotine, the Terror, the wars, the Empire, and the Restoration, the French Revolution was still a good thing - it kept getting reborn in 1830, 1848, 1871, and one could argue 1946 and 1968. "Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité" march on despite the crimes and blunders of their promoters.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 24/09/2026

This will come as a shock to apologists for the 20th century "Leninist" party-states. To hear those people talk, waste and inefficiency were features rather than bugs; paying people to waste time and resources and not caring about quality of work is socialist praxis, while efficiency is neoliberal.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 24/09/2026

Repost this to make a tankie or a fascist shit their britches

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 24/09/2026

Scumbags who appeal to "the principles of Adam Smith" to contradict Smith's actual analysis are the perfect twins of the scumbags who appeal to a nebulous "Marxism" to contradict Marx's actual analysis. Karl Marx is Adam Smith's intellectual heir and everyone on all sides has to suck that up.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 24/09/2026

The problem with saying this unambiguously true thing is that it puts you in a position of contradicting something a more vulnerable person sincerely believes, making you (by the rules of the Social Justice Game) a fair target for dogpiling and/or firebombing

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23/09/2026

they were wishcasting. they thought "well, it's not exactly great that Trump won, but at least he is going to take the wokes down a peg or three. we are frankly eager for him to curb stomp MeToo, BLM, Gaza protestors, every union organizer, etc"

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 23/09/2026

And this is why Andrew Eldritch in the 1990s was absolutely right to try to distance The Sisters Of Mercy from "goth". Sadly, he failed, for the same reason Keir Starmer failed to dismiss the Labour Party's support base and just pick up a new one

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 23/09/2026

I was immediately going to react with "what the fuck business is it of yours, narc", until I checked the username. Oh, what a giveaway.

Go to auckland
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Are NZ dairies being used as entry ports for illegal immigrants,the place near me has different people,working there on a monthly basis.Could be a way of importing cheap labour for the Supermarket business

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 23/09/2026

Four years ago I was sitting in a cafe hearing Chlöe Swarbrick say this about Wayne Brown. At the time it sounded like "institutional politician cowardice". But she was 100% right. I will henceforth respect the inside-outside strategy and not talk down on the future Finance Minister.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 23/09/2026

The point here is not so much "lol Woke 1.0 still lives", but that people *tried* to do something good, and not only did their community not help it survive in original format, they actively tried to destroy it for trying to adapt. This is what a politics of irresponsibility looks like.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 23/09/2026

The radical discourse on here believes that a "liberal" means an NPC, an insensate meat puppet characterised by a lack of interiority or meaning to their life, a sniveling coward who would be incapable of surviving in a world where they weren't coddled. In other words, their parents

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This picture says everything you need to know about the Bolivarian revolution.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 23/09/2026

No defence of his barely-democratic regime or its Islamist politics, but I am so glad this guy won the civil war

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 23/09/2026

I bet you've never even heard of one of these

Sharp MZ-700. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_MZ#MZ-80K_group

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 23/09/2026

This is why I start balking when people yell "ban the AfD/GOP" or similar. Basically because if you're going to criminalize radicals who have problems with liberal democracy, that's *me*. (Like any good Marxist, I think liberalism goes in the right direction but stops short way too early.)

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