Candidate [he/him]

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  • Candidate [he/him]@hexbear.nettohistory@hexbear.netInglourious Basterd
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    6 months ago

    The most cogent analysis of the film I’ve seen is that it’s basically a film about how cinema is realer than reality.

    The big clues being that Shoshanna is only shot because she has a moment of empathy for the Nazi fuck that got her the gig for the cinema, but she only has that moment because the film she watches sympathises with him and the British spy not being rumbled by his ridiculous citation of a german film to describe his family, but something you’d never pick up from a movie - the fingers you use to indicate a number.











  • Ironically, I got radicalised by a book written by a Milquetoast centrist, Capital In The 21st Century.

    It’s essentially a capitalist thinking through the fundamental implications of capitalism, especially that the market demands that the rate of return must be higher than the rate off growth. Piketty goes through the history of the 20th century and how the post-war boom came about, and how it’s equality was dismantled in the eighties in order to fuel greater returns.

    Then he comes up with his policy recommendations, and it’s… a wealth tax. Which you know, I’m not opposed to, but the idea that’s going to have the same sort of impact as the creation of the welfare state and WW2 is insane. Never mind that there’s nothing in place to prevent the rise of austerity again. At that point I knew the only way to proceed was to dismantle the capital class in it’s entirety.