Alright baby, lets do it: a thread on fiction for socialists to check out. I'll start w/ literary fic, then get to genre fic. First: one of the great American novels, possibly my favorite. Follows the Joads, who represent the dignity of working ppl during the Great Depression.

The actual worst song of all time is Laffy Taffy by D4L.

Overall, it's wild to see how the fervent rightwing nationalism of the day was in part misplaced alienation from capitalist modernity, but refracted in a reactionary, resentful way that worked to undermine solidarity, rather than promote it. Feels worrying similar to the present!.

Interesting to note that Hitler became poor about a year after moving away from home, but his background as the son of a civil servant & his own dreams of becoming a great artist made him revile the proletariat. His poverty made him even more hostile to them, not less.

A Clockwork Orange is a well-made movie, but thematically it is way less interesting/insightful/provocative than people think it is.

RT @TrackAIPAC: A modern day holocaust funded with U.S. tax dollars: .

RT @BlueATLGeorgia: John Oliver not mincing words: "Gaza is starving, is a sentence that's objectively true, but it's also slightly mislead….

RT @davenewworld_2: Ms Rachel in a new video: "How did it get to this point?. I feel like I'm in a nightmare where I'm explaining not to k….

RT @UnionDrip: when union density and middle-class wages were at their peak, over half of 30-year-olds were both married and homeowners.

RT @JoePostingg: Roman statue accounts not understanding the basic framework of Roman civilization is such an incredible microcosm of right….

While the US destroys itself, China is winning the important global competition in Cool Shit Innovation.

Excellent show w/ top-tier characterization, but mediocre politics. The show's best thematic work is in the simple stuff. Part of why Legend of Korra isn't as good is because the showrunners tried to delve into more complex themes they absolutely were not equipped to handle.

People really think "ethnosate" means "state w/ a majority population of a certain ethnicity" lol

RT @copesint: Everyone has already clowned on this guy for not realizing that this character is 100% historically accurate, but I'd like to….

RT @megannn_lynne: Spent 2 years not watching Andor because I’m not really a Star Wars girl but finally caved just so I could confirm my ha….

RT @TheCinesthetic: Paul Mescal, when asked how “wild” it felt to meet King Charles. "I'm Irish, so it's not on the list of priorities"….

This kinda checks out as a metaphor for Europeans and Indigenous people, because the latter had a lot of societies that had advanced features, such as their land management techniques. They just werent as industrialized.

I still use the quote in my classes, I just explain that it was a mistranslation. It's too good a quote not to use, lol. (For those who don't know, the old story was someone asked Enlai what the French Revolution meant and he replied "it's too early to know").

I dislike Israel as much as the next guy, but this is just not true. US imperialism did this to Iraq, not Israel. Theyre responsible for a genocide, thats bad enough, we don't need to pretend theyre to blame for US imperialism in the region.

RT @tparsi: WOW!. While defenders of Israel in the West deny genocide, deny starvation, or blame it on the UN, the former deputy director o….