Leonard Pierce
@leonardpierce.bsky.social
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Marxist, wife guy, ne'er-do-well. Concerned with words, generally. Chicago-based eating enthusiast. Crime, baseball, communism.
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Something we should really think about is that "the children we are starving to death were already sick" isn't supposed to be some kind of exculpatory defense, it's an attempt to inject the idea that it's okay to kill people who are sick or diseased or disabled into mainstream conversation
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All the Jewish writers were replaced by dudes from Santa Monica and the suburbs of Philadelphia who were the guy in their frat who was "so fucking funny" and who have to write a joke with "did that just happen" as a punchline and two characters of different ages arguing over pop culture every day
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I shouldn't have to get up first thing Monday morning and find out that Matt Yglesias has a new source of income
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Look I know some of you may not like Newsom or Buttigeig but the Democrats have had a lot of success running candidates that are broadly disliked by a lot of people and badgering people to vote for them anyway
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I spend a few seconds puzzling over the dual appearance of "Cellini" (does this guy really like goldsmiths, or is he misspelling "Celine", which would be the most contemporary writer on the list?) until I realized that this was the result of an AI query
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I hope the conversation isn't about electricity
going to go out on a limb and imagine this guy's not actually very good at conversations
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Capitalism is out of new ideas, but its grandees are rediscovering some old ones
What's your take on the moment we're living through in 50 words or less. [you able to quote post]
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It's hard enough staying sane during a fascist insurgency but in the end it might be the increasing jingoism of TV commercials that sends me over the falls
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It's storytime Sunday over at IMMORTAL SCIENCE! I wrote about Shigeru Mizuki's masterful wartime memoir ONWARDS TOWARDS OUR NOBLE DEATHS, and how it attacks the persistent lie that there was something inherently evil about the Japanese soldiers who engaged in suicide tactics. Take a look, why not.
The Health of the Clear Sky - IMMORTAL SCIENCE
Suicide, as a tactic of war, seems to hold a particular horror for us. Because it is so seemingly foreign to the West (although, really, it bears little distinction from...
