A recent tweet asked: What sort of murderous savages parade the body of a dead woman through the streets? The answer is Hamas, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood and current client of fellow-butchers in Tehran – a Third Reich admiring theocratic fascist army that after coming to power in Gaza instantly turned it into […]
“Listening to Thistoll’s arguments, I struggled to shake off the impression of a reactionary soul opportunistically anchoring himself to a marginalized group to validate his repressive inclinations”
In an old, yellowing manuscript, that had all but faded from the dreams of its author, I rediscovered a story I had quickly sketched out, which today seems to hold an eerie significance. It tells a tale of some ostensibly pious villagers who had garnered the power to vanish, their invisibility giving them license to […]
When the Stuff produced documentary “Fire and Fury” was released last year it caused quite a stir. A desperately overproduced polemic on the Parliamentary Protests of March 2022, fronted by respected journalist Paula Penfold, the creative team laid it with a trowel, from the strange apocalyptic graphics to a soundtrack worthy of a Vincent Price […]
“Censorship is the glue that binds hierarchies together and hierarchies were often brutal in their commitment to their vision of social cohesion” – @AKADaneGiraud
“The fact is you’re as likely to get an unvarnished history from an entrepreneur as you are an admission that I was in any way responsible for my failed marriages.” – @AKADaneGiraud
“including us (Jews) would feed the majority interpretation of minorities as powerless, which is a comforting narrative to the majority, and why they incessantly promote it” – @AKADaneGiraud
“… to call McCarthy Trumpian is to only tell half of the story. What is so chilling about the Senator as depicted – and reassuring about our own age – is that McCarthy operated like Trump and the ‘woke’ cancel-culture crowd rolled into one” @AKADaneGiraud
“Now is the time for everyone who thinks of themselves as progressive – I’m looking at you @CitizenBomber – to stop these constant attacks on “wokeness” and focus on the real enemy of progress” …. So read the tweet by NZME columnist Simon Wilson, who clearly views a moratorium on any criticism of the ‘woke’ […]
“There’s an alarming contradiction playing out here: a clash between the revered principles of the Left of yore and the contemporary thirst for power and influence, wrapped up in the shiny packaging of progressivism.” – @AKADaneGiraud