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20s | politics/readings | canada

[blackwingedrat]

little blog intro:

mid-20s, they/them, chinese, marxist

books and pdfs are tagged as: #to read

reading/pdf lists collected here: #reading list

[blackwingedrat]

it does fuck me up thinking that trump started the iran war sometimes. like on purpose like he could have just not done that but he did

[blackwingedrat]

after you read the words "on tiktok," you can basically disregard anything that comes after

[blackwingedrat]

reading about the opioid epidemic in the united states and tbqh im very surprised no one has shot richard sackler yet. you guys literally have guns

[blackwingedrat]

fyi he's part of the sackler family who owns purdue pharma, the company at the root of the opioid epidemic

[blackwingedrat]

reading about the opioid epidemic in the united states and tbqh im very surprised no one has shot richard sackler yet. you guys literally have guns

[blackwingedrat]

ghoul needs to get back in his coffin

[blackwingedrat]

it's genuinely so funny like the reason ppl thought the dnc 2024 autopsy report wasn't being released was bc the results would show that the dnc strategies were dogshit, but i dont think anyone predicted that the actual reason was bc the report itself was so dogshit (the dnc chair literally asked his friend to do it and the guy said yeah ill do it. for free even)

[blackwingedrat]

like the incompetence is insane. you could not make this shit up

[blackwingedrat]

it's genuinely so funny like the reason ppl thought the dnc 2024 autopsy report wasn't being released was bc the results would show that the dnc strategies were dogshit, but i dont think anyone predicted that the actual reason was bc the report itself was so dogshit (the dnc chair literally asked his friend to do it and the guy said yeah ill do it. for free even)

[blackwingedrat]

still makes me laugh that kamala harris thought allying herself w liz cheney was a viable strategy

[tobermoriansass]

Hello! <3 I’d like to find a good history book about post 1947 India (if possible sm serious and ‘academic’ (ie well construed and not too ‘journalistic’) with an emphasis on political history), and I was wondering if per chance you had any specific advice on this topic (whether an historian or a specific book rec). I try to always be careful when looking for works abt recent historical periods, both bc of possible political biases + the fact that the anglosphere is really full of journalistic history books, whose rigour/quality I’m never completely sure of. If you don’t have anything in mind /don’t have the time to answer though I don’t want to bother you – I’ll find a solution by myself (I’ve already found a few books in my University library) ;)

hmmmm this is a bit tough because I haven’t read much contemporary Indian history per se, but some books which you might find interesting:

The Indian Ideology by Perry Anderson

Utsa Patnaik’s stuff in general - she’s very good on the history of agriculture & political economy in India (The Republic of Hunger and The Long Transition)

Dispossession, Deprivation, and Development by Arindam Banerjee & C.P. Chandrashekhar

India Since Independence ed. Bipan Chandra (Bipan Chandra in general is also good)

India’s Villages in the 21st Century: Revisits and Revisions ed. Surinder S Jodhka & Edward Simpson

No Free Left by Vijay Prashad

Khaki Shorts & Saffron Flags: A Critique of the Hindu Right

The Oxford Companion to Politics in India

Ramachandra Guha can be woefully centrist (besides revealing himself to be a bit of a spineless coward after 2020′s anti-CAA protests) but a) he along with Madhav Gadgil are the best historians on India’s ecology/environment & environmental movements and b) he does have good stuff to say about contemporary Indian political history on the whole

The North East as a whole is woefully underrepresented here but I recommend looking at Sanjoy Hazarika’s two books Strangers of the Mist and Strangers No More and In The Name Of the Nation by Sanjib Baruah for basic postcolonial background

If anyone has any other recommendations, pls leave them in the replies!

[blackwingedrat]

can white people shut up for real

[hyporealist-deactivated20251112]

why can't i mock your religion lmao U literally think i'm going to hell

[aletheyass]

bald pussy havers really think they’re an oppressed minority because of a handful of bush posts on tumblr dot com of all places don’t worry babe you have the entire entertainment industry and beauty industry and porn industry and also porn addicted men and also a good portion of women on your side ❤️ be strong you’ll get through this

[bovineblogger]

can you guys watch my squab for me im gonna go on my smoko

[kcrossvine]

baby need smoko

[bovineblogger]

BABY DOES NOT NEED SMOKO

[mushroom-soup-is-my-religion]

New pin

[bovineblogger]

WHAT THE FUCK

[kcrossvine]

oh my fucking god???

[blackwingedrat]

reading the conclusion of terry eagleton's literary theory: an introduction and i admit a lot of it was very dense (i am not a lit student) but every other sentence of the final chapter "conclusion: political criticism" has me yelling yes! exactly! yes!!!! in my mind

[despazito]

[sacredstem]

i did not expect living through the death of the american empire to be this unserious

[communistkenobi]

does a show or movie being reactionary impact your enjoyment in it?

my cop out answer is that all commercial mass produced media is reactionary in some form or another so it’s impossible for me to evaluate a case in which it’s not reactionary. & also I primarily engage with art as a political object, I don’t really experience the type of artistic engagement I’ve heard people talk about (eg comfort watching, self-care watching, etc) so at the risk of sounding like a massive pretentious cunt I’m unable to not incorporate a show/movie’s politics into my evaluation and enjoyment of it. Star Wars for example is reactionary in many ways - I don’t necessarily enjoy it “in spite of” those elements, they are part of my enjoyment of it because they are part of ‘the text’ of Star Wars and removing/ignoring them would fundamentally alter Star Wars. Which doesn’t mean I agree with/endorse those things obviously, but I don’t know how to cordon them off from my enjoyment of SW if that makes sense. I feel like people usually talk about critical evaluation as a purely negative project, as always ‘taking away from’ their enjoyment, which has to sit outside of critical evaluation, which is not how I experience my own enjoyment of media