Panchayat

Development economist, based in London, unhealthily obssessed with politics, poverty, classic films and bad television. Has been accused of having the musical taste of a 16 year-old girl. Is not one.

[mxxn-archive]

Anyone else tired of the AI trend. here's some real art guys

[jen-kollic]

I am fucking loving how shit-scared the UK right-wing is of a man with a bin on his head. Now that Count Binface might actually win the Clacton byelection they're desperately trying to smear him with such gems as:

"He's anti-Brexit!" Good.

"He's anti-Trump!" Good.

"He's anti-establishment!" At this point I think you're just trying to make me like him more.

"His manager once called Farage a horrible cunt!" Well Farage *is* a horrible cunt, what's your point?

"He's making a joke of British politics!" Well that's very appropriate given that current British politics *are* a fucking joke.

"He's a left-wing liberal elitist!" I don't know if you can be all of those things at once, but I do know that Count Binface isn't the one getting millions in donations from cryptocurrency billionaires sooooooo...

Vote change. Vote Binface.

[iz-robin]

One of these has the moral standing of a cartoon villain, the other might save the country.

Welcome to British politics.

[jungwildeandfree]

so this guy right he makes ancient egyptian themed furry costumes. he makes all kinds but mostly he specializes in Horus heads. it's his passion really. he loves to make the beautiful falcon head of the Sun God. anyway so he's at a con one day and he sees this whole bunch of people in middle kingdom dress with these indistinguishable animal heads. he's like. oh man these folks could really use a new source, i can hardly tell what animal those are! so he goes over and he says "hey guys! i see you are into ancient egyptian mythological themed furry costumes--if any of you are interested in being the radiant Son of Ra, I am the BEST in the business!"

and the group of people look at each other, then at him. awkward. finally one of them says: "uh. no thanks. we're all Set."

[s-cullayy]

[thatlittleegyptologist]

This has been sent to me four times today, so I'm condemning OP to be judged by the 42 and fall into Nuun.

[datundit]

I think every laugh will make OP’s heart a bit lighter.

@thatlittleegyptologist

Judge OP’s heart

I laughed, I lighten his heart.

His heart shall be heavier for this.

Voting ended onMar 1

[sunbentshadows]

[lazy-native]

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[ceevee5]

I’d love to see Count Binface door to door canvassing or phone banking.

[blahaj-in-a-tie]

I would go canvassing for Count Binface

[ceevee5]

Tumblr For Binface.

[stonedcymro]

[ceevee5]

Burnham - war crimes only "appear" to have been committed … the UK should be "looking" at "further sanctions... the UK should only be "looking" at a ban on trade in goods with Israel's illegal settlements. He did not call to end all arms exports to Israel. Burnham dis not call for an end to UK military cooperation such as withdrawing the 2020 military accord or ending all military training programmes.

[collapsedsquid]

[murheissaan]

Muhammad Ali as St. Sebastian for Esquire, 1968

[saywhat-politics]

It's the Corruption, Stupid

Donald Trump's corruption is unprecedented as he establishes a $1.8 billion slush fund to give taxpayer money to his cronies. It may be his

[anexperimentallife]

[collapsedsquid]

Sort of torn by this in that Elon is especially insane but I still do agree with the general point and do feel the urge to hang this over tech fetishists and people who say things like this.

[theconcealedweapon]

"Why do you blame Trump for high gas prices and not Biden?"

Because the high gas prices under Biden were caused by a war between Russia and Ukraine, which Biden had nothing to do with. The high gas prices under Trump were caused by a war that Trump actively contributed to.

[ceevee5]

[deadpresidents]

But by far the most interesting person was undoubtedly [Henry] Kissinger. He is showing signs of strain from the Watergate scandal. He drank very little but talked somewhat indiscreetly in front of our French guests who are bound to repeat much of what he said... ...Henry talked at the table in front of everyone about Watergate. He said the people now being exposed (like Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean, etc.) were small-town, middle-class politicians who were used to fixing municipal elections and thought they could do the same thing in the White House. He failed to mention that Nixon had, after all, brought them in and let them run wild. He also said it was all right to lie for "a great cause" but not for a small one.

Longtime New York Times foreign correspondent C.L. Sulzberger, on a dinner party he hosted in Paris during the Watergate scandal where Nixon Administration's National Security Advisor, top diplomat, and soon-to-be Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was a guest, June 7, 1973.

As recounted in Sulzberger's 1974 book, Postscript With a Chinese Accent: Memoirs and Diaries, 1972-1973, the fourth volume of Sulzberger's fascinating collection of journal entries, autobiographical vignettes, and reporting notes from his remarkable career and close personal and professional interactions with virtually every significant international figure of the 20th Century following World War II.

[filmantidote]

Tambaku Chaakila Oob Ali/Tobacco Embers (Yugantar, 1982)

The documentary documents, re-enacts, and takes forward one of the largest movements of unorganized labor of its time and context, which sparked unionizing processes across India throughout the 1980s. In the spirit of mobilizing for the leftist labor and the women’s movements the Yugantar collective spent four months with female tobacco factory workers in Nipani, Karnataka in India, listening to their accounts of exploitative working conditions, discussing strategies for unionizing and steps to broaden solidarities for strike actions, and filming previously unseen circumstances inside the factories. The team followed the workers’ leads as to what, where, and how their actions should be recorded, and developed a loose script through the workers’ narratives. Yugantar’s commitment to the complexity of political friendships and how to ‘stand with’ provoked a then pioneering collaborative filmmaking practice embodied in large scale reenactments, a voice-over as pluriverse testimony, and the production of the first screen presence of working-class women ‘speaking to power’. A powerful example of a feminist third cinema. (Nicole Wolf)

Watch here until May 15th

[collapsedsquid]

From what i understand the Iranian's official position is that they are refusing to meet until the blockade is lifted.

[afloweroutofstone]

It’s always fun to be reminded how recent European national identities are. Peasants in 1860’s Sicily had never heard the term “Italy” before, the majority of people in France didn’t speak French at the time of the French Revolution, etc.

[dostoyevsky-official]

[pyjnda]

from the observations of a british diplomat in the ukraine in 1912, quoted in Bini Adamczacks Beziehungsweise Revolution

[when one asks the avarage peasant farmer in the ukraine about his nationality, he will answer, he is "greek-orthodox"; when one pushes him to say whether he is a russian, a pole, or a ukranian, he will answer, he is a farmer; and when one demands demands to find out which language he speeks, he will say that he speaks "the language from around here". ... i.e. when one wants to find out which state he would like to belong to – whether he would rather be governed by an pan-russian or a specifically ukranian government – one will find out, that in his opinion, all governments are a plague on the land, and it would be best, if the "christian peasantfolk" were left to themselves.]