Mr. Tea
"can't soundclash" according to a VERY HARD MAN
I feel we've run out of modern Russians that most of us have heard of.If you're putin the pressure on a kleptocratic state, you should be taking prigozhins.
I feel we've run out of modern Russians that most of us have heard of.If you're putin the pressure on a kleptocratic state, you should be taking prigozhins.
i almost added 2008 to that lineage but deleted it. in affective terms it feels like something less shocking than the others to me. it doesn't have that sense of the impossible taking place, the feeling of reality fracturing. i remember hearing with corona when they announced that the americans had banned europeans from entering the country. and isis attacks all over the world every week in 2016ish. there's a difference i think in that 2008 was something you mostly experienced analytically, through words and conceptsside point: don't disagree hugely here but I think the Iraq war and then the 2008 financial crash were both more important in fracturing the consensus than 9/11, spectacular though it was.
that's another thing about the internet. that it came about at the same time as ultra-cheap and omnipresent video and photography. the latter is a machine for disintermediation i think (i know it can be manipulated etc). there is a searing reality to it that words in news reports gently cover.levels of casualty footage is growing, normalised and disseminated by ghouls like the DM - drone dropped ordinance cam footage, trench clips which would sicken David Jones, Wagner leader screaming in front of piles of fresh dead he recruited
Syria was rough for beheadings, barrel bombs and huge ordinance but Ukraine is slowly surpassing it for sheer mundanity of seeing an entire tank unit decimated and crews burning alive one day or a drone dropping small shells on men unaware they’re about to be blown apart
a veil usually covers and censors reality, here it seems designed to both repel and ensnare most viewers
i almost added 2008 to that lineage but deleted it. in affective terms it feels like something less shocking than the others to me. it doesn't have that sense of the impossible taking place, the feeling of reality fracturing. i remember hearing with corona when they announced that the americans had banned europeans from entering the country. and isis attacks all over the world every week in 2016ish. there's a difference i think in that 2008 was something you mostly experienced analytically, through words and concepts
Iraq had embedded journalists and the odd self-filmed moment of woohoo oorah of marines going nuts in Fallujah, it was omnipresent but heavily censored, not to say you couldn’t find or be sent horror clips if you have friends who think beheading videos fell under the scope or equivalent of Rick Rolling
Ukraine it sells both the obvious need to resolve the crisis but click baity “Russian Guards Infantry Vapourised by Sick Calibre Mod” brings a certain sub-thought creeping in of “fuck off with your voyeurism but… wait a minute maybe they get genuinely splattered?”, so click
Yeah definitely. Was talking to my friend about the aftermath of the 2020 election the other day. Not the thing as a whole, I totally understand that there are people who will never accept the result. But what's amazing to me is the number of specific falsehoods that are believed as unquestionable gospel truths even though they have been utterly debunked and the facts that do that are absolutely available in the public domain.It's interesting and unsettling how effectively public opinion can be moulded. This is why I think the people who say the American anti-abortion stuff will never take hold in the UK because religion doesn't carry the same weight in our politics are mistaken. If the right really start hammering it through social media, the newspapers, GB News and the rest, their supporters will take it up.
The Anne Heche video is one of the murkiest things to have been accidentally captured recently. Look into it.