Premium 359: Prostate Of The Union
Added 2025-05-19 20:00:29 +0000 UTCThis week we start off with a story about the Afrikaners who the Trump administration recently imported for racist reasons; move to the news about Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis; then round up some recent developments in 2024 revisionism, Kentucky tornadoes, and Zionism's vendetta against Palestinian children, as seen in the New York Times' hit piece on Ms. Rachel
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I'm sorta getting the feeling that a lot of first-contact stories are (uncomfortably) about the wish to "be in conflict with someone with whom you have zero baggage with", in lieu of the actual mess of context that is modern conflicts, in the here and now.
Jesper Ohlsson
2025-06-06 22:05:16 +0000 UTCOn the topic of humanity not being able to conquer pests, there's an interesting bit from Three Body Problem on that very subject. Humanity is aware that in 400 years a much more advanced alien fleet is going to invade and we are seemingly powerless to stop it. One character asks the question: is the technological gap between humanity and the trisolarins greater than the technological gap between humanity and locusts? The answer is clearly no. But humanity has yet to get rid of locusts.
Alfred Rodeo
2025-05-28 13:59:34 +0000 UTCIt kinda sounds like he's doing cultural appropriation of bone cancer. Like, he *has it* - now - but he started off with prostate cancer. If this was still 2013 we could really have been in for a lot of struggle-discourse about how bone cancer is deeply rooted in the modern afro-american experience.
Jesper Ohlsson
2025-05-24 13:15:44 +0000 UTCJoe Biden is gonna do for bone cancer what Magic Johnson did for AIDS.
Bobby Sloan
2025-05-24 05:30:02 +0000 UTC
