• Greenleaf [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    Unrelated: it’s a shame Stephen King turned into such a lib. But The Stand - along with most of his early work i.e. when he was writing high as a kite - is actually very good.

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      3 months ago

      I haven’t re-read any of his older stuff since I was radicalized. Kinda worry it won’t hold up. But if I’m ever in Maine, I’m gonna get arrested throwing copies of The Jakarta Method and Blackshirts and Reds over his fence.

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        3 months ago

        read The Running Man, it’s incredible

        stephen king was fucked up on shitty beer and coke one night in 1980 and was like hey what if reality tv and late capitalism and socioeconomic decay and social stratification and society of the spectacle and nazi youth gangs and killing off the poor via environmental collapse and return of old epidemic diseases and slow grinding deterioration of material conditions and flying commercial jets into skyscrapers

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          Oh, yeah, totally. Read the Bachman Books in the 90’s. That’s what’s so frustrating about him, is that he clearly gets something is wrong, but he’s too wrapped up in the Cultural Hegemony of western mythology to not be a LIB

          Lately, I’ve really been feeling the part where the poor people have to make DIY Nose Filters… doomer