#benjamin klein

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Sexiest Old Man Tournament: Round 1

Who is hotter?

[thesnappiestoperator]

If I paint my fingernails green, and well it happens that I do paint them green.

Cabaret at The Kit Kat Club - West End Playhouse Theatre - October, 2023

Taper: @lasagnatrades

Emily Benjamin's LAST SHOW as alt Sally Bowles

Stars: Jake Shears, Emily Benjamin, Nathan Ives-Mobia, Beverly Klein, Teddy Kempner, Wilf Scolding

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Behind The Scenes Of The Calvin Klein Eternity Perfume Comercial 1(2019) pics..

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Distorted 2018

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Doom enforces his will on the Runaways, romance strike the Superior Avengers, and more in One World Under Doom #comics #comicbooks

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Hulk Smashes Milestone 800th Issue

Incredible Hulk #19 will mark the Hulk's 800th issue and Marvel Comics is celebrating by making it a giant-sized milestone issue. Continuing team Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Nic Klein will be joined by Greg Pak, Benjamin Percy, Torunn Grønbekk, Geoff Shaw, Lynne Yoshii, and Lan Medina. Other characters like She-Hulk, Brawn, and Red Hulk will also be spotlighted. The issue will lay groundwork for a new solo series featuring a member of the Hulk family.

Johnson and Klein's main story in Incredible Hulk #19 asks "if the Hulk has finally met one stronger than himself? After a crushing defeat at the hands of Eldest, the Incredible Hulk is a slave, and the return of the Mother of Horrors is imminent! Hulk’s only hope is the newly resurrected Charlie Tidwell, who takes on the Skinwalkers of Lycana to save Hulk… But what ancient power did the Skinwalkers awaken within her to bring her back? Can her mysterious new power give Hulk the edge he needs to defeat both the Skinwalkers and the immortal Eldest?" (Marvel Comics)

Incredible Hulk #19 (Legacy #800), featuring a cover by Nic Klein, goes on sale on November 27, 2024.

[Image via Marvel Comics - Nic Klein's Cover of Incredible Hulk #19 (Legacy #800)]

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Mujin's Takes & Casual Islamophobia

This video is focused on the recent controversy involving Ethan Klein and the Ayyrabs podcast. It honestly felt like I was watching one of Ethan's rants about HasanAbi.

The video:

Used out-of-context clips of HasanAbi to try to paint him as a supporter of terrorism

Claimed the viral Yemeni kid is a terrorist, despite there being no evidence of it besides him being a young man in Yemen

Uses clips and websites from internet trolls and stalkers

Was in defense of Ethan Klein's statements about Israel, while not affording any charitability to those speaking about Palestine

Tried to frame the Ayyrabs tier list from Twitch Con as rating people from "Arab to Jew", quoting Ethan Klein exactly, due to the bottom category being "loves Sabra" (note: Sabra is a hummus and dip company based in the US, and is known for having not great hummus).

Treated the ADL as a credible source and the spokesperson for antisemitism

Overall, the video was very strangely worded and overly favorable to certain creators or apathetic viewpoints on current events. Mujin's framing came off as casually Islamophobic, as he painted every Muslim or Arab creator in a negative light, while also treating Jewish people as a monolithic group. Many of his exact words came from Ethan Klein, who I have been very disappointed in lately.

Mujin, stick to Vtubers.

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This week's on fire 🔥

Just look at them! Bess and Benjamin are such great duet partners!

New single "Paremmin ku kukaan muu" is out now!

[fabiansteinhauer]

Meta bolisch

Ich, Fabianus aus dem Stamm der Fabianisten, fingere, also tippe ich. Ich tippe, also schätze ich. Ich schätze, also mess' ich mich. Ich fingere, also fingier ich römisch. Ich bin Homo Rhetoricus/ Digitalis und Aguirre, der Klaus Kinski Karel Gotts.

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What happened To the Israeli Left?

Ezra Klein suggests there is no longer any Leftist movement in Israel. He and his guest, Amit Segal, explore that idea in this podcast, recorded in early June 2024, just after Gantz left the War Cabinet.

I'd particularly welcome any comments from Israelis and astute observers of Israeli politics.

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Le plaidoyer antisioniste de Naomi Klein

Un beau texte de Naomi Klein en forme de plaidoyer passionné contre le sionisme sur la bases des valeurs du judaïsme. C’est la première fois que je traduis un de ses textes. J’ai vérifié qu’il n’était pas déjà traduit mais il se peut qu’entre ma vérification et l’achèvement de ma traduction, ce texte ait été publié par un autre site. J’aurais quand même eu le plaisir de traduire ce texte que…

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Behind The Scenes Of The Calvin Klein Eternity Advertisement(2019) pics...

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In the Bleak Midwinter

That is what it feels like today. Almost at the Earth’s halfway point, the shortest day on the horizon and darkest before the dawn to anoint another cliché. This morning I listened to Donniel and Yossi discussing the killing of the three escaped hostages Alon, Samar and Yotam. Before that, a different Hartman Podcast with  Yehuda Kurtzer talking with Cochav Elkayam-Levy about the newly created…

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niceys positive anon!! i don't agree with you on everything but you are so clearly like well read and well rounded that you've helped me think through a lot of my own inconsistencies and hypocrises in my own political and social thought, even if i do have slightly different conclusions at times then u (mainly because i believe there's more of a place for idealism and 'mind politics' than u do). anyway this is a preamble to ask if you have recommended reading in the past and if not if you had any recommended reading? there's some obvious like Read Marx but beyond that im always a little lost wading through theory and given you seem well read and i always admire your takes, i wondered about your recs

it's been a while since i've done a big reading list post so--bearing in mind that my specific areas of 'expertise' (i say that in huge quotation marks obvsies i'm just a girlblogger) are imperialism and media studies, here are some books and essays/pamphlets i recommend. the bolded ones are ones that i consider foundational to my politics

BASICS OF MARXISM

friedrich engels, principles of commmunism

friedrich engels, socialism: utopian & scientific

karl marx, the german ideology

karl marx, wage labour & capital

mao zedong, on contradiction

nikolai bukharin, anarchy and scientific communism

rosa luxemburg, reform or revolution?

v.i lenin, left-wing communism: an infantile disorder

v.i. lenin, the state & revolution

v.i. lenin, what is to be done?

IMPERIALISM

aijaz ahmed, iraq, afghanistan, and the imperialism of our time

albert memmi, the colonizer and the colonized

che guevara, on socialism and internationalism (ed. aijaz ahmad)

eduardo galeano, the open veins of latin america

edward said, orientalism

fernando cardoso, dependency and development in latin america

frantz fanon, black skin, white masks

frantz fanon, the wretched of the earth

greg grandin, empire's workshop

kwame nkrumah, neocolonialism, the last stage of imperialism

michael parenti, against empire

naomi klein, the shock doctrine

ruy mauro marini, the dialectics of dependency

v.i. lenin, imperialism: the highest stage of capitalism

vijay prashad, red star over the third world

vincent bevins, the jakarta method

walter rodney, how europe underdeveloped africa

william blum, killing hope

zak cope, divided world divided class

zak cope, the wealth of (some) nations

MEDIA & CULTURAL STUDIES

antonio gramsci, the prison notebooks

ed. mick gidley, representing others: white views of indigenous peoples

ed. stuart hall, representation: cultural representations and signifying pratices

gilles deleuze & felix guattari, capitalism & schizophrenia

jacques derrida, margins of philosophy

jacques derrida, speech and phenomena

michael parenti, inventing reality

michel foucault, disicipline and punish

michel foucault, the archeology of knowledge

natasha schull, addiction by design

nick snricek, platform capitalism

noam chomsky and edward herman, manufacturing consent

regis tove stella, imagining the other

richard sennett and jonathan cobb, the hidden injuries of class

safiya umoja noble, algoriths of oppression

stuart hall, cultural studies 1983: a theoretical history

theodor adorno and max horkheimer, the culture industry

walter benjamin, the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction

OTHER

angela davis, women, race, and class

anna louise strong, cash and violence in laos and vietnam

anna louise strong, the soviets expected it

anna louise strong, when serfs stood up in tibet

carrie hamilton, sexual revolutions in cuba

chris chitty, sexual hegemony

christian fuchs, theorizing and analysing digital labor

eds. jules joanne gleeson and elle o'rourke, transgender marxism

elaine scarry, the body in pain

jules joanne gleeson, this infamous proposal

michael parenti, blackshirts & reds

paulo freire, pedagogy of the oppressed

peter drucker, warped: gay normality and queer anticapitalism

rosemary hennessy, profit and pleasure

sophie lewis, abolish the family

suzy kim, everyday life in the north korean revolution

walter rodney, the russian revolution: a view from the third world

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“Frankly speaking, I no longer understand what the goal of the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip is,” Merz said in an interview aired on public television. “To harm the civilian population to such an extent, as has increasingly been the case in recent days, can no longer be justified as a fight against Hamas terrorism.”

“Germany must exercise greater restraint than any other country in the world in giving public advice to Israel,” Merz said. “But when borders are crossed, when international humanitarian law is really being violated, the German chancellor must also say something about it.”

Merz suggested he will discuss Israel’s renewed offensive in a scheduled call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later this week. “We have a great interest in remaining at Israel’s side,” Merz added. “But the Israeli government must not do anything that its best friends are no longer prepared to accept.”

The German government’s commissioner for combatting antisemitism, Felix Klein, also sparked a debate in Germany in calling for a “more honest discussion” of how Germans interpret their Staatsräson with regard to Israel.

“We must do everything in our power to preserve the security of Israel and Jews worldwide,” Klein said in an interview with Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung daily paper. “But we must also be clear that this is no justification for everything. Starving the Palestinians and deliberately making the humanitarian situation dramatically worse has nothing to do with safeguarding Israel’s right to exist. And it cannot be the German reason of state either.”

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