Pete Hahnloser

Unemployed journalist, burner, raver, graphic artist and vandweller.

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Cake day: June 6th, 2023

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  • That’s ultimately the question. We can get rid of Trump at some point (and by “we,” I mean the Grim Reaper most likely, the way things are going), but how do you deprogram the decades of misinformation that installed him in the first and second place?

    I’m not an academic – though that’s apparently of about as much use as being a journalist these days – so I’m not really qualified to answer that. I suspect it would take MAGA hats having their lives become completely unaffordable to effect any demonstrable change. Ignoring the Constitution clearly isn’t having enough of an impact.










  • The vigil on Sunday evening drew a crowd so large that police in Vancouver had to move the crime scene barriers back so that people would not spill out onto the busy traffic along 41st Avenue, writes Dustin Godfrey, in his dispatch from Vancouver, about the strength of the Filipino community in the face of a devastating car attack that has killed 11 people and injured dozens more.

    I made an edit for not so much clarity, but “11 eleven”? Come on, Van. I know you can do better.

    There are times where this is used for comedic effect. Fully unable to read the room, we get redundancy in the wrong order: “eleven (11)” is correct, but that’s just the beginning. This is not a moment of levity. You aren’t The fucking Onion.

    Nothing that can be done, says one of the other countries where this is starting to be a regular occurrence.


  • Far be it for me to be an NSDAP apologist. However, the techniques she introduced to the world would go on to be both iconic and standard. Look, for example, at the camera-angle choices in Citizen Kane. That’s pure Riefenstahl. And not considered a terrible movie.

    We can hate a person while appreciating their artistic output. This has been the case since Ugg made wheel.

    This said, I don’t think she was a good person. But I’d honestly challenge you to find an effective artist who is also a good person. There are some actors, of course; I’m talking reporters and the production team.

    We are effective because we’ve seen some shit. And when you’ve seen some shit, sometimes you don’t make the ethical choice. I’d not go so far as to vlog for the Fourth Reich, but she likely saw it as patriotic.

    How many of your neighbours would do the same?