Poetry Of Unguided Descent

Yeah. One thing I think about occasionally: other than being women in politics, Cheney and AOC have essentially nothing in common, personally, ideologically, or culturally. It is hard to imagine two more different female pols. Yet they agreed firmly on one thing: keep Trump out of the White House.

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they sincerely do not think post modernism happened so they don't think they can BE wrong in any way

full zizek solipsism

i cant speak for what other people experience, but my experience of social media is there is a stripe of leftist other leftists think everyone realizes they arent chill with and the reality is we dont know that and the thing we do know is how those fucks treat the rest of us

I've played through New Vegas a bunch and never sided with the Legion.

Only death for fascists.

It is legitimately so insulting to the generations who fought for the right to vote that people act the way about it.

I’m so fucking sick of it.

“costs a little bit of my soul to vote for something depressing against something terrifying”

I truly cannot identify with this mindset. It is utterly bizarre to me.

Honor is a pretty useful concept in many cases, and we can define the MAGA/Trump ethos in large part by their total lack of it, or interest in even pretending that they have any.

the IRA is an unfortunate example of the failure of the non-bigoted theory of popularism

it was a good law that poured piles of money into infrastructure (in rural areas!) and they got zero credit for it from the people who complain about those sorts of things, because the complaining is the point

7/x And ultimately, all of this is because the idea of a multiracial working class united by class consciousness is a religious viewpoint held by a lot of leftists as deeply as evangelicals hold apocalyptic millenarianism. It's like critiquing what an evangelical views as a sign of the second coming

Precambrian metamorphic shield

some of the oldest stuff in the world

Oliver Stone is one of the worst directors of all time to have acquired any sort of status. His best movies are a 6/10 at best, and all of his work has unforgivable flaws

why would you do this to me

My God, do I despise Don’t Look Up. The most smug, self-congratulatory, “dumb guy’s idea of a smart guy” movie in a long, long while. I also hate that it’s a movie where if you dislike it, the counter argument is “you’re making the movie’s point!” Cool. If that’s the case, let the asteroid hit.

you can't get nv without 3

literally benny

you're fine

the canadian shield is nuts.

all that precambrian lunacy

baffling how old some of those rocks are

nothing on the trending is politics

nice

what

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A big part of both historical documents Captain America: The First Avenger and With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa feature a prominent plot point of the main character being SO FUCKING UNDERWEIGHT THAT THEY WON'T LET HIM ENLIST

i'm not certain if its conscious or if its just the inevitable consequence of modelling ones self on a bullshitter like bernie. once you get to the place of "the democrats are worse because they dont fight hard enough", the logical conclusion is burn it down. thats why you choose to believe that

i think they want to sabotage the party. crash the party apparatus they percieve to exist in place of what actually exists, and then they will run what staggers out of the wreckage.1/

suffer

as I have suffered

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this is how science works

Armored Core 6 or Returnal.

Masterpieces of pain.

why did you show me this

what is this

why is this happening

if you fail you get executed. political purges tend to paralyze the officer corps.

If Battlestar survives 400 years into the future Shakespeare play style people will NOT believe that Gaius Baltar came before Elon Musk/assorted AI guys were a thing

There is a widespread thing, similar to Murc's Law and the Fundamental Attrib. Error, where ppl. will readily explain Arab or Iranian radicalization as a response to Israeli actions, but think the rightward drift of Isr. politics is an innate character flaw. Unbombed thinking, but only for 1 side.