"Lazergun" Alana Tomato

*watching Home Alone 2* that guy will assassinate the Ayatollah

Maybe it's the Clos de Vougeot Pinot Noir talking Babette, but you've got a feast that won't quit. They got these Cailles en Sarcophage here,. thnagcdcmbemmh 10000 francs??!!!? Get outta here...

📝📝📝 good lookin' out

I should start inside trading. Anybody have some tips for this ? thx.

Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it

a few times I've watched a movie on Tubi where the first five seconds or so were of the DVD menu

movie on Tubi opens with a "shudder exclusive" title card... unclear whether they're flexing or whether that's how a shit they don't give

I suppose I would purchase a milkshake from the grimace

Personally I would NEVER purchase a hamburger from a clown. But those Mcdonald execs were living their lives differently in the 1950s

I have, to be clear, no love for the Iranian government. But the US’s allies are pulling their punches, mentioning Iran’s violations by name and the US’s violations in generalities about the situation. This is not what an even application of international law looks like.

Tbh I am disconcerted by this meeting so far. The US’s violation of the charter is red letter, blazing, clear as day. Many of the US’s allies are mentioning it in passing. I suspect they wont like what follows from signaling they are less committed to the UN charter than they are to countering Iran

Antonio Guterres has been pushing a pencil into his cheek for the last 45 minutes. He’s going to leave a mark

The point here is that US actions are wrong in both cases. But European states often don't want to treat it that way because they frankly don't believe that these things are equally wrong.

And that's a (huge) problem for any hope of a Europe-led response to preserving the international legal order

US threats against Greenland are seen (in this frame) as a problem because where they occur. The US is supposed to threaten violence out FROM the liberal international order, not WITHIN it. The betrayal is the target, not the act.

The difference between how European states respond to these attacks (and Venezuela) compared to Greenland are telling about the hypocrisy involved.

A willingness to tolerate - or enable - illegal war when it happens "out there."

Russia’s first to bring up the invasion of Iraq today. It’s to the US’s great shame that there’s ever space for Russia to try and claim the moral high ground in this chamber while it’s enabled mass Syrian death and continued its assault on Ukraine

the painting named in the post

A Dove Has Spread Her Wings and Asks for Peace (1982, Maria Primachenko)

I think this what finally gets me to just reread the whole thing, instead of specific portions

I understand why, of all those early Frankfurt School guys, people gravitate toward A + H: they're the famous ones; their work is undeniable very useful, and interesting. But Neumann deserves his due. Pulling my copy of BEHEMOTH off the shelf has felt like holding a crystal ball this whole past year

the reasonable person does not demand a return to the war of each against all, but fights for an honest system. Likewise, when we have shown that international law has been misused for imperialistic aims, our task has begun, not ended. We must fight against imperialism."

To abandon universalism because of its failures is like rejecting civil rights because they help legitimize and veil class exploitation, or democracy because it conceals boss control. Faced with a corrupt administration of justice,

returning now, as I often to, to Franz Neumann, BEHEMOTH:

"Every generation has seen it break down as an instrument for organizing peace, and a theory that disposes of its universalist claims has the obvious advantage of appearing to be realistic. The fallacy should be equally obvious, however.

Sluggo's Saturday I know that's right!!

QBert is one of the better pokemon. I like his proboscis and his foul mouth.

it's fucked up that the pokemon "pidgey" is not a pigeon, but rather a tern or wren! especially as there is not a pigeon pokemon !

so "mickey" is diminutive for "michael"? "Michael Mouse"?

Actually I also really liked that SMILE 2 is a quasi-musical. More American movies need a few song and dance numbers.

The sequence in SMILE 2: REVENGE OF SMILE where Jack Nicholson's boy is driving recklessly as he and Naomi Scott argue in the car and the camera drifts back and forth between them in a way that denies the viewer any ability to see the road--so so good. Scary as hell even w/o the supernatural element

the SMILE movies are pretty dumb but they're also really scary. So it's impossible to say whether they're good or not