Mike Meginnis

I like to think the cashiers at Costco see my purchases and feel instinctively that I am a good husband

Among so many other things happening here, if the connection between masculinity and public hangings feels obvious to you, we really have to ask ourselves why.

There are so few things with any kind of strong logical connection to "masculinity" as a concept, and death by hanging isn't one of them!

USE YOUR IMAGINATION!

More smearing shit on the walls.

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doomerism is a product of a bad combination in which irrational right-wing enthusiasm reinforces (and is reinforced by) left-wing pessimism

RICH PEOPLE NEVER EVER LEAVE WHERE THEY WANT TO LIVE IF THEIR TAXES INCREASE FOR THE OBVIOUS REASON THAT THEY CAN EASILY AFFORD IT

People talk about Kirk but both of these men canonically fuck

Equal parts that guy and this one.

What a babe

I think we can read through the lines of what is happening here.

I mean no hell is hot enough.

Oh man, classic novel finishment shed

*understood

Basically everything they do can be understanding almost entirely as smearing shit on things that aren't really theirs.

My read on their nonconsensual use of other people's art is that they know they can never and will never find real support among actually talented creators of culture and so they lash out by smearing their shit all over everything and attempting to teach artists there is no fighting back.

My main experience of "comprised" is people in college and grad school circa 2004-2011 saying, listen nobody uses this correctly and it isn't very helpful anyway, just don't use it

Counterpoint:

The Supreme Court lacks the authority to change the text of the Constitution.

So either it affirms the text or (further, and more completely) nukes its authority as Constitutional arbiter.

There’s no third option. Art III (courts) can’t just usurp Art V (amendments).

Well, it does now

Maybe getting a peace prize was the only thing that kept him here. Maybe he'll let go now that the dream has come true

and judge pan gets at what i was gesturing towards earlier today: that this idea that the purpose of the executive branch is to effectuate the political agenda of the president is extra-constitutional. it has no basis in the text or the history for that matter!

A formulation I've found grounding recently is "I would never do this to you." I frequently struggle to judge what is acceptable behavior, especially from others, for several reasons. But if someone does something that I know I would absolutely never do to them, that does seem suggestive!

Yeah I think the best response is often non-response. An assertion that beautiful, ambitious art is still possible and worth making.

Trump has a similar effect but the answers to the "questions" he poses are so self-evident it's difficult to make decent art about them. You get a few things that find exactly the sweet spot but even they feel, to me, fundamentally dismal in their concerns and ambitions.

I talked with Normal Man Ed about this a bit on my podcast a few weeks back; my feeling is that the art felt pretty strong a lot of the time in the Bush years because the horror of their conduct pretty clearly established a list of Important Concerns. The downside being, it all feels very small now.

That part is truly beyond me.

This is bad, but I will forgive and even thank Netflix if they get into a really protracted and damaging legal battle with the Ellisons

Sissy hypno, but the erotic commands are all about how the viewer should push a big rock up a hill

People said at least the art would be good but it hasn't been. Not better than it would have been. Often worse. There is nothing to engage with. There is no beauty, not even interesting ugliness. Just a decade plus of wasted time and energy.

It isn't the worst part, but it is the most humiliating part that he isn't even interesting. People say he's funny but I've never experienced that. He is intolerable, but not fascinating. There is nothing to think about there. He is a horrible, stupid animal and we let him rule us. We allowed it.

yeah, i can't think of many people who became *better* by living through this era. we all mostly got worse

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It's weird how COVID went from feeling like the most recent thing in the world, the foundational experience, and how far away it feels now. Honestly being reminded how recent it was makes me feel a bit more generous toward people. I honestly didn't find it the worst thing, but I know people did.