Ryan Hitchcock

Tired: lead in the water pipes
Wired: lead in the housepaint
Inspired: lead in the protein powder

This should be the official @sagaftra.org stance on commercial roles

Wow *someone* needs a snack and a nap!

Ian Watkins killing just another sad example of the extreme left attacking someone over their beliefs

“How can Democrats win? We asked a career Republican who wants Democrats to lose.”

Loved this show, been meaning to do a rewatch for a while now. The way Brian Doyle Murray says “BEAUTIFUL Jeff!” pops into my head once a week minimum

I recognize the situation is growing quite frightening, but it is also important to keep in mind that fear is a weapon. Fear is a force multiplier. If you strike terror into people’s hearts, they will obey, far beyond their actual exposure to danger. And the modern dictatorship does not need to rely on bloodcurdling terror of torture and death so much as the fear of nuisance, the fear of trouble, the fear of harassment. I know I have often used the analogy to fascism, and I think it remains relevant, but there are important differences. In those regimes, especially in their early days, thugs in the streets quite literally threatened the opposition, beat, or killed them.

So too, in Germany, brownshirts roved the streets and attacked opposition figures, intimidated judges, and ransacked newspapers. To continue to practice politics in the face of the cudgel and castor oil requires a great amount of courage. Few can be faulted for preferring their safety and that of their family to a cause that seemed increasingly hopeless. But let’s be frank: Practicing politics in the face of angry people on the internet, or the idiotic spokesmen of a failing presidency, as frightening or annoying as it can be, requires somewhat less courage. Even if your personal circumstances make it difficult for you, where and when you can, do not obey. Find ways to be intransigent; a pain in the ass. “…[P]olitics is not like the nursery, in politics obedience and support are the same,” Hannah Arendt wrote. She was passing judgment on Adolf Eichmann. Think to yourself: “What am I really supporting with this action or non-action?” No one can behave in a perfectly principled way in the confused reality of life, with all its fears and temptations, but with that as a guide, I believe one can do fairly well.

relevant comments www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-it

(deep in the jungle, ignoring the venomous snake that’s biting off my dick) “It’s these birds! The mocking laughter of all these birds that’s the source of my anguish!”

If you’ve never seen a Robert Redford film, start with THE STING or BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID, obviously. But if you liked either of those then definitely check out THE HOT ROCK, a breezy 1972 Peter Yates heist caper with George Segal, Ron Leibman, and Paul Sand that, to me, is perfect. RIP!

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Acceptable Losses Whose deaths get to be deemed unacceptable in supremacist America, and whose are deemed necessary? And who does the deeming?

"To a supremacist society, most of us are acceptable losses. Charlie Kirk is not. To a supremacist society, guns are allowed to kill most of us, and the pundits can debate later how sad our deaths were.

But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk."

www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...

Drive is such a wild, underrated gem and her performance is a big part of that

As a not-very-well-known NZ author I did not expect to find myself in there, but I was. If you've published a book, check if you're there, and add yourself to the class action (see the reply to this post for the link)

Alright, we hauled him out of the wreck and stuffed him in a bacta tank

(15 minutes later) somehow he’s crashed the bacta tank

Especially because part of his thing in the EU was surviving crashes that should’ve reasonably killed any other pilot

I loved the old X-Wing novels and comics as a kid and was a little unreasonably stung that he apparently died at Hoth in the new canon

A family outside their home. Their deck is loaded with guns.

A man in his living room. His living room is full of guns. There's also a big safe labeled "Liberty."

A man outside his home. The walkway into his home is full of guns.

A woman outside her garage. The front of her home is full of guns, some laid out in a star formation.

IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction

Oh my, and I cannot stress this enough, FUCKING god

It’s like a Rorschach line Alan Moore cut for being too on-the-nose

Hey, to be fair, it’s hard to do pull-ups when you’re nursing a defcon 5 hangover

Rest in piss

Very big “only person not contacted to join the practice group after the Improv 301 grad show” energy

Yeah, good. OK.

Nobody knows what you’re talking about, and it sounds like something no normal person would have any reason to engage with

Oh shit, Wild at Heart

Master & Commander
Total Recall
The Hidden

The only noteworthy mystery of AI is why writing about it makes ostensibly professional columnists at legacy newspapers sound like it’s their first day on Earth

Narrative already *is* all of these things, and has been since the beginning of human communication, so, uh, what are you talking about