Testudo Aubrei

best prayerbook, best hymnbook, best buildings, least problematic leaders* since 1900 or so, good on gender, good on sexuality if you're American, good on racism, not as boring as Quaker meetings and unlike the Methodists you get actual wine.

*I'm not saying *un*-problematic

TBH there are a bunch of thrash dudes where that explains some of their fairly decent politics. Lombardo is interesting because IIrC he isn’t right wing despite being Cuban and as a left-lib of Cuban heritage I appreciate not cringing for a change.

What field do you think he has an expertise in?

Kirk is by most accounts a pretty typical California lib.

Like his takeaway from the Aubriad was that Aubrey was an oaf and Maturin was the perfect man. His takeaway from wolf hall was Thomas Moore sucks (and he wrote the review like Mantel had written a history book). Just moronic, low level Tumblr shit.

He was not actually an expert on any subject. He read widely but shallowly. He had an undergrad understanding of history, philosophy, and most other subjects.

I would absolutely join this new syncretic religion.

My asshole opinion is that liberal Catholics have a moral duty to ditch the Rome and find a church that matches their expressed values.

Philosophically there is a bunch of Straussian or even Schmittian political philosophy in those movies but I’d anything they explicitly reject drawing right wing conclusions from that line of thinking.

Edgelord take here is Woodie Guthrie. Stalinist who supported the Nazi-Soviet pact.

Yeah I am not sure or ever translated into a thorough libertarian politics.

He had a breadth of knowledge but no depth. I lost any remaining respect for him when I realized whenever he wrote about something I knew about he came off as a buffoon. His reviews of the Master and Commander movie and Wolf Hall are execrable. Show a brutal, narrow mind.

He has mentioned like Rands books and vibe.

Not a good politics but it makes good art.

They are very present in the Gulag Archipelago.

Honestly I don’t agree with the politics of almost any of my favorite authors. Something about being a great novelist seems to encourage bad political opinions of vice versa. Zora Neal Hurston was a libertarian.

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.

Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

I do think not respecting or fearing the political press is a necessary skill and I think Pritzger could absolutely savage them.

I still feel like the press as annoying as they were, was kind of in awe of Obama. Some of this was that they were less right wing than they are now, some of this was perhaps a real impact of his charisma and rhetorical skill - charming the press. Even when he clearly didn’t respect them!

really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not

Let’s be honest a huge part of this comes from drivers not being willing to punish ‘one of their own’ for killing The Other.

These are so many people of a variety of different complacent orientations that need this smack TBH.

if we want the rewards of watching fruits basket in public while having dinner alone, we must submit to the mortifying ordeal of a voter saying hi and then see that we are watching fruits basket in public while having dinner alone

I keep threatening to go in a battle jacket and Bathory t shirt.

Pagliacci goes to see Pagliacci. He's in the audience, but also on the stage. "Is this, fuck," he thinks. "Am I in a Lynch film right now. Am I in Mullholland Drive." Captured by confusion, horror, and strange, exultant sorrow, the clown must admit he is no longer depressed

Generally speaking the allies were much better at the murderous business of total war than the axis. Who were mostly good at murdering people in territories they already occupied.

Can you imagine if someone you had had sex with went on your describe their work party with Bari Weiss as the best night of their life?

I think a possibly useful constraint on chatgpt would be against user attempts to *personify* it. I notice in the hallucination/delusion cycles of people having breakdowns that giving it a 'name' seems to be a common trend.

To this planet, honestly. Venusian flowers from a mid century sci fi pulp novel cover.

Passionflower is so wild looking it really doesn’t look like it should be native.