Thishasbeenweird

Agree with the first two points; but have to point out that when Joanna Newsom married Andy Samberg she released Divers, so like you can write good lyrics even when you’re in love

It has to be that they or someone they know is in them. Same reason for every one else who wants them to remain a secret

pro-Israel sentiment on the American right and in the American mainstream. Evangelicals get the most press because the rapture is goofy, and the implications are terrifying, and because they overwhelmingly vote for Republicans

Israel, particularly after 9/11, because Israel has been presented as a democratic secular bulwark against Islam in the region. You also have Jewish people who came through a Holocaust in living memory who see Israel as a necessary escape boat for the diaspora, and all of these contribute to

believe in the rapture, and aren’t as end times focused in general, but have an attachment to the state of Israel because of the Old Testament and the idea of them as a “chosen people” and because all the holy figures in scripture lived there. Then you have secular people who tend to side with

Eh, a lot of evangelicals support Israel because they believe it is biblical prophesy being fulfilled and bringing about the 2nd coming. Whether they believe specifically in the rapture is kind of beside point. Additionally a lot of Christians in mainstream and traditional churches don’t

on the yacht he was living on, and how that was a pretty big harbinger of this very political moment

I sometimes think about how Merle Haggard was writing a bunch of songs for poor people and prisoners and then wrote “Okie from Muskogee” as a joke while smoking weed outside Muskogee, and then it became a hit so he leaned into it for several years and several more songs while doing coke

As someone who would only eat waffles if I could, can someone explain what are the Nazis doing with them?

I don’t know. I don’t think it takes any special insight to have seen that a world famous terrorist leader the Clinton administration was trying and failing to kill after the USS Cole attack would probably cause problems if he wasn’t caught or killed

Wow! Trump had the foresight to think the world famous terrorist leader the Clinton administration tried to kill several times was going to cause problems if nobody killed him. What incredible insight

I saw you interviewed a few years ago and you pointed out how practically important slavery was to the south and how we do t have an equivalently important issue today, so there won’t be a civil war; but it seems now like we might have one just because the president thinks it makes him look tough?

Yeah except that didn’t really happen. HW Bush was explicitly being shown a new type of price scanner. His question was perfectly reasonable in that context. He was an out of touch elite who, for instance, railed against Perot and Clinton going on “weirdo shows”, meaning Arsenio Hall and Larry King

feel fine for several decades. You also aren’t really competing with other people. You’re all walking your own paths with your own pitfalls, achievements, and destination. Finally, be kind to other people when you can

Aging doesn’t matter half as much as you thought it did in your younger years. The transition from childhood to adulthood happens quickly, but then you just sort of reach the long plateau of adulthood and as long as you get sleep and make some attempt to exercise and eat healthy, you’ll probably

No, but a dude is killed by a woman crushing him between her thighs while riding him and orgasming

I was but suddenly I don’t know!

I don’t believe they even see them as human beings

I’m not really that confident tbh

I think we all remember when the police and military met up after the George Floyd murder and adopted a policy of “race communism”.

Orwell wants said that fascism would never come to the UK because the British would break into laughter the moment they saw goosestepping. I used to feel similarly about America. I didn’t foresee the fascist leader also being and irony brained shitposter who easily convinces people it’s all a joke

be that hard for people to grasp

They knew war and the teachings of the Wahhabists who set up their madrassas. The thought occurred to me that if I had been born them, I would be them. There is no intact eternal me that stands apart from history, experience, and systems. I was born where and when I was, so I was me. It shouldn’t

full of war orphans or a market full of civilians just to send a statement that we couldn’t keep them safe. It was genuinely monstrous inhuman stuff, but even then, in my cooler moments I was able to recognize that the average age of a Taliban fighter was 16. They were themselves war orphans.

Yeah some people quickly turn into eugenists when presented with people who disagree with them. About fifteen years ago, I was in Afghanistan. I hated the Taliban, more than I thought it was possible to hate anyone. They kept trying to kill me. The hey also would do things like bomb a sidewalk

I’m not a socialist but I don’t think it’s possible not to be aligned with a lot of extremely stupid people politically. It’s just on that broadly speaking on the left they think they have the moral high ground and on the right they have the entire government apart from some centrists doing nothing

I wouldn’t think that the person posting for him during a shit down would just be doing dumb memes when they could be advancing some sort of argument. Only our president would do that

He’s totally right that we have no leadership, message, or hope. You just have to weigh that as an option vs the we will end all good things and hurt people promise the republicans keep delivering on

My community is probably 98% united against this, but they probably went 94% or so for Harris last election, so it can’t be a representative sample of the country

I guess the only downside is now I’ll need to do things to get validation and mates of getting the validation up front and then being content, which is fine, as long as I actually do the things, and I just might