https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-eq3w4-214298e1
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Hearing and reading libs says shit like "See, Dick Cheney knows that Trump is even worse than he was, that's why we have to vote blue" is infuriating. How can't they see what's really happening here?
The alternate world where this guy livestreamed the assassination of Donald John Trump and the subsequent battle to the death he would have had with secret service is fun to think about.
Just like how Michael Moore was bowling during the Columbine massacre.
Watching Kevin Can Fuck Himself, I love the format. If you don't know the show is a satirical take on King oF Queens style battle-of-the-sexes sitcoms. You've got the B plot, which is a single camera brightly lit sitcom in which a boorish husband gets in dumb manly shenanigans in which he is broadly insensitive towards his wife and uncaring of her needs and desires. Then the A plot of the wife, Allison, which is all moodily lit and darkly color graded, like a serious drama, in which she fantasizes about the violent murder of her husband.
So I'd love to see a political thriller done in the same way. Like the A plot is, I dunno, maybe some unelected government bureaucrat who stumbles across a conspiracy and starts getting harrassed by feds and/or non-state actors. Like that movie The Report starring Adam Driver, about the guy investigating the Torture Memos in the aughts. But then anytime he's in a room with an elected it's like a scene out of West Wing or VEEP, brushing off his concerns as they're more worried about that week's antics and ignoring any pleas for help with a see no evil hear no evil attitude or else so ready to give grandiose speeches about civility and the strength of our democracy that they ignore the cloak-and-dagger drama playing out in front of them.
Edit: I think the show is actually a multi-camera sitcom.
What? No way, I love the app. I think my favorite thing about is how if you click on a video it just loads forever, only playing if you back out of the video and then click on it a second time. Highly functional phone app, *reddit.com.*
Feels ghoulish to even talk about an ongoing tragedy this way, but I do find it curious that the shooter surrendered. Seems like that rarely happens in these situations.
Forming relationships? No, I simply admire his posts from afar. And fight in flame wars for his honor.
(for real though, I debated whether or not that was the right term in this context, and since the OP used 'fan' in his question (and since I think I've never actually interacted with UlyssesT) I decided it does work)
Trying to lure me into a false sense of security are you? Exactly what a fed would do.
With respect to the power posters keeping this site alive, I refuse to form a parasocial relationship with an anonymous poster on a leftist shitposting/fed honeypot web forum.
It's mind-boggling to me how fake the border is. One of the central political footballs of US domestic politics for... I don't even know how long. As long as I've been alive. All the sweat, all the ink spilled, the dems constantly tacking rightwards on the issue, the untold millions of people immiserated, news cycles yammering about it endlessly. And for what? Just naked racism? Who does a "strong border" benefit, exactly? What does it even mean? Some other political bullshit, like being "Tough on Crime" or the "War on Drugs" I can see the twisted logic where you could convince regular Americans that those things were good for them. The only cogent logic I've ever heard about the border is that, apparently, back when Labor was strong they wanted strict controls on the border and immigration because they feared employers would replace them with slaves. Not that I agree with that, but I can see a logic at work there.
I suppose I could see where somebody who doesn't know that cartels aren't real could buy that the intersection of the war on drugs and the southern border represents some legitimate threat to their safety. But I'm pretty sure I read once that most drugs come in on boats and planes and commercial trucks (and is being done so at the behest of state apparatuses i.e. CIA, cops, DEA, etc.).
I could see where, if you gave a shit about illegal border crossers and lived in a border state then that would be a humanitarian crisis, but that's never what the news or the politicos are talking about when they talk about the border.
It's like in America we talk in a nonsense language about made up bullshit that then translates into the mass deprivation of huge swathes of humanity. Of course most of the common political talking points in this country are bullshit, but the border in particular seems almost entirely abstract in terms of the rhetoric surrounding it.
Those not born into wealth will be ground under the wheels of the Great Machine. Like the rest of us. The Machine will not care if they were devotees of Capital or if they memorized every quote from Mao's little red book or if they never once considered the horrible thing hanging over all of them all their lives. Regardless of belief, whether they understand or not, they live to serve—and this service grants them the only purpose their lives could ever have had.
or maybe not idk lol
A lot of kids already use TikTok instead of Google for many things
I've heard this before and it's crazy to me because TikTok has the worst search functionality of any service I've ever used. Reddit's was better. Also the content just isn't designed to answer queries? How can you use TikTok to look up literally anything? I don't think there's anything I would ever type into a search engine that could be better served to me by TikTok, unless it's a video trend that is only on TikTok, like grimace shakes or whatever's popular now.
On an unrelated note I always found the comments section to be totally useless, at least on any post with more than 10k likes. The top level comments might be alright, but if for some reason you want to open up the replies to a comment they load newest first. Numerous times there'll be a comment either elaborating on the original post or explaining why it's wrong or something but because TikTok has like a 20 character limit they'll have to reply to their own comment to continue their thought. But if a comment has even only a couple dozen replies it means that the reply you want to see is pushed to the bottom, and it only loads like four replies at a time so it just takes forever to get to the comment you want to read.
I used to like and use TikTok quite a bit but recently I've been turned off from the app. It just feels like every third post I see is an unofficial ad with somebody trying to sell me something through their TikTok Shop page. And then I get a bunch of posts that are engagement bait like "click on the template to eggplant emoji." And I'd swear I never interact with those posts but they keep coming up.
All social media is brain poison actively trying to destroy me.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/is-mastercard-a-queer-ally-is-this-tv-show-my-friend
Posting this so I don't forget the origin of the format and search for it, wasting five minutes of the only life I'll ever have. Again.
WoT is funny for me because if you look at who I am (demographically speaking), at the age I am, and at the sorts of books I enjoy I should love them. But I read them at exactly the wrong time in my life and hated them, and now I feel like it's pointless to revisit them, that that first experience with them will forever taint my opinion of what I suspect are, at the very least, perfectly serviceable fantasy fare, certainly nothing worthy of hatred.
I happened to visit a used bookstore, while on vacation in a different State to the one I live in, and there was a box with copies of all the books that had been released up to that point (I think this was right before the first Sanderson book came out). Of the 12 books, 7 were hardcover and in very good condition, though the 5 paperbacks were a little beat up. Got the whole set for, IIRC, $38. Bought the Sanderson ones too, even though I never did get around to reading them, just for completion's sake.
I recently read For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway. In my opinion a very very good book. It's about a young American man, Robert Jordan, who is fighting as a dynamiter in the Spanish Civil War on the side of the Republic. In particular, the book is mostly about him briefly working with a Republican guerilla group, with him carrying orders that they're to blow up a bridge.
I've owned a copy of the book for a while, but what spurred me to finally read it was a scene from Cyberpunk 2077. The player character, V, will pick up a copy of For Whom the Bell Tolls and then recite an apt and haunting quote at a funeral, if the player makes the correct choices. The only problem is, as I discovered upon finishing the book, the quote isn't actually from For Whom the Bell Tolls it's from a book of short stories that Hemingway complied, including some of his own, titled Men at War. I'm not sure if the quoted short story is even one that Hemingway wrote. That said the quote feels like something that could've come from Tolls, so I'm not too upset about it.
I can't say if it's a good book because I've only read a tiny bit of it but I am currently reading Ancient Persia by Josef Wiesehöfer. I'm only reading this book because I saw a recommendation to read the book From Cyrus to Alexander by Pierre Briant for people looking for a good work on ancient history that's still approachable for laypeople. And not even in the introduction to that work but in the fucking Translator's Preface it says, paraphrasing: "readers not already familiar with the entire history of the Persian Empire, Alexander the Great, and the entire corpus of Ancient Greek literature on those subjects will not find this volume useful. I recommend any reader not so familiar to read Josef Wiesehofer's work on the subject." So now I'm reading this.