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8 hours agoEveryone would still say “wtf does Coca Cola have to do with chunks of Jordan, Lebanon, Syria”
GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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6·18 hours agoYeah it rules. Mieville has a talent for beautiful prose. Very enjoyable reading just as a fan of well written English
9·20 hours agoFinally this will stop Danish incursions
47·21 hours agoI suppose this falls under “crony capitalism” or whatever denial they have that this is the rapacious nature of capitalism to devolve into gangsterism and fascism
you don’t say
13·1 day agoHopefully this means less of him.
I wonder how he will feel posing next to Trump and Joe Rogan and Dana White and whatever retired wrestler they can form out of ABC gum and stuff into a tux
Society went to shit when kids stopped smoking and aging hideously so they all looked like goblins in flat caps.
We must imagine Blartsyphus fleshing.
6·1 day agoIf his bones were bulletproof why didn’t he try wearing them on the outside of his neck? What were they protecting from the inside of his neck, huh? Themselves? Coward ass bones hid behind vascular shields that day. And did they pay? No. Charlie did. His good for nothing bulletproof bones are fine.
Harumph
Why didn’t you smoke the Mike Shinoda ones?
16·2 days agoThe faucet is labeled “lies” and the cat is labeled “the New York Kkkrimes” and the plastic colander is labeled “the armed lifeboat strategy” and sink swallowing the bottom third of the cat is labeled climate change and the pipes in the background are labeled “heavy handed reference to Terry Gilliam’s Brazil”
Nothing I can say is outside CW, everything Epstein related as a general warning:
spoiler
I think it’s less than the pathology of child attraction and more the pathology of constant transgression for the thrill of it.
We legally call the pedophiles’ actions as r*** because the power dynamic means children can’t legally consent. It’s a legal dynamic designed to shield children and it’s a good one. But I think we run the risk of misidentification in this circumstance.
Some of these men are undoubtedly pedophiles. Some of them might not, specifically, be attracted to children. What Epstein was was a removed. His pathology is that of a serial removed, and what was being “sold” by him was removed.
In a way the entire pedophilia thing is almost a distraction. I am sure the number of victims who were legally of a consenting age in a given place isn’t insignificant either.
What all of the victims have in common is a general youth or outright child-likeness. The power dynamic is part of this. This is basically whatremoved culture looks like because this is it when it’s rich enough to wear itself on its sleeve. This is the brazen version the rich get up to. This is it writ large.
And what this says about the rich is very telling. Very telling that this was something they were all part of. That it spread in their ranks because the psychology of the rich is the psychology of a taker. I could keep building this whole argument. All of it is implicitly woven together.
This is a glance into arch villainy. I don’t know what else to call it. Cruelty for the thrill. They want to be loved and feared.
These are at least the plates I am spinning in my head when I think about all this and what it says about everything.
Edited to be clearer with the content
6·2 days agoThat’s just their favorite movie starring trailblazing gay actor gay Michael Douglas
10·2 days agoA big part of the emotional component here is them not wanting to realize the “we were unfairly used to do evil” does mean you did evil and that has to be dealt with in tandem with the shot callers that got us in this mess.
They want one without the other.
Lysenko was just making up lies to justify his main fascination: planting trees in the steppe in order to passively decrease the chances of a Mongol Khanate emerging
If we keep holding out who knows what he will offer next
That place has always been cursed.
From the makers of the unwinnable jungle war and it’s unasked-for sequel, the unwinnable mountain war comes the brand new unwinnable jungle-mountain war.
Shrek would unironically be a better representative despite the isolationist tendencies and that time he threw staplers at the Eddie Murphy donkey
I really like that marble analogy