getting back into John Wick movies [I only watched the first one three years ago, damn time flies]

this is a great observation by Hobsbawm, and I agree with it Some of my favorite bands are ones that perform arrangements of traditional folk tunes, and there is a lot of the same energy that you find in jazz compositions As an example, basically anything by The Bothy Band is fantastic

eric hobsbawm - the jazz scene

"This ability of African performance arts to transform the European tradition of composition while assimilating some of its elements is perhaps the most striking and powerful evolutionary force in the history of modern music. The genres of music that bear the marks of this influence are legion."

In a magical girl anime I'd be the one girl associated with a chaos emerald

tech advice on bluesky be like: you would have survived the rapture if you installed linux on your pc

Engels - Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy, Part 1

honestly, the critique against Fukuyama is usually at a very low level, not even engaging with his book at all While I certainly don't agree with his positions or conclusions as a Marxist, The End of History is a fairly serious engagement with liberal political theory and certain readings of Hegel

From 20 years ago & more true today👇 Political cartoon by John Jonik 2005 Via @r_propagandaposters (Telegram)

I already have a "team of Ph.D. level experts" in my pocket. It's called being in a discord server with a bunch of furries

how can we make it more Mexican

Absolute Unit Pablo Sanchez has joined the crew

I'm always saying this

might need a new chair

I can't even imagine performing funerals for your Christian flock and not being some sort of universalist, that automatically makes you a moral monster in my eyes

was at a funeral today for my deceased grandfather, and the priest decided to give the most infuriating sermon I've maybe ever heard, including a stress on the possibility of eternal separation from God just what the people mourning a loved one want to hear, the doctrine of eternal hell

HAPPENING NOW: Huge crowds are gathering at Times Square in NYC to march on the United Nations and demand the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

it's shameful that he had a speech to begin with

What makes a writer or politician representative of a class is not that their personal background, but that their system of thought corresponds to the objective situation of that class. You can, for example, imagine the world as a set of property rights without necessarily owning property yourself.

All right everybody, time to read (or reread) The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon. Ground rules: we are not reading for the history of 1848-1852 France, but we're also not looking for direct parallels to the contemporary US. We are looking for broad lessons on politics and just generally good lines.

It never ceases to amuse us when a remaster does the Before and After thing, and the After looks like the infamous, shitty fresco "restoration"

it's bizarre that someone would think otherwise, I've read many a sex scene in stories and it takes a lot of skill to write sexual intimacy well When it is, literary erotica is capable of impacting me emotionally far more than any other medium

Willem Dafoe is the best actor you want for a descent into madness Interesting film, alternately funny, disgusting and unsettling

you mechs might have Unreal Engine slop to remake your games, but I've got nerves of steel

lmao it looks like shit

worth reading

Desperados - Mission 11: Ambush at Snake Pass

Experimental post: The Inevitable March of Time From the moment of this post, Super Mario Bros. is now closer to World War II than it is to the present day.

raptureverse

what if The Rapture already happened but nobody was worthy to be elect, have you thought about that evangelicals

Hasan's Muslim particles increasing as he witnesses the amount of idolatry going on

"It is the nature of defunct orthodoxies and dead empires to eventually descend into tantrums of denial, when the profits of their cruelty become impossible to launder, screaming their fragile delusion louder and louder, as if that could ever silence the crunch of human bones beneath their feet."

I grant that I have a more traditional account of Christian faith - which is called 'cognitivism' in fancy books like below this just means that religious language makes claims that can be true or false, instead of e.g. metaphorical or poetic claims that expresses the believer's emotional state

I think I have a different view on it - let me try and philosophize for a moment First, let's provisionally distinguish between generic monotheism and religious faith - we can grant that religion includes very specific theses that require more serious commitments

i dont drag atheists for being irreligious, dont drag religious people for being religious. it should be as easy as that

Gonna read my bible, go to church, and volunteer at FNB just because of this post

I hope we can all agree that social fascism theory is gaining a lot of points in its favor these days For a long time I've heard it derided as Stalinist nonsense... but have we considered it's just correct

The tricky part of portraying Superman has always been that a super-powerful alien is intended to, paradoxically, relate to humanity at a deep level, as its most approachable and aspirational representative Superman is 'more human' than actual humans themselves, in basically a dialectical reversal

Lex Luthor being a satanically evil techno-overlord manchild was good casting

though I had to pause several times, I saw it it's a fun movie so much sci-fi nonsense that it actually rivals a comic run, which is rare for theatrical adaptations and something I enjoy I'd say it's still far from anything like a "definitive" Superman but it's a move in the right direction

Shitty day fake estate

What was the point of refraining from forming a trans death squad if it was gonna be a talking point anyway

time to watch this