I really respect Creature of the Black Lagoon for the impressive passivity it depicts in the white man's exploitation of the native population, who let fully four of their native employees die before they even try to run away. Chillingly accurate...

It's cool how for like 2000 years everyone was like, "The worst traitor of all time, Brutus" and what he did was, like, oppose the overthrow of the Roman Republic.

Explaining to my boss that by paying me 2.7% more dollars this year, the company is actually paying me 0.6% less in value due to inflation and my boss is very confused.

what voters want to hear: i don't like trans people except when they're hot what politicians are willing to say: netanyahu, who i do nto support, is innocent of the crimes leveled against him by the antisemitic icc

I spent ten minutes venting to my mother about how Cormac McCarthy betrays the unique virtues of the novel and, frankly, degraded the form. The betrayal of the psychological aspect of the novel is what has lead to its downfall.

I don’t find it hard to understand my friends jobs because I know how to read but Podcaster is struggling

Tieflings are fun because they come into being already fully mythologically exhausted, they feel like they've done the whole D&D elves->Tolkien Elves->Norse Elves without ever actually having done that. Just a straight jump from, "The devil is red and has horns" to "this is a persecuted minority"

Went and got the Woke Vizier (Claude) and, you know what, pretty helpful. Smart. Can point you to helpful stuff

What mouth noises are making the stock market do that?

Modern, open source translations of all the great works of history and companion reading material is my “Fuck it, we’re doing what I want!” Answer The other answer, of course, is medical interventions in the developing world, or maybe a series of liberal arts colleges in red states.

I have a cushy middle class job (Hospice Chaplain), so - like - 6-8 hours a day but when I worked full time at the nightshift for Walmart… eight hours a day, sixteen on the weekends.

I’m sad for my country but this is amazing content

I think the median D&D pantheon is very bad, from a gaming perspective, because it is unclear why a PC would worship/fight/deal with them and their followers and has bad “hooks” for memory. So here’s my alternate suggestion: Just steal the ensemble cast of the fictional property of your choice.

USA? USA? USA?

America, in its own way, is the most Christian of all the nations (founded on ideas of universal human equality and brotherhood but somehow beloved by people who see it as a means of putting boots on faces)

I’m a postconservative, which is not a liberal. It’s where you say shit like, “Obviously, the President is afflicted with an evil spirit from the LORD (1 Samuel 16, 2 chronicles 18)”

Chat is this a good number to have? Is it good to be down this much?

Obviously almost the least important part of all… this… but you can still go hunting and paint your model trains. Literally nobody is going to stop you

Solzhenitsyn has to be in the conversation

Alexander Solzhenitsyn is my go to answer for “last great conservative author” and I am hardly broadly read enough to say he was the best but I’m going to anyway.

"Our fair republic must be the victim of the monster slavery unless we speedily rise in all our might and boldly shout for freedom ... It is not a question merely of what shall we do with four millions of Africans, but what are the rights of man." - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was not exactly woke.

Look, obviously, this less than ten thousand person race isn't predictive of the general election, except maybe in an arrow-y way, but can you imagine if we got even half of that swing nationally? Just take a moment, enjoy the idea.

Love the artistry of insisting that actually, Texas is very fair-minded because they let half the state get 21% of the vote. Like the immorality of the crime is the same my guy! It's the same problem!

It’s crazy how much Republicans love crime. Two non crime guys but Paxton’s gotta be the one.

Wild to say context is critical. Dog, Exodus 23 is (literally) in the context of bribe taking and partiality. Leviticus 19:33 is followed by “You must not act unjustly in weights and measures”. Like the context is the laws and rules of society, not personal affection!

If this is true, it’s apocalyptic for the GOP across the board.

About to go to bed so I won’t find out till morning exactly how many points one can lose when two weeks of murdered U.S. citizens is the main piece of news

Obama in fact owes us the world. He is an extremely powerful person, and we all owe a duty to use our power in support of democracy, freedom, and dignity.

"We are going to create a database, a list, we're going to let their employers, in their neighborhoods know exactly who to send those pies and fruit baskets to. We are going to give these people bragging rights like you wouldn't believe. These guys aren't gonna need to buy a drink for a week."

God, whose work I much admire and love, nevertheless sometimes comes in for harsh criticism on plagiarism grounds.

The great gift and problem of the Trump regime is that there will always be another off ramp because they’re so bad

Obviously a ton of downsides to the Events but the next crop of Dem politicians is going to be elected on “Were you on the streets?” So one day we will have politicians this cool

Between November ‘20 and January ‘21, probably? Maybe during the Floyd protests but that was more smoke than heat.

The post I quoted about Fetterman defending ICE appears to have been misinfo, please disregard

We've never needed ICE but lots of people needed Renee and Alex.

Glory to the martyrs who defend the Republic

Possession of a firearm is not justification for extrajudicial execution

ALL MN PROTESTERS Absolutely nothing could be worse for our cause than violence and rioting. It is what ICE and Trump obviously want. Do not burn down our own city to protest invaders; they do not care; they will enjoy it. Do not do it. Do not let your fellow protesters do it.

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

You did not bear the shame. You resisted. You bestowed the eternally vigilant symbol of change by sacrificing your impassioned lives for freedom, justice and honour. — The German Resistance Memorial in Berlin

Nobody on my feed has reposted The Video so thanks for that fam

Real Dirk Willems hours in Minnesota it would seem

Thankful for your work NPL goat!