I don’t think it is great that if you criticize Graham Platner you get accused of being Jewish.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is actually the best conservative piece of cinema because John Wayne is scared and angry about social change but he still gets to kill a bad guy and then Jimmy Stewart turns to the camera to say that society wouldn't exist without men like John Wayne.

Reminder that to the professional pundit class working class is all vibes based. He's a straight man with a beard who wears plaid shirts therefore he is working class.

If you have not watched Lady Ballers you really have no idea how misogynistic it is, take the level you think it is and triple that. There are lovingly shot slow-mo montages of men pretending to be trans & physically assaulting women during sporting events.

Pretty much every Hollywood film is pro capitalism, pro western civilization, and even pro or at least default Christian (most are even uneasy about being LGBTQ) but the real problem for Matt Walsh & Ben Shapiro is that they aren't virulently racist & misogynistic (like their film Lady Ballers was)

I would pay any amount of money to have Tony Gilroy do this

Anyway this is your usual reminder to spend at least as much time promoting content you find insightful/informative as you do dunking on content you find bad. To do otherwise creates perverse incentives.

“The new James Bond game doesn’t have enough kissing hot girls and his boss is DEI,” I say to my microwave as a frozen dinner turns in slow circles, each rotation another sliver taken away from my soul

On the opposite spectrum a player once told me that I had to Yes And anything a player says. Actually TTRPGs are a conversation between players and GMs. Each table will balance the responsibilities and expectations differently but the story does not belong to any one individual at the table.

The Trump regime is destroying everything good even hobbies and leisure activities that they have never thought about are being mindlessly destroyed by their actions.

We are globalists And women is our girlfriend

This is rookie NFL QB Cole Payton. He is 6’3”, 232 pounds.

This is 100% what I was taught growing up in a conservative evangelical household. Left Christians & Catholics of any political affliation were not "real" Christians.

Or a servant or slave, so much of period writing is about people who are in a privileged position (let's be honest, contemporary writing too) but I think an obvious counterpoint to Yesteryear is Kindred by Octavia Butler but I'm not seeing much mention of it in the discussions around Yesteryear.

WHY IS THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY COMMENTING ON MILITARY POLICY?!?!

in this house we believe: every trump should be in jail every cabinet official should be in jail ban conservatism from universities

To the Right all cities are interchangeable dens of decadence & depravity.

I have all of these mutuals

Beefy Nacho Loaded Griller from Taco Bell. $1.50 for a grilled thing of beef and nacho cheese? Add a Baja Blast Mountain Dew and *Italian Chef Kiss*

Back when I was eating cupcakes the cupcakes in Georgetown were mid at best

There are individuals who are culturally Christian in every tradition but it is the Catholics who get the most flack for that but it is Protestants who have the most cultural Christians actually. I'll side with the Catholic grandma who goes to daily mass every time over some mega church bro.

I'm a little skeptical about the new Spielberg film about aliens being real but the government has been covering it up for decades. When conspiracy minded individuals are running our country & lying to people about the deep state it seems like a bad idea to popularize that idea.

Average right-wing politician: Spends Sundays listening to a guy in a converted conference center inventing heresies that haven't been seen since the 300s, has been married and divorced 3-5 times, only watches freak sports like UFC or foxhunting, has 10 different eating disorders.

Average left-wing politician: Some kind of Catholic, normal Protestant, Muslim, or Jew who is in a committed, monogamous relationship, likes normal pro sports like basketball, soccer, or football; and likes eating street food and bbq.

Oh, this is the first draft of the Orange Catholic Bible

The teenagers behind a shooting at a San Diego mosque last week wore patches associated with Atomwaffen Division, a defunct neo-Nazi group, and drew clear inspiration from "Terrorgram," a loose network of neo-Nazis that supports the use of terrorism. Latest: www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

I've already started running a Stonetop campaign using the digital materials but I can't wait to get the physical books and maps.

I think people that primarily know Christianity through an American lens have trouble understanding that there can be devote individuals who don't claim to have all the answers but still hold some dogmatic beliefs. Cause that's not how most American Christianity works. 1/3

Thiel has named his companies after objects in the LOTR books. Curtis Yarvin talks about elves and hobbits. The way they refer to them makes it clear they've never read the books, much like Musk and his "what Bladerunner would have driven". Pope Leo has clearly read & understood Tolkien.

I do have a lot of Catholic friends

I'm at the second Gallipoli / I'm at the new Bay of Pigs / I'm at the commmmbination neocon dream and revanchist fantasy

Can't believe they're making the giant database of all Protestants from the Jack Chick tracts (sarcasm, I think the encyclical will be good but it's too funny how people will react to this)

I’m pretty convinced that Musk doesn’t read or watch any media. I think he’s literally just doomscrolling 15 hours a day. He tries to consume pop culture through based memes.

Can confirm

Tried to find a book on Eastern Orthodox iconography for a friend’s birthday present (I was unaware of what Orthodoxy was, she had just mentioned she was interested in iconography)

Wait, the Minions summon Cuthulu in the latest movie? And not as a minor bit but it’s like the main plot of the movie.

Destiny 2 has some of the best first person shooter mechanics I have ever experienced in my many years of playing FPS. You could really sense the Halo influences but it was so much more refined. I especially enjoyed the PvP gameplay. I haven't played in years but I enjoyed my time with the game.

I started playing Destiny 2 during the pandemic. I had two friends to play the multiplayer content with. I really started to get into the story, even went back & played the older campaigns. I could sense that after the Final Shape (a great conclusion to most of the stories) it was headed this way

Sean Evans, hosting a dinner party: And now it's time for an abuse-bouche! Guest: Don't you mean amuse-bouche? Sean Evans, as he pulls out the Hot Ones sauce rack: No.

Then he had his own kid and realized he didn't want to raise him in the same environment he grew up in

An underappreciated element of The Mandalorian is its spot on portrayal of the ex-evangelical life. Din Djarin was a homeschooled evangelical who was raised by a cult that is obsessed with purity & modesty. But then he met other people & realized not everyone believes the same.

It’s interesting how the security guards in San Diego gave their lives to save many others while the heavily armed and armored cops in Uvalde stood around and let children die

The world is not for us to take things from, but a place where we cast off our passions and desires. — St Paisios

On this recurring discourse: 1) It is healthier and more cost-efficient to cook your own meals. 2) I don't care for the moralizing about it. It's okay to be tired and just want to eat. Getting take-out or even—gasp!—delivery does not mean you are a sinful degenerate, so long as you tip well.

I don't think sending in Delta Force to arrest a 94 year old man is going to go over as well as arresting the 64 year old Maduro.

Amazon paid Melania $40 million to acquire the movie & spent $35 million in marketing. Domestically the film made $16 million and internationally it made $304,000. Bezos is either an idiot or a liar.

Me & the lads hearing this

Michael Flynn did just get a sweetheart settlement. But even if the J6 defendants get some of the money it’ll probably go back to Trump & his inner circle via their many scams & merch.

Not the main issue but all of the headlines saying this is a $1.8 or $1.7 billion fund are sane washing the fact that the fund is actually $1.776 billion because this administration is obsessed with based numbers.