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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 6h

God it's so gross hearing reporters talk about Israeli "hostages" but then refer to Palestinian "prisoners held without charge" like what's the material difference between these two categories?

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 11h

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 19h

The new Afroman track is a fair bit darker than his classic stuff.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16h

“OBAA glamorises leftist politics and political violence”—Does it? Is that what it does? Because I’m on the left and a lot of that stuff didn’t seem very glamorous to me. Is it glamorous to you? That’s interesting. Maybe you should examine that. But no, why bother. After all, you’re already right.

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 23h

Guy who is obsessed with the Antichrist, encountering any form of culture: Getting a lot of 'antichrist' vibes from this...

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 23h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 1d

I am so sick of living in a world where certain groups insist art & culture be re-oriented to serve their tastes and whims when their own pitiful inability or unwillingness to critically engage with and contemplate creativity clearly demonstrate that art & culture are too good for them.

Conservatives Take Aim at ‘One Battle After Another’: “Year’s Most Irresponsible Movie”

While Paul Thomas Anderson's film is being heralded as a masterpiece by many, some conservatives accuse it of potentially inspiring left-wing violence.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Biollante @bivouacchillin.bsky.social · 1d

Baby bison tries to get his momma to kill me

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 2d

This is as close as they could get to actually giving the prize to Trump

🎃 The Pantastic Mr. Pox 🦠 @mrfox.bsky.social · 2d

oh my GOD she dedicated it to him

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Duncan @ketaminedrams.bsky.social · 2d

frankly very funny

Duncan @ketaminedrams.bsky.social · 2d

Is it normal that a new head of an org has their every decision leaked instantly or is bari weiss just that despised lol

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Duncan @ketaminedrams.bsky.social · 2d

Hasn't like achieved any sort of peace

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Duncan @ketaminedrams.bsky.social · 2d

Given a peace prize to someone who supports violently toppling a regime is so fucking funny

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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 2d

if i had a nickel for every time Ash Regan had run for leadership of a party, lost, and then quit that party entirely i’d have two nickels, etc, etc

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Duncan @ketaminedrams.bsky.social · 2d

Call her Ash Regen cause she's being replaced next election

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 3d

Well, when you put it like that, fair point.

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Duncan @ketaminedrams.bsky.social · 3d

Nobel peace prize to someone who wants to privatise Venezuela's public assets lol

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Duncan @ketaminedrams.bsky.social · 3d

There's not a 90s born millennial in the Anglosphere who doesn't know who Hayley Williams is. Who is Morgan Wallens trying to kid

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Duncan @ketaminedrams.bsky.social · 3d

Just people dehydrating themselves to get barrier or whatever

Duncan @ketaminedrams.bsky.social · 3d

A Scotland win you know what that means

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Duncan @ketaminedrams.bsky.social · 3d

3 shots on target 3 goals that's pure efficency baby!

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Duncan @ketaminedrams.bsky.social · 3d

Total robbery and i fucking love it

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Duncan @ketaminedrams.bsky.social · 3d

Socrates! Plato! Pericles! Leonidas! Alexander the Great ! Giorgos Karagounis ! Evangelos Marinakis! Aristotle - can you hear me, Aristotle! Your boys took one hell of a beating!

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Duncan @ketaminedrams.bsky.social · 3d

Tony Ralston coming on

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Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 4d

I know he was once considered a real threat but Jordan Peterson's King Lear story arc where he gets visibly frailer with every public appearance while his daughter very obviously slowly poisons him is kind of iconic...

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Duncan @ketaminedrams.bsky.social · 3d

Good that as society we've broadly given up on customer service as something that's worthwhile

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