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Magic: the Simpsoning

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Used to put Simpsons stuff on Magic cards, currently watching folk guitar and playing Skyrim. Media-wise, I also like The Sopranos, ASoIaF, Mad Men, BCS. I have a wife, house, job, and three kids - don't ask me how the economy works. MoCo, MD. He/him.

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Magic: the Simpsoning @magicthesimpsoning.bsky.social · Apr 6

We are not all who wander are lost-maxing

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poster to be named later @jbaines37.bsky.social · 5h

bart simpson wearing a santa hat talking to a dejected homer in a santa suit hanging over a railing adorned with wreaths. caption: maybe this is just for suspense before the miracle happens.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 16h

tired: the One Piece is real

wired: the One Piece is the blood of Christ

inspired: Luffy would kick the absolute shit out of someone like Thiel

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 20h

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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Magic: the Simpsoning @magicthesimpsoning.bsky.social · 4h

Tbh, I'd like to see Zuck do impressions

Magic: the Simpsoning @magicthesimpsoning.bsky.social · 5h

Kuma is One Piece's Christ. And while we all love Kuma, his reward for shouldering the pain of the world is to be turned into a superweapon and used against the world he tried to protect. There's your allegory for modern Christianity.

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🎃 Sid Oozeley 🎃 @oozeley.bsky.social · 5h

this is what happens when Luffy meets Peter Thiel:

Luffy Punches a Celestial Dragon | One Piece

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Magic: the Simpsoning @magicthesimpsoning.bsky.social · 5h

One Piece is about a guy who punches wealthy bigot autocrats who don't cherish humanity in its broad and diverse forms.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 20h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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Manny Suazo @smokyburnout.bsky.social · 2d

topical

a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman

ALT: a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman

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Magic: the Simpsoning @magicthesimpsoning.bsky.social · 1d

Magic: the Simpsoning @magicthesimpsoning.bsky.social · 1d

Who's everyone sadder about, Diane Keaton or Ian Watkins?

Magic: the Simpsoning @magicthesimpsoning.bsky.social · 1d

Obviously more important things going on. But what are we doing here? (I'm aware of the irony re. my account, so don't bother pointing that out.)

Magic: the Simpsoning @magicthesimpsoning.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, that's about right

Every SpongeBob Frame In Order @esfio.bsky.social · 1d

Season 2 Episode 24 - Frame 4244 out of 5296

Magic: the Simpsoning @magicthesimpsoning.bsky.social · 1d

Taking 3 children to get vaxxed, please pray for and congratulate me.

Magic: the Simpsoning @magicthesimpsoning.bsky.social · 1d

People who are dismissive of this work's artistic value are wrong

ASOIAF Read Through @asoiafreadthru.bsky.social · 1d

A GAME OF THRONES: TYRION I

#asoiaf #asongoficeandfire
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#tyrionlannister #tyrion
#tyrionI

“There is nothing Lord Eddard can do for the boy in any case.”

“He could end his torment,” Jaime said. “I would, if it were my son. It would be a mercy.”

“I advise against putting that suggestion to Lord Eddard, sweet brother,” Tyrion said. “He would not take it kindly.”

“Even if the boy does live, he will be a cripple. Worse than a cripple. A grotesque. Give me a good clean death.”

Tyrion replied with a shrug that accentuated the twist of his shoulders. “Speaking for the grotesques,” he said, “I beg to differ.

“Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”

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Magic: the Simpsoning @magicthesimpsoning.bsky.social · 2d

How about instead of 'confirming receipt' we do "I done saw yer ee-lectronic message and I'm a-fixin' to attend to it"

Magic: the Simpsoning @magicthesimpsoning.bsky.social · 3d

Probably worth watching before it's purged from existence and everyone involved is fed to alligators

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

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Magic: the Simpsoning @magicthesimpsoning.bsky.social · 3d

They look like they've hatched a convoluted scheme to stop The Batman

3 Gen Z Tories, all silly in different ways

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Magic: the Simpsoning @magicthesimpsoning.bsky.social · 3d

The founder of Antifa and his girlfriend

Magic: the Simpsoning @magicthesimpsoning.bsky.social · 3d

What about Norman Mailer Swift and it's an album full of claptrap about his waning libido

Magic: the Simpsoning @magicthesimpsoning.bsky.social · 4d

Are you timing it out so you get to Thriller Bark on Halloween? I just rewatched Thriller Bark, went way too fast. Franky does some dope stuff there too.