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eugene, oregon • cruiser on a beater • bookish hippie • great great great great grandson of isaac harby • rorty-esque flexibility in my anticipatory resoluteness • progressive • choice • LGBTQIA2S+ • BLM • fight fascism • social media doggerel • he/him/old

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · Nov 22

January 2017 — March 2020
every Tuesday, Eugene, OR
(i need to make another sign)

two old guys standing on an urban corner with protest signs against trump and climate denial

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 39m

i think it's a bot.

henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 2h

a moment of random assessment:

still on track to be babbling and drooling before the end of the year.

and will corporate media keep riding along trying to clean up that mess?

henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 2h

ah, Portland, they'll never take weird away from you. Your freedom will out! Thank you!

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 2h

Shorter Stephanopoulos: "Oh, shut the fuck up, you snide, lying asshole, and we'll be right back."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

oh this guy is delusional delusional

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6h

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

have been thinking of rewatching THE FIRST PURGE in light of the federal paramilitaries trying to instigate violence and provoke a reaction from americans

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 3h

this story sounds like a New Coke ad.

henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 3h

in my feed, mikie here is stacked right below vance on army pay.

two sociopaths in a row.

it's just a goddam shame that presidential replacements 1 and 2 are these sick fucks.

henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 3h

anyone who, by this time, doesn't realize this guy is a lying sociopath — welp, i would say they really need some sort of transformational growth and development from somewhere, from someone.

henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 4h

my thoughts exactly. trump's statement parallels the firings and chaos those incompetent and deranged people he put in charge of the FBI. they are "cleaning out the deep state," witch-hunting whatever integrity there was out of the agency.

henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 4h

'nuther morning thought:

the nixon tuh raygun transition (as The Firesign Theatre so aptly described it, "we're bringing the war back home!") got nuttin' on our trumpian nightmare.

tho a lot of us are just "finding ourselves here," it doesn't mean we can't stop this cruelty.

resist.

October 18.

henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 5h

Morning thought:

If the desire is to separate the United States Constitution from democracy, one only has to separate words from their meanings.

(For an evil member of scotus, that would be easy, evidently.)

<insert the one quote of Hannah Arendt's *Origin of Totalitarianism* popular these days>

henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 14h

yeah, i was "one down, one to go" after your "yankees, hah, hah" post earlier this week. so, Milwaukee, woo, woo.