Rip Van Cremastericle
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Fought for Rax in the roast beef wars.
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yourpaljohn.bsky.social
If I had a family member who talked like this I would worry it's the beginning of a psychotic break
sharonk.bsky.social
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.
yourpaljohn.bsky.social
oh my god i can't believe indiana won
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yourpaljohn.bsky.social
It's what I would do if i were deposed from my job and family.
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yourpaljohn.bsky.social
Have you read the rosewater series by Tade Thompson?
yourpaljohn.bsky.social
"no offense, but [extremely offensive statement]" is classic pudding-brained asshole behavior.
yourpaljohn.bsky.social
I'm demanding all beef tampons
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yourpaljohn.bsky.social
thank you congress for awarding president trump the first annual noble piece prize.
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fleerultra.bsky.social
Le Creuset is Cheugy 👎
NY Mag instagram post showing a headline “Le Creuset is Cheugy” and then below that “Why does a collection of $400 pots suddenly look so cheap?” with a big thumbs down in the foreground and lots of ceramic pots in the background
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bakoon.bsky.social
(in that commercial guy VO voice) EA SPORTS: its in the game. and also we are responsible for the september eleventh plane attack on new york city
yourpaljohn.bsky.social
nathan robinson's evil doppelganger
tonymagoni.bsky.social
for as long as i can remember i wanted to be 55
A picture from the new young tories article showing a creepy looking dude of indeterminate age with a lanyard and a sweater on under a sport coat, he’s holding an umbrella and wearing a trilby/fedora
yourpaljohn.bsky.social
David Simon is extremely cringe as a poster but you have to hand it to him here.
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
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cooperatives.bsky.social
REI, while a consumer co-op on paper, has been overtaken by a managerial class that values profit and control instead of supporting their hardworking employees. Union/worker representation on the board has been pushed by REI workers and members, but the board has made no effort in allowing this.
REI Workers Undeterred by Co-op’s Refusal to Let Union Candidates Run for Board - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
At REI, two union-backed candidates are excluded from the co-op board’s ballot. Workers respond with a membership-based campaign and in the state legislature.
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yourpaljohn.bsky.social
Someone should pin Brett Kavanaugh's eyes open and make him read these reports until he cracks
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joolia.bsky.social
Doug Wilson co-authored a (plagiarized) book that defended the institution of slavery *as it was practiced in the antebellum South*. This is how Douthat introduced the subject while providing him with the NYT's platform:
Douthat: So, just to take a related example, one of the controversies of many that you’ve been mixed up in has to do with slavery, and whether slavery is absolutely forbidden by the Bible, absolutely forbidden to Christians, or whether it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: And you think it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: On this, on a straightforward reading of the New Testament, I would agree with you. I would say, pretty clearly, there is a pretty clear path from the message of the Bible to the abolition of slavery. But there is no moment in the New Testament when Jesus insists on the manumission of slaves.

Wilson: Right.
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harrisonk.bsky.social
"partisan split on Tylenol"
ddiamond.bsky.social
KFF finds partisan split on Tylenol

Most Republicans (56%) say they think it’s definitely or probably true that taking Tylenol during pregnancy increases the risk of kids with autism.

Most Dems (86%) say it’s definitely or probably false.

Multiple medical associations have said there’s no link.
KFF
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Many Are Uncertain if Taking Tylenol During Pregnancy Increases Risk of Children
Developing Autism, Most Republicans Say it is Probably or Definitely True
Do you think that it is definitely true, probably true, probably false, or definitely false that taking Tylenol during pregnancy increases the risk of the child developing autism?
I Definitely true Probably true Probably false
Definitely false
Total
30%
30%
35%
Party ID
Democrats
27%
Independents
29%
59%
33%
Republicans
50%
34%
31%
yourpaljohn.bsky.social
Why isn't every Democrat saying this all the time to anyone who will listen?
ericmgarcia.bsky.social
Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“
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helldude.bsky.social
and that's like, white normies. natural born citizens. if you think people are generally equal and have rights they want to go through your phone and break up whatever book club you belong to. if you think racism is bad they don't think you should have roads or running water. it's a problem