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Dziga Vertov, communist "spinning top", he was a hero @dziga.bsky.social · 1h

Arguably one of the top 5 most powerful people in the world right now

They don't just long for the end times, they want to actively create them

We live in evil times

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3h

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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Dziga Vertov, communist "spinning top", he was a hero @dziga.bsky.social · 1h

Just kind of struck me how similar the NYT and Susan Collin's concern trolling are

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 3d

The New York Times, seeing increasing numbers of youth-led national revolutions happening: Not very orderly stuff going on here, quite distasteful if you ask me

The New York Damn Times, 2 hours ago: how Nepal's Gen z revolution spiraled out of control

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Dziga Vertov, communist "spinning top", he was a hero @dziga.bsky.social · 1h

They are fascists. They love the violence. They would love more violence

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Jim Jordan after he's played clips from videos of ICE brutalizing people, including American citizens: "I don't know the specifics of those examples you gave. What I do know is these ICE agents are under tremendous pressure ... I think they're doing a good job."

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2h

“Imagine feeling threatened by human rights dressed up as a frog”

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Dziga Vertov, communist "spinning top", he was a hero @dziga.bsky.social · 13h

😂🤣😂🤣

First thing he does: Send Bari Weiss a contract for hundreds of millions for content

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RIP TikTok 🪦

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

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Dziga Vertov, communist "spinning top", he was a hero @dziga.bsky.social · 13h

A group of frogs is called an "army"

True story

spookillumi @illumi.meme · 14h

frog

Dziga Vertov, communist "spinning top", he was a hero @dziga.bsky.social · 13h

I am absolutely with you

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Dziga Vertov, communist "spinning top", he was a hero @dziga.bsky.social · 23h

IMO they specifically slow walked justice and did not use the bully pulpit to prosecute in the court of public opinion precisely because Biden wanted to run against Trump, believing he offered him the best chance to win

Dziga Vertov, communist "spinning top", he was a hero @dziga.bsky.social · 1d

Just think for a second about the implications that this poser assed twit is a hero in the MAGA movement

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Dziga Vertov, communist "spinning top", he was a hero @dziga.bsky.social · 1d

I find it freaking hilarious that they are doing polling on "Should the President go to war against his own citizens with the military?"

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 2d

A majority of adults oppose Trump’s use of the National Guard in America cities www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-majority...

A majority of Americans oppose Trump sending the National Guard to Democratic-run cities

The president is defying the will of the people, federal judges, and the Constitution

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 1d

If our TV networks had not been captured by the right wing, some very easy journalism would be to play this clip besides a very not on fire Portland and then tell viewers that the President of the United States is living in an alternate reality.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.

Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

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Dziga Vertov, communist "spinning top", he was a hero @dziga.bsky.social · 1d

Learned today: A group of frogs is referred to as an army

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 1d

Democratic Senate candidate in Maine responds to WH defying Collins on RIFs

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Dziga Vertov, communist "spinning top", he was a hero @dziga.bsky.social · 1d

Was on the "discover" feed accidently and almost had an aneurism when Morning Joe and it's guest list appeared

Any of you ever put a Morning Joe post on my feed and it is over between us

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The Lever @levernews.com · 1d

The nation’s largest private prison company is asking the Supreme Court to give federal contractors blanket immunity from lawsuits — including human trafficking claims.

If they win, private contractors could operate with even less accountability than they do now.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

I like how it looks like a bunch of happy cartoon animals have chased the goons up a tree

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 1d

This is awesome.

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Dziga Vertov, communist "spinning top", he was a hero @dziga.bsky.social · 1d

I was married to a Dutch woman. I know Dutch auctions

12.5 mil, Mark

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The General Goodsman @generalstoreman.bsky.social · 2d

New: Zionist booked a zionist, another zionist and a third zionist for a roundtable on Gaza. Her first major move

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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Newfie912 @newfie912.bsky.social · 2d

What all the way to the end and spread the word.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2d

here to discuss the field mouse question, please welcome three different kinds of owl

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).