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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · Feb 15

I feel like Catch 22 is one of the most obviously leftist books just bc the protagonist is a smart guy who understands the insanity around him in perfect clarity, but nobody takes him seriously because it's also turned him into a miserable, high-strung neurotic

And what's more leftist than that

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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 5h

Its actually unhinged how much the movie blames the breakdown of their marriage on shit ranging from
-the wife's parents
-her therapist
-her own mental instability
-her friends

but at no point is like "...maybe I was a shitty husband", just zero self awareness lol

r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 6h

Right, like the plot is basically "my wife wants to leave me after starting therapy...so the THERAPIST must have made her crazy and turned her against me 🤔"

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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 6h

I love how Cronenberg dealt with his shitty divorce with The Brood, where a wife goes crazy and produces murderous rage-babies

But Zulawski dealt with his by making a movie thats like "What if we drive each other to act like the craziest versions of ourselves but also its prob my--Marks fault"

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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 6h

I think Isabelle Adjani in Possession is at that perfect Halloween costume crossroads of recognizable and simple+cheap. Navy blue dress, shopping bag, dark hair, crazed look. Eggs, if you're feeling messy.

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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 6h

Oh thats one of my favorite movies in general

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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 9h

"I didn't realize God was a frickin Marxist" I sob as I hop on a demon's shoulders piggyback style and ride him down to hell to talk about cool ass private jets with Hitler for all eternity

r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 9h

Evangelical heaven is THE most literal, materialistic vision of an afterlife imaginable and it looks like your current life but also your truck has better rims

Its a child's idea of heaven lol

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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 9h

I've always pictured any theoretical afterlife as this beyond-human-comprehension abstraction, like your brain during a k-hole but x1000

So it catches me so off guard whenever evangelicals are like "Yeah in heaven you'll own 7 or 8 dodge chargers & golden corral is ALWAYS open--"

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 17h

A tearful Kim Robinson reports that God showed her that Charlie Kirk was rewarded with a horse ranch in Heaven and she saw "Charlie riding on a horse, with Jesus."

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Debt Peon (Tijuana Burrito Taxi) @debtpeon.bsky.social · 10h

🎶Jesus gave Charlie Kirk a horse ranch🎶

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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 10h

Wait is that real. I know Ezra Miller was supposed to play Trashcan Man & this sounds like some intensely Ezra Miller-esque shit.

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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 10h

Oh god I had something similar happen in SF, one of my roommates and I sat crinkling loose sheets of paper until they'd become soft to use as a TP alternative

Now I know the solution is to just go steal some rolls from a fast food bathroom

r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 11h

Yuppp

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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah actually they also found a lot of them display high levels of narcissism, like a specific type of Main Character Syndrome where they're both resentful of feeling overlooked and also certain they're too clever & special to get caught

r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 12h

Oh yeah. It later came out her husband worked at a hedge fund before moving to a pharma company

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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 12h

That sounds nice. The lady in question loved acting like she was broke but then would give away how privileged she was with shit like

-"How can anybody think I have money, I shop at Trader Joe's for gods sake"

-Seeming surprised to learn a single mother on benefits can't afford $3k/mo rent

-etc

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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 12h

Once was asked to contribute money to a birthday card at work and replied "Uhh I only have $4"

And my coworker irritatedly snaps "Well then put in the $4 & hit up an ATM after work"

Like ??? no lady *I only have $4*

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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 12h

One of the most extremely wealth-coded things imaginable is when you tell someone "I'm broke until next payday" and they react with "Well then only spend a little money"

Like no bitch not broke as in "my checking account is under $1000", broke as in "I'm overdrafted", you fucking lunatic

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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 13h

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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 13h

Which is wild to think about, considering how much it takes to get *into* the CIA

And it isn't that they feel a deep sense of disappointment after finally achieving their goal & finding it didn't live up to expectations, just...getting annoyed at their boss one day & contacting the Kremlin

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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 13h

Also his nom de plume is Rick Griner

r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 13h

I love that when the CIA researched the exact factors that drive someone to become a spy, they found the #1 trigger is a relatively minor sense of job dissatisfaction

So guys are getting passed over for one promotion and going "...Fuck this I'm selling state secrets"

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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 13h

I...I don't think it could've been worse lol

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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 14h

Also saw footage of him screaming at three feminist protestors like

"IF YOU DRAGGED A MAN BY HIS DICK W/O CONSENT WOULD YOU CALL THAT SEXUAL ASSAULT??"

"That would be sexual assault. But I've never done that so..."

"YEAH RIGHT YOU'VE NEVER DONE THAT"

Like...Chris is that happening to you a lot??

r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 20h

Did you guys know Christopher Cantwell, the Crying Nazi from Charlottesville, ended up

-becoming an FBI snitch (which turned out to be a ruse the FBI used to gather incriminating evidence against *him*)
-came out as queer, admitting to 100's of Grindr hookups
-started self publishing gay erotica

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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 17h

I had a boss who'd characterize any conversation between women in the office as gossip, but then I'd regularly find him whispering to someone like "Yeah and then SHE said she was--"

"What are you guys talking about"

"NOTHING"

r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 17h

Maybe. Maybe it's the kind of standard issue traditionally masc guys who retain zero info about their friends. Because those certainly weren't the type of cishet guys I was hanging out with

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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 17h

Part of me suspects that's a ruse, that they're playing dumb so no one will catch on to the fact they're soaking up every bit of juicy gossip in their social circle

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