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Wannabe Filmmaker, Writer, Proud Bisexual. Self-taught Chinese Historian. Opinions are my own. Bigots get blocked. Enquiries: [email protected] Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@jdkessey LinkTREE: https://linktr.ee/jdkessey

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JDKessey @jdkessey.bsky.social · Aug 15

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Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 2h

If you have a position of influence, you have a responsibility not to panic or misinform your audience. You should answer rather than ask questions when possible. Maybe you need to vent to a few friends, but you're not just venting to a few friends when you post. That's for real life or group chat.

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 10h

As much disdain as I have for Large Accounts that do a bunch of venting on main like they’re smol beans, I have a ton more for the army of followers who swarm people like “they’re a human being, don’t police their expression of emotions!” This is the same as simping for favor from the rich.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4h

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 9h

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 9h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 6h

I broadly agree, but also think this is too generous to the leftists sharing the meme in question. They aren’t resharing a Nazi meme about Jews stealing food cultures because they’re being tricked; they’re sharing because a segment of the left agrees Jews are parasites without culture of their own.

Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 6h

The reason Nazis make memes like this is to get leftist crossover and inspire others to make their own copies. People fall for it

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JDKessey @jdkessey.bsky.social · 4h

Also, a famous quote in the series is "you can tell a lot about a man by how they treat their lessers" went on to bully minorities with her money tree.

JDKessey @jdkessey.bsky.social · 4h

Also, it floored me that Peter Robinson was there.

JDKessey @jdkessey.bsky.social · 4h

This video kept popping into my mind while reading the Guardian article on Peter Thiel.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 9h

it's very funny to me that his delusional misreadings can include both Watchmen, one of the great 20th century novels, and One Piece, a fun comic serial for children. But it's not good that this man is genuinely mad and a major political and financial force in the United States of America.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 13h

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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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 4h

still thinking about this. what makes it really awful is there's no innocent oopsies angle to this. for it to be "funny" you have to have decided (((israelis))) as a people are monolithically deserving of hate

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 6h

Okay I guess people are fine with being antisemitic on main

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 12h

most normies are mad at thiel for being incomprensible

we are mad at thiel for not understanding philosophy and theology

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 13h

I DEEPLY resent that I have to take seriously the stunted, juvenile political and theological opinions of Peter Thiel

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JDKessey @jdkessey.bsky.social · 4h

That's dumb.

Are they seriously saying that Steinbeck, London, Twain, and Kerouac haven't contributed to culture?

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JDKessey @jdkessey.bsky.social · 4h

In my experience it attracts people who see art as a form of power rather than as a form of expression.

JDKessey @jdkessey.bsky.social · 4h

You don't get 1984 without 'Homage to Catalonia' or his essays before and during WW2.

Airship Chronos says TRANS RIGHTS @airshipchronos.bsky.social · 5h

QTing again to say that ignoring Orwell's nonfiction makes his own fiction *less* interesting. Not sure how you can't focus on the language stuff in 1984 after reading "Politics and the English Language". Dude was *very* concerned about Words and Their Use.

Stone Cold Jane Austen @grayathena.bsky.social · 6h

It's a shame Orwell is so often reduced to 1984 and Animal Farm, which are so commonly abused to have become worthless cliches, when his non-fiction is so interesting and still relevant today. His obsession with language and politics is particularly interesting to think about now

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JDKessey @jdkessey.bsky.social · 5h

They've always been uncurious and antisemitism is a refuge for the ignorant, the cruel, and the arrogant.

JDKessey @jdkessey.bsky.social · 5h

You can tell that Thiel is scared of someone taking away his power and revealing that he's a mediocre man with money.

Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 10h

I finally read that Peter Thiel essay about Alan Moore's WATCHMEN, and it's incredible that his actual argument is: "Moore argues that Ozymandias will fail because history defeats all world conquerers, and no victory is permanent. But maybe I, Peter Thiel, am built different?"

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JDKessey @jdkessey.bsky.social · 5h

Remembering that Mao enjoyed bandit stories in his youth and spent his last days watching Hong Kong cinema

JDKessey @jdkessey.bsky.social · 5h

The only difference between Peter Thiel and the doomsday cultist demanding pennies at Time Square is that Thiel was born into wealth and lucked out with Paypal.

Antifish @alltingsconsidered.bsky.social · 5h

Can't believe we let total idiot lunatics like this make important decisions about how our society functions.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

oh this guy is delusional delusional

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 13h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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JDKessey @jdkessey.bsky.social · 5h

I had to walk away from the computer when I got to this part.

JDKessey @jdkessey.bsky.social · 5h

It handles the negative sides of Orwell very well (particularly his antisemitism treatment of women) while humanising him. It does what any good biography does which is to humanise their subject.

JDKessey @jdkessey.bsky.social · 5h

Watched I Like Me

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A ★★★★½ diary entry for John Candy: I Like Me (2025)

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JDKessey @jdkessey.bsky.social · 5h

I highly recommend DJ Taylor's biography on him. It avoids political hagiography and examines his literary work quite well.

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Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 5h

oh I see the *amazingly* anti-Semitic Twitter food meme has reached BlueSky because a lot of you are terrible people who need to be taught manners with a two by four, even if it won't change your wicked hearts.

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JDKessey @jdkessey.bsky.social · 7h

It's time

JDKessey @jdkessey.bsky.social · 7h

I decided to improve discourse on my feed.