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Do you think that the church limits the worst impulses of its people? I've mostly seen the church I was raised in used to amplify hate politically from the pulpit and cover up sexual assault. Not sure what they would be doing worse if they didn't believe. Granted I was raised Southern Baptist.
December 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Do you think that the church limits the worst impulses of its people? I've mostly seen the church I was raised in used to amplify hate politically from the pulpit and cover up sexual assault. Not sure what they would be doing worse if they didn't believe. Granted I was raised Southern Baptist.
Well now I'm near positive that this is all empty posturing and you don't actually like literature, because you certainly don't have the capacity to scroll up and check your own posts. You can be embarrassed by your Robert Howard and I'll keep not being concerned with how others perceive my tastes.
December 19, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Well now I'm near positive that this is all empty posturing and you don't actually like literature, because you certainly don't have the capacity to scroll up and check your own posts. You can be embarrassed by your Robert Howard and I'll keep not being concerned with how others perceive my tastes.
Pretty rich for someone who's demanding an ontological differentiation between appreciating aesthetics and "true" art understanding to suddenly not know the intellectual and moral connotations of "engagement" vs "consumption". Cut the egalitarian act.
December 19, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Pretty rich for someone who's demanding an ontological differentiation between appreciating aesthetics and "true" art understanding to suddenly not know the intellectual and moral connotations of "engagement" vs "consumption". Cut the egalitarian act.
I can use ten dollar words when those words are called for, but I don't drip with disdain for people who can't. I like my cheap entertainment and my high culture both. If you really no longer see an appeal in cheap entertainment, you've lost a universal human quality that connects you to art anyway.
December 19, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I can use ten dollar words when those words are called for, but I don't drip with disdain for people who can't. I like my cheap entertainment and my high culture both. If you really no longer see an appeal in cheap entertainment, you've lost a universal human quality that connects you to art anyway.
Wow. You're so smart. That was such a smart way of looking at it. I don't even know why you would be having this conversation with stupid me, who is only concerned with how the lowly uneducated proles that make up the vast majority of the population engage with - oh, I'm so sorry- consume art.
December 18, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Wow. You're so smart. That was such a smart way of looking at it. I don't even know why you would be having this conversation with stupid me, who is only concerned with how the lowly uneducated proles that make up the vast majority of the population engage with - oh, I'm so sorry- consume art.
Western prestige games are exactly as trope filled. Sad Dad became a phrase for a reason. A story can't disengage from tropes without intentionally becoming a postmodern minimalist art statement, and those aren't fun to play You just think one group of tropes is embarrassing and the other isn't.
December 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Western prestige games are exactly as trope filled. Sad Dad became a phrase for a reason. A story can't disengage from tropes without intentionally becoming a postmodern minimalist art statement, and those aren't fun to play You just think one group of tropes is embarrassing and the other isn't.
I know I'm Necro-ing here but Read Some Fukuyama is one of the funniest possible things you could say, as if he wasn't most famous for being wrong to the point that the name of his most famous book became a literal joke. "You want to understand medicine? Well best start with the four humours..."
December 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I know I'm Necro-ing here but Read Some Fukuyama is one of the funniest possible things you could say, as if he wasn't most famous for being wrong to the point that the name of his most famous book became a literal joke. "You want to understand medicine? Well best start with the four humours..."
"Losing touch with the old ways" is mainly an inability to parse the philosophical underpinnings of old conservatism. As tech businessmen they speak the language of centralized power and as nerds they speak the language of fantasy aesthetics but the philosophical coherence of it is Greek to them.
December 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"Losing touch with the old ways" is mainly an inability to parse the philosophical underpinnings of old conservatism. As tech businessmen they speak the language of centralized power and as nerds they speak the language of fantasy aesthetics but the philosophical coherence of it is Greek to them.
Eh if you've got some oil that's fixable with like 30 seconds of TLC. No one is bringing their concert horn into the stands anyway.
November 29, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Eh if you've got some oil that's fixable with like 30 seconds of TLC. No one is bringing their concert horn into the stands anyway.
Seppuku gets it in one.
November 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Seppuku gets it in one.
Officer, have you considered that WHEN THAT LIGHT TURNS RED I'M DRIVING AWAAAAAYYY
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Officer, have you considered that WHEN THAT LIGHT TURNS RED I'M DRIVING AWAAAAAYYY
Who's "we"? Were the original African slaves brought over part of that "we", in the same group with their white masters? Are you and Trump and Vance all part of this "we" advancing that idea? And if not, between you and those two, which is more representative of "America"?
November 18, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Who's "we"? Were the original African slaves brought over part of that "we", in the same group with their white masters? Are you and Trump and Vance all part of this "we" advancing that idea? And if not, between you and those two, which is more representative of "America"?
That idea existed in ancient Greece. Because when that line was written in the Declaration of Independence, it meant the same thing "people" did in ancient Greece: landowning (white) men. Every advancement made to expand that definition has been made in spite of America, not because of it.
November 18, 2025 at 12:42 AM
That idea existed in ancient Greece. Because when that line was written in the Declaration of Independence, it meant the same thing "people" did in ancient Greece: landowning (white) men. Every advancement made to expand that definition has been made in spite of America, not because of it.
Why America? As recently as 1785, most people living in white America did not think of themselves as Americans. They thought of themselves as Pennsylvanians or Georgians. The entire idea of America is a product of political propaganda. Why champion it in particular, when it's so uniquely sordid?
November 18, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Why America? As recently as 1785, most people living in white America did not think of themselves as Americans. They thought of themselves as Pennsylvanians or Georgians. The entire idea of America is a product of political propaganda. Why champion it in particular, when it's so uniquely sordid?
I mean if I'm dictator here it looks more like a controlled demolition/restoration project that smooths out the architectural differences subtly enough that new generations won't notice the transition. One big HOA.
But in reality it will probably end really really badly. It already has for many.
But in reality it will probably end really really badly. It already has for many.
November 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I mean if I'm dictator here it looks more like a controlled demolition/restoration project that smooths out the architectural differences subtly enough that new generations won't notice the transition. One big HOA.
But in reality it will probably end really really badly. It already has for many.
But in reality it will probably end really really badly. It already has for many.
1. Yes
2. America is just the worst example of the problem, the core problem is countries as a whole. Countries as we know them were invented in like 1800, we had several models before them and hopefully will have several after them. I wouldn't be any kind of nationalist. Always ends badly.
2. America is just the worst example of the problem, the core problem is countries as a whole. Countries as we know them were invented in like 1800, we had several models before them and hopefully will have several after them. I wouldn't be any kind of nationalist. Always ends badly.
November 18, 2025 at 12:25 AM
1. Yes
2. America is just the worst example of the problem, the core problem is countries as a whole. Countries as we know them were invented in like 1800, we had several models before them and hopefully will have several after them. I wouldn't be any kind of nationalist. Always ends badly.
2. America is just the worst example of the problem, the core problem is countries as a whole. Countries as we know them were invented in like 1800, we had several models before them and hopefully will have several after them. I wouldn't be any kind of nationalist. Always ends badly.
Well if your house is a mansion run by violent racist goons who extort every other ramshackle house in the neighborhood for money, and has literally always been that way from its very conception, maybe burning it down and starting over is genuinely the better option for the neighborhood.
November 18, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Well if your house is a mansion run by violent racist goons who extort every other ramshackle house in the neighborhood for money, and has literally always been that way from its very conception, maybe burning it down and starting over is genuinely the better option for the neighborhood.
What are you talking about, they very clearly spell it out multiple times in the ad?
October 20, 2025 at 4:11 AM
What are you talking about, they very clearly spell it out multiple times in the ad?
We are ten years past the point for these "Christians" to wake up and do something. If they waited until now to turn on Trump, that is already a massive condemnation of their moral and spiritual impotence. Their faith is dead and produces no fruit. They will be remembered as fascist sympathizers.
October 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
We are ten years past the point for these "Christians" to wake up and do something. If they waited until now to turn on Trump, that is already a massive condemnation of their moral and spiritual impotence. Their faith is dead and produces no fruit. They will be remembered as fascist sympathizers.
The most complicated word in this paragraph is "conclusively". The prose is pretty clear and striking.
August 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The most complicated word in this paragraph is "conclusively". The prose is pretty clear and striking.
I think this is more aspiration than reality. It kind of rejects the primary way most people interact with art, which is pure aesthetics. Most people could not name the painter of Starry Night but could tell you that they think Starry Night is mysterious or enchanting or just pretty.
August 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I think this is more aspiration than reality. It kind of rejects the primary way most people interact with art, which is pure aesthetics. Most people could not name the painter of Starry Night but could tell you that they think Starry Night is mysterious or enchanting or just pretty.
On the contrary I think the film actually works best if you just stop looking for deeper meaning and just take it as a dark slapstick farce and allow it to be incredibly funny. Kind of the whole message of the forest sequence.
July 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
On the contrary I think the film actually works best if you just stop looking for deeper meaning and just take it as a dark slapstick farce and allow it to be incredibly funny. Kind of the whole message of the forest sequence.
If you actually watch the clip he clearly points out the demarcation point, which is using the terms that a population uses to refer to themselves. Inmates do not call themselves the justice-involved population, addicts do not call their problem substance abuse disorder. You're being disingenuous.
July 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
If you actually watch the clip he clearly points out the demarcation point, which is using the terms that a population uses to refer to themselves. Inmates do not call themselves the justice-involved population, addicts do not call their problem substance abuse disorder. You're being disingenuous.
What is the use case for "justice-involved population" over "people in prison" or "imprisoned people" in academic articles? Because from the outside it seems like a purely aesthetic choice that's meant to not convey an idea about the subject but an idea about how smart the writer is.
July 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
What is the use case for "justice-involved population" over "people in prison" or "imprisoned people" in academic articles? Because from the outside it seems like a purely aesthetic choice that's meant to not convey an idea about the subject but an idea about how smart the writer is.