RW Laws

@PattyMurray The SAVE act isn't about 'the average person.'

The average person is more likely to be struck by lightning than they are to commit voter fraud. Seriously. That's a real stat. I'm voting NO on the SAVE America Act.

@RadishHarmers Live long enough and everything stops being fun.

I cannot believe my life lasted long enough for computers to stop being fun.

@SamBuntz Maybe less Christian than gnostic, as in we share the light of creation and can express it through our work. The violin in Stella Maris or the stone trough in No Country or the compass in The Road all reflect the light of creation passing through human design.

@RW_Laws Also, the mother tells him it's OK to pray to his father, because the breath of God is passed on from man to man (or words to that effect). So it's indicated they have some kind of Christian belief.

This seems totally wrong. Look at the conclusion of The Road. The father and the son are “carrying the fire,” maintaining the human spirit in a world that’s completely crumbled. And, in the end, the spirit does endure - the boy winds up with a good family.

@SamBuntz Or another way to see it is that the belief itself is the point, and if the boy spreads it to the new family he is sharing the light. It's not Christian transcendence but rather human expression and hope. I think McCarthy's meaning is ambiguous by design.

@RW_Laws No, that totally misses the point. The fire bit is valid as a metaphor. The family doesn't think it's weird as a metaphor, they think it's weird bc they have no context for what he's talking about.

@unclearirony @plzcallmechrist @christopherrufo I've read Infinite Jest, but pretend not to have. The conversations that follow admitting reading that are torture. Please keep this between us.

@plzcallmechrist @christopherrufo We pretend to have read infinite jest too

The only books that anyone on X has read is Blood Meridian, Starship Troopers, Dune and Lord of the Rings. And the latter three, people just watched the movies.

@jonstewart He is a businessman, and an extremely good one whose businesses are poised to help us all, but he's exaggerating a bit to call you a comedian. You've not been a comedian since Bush left office.

He is also a businessman.

@adrianisxx @JoshPhillipsPhD I read just this morning that city officials are 'decolonizing' Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon since his brilliance might encourage white supremacy. Such strange times.

@JoshPhillipsPhD Even people from Shakespeare's country don't live like this 😭

I want to live in a world where people read and study Shakespeare.

@PoliticalStacy @jonstewart Don't soft pedal it, Stacy. Tell us what you really think.

@jonstewart Jon Stewart, you are a gaping asshole. You’re a shell of your former piece of shit self. You desiccated bag of dog shit.

Elon Musk is an extremely skilled propagandist.

@SitLibertas @christopherrufo I don't think he was misanthropic or materialist. He seemed to long for transcendence, but could only find it in work people produced, like the violin in Stella Maris or the stone trough that Sheriff Bell mentions in No Country or the compass the father finds in The Road.

@christopherrufo I believe McCarthy was largely a misanthrope and an extreme materialist. He was a first-rate writer in terms of command of the language. But he did not believe it was worth noting the inner lives of his characters. He was Gnostic but without the desire for transcendence.

I read the first hundred pages of The Road last year, and read the first hundred pages of Blood Meridian this year, and in both instances, gave up, because the books never clicked. Lyrical writing, but the characters are reduced to way down Maslow's hierarchy, and the tone is so relentlessly bleak, with almost no humanity breaking through, it was difficult to feel anything besides the flint clicking against the cold steel in the overwhelming darkness. I know many of you love it, but to me, it's overwrought, overstylized, and overhyped.

@_TruthZone_ Time can be cruel to us all.

How is this possible????? 😳

@MoroseJerk And here I was thinking "well at least I have something in common with this genius" before I realized what it said.

I genuinely thought they meant he shit himself what the fuck is wrong with me

@jerseyh0mo Not only is that factually incorrect, but that second sentence is among the most tortured analogies I've seen on this site.

@RW_Laws There are 14 million children who are malnourished in the US right now. If only you were hungrier for reading a book.

I forgot about this stupid shit but imagine if they poured $80 billion into feeding the hungry instead of this failed cartoon universe that nobody wanted

@Cernovich It never left.

Woke is back.

@LizzyStarrrdust True. More higher IQ men too.

There are more low IQ men than there are low IQ women. It's science.

@walterkirn Not English as it's currently taught. I say this as an English Major who graduated in the mid 90s.

Tell the kids

@BuckAngel Read the name out loud. You're being played.

😂” I HAVE A PHD IN GENDER STUDIES

@ItIsHoeMath @kevinxu I've bought a few condos or houses over about 2 decades. Regretted each one in its own special way.

@kevinxu I bought a house and there is a woman auditioning for the role of wife and I have never been less relaxed If I was able to do this 20 years ago before my brain crystallized as a studio apartment renter it might not be so hard

friend of mine finally got a house, wife, and kids never seen him more stressed in his life

@silvamore You probably shouldn't be so sure about that last clause.

I don't get it. I ate lobster last week and didn't have to kill any kids or wake up at 5am, and nobody came in my wife while I was at work