BluesBrother81

I don't have many strong beliefs, but one of them is that market capitalism is humanity's greatest social invention. Once, we slept in lice and often died of starvation; now, we have steak delivered to our door while complaining that the house is 75 degrees instead of 73.

Of course capitalism isn't natural, you incomplete set of plastic picnic utensils. What's natural is theft, robbery, and murder. What's natural is anarchy, chaos, the rape of the weak by the strong, and nature red in tooth and claw. The free market, which you call "capitalism", is not called "free" because everyone is free to do whatever they want. Because what a lot of people want to do is steal. You'll know which ones by the hammer and sickle logo they draw on things. No, the free market is called free because it is freed from coercion and violence. And of course it was spread by violence, you factory-defective lawn flamingo. Because it was spread by hanging all the bandits and robbers, and if hangings aren't violence I don't know what is. And of course it's maintained by coercion, you British pub food connoisseur. If you don't coerce thieves not to steal, then they will steal everything you build faster than than you can build it. You have to use violence to stop the violent, and coerce the coercers not to coerce. And of course it's maintained by the superficial facade of liberal democracy, you Vogon poetry appreciator. The global average citizen is a mentally retarded third-world savage with less emotional self-control than my cat. If we let them have candidates that truly represented their agenda, then every useful thing humanity has built for the last twelve thousand years would be torn down in a week to buy them more party drugs. Followed by every woman being raped to death, and then uncomprehending starvation as they slowly and painfully learned that grocery stores don't spontaneously spawn food pickups, like in video games. Jesus Christ, woman, you're talking about a species that evolved to live in hominid tribes of 100 apes, and throw rocks at zebras. In modern civilization, the so-called "average" person is so far out of his depth that the fish have lights on their noses. And the more complex and sophisticated civilization gets, the more investments in the future that we need to protect, so that the retarded monkeys don't steal them all to buy more vodka and cigarettes. Yeah, sure, sometimes capitalist systems end up defending property that someone's great-grandfather stole. But so fucking what? You think communism is gonna fix that? You think communism is gonna bring justice? Communist nations can't afford justice. They can't even manage to feed themselves half the time. Get back to us when you've mastered the agricultural revolution, we've only been waiting since the beginning of recorded time. The trick is to put the seeds in the dirt, guys.

@AVARY The health of cinema aside, Fuqua is underrated. He’s not an “auteur” so he goes unnoticed, but he’s one of the last pure movie entertainers. He even made a “pt. 3” in an action series that was damn good. I don’t know if others’ll miss him when he’s gone, but I certainly will.

Further proof that the Hollywood Entertainment Factory is alive and well in 2026 is Antoine Fuqua’s biopic Michael, that despite being a puff piece is an entertaining and moving musical experience that had me, and anyone else who loved Michael Jackson, choked up and grieving the loss of his light all over again. Not an easy movie to pull off, and Jaafar Jackson bravely fills the shoes. A Hollywood that puts this film into theaters, and has audiences leaving happy, isn’t dead. Sorry.

@JohnHMcWhorter Now explain Haiti Use as many words as you did for that bullshit

This is the picture we’ll be showing our grand daughters when we explain why women can no longer vote.

@DisaffectedPod It has, or had, its uses in its proper place, but indeed, the way it has fully erased “I think” and linguistically (and thus insidiously) propped up a feminized philosophy of weaponized emotionality makes a categorical self-ban on the phrase a crucial part of good mental hygiene.

I can't respect you if you say "I feel like." Goes double for men. -J

@MovieDweller An old favorite of mine that I also saw in a mostly empty theater and still rewatch probably once a year. Men of culture know the order of rank between The Arrival and Arrival.

Now rewatching this, a movie I first saw at the Cineplex Odeon at Menlo Park Mall in the spring of ’96. It was a nearly empty opening night, but we lucked out: Twohy went on to make a couple of the greatest sci-fi movies of the 21st century. In Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos.

@conan_esq This is why I don’t love shows, even good ones. People say “it gives more time to explore nuances and characters,” and it does - in theory. Typically, though, more space is required for the format than the story and characters require. The inevitable result is soap opera shit.

I’m watching True Detective Season 1 and I’m at the part where I’m begging the writers please, please move off the soap opera SHIT and solve the murder mystery

Russell Crowe on Gladiator 2: ‘They failed, and they failed because they didn’t understand what made the first film so successful: it had a moral core. Here’s the thing, most people want that. On the surface, they might go for entertainment, but if they’re going to love something and keep it with them forever, like that movie? …The love for that thing is because of its moral core. All guys want to be that man who can stay that strong, and all women want a man who can love them in that way.’

I’d like to imitate the Problems (one of my favorite Peripatetic texts): Why is it that the buzzing of flies is so irritating—indeed, to the extent that we seek their death, something we do less readily in the case of other animals and irritants? Is it due to some peculiarity of the vibration alone, or is it because they remind us of decay and death?

@KyleKulinski Communists shouldn't exist and neither should socialists.

The historical root of this is the Cold War. The horrors of WW2 made “fascist” a bogeyman term. And it also allowed the left to hide its sympathies for the Soviet Union. They used the moral high ground to escape accountability. And so they overran the academy and beyond.

When someone tells you black is white what they are really doing is threatening you. They're confronting you w/ the prospect of having to oppose someone for whom the truth means nothing at all & who values only power. For ordinary people this is an intimidating prospect indeed.

I will personally pay the Obsession art director chick at this point if it makes this discussion die off my timeline forever.

@alexpriou I agree with you, but Hume is still pretty enjoyable. In the first philosophy class I ever took - a hardcore analytic epistemology class (didn’t know what I was getting into) - the only reading I enjoyed and got anything out of to fuel my nascent interest in philosophy was Hume.

Hume is more enjoyable to read than Nietzsche?! Part time philosopher indeed…

@ArtemisConsort Yep - the old "I'm not touching you" game, which is the left's entire playbook until they have enough power to just "touch" you without fear of consequences.

>Posted on a platform invented by Whites >On the Internet invented by Whites >Using a phone or computer invented by Whites >Powered by electricity that was first harnessed in an industrial capacity by Whites >In a country that was established by Whites >Writing in a language that was invented by Whites >Arguing a moral worldview (“racism is bad”) that was universalized by Whites You’re like a fish that doesn’t know anything about water other than that it hates it.

The fight isn’t over until McCarthy is viewed as a weak moderate unable to do what was necessary

Movie set in the Cambrian period where nothing happens because it’s set on land. No animals, no plants, no trees, no sound but the lonely wind wandering over endless gravel. Occasionally the words “Ten million years later” appear on screen, but nothing changes.

I increasingly think AI has created a new cultural category: consumption experienced as production. You can spend hours prompting images, code, videos, stories, and ideas and feel intensely engaged throughout the process. It feels active rather than passive. But often what is happening is that you are consuming an endless stream of machine-generated novelty, customised precisely to your tastes. The cultural challenge of AI may not be distinguishing human-generated content from AI-generated content. It may be distinguishing genuine authorship from highly personalised entertainment.