Guybrush Threepwood

Uh yeah, sorry dorks. This is America. We believe in free market capitalism, multiculturalism, immigration, individual freedom, the constitution, equality of opportunity, freedom of religion, and cool shit like sports. If you don’t like it, move to Afghanistan or something.

Now, of course, what is noteworthy is that Musk seems to agree with the article, which puts him in agreement with most SJW arguments against non-diverse casting. Seems like his main issue is just black and trans people in movies. Concerning!

This is perhaps the most valid criticism of “diversity casting” (which I don’t even think Nolan is doing here) and I still think “____ is a Japanese story so it must have Japanese actors” etc is a bad argument most of the time…

Aaaand this is how I know not to take someone’s criticism seriously.

I was hoping that Nolan’s Odyssey would lead to actual discussions of the Homeric poems. lol, I was so naive. Such a fool. The idea that people on here would want to talk about great literature instead of fighting a culture war. Dumb dumb dumb.

Achilles is not bisexual. There is no textual evidence he is attracted to women.

This shit is so dorky, lol

@HPbasketball Are they uniquely weak to drivers? Is that why OKC gentleman’s swept them last year?

The ONLY real thing I can see for the Wolves tomorrow is to try switching. Their guards are obliterating you in drop. Their pterodactyl is killing you in drop. You can't really play at level. It's time to just switch it and if they kill Rudy, they kill Rudy. You can't let Harper-Castle-Fox keep getting downhill.

@Polymarket Sad times. One of the best we’ve had.

JUST IN: Jerome Powell’s tenure as Fed chair ends today.

The Spurs are the first nba team in history to run a campaign asserting that no one has the right to foul them.

One thing I’ll say for Dave. As maybe the least intelligent right wing grifter, I am kind of astounded he hasn’t become a straight Christian yet.

@OwnedbyJMoney I’ll give y’all this. The wolves always have more fight than you think. I thought OKC was going to sweep last season, then we went to Minnesota and lost by like 50 lol.

We was down 3-2. Looked awful for us. Looked like it was gonna be done in 6. Then this night happened. Let's run it back, Wolves fans! If you are in the building for this game I need you to be this loud. Wolves in 7 till it ain't.

Reactionary Catholics will get mad at this even though it’s like… basically just Catholicism.

When the fascists who joined the church to cosplay crusader get betrayed by even their maga grifter bishop.

This “Wemby gets revenge” bullshit should be more than enough to make San Antonio the villains of the league.

this but for basketball

The Iliad does have a trad hero in Hector, the warrior-patriot-family man. But the right has gone all in on Achilles, a bisexual with histrionic personality disorder.

@PhilWMagness @paleoliberal I think you perhaps underestimate just how influential internet dreck is.

As you know, I am not convinced that they added much of anything to the Trumpist cause. Perhaps a few thousand votes, and a bunch of internet dreck. But nothing that tipped the balance. Yes - there are Hoppe Caucus Libertarians and a number of parallel movements that easily morphed into and lent support to Trumpism. But these were all tiny movements on the periphery of politics to begin with. And Trump welcomed their support, only to ignore and discard them when they wanted influence in return.

One of the most notable failures of the leftwing pundit and academic commentariat scene over the 15 years is how they completely misdiagnosed the dynamics of what was happening on the American right. They dreamt up fantastical conspiracy theories about the history of "neoliberalism" and "market fundamentalism," both pejorative caricatures. And they focused their energies on attempting to show how all of their own political grievances, which were mostly economic in nature, traced back to Mises, Hayek, Friedman, and/or Buckley. In the process, the left punditry almost entirely missed the emergence of the Postliberal right, which also shares their own animosity toward Mises, Hayek, Friedman, and Buckley. When Deneen's book appeared in print, they joined Obama in soft praise for its "provocative" thesis. When JD Vance burst onto the scene with Hillbilly Elegy, they accepted him as a respectable and perceptive critic of alleged free market "excesses" from the right (and only really soured on him when he became a Trumpist cultural warrior). They barely even noticed Adrian Vermeule's rehabilitation of Nazi theorist Carl Schmitt, save to also afford it intellectual respectability since (a) he was a Harvard elite who coauthored with progressives and (b) there was also a progressive strain of Schmittian rehabilitation in this same period. The left-pundits of this era also spilled barrels of ink trying to prove that Pat Buchanan's cultural crankery transmitted to the present day via the late-life political alliances of Murray Rothbard. In reality, Rothbard was simply trying to latch himself onto Buchanan, whose movement predated and was much larger than the paleolibertarian scene. And now that Buchananite movement has grafted itself into Trumpism as well, without any discernible influence of Rothbard whatsoever. The result is that the left-pundit class of the 2010s now struggles to comprehend the divisions on the right, even though the evidence is all around them. They can't process how much Buckley's Fusionism is despised by the Postliberal & Buchananite crowds that migrated into Trumpism. They can't comprehend how Postliberals like Deneen, Vermeule, and Pappin embrace anti-capitalist economic narratives that are not far removed from their own positions. They don't understand how the same Postliberals have adopted their own narratives and pejorative screeds about "neoliberalism" and "market fundamentalism." All they can do is repeat the same old tropes of the 2010s "neoliberalism studies" genre, and hope that by repeating the name "Trump" enough they can somehow make it stick to a Postliberal intellectual scene that, just like the far left, also views what it calls "neoliberalism" as its primary enemy.

@PhilWMagness Tremendous stuff, Phil.

@so10kicks @lesterfreamon I’m not joking

@OnlyTheEarth @lesterfreamon Lol

Boozer is so perfectly Presti's type and such a perfect fit that my very longshot draft prediction is that OKC finally makes an "all in" trade to get him where they give up a crazy amount of stuff (e.g., 12 + 17, Cason, Sorber, multiple firsts)

@nylawho1 @Schwarzenegger They’re sort of family members, so I get it, but also lame.

Concerning levels of AURA LOSS are occuring as we speak! @Schwarzenegger