Adversus Nihilismus

“There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.” - Ecclesiastes

@nguyenhdi @11111111111Adam Woah hot take

@11111111111Adam Yep. Scorsese's best film.

Best counter-example: "The Age of Innocence". Might even say "The Heiress" (from "Washington Square") & "The Innocents" (from "The Turn of the Screw"). It's nonsense that some people on this thread mentioned the Soviet "War & Peace".

@agraybee @nobodyknows2322 He was fat and drug-addicted, but he wasn't an idiot lol

@nobodyknows2322 But he was a drug addict. He would fall asleep at meetings. His time in prison was probably the longest he had gone without morphine since WW1.

His IQ clocked 135 when they tested him IIRC, an evil man—but not a stupid one!

@nobodyknows2322 Nuremberg was pretty good! I enjoyed seeing a wily and intelligent Goering instead of a fat, drug-addicted idiot

Gonna see PROJECT HAIL MARY today. Unlike the last two movies I saw (NUREMBERG and MARTY SUPREME) the audience and critics are in agreements that it kicks ass according to Rotten Tomatoes (Those two movies were great btw the critics were smoking crack and the audience was right)

@nobodyknows2322 Bro you got to come visit me in Dearborn. It's the best no-go zone in the country

‘In America, the cops will shoot you for sitting in a park’ just has to be the equivalent of when a MAGAt American talks about ‘Muslim No-Go Zones’ in Sweden, or speaks as though every third German woman has been gang raped by Syrian migrants.

@nguyenhdi There's a plastic feel to Nolan's sense of humanity. He's never made a character I can truly connect with or even really understand. They're all dreamers and daredevils with inscrutable motives and an inhuman drive. You're never like, "wow, I get this guy"

Nolan couldn't make "Taxi Driver". He definitely could never make "The Age of Innocence".

@kaitlancollins @KFILE Can you really surf a fringe? What would that look like? A copyeditor should probably have caught that mangled metaphor

This is such an incredible line. “Indeed, among roughly two dozen workers and regulars interviewed this week at Rome’s three Waffle House locations, none said they were aware of anyone traveling to the 24-hour restaurants by paranormal means, despite their reputation as powerful magnets for the sort of idiosyncratic characters who tend to surf the psychic fringes of the American South.”

New York Times with an important update here:

@RoninJoey Back when Colbert called this "Truthiness" it was quaint

All of these people rely 100% on leftists having short memories and not knowing how to google things and you know what? They might be right. Because they think you’re stupid, and people keep proving them right.

@RepScholten I'm very sorry to hear this, Rep. Scholten, and I'm very sorry that you have to address this publicly. I hope you are able to not get too depressed. Lots of folks are rooting for you!

Today I wrote this letter to my constituents on a family matter.

This is the most incredible case of dementia I've ever seen!

@evmcglam @beatmastermatt @RepMann Seems impractical

@AdversusN @beatmastermatt @RepMann Founders intended 30k:1

Day 93 of writing my Congressman, Tracey Mann, every day until I can convince him to Uncap the House. I am insane. #projectnocap

@SandySev Yes

@AdversusN Wasn't Nancy Pelosi one of those leaders pushing for that?

Guys I'm beginning to think that the people who insisted that Biden had advanced dementia two years ago were lying to us.

@katharineslim I'd also love some context lol. That's half our total annual healthcare expenditures for the whole country!

please just say 1.5 trillion

@MuseZack It forms the basis of the entire plot of Psycho

The "guy on the couch while the psychiatrist with a vaguely Germanic accent asks him about his mother" was such a popular trope that it routinely showed up in kids' cartoons. The 50s & 60s were the high tide of pop Freudianism in American culture.

@GambelerQuail @viva_thevillage I remember they had a whole book series about it called Left Behind

@viva_thevillage lol the rapture practically gave me an anxiety disorder because I thought I was going to be left behind as a child

add the super satisfying fantasy of being raptured before all the other sinners tsk tsking as you get lifted above

@RoninJoey @ErectDispenser @Tysca_ @nyaraVT I mean it's pretty clear that Pete is 100x more intelligent than Hasan and would humiliate him on his own show

Good call! I can’t think of a better working example of Hasan’s game than this. He claims he’s being shunned by the party, but Pete Buttigieg’s team has reached out to appear on his show and gotten turned down. Then Hasan goes to the press and maligns him, calling him a centrist and saying the party fears him. So the guy who’s M4All Who Want It is becoming the mainstream position with progressives like AOC and El-Sayed is too centrist? The one who wants a billionaire tax? Who proposed reforming the Supreme Court before anyone else? Who wants a national service program to build communities? Who spearheaded rebuilding working class infrastructure? Made air travel cheaper and safer for working class families? The guy who wants to reform the senate? Not merely that, but the idea that Pete is somehow a shill of the party is laughable! He’s successful precisely because he rises above the establishment, advocates for real things, and captures people’s attention including independents and center right Republicans. In poll after poll he’s the most popular active politician in America across the spectrum, and his influence is many times greater than Hasan’s. Maybe Hasan would be served well to have Pete on if he wants to go mainstream and talk to middle America instead of just teenagers and other rich influencers and journalists. Does @PeteButtigieg scare @hasanthehun for some reason? Is he afraid he’s out of his depth? Is he still carrying petty grudges for his friends (people with positions ostensibly higher than Pete’s) Pete beat on the terms of their own rules? Or is he aware Pete’s far from what he says he is since he literally said he doesn’t want him on to give him exposure? I am very curious!

When they said they wanted a “Joe Rogan of the left” they actually meant a mega corpo funded, status quo upholding podcast bro..

@GambelerQuail I got to see one in person when I visited Ukraine. They had to captured one on display in Kyiv. Pretty terrifying

For some reason I was picturing these things as much smaller. What a horrifying world we’ve made for ourselves.

@agraybee I mean it's the truth lol

Someone who read an early draft of the Michael script said that the third act is dominated by the conniving and greedy parents who forced their children to make false accusations. I wonder how much of that made it to the movie.

@razibkhan @matthewschmitz I find it endearing lol

got done recording a podcast with @matthewschmitz where i admit some of my hindu america trolling is just cuz i know the replies will be filled with groypers accusing me of being a hindu and hindus accusing me of being an islamist right next to each other 😂

@ok_post_guy Markets are closed today for Good Friday

In the last 36-48 hours, in response to jittery markets calling bullshit on his war plan, Trump declared 100% tariffs on pharmaceuticals, fired his attorney general, and began a purge of senior (career) military leaders. Wonder how he'll handle this incident (after markets close)