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@MarxIsMyNigga SHIT take

This isn’t evil, this is a contradiction. Many such cases, because both are correct.

@grahamscheper Shit take in two parts

Unironically yes. The Beowulf poet liked good guys being good and bad guys being bad. Beowulf, Hrothgar, Wealhtheow, etc. are good guys, and the poet is uninterested in giving any of them flaws (or at least emphasizing the flaws which they have in other stories). Now… I’m not really sure if the comparison extends to Beowulf’s aging and death, but the poet clearly did not hold that against him. Death and decay are inevitable. I think that the “point” of the whole story is to demonstrate this. But for the poet to show that “everyone dies, even my perfect superman hero”, he has to have a perfect superman hero.

@ThatEricAlper Teddy Gentry I guess, the bassist for Alabama. He put on an Open Mic in our mutual hometown. Sat on the stage and listened to my song. It was nice of him.

Who is the most famous musician you have ever spoken to

@gummyuy Emphatically no

does anyone in the book care that loras is like 16 while renly is 21

@shizunsus Oh he absolutely is. Everybody always brings up with Muppet Tullys but I think there’s some NFL players in there too.

Sometimes you read a name from these books and feel like George is just fucking with you.

@EiratheIntern Coming in here with my heart and mind and ears wide open, you seem to know more than me. Don’t a lot of those folks kill the people that do show up? Maybe it wouldn’t do any good to drop them penicillin from a drone cause they wouldn’t know how to take it, how much, etc?

We're forcing these people to live as hunter-gatherers while we look at their children dying from behind a glass screen for academic "cultural" benefit. We're treating them as zoo animals and letting them needlessly die. Somehow I'm treated as the problem for opposing that.

The way we treat uncontacted tribes is a crime against humanity. We should be contacting *every* uncontacted tribe and give them modern medicine. Any argument against is just a noble savage fantasy from rich academics.

@beemyli Mixing church and football

White people have you ever looked at your white counterparts and said to yourself they’re a different level of white that you don’t identify with?

@beemyli Boomer white guys who would talk to me when I went to do odd jobs at their house on work release from rehab. Knowledgeable fans of classic blues who live in gated neighborhoods in Huntsville.

@the_tisburys Power pop band, sure. Sparkle & Fade is a pretty grungy record though. I’d say it qualifies. Better than *anything* by PJ or AiC? Ridiculous. Pretty fucking good though. I love it.

everclear is a power pop band not a grunge band

@gothburz God damn it, you got me. I took it at face value. Having Googled you, this is funny, well done and all that.

@jared_cushen You're right. I shouldn't have. Schwartz has said the same thing publicly for a decade. Knowing it and undoing it are different problems.

8:06 AM. The man whose name is on a book I wrote posted: "A whole civilization will die tonight." I am a ghostwriter. In 1987, I wrote the most famous business book in American history. Half the advance. Half the royalties. Eighteen months in his office, listening to his phone calls. He would flatter, threaten, hang up, and call the next person the greatest. I wrote it all down. I made it sound like strategy. Chapter 1 was about thinking big. I wrote that about condominiums. This morning, at 8:06 AM, the man whose name is on the cover posted seven sentences to a social media platform. The first: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again." That is Chapter 1. I wrote that about condominiums. Chapter 3 was about leverage. "The best thing you can do is deal from strength." The example was a zoning board. The technique was implying you had options you didn't have. He is using Chapter 3 on a strait that carries 20% of the world's oil. The zoning board is a shipping lane. The leverage is a navy. I invented a phrase for him. "Truthful hyperbole." An innocent form of exaggeration, I wrote. A very effective form of promotion. I was describing how he inflated square footage. Thirteen thousand targets struck. Two thousand and fifty-six dead. Twenty-four thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven wounded. I wrote "truthful hyperbole" about square footage. Chapter 4 was about timing. When to make the call. When to let them wait. When to close. I was describing a contractor negotiation. He paused the bombing for Easter. Resumed it Monday. His Defense Secretary compared the rescue of a downed pilot to the resurrection of Christ. Shot down on Good Friday. Hidden in a cave on Saturday. Rescued as the sun rose on Easter Sunday. I wrote about timing. I was describing when to return a phone call. At the Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn, while children hunted eggs, he told the cameras: "We are obliterating their country. And I hate to do it, but we are obliterating." Chapter 2 was about promotion. I wrote that about how to sell a building. A reporter asked if destroying every bridge in a nation of 88 million constituted war crimes. Three words: "Not worried about it." A journalist reported a downed pilot missing behind enemy lines. He threatened to jail the reporter. I looked through the manuscript. There is no chapter on press freedom. There is no chapter on international law. There is no chapter on what happens when the contractor you're threatening is a civilization. I didn't write those chapters. I was writing about real estate. He didn't notice they were missing. He doesn't read. Someone asked if God supported the war. "God is good." There is no chapter on theology either. Chapter 7 was about knowing when to walk away. I described a stalled deal. The lesson was patience. He walked away from every alliance his country had built in eighty years. Forty countries formed a coalition to guard the strait because nobody answered the phone. In my journal, in 1986, I wrote: "All he is is 'stomp, stomp, stomp' — recognition from outside, bigger, more, a whole series of things that go nowhere in particular." Forty years. Nothing has changed except the size of the things being stomped. I know he never read the book. Eighteen months together, I never saw one on his desk. Not mine. Not anyone's. The man whose name is on the most famous business book in American history has never read a book. He didn't need to. It was never a manual. It was a mirror. He looked at the cover — his name, in gold, larger than the title, as he'd requested — and saw everything he needed. "A whole civilization will die tonight." Seven sentences. 8:06 AM. A Tuesday. I called it truthful hyperbole. He is calling it foreign policy. I built the mythology. He added a military.

@falseroxy I am asking in all earnestness with a wide open heart: would anyone be willing to explain to me what the Quoted Tweet means or is implying? Thank you in advance.

people who are actually getting laid do not fight over this weird rigid taxonomy of identity

@SandyofCthulhu Shit take. GRRM is not even saying one approach is more valid than the other, only explaining where his came from as a reaction to Tolkien’s. You’re supposed to try to do something new based on your own perspective when you make stuff. Are you new?

Martin's rant on this subject made my eyes roll so hard that my wife felt a breeze from my head. What a maroon. Do we need to stop in Le Morte d'Arthur to check up on Arthur's legal positions? Does The Faerie Queen cover Gloriana's property taxes? And what of Shakespeare's Henry V - it mostly just covers Agincourt, not his critical domestic policies? Plus in Call of Cthulhu, why don't we get to hear what Cthulhu would do as ruler instead of Hoover or Coolidge? Can we not take Tolkien's word for it that he ruled as a just and good king, and assume that that means whatever the reaader takes it for.

@LukeBarnett EXCELLENT addendum

Hotel balcony while wife gets ready beer.

@m_takewaka I’m from Alabama and you should come here but ONLY for that reason. Unless you wanna catch some good live local music. Texas also has good BBQ.

My American friends, I'm facing a major problem here. When I say I want to eat American BBQ, some Americans say, "come to Texas," others say, "come to South Carolina," and still others say, "come to Missouri." I'm confused. Are you guys going to start a BBQ civil war?

@GamewithDave SKYROADS

For those who used a computer between 1995 and 2001, what's the computer game from that time that sticks with you the most, and why?

@tofeelhealed Do what now

crying about someone who has worked themselves to the bone for over a decade in the music industry connecting with the bands you love and buy tickets to see making their own band who blew up getting put on a big tour package instead of your friends band no one knows is wild

@lyrverse @JoyceCarolOates It’s called “Penelope” and it’s for kids but it’s pretty delightful.

So many films about women loving monsters. Still waiting for the one where the monster is a woman and she's loved.

@WithoutJudith Goddamn do something else then man. Y’all just want it to get worse so you can keep bitching about it and feel ever more righteous. Fuck you.

The No Kings protests exemplify the limits of the language ready to hand in American public life. Thousands of people are trying to articulate the political crisis enveloping them using the serialized words of liberalism, without a critical grammar to think or act beyond it.

@Talk_2_Em_Chris Syntax, my boy. It’s important!

I learned about the “naked mom theory” last night. As someone who didn’t grow up around women that shit has me blown. Y’all mamas was naked around yall?