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Alice
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Also this oppressed people are fighting a corrupt imperial power led by an physically grotesque pedophile.
Carl Zha@CarlZha
I can't get over the fact that Dune is about an oppressed people fighting for their homeland, waging a jihad to bring down a hegemonic empire by threatening to cut off the flow of their most precious commodity after the empire had assassinated their religious leader's father.
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Counterpoint: I could prolly kill this guy for free with a medium sized rock
Disclose.tv@disclosetv
NOW - Hegseth confirms the Pentagon is seeking about $200,000,000,000 billion for the Iran War: "It takes money to kill bad guys."
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@le0nardpoetry I was struck by this passage in Baudrillard the other day, as it applies to AI 'consciousness'
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@FanSince09 Don't put that on all cops. Lots of good cops out there.
But definitely these cops are racist entitled scum.
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This whole trial ruled because it showed once again that cops have no idea what the laws actually are and that they expect to just get whatever they want because they’re cops
Fred@Grand_handsomer
This is 10x more impressive than Babe Ruth calling his shot in a baseball game
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@FredTaming Technically they're right, in that 'glazing' to mean ejaculating on someone is a metaphor taken from donut-making, BUT if they want to go that direction, 'glaze' to mean putting a shiny coating of frosting is ALSO a metaphor taken from glasswork. It's metaphors all the way down
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“Don't forget the real business of war is buying and selling. The murdering and violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals. The mass nature of wartime death is useful in many ways. It serves as spectacle, as diversion from the real movements of the War. It provides raw material to be recorded into History, so that children may be taught History as sequences of violence, battle after battle, and be more prepared for the adult world. Best of all, mass death's a stimolous to just ordinary folks, little fellows, to try 'n' grab a piece of that Pie while they're still here to gobble it up. The true war is a celebration of markets.” -- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow.
Javier Blas@JavierBlas
Well, I did not anticipate this: *BESSENT: US MAY UNSANCTION IRANIAN OIL THAT’S ON WATER
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@House_Feminist I blame the collapse of the small-time smuggling industry. What are our kids supposed to foil if they can't stumble on a cache of bootleg hooch in an abandoned cabin?
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@mtgingering Honestly, just let kids be kids (pre-atomic era)
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it seems like half of historical stories start when an 8 year old’s parents die and they have no choice but to join the crew of a ship and try to make their fortune at sea, and I wish I could simulate that experience for my kids for even just a week or two
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@House_Feminist Screen time < drinking a gin w the lads on the fo'c's'le
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oh you don’t like any of the prepackaged snacks in our pantry? Try coming of age as an indentured servant in the 1800’s.
you want to stay home from school because of a lingering cough? Imagine being married off to a widowed blacksmith at 14 to save your family’s farm!
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Alice รีทวีตแล้ว
im the coworker that all the coworker tweets are about, I go into work so excited every day to talk about the marvel movies and fast casual food restaurants I've been enjoying and everyone scoffs and rolls their eyes and goes back to discussing high brow literature
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Miyazaki has spoken about the concept of “ma,” the silent pauses in stories where characters simply exist. That’s Tom Bombadil. Not every moment in a story needs to advance the narrative. It’s this time spent with the world and its characters that makes the book transcendent.
Sandy Petersen 🪔@SandyofCthulhu
Tom Bombadil stops the story cold. We are in an exciting cross-country trip as the hobbits pick their way through a creepy haunted forest to avoid the sinister Black Riders. A terrifying black huorn ensnares them. Poof! Here comes Tom deus-ex-machina Bombadil to save the hobbits from a threat which Tolkien seems to have created to give him an excuse to insert Bombadil. Then, just as the story starts to move again, Tom shows up a SECOND time as a deus-ex-machina to rescue the hobbits from the barrow wight. Ugh. Again stopping the story cold. What is Bombadil's function? He doesn't represent the Old Good Ways which the fellowship must save. Bombadil isn't threatened - he's a cheesy distraction. I'm not saying it's impossible to convince me that Bombadil is a Good Thing, but such a convincing would be an uphill battle, and I view Tom as one of Tolkien's missteps. I am happy Jackson left him out of the film, because it would have stopped the movie's flow too.
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@showbiz411 @viajoshhunt I was going to make a joke about the threat of a tweet being "reprinted", as if it's not already publicly viewable, but looking at how many likes showbiz411 tweets get I can see how they'd conclude that tweets are private
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@viajoshhunt I hope this is reprinted and sent to every magazine editor in the world. That should end your career pretty fast
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This probably hits hard if you were really dumb in 2019
JJ@ThatOtherJJ
This actually hit hard.
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@LocalCreature Nah bc what did people think was happening? This is like somebody breathlessly reporting that all this time TV has been using us to make money by showing us ads
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@tonguesofhelll @xaviersonline_ who knows how many potential lives he's saved with this
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@mirkel @DavidKlion "only 45,000 civilians slaughtered" is a strange rallying cry but ok
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@DavidKlion Tossing out that number while omitting that roughly 25k were identified as military combatants shows the shallowness of your analysis. The real figures tell a more complicated story than the one you're peddling:
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Aizenberg@Aizenberg55
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Or maybe, just maybe, it’s that Israel by its own admission killed at least 70,000 people in Gaza and some of us find that morally troubling
Michael Ames@mirkel
It's past time to address the fact that a central driver of antisemitic hysteria and violence in our country are fringe tokenized Jews who spread "Jewish fascism/Nazism" narratives to support their ideological fetishes. Maybe they don't know, maybe they don't care, maybe they thrill in playing the role. E.g. this yesterday from @DavidKlion @elivalley
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