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@beackupburner
What “art should be upsetting” should be: Art which is confusing and contains terrible shit but not in service of evil, but instead to force the audience to examine, deliberately, the concept of evil
What it always turns out to be: “My incest fanfiction is Art”
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@GravitysRa1nbow
We are as far from World War 2 as they were from the Civil War, which was the same amount of time away from prerevolutionary France
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There was a time not too long ago where there was a serious argument whether Kadyrov’s mass murder of LGBT individuals counted as a genocide, or just as a targeted mass slaughter.
Calling Kadyrov a brutal dictator when the current US head of state spent the 80s and 90s solidifying policy that led to the US holding 25% of the world's prisoners is wild
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Roko’s Basilisk is the stupidest thing possible. “Ah what if there was a scary computer! Sure makes you spooked huh? anyway that means we gotta waste time and resources on a machine that makes you insane” fuck you
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I think people mocking this miss the point of libertarianism/anarcho-capitalism — the desire isn’t for a lack of police but for a lack of the rule of law
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@wesleysmorgan
Hilariously their review of the Gary Oldman Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy had the complaint that they toned down the homoeroticism
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@BadEconTakes
To be fair, a few of these are true, but "99% literacy" and "Doubled life expectancy" are products of rapid industrialization done at the expense of human rights or stable growth from a near-feudal base, not anything inherent to the "Socialist" part of the USSR
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Losing my fucking mind at the thought of a person who pretends to be an anime girl all day and had a mildly successful internet rap debut not realizing that lean is a drug and not just like, another term for booze
For context, I hit the lean hard after the stream and caused a fuss where I shouldn’t have. I think the surgery has me nervous and acting off as well. Please don’t worry too much! (-u-)b
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@GoldwagNathan
wow it’s almost like Noah waded into one of the most fraught historiographical arguments in the entire discipline without reading a single syllabus, let alone a paper
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Three years ago there was a viral pandemic that killed over 400,000 Americans in that year alone which mandated lockdown measures not seen since the Spanish Flu what the fuck are you talking about bro
3 years ago the world was a better place...
Agree or disagree?
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Neuschwanstein was built centuries after every other castle by an insane petty-monarch who blew his state’s treasury on it, because the monarch was obsessed with the music of Richard Wagner. This thing was built 5 years after the US Civil War ended
Why did human beings stop building things like this?
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@GravitysRa1nbow
Trads read a single intellectual or social history book challenge part 52758148582472 (impossible)
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This is not only a terrible reading of the book, it’s one that becomes nonsensical the exact moment you read anything else Conrad wrote. Imagine reading Under Western Eyes and thinking this
Rereading Heart of Darkness, it's easy to see why it got pulled from curriculums
It's anti-colonial, but not because it believes colonialism is specifically bad for the colonized: rather, that it drives the colonizers insane to deal with people so different from them
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If you think about literature like this your skull has been cracked open and your brain rearranged by advertisers and content creators. This is anti-art. This is a way of thinking about art that is its death.
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@IRHotTakes
these are incompatible view points but tbf my understanding from college is consensus is that it was an interconnected world of trade routes, strict boundaries between the “Islamic World” and “Christendom” are largely an invention of later historians
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@Djhassall196
You see Wally, this heat doesn’t even bother me. I mean, it’s just ludicrous that it even could!
Yeah, but what about the last one? That knocked the wind out of you.
Well, I remember when I was in Sweden, and we were— do you remember that hot sauce, I think it was by Tabasco?
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Wow, the Enlightenment ended in the blasted remains of WWII? Wow. I didn’t know that. You’re telling me now for the first time.
NEW: analysis of millions of books published over the centuries suggests western society is shifting away from a culture of progress, and towards one of caution, worry and risk-aversion.
I think this is one of the most important challenges facing us today.
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@LissandraVilla
Was in line for the Call Your Mother stand once and the guy behind me started talking about how Deloitte was offering more but didn’t have the prestige of McKinsey and my blood ran cold
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@JackWaltimore
Him saying Blackrock’s 5% stake gives it editorial control over news orgs is uh. Certainly an understanding of how shareholding works.
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I do not think many Americans understand how the Second World War was, effectively, a secular apocalypse
The Second World War is over.
In the last six years, perhaps 85 million people have been killed by fighting, starvation, disease, bombing, & deliberate mass murder. Three-quarters of them were civilians. 3% of the planet's population has died.
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@mcrumps
This feels like a scene someone would write in a novel castigating the scene and not something that, like, would literally happen in the real world. Holy shit.
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@GoldwagNathan
I’m seriously concerned about the collapse of academic history (as a good faith attempt to understand the past on its own terms and afford the uncountable legions of the dead a degree of remembrance and dignity) because without it we will have absolutely nothing left
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Harry literally spends the entire game obsessed with the idea of a woman he dated years ago, and since she left him, he’s drunk himself into oblivion. He is a man without a center (or even an identity!) looking for one in politics. This line is not “hard” it is DEEPLY sad
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They are credibly anti-State, in that they want the state to be a collection of police forces they can use to murder without impunity. They want constant primordial violence enforced by armies of goons.
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@GravitysRa1nbow
It’s almost like releasing a manifesto from a school shooter which could radicalize other school shooters is a bad idea and we have had to learn that the hard way
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@Djhassall196
I mean, why are we even here? Why are we just, hurting ourselves, I mean really hurting ourselves, with this heat?
That reminds me, Wally, of something Krytofsky told me. He said that life is pain. That to be alive is to— to hurt yourself
THE WAITER sneers and brings more wings
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People are somehow capable of reading both the political and personal lines in the game and never take the roughly 35 seconds needed to link them together and understand that the game’s ideology is *distorted through the lens of Harry*
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In this week's column, a reader asks if they should leave their writers' group, and I get to talk about the troubling trend of people demanding moral purity from their fiction
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“Broken alcoholic believes he can build communism the same way he can build love, when in reality all he’s ever done is alienate everyone who’s cared for him” is. Uh. Not the dunk you think it is.
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I do not think these people get that religious pluralism was born out of exhaustion from an endless series of internecine massacres
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This comes off the back of a very successful law enforcement operation against 1/6 perpetrators which heavily relied upon photos which would be banned under this policy btw
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“Soviet apologists not understanding that the Soviet Union was effectively a Russian imperial state after the collapse of Lenin’s Nationalities Policy after his death” is really funny because typically they at least know a lil bit about the USSR
Yo guys, hear me out, i've found a solution to this whole Russia-Ukraine, Azerbaijan-Armenia thing
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@VivianKesandre
I too play a pew pew shoot ‘em up video game expecting a meditation of the violence inherent in westward expansion and how the idea of “America” is a sequence of unending violence, my brain is very big
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@ASPertierra
@postsocialismus
The US Government is *historically* bad at creating and retaining area studies knowledge in a way that has repeatedly and measurably negatively impacted US foreign policy — the idea that humanities dying has nothing to do with national security is asinine
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@IRHotTakes
“Senator Smith, on December 23rd, 2019 you said anyone who liked Sakura was, and I’m quoting here, a simp. My father, who was posthumously awarded the CMOH for leaping on a Neorussian grenade considered her his waifu until the day he died. Are you calling America’s heroes simps?”
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Rereading Gravity’s Rainbow and deeply want to throw a banana breakfast
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Frankly rn I’m Calvinopilled. I’m Borgesmaxxing. I am imagining sixteen different esoteric parables involving physical impossibilities which teach you about the truth of your soul at this very moment.
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This woman is willing to make her own mozzarella but can’t make a decent lasagna — so many problems with her process I don’t even know where to start. Tradwife bullshit con artists can’t even make decent food
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American not realizing that regimes across the FSU have very famously used allegations of foreign backing to lock up their political opponents is too rich. The law would end freedom of speech in Georgia and solidify one-party rule but that doesn’t matter because NGO Bad
When he revealed the law they’re protesting my mouth dropped lmao
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@shafieikeyvan
I love the idea that a professor is able to go “whoops, sorry!” and add an entirely new text to the syllabus. Yeah the professor totally has time to read, analyze, develop a familiarity with, and then teach a text they don’t have on hand because a student said it was needed
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The Hitler paintings look like uninspired matte paintings made for a middle-American opera company doing an exceptionally staid production of Lohengrin or Sleeping Beauty
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I love the idea that mask mandates were about “control”, because it’s predicated on the belief that government officials get some sort of psychosexual pleasure from forcing people to do things, rather than regulating because they believe it necessary
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There’s a lot of marketing gibberish in here, but “most accurate real-time information space” and “everyone should have the freedom to speak their mind always” are two contradictory goals — and we know which one Musk is going to prioritize
Hello Twitter.
People keep asking me: Why Twitter?
So, I’ll tell you. 👇
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I think the “humanities are harder than STEM” and vice versa is all fake, the real answer is thst it’s harder to fake STEM proficiency but it’s harder to truly excel as a Humanities student
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@lefttwick
What’s funny is that all the political content in the game is very plainly through the eyes of the protagonist — an alcoholic loser trying desperately to get it together and in desperate need of something to believe in
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Please explain to me how the FSOT is “woke”. Please explain how the points-based civil-service hiring process (which overwhelmingly favors veterans at the expense of civilian experts) is “woke”.
It looks looks like the State Department's Woke hiring policies have come back to bite it on the ass.
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Go read a real book. Please. Anything. I don’t care if it’s avant garde or an old cumbersome 19th century novel or a collection of prose-poems but for the love of god read a real book and act like a fucking adult. All of you.
Is Wayne Enterprises pro-union?
Do they offer comprehensive healthcare? Maternity/paternity leave? Living wages?
Bc if the companies Bruce Wayne owns aren't doing these things, or it just "never comes up", I'm curious how you don't think Wayne Enterprises isn't just as corrupt
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@IRHotTakes
What always amazes me is that the US’s carrier-borne warplanes were genuinely mechanically worse than the Japanese ones in 1942 — and the USN still beat the Japanese repeatedly on such a scale that the navy which fought at Pearl Harbor fundamentally didn’t exist by 1944
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This dude really is working with about as much gray matter as your average can of paint
i was hoping that the oppenheimer movie would inspire a generation of kids to be physicists but it really missed the mark on that.
let's get that movie made!
(i think the social network managed to do this for startup founders.)
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@IRHotTakes
“Trazyn the Infinite sir. He’s a member of an ancient alien race of zombie robots who were placed into those bodies by capricious star gods”
“So why is he attacking my forces?”
“Oh that’s easy, he views you as historically significant enough for his museum. It’s quite an honor!
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Literally the same derangement that leaves people looking at a map like this going “how did the Republicans lose???”
Those dots are upwards of 70% of the US population. Statistically speaking, you reside in one of those dots.
mass nuclear war would be fine. >90% of the country unaffected. america is just a really big place and even with a lot of nukes its hard to destroy much of it
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This is I think an amazing insight into the mind of the modern reactionary — he is so disturbed by the concept that life doesn’t mimic childhood adventure stories, that he’s willing to try and remake the world in that image
My Dune 2 Review:
What's so funny to me about Dune 2 is that the aesthetics of the film completely undermine this at every turn. People would simply rather have a purposeful life, believing in someone great and in some purpose bigger than themselves. It's also just cooler and
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@IRHotTakes
@TaotiegamesRene
@MoralHazardPay
Horus Heresy really is just a story about how you should, you know, go play catch with your son every once in a while. Tell him you’re proud of him. Go to his piano recital.
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@PoPville
If it’s a Founding Farmers or Farmers and Whatever joint, you can count me out, they’ve lost my confidence
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Citing polling which would become illegal under this law to criticize opposition of the law is a lil rich
“The opposition knows that they can’t win an election, so they want to do regime change instead”-My piece on the unrest in
#georgia
, w/thanks to
@sopjap
@rochowanski
@lieven_anatol
@Volod_Ishchenko
@QuincyInst
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This is like the guy I knew in high school who thought “drunk” and “stoned” meant the same thing except, like. An adult. With an audience.
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@itsmatthew124
@Ninja042803
…Bro I promise you the homeless guy on the subway isn’t going to hurt you. It’s the subway. There’s little children on there. Everyone takes the subway.
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without downloading any new photos what’s your energy going into 2024?
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The study of war at a War College level is mostly history. You know. A liberal art.
This is an incredibly important point and must be addressed by the next serious minded SECDEF and Service Secretaries.
It cannot not be emphasized or repeated enough.
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Hi, American Russianist with multiple degrees in the area! We would be declaring war on Russia if we did this! I live in vaporization range of a nuke hitting the White House! Please don’t do this!
Notice the the VAST majority of tweets saying
@AdamKinzinger
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Imagine respecting yourself this little! Imagine believing that art and tragedy are powerless, as an author! Imagining art’s boundaries as castrated toothless romance fiction, unable to say anything about the world other than rote wish-fulfillment is a sucker’s game
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@GravitysRa1nbow
Georgia, a country introducing a Foreign Agents law explicitly modeled on the Russian one, is in the U.S. sphere. South Korea is not. This makes sense.
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It is not an accident that Conrad didn’t use his birth name, which he gave up when he was sent to live in exile to escape the repressions of an empire which had conquered his homeland
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@IRHotTakes
He really is going to take the throne and rule wisely and justly after a succession crisis I’m convinced. He’s going to be the Henry IV. We just need his Hotspur
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@GravitysRa1nbow
Ah the joys of living in the vague vicinity of U St
Come to Cap Hill it’s very slightly nicer
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@IRHotTakes
It also involved several of the most famous actors alive, an indie darling director, and one of the slickest ad campaigns in years. Like it or not it had every ingredient necessary for success
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@JesseCox
I think the funniest thing here is claiming you did all the research necessary for a podcast on a historical subject while also somehow simultaneously missing a new history from a major publication reviewed in multiple major newspapers and journals
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@NeoCyberPosadas
@BadEconTakes
Listen I'm not going to have an argument about nuances of Stalinist industrialization, the Gulag system, Stakhanovism, Soviet gigantomania, and Realist IR theory with a Posadist.
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@AnEriksenWife
If you think The Great Gatsby is nihilistic I think you might just not be cut out for this whole “reading” thing
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Tucker Carlson talking about Chris Chan on primetime Fox News while broadcasting from Hungary on the invitation of Hungary’s fascist government. Folks you cannot make it up.
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I think more people need to read a good history about the start of WWI and realize that all the incentives of mobilization still exist, and are perhaps stronger
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Guy who knows about how medieval people lived: yeah dude they ate tons of turkey
Medieval peasants in Europe and maybe the Middle East (pure gut feeling on that one) actually ate loads of meat. Pigs, turkey, chicken, goats and rabbits are ridiculously cheap to keep and were historically much bigger meats than beef
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This website is becoming borderline unusable — this popped in my Following tab. I do not follow either person. No one I follow follows either. It’s not promoted or advertised. This app has just decided that this is what I want to, no, NEED to see
Fucking unusable piece of shit
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He’s literally saying that if he goes to jail, so be it, that’s the price we pay for democracy. That’s genuinely an astonishingly honorable assessment for someone in his position
Devon Archer, Hunter Biden’s former best friend and business associate, asked Hunter why appointees from the Obama/Biden Admin arrested him.
Hunter explained, “It’s democracy…every presidents family is held to a higher standard…it’s the price of being the most powerful group
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Day 1 lesson of following a conflict is that analysts across the world have teams of people checking each other’s work with furious arguments for a reason — the fog of war is essentially impenetrable and you basically can’t believe the first account of anything
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This is exceptionally bad news
A train that was transporting at least 4 heavy flamethrower systems TOS-1A “Solntsepyok” was spotted today (19.02) in Gomel, moving in the direction of Rechitsa (Gomel region, Belarus).
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“Russian troops are suffering losses”
Yes that tends to happen during offensives. We won’t know whether your grainy cell phone footage of a burning T-80 means anything in the wider strategic context for a few hours, if not weeks. Trying to plot this out now is a fool’s errand.
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@GoldwagNathan
People’s insistence that that “history will remember and judge” relies on the assumption that history, as an academic discipline, will survive the degradation of the academy happening right now. It wouldn’t surprise me if in 130 years, all that’s left is Bill O’Reilly type books
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“Does Bruce Wayne provide maternity leave” shut the fuck up and read something by James Joyce my god
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@Sharon_Kuruvila
Literally any Soviet invasion would’ve gone *worse* than any American invasion — America had spent four bloody years learning how to fight amphib operations successfully, the Soviets had no experience, no materiel, and no training
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