[47-follower guy who works at a bakery, 9 beers into his nightly twelve-pack] there's some work by Grossman, et al. on the ethnic grocery that's kind of like that, but it might be too focused on the outer boroughs for your purposes
This is distilled “Twitter” humor. Le epic baritone narration. Dril like evocations of ironic divinity. Saying “unironically” when we mean that opposite. Time to pack it up.
Fernand Braudel, one of great historians of the 20th century.
He was the ultimate "nothing ever happens" guy.
Following the concept of "longue durée" (long time), he stressed the importance of long term historical structures over big events.
Why I find him interesting?
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jia tolentino’s glib observational style has been a disaster for off the cuff social analysis. it seems like years ago that we foundout her parents were human traffickers
It took me 30 years to realize men are sold workouts that make them bigger, to take up more space in the world. Women are sold workouts that make them smaller, to take up less.
finns would traditionally eat this animal’s raw liver but then it was protected as part of their national cultural patrimony. it’s now illegal to kill and eat this animal’s liver in finland
every week there is an article detailing how young people in new york city are taking evermore circuitous routes back to the hitlerism of their parents
going to the red scare book club and saying “women like heels because it simulates the feeling of injured prey” and then getting flattened by a bus as i cross the street after leaving
art is about making money. and encasing animals in plastic molds. selling pictures of naked women. its about getting paper. pushing coke in the corner of piazza san marco. exchange. the market.
if woke pmc leftiods can't see the structurally materialist nature of ice purging the international capitalist class from our universities to make space for working class americans then youve basically given up on marxism as a science
is “hotep jeff’s revenge” allowed to do this? hey! hey! can you post something like this? on memorial day, of all days??? christopher dorner ok...i mean it’s crazy but...jeffery epstein?!??!? died for our country? what!? i mean...
obviously i’m going to have to repeat this every day because you people are pathetic losers bent on obfuscation. i see brave a confrontation w state violence. even if this moment fails you’d still be wrong, because you equate all real commitment with your own neutered politics
i have a high tolerance for girls with deep psychological problems but i would absolutely draw the line if i found out she tweeted weekly qt bait about age gaps or w/e for 3000 weepy bald guys
pathetic grasping bavarians upset that maha vajiralongkorn, king of thailand, has been allowed to relocate his court, w 20 concubines, to the grand hotel sonnenbichl in garmisch-partenkirchen, while the rest of bavaria remains closed... the shame of ludwig I is eternal
my mother and father watched the 400 blows and paris texas last night and now she is reflecting “on the complex relationship between parents and their children” and i might have to boot them from my criterion account before this goes any farther
a burger appears, at first sight, a very trivial thing, and easily understood. Its analysis shows that it is, in reality, a very queer thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties
probably the worst development you can make on here is becoming 10k follower “intellectual” account that tries to spit out aphorisms and demands to be taken seriously
i think telling girls that astrology is fascist has runs it’s course. it’s always been over for adornobros. now we have to start ask them how they could think “the whole of nature were a partner in their madness”? tell them to take the spinozapill
what? guys are more comfortable doing things that would have been labeled “gay” just two decades ago. lots of guys are kissing their good friends on the lips. oh you’re not? have you tried it? yeah me too, just a few times. but hahaha. idno we could, as a joke. yeah it would be f
for years the liberal consensus has held: bedtime is a necessary feature of modern life. meet the group of curious conservatives wanting to question that notion (from the left)
we should really just make it illegal to drive those obnoxiously loud modified cars/motorbikes
literally no good reason for them to exist. the noise pollution is a huge externality that forces everyone else to suffer
i think the “woke” cia is actually a bigger deal than most people realize. if it isn’t contained now, there is going to be an inevitable cultural backlash, and the cia could even end up supporting fascism
Indistinguishable from the stuff peddled by any one of those fascist Mythomerica accounts. Very scary stuff. The pure products of America going crazy. I’m going crazy just looking at it.
when i see someone talk about chinese philosophy, i don’t trust it. i assume most of you are wrong. don’t know anything myself but going to follow my instinct here
you think bedtimes are coming back to the imperial core in 2022? haha ok, i guess you haven’t heard about the ccp’s new bedtime campaign. officially designating it a “virtue” — US propaganda is going to be calling for the abolition of bedtimes by july of this year, at the latest