All these american nobles have sunday morning comic strip names. I half expect the next secretary of state to be named Theo Ristocratz or something
I still refuse to acknowledge Newt Gingrich as a real name.
Newt is just the diminutive. his actual full name is Newthaniel Wenderella Gingrich III
Felix: I need a name for my character in the Biden Administration, “Rich Nephew” is too obvious
Idk who discovered using the word czar in any way other than referring to Eastern European monarchs but it's weird that it became a thing.
It's literally just calling someone the King of something why you gotta use a foreign word for King
Liberal political journalists literally know 2 words to describe executive appointments: czar and tapped. Every article is just them cramming these two words into every sentence.
Cuz it sounds spicy,
As the top post from yesterday said, some people are so white they steal other white people culture.
There’s John Kerry, Poster Extraordinaire
And then there’s John Kerry, climate czar
Some people say they’re one in the same. Including me
It can be fun to mix things up, Czar, king, monarch, sultan, emperor, dictator, etc. Allow you to use different words to the same effect, and can allow alliteration. But czar is also Russian and therefore scary (even though it's just Caesar going through a game of telephone). If I were the writer, he'dbe the crown- prince of anti-corruption, getting some consonance while also quipped on the nepotis nature of his name.
Our simulators have taken to testing how far they can push those of us in the simulation before we abandon the hegemonic perspective that all this is real
But imagine how owned you’ll be when someone Tweets out the page of your manifesto where you explain that you had to move to the woods of Montana and become a terrorist because too many people had silly names
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Also cop Derek Chauvin and State Department functionary Anne-Marie Slaughter.
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Chief of Police for Goiás, Brazil
His daughter seems to take after her father https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg877g/brazilian-prosecutor-accused-of-spreading-nazi-propaganda-facebook
:geordi-yes: accepting oneself as a subject of History, molded by and molding the conditions of the world
:geordi-no: it's just a simulation, guys! non if it really matters!
People who think simulation theory changes something about their lives have a very peculiar epistemology that I'll never understand.
That's precisely the problem. It doesn't change how most people view the world - so, in the core of empire, it becomes a way for the 'end-of-history' mindset to perpetuate further into the 21st century. It's an ideological adaptation, if you will. Capitalist Realism needs a defense against the absurdity it has created for itself, and simulation theory fits the niche.
I mean it's not an idea that implies everything is ok, it's a functionally neutral proposition. It's basically the techbro way of saying "yeah but this could all be a dream dude."
Like yes, it could. But like, so? There was never any guarantee of an external reality in the first place, that doesn't mean you just check out of life.
It's an idea that lets the middle class be ok with everything not being ok - "Gosh, things sure are crazy! Like a buggy computer simulation, you never know what will happen next. I half expect Representative Silly Name to clip through the floor! And the McDonalds cashier just gave the exact same greeting to everyone who walked through the door - like a glitch in The Matrix!"
Meanwhile, Senator Silly Name has just introduced legislation to classify drone strike data till the end of time, and the McCashier is trying to balance a six day work week and chronic insomnia.
I don't know comrade, it kind of sounds like you're making up people to get mad at
Think it's more an avenue than a cause. Solipsistic self-obsession and observation of the absurdity of the world as random is always the case for individualistic people who benefit from the organized violence of the world but do not wish to acknowledge it. Now they just say it's a computer instead of a gnostic puzzle. It does piss me off though because it fundamentally doesn't make more sense than not. Assume there's a layer over us that's more complex, that changes nothing because I'll never perceive it. We're still just as real in any meaningful sense as we would be if there was nothing above us, laws dictate our lives whether programmed by random luck of the draw, God, or some nerd with a universe coder. I feel from a set list whether set by evolution or some artist. Assume there's a layer of the same complexity, then this is identical to that level and we're just as real as they are.
I’m extremely high rn and it took me forever to figure out his name is rich nephew Lmao
I'm choosing to believe this is fake to maintain my own sanity
Death to America
You know this guy is a huge piece of shit when he wrote a book called The Art Of Sanctions--the fact that his name is Rich Nephew is just icing on the cake.
USA has enacted so many sanctions that they are functionally sanctioning themselves.
Sources say that he is not very affluent, and that personality-wise, he's more of a Dick Nephew.
I told someone this weekend that as the universe continues to expand at an apparently exponential rate, less and less processing resources are available to the simulation at the small scale to make it believable, and you start seeing stuff like a nepotist named "Rich Nephew"
that makes no sense why would you include expansion in a simulation like that
etymology of nepotism: "favoritism shown to relatives, especially in appointment to high office," 1660s, from French népotisme (1650s), from Italian nepotismo, from nepote "nephew," from Latin nepotem (nominative nepos) "grandson, nephew" (see nephew ). Originally, practice of granting privileges to a pope's "nephew" which was a euphemism for his natural son.
Pope Jr.
I realize that the relevant conclaves have been adjourned for centuries, but fuck it, he’s got my vote for Renaissance-era Pope.
everyone watch Chapo FYM on twitch.tv/chapotraphouse
