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But that’s a lie.

what's the lie? that a degree is an accurate signal of knowledge/qualification, or that distribution of resources should be a function of knowledge or qualification, in any part?

He quit

jesus. at that point doesn't it make sense to stick it out?

what if there were dinosaurs but they were twisted

i'm sure he's just justifiably contemptuous of his soy-facing fan boys

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why didn't thanos just use the infinity gauntlets to make more infinity gauntlets?

back then, people were just really fucking stupid, and didn't understand the difference between prose and poetry (does it rhyme???). but the works were called poems, and by convention, the descriptions have stuck w/ us ever since.

the Republicans had a way stronger position going into the election as they were running on homophobia while the cowardly Democrats backed away from the issue by not backing LGBTQ rights or gay marriage in general

nah i don't think so. though the dems leading the way on gay issues may have accelerated the development of legal protections, frankly the fact is that at the time, there just wasn't the cultural appetite for that (americans only started supporting gay marriage after the oracles on the Court decreed that the issue was beyond the political sphere, after which they fell in line, their bigotries manifesting in other axes of social friction).

dems lost because the economy was humming (first and foremost), and the war wasn't so far lost in the public consciousness as to make an anti-war platform credible (even after 20 years after afghanistan, the lost war of lost wars, americans were still kicking and fucking screaming when it was time to admit that they lost. biden's cratering in the polls at the time illustrates this). trust in american institutions was high, and the winning discourse was always a respect for the office, or the troops, or the american project generally.

and, of course, the dems didn't even run a consistent anti-war platform. they torpedoed dean and went with kerry, a horse-faced patrician gold-digging dipshit, who couldn't square this prevailing rule of institutional respect with the anomaly of contingent imperial overreach in iraq. he got swiftly swift-boated, and flipflopped his way to defeat.

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really the easiest (and smartest, apparently) political calculation of the generation was by obama: just vote against the war (and do so without being a leading outspoken critic of it). if the war goes well, the war won't be an issue and it won't affect you down the line. if the war goes spectacularly poorly, as it did, it will continue to be the foreign policy issue du jour (de decade?), and you get to say i told you so at every opportunity.

thread on this in the movie sub.

glad to know whose posts i can continue to automatically ignore.

westerners don't like spices

oh, uh, westerners don't like the right spices

fuck off dipshit

do these fucking morons not know about wasabi? fuck off

okay sure. though to be honest i've never seen anyone read or subscribe to Politico.

not that your life would be enriched by knowing about american periodicals, but i thought this Onion piece was a pretty scathing indictment of Time -- it might as well be a magazine for children (https://www.theonion.com/time-announces-new-version-of-magazine-aimed-at-adults-1819594952).

cool. yeah Time might be close, but i don't think Time has nearly the intellectual clout or popularity that Der Spiegel has.

Der Spiegel is fox news

that doesn't track for me. i always thought of it as something like the NYT, the german magazine of record. i recall young germans deriding Bild though.

terrorists thanking their lucky stars wahlberg wasn't on that flight, and that they weren't vietnamese

oh no, my 7 dollar coffee is going to be more expensive now.

my oldest buddy is an arch-normie, and he has now been apprised of metaverse and thinks its the dumbest thing in the world, so there is hope yet.

jogging is a shit exercise, skip jogging and run a sub-4 minute mile

sure. this is probably a "take" of mine, but one i'd stand by. the remake just seems so (rightfully imo) contemptuous of the original, it completely tickles me.

Argento's certainly has some beautiful imagery at points, i'd concede.

yeah, this probably is a fair disclaimer.

i watched ace ventura the other day for the first time, and was just taken aback by how ugly and mean spirited it is. becomes a very hard watch. i'd like to think sleepaway camp does allow some detachment, a distance between depiction and endorsement, but the film certainly might not be read that way.