Most chuds who've watched it think that the abuse he gives the main character is what is needed for "greatness", and that without Fletcher the guy would've been distracted by the woke "having a family" or "having a girlfriend".

Adam Neely said that whiplash is a sports movie with a music veneer, and it really fits that description.

99% sure this kache person is a chud, but damn if those burns on nazi Americans feel good.

Is this what the internet calls "girl math"?

Did you have an awkward conversation with a tall, old man dressed in gray a few months ago? You might want to pack up for a long hike.

Yeah but you see, both parties felt that way about MLK, so it was bipartisan, and that's the best you can ask of any person or institution, ever.

They want Syria to stop being a concern, so as long as their killings stay within the boundaries of the country, and they don't let Russians or Iranians into the country, they'll be happy with anything else that happens.

What am I supposed to be seeing here? Is this the summit of Mount Hermon? Did they fuck it up?

It's not even good children's literature. Unfortunately these days seems most of it is terrible.

Transphobia aside (I can't believe I'm saying this) what contributions to literature? I'm not the most well read person, but even I know that everything JKR has written is drivel: racist, homophobic, antisemitic garbage that's as devoid of literary value as advertisement copy.

I think that's half of the joke. Derek Davison is a relatively prominent foreign policy analyst and Marxist.

Steinbeck is sick, my fav writer, hands down. Have a tattoo inspired by one of his books.

Grapes of wrath is really good. But, if you like long, intergenerational novels, East of Eden is imo his best work.

Same with Rome and the Vatican. There is literally no distinction between the two countries.

This with my antidepressants. I can't even get a refill til next month, so now I need to turn the house inside out to find them.

I've worked with a north African person for the past few months, and they switch 'b' for 'p' all the time. It never stops throwing me off for a second.

It's even funnier because Candie likes to boast that he's a huge francophile, but when asked about a French word he's caught up in his lies. Same with reddit guys who love to feel smarter than everyone else but fail to show basic intelligence.

I love "writing properly", because when I see a word properly spelled, or good grammar, my brain thinks it's pretty, so I really like spelling and grammar and so on.

But I know that linguistic prescriptivism is bullshit, and the first cop you have to kill before the revolution is the cop in your own head. So fuck that reddit ass "u misspelled your argument is invalid" bs.

Lol I really have no horse in the race... I think the whole point of LOTR and most of Tolkien's work is about fate and doom: that things couldn't have happened any other way than the way they did. Done by a lesser author, it would've been kind of bullshit, but he manages to make it about what it is to be immersed in fate, to have its weight on your shoulders, and how it changes you.

It's far more interesting to see the character's reactions to this underlying force, how people grow, how they build and reinforce relationships, the scars and after effects of being thrown in the whirlwind of fate, and having come out of it alive. The ring couldn't have been destroyed without the fellowship, and they all paid the price, even with their lives, like Boromir. Sam and Frodo are good characters, but what to me makes the books is their relationship, the love they share for each other, and the unfailing courage they have, that couldn't have existed if either was on their own.

Agree that Frodo is the protagonist, the hero, and it's really interesting you call him the martyr, because it's really fitting. Frodo burned in the fire of being a ring bearer because he had ultimate faith in the cause, even if it was sprung on him unwillingly.

No idea about the Huawei, but I've used a xiaomi intermittently, and it's pretty good. My elderly grandma uses it to track her steps and O2 levels.

Frodo is the global north leftist who won't give up material comfort built on the liberal order, while Sam, the real hero, is offscreen being the global South working class, beaten unconscious with a rock but without whom the revolution wouldn't have been possible.

I know It doesn't make any sense, too.

In latam we often chant at student protests "you have to study or a cop you will become"