You know, it’s perfectly OK to group voters by identity, so long as that identity cannot exclude “Normal” people. Soccer Mom, Six pack Dad, Middle class, working poor, labor, Small Business owner, Rural, Urban, and Suburban are all perfectly fine to promise these groups political power. But you do the exact same thing for queer people or black people and that’s identity politics all of a sudden.

It doesn’t matter how good your browser is when you can only access content through an app.

That’s the way things are headed, I’m afraid. In a few years you won’t be able to load Facebook, Youtube, Reddit, or Twitter(formally X) from a browser.

Am I the only person who watched Singles (1993)? OK, pretty forgettable romcom, but absolutely the soundtrack of the 90s.

No matter how many re watches, the chodes are still going to think DFENSE is a hero.

It reads to me like deductive reasoning.

Bring a diaper (nappy). When you go swimming, you can put valuables in the diaper (cellphone, jewelry, etc) and not worry that anyone will take it.

Why is duplicate files a problem?

I hate America, because that’s where I’m from and what I know the most about. If I lived in your country, I’d hate it more.

“Centrist” is a phony identity. It’s a put on, like journalists who pretend to be “objective”.

The whole thing is a reification of the concept of political “spectrum”.

Self identified centrists are usually people who’ve only been recently engaged in politics. They imagine themselves as neutral arbiters; the consumer that chooses the best ideology. They represent themselves as above politics, when in reality they’re operating on an elementary understanding.

Politics is values. The left values equality while the right values hierarchy. No human being has ever valued the midpoint between hierarchy and equality.

The biggest difference between Joe Rogan and Sam Harris is that Harris ought to know better. Platforming scientific racists like Charles Murry is the opposite of intellectual inquiry.

It’s motherfuckers like him who’ve turned the skeptic community into safe spaces for open bigotry. And worst of all, he’s known to impersonate a philosopher.

Blood Meridian

I don’t think this is impossible to adapt. I don’t even think it needs a huge budget. If you could nail the cinematography; be comfortable with long sections w/o dialogue; and resist the urge to re-work the pacing you could have something. Think Barry Lindon(1975) but as an ultra-violent Western.

The Cohen bros. proved that McCarthy can be adapted in this way. Think of the opening scene of “No Country For Old Men”(2007).

So you throw the soiled bag in the trash?

it’s just hard for me to imagine someone who’s a) responsible for this and b) gives one tiny fuck about the ick.

For those who know: you’ll be happy to wipe out the shit bucket because it means Dad’s diaper is clean.

This is a poor semantic argument. It actually originates with right-wing rhetoric around “homophobia”.

The argument also hinges on there being only one meaning to a word. Kinda like how Trump is confused about how you can be Asian and Black.

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Film is a different medium than literature. If I were a casting director, I’d be laser focused on finding an actor with the chops, and let the makeup/effects guys worry about physical appearance. Have you seen Barron Harkonnen in the new Dune films?

There will be blood

Unforgiven

No country for old men

This is a trilogy that’ll give you a good idea about America’s relationship with violence. At least until they make a (good) Blood Meridian movie

I’m pretty sure most consumers of porn are just interested in watching people fuck. The wraparound story isn’t that important. And it certainly isn’t data for some amateur Psych study.

I mean pizza delivery guys used to be a popular “story”, But I don’t think people were secretly trying to recover from their Oedipus trauma with the help of the Noid.

You’re being dishonest. The definition of the words rules out the undesirable conclusion. People can’t do anything in the name of atheism.

If “Religion poisons everything” then removing the poison should rehabilitate the patient, no? So please demonstrate that secular societies are more benevolent than religious ones. Show me that those who invented industrial murder are morally superior to ad-hoc killers.

Did you know that the word genocide was coined to describe the actions of a government who was actively trying to secularize?

This is a semantic game. The honest question is that does becoming more secular make one more moral? I’ve never seen anybody make the case for that (though plenty love to imply it w/o evidence).

Can we agree that Israel is more secular than her neighbors? Is Israel’s government or people more benevolent? It’s a trope that Muslims are violent, but compared to just half a century of secular Europe’s World Wars, Islam is a blameless kitten.

So, good guy with a gun?