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Generalising from @"Benkei"'s earlier point: If social collapse happens, it will be due to laws not adequately protecting the economically weak but al...

I accept your gratitude on behalf of whom it may directly concern with humble graciousness and thinly disguised hubris. Some further notion of what th...

... Like you can read the play versions of the stuff I posted, but the Dahl book cannot substitute for e.g. the brilliance of Gene Wilder. And 99.9% o...

Original 70s version only. Probably the only thing worth watching mentioned on this entire thread.

I hate the facebooky type meme posts and twitter links too, even in the lounge. Hard to escape all that tho'.

Can we leave the guy alone now? It seems like he was just trying to be honest.

Thailand is awfully motonormative from two perspectives. One is that cars don't stop for pedestrians even at pedestrian crossings and the other is tha...

Just finished a biography of David Foster Wallace "Every Love Story is a Ghost Story" by D.T. Max. Sad and compelling.

Being Irish, I'm definitely not happy with him representing one of our major news outlets as a purveyor of racist trash, but I'll listen to any attemp...

I'm guessing you weren't supposed to seeing as Lionino is still insisting he only posted something from a "mainstream journal".

The article linked is unobjectionable because it is from the Irish Independent. The headline jpeg is from a right wing news site funded by neofascists...

OK, well, I can't say I quite get what you're at but if it's not the usual "blame women for men's woes" schtick we periodically get here, it's not a p...

Hm, sounds like you're having a hissy fit because you were just warned for posting a racist conspiracy theory headline. Yes, you will be banned for mo...

I did see that. It's a cock up on one tweet. So what? OK, name just five of these "tens of people" and I'll go deal with them.

I think I can guess the gender of the Passport Bros' nemeses. Until there are no people left in one generation.

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Appreciate this. :pray: I've been planning to get back into Sartre.

Indeed, the thesis is: Your view is stupid and superficial. And keep a lid on the misogyny.

This all seems based on the idea that women are evil and aim to get pregnant so they can torture men emotionally and take their money. And men that do...

Not if you don't screw up your relationship. Maybe they have faith in their ability not to screw up their relationship.

https://youtu.be/tVCUAXOBF7w?feature=shared

That's cool. I don't know much about the theory of surrealism, but I dig some of the art. And I think I understand Dali's watches, but why the elephan...

Yes, that's where I thought you were coming from. But given just the silly name for a start, the "Passport Bro"s don't sound like a movement any intel...

Looks like the libertarians won't be flocking to Trump considering how RFK shat on them for some as yet unrevealed promise from the Orangeutan. I doub...

Your concern is that some woman you committed yourself to will take your money or you will have to support any children you have rather than be able t...

Nicely put. :smile:

But who cares what you want? You haven't made any coherent argument that living in the "West" is a relative legal risk in general.

Good question... The facticity of something would be its features (set of facts) in context. "Facticity' refers to the inherent features of entities i...

As a passing thought, I like the reference to surrealism. The facticity of things at one level can obscure the fact of them at another. A clock or wat...

Them doing something about / commenting on an issue you consider trivial (transgender rights) is not evidence that they do nothing about things almost...

Absolutely. I think I've made clear before there are no morals to be found on any side. I can understand Americans having practical reasons to prefer ...

Probably the worst thing about him is the fusion of antisemitism (e.g. his veiled suggestion that the Jews and Chinese got together to launch COVID), ...

It's a betting market, so it's sentiment based. I think Harris will still win but just barely.

I appreciate you. You are like a fresh peanut in a mound of elephant dung.

The Dutch are so refreshingly... direct.

I like that as a generalizable example of how consumerist media kills reality in favour of sellable fictions.

They got RFK's endorsement though. According to polymarket, they are (very slight) favourites to win now.

I'm not too interested in the gory details but the political shifts that are being experienced are symptomatic of social fractures that may signal the...

Thank you for validating me. :heart:

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I once used my photographic memory to absorb an entire year's worth of Reader's Digest magazine (just as an exercise). I still retain quite a bit of t...

So are they.

Interesting mix of sentiments... Being slightly more humanitarian, I would use my hypothetical fortune to buy an island with limited resources and sen...

I liked you when you were a little socialist kid playing with your imaginary animal friend. But now you've grown into a bourgeois plutocrat and probab...

I don't like you anymore. My new favourite person is @"Hanover"'s dad.

There's some truth in that, but it doesn't make the outsiders the "good guys". Stephanie Grisham was right when she said Trump has no morals. She just...

If I had to pick a side, it would be the left, but I still find the remark amusing as it reminds me of the classic Viz insult "Go piss up a rope, fuck...

Given Stephanie Grisham's record--including her previous defence for Trump calling Never-Trumpers "human scum"--it seems highly unlikely she is doing ...

Thank you. :smile:

Please stop double-posting this kind of stuff in this and the election thread.