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Mostly-retired private sector anthropologist, "overeducated" (Penn, NYU, Chicago), spent years in Brazil. Once voted for a Communist and a Republican on the same day. I like taking pictures of rust.
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Fear of death, fear of what might happen to them if there is something after death...
Also, it's terribly awkward that the "very unfriendly foreign invader" has been America's #1 ally in East Asia for the past half century -- on the other hand, maybe he's just imagining something.
it's old but I had to repost it.
That book btw is a vitally necessary antidote to the self-absorbed, self-congratulatory, self-flagellating BS of Vance's hillbilly hootenanny.
Desperate to make his mark, like a dog pissing on every tree trunk and telephone pole. If he weren't so dangerous, he'd be an interesting case study.
still waiting for this to be installed (credit to unknown person on Reddit who posted it):
The spray-painted gold ornamentation is spreading like a cancer
"Pay no attention to the billionaire behind the curtain!...."
It may be an age cohort thing. Connery showed this 10 year-old how to dress well (except for the baby blue onesie in "Dr. No"), so I'm partial to him. As for Moore..... uh,........the 70s.......
Best deliberate misattribution of a quote since someone said: "'Living well is the best revenge.' — Leonardo da Vinci"
Speaking as someone who used to spend time in their chats, SO much of US contemporary fascism is a function of men assuming that the way adulthood worked was, you got a job and in exchange you got a woman to be your mom plus your sex toy. They are ENRAGED that they have a job but no sex mommy.
Quite true, which demonstrates the power of words to influence our thinking. Someone back in the day could've called it fascist realism instead, but didn't. Gillo Dorfles's book "Kitsch: the World of Bad Taste" has a good chapter about politics and kitsch.
"Socialist" is a misnomer. It's totalitarian realism, rooted in the reality-fearing, complexity-denying kitsch worldview of dictators and their followers, whether of the right or left. Nazis and Francoists hewed to the same awful aesthetic as Stalinists and Maoists.
Nice turnabout there, but "socialist" is a misnomer. It's totalitarian realism, rooted in the reality-fearing, complexity-denying kitsch worldview of dictators and their followers, whether of the right or left. Nazis and Francoists had the same taste as Stalinists and Maoists.
I'm sure Lev Vygotsky would have a thing or two to say about that. Let's bring back those Soviet-era thinkers just to "own the cons"!
well actually, that generation was taught (by *their* father's many handlers, no doubt) how to correctly coordinate shirt collar length, jacket lapel width and necktie size. Junior is as fucked up about tie size as he is about everything else.
Oh right, the man who said, "I look upon secession as anarchy" but did it anyway.
Rebrand of the week?
But "Bugsy Malone" was a bizarrely great film.
Those last six words are the key. They are the very definition of the [insert adjectival qualifier here]-optimist approach to social problems.
But Mr. Unqualified belongs to the skinny necktie brigade, so Junior must love him. Egomaniacs love being emulated.
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)
Anyone feel like vomiting?
That's the point!
"...then you pretend to change the world, then you go to jail when your investors discover the fraud."
"Yeah, this is what I signed up for."
It could have been the cuneiform system that encouraged them to be very to-the-point with their written words. Face to face they may have been real gabbers!
"God damn motherfucking liar" doesn't even begin to....
They got nothin' better to do....
Someday, and it's sooner than later, he will be a "was".
And while Junior babbles, I can't help noticing that those tacky stick-on gold things from the Oval Office have shown up on the wall behind them. Exact same ones. His people can't even bother to find some different kind of tacky shit to glue to the walls?
Portuguese might be an easier stretch; the Brazilian internet has always been a hoot. Great sense of humor.
He's lying and he knows it. He has adopted the Big Lie approach; repeat it often enough and people start to believe it.
Same goes for The Harvard Crimson, The Daily Pennsylvanian, and other student newspapers. And they write well!
I look forward to the definitive account of how badly Biden, and by extension the nation, was served by advisors and family, including how they knee-capped Kamala Harris from the start. Seems to me she was light-years ahead of him and they didn't like it.
They're in the Ghost Dance phase of cultic decay. All the bad people will disappear, leaving behind only us good people. It'll be perfect, just like before!
Last week Trump said he likes the idea of starting a war so he can declare “no more elections” and stay in office forever. Today he just said “a lot of people” want “a dictator.” See where this is going?
exactly. Bullshit hypotheticals that make us think in zero-sum, either/or terms. Reality is not that way.
Sam must be taking his crystal ball-reading cues from Musk, who has predicted "full self-drive within the next 12 to 18 months" for the past ten years.
The Rapture, any day now....
The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe
So apparently, it may turn out that The Wizard of Oz at the Las Vegas Sphere wasn’t entirely made in AI and Google threw the VFX crew under the bus by claiming it was all done by artificial intelligence. If true, then fucking yikes.
of course, Putin doesn't live in the part of Russia where the word "Russia" appears on the map; but even though Moscow is pretty close to Europe, I bet he felt safer flying east over his own territory.
Good for Twiggy; it's a bullshit question almost nobody would have an answer to. When she calls him out, Allen falls back on the same evasive tactic Trump used when asked to name his favorite book of the Bible.
AI that trained itself exclusively on a collection of Hallmark greeting cards.
actually, I think I've discovered where they both got it from:
reposted this before but it's worth repeating several times.
Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.
Because it's the only place they go to when they step gingerly out of their rooms at the Hilton.
...how much he hates himself?
"Great job" because as you note, she elevates his tawdry life to a case study in the construction of the 20th century administrative state, with all its pros and cons. It almost made me feel nostalgic for the good old days. At least things seemed understandable then!
Continuing the pathological obsession with revenge and rooting out imaginary hidden enemies. Rejecting the obsession with professionalism and the "G" in G-man, i.e., native Washingtonian Hoover's belief that Govt. is inherently beneficial, and so is a well-aimed bureaucracy.
Better than just mock, I'd consider following them around doggedly with a big banner that says "Is this what you signed up for?"
In his photos with Putin, why does he always look like his mom caught him doing something naughty and he needs to apologize?
ICE or kidnappers? How to tell.
All joking aside, this will also feel familiar to those who explore the branch of sociology called conversation analysis, which has discovered fairly universal, unspoken and largely subconscious rules for initiating, turn-taking, error-correcting, and closing out verbal events.
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Yes there is some half-recalled demon festering inside that brain. Or maybe several.
Okay I found the most depressing post
And to think: I used to read William Gibson's work as entertainment, not as prediction.
The one exception is Susie Wiles, who bears an odd resemblance to Trump's mother.
I am so sick of hearing these smug, lying assholes bloviate. Will we ever collectively wake up and reject their self-serving baloney? A sane society would reward them with nothing but ignominy and condemnation.
Tech-bro predictions about the economy are just like their "effective altruism" nonsense: always keeps pointing to some non-existent future so they can ignore (and deny responsibility for) the many problems we face right now.
“...given a choice between a course of action that will make capitalism seem like the only possible economic system, and one that will make capitalism actually be a more viable long-term economic system, neoliberalism has meant always choosing the former.” — David Graeber, "The Utopia of Rules"
That much has been clear since his confessional revelations about how she taught him which fork to use for the salad.
Stewart for prez makes about as much sense as Michael Avenatti for prez — remember him? He's in jail now for defrauding his clients.
Ping me when every golf course in the Scottsdale area has turned into dead grass and people are paying ten bucks for a half-liter bottle of Poland Spring.
That gives only a slim basis for optimism, since we humans seem to have unlimited capacity to delude ourselves. Early education to be curious and love learning is one key: part of the struggle for the future may play out in kindergarten classrooms.
Do you think anyone who voted for him, other than Scott Bessent, knows what an integer is?
The US government response to 9/11 is one of the main reasons we're not modern anymore.
"Given a choice between a course of action that will make capitalism seem like the only possible economic system, and one that will make capitalism actually be a more viable long-term economic system, neoliberalism has meant always choosing the former.” — David Graeber in "The Utopia of Rules".
Heads up: the Bureau of Labor Statistics also calculates the Consumer Price Index.
They were teaching the basics of narrative structure: problem --> solution --> happiness! Plus they had a neat hook for getting you to identify with the protagonist: "How many times has this happened to you?" Even if no, you don't get flummoxed by needing to chop onions quickly.
This didn’t age well .
The deal with Columbia U. includes a promise to reduce the number of international students, who are a huge money-maker for the US. Perfect example of govt.'s spiteful, hate-driven ideology overriding facts and rational thought.
This is still worth reading, even though the screen that captivates us is now in our pocket and not part of the living room furniture.
Damn, the blatantly pretextual nature of the anti-semitism charge has worn thin quickly, but they keep using it. They don't even bother to make up a new flimsy pretext because they know SCOTUS will support them in the end.
Time to pull out a reference to this timeless classic again, which lays out the interpersonal and psychological frameworks driving that kind of delusional thinking:
Totally side issue, but having just read Garry Wills' "Inventing America" and Anne Higonnet's "Liberty, Equality, Fashion", I no longer call the US war of independence a revolution. It was an intra-class struggle over property rights and how to articulate them. Big Hamilton fan, btw.
You mean.... being deeply concerned isn't enough?
It would be a contradiction in terms, thankfully. Miller's apparent ideological consistency is just the effect of rage and insecurity having taken over his entire existence. Please, let's not have a Dem version of that.
Which hints at the question of when, where and how certain men's obsession with "size" comes about. I don't think it's universal (sorry, Dr. Freud), so a culturalist, historical explanation would be helpful.
For those interested, Evan Thomas's "The War Lovers" does a good job with this, focusing on Roosevelt and Lodge and the birth of "muscular Christianity" in the post-Civil War generation of men plagued by a suspicion of having been born too late to be heroes.
This is a replay, in a different key, of the Access Hollywood tape. Same mindset, same attitude. A sad commentary not just on him, but also on the 77 million who voted for him, thinking this is all okay or somehow not relevant.
Just this week: Random tariff rates announced again Firing BLS director over bad jobs numbers Trump removed from Smithsonian exhibit on impeachment CPB announces its demise Ghislaine Maxwell moved to minimum security President exempted from proposed ban on stock trading
if possible, fix the spelling error in the word "strength" before you disseminate that image further.
Exclusive: The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History removed references to President Trump’s two impeachments from an exhibit — an apparent change to its plans to update its collection of artifacts about the historic U.S. proceedings.
They should've then added one with anchovies to the menu and named it after you.
Does it have little scraps of store receipts and eyeglass cleaner lint mixed in?
I'm sorry that awful thing happened to you. In the Japanese case I cited, insurers are government-created non-profit associations under strict control. If a doctor orders a treatment, it is paid for, period.
No need to nationalize healthcare provisioning if healthcare *payment* is standardized and subsidized. It works in Japan. Most doctors are in private practice; billing is governed by national standards, with the patient's co-pay obligation limited by income level. Everyone likes it.
And at least nobody gets burned at the stake for this disagreement. We've made progress!
The truly cool professors would insist on Univers77 or nothing.
Pluralization is the writer's choice here, though IMO "syllabi" would be a case of hypercorrection, i.e., using the wrong form in a failed attempt to be right: english.stackexchange.com/questions/18...