T. Beholder: (there weren’t both IN that one) I enjoy a humble shitpost, it must be admitted, but the truth really is… Not what the actual participants plainly admitted? Here’s a less-humble shitpost by Itchy Bacca, compiling more (from this article and others).
Jim: I enjoy a humble shitpost, it must be admitted, but the truth really is that Thanksgiving really is a naked celebration of the White Anglo Native American’s bounty in North America taken and held by greater commitment and superior virtue. Anything else is ethnocultural erasure.
Phileas Frogg: The Manson murders are just another shuffling intimation at, “The Man Behind the Curtain,” so to speak, which are always fascinating when viewed beyond the mere brute facts of the case and placed in that context. I suppose one could consider it boring for anyone who’s already pulled the curtain back and taken a gander, but I still appreciate adding to the tally of the sheer number of milestones.
Michael van der Riet: The Manson murders are fundamentally boring and I didn’t come here to be bored.
T. Beholder: Finders and their keepers. So “mystery solved”, yes. The curiously persistent details spammed around and laughingtrack.jpg were due to focused application of smoke and mirrors.
T. Beholder: Quotes from the actual participants suffice, to be honest. William Bradford and Ralph Hamor summarized it well enough in The Real Meaning of Thanksgiving: The Triumph of Capitalism over Collectivism.
Jim: Thanksgiving is the wholesome, inclusive day that many tawny Central, Southern, and Eastern European wannabes join all white British Isles-descended Americans in celebration of our glorious supremacy in the total war of all against all that was the North American continent before the Englishman sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to dominate the Indian savage and make this Side of our Globe reflect a brighter Light to the Eyes of Inhabitants in Mars or Venus. Observations Concerning the Increase of...
Jim: T. Beholder: “And then there were the ‘finders’.&# 8221; Finders, keepers?
Jim: Polanski seems like a Rosemary’s Baby sort of guy.
Jim: “Espera denied this claim until he passed away in 1999, despite his family producing a baptismal certificate with his real name.” What a stud. Notwithstanding his Italian origin, he went out like a true American.
Jim: This is one of the rare JREs whose full and complete viewing is mandatory.
Bob Sykes: The idea that there are widespread anti-government protests in China is utter nonsense, and anyone promoting those ideas is a liar or worse. Our problem is that the Chinese model is working. China’s economy, already at least 50% larger than ours (which now lags behind India, too) is growing about three times as fast as ours. China has the most modern factories and transportation systems in the world, at least one and more likely two whole technological generations ahead of us....
MF: I read somewhere that there are close to 15 million Chinese living in what is actually Russia due to the population just spilling over. Arable farmland to feed their masses is job #1. MF Long time site surfer. Buying this book.
T. Beholder: He suspected British spies were behind the murder, although the actual perpetrators were a group of …local puppets content with the whole place being a British economical colony. Paul’s policies supporting the middle classes had been seen as threatening the Russian nobility. Paul’s policies opposing export-oriented slave driver economy had been seen as threatening the major landowners who ran it. The rest of nobility was not necessarily united in this or any other position. The same conflict...
Phileas_Frogg: Which do you prefer to see in your ruler between the two: - A theoretical love of man, and a practical contempt? or - A practical love of man, and a theoretical contempt? I know my answer, but I did have to consider it for a moment.
McChuck: Perhaps Mr. Tabarrok should volunteer himself for the next Ebola vaccine trial? After all, it’s “safer” than waiting for some poor village to contract it naturally. And it’s for “the greater good”. Doctor Mengele had this same belief, and the political apparatus to act upon it. We still use his medical data, so what he did must have been ethical, good, and morally right, wasn’t it?
T. Beholder: Firewire 7 says: Hollywood personality caught portraying another individual. I thought that was the business model for the whole industry. (Flash forward) Meet the black Knights of the Round Table.
T. Beholder: So many of this. Starts sensible, then veers into ”utilitarianism good, personal responsibility bad”.
Handle: A good test for “peak woke” claims would be whether any media withdrawn from circulation, sale, or publication during the purportedly “that’s all in the past now” bad times is restored to its former status. Will Disney soon put Song of the South on Disney+? Will anyone stream PCU? Will the Dr Seuss estate soon reauthorize publication of “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” and the others? I’m not holding my breath. If peak woke just means...
Having looked at a bunch when buying a place, I discovered I hate colombage houses and love stone ones.
Besides, squares and rectangles are a little staid. They should have used kites and darts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_tiling