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I feel like the Tzimisce arc from Vampire Bloodlines at least deserves an honourable mention here.
The Bassline From Ennio Morricone's Score for The Thing (1982)
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Because the rules imposed by the system are intended to maintain some sort of order and safety. Children being shot in their own fucking schools and an entire constellation of do-nothing administrators, judges, lawmakers and Congressmen seem to be supporting rules for the sake of ruling, certainly not safety. That is…
That’s not what we’re talking about right now, Betsy.
This attitude needs to be addressed. Nobody seriously wants your apologies or your guilt. Nobody wants to take from you your rights or your home or your possessions or your opportunities. They simply want to be afforded their own opportunities, and society is not a zero-sum game.
I do wonder how much shitty wages can factor into this, with regard to the middle of the country. It’s obviously a confluence of a few different factors overall, but with regard to customer service positions that are based on tips, your garden variety waiter/waitress in Kansas *has* to be super nice and obsequious to…
As I grew and learned, I couldn’t help but feel as though my education failed to inform me. It’s enraging. Not just what happened and what continues to happen, but the gaslighting, whitewashing and outright lying over the entire situation. We’re never going to get better until we confront the truth of where we’ve been…
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May 2018:
This is the raw veganism equivalent of economic opinions.
Not that such people are swayed by things like facts or nuance, but it’s worth remembering that among the myriad social and structural problems bleary-eyed Conservatives seem to pave over when waxing nostalgic for the 1950s, the top marginal tax rate was 90%:
I think that literary circles of the future might appreciate American Psycho (the novel) more as we move farther away its actual setting in history. It has a marked synchronicity with Joris-Karl Huysmans’ 1884 novel À rebours. I actually knew of À rebours first because it was speculated to be the novel that afflicted…
[too late with the Curb gif, dammit]
What they forgot is that the Houthis have been hardscrabble warriors since forever and are fighting for their home while the Saudis have an officer corps composed of coward princes and an enlisted corps that are treated like shit by their inferior superiors.
It sounds like you were a great teacher. Paradoxically, exactly the kind of person we need teaching our kids. I completely understand and respect why you left, I just can’t help but feel reminded of, say, the many people fleeing the State Dept or the EPA., etc. But how to change an entire culture, even from within?…
TOO MANY WORDS MORE GUNS WERE THE ANSWER TO IRAQS PROBLEMS obvs
Watch this:
A white American general sciences
A questionable package arrives at their house, filled with white powder.