Typical Romans,looking down on female henchmen,no wonder Commodus ended up so messed up
This would have never happened under the Celts,ya know
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Kimkatya in: The Thread That Wouldn't Die
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This would have never happened under the Celts,ya know
I am so fucking sick of wojaks
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No for like 3 years
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my limitation on interesting people is defending gulf dictatorships
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That’s just Janan’s way of teaching you how to be an elitist snob in a subtle manner without people knowing
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Camille Paglia on Judge Dredd
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Well Batman is a boy's adventure serial from the 1930s that has been given a bizarrely long lease on life – no one really spends time arguing why Lensman or Tarzan are problematic, though they very much are, and much more so than Batman is.
To meeeee it's a silly question because the premise of Batman is that Dick Tracy villains exist and are there to be diabolical and people who like Batman are OK with that? In other words, superheroes aren't fascistic, and Batman isn't because he's just a silly idea – his money gives him the ability to have a nice car and a cool costume.
That said, though, people with fascistic ideas do tend to like superheroes – the naturally binary worldview of the boys' adventure serial does flatter the fascistic mindset, I admit.
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this feels very essentialist, honestly. just because something has origins in a certain genre doesn’t mean it doesn’t deserve to be explored. also, no one argues why lensman is problematic because no one knows who lensman is. it doesn’t know who lensman is. people don’t debate things they don’t know exist.
“why do people talk about shakespeare more than christopher marlowe” because more people know who shakespeare is. that isn’t a fault.
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What a beautifully done knitting,though I never saw anyone use a swiss army knife during the process behore hand.
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it’s crochet, and tbf it just used the scissors
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Nice, my partner did crochet for a while and has now progressed on to knitting. He has since knitted a scarf, a book cover, two jumpers and an emotional support chicken.
Emotional support chicken’s await you yet.
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Nice work, Kim.
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Its interesting because it implies that Janan has never had a meaningful conversation with someone who hasn't actually been to Dubai and judges it entirely on it being a nasty dictatorship built on oil money.Soon after meeting someone, mention Dubai. If it provokes a smirk, and a jibe at the crassness of the place, that is useful. You can filter that person out. Knocking Dubai took over long ago from knocking LA as the blandest opinion in the world. The case for the Gulf city? The transfer of power from the west is visible there as it is nowhere else: in the Asian big-spenders, in the Russian sanction-dodgers. You needn’t like the place, but to not find it stimulating is to not find this century stimulating. Lots of places are diverse. Dubai is cosmopolitan, to an extent London alone among western cities can touch, and that spirit infuses the old quarter near the airport as much as the bling centre. Looking down at the city, and at new-money Brits who love “Doobs”, has come to characterise a certain kind of box-ticking, not-very-elite elitism, like having an Elena Ferrante on the gf course, someone can be anti-Dubai and interesting, but we don’t have hours on end to find out. We need heuristics, rules of thumb, to triage the original from the generic, and none works better than the Dubai test. (By the way, of the most bankable conversationalists I know, those who most often inspire columns, four live or have lived in Dubai.)
I suspect this is why his other rules are to avoid dinner parties and be focused on talking to people "a notch or two down" from CEO. His social circle sounds really fucking tedious.
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“we need heuristics to triage the originql from the generic” jesus dude we get it you hate poor people
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favourite politics things: absurd far-right think tanks with the most generic names possible
“We at the institute for people doing things are proud to endorse mandatory execution for all people (but especially women) showing more than 1/3 of the arm that was given by THE LORD GOD to them in public”
“We at the institute for people doing things are proud to endorse mandatory execution for all people (but especially women) showing more than 1/3 of the arm that was given by THE LORD GOD to them in public”