If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

Brive1987 wrote: ↑Appeasement and genuflecting always ends well.

Getting into dumb wars doesn't always end well. Strutting around like you can lick any man in the house, while not actually being prepared to back that up doesn't always end well. Very few things always end well.

Well, no, I don't think there's an intentional cabal of scientists just refusing to look into things. You have something similar in media, where everybody walks in lock step and effectively some topics and some opinions are excluded. On the one hand, that is a lot of individual people making indivi...

A couple of rich oligarchs worried about their football team or yacht, plus a few thousand Russian protesters with nothing better to do this week than get beaten in jail, will not topple Putin. There will be more than a few thousand protesters and those oligarchs play ball because they're scared of...

There's also the embarassing spectacle of Russian soldiers bumming food off civilians, which indicates somebody didn't think they needed to pack lunch. You are consuming propaganda. Have some scepticism. https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/covers/287x361front/2022-03-03.jpg I saw that on the front...

ThreeFlangedJavis wrote: ↑ Putin thought this was going to be over in a day or two

I keep seeing people say this. Why do we think he thought it would be over in a day or two?

Fuck ALL the nuns! Jesus. Horrible flash back. My mother-in-law was in the hospital for a heart attack. So we rushed to be with her. I noticed a nun going into one of the hospital rooms. As we left from talking to a doctor I glanced into the room the nun had entered. The nun was there... fully nake...

Lsuoma wrote: ↑Fuck ALL the nuns!

Spoken like a true Communist.

As you suggest, the direction and details of the change (and the motives of the people crying for that change) are starting to move into pole position. I think the internet, for all of its p0rn, memes, viciousness and trolling, has opened the eyes of a lot of people and is responsible for their pol...

Having listened to the whole of that "Why I'm a Conservative" talk, I wonder whether one thing that has changed might not be this. For a long time, politics in our civilization has been split into the forces of progress, and the forces of reaction, of conservatism. Everybody is moving, very broadly,...

Already posted, but this is a good timestamp for an opinion on the American Revolution from a British Conservative:
53mins 12seconds.

This felt very relevant to the discussion of liberalism vs conservatism:

Service Dog wrote: ↑
Steersman wrote: ↑Define "work".
Define "women's work".

Make me a sandwich

And, given that, where do you seat the populist MAGA hats... and wildcard Trump... the January 6ers... and the new crop of RABBLE>ROUSERS like Boebert, MTG, and Wendy Rodgers? Do you mean that, taking the case of Canada.... Trudeau, the banks, institutional media, and so on represent the cause of d...

It's nearly 4AM and i've had half a bottle of Hitchen's water so this will be incoherent and with more typos than a FTBlogger raging against BDSM that isn't tentacle, but your nonsense has moved me to inaction. What has been argued quite a bit in literature critical of liberalism and the enlightenm...

the innate capability for "evil" is part of why Peterson argues humans need control systems with moral codes that can't be questioned in their fallibility, rights and wrongs such as religion. It's an interesting argument but not new, as it is rooted in original sin dogma, and objectively false that...

I don't know why, but I just checked back in at the JREF to see how they were reacting to Ukraine. It's just a swamp of the most low-IQ Twitter tier takes. Context is evil. Putin is Hitler. The war is going terribly for the Russians. NATO and the US are handling this masterfully. It's like water coo...

That's why the US would do everything in its power to sabotage it. The US empire is waning, it was a relatively short lived one. But a house divided and all that jazz.................. Let's look at recent history, the Afghans despite 20 years of military investment, equipped and trained bolted whe...

Unconfirmed footage of the Ghost of Kiev being sent into battle:

That's why the US would do everything in its power to sabotage it. The US empire is waning, it was a relatively short lived one. But a house divided and all that jazz.................. Let's look at recent history, the Afghans despite 20 years of military investment, equipped and trained bolted whe...

My son-in-law is a big fan of vampires. Vampires in his video games... vampires in his movies. and I am like "Hey... If you like vampires you need to read the original Dracula by Bram Stoker." So... he decides to give it a read. He loves it. It is a great book after all. Really... it is a masterpie...

I would hope, but i would doubt that it will happen, the EU member states stop being a bunch of bureaucratic gravy train bankers, and move towards a common EU defence organisation. By all rights the EU should be the biggest dog on the block, the US would not want it to happen, and will actively try...

The inflation has indeed picked up due to supply side shortages. Nothing to do with MMT, if that was your point. I know that the neolibs all still decrying and blaming MMT, but with an underproducing economy and supply shortages there will be inflation. 'Nuff said. Feel free to roll out Yellen or a...

Abortion didn't become legal because it was hidden away in the constitution all the time. Back in '73, the Left couldn't muster the votes in Congress to legalize abortion nationally. So instead, they used the court to achieve their legislative goal. Now that the court is about to repeal Roe, the Le...

What a farce the supreme court nomination is. Highest court in the United States, and the primary conditions to be a successful candidate for nomination is you fit two identity politic categories. Black and Woman. It would be great if the best candidate for the job turned out to be Black and a woma...

What a farce the supreme court nomination is. Highest court in the United States, and the primary conditions to be a successful candidate for nomination is you fit two identity politic categories. Black and Woman. It would be great if the best candidate for the job turned out to be Black and a woma...

we must learn the lessons of history. The number one lesson of history is this: Never give great power to men with tiny penises. I hope that's a joke because otherwise it's retarded. Napoleon, HONK, Mark Zuckerberg -- the trend is clear. The interesting thing for me is how similar the diagnosis of ...

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑
fafnir wrote: ↑we must learn the lessons of history.
The number one lesson of history is this: Never give great power to men with tiny penises.

I hope that's a joke because otherwise it's retarded.

Was he really trying to stop the Red Army at that point? His philosophy, in so far as I understand it, wasn't materialist or individualistic. You have the whole Wagnerian thing. Plus he wrote A LOT about the betrayal of the previous surrender in WW1, so surrendering would have undercut everything h...

Hitler, after completely fucking up the war, was forced to send untrained old men and young boys in a futile attempt to stop the Red Army. Was he really trying to stop the Red Army at that point? His philosophy, in so far as I understand it, wasn't materialist or individualistic. You have the whole...

Keating wrote: ↑ Joe McCarthy come back! You were right about everything.

I hear he had information that would lead to the arrest of Eleanor Roosevelt.

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑
Bhurzum wrote: ↑ Ugh! Horrible choice of track - you might as well just "come out" and admit you enjoy ramming small, furry rodents up your dirt-box.
I'm not gay, I just enjoy shit euro pop of the eighties. (h/t John D)

https://i.imgflip.com/55e24u.png

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑ To avoid confronting the Freedom Convoy, Justin Trudeau is playing Hide and Go Sikh

Hide and go sikh.jpg

Michelle Obama is looking quite feminine there. Good for her.

MarcusAu wrote: ↑...and Bugger...

A specialist in insects.

It will be Kamala. Makes sense... they'd be buying-her-off to stop dragging-down this administration/ & stop cockblocking the Dems from running someone electable after-Biden. Would be funny if the GOP had the guts to 'Clarence Thomas' her in the confirmation hearings-- for being a dick-sucking whor...

Dinklage Tries To Cancel 'Snow White' But Comes Up Short
https://babylonbee.com/news/dinklage-tr ... s-up-short

Just re-reading Chomsky's Failed States - more than a bit of cause to think that neither the US nor the UK are quite the unblemished exemplars they try to portray themselves as. A book I read a while back ( I think The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities) made the case that t...

Lsuoma wrote: ↑ US puts 8,500 troops on high alert over Ukraine:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60118193

WTF good would they be apart from to start WW III?

Presumably they have a bunch of expensive equipment with them that they can leave behind?

Bhurzum wrote: ↑
John D wrote: ↑I don't usually hang out with homosexuals
Should print that on a T-shirt - it would offend everyone!

He should sell it on the forum.

Maybe Service Dog is like the Moses of the Gay? He leads everybody he meets to the Gay, but doesn't cross into the promised land himself.

I am presenting rates of Hospitalization and Death. HALF of Covid deaths (60%) & hospitalizations (47.5%) occur IN JABBED PEOPLE in the first 14 to 21 days after jabbed-people get their jab. Yet, those jabbed people are counted in official stats as 'unvaccinated'. Which gives the false impression t...

I guess the term "Negative Efficacy" is the politically-correct way to say VAIDS "Scottish data shows that the COVID-19 age-standardized case rate is highest among the two-dose vaccinated and lowest among unvaccinated! It further shows this trend of negative efficacy for the double-vaccinated persi...

Service Dog wrote: ↑For every scruffy Gilbert Gottfried transman, there is an equal-and-opposite pale fat lesbian Louie Anderson.

Life, uh, finds a way.

Lsuoma wrote: ↑ Also, Meat Loaf has died. Fuck.

You took the words right out of my mouth.

The being there in the background part, not the retarded stuff.... :-) That's Steersman.

Service Dog, you are like a latter day Forest Gump.

Your WEITardation of the Day: Chris Johnston January 20, 2022 at 10:17 am Jordan Peterson is a pseudo-intellectual who cares about persuasion insofar as it feeds his ego. Much like the Weinstein brothers, Gad Saad, PZ Myers, Geoffrey Miller, Glenn Greenwald, Douglas Murray, Ezra Klein and Ben Shapi...

You make Milwaukee sound like the bright centre to the universe. Definitely not. My actual opinion is-- that generation of Milwaukee kids mythologized themselves as nothing-more than bystanders/consumers/critics of NewYork/LA/Tokyo/London bigtime culture. All of a sudden you got me thinking of Amer...

I've never really given Harry Potter a try. The books & movies seemed-like an entry-level pastiche of every fantasy trope... with no depth. I couldn't quite be bothered with Piers Anthony and Terry Pratchett did that, before. Those-of-you who would rather read the source-material have the right ide...

What I'm sayin' is... I'm nobody. I'm a pipsqueak... but I also stumbled-in to the right-time/right-place to know that there WAS a certain cultural-moment. A specific geographic location... You make Milwaukee sound like the bright centre to the universe. I guess I've known people who came close eno...

The general formula for a superhero movie is that they exist as independent stories. This is false. All the Marvel superheroes live in a shared reality, and they always have. The D.C. superheroes live in their reality. Sure they live in a shared reality, but you have an expectation on the audience ...

ThreeFlangedJavis wrote: ↑ One wonders how the MSM are going to spin this,

You don't have to spin what you don't talk about.

I also want to add that the first trilogy had fantastic, classic story arcs. The rest -- and most big movies nowadays -- have less story arcs than two minute story hand jobs in the back seat of a parked car. At least a two minute hand job in the back seat of a parked car only takes two minutes. Ris...

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑ Hollywood is run by aspberger jews

This is like the Henry Ford explanation of why Star Wars failed :-)

Yeah. Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvell. Interesting shit to chat about. At the end of the day I don't really care. I am probably just old. I would rather watch a re-run of original Star Trek than any new sci-fi fantasy movies. This is just where I am at in my life. Why should I spend two hours watchin...

Imagine there are planetary systems that are unexplored. Each of these systems is hard to get to for some McGuffin reason. What is important is that each of these systems has discovered how to use the force in different ways. Each system has unique technologies and force powers. The possibilities a...

The Star Wars "universe" does not need to be restrictive. Star Wars is basically a story of anti-colonialism. The Empire is a kind of Nazi fascist organization trying to take over everything. There are lots of opportunities in the framework if you get creative. Every planetary system would have its...

Writing the above, I keep coming back to the above Rich Evans quote from Red Letter Media about the limitations of Star Wars.

When it comes to 'recreating the genuine feeling of seeing it for the first time'... I agree that's impossible to achieve. But I question whether it's necessary. People really like the familiar, too. Hugh Jackman's Wolverine-- for example-- kept people happy for a long time, and ended on a strong n...

Then came the 'prequel trilogy,' "The Phantom Menace" being the last title I'm capable of remembering. Clones. Sith. This is bland corporate committee stuff. I'll agree with the Red Letter Media/'Mister Plinkett Review' guys... at-least George Lucas's prequel trilogy tried to be different movies, t...

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