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Agreed.
Something to add to the ever growing list of things to put on my tombstone.
This site is nearly perfect. Only thing it needs is a button that gives likes / loves / thanks to the artist.
For those interested in this, Peter Pomerantsev's "Nothing is True and Everything is Possible" (2014) covers this well from the propaganda angle. In depth look at Russian media which took inspiration from Fox. And now Fox / RW media takes inspiration from the Russians.
Thank you for the great explanation. I knew in general about Lloyd's but didn't know any of the details.
Similar timeline for me. Raised evangelical with a heavy focus on end times. So got the fear from all around. Either was going to be nuked, or raptured, or nuked while everyone else was raptured and I was left behind.
To this day, I have a sub-conscious nihilism that's impossible to shake.
I think if Gore had been president, you could have dinner at Windows of the World today.
With a team that would have taken the warnings seriously in the summer of '01, the world would look very different today.
It's going to be both. The cult is fracturing. This will be the breaking point for some. Will introduce doubt in others. And some will double down in their fanaticism.
Initial polling shows around 70% of R's approving of the war. 30% is a good start for a base that previously approved everything.
Would definitely fit with the TIE fighters. Also, would work as an Arasaka branch office in Des Moines.
Playing too much Cyberpunk 2077 lately and this fits perfectly.
At any rate, I really like this building.
Beautiful work!
Just looking at this image, I could hear the old pandaran's voice: "May the red crane live forever in your heart."
I've never wanted a piece of pottery more. These are absolutely beautiful!
From a quick search, here's a survey from 2019. 57% of liberals and 48% of conservatives.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/mee...
In 2019, there was a survey claiming 57% of liberals have passports and 48% of conservatives.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/mee...
Another factor is the rate of how many married women take on their husband's name. I can't prove it but I would imagine fewer left/liberal women do than conservatives.
I'm in Kansas. They've been increasing activity here lately. In Lawrence and Manhattan, towns for KU & KSU respectively, and in Olathe which is a suburb of Kansas City.
Lawrence and Manhattan are both very liberal cities. Olathe is part of Johnson County which is also very blue.
In a KC mall bookstore, killing time at the magazines. Marcus Allen said "excuse me" and reached past me for the New Yorker. We read in silence for a minute or two.
Then two women noticed him and were very loud about it. He looked at me. I shrugged. He sighed. Then he signed autographs.
For the Gen X-ers, The Power Station put a trans woman front-and-center in their hit "Some Like It Hot" as the sexy music video girl. If anyone complained, I don't remember.
80s was a conservative time but so many of our pop stars were gender fluid. That generation should be more tolerant.
That was the real reason why Hari Seldon invented psychohistory. So he could pre-write banger hot takes released over the next 1,000 years.
The wiki page for the Maxim is wild. Lists all the wars it's been in. late 19th C to 2026. Huge list.
It's also funny that it makes a usable AA gun when it was invented before airplanes.
Making a wild guess that he won't be lying in state. They won't want the inevitable videos of people spitting on him, cursing his name, or celebrating next to the body.
But I'm probably wrong. They're quite clueless and might think he'll be mourned.
As a kid, pre-VHS days, I only got to see the movie once. The novel and comics were read repeatedly. Biggs was a major-ish character for me too.
Me too. The Day After, Testament, Threads, and the novel Warday all in succession for me at age 13 to 14. Plus my evangelical church and its obsession with End Times. Thief in the Night and all that. Plus Reagan's rhetoric. Was a great time to feel hopeless as a preteen.
No. Thune ruled out nuking the fillibuster for this bill. Said he didn't think there was enough votes for the nuke.
Considering the decent chance R's have of losing the Senate, I don't think they'll touch the filibuster for any reason.
And in Christianity, it gets worse because the redeemer is the same as the creator. Which makes the thing into either a giant joke or con job. Or both.
It really is. And (speaking from the POV of someone raised evangelical) it makes no sense theologically. Boils down to "God created people to act a certain way, then punishes them for acting that way."
Calvin is the worst. Theology boils down to: "God created souls for the sole purpose of torturing them forever. And we, the Elect, get to feel smug about this."
It's a faith tailor-made for sociopaths. Even more so than regular evangelicalism.
4 years ago or so, I discovered a live streamer on TikTok (nobegTV) who goes to small town festivals in Java. Dances, costumes, gamelan music was all so mesmerizing. As was just watching the village life from a distance.
Would love to go one of these days when I have time.
"we love the people on the inside"
vs.
Galatians 3:28 "There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."
Was about to say this show would piss off the grandmas who keep TBN on in the background. But then realized most of the TBN grandmas would be long dead by now. Wonder who their audience is now?
There are some interesting books that came out during the show's initial run. Laura's diary. A travel book covering the Twin Peaks area. An audiobook titled "Diane..." which are the musings of Agent Cooper.
Might be others I'm forgetting. But I had those 3.
Money laundering is always a bit wasteful. Pretty sure that's what's happening. No one, not even the studio, cares if anyone actually shows up to this thing.
They supposedly spent $35 Mil on marketing. But most of the ads are just bus stops and cable networks. Not a big visible spend.