Robert Delilah

Too tall for trenches unfortunately

Every economist on here, today in particular:

"We're FUCKED and the only thing keeping us from being completely FUCKED is that we haven't yet realized just how FUCKED we really are."

Are we falling out of love with nonfiction? In the early 2020s, readers flocked to books to explain political turbulence. But is the world now too grim to read about – and are podcasters taking the place of authors?

my view on this is that publishers should stop it with the 80k wordcount obsession, so many contemporary non-fic books are obviously 40-50k pieces of work stretched to the extent that they become very boring to read - just let people write cheaper, shorter books! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

You’re going to be surprised on how many who’ve “been to war” are very much pro-war.

If the Iliad is the Ancient Greek equivalent to the Old Testament, and the Odyssey is their equivalent to the New Testament—the Aeneid is the book of Mormon.

On the Beach (1957) but with pasta.

“No, Strega Nona please! There’s still hope for humanity!”

Meanwhile, a spaghetti tsunami taller than any mountain crashes into the New York City skyline…

Of all the beings who could end the world if they so choose, Strega Nona is of the more terrifying…

Almost like people are more willing to start families when their kids might have a future.

This is going to be a rough season for the Padres…

So Christpilled rn. Absolutely saviormaxxing.

I agree in principle. It's hard, however, to trust anyone for whom the main (and to some the only) tenant of their religion is to evangelize.

He's 100% back on coke

“The president is a dementia-ridden pedophile and the only thing any one person can *legally* do about it is wait ~10 months for an election that might not even happen.”

The fact that we don’t just explode on the spot is kinda incredible.

Thanks you two, I'm going to read a bit before bed instead.

David Spade…

Has he called for a recount yet?

*Sliding on a fedora bigger than a foam cheesehead*

“Heh. How about… a book?”

Might as well be the dad of every guy I went to high-school with…

It also helps that he isn’t a fucking dinosaur, and so can retain his train of thought without gawping into the mic for minutes at a time after being interrupted.

“What does one who’s spent their entire life committing evil deeds to accumulate wealth and power do after achieving these? Evil. He knows nothing else.”

Democratic *voters* don't give a shit if Bill Clinton goes to jail...

If history is anything to go by, they'll find something to love about him while complaining that we can't judge the sins of the past by the standards of today.

Not getting taken 'round the shed and shot.

I don't know if people have reckoned with the fact that the shits and the bullies we all grew up with became cops and fascists, and that *society* (whatever that means) fully relies on them doing so.

“Remember what they took from you.”

He definitely shut it in a car door, right?

I’m not wasting good arguments on abstraction and pedantry.

You're burying that distinction in something abstract.

Preventative violence IS retaliatory violence. Whether the violence you're reacting to was successful or not doesn't change the fact that you're reacting to it. While any incipient violence is on the regime's part.

You're complaining oranges taste bad at a dinner table covered in apples, my guy...