3 Empires of Seattle. Don't think I've ever heard that before.
Boeing, Amazon, and Microsoft, I guess?
'These people have stared for millenia at the ocean, yet never had the curiosity or wisdom to attempt the building of a ship. Their only concern is what they will eat and drink this day, and where they will sleep this night. They have no apparent concept of future, of aspirations beyond meeting their own physical needs, of art beyond rudimentary scratchings. They in fact seem to have no understanding of the conceptual at all, comprehending only the immediate, the physical and the visible and regarding all else with a childish disinterest or suspicion.'
I'm sorry, what is this even in reference to?
Wasn't this like, 5 years ago, now?
I lurk here wirhout logging in all the time and I have definitely noticed it.
Damnit, title screw-up. Gets banned in 14 markets.
I found this interesting:
Amid backlash over Disney’s initial failure to condemn the bill publicly, animators at Pixar sent a letter to Disney executives saying the company had censored some displays of same-sex affection in Pixar’s movies, according to parts of the letter posted on Twitter.com. “Nearly every moment of overtly gay affection is cut at Disney’s behest, regardless of when there is protest from both the creative teams and executive leadership at Pixar,” the Pixar letter read. “Even if creating LGBTQIA+ content was the answer to fixing the discriminatory legislation in the world, we are being barred from creating it.”
So Pixar wants to push faggotry onto children even more than Disney itself? Wow.
Which is a stupid fucking line from them, if you think about it for more than 5 seconds. Always hated that people somehow thought there was something badass about that. There wasn't. There isn't.
Besides the fact that Sparta had a fork stuck in it from the Peloponnesian War and everybody knew it. Including the Spartans.
This is also a big joke amongst policy wonks on the Middle East (like me).
"Ugh we though Egypt was a good ally, why aren't they condemning Russia!?"
"Because around 50% of their grain imports come from Russia, dumbass. Another 30% come from Ukraine. They aren't gonna condemn anybody. They just hope they can feed their people so another revolution doesn't kick off."
It's absolutely still there as of right now.
Maybe you're looking at the old reddit. They never even bothered to change the old reddit.
Actually the wheat supply is a huge thing that we discuss in diplomatic/former diplomatic circles. The Egyptian government subsidizes bread. Has for decades. Over a quarter of the population lives on government bread. Everybody is wondering when the next shoe is going to drop.
I follow /r/Egypt on my (now perma-banned) Reddit account, because I used to live there in a diplomatic capacity for the US Government.
The Egyptian people are very devout. That includes Muslims an the ~10% or so of the population that is Coptic Christian. The people of Egypt do not countenance homosexuality. Over 90% of Egyptians think it should be a crime.
Also keep another thing in mind when you read Reddit Egypt: a large percentage of their population is illiterate. Those people are even more conservative. The people you see posting on Reddit, from Egypt, lean very left, as far as Egyptian politics is concerned. So basically what you have here is that even the liberals of Egypt don't want this shit.
Who wants to bet the mods of /r/Egypt don't even live there, and furthermore, have never even been there?
Anybody else remember the Sweden Yes! subreddit? I 'member.
At what exact point, then should one resist? When one's belt is taken away? When one is ordered to face into a corner? When one crosses the threshold of one's home? An arrest consists of a series of incidental irrelevancies, of a multitude of things that do not matter, and there seems no point in arguing about any one of them individually--especially at a time when the thoughts of the person arrested are wrapped tightly iabout the big question: "What for?" --and yet all these incidental irrelevancies taken together implacably constitute the arrest.
This is exactly what is happening in western society, except with thought/language control. Scary.
I caught that, too! Evil white males confirmed.
I had vaguely heard of that before I read this, but I didn't realize it was on such a wide scale. It's insane, to me.
So many good quotes but I want to mention this one, footnote, page 6:
"In other words, 'We live in the cursed conditions in which a human being can disappear into the void and even his closest relatives, his mother and his wife... do not know for years what has become of him." Is that right or not? That is what Lenin wrote in 1910..."
Good to know that Commies have always been massive hypocrites, especially considering Lenin oversaw the construction of the Gulag apparatus.
It is absolutely a long book. AFAIK though we're "only" doing Vol. 1 for the book club. The other two volumes are up to the reader.
And honestly I suggested it because I think it is important to read in the context of what we're all doing on this forum.
Hi everyone! I don't post here hardly ever, I'm more on the Reddit side of things (same username). But I'm trying to change that!
I did read along with the Starship Troopers, and now I've gotten my retired military father to read it, who has never read it (which is odd, because he's a huge fan of Stranger in a Strange Land, but whatever).
In any case I nominate "The Gulag Archipelago" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. I've never read it before, and my nomination certainly has nothing to do with the fact that I just paid stupid money for a 1st edition hardcover.
Thank you for your consideration!
You think he's joking.
He's not joking.
I wish I had kept my old EGM's. I really miss that sort of actual journalism with real reviews.
Wait... you're still on Reddit?
Gross.