Stormlight Archives are pretty good and yes it's incredibly long. I don't do audiobooks myself though.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GjOvzWJbFdA&pp=ygUTTWlyYWdlIHNvbmcgcnVzc2lhbg%3D%3D
If you played STALKER the NPCs play an acoustic version of this around the campfires.
Check out this song: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GjOvzWJbFdA&pp=ygUTTWlyYWdlIHNvbmcgcnVzc2lhbg%3D%3D
If you've played STALKER you've heard the NPCs play an acoustic version around the campfires: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=00RSSwjg0xY&pp=ygUq0JzRg9C30YvQutCwINC90LDRgSDRgdCy0Y_Qt9Cw0LvQsCBzdGFsa2Vy
Jim Jones
You fell for the psyop. Jonestown wasn't a religious enclave it was a communist one. And an enormous amount of time and energy was spent covering that up, and so everyone thinks it was some crazy Christian cult.
While it's pretty fucking awful to listen to, well, listen to the Jonestown audio. It makes it pretty clear.
Jonestown was literally founded as a place to live their perfect Communist utopia. A bunch of shit happened, and Jim Jones's enforcers ended up killing a congressman. Welp, Jim knew that that meant the USG was going to come absolutely fucking end them, so he gathered everyone together and busted out the Flavor-Ade.
The audio is like 10% religious and 90% him lamenting the failure of their communist dream. His #2 was some nigress and she talks about the horrors of 'racism' and 'capitalism' and that they all need to die to prove some kind of point.
And the first two barely count. Not sure why Aimee Semple is even on this list unless you are seriously intent on twisting the intent of the comic/llirrem's statement. And Elizabeth Clare Prophet was fairly harmless, just a moonbat who made people dig holes for an apocalypse that didn't happen.
All in all the point is that these kinds of people are ridiculously rare compared to how Le Enlightened Atheists like to pretend they are. Because guess what, it turns out getting a bunch of lunatics to go along with another lunatic is actually extremely hard to pull off which is why most lunatics are lone-wolf operatives.
Unless you count Pol Pot or North Korea as religious (communism can be a religion)
Literally all politics can be, religion is basically just a deeply-personally-held ethos.
No fucking shit retard.
List five names in all of history off the top of your head who did that.
Also the Crusades don't count.
An absurd amount of the military budget is actually for healthcare.
Why? Literally, why? Do you think you're going to come back through some day looking for some 'evidence' in an archived Tweet? How are you even going to do that when there's no way to ever even search archived posts?
No, really, why? What is it you think you're solving here?
The only reason there was peace was because the country was still 92% White. Easy to have peace when they don't exist and have no power.
Racial empathy has proven to be an exclusively White trait.
I couldn't even open this one it just dumped a failover. Had to copy the URL.
Quit fucking archiving tweets you utter faggots. It takes forever to open, if it opens, and for what? What is the point?
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No, it's because those places have shipping ports, and they're plugging loopholes where they could route the goods through them and avoid tariffs.
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Who the fuck cares, if nobody lives there then it affects nobody.
"CAN lead". But doesn't.
Oh look, demons escaping hell should be acceptable because "they're just refugees".
The next scene should be a Border Patrol vehicle pulls up and ASAC Doomguy steps out.
Their stock is only a few bucks hire than their IPO was.
I imagine most of the legit players are smacking their lips, sucking their teeth, and playing on a stolen Playstation.
The disconnect between "top selling game, even on Steam" and the total lack of players is astonishing and nobody's asking how that's possible. I'm supposed to believe all these people bought the game just to not play it?
The budgets of both games was about the same, and yet somehow AC: Shadows "broke every sales record" while EA's actions and veiled statements post-Veilguard indicate it probably was a costly flop.
I legit think Ubisoft bought their own game.
EDIT: lol lmao Cyberpunk 2077 is still more popular than AC: Shadows - https://steamdb.info/charts/?compare=1091500,3159330
Things like this are always mitigated by their navel-gazing "Judeo-Christian" bullshit and Gerald's dispensationalism nonsense. On top of that, despite him actually going into fair, deep dives on certain topics, on the issue of the far right he literally insists it doesn't exist and when he talks about it, he just makes shit up and says "I studied history, YOU'D ALL BE SPEAKING GERMAN HERP DERP".
Did you seriously just send me through archive for a tweet?
Barring that hypothetical it always grinds my gears when people say the US "lost" to the Taliban. Not really, the US just never bothered to win. The combined non-nuclear firepower of the United States Armed Forces would've been sufficient to track down and kill every single Afghan in only a few years.
Instead we spent all our time passing out hugs and building those inbred savages infrastructure they can never maintain and a 'democracy' they (correctly) recognize is retarded.
It's not much different from "losing" Vietnam, where even though we had a 10:1 kill ratio, we still 'lost' because of clownworld retard shit like "those aircraft that just bombed us are flying over the border to Cambodia, you have to let them go". Operation Linebacker II showed what could've happened if the US decided to actually stop the NVA, just turn Hanoi into a pile of rubble filled with the twisted remains of gooks.
For a little refresher, fucking Lyndon Johnson agreed to stop bombing North Vietnam as early as 1968 and wouldn't commit to fuck-all because 'muh diplomacy muh peace negotiations'. It wasn't until 1972 with Linebacker I that they resumed strikes. Holy fuck it's amazing how genuinely trash American political leadership has been.
Yes. This is why there's no point arguing with people who rant about global warming. If they were rational, cambrian era CO2 data would have been enough to convince them they were wrong.
What? Life on the planet barely even existed in the Cambrian era, how the fuck is that your argument? Do you even know what you're saying, or is this just repeating a talking point?
'gUyS dOn'T wOrRy AbOuT cO2 BecAuSe SiNgLe CeLl LiFe CoUlD sTiLl ExIsT'
Your reference is a time before the planet even had fucking trees?
Oh please. All I have to do is mention Bill Gates and vaccines in the same sentence and you people turn into screeching retards.
There is no one on earth more sunk-cost, Dunning-Kruger, subhuman IQ, Mass Formation Psychosis than the political Left Wing, and no one on earth more evil than the people manipulating them into ruining our nations and our future as a species.
The right wing is only barely better, you just may not see it because either you're one of them, or you're sympathetic to them.
All you have to do is mention 'seed oils' or the Covid vaccine and you'll see the NPCs on the right activate with their copy-pasted talking points and boring repetitive slogans they repeat ad nauseum.
re: the vaccine, it's 2025. Absolutely nobody cares anymore. But most of these retards on the right will be in their nursing homes in forty years drooling and slurring while raving to the staff about a vaccine that nobody even remembers was real. Even in the last five years, literally every single newsworthy death has "LOL OMG VAXXED" as the top comment, even if the death in question was a 104-year old who died after being hit by a car. Doesn't matter, "VAXXED CLOTSHOT PFIZERED".
re: seed oils - the right barely knows what a fucking seed oil is, and literally cannot explain what the problem is, because they don't know. They can mimic sounds and words like 'polyunsaturated fat' but if you ask them to describe what a PUFA is they can only stare blankly because they can just repeat noises like a parrot, without knowing what they're saying. Sunflower Oil is considered one of their accursed 'seed oils' yet sunflower oil has very low PUFAs and is literally used in the 'olive oil countries' because of its high smoke point. It also can be cold-pressed and extracted without weird chemical tricks (which they also can't explain why they are bad). Point is, they don't actually know anything, which is why sunflower oil wrongly gets smeared as 'ew seed oil', they can only repeat their doctrine.
Fun fact: Bill Gates never said anything about using vaccines to depopulate the world. He gave a TED Talk on using vaccines to decrease child mortality in the third world, which would eventually reduce the number of children people have just like what happened in Western cultures when we moved away from farming so there was less need to have 6-8 children to work the farm. It's like a ten minute talk and that's ten minutes too long for anyone who raves about Bill Gates to bother with, mostly because it might tell them something they didn't want to hear. So it's easier for them to just pretend they watched it so they can continue believing a retarded lie.
In fact the clip everyone likes to use, this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtkfWaCzsas
Literally cuts where it does because the next thing he says is that the population growth he mentions, 6.8 billion -> 9 billion, or 2.2 billion, "but there we see an increase of about 1.3", meaning there's no depopulation, it's about slowing the rate of growth, you know, like what happened in every developed society, while third worlders still breed like rabbits.
It's fucking dumb and i you were fooled by this, you also are fucking dumb, because how fucking dumb do you have to be to literally just believe something on the internet without looking into it yourself further?
Unfortunately I've come across that kind of writing so often in fiction that I basically learned to take it in stride. It's very hard to find a series that doesn't eventually involve self-insert / Mary Sue characters, or trying to wax poetic about how the series is a mirror to the real world (as the author sees it (I personally blame Star Trek for that one, it's always been woven into the fabric of the franchise)), or the author comes across as just smelling their own farts a little too much.
Even Orson Scott Card did that shit, I found most of the Ender's Game novels to be incurious trash.
Rama is probably one of the greatest science fiction novels ever written and ended up weird as hell (though Arthur C. Clark had nothing to do with the books past Rama 2).
Kingkiller Chronicles is insanely overrated, it's literally "adventures of man who can do everything" and tries to hide behind 'unreliable narrator' to explain it.
The character Lift in Stormlight is definitely a 'smelling your own farts' moment. Nobody fucking likes Lift. She uses anachronistic language and feels like someone told him "hey it'd be great if you wrote a character that exclusively appeals to 40 year old fat girls who were really big fans of Invader Zim".