Eastern Dionysus

Two-Time Passage Prize Winner for Poetry.

[Eastern Dionysus @DionysusPS]

@QuetzalPhoenix Sounds like you need to develop some way of exorcising them.

[Eastern Dionysus @DionysusPS]

@kunley_drukpa It was toxic masculinity all along...

[Eastern Dionysus @DionysusPS]

It was toxic masculinity all along...

[ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 @kunley_drukpa]

“Our age of Bronze… is collapsing”

“Wait - it’s you? You’re the Sea People?”

[ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 @kunley_drukpa]

“It’s me… I have caused the Bronze Age collapse. What an odyssey”

[Bovril-Gesellschaft @BovrilG]

“We’re converting to Christianity.”

[ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 @kunley_drukpa]

“I fear our civilisation of Bronze… is collapsing. There are stories of People from… the Sea”

“You mean some kind of Sea… People?”

“Yes - and if they come here it will take more than just a Bronze Age… mindset to defeat them”

*Bronze Age Is Collapsing by Hans Zimmer plays*

[Porter @ParkSlopeFlngsm]

I had a dream that you cheated on me with one of the goddesses

[Oliver Traldi @olivertraldi]

Why is there so much plagiarism in some parts of the academy? Because their denizens can't do their own work. When they do, why is that work always poor and/or derivative? Because they aren't up to doing good original work. Why don't they think for themselves? Because they can't.

[Eastern Dionysus @DionysusPS]

@cglassey_author @JamesLucasIT @thinkingwest Yes, but it's interesting that Mars and Venus were much more important to the Romans than Minerva and Neptune.

[Bovril-Gesellschaft @BovrilG]

Brazil really is the best film ever made about life in a British totalitarian state. Everything, from the crippled Minister incapable of speaking in anything other than sporting cliches to the innocent man killed because of a typo to the fact that nobody really cares about terrorist bombings in their vicinity any more to the children play-acting government no-knock raids in the steeet, is perfect.

[The Forgotten War @ForgottenWarPic]

A Japanese American kid from New Mexico won the Medal of Honor in Korea, and the United States kept it a secret for over two years because telling the truth might have gotten him killed.

Hiroshi Miyamura, called Hershey by everyone who knew him, was born in Gallup, New Mexico, to Japanese immigrant parents. He grew up in the shadow of Pearl Harbor and the internment camps, a time when a lot of Americans looked at a face like his and saw the enemy. He joined the Army anyway, signing up with the famous all Japanese American unit in World War II, determined to prove exactly where his loyalty was.

His real test came in Korea. On the night of April 24, 1951, near the Imjin River, the Chinese launched one of their massive human wave attacks and came at his position in the dark by the thousands. Miyamura was running a machine gun squad, and he could see they were about to be overrun.

So he made the call. He ordered his men to fall back and get out, and he stayed behind alone to hold the enemy off and buy them time.

What he did next is almost hard to believe. He worked his machine gun until it was about to be swarmed, then jumped out of the hole with his bayonet and fought the enemy hand to hand. He went back to another gun and kept firing. He administered aid to his wounded, he fell back only when he had to, and then he fought some more. By the time it was over he had killed a staggering number of the enemy, more than fifty men, holding an entire assault by himself long enough for his squad to escape. Then, badly wounded, he was captured.

Here is where the story turns into something no other Medal of Honor has ever done. When the Army learned he had been captured, they realized the medal they wanted to give him was a death sentence. If the Chinese found out that this one prisoner had killed fifty of their soldiers, they would surely torture and execute him. So the United States took his Medal of Honor and stamped it top secret. To this day it is the only Medal of Honor ever classified. It sat locked away, unspoken, for more than two years.

And Miyamura had no idea. He spent twenty eight months as a prisoner, marched hundreds of miles, starved, beaten, watching men die all around him in the camps. When he was finally released at the end of the war, he honestly believed he might be in trouble, court martialed even, for losing his position and his men that night.

Instead they told him the secret. The kid from Gallup had won the nation's highest honor, and it had been waiting for him the whole time he was in that camp. President Eisenhower himself hung it around his neck in 1953. A Japanese American who had to prove his loyalty his entire life had proven it beyond anything anyone could ever question again.

[Dudley Newright @NewRightPoast]

Libs play a game I call "How Much Pain Can I Tolerate?" where they think, it's just chess pieces. Trivial to replace. Costs basically nothing. No big deal. Why would I put someone in jail for stealing them, are you insane? How selfish can you be? I can easily tolerate the pain of having to replace chess pieces for a couple of bucks every once in a while.

My 1 point of discomfort for tolerating the behavior easily outweighs by the 9999 points of discomfort that punishing the behavior would generate. You want me to put some kid in jail over a couple hunks of plastic?

Why would I arrest a guy for buying a banana with counterfeit money? Why would I chase someone down for Skittles and an Arizona Iced Tea? Why would I disrupt the houseless schizo shooting up and jacking off on the subway, it doesn't really affect me. It's easy to ignore. These people are already suffering.

But the chess pieces keep getting stolen. Old chess guys stop using the park. Rowdy teenagers take over. Moms stop bringing their kids. The park fills up with crackheads.

You see this phenomenon everywhere you look. Libs let petty crime slide because they think "I can take it." And maybe they can. But every time they do this, they add a little bit of pointless friction to every day life. A sliver of pain, a cost that adds up and up.

Now your Rite Aid shampoo is locked up. Now the shop has to hire a security guard (and raises prices accordingly). Now there's needles under the jungle gym. Now there's no old people on the corner keeping an eye on things. Now your kid can't run to the corner store after dark. Now your wife gets catcalled on her way home from work. Now there's loud reggaeton playing all the time. Life gets a little shittier and shittier. But hey, you can tolerate it. No big deal.

[Eastern Dionysus @DionysusPS]

We need to breed and reproduce to own the aliens who got sick of telling us to breed and reproduce.

[Lance Corporate @lance_corporate]

You could be my lifelong arch-enemy but if you posted that you got married or had a kid it would take every ounce of strength in my body not to like it and say congratulations

[Eastern Dionysus @DionysusPS]

Faux pas would depress the hell out of the doughboys in the trenches in Château-Thierry

[Prometheus @CaribbeanRythms]

The point here is that the moral framework that constitutes being a “good” person is inherently a Christian one even if you don’t consider yourself a Christian. If you were to go to pre Christian societies you would not have this framework. Hence why you’ve “internalized” Christian morality.

[Eastern Dionysus @DionysusPS]

I am tempted to agree that Andrew Yang might have prevented the rise of Zohran Mamdani, but when we imagine that a single person's decision led to catastrophe, that society was already fragile and teetering on the edge of collapse to begin with.

[Future Moldovan Citizen @MainstreamViews]

Andrew Yang really fucked up by forming that third party. Not only did he nuke his own political career. He may have accelerated the collapse of Western civilization by decades. If he had stayed a Democrat, he would probably be NYC Mayor right now and people would be talking about the insurgent law and order anti-homeless NRx wing of the Democratic Party, rather than the insurgent Third Worldist Marxist wing

[Eastern Dionysus @DionysusPS]

Humor is problematic too.

[Wylfċen @wylfcen]

The most credentialed woman I’ve ever seen once called a headline sexist for saying men were stronger than women. She’d worked for NASA, the UN, Harvard, and Oxford. I said “It doesn’t mean all women, it’s a generalization.” She said “Generalizations are problematic,” so I responded “All generalizations, or just some of them?”

[Eastern Dionysus @DionysusPS]

@wylfcen Humor is problematic, too.

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

Laotian national Tou Lue Vang was convicted of sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl in Minnesota. 

He was set to be deported until @GovTimWalz issued him a pardon.

Then, I revoked his legal status. @ICEgov has removed him from the U.S. and he will never endanger another American.

[Eastern Dionysus @DionysusPS]

What is off-putting about the original is not only the laziness of the style. Its recourse to hyperbole (deepest, darkest fantasies, the wife every man wanted) signals that not only is the narrator stupid and delusional, but that the author has no real insight into the character he or she is creating.

Consider this revision:

"And who was I? A devout Christian woman. Someone whom strangers would have said enjoyed a life they could only dream of. The mother to sweet and beautiful children, and the wife of a husband who was not only handsome and charismatic, but also loyal and devoted to me. Like a prostitute in paradise, it didn't make sense, but by God, it worked..."

[Liza Libes @pensandpoison]

We keep asking how to get young people reading again.

Maybe the problem isn't young people.

Maybe it's the books we're publishing.