Stavrogin 🏴‍☠️

If Stavrogin believes, he does not think he believes. If he does not believe, he does not think that he does not believe.

(Geopol, Lit, securities hobbyist)

[Stavrogin 🏴‍☠️ @PinheadKing]

@KeiraSoleore @HamiltonCain @vjoshuaadams To the extent court decisions and statutes use legalese, it regards things like civil and criminal procedure for instance.

There's no way to plain language the instructions for civil or criminal legal proceedings.

With AI, everyone has a translator on hand to get further.

[Stavrogin 🏴‍☠️ @PinheadKing]

@KeiraSoleore @HamiltonCain @vjoshuaadams I also think that there's essentially a "legalese" problem that goes two ways.

There is legalese in statutes. But I also think most people avoid reading it with a presumption of legalese.

You see this presumption more in decisions. Most decisions use plain language today.

[Stavrogin 🏴‍☠️ @PinheadKing]

@eroscestlavie_x @jonathanbfine She's mostly an Instagram presence. I do think her substack is substantially better than her takes here.

It changes my mind on her being a larper on certain authors like Dostoyevsky. At least whether she has read it in Russian. Still not great evidence she has the stories down.

[Stavrogin 🏴‍☠️ @PinheadKing]

@pensandpoison They had to have pink and blue hair. Without those details, we wouldn't be able to otherise them as woke brainwashed fools. It would be too subtle.

[Stavrogin 🏴‍☠️ @PinheadKing]

@Stockaholic5 @PubWanghaf @Stockahlife I can't see it anymore

[Stavrogin 🏴‍☠️ @PinheadKing]

@clmintines Dumas would have to do Ayahuasca to write The Grand Inquisitor or Kirilov's suicide speech.

[Stavrogin 🏴‍☠️ @PinheadKing]

@KatKenyon1 @pseudopsy88 @No5mallf3at Fair. I wouldn't judge Dostoyevsky by Crime and Punishment.

I think the other novels have much more depth. Nabokov's criticism applies mostly to it (and maybe to Brothers K). I don't think it can be applied to the other novels easily.

[Stavrogin 🏴‍☠️ @PinheadKing]

@lefineder The Castle in machine code is the only way to read it to understand how K has with the communicating through Barnabas and other messengers in either direction.

Same kind of thing with Metamorphosis distilled by the melodic carapace scrapes of high cockroach diction.

[LiorLefineder @lefineder]

Kafka is actually best read in Russian, or, if a Russian copy cannot be easily obtained, Sumerian would do just as well.

Once you get your hand on a Latin copy of The Trial, for example, the best approach is to first read all the nouns and pronouns, later moving up to the verbs and adverbs, leaving the adjectives to the last once you get a better handle on things.

After accomplishing this feat, you may turn to people and proudly exclaim: "I have read every word in The Metamorphosis by France Kafka" and even use some of the words to demonstrate this fact.

[Stavrogin 🏴‍☠️ @PinheadKing]

@bookbeduion I guess Grushenka also has the Polish officer that she was abandoned by for five years who mysteriously returns.

Dmitri and Fyodor are also rakes. Fyodor creates Smerdyakov by doing the horizontal monster mash with "Stinking Lizaveta," a wandering town hobo in a ditch.

[Stavrogin 🏴‍☠️ @PinheadKing]

@bookbeduion But just to add on, and I love Brothers K. But Brothers K is like a soap opera too.

We're talking about a book that is centered around two love triangles. There's the infamous Fyodor Karamazov, Dmitri Karamazov, Grushenka love triangle. There's the Ivan, Dmitri, Katerina ▶️.

[Stavrogin 🏴‍☠️ @PinheadKing]

@Charli3M00r3 @AlexNoonan6 And even when you get to the "story" of Notes from the Underground, it is not an operatic clash of furious confrontations.

The humiliation and degradation of The Underground Man are banal and incremental social failures. The most dramatic moment is Liza arriving at the apartment

[Stavrogin 🏴‍☠️ @PinheadKing]

@Charli3M00r3 @AlexNoonan6 Demons and Notes from the Underground in particular have little early on by way of sensationalism.

You have to get hundreds of pages of provincial social world establishment before the wick of revolutionary madness ignites.

Notes' Act One is entirely theoretical / philosophy.

[Stavrogin 🏴‍☠️ @PinheadKing]

@calvinfroedge Wait until they begin to mind control humans like from The Last of Us.

[Stavrogin 🏴‍☠️ @PinheadKing]

It is acknowledged that Sand was shown in polling beating Feenstra by 12%. But no polling has been done matching Lahn to Sand.

A win by the Democrats at Terrace Hill would take us all the way back to Chet Culver in 2006.

This would be a massive loss for the GOP in the state.

[Stavrogin 🏴‍☠️ @PinheadKing]

I will never understand why the GOP picked Lahn over Feenstra.

I'm not saying either was a great pick. But Lahn was essentially a Kansas resident as he was running. And investing a million into a sex toy company as the GOP candidate? Really?

https://t.co/fMVogLnytD

[Stavrogin 🏴‍☠️ @PinheadKing]

If you do not think that Rob Sand is going to juxtapose that Lahn essentially was living and doing business in Kansas prior with his motto of "Iowa First," then you are incredibly optimistic to the point of total delusion.

Feenstra also had the support of President Trump.