Shart Garfunkel

I am a Liberal

[Paras Chopra @paraschopra]

Ok, so I learned that these are called phonesthemes :)

[Ven @edgefills]

The older I get, the more I believe amateurism as an ego contest is the optimal way to play every game. Professionalizing, “growing the game” as a supposedly altruistic endeavor when it’s just about lining pockets is unhealthy.

Fischer was blatantly honest about his desire, whatever other issues he had. A genius who happened to play chess, as it were. One wonders what he would have done in the internet age

[todd dillard @toddedillard]

if you don't know how to end a poem you can just write BANG

[Ethel Braithwaite @Ethelbrait1941]

Never stop saying "dozen" and "half dozen". Never stop using the word you read in an old novella. Never stop using your regional jargon. Don't succumb to an internationalized English stripped of its whimsy and romanticism in the name of streamlining global commerce.

[nick @nickemmons]

One of my favourite quotes comes from an obscure book written by a Scottish mountaineer in the 50s

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

The Mailbox Test, like the breakfast test, is an excellent way to tell who you can allow to wield power in your society.

Goes like this:

If someone is hurt trying to destroy someone else's stuff in order to take pleasure from their pain, do you sympathize with...

The aggressor because he got hurt?

Or with the guy who owns the stuff, because he wasn't the aggressor?

You can have people in your society who fail the Mailbox Test. That's okay... they can work at hospices, or shelters for orphaned kittens, or something.

But you cannot allow them to vote, or otherwise wield political power. Because if you do, they will open the gates of the city to the enemy.

I am personally tired of everyone pretending that people who enjoy ruining things for random strangers are just kewt smol beans who are only aggressive because of all the complex socioeconomic factors and lack of resources.

They knew someone would be hurt by what they did. They knew that someone had done literally nothing harmful to them. And those two ideas, in combination made them feel pleasure. And they went and did it.

That is the sign of a rotten soul.

Defending ourselves and our property is not just a right, it's a moral obligation. Otherwise, we just kick the can down the road for someone else to deal with, someone who may not be able to defend herself.

I don't care if a vandal breaks his arms trying to destroy my stuff. Because I value my stuff more than a vandal's arms. And the fact that he tried to destroy somebody else's stuff shows that he, too, values his arms less than the opportunity to hurt somebody.

We cannot allow such people inside the city, and we cannot give the keys to those who would open the gates for them.

[RPG Enjoyer 🐉 @BasedRPG]

Inherently correct takes

[Ragnar @pikeypilled]

"I'm not surprised by anything... I'll see you later "

[Cloneristic @cloneristic]

A big reason TV and movies suck now is because the writer's room was monopolized by highly policed and longhoused nepo babies. James Cameron used to be a truck driver and that's why T2 was good. If you have to make up the things you hate about your life and yourself for material it falls flat. Your audience, who has real problems, will know you are full of shit and wish you would just stfu.

All the funny and interesting people left are random jackoffs, posting for nickels and dimes in the ghettos of the internet like flea bitten hobo buskers. It's a gypsy goonhound renaissance, so lather up gentlemen, and enjoy the show.

[Luke Tryl @LukeTryl]

The mistaken assumption often is that Brits look at national decline from empire or something, it’s not, for most - particularly in relation to their own standards of living, their reference point is the turn of the century. For older people they think things have regressed since then, younger people think they were cheated out of having it.

[V O I D @TeddyThalmann]

Me after reading bronze age mindset

[Bovril-Gesellschaft @BovrilG]

In Year 9 we were forced to write WWI Trench Poetry of our own and someone in my class ended his offering with “when my foot came off, it caned” and I can honestly say I still think about that line of poetry more than any other line of poetry.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Happy Halloween!

[bendell werry 🌲 @bendellwerry]

“So, the Devil promised you a fiddle made of gold.”

“Thats right.”

“But you had to wager your eternal soul?”

“Correct.”

“In a fiddlin’ contest.”

“Yes.”

“Against the devil.”

“Uh huh.”

[J⚡️ @J__CPFC]

RIP Chris from Eggheads

His reaction to being voted off the Weakest Link having got every question right is everything I ever dreamt it could be

[Glenn @Fratty_Hearst]

Something you’d stare at for hours at your Gradparents house in a pre iPhone era

[Aleph @woke8yearold]

A lot of people got socialized as insane leftist ideologues in the 2010s and will never recover even as the country leaves them behind. They will end up like aging hippies, a quaint curiosity that is associated with a particular time period