Sebastian Leval

American, Interests are Geopolitics, Science, History, Geography and Good Eats! No DMs please…unless you really really feel like it.

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@WomenReadWomen Sorry, typo, went too fast: Vincent was supposed to die “young”, not die “you”!

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One of the most stunning aspects of de Sutter’s talk here is that the messages from Brave New World and Gattaca are precisely the opposite from what is presented here. Although Huxley held eugenics views, they were incentive and social based: policies and practices to increase the birthrates of high achievers, decrease the birthrates of low achievers. Egalitarians can scream bloody murder, but Huxley didn’t —in any of his essays or public statements that I’m aware of— ever go beyond that.

Brave New World is a warning of the excesses of this approach, not a blueprint! One of his greatest concerns about dysgenic birthrates was the erosive effect it might have on democracy, without a population intelligent enough to preserve it. Brave New World’s World State government is authoritarian. de Sutter doesn’t get it; and also completely drops the ball in referencing Gattaca’s society as desirable. The entire point of Gattaca is that Vincent —not genetically designed, biologically destined to die you and achieve nothing— achieves everything by his will alone. How do you watch that movie, and read Brave New World, and miss the ENTIRE POINT of both?

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@Gunblaze1969 Exactly.

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@lunadreaamy 50

Take the difference between every pair of numbers from left to right and multiply by 2.

5—>8= 3x2=6
6+8=14
6x2=12 + 14=26
12x2=24 + 26=...
50

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@Gunblaze1969 Drive-in speakers! I was lucky enough to grow up on the other side of the fence from Midway Drive-In. If there were enough people at the movie, we could sit on the balcony with our popcorn and watch it and hear it. Free movies!

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@Gunblaze1969 Some. Thing. Hu. Man.

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@AngelaBelcamino This was SO disturbing.

But well done.

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Needless to say, there will be those who twist these comments of Mr Lowe’s into something they’re not. But reading them myself, in context, they simply amount to: “I’m not antisemitic, I’m pro-British”. A DEMOCRATIC country has, first and foremost, the job of advocating for its own people. Period. That’s true in Israel, the United Kingdom and America, among many others.

This should never be considered controversial.

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@JohnCleese 16

2 for your arms, 1 for your head, 1 at the bottom around your waist, then 6 x 2 for the holes in the body of the shirt, since they go through the front and the back. So…

2+1+1+12=16

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@HistoryBro1 https://t.co/uLnZlPlJpy

Golden Earring…Twilight Zone

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@tanpukunokami The only part of this that shocked and depressed me was that I can’t catch a wild Pikachu…

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@waitmaya 31

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@biigityaaa ClickBaitStan

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@historyrock_

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Yeah, I can’t say that I am very familiar with them myself…but they look and feel the role. Lowden is in Slow Horses, which is a pretty gritty spy series. So he’s halfway there. And I don’t think it’s a bad thing that they aren’t A List…who’d ever heard of Sean Connery, you know?

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@TheJohnnyCab @honeymoon250 I can feel the love!!! 🤣

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@Gunblaze1969

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@TBifford My God. Pollack could do a scene-by-scene of Walken in Dogs of War and nail it.

Meow…Meow……………..MeOW.

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@_ROB_29 Trolling in the natural world.