“—but Tyrion is Tywin's son, not you. I said so once to your father's face, and he would not speak to me for half a year. Men are such thundering great fools. Even the sort who come along once in a thousand years."
When Lalas says something so stupid it gives you brain damage, remember that our economy is run by people who think exactly like him.
Why invest in programs that benefit communities when corporations can CHARGE them for a worse service!
Suddenly things make a lot more sense!
finally came out to my dad over the weekend, fully prepared for an argument, and he was like "whatever its ur body, ur life" and lectured me about being unemployed instead 💀 unpredictable move set
I think the worst thing about the algorithm purposely ragebaiting you constantly is it can easily give you a warped and extremely negative view of humanity.
Arthur is a better man than me. I would have shot micah during the shootout at the river and then returned to camp breathless like “micah didnt make it”
I like that the knighting feels cheap and hollow because unlike the other two examples it’s not a reward for genuine chivalry and honor and is just political knighthood which is just a reward for service to a crown
I can't fathom what this profession would be like if being wrong or bad at understanding politics in the first place ever mattered at all. Just don't have the imagination, I guess.
“I heard there was a thing called a sea. It is very hard to believe in a sea when you have lived only here among our dunes. We have no seas. Men of Dune had never known a sea. We had our windtraps. We collected water for the great change Liet-Kynes promised us … this great change Muad’dib is bringing with a wave of his hand. I could imagine a qanat, water flowing across the land in a canal. From this, my mind could picture a river. But a sea? [...] It was too much for my mind to picture. Yet, men I knew said they had seen this marvel. I thought they lied, but I had to know for myself. It was for this reason that I enlisted."
"We came out of a mountain pass where the air was sick with water. I could scarcely breathe it. And there below me was the thing my friends had told me about: water as far as I could see and farther. We marched down to it. I waded out into it and drank. It was bitter and made me ill. But the wonder of it has never left me. [...] I immersed myself in that sea. [...] One man sank beneath that water … another man arose from it. I felt that I could remember a past which had never been. I stared around me with eyes which could accept anything … anything at all. I saw a body in the water - one of the defenders we had slain. There was a log nearby supported on that water, a piece of a great tree. I can close my eyes now and see that log. It was black on one end from a fire. And there was a piece of cloth in that water - no more than a
yellow rag … torn, dirty. I looked at all these things and I understood why
they had come to this place. It was for me to see them.”
- Farrok's Chapter, Dune: Messiah
@ed_dems centrists will give a lot of reasons but it basically amounts to “if you have the GALL to change anything for the better, you better be squeaky clean”