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Would you like to read an eminent scholar contrasting the film to Homer's tale? What about a hilarious acerbic rant about Nolan like he's little more than Michael Bay in an ascot? How about both of them woven together? 😂 A fun read regardless of whether you agree with Emily Wilson.

the corruption number here makes me want to turn into the joker and then, as the joker, turn into a significantly more unhinged joker

Yeah, my gut reaction is that it's cringe but... so what? What relevance is there to anyone, including me, of my gut reaction to someone else's recreation? They enjoy it and aren't hurting anybody. My need to form an opinion ends there.

I reject the premise "the far left hates Disney adults" is equivalent to "the far right hates sexually liberated people." The left can be rude about Disney adults; the right wants to criminalize everything except (a) rich men's pedophilia and (b) sex within marriage for procreation. Not comparable!

Very few people know things like this. When in doubt, share.

A rare perfect match of product and spokesperson

Simon Pegg genuinely has quite a vocal range and can do the Balrog, and they'll supplement it with effects, but I am respectfully requesting he put that aside and deliver it rapidly in a high tenor like an overly-anxious nerd from Gloucestershire. That would be terrifying.

IMHO, it's distinct. Your garden-variety American or British white supremacist wants their home country to be white; they would be happy to ship all the minorities to the England/US respectively. Musk's is different; nationality is irrelevant, his allegiance is *solely* to race.

Key thing to understand about "remigration" is that it doesn't mean "send immigrants home." He's an immigrant, Peter Thiel is an immigrant, etc. It's not even a white nationalism project, it's a trans-Atlantic white continentalism project, nations themselves aren't important, only race matters.

I still want my 14-hour unfilmable A Fire Upon The Deep. Just think of how much expository dialogue is necessary to explain the Zones of Thought and why Old One is effectively a God but not really a God and also an outlier among not-really-Gods. And of course the politics of hive-mind dogs.

I, for one, would like to liquidate Chemistry. All this blah blah blah, "excuse me but you shouldn't mix those specific cleaning agents," yada yada. Get real jobs, losers!

Schatz has the same pathology as Newsom: a need to show "I'm just like you" to awful people with bad values. It's not even cynicism; it yields no additional votes. Destroying USAID was an illegal act by white nationalists with genocidal intent and it has killed people. That's more than just "bad."

Claims from the right are always taken on their own terms—unless they're so outrageous they need sane-washing first. Claims from the left (even if the majority position) are always contorted to right-wing portrayals of them and framed as a slippery slope.

When “hate click is still a click” is your editorial strategy:

Amusing irony: read literary, "liquidate the study of Sociology" would not mean eliminating Sociology, but it would mean eliminating commentary about Sociology, such as this drivel in the WSJ. How very meta.

A scorching-hot take of mine is "people are real," and that includes, e.g., the people of Taiwan and Ukraine. Though I mostly see these places as blobs on a screen, there are in fact people there who eat, drink, sleep, and have wants and needs just like me.

Today, in violations of the rule of law that would be sufficient for impeachment in any other American presidency but aren't in this one because pathological partisan loyalty has rotted the constitutional order:

"I had no idea that *I* could die in a war, I thought that's what happened to other people!"

"Precedential stay" is not a thing. There is no lawful process by which a Circuit Court says "nuh uh," without any reasoning whatsoever, and thereby enjoins every district court from enforcing the law. Every member of the panel who voted for it must be impeached; anything less is lawlessness.

Before he was PAST... Before he was CHRISTMAS... Before he was OF... He was GHOST.