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Keisylon Ruins
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I've seen a lot of pat just so stories that cut off just before the emotional twist in post two.
Openly pandery shit, too. Family courts ruling on behalf of dad. Cheating exes getting theirs. I need to aggressively mute this fuckery when it makes it to my TL. It works on me, but that's not what I'm here for.
In general, I try to avoid jumping on a joke when it's this obvious and everyone else is doing it or about to do it.
But Phil Vischer walked into it and deserves a far worse dogpiling than he's getting. No shame this time.
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Update: It might be fake
A statistic that sounds fake but isn't: Not one single white American man born after 1984 has published a work of literary fiction in The New Yorker.
It's not because they stopped writing. It's because The New Yorker has refused to publish them. The publishing industry has blacked out a generation of male writers & then they wonder why boys don't read.
"If molecules are objective as chemists claim, then atoms are unnecessary for dissolving salt in water."
Kind of? Kind of not? You don't need to believe in the atoms to do the thing, but they're still there.
I'm a guy with long hair.
For 90% of my life, misgendering was an amusing gaffe.
Then for 10% it became 'genocide'.
People who make such pivots should not be allowed to decide what to eat for breakfast, let alone influence society.
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"Tolkien's life was unexciting"
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Life Was Unexciting. His Work Is Anything But.
D.J. Taylor’s new book is part biography and part critical study of the writer behind “The Lord of the Rings.” nytimes.com/2026/11/05/books… via @NYTimesBooks
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We already live in a post-scarcity society.
The root of leftism is envy.
The year could be 3217, a leftist could have their own terraformed planet, and they'd be mad that someone else has twelve.
Complaining that the electorate is fickle and the party leaders feckless is like complaining that deserts are dry and swamps soggy.
I don't decry it. I bitch about the weather too. But having a meltdown over it is childish.
That's how it is. Figure out what you can make of it.
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The year is 1565: Socinianism attempts to create a religion with Christian morals but without supernatural underpinnings.
The year is 1738: English Unitarianism attempts to create a religion with Christian morals but without supernatural underpinnings.
The year is 1785: Jeffersonian Christianity attempts to create a religion with Christian morals but without supernatural underpinnings.
The year is 1819: Schleiermacher's Liberal Theology attempts to create a religion with Christian morals but without supernatural underpinnings.
The year is 1836: Transcendentalism attempts to create a religion with Christian morals but without supernatural underpinnings.
The year is 1867: The Social Gospel Movement attempts to create a religion with Christian morals but without supernatural underpinnings.
The year is 1927: Paul Tillich's systematic theology attempts to create a religion with Christian morals but without supernatural underpinnings.
The year is 1963: Death of God theology attempts to create a religion with Christian morals but without supernatural underpinnings.
The year is 1985: Progressive Christianity attempts to create a religion with Christian morals but without supernatural underpinnings.
The year is 2024: …