Blueberry
1d ago
As a European I am confused: Do Americans not have stores and supermarkets near them?
I always sort of wonder what functions as the katechon in the world after 1945. This is Schmitt’s 1947 diary. ‘I believe in the katechons, for me the only possible way to understand Christian history and find it meaningful. The katechon needs to be named for every epoch for the past 1948 years.’ The way I interpret this is that sotto voce, Schmitt is saying he has no idea what the katechon is. And maybe, the New Dealers are running the whole planet. Then of course, 1949 the Soviets get the bomb, and my sort of provisional answer is that the katechon for 40 years, from ’49 to ’89, is anti-communism. Which is in some ways is somewhat violent, not purely Christian but very, very powerful. I’ve argued that the katechon, or something like this, is necessary but not sufficient. And I want to finish by stressing where one goes wrong with it. If we forget its essential role, which is to restrain the antichrist, the antichrist might even present himself or itself or herself as the katechon, or hijack the katechon. This is almost a memetic version. A similarity between the antichrist and the katechon, they’re both sort of political figures. The katechon is tied in with empire and politics. If the antichrist is going to take over the world, you need something very powerful to stop it.
The katechon, the restrainer of the antichrist, must be both really powerful to prevent the antichrist, but that means there is also the danger that it IS the antichrist. I have a soft spot for theology and think it is fun to think about such mindbenders and finding real world examples. I guess Thiel was nerd sniped here.
The general point seems to be that Thiel would like to avoid anything which is too powerful, which is a globalist one-world-government. Which makes sense in a not-all-eggs-in-one-basket way.
I laughed about the juxtaposition of Francis Bacon and juvenile japanese Manga:
In his second lecture, Thiel also explores the idea of the antichrist through four works of literature – Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, Alan Moore’s Watchmen graphic novel and Eiichiro Oda’s manga series One Piece.
I laughed out loud about this:
Thiel says he is “very pro-JD Vance”. But he has some concerns about his allegiance to the pope. “The place that I would worry about is that he’s too close to the pope. And so we have all these reports of fights between him and the pope. I hope there are a lot more. It’s the Caesar-Papist fusion that I always worry about. By the way, I’ve given him this feedback over time.
I don’t know how wooey Vance is, he comes off as relatively grounded, but Thiel giving the unsolicited advice to not get too close to the pope must have been an absurd scene (and suspiciously what I would have expected the antichrist to say).
Blueberry
13d ago
No insight and likely a strong aversion to receiving treatment. Untreated schizophrenia tends to worsen. He's quite young, we don't know how bad it'll eventually
What can be done here?
Blueberry
14d ago
It is easy to find counter the argument. You can eat a Big Mac in Jakarta, but that doesn't mean there are a lot of US-American migrants in Indonesia. Most places who make Lasagna are not operated by Italians. There are good sushi places in Budapest, even though there is no big japanese diaspora in Hungary. It just means Sushi is delicious.
Blueberry
19d ago
But regarding Kirk:
[x] Shooter hits their target
[ ] coherent manifesto
[ ] unadorned weaponry (the ammo counts too?)
[x] captured alive
Blueberry
21d ago
There is kind of annoying stuff in them, but I liked both books in the trilogy.
There is an internet theory that Patrick Rothfuss "father was his shadow writer. It’s Pats idea and world building, but his dad was the one who actually wrote it. After TNOTW and TWMF, Pat wanted to prove to himself that he could continue to write the books from now on. So he wrote TSROST all by himself. But he knew it wasn’t written the same and as the others. That’s why he says people won’t like the book because he knows it didn’t have the same feel as before."
Blueberry
24d ago
I don't know why he didn't take the name of his spouse. Though maybe Glezman is not the best political name too.
Blueberry
26d ago
I know the partner is apparently an AnCap follower of Jordan Peterson
Wait, what?
Blueberry
1mo ago
On X they post pictures from him as a kid with lots of guns and his conservative mormon family. The internet fried his brain but I can't say if in the antifa or far-right direction....
Blueberry
1mo ago
There is this famous graph of consumer price changes in the last 20 years:
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/price-changes-goods-services.jpg
Massively cheaper: Technology like software, computers, big hd televisions.
More or less same: Material consumer products like furniture or clothing
More expensive: Food and Housing
Massively more expensive: Services like childcare, college, hospital services
that new iPhone will cost more regardless
That is extreme nitpicking, but this is not true. iPhones do cost basically the same over decades for the the base model, and the pro models even got cheaper:
https://i.redd.it/fo16m7rgh4nb1.png
The launch price of the iPhone 6S in 2015 was $650. Inflation-adjusted that had the buying power of $885.01 today. And 10 years later now the new iPhone 17 costs only $799 (exactly the same price price as the iPhone 12 five years ago).
Blueberry
1mo ago
There was also this from the author:
kept seeing people tw RED HOOD #1 for suicide, and for the life of me I could not figure out why until I remembered it opens with a bunch of cops shooting themselves. i just don't really consider them people.
Blueberry
1mo ago
There's some funny nutpicking
Jezebel at monday: "We Paid Some Etsy Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk"
https://www.jezebel.com/we-paid-some-etsy-witches-to-curse-charlie-kirk#
For the “POWERFUL HEX SPELL,” I had to provide Kirk’s date of birth for “accuracy.” The witch performed the hex, but her response was unsettling: “I just completed your spell, and it was successful. You will see the first results within 2–3 weeks. However, I did notice disturbances… negative energy not only from you, but projected at you. Likely from toxic family members, co-workers, or new acquaintances.”
Blueberry
1mo ago
The last question he ever got was:
"Do you know how many mass shootings in the last 10 years there have been in America?"
“Counting or not counting gang violence?” Kirk asked back.
Then he was shot.
I bet the assassin waited for a question about gun control/gun violence.
Blueberry
1mo ago
Where is the muslim info coming from? In the first picture here he has a big cross as a tattoo. Gangster or not, a muslim wouldn’t have that:
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/15276040/man-behind-dundee-knife-video-gypsy-gangster/
Blueberry
1mo ago
My guess is the NFT craze (same as art market) was fueled by washing crypto. It died down though, and one can see what wallet paid for what, so I don't know how to wash bitcoin.
Blueberry
1mo ago
If they had a good life or just vanished into private life I agree. But some porn starlets from the 2000s died (drug overdose, suicide, just life) and their content is unwhackable to me now.
Blueberry
1mo ago
One whale spend in eleven month 4,7 million on her:
Blueberry
2mo ago
In Germany the parliament instructed the medical association to make new rules which don’t discriminate according to sexual orientation. So the change was ordered by political correctness. New rule is now that for a blood donation you can’t have in the last four month a) two or more sexual partners at the same time or b) analsex.
Gay organizations complained of course that analsex in itself is not causing HIV and there are plenty (heterosexual) monogamous couples who are now prevented from donations (IF answering honestly).
I guess this can’t be solved socially, but only by the coming HIV vaccines.
I watched a video and the first YT comment was an epiphany about the Residential/Commercial/Industrial zoning in Sim City:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WNe9C866I2s
Not just bikes:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=bnKIVX968PQ
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