you, a Borderer untermensch: durr. trump gon build a wall. whens the next catching up with the kardsashians
me, an intellectual: the World-Spirit has sent a great man to write new values on new tablets, what the greek theological thinkers termed ἀποκάλυψις, for It has grown wroth with political correctness on college campuses
Welcome to my new game show! I name an abstract quality or category, and you name objects that instantiate that abstraction. Everyone is a judge, whether they know it or not.
For the first round, we have:
Giving The Sense Through Filmic Storytelling That The World Is Bigger Than The Protagonists And Their Narrative
To get us started, I’ll tentatively name Princess Mononoke.
I nominate A Serious Man
Dazed and Confused
The Fifth Element
I mean the narrative was about the protagonists saving the world, but only thing to give me a sense of what it must’ve been to watch Star Wars before it was canonized
an alignment chart only instead of the axes being “goodness” and “order”, they’re “order” and “chaos” and the “chaos” axis goes from “static” to “disruptive” while the “order” axis goes from “intuitive” to “theoretically-motivated”
an alignment chart only instead of the axes being “goodness” and “order”, they’re “order” and “chaos” and the “chaos” axis goes from “static” to “disruptive” while the “order” axis goes from “intuitive” to “theoretically-motivated”
“I’m a pro-labor Republican,” he said. “I think the record is clear
in history that the best jobs are union jobs with higher wages and
benefits.”
When asked whether or not he would, as a state
legislator, support a “Right-to-Work” (RTW) law which would allow
workers in unionized industries to choose for themselves whether or not
to join the union, Rose said that he goes “back and forth” on that
issue, saying that he understands the desire to give workers the right
to choose membership, though he say he worries that RTW laws only serve
to “empower corporate elites.”
“I lean ‘no’ on Right-to-Work,” he
said. “However, I can’t make a commitment yet, because every
Right-to-Work bill is different.”
That’s just outside of Whitefish. I wonder if Richard Spencer’s got a hand in this. Of all alt-right types he always seemed the most likely to found a caucus and not just a mutual jerkoff society.
Course not sure I have the causalty right there. Could just be Montana. America still has a frontier and it is fucking wild.
Was in Missoula for a cousin’s wedding one summer. The college, “blue” town of Montana. Honest to god grizzled prospector-looking guys in the bars getting into fights over real-money card games, people passing out drunk on the sidewalk in mid-stride, proud celebration of the town’s founding bordellos. Wild west.
My Sandpoint story - it’s good and telling but I’m starting to get attached to it as my Noodle Incident. That was the Idaho panhandle but it was in coming back from Montana, the motorcycle fan/aircraft builder/missionary who really saved my bacon (and served great witness) was a Pacific Islander and at one point he mentioned in passing, with an eye roll, how sometimes when he’d go into town those Aryan Nations guys come down from the hills would think he was Mexican and give him shit.
Like, boom, the fuckin’ backstory you had to imagine to that.
Next day on my way west, passing through the farms with all the giant Ten Commandments signs that guy paid for, stopped in Post Falls to get some food. Some sort of festival in the parking lot across the way, I’m like holy shit, are they doing a Jars of Clay cover?
Go inside, it’s like a Denny’s specializing in wild game almost. All sorts of homey signs, and taxidermied animals, and I’m like “yes, yes, the outdoorsand Christianity, I get the concept by now” Then… I forget if this was a sign like right behind the welcome counter or prominently on the menu, but I remember a line proudly being like “God may not be welcome in the SCHOOLS, but he sure has a place HERE”
Like, boom.
At any given time about one in every 6000 Montana residents is a state legislator, term limited to a maximum of 8 years in each chamber. Standard sessions are a maximum of 90 days every other year and are paid $82.64/day, the equivalent of a daily worker making $10.33/hr. Per diems on top of this are $112.85, making the total payout just short of $17,600 per semiannual session.
The most prominent item on the front page of the Montana legislature’s website is a link to this form soliciting Helena-area homeowners looking to rent rooms to legislators.
So after I did my background looking into this I was like “oh, the beautiful frontier. I remember that trip, passing around this huge beautiful lake with lake houses that weren’t even mansions, that’s somewhere to think about as a retreat, lets retrace my path and see what it was”
Flathead Lake, same place!
My impression of which was the hippie strip mall with locally crafted leather goods and native art galleries
But look, Richard Spencer and Randy “Ruby Ridge” Weaver and the grand doyenne, Prussian Blue’s mom
It’s impressive how we’re in the middle of a surreal morality fable that organically rises from and didactically critiques the state of our culture, strikes at exactly the right points to threaten the imminent collapse of the social order, and still manages to be completely absurd.
You find yourself with thoughts that start bad enough then halfway through turn into the weirdest shit, like “I’m worried there’ll be a push for mass purges that turn sexual assault into a politicized folk crime just when the police are alienated but frats are still fielding armed clown-hunting squads”
“[Peter] Kim said audiences have gotten more abusive in the past year and has heard people use the ‘f’ word, alluding to a slur against gays.
“The straw that broke the camel’s back for me was a man was sitting next to a Hispanic couple,” Kim said. “We asked a question to another lady, completely different lady, we said, ‘Hey, ma’am, what is something small that pisses you off, like getting stuck in traffic.‘”
The man, unsolicited, screamed out, ‘Sitting too close to a Mexican,’ while sitting next to a Hispanic couple.“
“In 44 years of this work, I’ve never seen anything like it. The audience seems to feel like they have license in very unpleasant ways,” he added. “Ninety-nine percent of people are cool. But the jerk who used to keep his mouth shut now feels like he has the right to say something.”
Second City’s longtime owner Andrew Alexander said he has noticed a
spike in inappropriate audience behavior in the last six or seven
months, which was not common before now. He said he “absolutely” blames
such a rise in racist attitudes to the recent political climate that
encourages “certain demographics on the Trump side” to voice their
opinions.
So under the influence of Donald Trump the comedy world is getting cruder, with more aggression and racial humor, driving out SJWs.
Right now he’s indoctrinating people that sexual assault is a joke charge that unworthy women - who should be mocked and punished - use to take down great men.
I’ll be damned, but dude’s actually delivering on the shitlord issues.
In other news, it was just raining cats and dogs, and I was like “oh, better make sure the storm drains on the corner are clear, they were filling up with leaves”. So did that and looked up down the block downhill and it was turning into a goddamn lake.
So I trudged down into knee-high water with a stick blindly poking at the curb to find and clear those drains. Managed to get to them just before the water got high enough to flood the engines of the parked cars, but had to trudge back and forth for maybe 20 minutes as all the debris they flushed kept clogging them up again.
Girl’s front Tinder picture is a low-rez watermarked picture of her and a chinstrapped man kissing a baby superimposed with the text “R.I.P. {NAME} WE BOTH REALLY MISS YOU” and what the fuck, dude?
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