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yonkers is such a deeply unserious name for a place. i bet nobody even dies there

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Shakespearean Seinfeld episode like:

"He thoued me, Jerry."

"He thoued you?"

"He thoued me!"

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Joseph Ducreux (1735–1802) was a French artist known for his expressive and unconventional self-portraits. Unlike many portraitists of his time, who adhered to strict formal conventions, Ducreux infused his works with humor, exaggerated expressions, and an almost modern sense of personality.

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Thanks to the internet we finally acknowledged what retention chains were used for.

again here the historical accurate surcoat nipple holes & retention chains

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definitely top 10 image. like every day we are given so many opportunities to use it. unreal mileage. timeless

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Brennan when the cameras are rolling: Yeah, so, what I'm doing on-camera is, I'm actually playing the part of the villain so my friends can take me down a peg, and have the fun of defeating a villain. I am not actually getting this mad in real life, it's all exaggerated. I love my friends, and I would never get mad at them for petty grievances.

Brennan when the cameras aren't rolling: Vic? I'm sorry. Did you just say you use the web browser to check your emails? The web browser. Okay. Wow. The web browser. Why? THE APP! COMES

PRE-INSTALLED! WITH THE

PHONE–!

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Beyblade heavyweight division

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you suck I'm gonna [remembers telling people you're gonna kill them even as a bit can be harmful to the mental health of both parties] tell mom

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this episode has convinced me that it is vic, not brennan, who is sam's true narrative foil. his archnemesis. a worthy adversary who does not hesitate to throw his psychological torture right back at him

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⋆ ˚｡⋆୨♡୧⋆ ˚｡⋆Villainous friends in a nutshell⋆ ˚｡⋆୨♡୧⋆ ˚｡⋆

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missionary position means that i get to write a sketch grammar too right

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Might be the best DM I have ever received as a tattooer

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There was this communist group I flirted with in college that mostly acted as a book club that showed up to other people’s protests all the time.

If you know anything about communists they’re obsessed with “dialectics” which is a Hegelian philosophical form of logic. By itself it’s fine or whatever but a few years after I’d drifted away from them they do this really weird thing

They publish this big article about how the Big Bang Theory is wrong, and worse a sort of smuggled in creationism that is propped up by institutional science for obscure reasons that have something to do with ideological propaganda of the capitalist state or something.

And of course no one on staff is a physicist or is using any real math at all to argue this point because ultimately it’s just that according to them “dialectics” demands that the universe be eternal and thus any “beginning” point has to be dismissed out of hand.

And suddenly everyone in the org in thirty different countries were parroting this and pretending that rejecting the Big Bang is some obvious logical result of dialectics and getting into all these heated online arguments about it.

All these people were now convinced that because they read a book on Hegelian / Marxist philosophy (probably just some articles in reality) that they were experts on cosmology and knew more than PhDs who’d spent their lives on this.

And that’s when it really hit me that oh, these organizations are animated by conspiracy theories. Their members are attracted by the allure of secret knowledge that explains the whole world.

We can dissect all kinds of ideological currents and justifications but really it’s all the same as flat earthers. They seek simple explanations that purport to unlock the entire world for them because they can’t really accept how complicated and chaotic reality is.

Obviously these same people are raging antisemites now as the broader left has become because, yeah, when you’re already deep into conspiracy theories you inevitably are attracted to the biggest, oldest conspiracy theory out there: the Jews are behind all the bad things.

There’s no logic behind it. It’s the mindset. The way of thinking. Conspiratorial thinking rots your brain. It’s rotted the left and the right. And it’s why Jews should really not trust socialists ever again. Because they will always come back to this. It’s their way of life

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Trying to explain Vic Michaelis' performance in the most recent Game Changer episode: what if Amelia Bedelia was chaotic neutral

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