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    4. BloodWiz on

      Anyone know how to disassociate from reality as to not have to experience the rapid decline of the world?

      Asking for a friend.

    16. ArmoredBunnyPrincess on

      > Dingane kept his 500 or so concubines in severe bondage. **He referred to them as his sisters or children**, and placed them in various ranks. They could leave the royal enclosure only with his permission, and when doing so were not allowed to cast an eye on any man or boy. Owen observed them a few times outside the palace, once when brought out to sing, and also when they were instructed to bring him thatch for his hut. Some would run away when the opportunity availed, only to be apprehended and executed.

      Oh… nice…

    22. No_Aesthetic on

      [Charlie Kirk: Gone Without a Thought](https://londonstorm.substack.com/p/charlie-kirk-gone-without-a-thought):

      >Charlie Kirk is dead, and it would be dishonest to pretend that his passing deprives the world of a first-rate mind or a generous soul. What it does deprive us of is a shrill salesman of ignorance whose chief achievement was to prove that the fusion of provincial resentment and half-digested scripture could be marketed to lonely adolescents as though it were a modern panacea.

      >Nevertheless, he strutted about as if he were a prophet of youth, even though what he represented was the opposite of youth: an old man’s terror of change and a faithful man’s fear of thought, delivered fittingly enough through a gummy smile. His arguments, insofar as they could be called such, were an endless recycling of clichés that had already grown moldy in the 1920s, presented as if he had unearthed some radiant new truth suppressed by the mainstream.

      >Like all demagogues, Kirk had the one indispensable gift of being able to speak without thinking and to do so for long stretches of time. He mistook this for eloquence, much as his admirers mistook his tireless repetition for conviction. He was not an original thinker, nor even a second-hand thinker. He was a megaphone that only amplified the insecurities of his audience and reassured them that their bigotries were sacred. If he ever encountered a thought that might challenge him, he would not wrestle with it or give it serious thought, but would simply shout it out of the room, to great applause from his following of the most immaculate (and dedicated) of rubes.

      >His enemies, which is to say nearly everyone capable of independent thought, often wasted energy trying to rebut him point by point. This was a mistake. One does not refute a barking dog; one is best served instead by moving along. Kirk’s contribution to the republic was precisely that of a barking dog: ceaseless sound and fury, without even the consolation of loyalty to man or ideal.

      >There was always something tragically comic about the way he brandished Christianity as though it were a cudgel, confident that his God hated all the same people he did. The Christ of Charlie Kirk despised the poor, spat upon the refugee, and wrapped himself in the Stars and Stripes before leading a standing ovation for the police. It was a bronze idol scraped wholly from the *Mein Kampf* playbook and Kirk bowed before it daily. His religiosity, like his patriotism, was entirely performative: an empty chalice passed around the congregation so that each could hear the clink of their own prejudices echoing back at them.

      >His career might be best summarized as a relentless war on the very idea of curiosity. He toured campuses to assure students that learning was dangerous, that questioning was treason, that books were suspect, and that any teacher not reciting his script was a threat to civilization itself. He wanted young people to shrink; not to think, but to parrot. And in this he succeeded far too well.

      >Death sometimes lends a measure of dignity to those who squandered their lives. It cannot do so here. Kirk’s death is a fact, nothing more, and the world moves on relieved of his voice. He will be remembered, at least for a few years, as one of those small men who mistook their mediocrity for destiny and their infantile tantrums for genius. He never said anything that will be quoted with admiration, never wrote anything that will be studied with care, never did anything that will inspire the generations to come. His only epitaph is that he left the world no poorer for his absence.

    25. CornstockOfNewJersey on

      Sorry, liberals, but I don’t care if Democratic politicians of any relevance have universally condemned the Kirk shooting, for you see, I saw someone on Twitter say “good riddance lmao”. The Democrats are the party of MURDER!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU’LL NEVER GET AWAY WITH THIS RAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    27. Headstar24 on

      So in DK Bananza you run into two old friends from earlier Donkey Kong games and one of them actually references Candy Kong.

      Believe it or not I don’t think there will be a Candy Kong appearance in this game for very obvious reasons if you know what she looks like.

      (Or she is and I don’t know. I legitimately don’t know what happens in this game at the end).

    28. _bee_kay_ on

      oh my god, “thoughts and prayers to the bullet” might be the funniest possible way to respond to this 😭

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