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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 1h

I'm not sure that's a *flaw* per se, so much as "that is indeed the worldview"

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 4h

Very common occurrence in need darlings.

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 4h

Everything I've heard secondhand about Eggers' filmography makes it sound like his gimmick is "what if conservative social narratives were true? Behold the savage yet exotically charming worldview of the Other, presumed lib audience!"

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 4h

I always liked Beowulf more when I was reading them both in school.

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 4h

I would suspect it would be because he wants more of a charge?

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 5h

You could kind of argue that the Odyssey is a story involving a degree of more modern virtues. Many have, over the eons. The Illiad? Not so much, really, it's one reason I never liked it as much.

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 5h

That's the thing he explicitly does not do

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 5h

Tiny Tim, who was and shall ever be. As the universe draws its final breath, Tiny Tim will remain, wizened and alone in the darkness, sublime in his utmost sovereignty.

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 5h

The guy who arguably most exemplifies that in the Illiad not only dies, but dies pretty badly and without dignity! Then his corpse is desecrated!

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 5h

Rubio pulling this makes me unreasonably angry, because anyone listening to him walks away more ignorant than they were going in. The Homeric virtues consisted of private excellence and public recognition: being virtuous meant being successful in competition and war; being of a noble lineage; taking

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 9h

“Pay any cost for a cause worthy of their loyalty?” My diminutive brother with oversized footwear, archaic Greek heroes pursued arete (personal excellence), kleos (fame), and tisis (retribution), not causes. Was Agamemnon worth following?

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There are pilots who are also a successful rock band and *they aren't even the central characters*.

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The thing to understand about AC8 is that it is the corniest thing and also the most awesome thing because it really fucking loves its subject matter.

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This woman's sentence should be commuted.

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Kat @kat8655.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

So Francesca Albanese is straight-up Nazi now, she encourages her followers to listen to Carlson ranting about fighting Hitler being mistake.

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Another impeachable offense of many, and arguably incitement to ethnic cleansing. But also, evidence of his mental dissolution. Trump used to be able to at least attempt to sugarcoat this. He is no longer capable of doing so.

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Brad Reed @bwreed.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The president of the United States is inciting a fucking pogrom.

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A small and silly thing I think Ace Combat would benefit from us the ability to directly converse with enemy pilots, i.e telling them to bail when they're spiked. It doesn't have to be much, I just think it would be a nice touch. Course I also still want a return to an explicitly voiced lead.

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It is, in fact, the default outcome, because blood and soil nationalism is a potent mass motivator.

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Wallenstein Appreciator @marbleliberal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

They don't want empathy, they want a war and they believe they're winning www.jta.org/2026/10/07/n... "We don’t want peace with Israelis, bro! We sent your people to hell on October 7.”

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Protesters overrun Oct. 7 Israeli peace vigil attended by Mamdani - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Demonstrators mocked and yelled at participants in the event organized by the left-wing group Israelis for Peace.

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This too is also FF14 Heavenward, with the more positive read of "ultimately we must choose friendship" and the more cynical read of "also it helps to have a convenient radical enemy faction who can symbolically accept the sins of the other side and be destroyed for social catharsis."

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Also funny given that Fanon was not ... Actually of Algerian descent.

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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

there’s a reason that ben Gvir and his fellow ghouls absolutely love showing that footage to people. Because watching people commit atrocities on repeat is a good way to make you forget that repaying atrocities with atrocities just doubles the corpses

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's like how in horror stories or "real world" settings people use hallucinations in the same way fantasy uses illusions, with the hallucinatory output apparently predictable enough to get a desired response in advance. Nobody ever hallucinates just random shit.

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's pretty interesting experiencing even the barest fraction of what it must feel like to have your country occupied by a hostile power

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

also, like. most of that didn't take place on 10/7. time passes!

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I love that the rest of your flight is like "...'kay."

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There are literally 364 other days to protest the suffering in Gaza.

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I don't encounter synagogues that do either very often, and the entirety of Jewish support for Israel is functionally a political blip; most Jewish liberal Zionists are 2S supporters who hate the settlers with a passion, so idk why you're acting as if this is an unusual observation

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yes. as a general rule I don't see nearly the same hostility aimed at Christian Zionists in practice; they're evoked rhetorically but that's it

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Or, in some cases, it's literally your job

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

like the reason his statement was the way it was was because he was trying to at least make a general gesture in this camp's direction. it wasn't enough, and I'm hoping at some point it'll become unmistakable enough he decides to just jettison trying to win them over.

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I am aware they don't entirely see eye to eye. I think that he needs to actually stop trying to keep winning them over by hedging his bets. at some point you have to take a stand against ethnic revanchism, whether pro-Israeli or pro-Palestinian.

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah, this is like...the DEFINITION of bothsidesing.

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

To be more accurate, they consider calling it a massacre genocidal. They (or more accurately their allies with a veneer of respectability) only occasionally dispute that the massacre happened; just as often they think it was a prior good & liberatory it happened.

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If Mamdani aids them in creating an environment hostile to Jews in NYC - one where Jews have to turn moser to survive, basically - then they like him. If he even turns in rhetoric against that, it is a blow against their efforts, and therefore he is an enemy harboring the enemy

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Let's not mince words. These people want to destroy (Jewish) "Zionists" wherever they live. Some of their leaders have outright said they hope for an international hunt for them like that against the Nazis. They don't want NYC as a safe place for Jews to live or speak.

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's not about FP. It's about their perception of NYC as a front line in an international war against "Zionists."

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

These too are face-eating leopards.

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Don't you have anything better to do with your day?

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Like he's gonna have to wise up at some point

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You can feel however you like, I can't stop you. Chase your truth.

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There really are times brevity and simplicity are better. It's bewildering to me people (pretend to, often) find this confusing. Mamdani is performing "token sympathy for the victims of 10/7, but not too much or so much we forget the Real Victims are Gaza."

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And he did this because he has a portion of his supporters who expect and DEMAND such treatment.

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