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Sherman McCoy

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My latest for Substack. Is the cyberpunk genre still relevant? I discuss how cyberpunk is basically "Fallout for the 1980s" at this point, and how an alternative take on the genre is more meaningful for our world. Plug into "Cyberflunk 2077" to find out!

Cyberflunk 2077

Is one of sci-fi's most iconic sub-genres still relevant?

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Everyone who is mad about people taking off work/school to see a miracle of the natural world needs to understand that politics and business exist to support civil society and not the other way around

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The solar eclipse will cost America almost $700 million in lost productivity

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The realest moment in all of Seinfeld is in "The Chinese Restaurant" when George is really PO'd at a guy taking forever on the payphone, he's ranting and raving, and then when the guy hangs up he says "sorry I took so long" and then George sincerely says "don't worry about it"

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Congratulations to Joe Biden for speedrunning the Bush presidency in two weeks

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New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell says there's not enough time to evacuate the city before Hurricane Ida

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"Why yes, I do enjoy the works of Shakespeare."

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“Congratulations, Ender. The new interstate highway system you designed in SimCity will allow for free movement of goods, services, and people throughout the nation like never before.” “Wait… what about all the low-income neighborhoods I bulldozed? They were real???”

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one of the most powerful images ever posted on this site

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The transition from B&W to color took way longer than you’d think (~30yr) bc black and white photos/film were viewed as being more “serious” while color was more fantastic, juvenile The reason why people thought this is because it’s true

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tf were they feeding 1960s photographers you do not see shit like this anymore

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> richest man in the thirteen colonies at one point > noted womanizer despite being bald and fat > gained political power through shitposting > accomplished scientist and inventor in his SPARE TIME despite having little formal education Was this guy the main character of the

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Left: 35 year old Brian Stelter Right: 43 year old Tom Brady

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Reject the "man cave" and embrace the study

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Every man NEEDS a Man Cave like this 🥺

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Steve Jobs’s office versus Tim Cook’s office I think this says a lot about why Apple “feels” different under Cook

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I find it interesting how, unlike the Confederacy, loyalism just evaporated from the USA completely. Gone

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One of my favorite maps from the Revolution

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Napoleon was from Corsica, Hitler from Austria, Trajan from Spain, many other examples. The American Caesar will therefore either be Canadian or Puerto Rican

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“Google search has gotten worse” is old hat. We need to talk about how much worse Amazon is getting

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30 years ago today

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“At ten o clock you tweeted “it’s over” but at eleven you tweeted “we’re back”?? So which is it??? It’s over or we’re back?!?!?!?!?”

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Helicopter parenting is an underrated cause for the fertility crash IMO There's a perception that it's impossible to have adult fun as a parent - no more going out on the town, ever. And in a world where it's illegal to be 10ft+ away from your kid, that's true

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Paradox made Imperator: Rome end in 27 BC because they were afraid of implementing event pop ups you’d get in ~30 AD

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Homeless people carrying bindles on a stick You don’t see that anymore

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Tinder girl I’ve been seeing is into video games, esp Fallout. Asked her which faction she sided with in F4. She chose the Institute (genocidal technocrats) because “the interiors of their base are so neat and tidy”

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Was this the most humiliating defeat in history? > two hundred guys ride into town > empire collapses

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We’ve talked at length about how Disney has blown Star Wars, but far less ink has been spilled over the Disney IP Shredder absolutely destroying Pixar’s brand value During the Jobs era, Pixar movies were an EVENT. Everyone young and old was excited for them

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‘ELEMENTAL’ earns $11.8M in the film’s domestic opening day, the lowest in Pixar’s history.

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Vice City was made in 2002 and was set in 1986 If GTA 6 were released this year and had the same time gap, it would be set in 2007

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If Boeing was a Japanese company the executives would have publicly ****ed themselves in shame by now

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BREAKING: A BOEING 737 ALASKAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 1063 HAS BEEN DIVERTED NEAR LOS ANGELES DUE TO AN UNKNOWN INCIDENT

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Ladies, if your boyfriend watches the in-flight movie instead of staring at the airplane’s “map channel” on the back of the seat, that’s your girlfriend

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I watched this on live TV with my family in 2020 and they insist it never happened today

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“They all went to Canada” — I know that, but it’s still fascinating that _all_ of them went to Canada You’d think with 300M people in this country there would be at least one family with a portrait of George III in the basement, passing down the loyalist cause to their kids

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Every Christmas after graduation, my HS friend group got together to hang out and catch up. Every year fewer people showed up. Then it was just me and my best friend, who moved the next year. But 90% of the extended family still makes it for Christmas. Food for thought.

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Reconcile with family. Life is too short.

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Will not be sharing a “where were you on 9/11” bc if you’re my age you’ll have the same story Instead, please join me in remembering Todd Beamer of Flint, Mich today. He led the United 93 passenger revolt that near certainly saved the US Capitol from destruction. “Let’s roll.”

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Nobuo Fujita (1911 - 1997) is the only Axis pilot to have dropped bombs on the mainland USA. Later in life, the Oregon town he bombed invited him to visit, and even awarded him the key to the city. He donated his family’s katana to the local library, and set up a fund for local

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Reminder: it’s never over

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The suit does not get enough credit for being egalitarian Every man in postwar Western society could wear one and look good. Everyone wore the same suit w the exception of brand, unlike medieval England where the nobles had much better dress than peasants, and medieval China

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My contribution to the Fetterman discourse is this great clip of director Guy Ritchie describing the death of the suit to @joerogan : "The death of the suit was the prosaic attitude toward 'I'm going to work and I’ve got to wear a suit and I’ve got to put a tie on, and I don’t

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Reminder: since American companies are overwhelmingly owned by average citizens through index funds and 401ks, the USA has more “collective ownership of the means of production” than any socialist society ever has

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2014: one of my CS professors in college had a Turing Award (Nobel for computing). His laptop of choice was a 2005 IBM ThinkPad. The trackpad was worn down. He kept all his files in a folder on his desktop named “MICHAEL”

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The entire internet used to look like this. Everything was easily searchable and indexable

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When you ask backend developer to make frontend

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Many such cases of this sort of thing. No, that shot angle doesn’t have any special meaning, it’s just cool

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Every student in America has to take a foreign language in HS and we have like a 10% bilingual rate

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HDMI is the miracle port. One cable for video and audio. Every device has supported it for nearly twenty years now. It’s served us well in HD, 4K, and will continue into the to-come 8/16K eras. Whoever created it should be given an award

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June 19, 1953 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed by electric chair at Sing Sing Correctional Facility at the peak of McCarthyist anti-communist hysteria.

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The discourse about the Home Alone house has me thinking about the movie. Easily one of the most sincere and least irony-poisoned movies ever made. This is why it's become an enduring classic

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“Your woman is never going to have the same interests as you. Because you know who does? A man. A man with Asperger’s.” — Sam Hyde

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The Constantinople of the 2100s will be built here

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Conservatives claim to love ice cream, yet most McDonalds broken ice cream machines are in red states

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I think the scene in Eyes Wide Shut where Tom Cruise goes to the British lady's house to check on her dad that died under mysterious circumstances, and she mentions that her husband-to-be is a "math professor" is interesting

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They poured sand in the skate parks in 2020

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This is a cardinal example of how the "flag reform" movement fails. Look at this flag. You'd think "what's the big deal, it's perfect for Santa Barbara, California" - right? Guess what. It's a proposal for Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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This analysis is gonna sound generic AF but in 2004 the average Democratic voter was a factory dude in Ohio and today it’s an HR lady from Raytheon Acres, Virginia

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Why is Michael Moore such a vastly less-cared about figure than he was 20 years ago? What explains his decline as a figure of relevance?

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Interesting bit from Bill Maher: journalists used to be working-class. They lived next to factory workers, only made slightly more. Didn’t need a degree to do it. Now journalists are almost entirely high-status and college-educated

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This whole “twitter is dying” thing kinda reminds me of how whenever net neutrality was in the news Reddit convinced themselves that cable companies would turn off Reddit because it was a threat to the establishment

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The Fall of Communism and nothing comes close. Droves lined up for McDonalds in red square. The party that ran all media and education in East Germany won just 16% of the vote in the first fair election.

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Is there an ideology or nation that got crushed so embarrassingly that its defeat can’t even be coped about online? Closest I can think is Khmer Rouge or American backed Afghanistan

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> be Tim Apple > just decide to turn off Facebook ad tracking one day > Facebook stock nosedives > Facebook pivots to VR / metaverse > by 2023 it's apparent nobody wants VR > release a VR headset far better than Facebook's anyway

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Last scene of the Prigozhin biopic > exiled to Belarus > with his personal security guard > he warns him never to eat or drink anything he doesn’t make himself > and to stay inside his house > Prigozhin gets bored > walks outside, away from his security > finds a hot dog stand

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Apple’s ads have a reputation for being high-concept productions (“1984”) but their most successful campaign ever was two guys looking into the lens saying “Macs are cool and Windows is boring and lame”

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What do y’all think of this vibe

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This was one of the most surreal, nearly dystopian things I’ve seen The near entire online right gathering in a twitter space to talk some guy out of marrying an OF girl he’d never even met with a congressional candidate in the audience

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The US is the only country in history to nuke another country and today that country likes us more than we like them. Powerful

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(Three days later) “Carpenter Prophet Returns in Galilee” Legionaries have confirmed rumors that the carpenter’s tomb is empty. New reports have him sighted assembling his followers again! - [[How is this possible?]] -100 political power -20% stability

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“Carpenter Promising Followers Eternal Life” Reports from Jerusalem, Judaea Province say that a local carpenter has cultivated a following by promising those who believe and love him eternal salvation. This could severely undermine our power in the region.

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I’m going to become the joker

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Seeing the new modern Minnesota flag and other states modernizing theirs… is it time for California to update our flag?

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Freedom-loving Americans won’t be told how to celebrate July 4, even in Los Angeles. Goodnight, everyone

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“When was the United States founded?” “Uh… 1965?” The uninformed mall shopper has just given a completely defensible answer (I’m serious)

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The word “hello” is surprisingly new. This extremely common word, one of the first that children learn, did not appear in writing until 1828

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- Leave him alone -10% stability - Suppress his movement -50 political power - [[Crucify him!]] -100 political power +10% stability

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Some of the best edgy right-wing posters were born ninety years too early

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Thinking about this again

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Nick Mullen punching a wall because he didn’t think of this first

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Cant stop laughing at this video of old korean lady who learned to speak english from black ppl “you jus piss me off sheei you ak like a goddam slave somtime…you mus be goddam loss fukkin yo mine”

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I have no idea why the CCP thinks a movie about a battle where they outnumber the enemy 4:1 and only barely manage to win makes for good propaganda

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Chinese propaganda depictions of Americans continues to outdo anything the West currently does

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How US history is taught vs. what actually happened

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How did this get published in The Atlantic? Despite being just 6% of the US canine population, pit bulls make up 65% of all dog bites.

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Directors who put themselves in their own movies so they can say the n-word 😍😍😍

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What would Breaking Bad characters be like if they lived in Singapore? 🇸🇬 Thread 🧵

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This man (who is 4.11 and has no chin or neck) was married for two years, and only got divorced because _he cheated on his wife_ Never tell me it’s over

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25yr ago Christopher Lee made a movie where he played the first President of Pakistan and everyone in Pakistan loved it

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Dude looks like this yet couldn’t get another Superman movie made and got dumped by Netflix Still more successful than 99% of actors but there’s no reason why Pratt should be more successful than him

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“Hey guys, check out my REDESIGN of the British flag! It’s much SIMPLER. The current one isn’t SIMPLE enough because my mercury-poisoned toddler can’t draw it. And it’s UNIQUE and MEANINGFUL because the white stripe symbolizes the Dover cliffs!!” — Reddit 1850

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“We’re closing all the blinds at the office because viewing the eclipse can be dangerous for your eyes, unlike continuously staring at spreadsheets for nine hours a day.”

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imagine if president obama had dinner with some whackadoo black activist who said "kill all the white people" and you'll see how the press is severely underplaying trump's dinner w nick fuentes and what that means about the modern gop.

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Before the pandemic, Amazon carried every major brand of every major item. Now when you search for something, anything, the first n results are for cheap knockoffs. You have to scroll down to get to companies you’ve heard of. And they don’t carry Nike anymore

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Why is it always “the monarchy is an embarrassment for democracy” and never “democracy is an embarrassment for the monarchy” The monarchy was there first

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Meanwhile, back in the middle ages.

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All men have secret fantasies living at one of these four locations

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Underrated part of Trump’s appeal is that he’s just funny

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Straussian reading of Home Alone: Anglo-Saxon America defending the homestead from Eastern European and Mediterranean migration

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No. ToyBiz v US is the biggest SCOTUS decision in our lifetimes. Marvel argued that they shouldn’t have to pay an action figure tax on the X-Men because they “weren’t human” — thus setting precedent that genetic mutants may not be entitled to constitutional rights

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If #RoeVWade were overturned would you consider that the biggest Supreme Court decision of your lifetime?

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Someone has to be funding and organizing these people and it never gets investigated

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Ariel View - Atlanta Public Safety Training Center

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Every pop science article in the late 2000s and early 2010s was about this stuff

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Lots of Reddit posts along the lines of “why are there fewer trick-or-treaters around?” It’s because there are fewer CHILDREN around bro. The USA had a replacement-level TFR until 2008. And the remaining 1.64 is being carried by interior or Southern states

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Washington DC this week

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I’ve seen so many viral tweets of breast reduction surgery and now the national paper of record is talking about it? Is this a psyop or something

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I would honestly have more respect for the “Satanic Temple” if it actually was a death cult dedicated to worshiping Lucifer instead of a bunch of fedora-tipping redditors gaming the system out of contempt for nativity scenes because their parents dragged them to confirmation

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As many of you have become aware, last week a display was erected at the Iowa Capitol by the Satanic Temple of Iowa. As I have responded to concerns from Iowans about the display, I wanted to share with you how the display came to be and my response. How did it happen? • The

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Gone Girl is a movie about a man who didn’t kill his wife but should have

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If there’s evidence of “moral decline” it’s this. A small Oregon town gave the key to the city to a Japanese pilot who bombed them as a token of reconciliation. Reopening centuries-old wounds is not only disgraceful, but also bad for the soul

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The imminent destruction of the Arlington Reconciliation Monument is a disgrace to this nation and another victory for the foul cadre of anti-Americans polluting our civic body. Don't be fooled by their fake invocations of patriotism. They hate everything about this country.

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I really hate how since Covid, Apple keynotes have become Hollywood productions with editing and blocking. Was much more fun when Steve Jobs or Craig F or Phil Schiller would get on stage and say “here’s our new stuff, launching in the US this fall for $10,000 cable not included”

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In war resolution, in defeat defiance, in victory magnanimity, in peace goodwill. Winning wars requires manpower, industry, and strategy. Winning the peace requires humility and generosity

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“Let your wallets support art you like” — we are literally not allowed to. These types of public displays are decided by committees-appointed-by-committees to the nth power. If public works of art were accountable to a vote or some kind of free market you wouldn’t see such trash

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A new statue atop a New York City courthouse. The artist says it’s part of an “urgent and necessary cultural reckoning underway as New York reconsiders traditional representations of power in public spaces and recasts civic structures to better reflect 21st-century social mores.”

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