you’re correct about the public memory here but FDR was also racist!

i figured he is a huge john davis stan.

I assume this is an FDR reference, not an Al Smith reference.

i’m not a mamdani hater and i understand that meet the press isn’t the right venue for being a history pedant but the democratic party of 1926 was basically the opposite of what he’s gesturing towards here. like it’s hard to find a time when the D party meant less and was worth less than mid-1920s

please sir help my basketball team is very sick and also i hate it

The indeterminacy of the eschaton is meant to keep you focused on changing yourself today, right now- because no one knows when the hour will arrive.

This is why scriptures like the Qur’an and the Bible command the reader to prepare themselves for the Day of Judgment, not try and bring it about.

yes it's about whether you're relying solely on prophetic power or whether you think your prophetic power gives you the right to wield worldly power. definitely agree with this nuance.

As is so often the case with my posts, I realize I am paraphrasing something Arendt wrote already:

"The last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility."

ORIGINS, Preface, 1951

I'd like to think that when Socrates says the only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing, this is the most dangerous and most corrupted version of what he's attacking.

i dont think any idea has killed more people in human history than "we know how this will all end and are therefore obligated to bring it forth"

we need to remind people that claiming you hold a key to history -- that insisting you can see the future and that everyone else needs to get in-line and accept your prophecies or be doomed -- is either profoundly antisocial and irresponsible or, depending on your vibe, an example of a cardinal sin

im not saying we should return to pre-modern norms when it comes to speech but i am saying that for most of human history if you said the kind of stuff about "knowing" the future that sam altman says you'd be characterized by the proper authorities as a heretic and would need to flee for your life.

I might be remembering this wrong but I think he let some old monks flog him in public too.

they basically annoucned this like a year or more ago didnt they? i was under the impression it was known that he would play some alternative reality version where iron man becomes doctor doom

"was abraham lincoln actually a doombot", the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate

Daniel Plainview, Bill the Butcher, and Abraham Lincoln are all just versions of Doctor Doom.

In this essay,

Daniel Day Lewis has already been playing Doctor Doom for at least like 1/2 of his career.

The “USA as an Anglophone Protestant Latin American country” theory remains undefeated

Uhhh Howard Lutnick sitting courtside with Sixers owner Josh Harris and suddenly I'm a Celtics fan

one and only

josh harris is literally sitting courtside with lutnick? im not allowed to root for the celtics but i am allowed to root against the sixers. this is every philly fan's birthright.

ugh how did i forget jere burns. he steals every scene.

bsky.app/profile/elia...

she’s always the best.

having now seen the latest episode i really enjoyed how meta his plot was lol. everyone who has seen Long Term Parking was getting ptsd.

she got her own post

jeremy davies. kaitlyn dever. brad william henke. raymond j berry. jim beaver. stephen root. joelle carter. damon herriman. kevin rankin. fuck even nick searcy is perfect in his role. a preposterous season.

This is straightforwardly correct

most of the show is good, to be clear. some seasons are definitely just ok. but season 2? season 2 is fucking incredible. the cast alone is insane. an endless cavalcade of absolute top tier That Guys (gender neutral) working with absolutely killer writing.

margo. fucking. martindale.

now that’s an antagonist.

we used to be a real country.