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gallandguile @gallandguile.bsky.social · 21h

I mean I didn't like the guy either but... sheesh

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

gallandguile @gallandguile.bsky.social · 1d

Remember that they hate you, and only they are allowed to say they hate you, and if we ever get it back we must treat them like they hate us

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

After bragging about permanently cutting "Democrat programs," Trump says "we're not closing up Republican programs."

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

If I send you this, know I’ve lost my shit

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Butlerian Jihaad Campbell @severedlimb.bsky.social · 1d

Last dude literally a far side character

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gallandguile @gallandguile.bsky.social · 1d

Tldr; fatty fatty fat fat

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gallandguile @gallandguile.bsky.social · 1d

Look at the first ones rosey cheeks

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gallandguile @gallandguile.bsky.social · 1d

@mrpussy.xyz

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gallandguile @gallandguile.bsky.social · 1d

Is there a lot to say about that Politico story about the horrible racist Hitlerite group chat that every single young Republican aspirant was part of? Sure. But the thing that pops out to me is how every single one of these nerds has rolling backpack/wears a suit to school/asthma kid physiognomy

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gallandguile @gallandguile.bsky.social · 1d

One of the biggest wins for Republicans is that they don't have to pretend to like Guy Stuff anymore. Lindsey Graham doesn't have to pretend to watch baseball. The party has been ideologically captured by smelly unpopular wheely backpack guys who loathe sports and jocks. I mean check this shit out

gallandguile @gallandguile.bsky.social · 1d

We live at the mercy of Internet-Americans. The only thing that exists in the world is computer

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

gallandguile @gallandguile.bsky.social · 1d

I mean... I guess, but isn't the two-spirit thing completely concocted postmodern hooey

gallandguile @gallandguile.bsky.social · 1d

Baseball

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 1d

what in the hell just happened in Milwaukee

gallandguile @gallandguile.bsky.social · 1d

Damn dude. Mariners are using the power of friendship. It's actually happening

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gallandguile @gallandguile.bsky.social · 2d

One thing I think about a lot in regards to Columbus is: do you know what an insane piece of shit you had to be to have had as bad a reputation as he did among your contemporaries IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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gallandguile @gallandguile.bsky.social · 2d

Legit: Guglielmo Marconi

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

gallandguile @gallandguile.bsky.social · 2d

Yes and also Images You Can Hear

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gallandguile @gallandguile.bsky.social · 2d

I love talking to Republicans about frankly treasonous Trumpist-era executive corruption only for them to dismissively respond "You've clearly never heard of The Trispecticus Project" and it ends up being specious allegations that Eric Holder misused his McDonald's discount app in 2009

gallandguile @gallandguile.bsky.social · 2d

They didn't test this one at all. No paycheck unless I accept a king, huh

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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gallandguile @gallandguile.bsky.social · 2d

He needs it to be 2019 again so bad. He almost had a point half a decade ago. Things were crazy. Now they are not and everyone knows to be good behavior around the tattletale dork crybaby. Sorry buddy times have changed everyone knows you're a bitch

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 2d

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

gallandguile @gallandguile.bsky.social · 2d

Mariners low key have one of the best road uniforms in sports. Even their ugly ad looks kind of cool

gallandguile @gallandguile.bsky.social · 3d

That ChatGPT commercial where it superimposes a chat about coming up with a recipe to impress a girl while the guy makes the recipe to impress the girl is maybe one of the bleakest and saddest things I've ever seen and it makes me not want to use AI ever. Fucking hell.

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gallandguile @gallandguile.bsky.social · 3d

Why does he have such girlish shoulders

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

BARTIROMO: What is the function of this Qatar facility? People are wondering if this is an airbase. What are they developing in Idaho?

VANCE: This is largely a fake story

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gallandguile @gallandguile.bsky.social · 3d

I'm serious: someone has to get Thiel to watch The Boondocks Saints. Imagine the discourse

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

gallandguile @gallandguile.bsky.social · 3d

Did you get it from Dobby Club

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