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eugene, oregon • cruiser on a beater • bookish hippie • great great great great grandson of isaac harby • rorty-esque flexibility in my anticipatory resoluteness • progressive • choice • LGBTQIA2S+ • BLM • fight fascism • social media doggerel • he/him/old

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · Nov 22

January 2017 — March 2020
every Tuesday, Eugene, OR
(i need to make another sign)

two old guys standing on an urban corner with protest signs against trump and climate denial

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 9m

i guess i'm happy the resultant flop sweat is a goddam movie that exposes what pathetic monsters they are.

henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 16m

Already fantasizing Sabrina and the Sabally sisters as core member of a new WNBA franchise in weird and 'war-torn'
(Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha)
Portland.

Love to see the Oregon duck joining the inflated creatures at the fed bldg in Portland.

henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 50m

it is my understanding of the United States Constitution, that there are several members of the US Supreme Court who are suspected of being accessories to murder, in several cases, per trump's attacks on (suspected) drug running ships at sea.

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 6h

Mike Johnson makes his little joke about the Portland naked bike ride in the face of a question about the violence and abuses of the ICE gestapo, et al.

it reminds me of what Sartre said about antisemites and their lack of seriousness and their snark about being murdering monsters.

henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 6h

morning thought, later morning: unless it is mostly an act, it is rather disappointing that Joe Rogan's consciousness appears to be dim on important things. sometimes he's resolute, but it fades out pretty quickly, mostly forgotten.

henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 1d

hey kids, it's time again to play "who goes nazi?"

henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 1d

scotus gonna do their "You get kings, losers" deliberations Wednesday before We, the People go
"Again, you goddam shitty fascists, no kings."

henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 1d

At this point, all they've got to say is:

"Look we're thieves, okay? We hold these jobs to steal from the American people, in any way we can. We hire people to help us steal from the American people. That's what we consider our jobs to be."

henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 1d

morning thought:

going to be entertaining to see how the idea that there is no king of America is going to be demonized as communist or whatever.

All week.

(These fucking fascist Republicans, damn.)

henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 1d

pitchin' and the Big Dumper took it.

henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 2d

yummers! that's the way we like them in our house.

henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 2d

my partner did the same back in the 70s.

henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 2d

ie, today, caution, "danger will robinson"

Poppy in PDX @cdbeee.bsky.social · 2d

Tomorrow, 10/12, Sunday, pay attention PDX protesters, be wary of anyone new.

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 2d

projections of weird similarity to james comey energy

henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 2d

i think it's a bot.

henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 2d

a moment of random assessment:

still on track to be babbling and drooling before the end of the year.

and will corporate media keep riding along trying to clean up that mess?

henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 2d

ah, Portland, they'll never take weird away from you. Your freedom will out! Thank you!

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 2d

Shorter Stephanopoulos: "Oh, shut the fuck up, you snide, lying asshole, and we'll be right back."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

oh this guy is delusional delusional

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

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.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

have been thinking of rewatching THE FIRST PURGE in light of the federal paramilitaries trying to instigate violence and provoke a reaction from americans

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 2d

this story sounds like a New Coke ad.

henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 2d

in my feed, mikie here is stacked right below vance on army pay.

two sociopaths in a row.

it's just a goddam shame that presidential replacements 1 and 2 are these sick fucks.

henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 2d

anyone who, by this time, doesn't realize this guy is a lying sociopath — welp, i would say they really need some sort of transformational growth and development from somewhere, from someone.

henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 2d

my thoughts exactly. trump's statement parallels the firings and chaos those incompetent and deranged people he put in charge of the FBI. they are "cleaning out the deep state," witch-hunting whatever integrity there was out of the agency.

henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 2d

'nuther morning thought:

the nixon tuh raygun transition (as The Firesign Theatre so aptly described it, "we're bringing the war back home!") got nuttin' on our trumpian nightmare.

tho a lot of us are just "finding ourselves here," it doesn't mean we can't stop this cruelty.

resist.

October 18.