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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 10h

more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bs... 3h well ialways said this was gonna happen eventually but Sti/f very sad to learn that hell burned down

particle dogs @particledogs.bsky.so... 3h Is everyone okay?

more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social
you're thinking of purgatory
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david tveite @tveite.bsky.social · 9h

"here's what pokémon tells us about the biblical antichrist" is something we should be seeing from a teenage youtuber with 108 followers not a billionaire amphibian who owns most of the people in the white house

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david tveite @tveite.bsky.social · 9h

i like comics too but it's disturbing to me that none of these guys seem to read books that don't have pictures in them

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 16h

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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david tveite @tveite.bsky.social · 1d

i love fan photos with cal raleigh where the fan looks more like a pro athlete than cal raleigh does

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david tveite @tveite.bsky.social · 1d

(russian accent) "mister baseball"

david tveite @tveite.bsky.social · 1d

um excuse me but in the past decade they have made two THE ACCOUNTANT movies

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1d

Entire way of experiencing movies that zoomers will never remember, that people my age barely remember, where you watched something because it was on. Feels like there is an entire genre of movie that was meant to be seen in that format. You couldn’t make Swordfish (2001) today.

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david tveite @tveite.bsky.social · 1d

if a blair witch ever tried to do blair witch shit to me i would knock its ass out

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david tveite @tveite.bsky.social · 1d

i shudder to imagine the twisted doctor who sends a depressed man to see the joker

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david tveite @tveite.bsky.social · 1d

the joker may laugh a lot but i don't think he's really that happy of a guy

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david tveite @tveite.bsky.social · 1d

it's so funny that now there's just a nonstop flaming lips concert outside the portland ice building

kamimagic @kamimagic.bsky.social · 2d

I found the agitators! They are 2 unicorns, giraffe, canary, panda, mouse, dinosaur, mouse, Stitch, and the frog! And they are right outside of Portland's ICE facility! 🤣🤣🤣

#ProudBlue

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Maureen Jice @jane.meangirls.online · 1d

the freaking Portland protest frog is warming up in the pen

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david tveite @tveite.bsky.social · 1d

baseball is designed to make its fans feel like shit and that is what's good about it

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david tveite @tveite.bsky.social · 2d

you're making stone cold the ref? at a pay per view, no less? this is the stone cold who hasn't been trained as a referee, who drinks on the job, and who has significant conflicts of interest regarding both competitors? yeah i bet that'll go GREAT. 🙄

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david tveite @tveite.bsky.social · 2d

anytime they announce a special guest referee for a pro wrestling match i'm like "oh great there goes professionalism right out the dang window"

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 3d

Pretty confused by how TRON became a big-budget movie franchise. Was it a bit hit when it came out? No. Did it become a big hit on video/TV? Also no. Do people have fond nostalgic memories of it? Eh kinda but not really. Was it secretly great and critically acclaimed? No again

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david tveite @tveite.bsky.social · 3d

i am not even a phillies fan and this made me want to die, how do you think this pitcher feels

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely brutal way for the Phillies to lose, Dodgers win the series

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david tveite @tveite.bsky.social · 3d

dodgers fans going nuts for fly balls that end up dying like 100 feet short of the wall. fucking idiots.

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david tveite @tveite.bsky.social · 3d

"oh no, not my girlfriend!"

- founder of antifa

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david tveite @tveite.bsky.social · 3d

why is terry o'quinn in this

scaryssa walmart dog @meo.bsky.social · 3d

how do u even compete with this level of propaganda. and why tf do these vril guys love tatu so much

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david tveite @tveite.bsky.social · 3d

love to see it

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david tveite @tveite.bsky.social · 3d

in her what

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david tveite @tveite.bsky.social · 3d

we have arrested the governor of socialism's situationship

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david tveite @tveite.bsky.social · 3d

at times tediously so!

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david tveite @tveite.bsky.social · 3d

would you believe me if i told you that this book of short stories based on stephen king's the stand had some really good stuff in it and was also way too long

david tveite @tveite.bsky.social · 23d

i'm like 5-6 stories in but this is fuckin really good so far.

It's a book called the end of the world as we know it, new tales of Stephen king's the stand

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david tveite @tveite.bsky.social · 3d

nope, fool me once and so on

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