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reenchanted.bsky.social
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@reenchanted.bsky.social
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Geek. Musician. Technologist. Writer. Game Designer. Follower of Jesus. Friendly neighborhood fact-checker.
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“The age of toys is what? Over”
Green army soldiers from Toy Story bring the radio
November 12, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Bow down to him if you want, bow to him. Bow to the King of Slime, the King of Filth, the King of Putrescence. Boo. Boo. Rubbish. Filth. Slime. Muck. Boo. Boo. Boo.
The King of Muck
October 19, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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I used the communism to destroy the communism
October 16, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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This is going back a bit, but I was always a fan of Leonardo da Vinci. He was a man of many talents, including an artist and inventor.

Not American enough, you might say? Well, he did dream up the tank and the helicopter, so that’s… pretty American.
The ariel screw, an early design for a helicopter. An early tank design.
October 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Me internally every time someone claims that they or someone they defend are only being opposed for “speaking the truth”:
“Are they, though?”
September 28, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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That’s some weird-looking forgiveness. Is this from of those fancy new Bible translations?
“As we forgive those that trespass against us” at the point of a rifle.
September 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Women yelling at cat meme: The women point out that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech. The cat, wearing a crown and looking like he’s had a recent orange spray-tan, says “What’s a ‘congress’? What’s a ‘law’?”
September 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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TREE

The screenshot actually reminds me a lot of The Battle of Olympus (NES).
Battle of Olympus (NES, 1988)
August 14, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Four hats of the apocalypse…
The Lincoln Stovepipe. The Indy fedora. The Gandalf. The speechless Pancake.
August 14, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Looks a lot like the spot from my profile banner right now, haha.
A photo from the north Michigan coastline, flipped upside down for artistic license because I thought it looked cool. :-)
July 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Who wore it better?
Steiner from Final Fantasy 9, a guyliner-wearing staunch traditionalist that eventually learns to question his previous values and challenge his authoritarian leader to become a true hero. J.D.Vance from the current administration’s fantasy football league, a guyliner-wearing staunch traditionalist that eventually learns to question his previous values and embrace his authoritarian leader to become a true heel.
July 21, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Robo Hitler? Time to call B.J. Blazkowicz.
Mechahitler from the original Wolfensctein 3D.
July 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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A new challenger!

Edgar Allen Poe enters the fight!
A Poe from Zelda: Ocarina of Time
July 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Never read the book, but I had this comic.
Comic of God’s Smuggler, featuring Brother Andrew.
June 29, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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It all makes sense now. The boats were afraid of bees.
Example of a boat with dazzle camouflage, which makes it harder to gauge the direction and speed of a boat. And also confuses bees, perhaps?
June 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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I reject the assertion that Vought is Wheaton’s finest. 🍅🙃
Phil Vischer as a vegetable. https://www.reddit.com/r/VeggieTalesMemes/s/0qSqb4QBuz
June 26, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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You know Thor? Yeah. Tall guy, not that good looking, needed saving.
June 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Perfect. Love it!

The idea of Paul caring so much about Western Civilization is a nice touch.

Everybody asks “How is Western Civilization?” but no one asks, “Why is Western Civilization?”

Meanwhile, Western “Civilization”:
Western Civilization crucifying Jesus of Nazareth. Western Civilization crucifying Christian martyrs.
June 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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He said “no tag-backs”, so it’s fine.
@realDonaldTrump We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. All planes are now outside of Iran air space. A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow. All planes are safely on their way home. Congratulations to our great American Warriors. There is not another military in the World that could have done this. NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE! Thank you for your attention to this matter.
June 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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I love that in the new DK Bananza game, they gave DK a flight form via animal transformation, and I imagine the design meeting on that was like…

Boss: Ok, so what if we make him a kind of flying bird…?

Guy in the back: an ostrich

…and they just all said “yes, perfect” and actually went with it.
Donkey Kong flying around as a famously flightless bird, an ostrich.
June 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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ICE: But you *knew* I would dress up like a protestor, which means *you* can’t be a protestor, so you must be… ICE!
Vizzini tries to out-logic the Dread Pirate Roberts.
June 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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His point about being a “native American” is important to his philosophy, so much that his profile describes himself as a “Heritage American”.

I had hoped for a generous interpretation of his meaning, but he left me no such generosity, as he explained it all quite thoroughly for all to see:

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C.Jay Engel @contramordor When I say Heritage American, this is what l mean: those who are ethno-culturally tied to the ethos and spirit of the United States prior to its definitional transformation into a Propositional Nation after World War II. This therefore includes the type of people that came here during the Ellis Island generation, even if that was a significant sociopolitical mistake. We are also the product of our mistakes as a nation. It includes the blacks of the Old South (like Booker T Washington), though it repudiates any instinct that some of them have to leverage their experience for the purposes of political guilt in our time. It also includes integrated Native Americans with the same stipulation. It affirms however the domination and preeminence of the European derived peoples, their institutions, and their way of life. Heritage America is centered around the experiences and norms of Anglo-Protestants. It was their customs, their instincts, their priorities, their norms, their struggles, their perspectives, that set the tone and vision of Heritage America. Anything outside of that either assimilated or was killed off. When we speak of heritage America, we speak of an actual body of institutions created by a nexus of a specific people; dominated and defined by Anglos and their children. It is not an idea, it is a body of actual ways and habits and standards of culture and behavior, connected by a shared experience and the inheritance of that memory. It is communicated by certain aesthetics, certain art, certain, folklore, certain music, and certain symbols. Excludes all of the items in those categories that are not consistent with the character of our version of them. Heritage America has strong ethnic, correlations—and even types of hierarchies— but it is not racially essentialist in an absolutist way (after all we are not social rationalists). However, I should also note that this does not preclude any ethnic consciousness that might be necessary to confront the ethnic consciousness of the left in their own definition of friends and enemies. The point is that heritage America affirms the basic goodness and defensibility of America as it existed prior to World War II and defined itself in light of a shared experience of an actual people, not mere propositions voluntarily assented to. To support heritage America is to consider all the various factions (Yankee vs Dixie or Whig vs Democrat) as part of our story and Mosaic. In other words, we don't let outsiders make us pick sides on those things. It is a charming series of tensions that is only appropriate for heritage Americans to debate about. Once we are critiqued by the outsiders, we stand together and affirm the goodness of it all. Heritage America, of course, is most consistent with anglo Protestantism. But that does not mean that all groups outside of that core are equally dangerous to it. There is a spectrum at play wherein some peoples are less threatening to its ethos than others. There is a high correlation between that spectrum and the broadening circles extending out from Western Europe. Such that peoples like Indians, or South East Asians or Ecuadorians or immigrated Africans are the least capable of fitting in and should be sent home immediately. Whereas groups, like Irish or Italians or Catholics may not fit the original core, but were closer on the spectrum, being Europeans. All politics is contextual and situational. All that to say, the key period is after World War II. That's when we transformed from a people with a shared way of life to a propositional nation constituted by mere abstract "values."
June 15, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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A quick glance of his recent posts are horrific.

I can’t even describe this, so I’ll just show a few.

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America needs to abandon the melting pot. Reconquista now. Postwar conservatives still think we can address Replacement Migration without unprecedented levels of domestic militarism. If I told you five years ago that the Overton window would shift to stopping legal immigration you would've thought me crazy. So believe me when I tell you that within three years, we will be talking about retroactively canceling citizenship status of anchor babies from the third world. Miller understands that culture matters more than anything. Nations can survive bankruptcy. Nations cannot survive Replacement Migration. I'm a Native American and I stand with ICE. (When challenged on this claim): Yes I am. My ancestors were settlers who created America lol
June 15, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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hmm yes the bribes here is made out of bribes
June 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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in the same period McGee received his $16,000, Musk became the richest man on earth, the real-life Mega Rich Light-Bending Guy, a man whose immense gravity bought the US government and whose royal chainsaw chopped down all of Sherwood.

And this is how he treats his *friends* who build his platform?
The Mega Rich Light-Bending Guy featured in Disco Elysium.
June 7, 2025 at 12:53 AM