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  • It’s infuriating how stupid and wrong JD Vance is.

    First, “people” didn’t take Kirk’s life. One person did. Nobody else knew about it beforehand.

    Second, we don’t know exactly how the shooter identified because he hasn’t said.

    Third, even if he recently identified as left-wing for a year, the entire rest of his life, he was right-wing.

    Fourth, a single person, acting alone, cannot be used to make conclusions about a group they are a member of. You have to know the context of the group.

    Left-wing people’s mainstream rhetoric is significantly less violent than right-wing people’s mainstream rhetoric. That’s why it’s natural to assume that his actions were motivated by his right-wing upbringing, regardless of where his motivations came from.


  • I recently watched a couple of videos from celebrities who met Donald Trump back in the day. To make a short story even shorter, they said that in private, Trump simply won’t stop talking, and the only thing he wants to talk about is himself.

    I know that we’ve all seen him act like that, and we probably assumed he was just always like that, but if he won’t even show the slightest interest in a big celebrity because he’s too busy talking about himself, then that’s more evidence that he’s just always like that.

    And to tie it back to the topic, a person who acts like that cannot possibly make any actual friends. It’s difficult to imagine that anybody in the world has ever actually thought of Donald Trump as a personal friend. He’s just a guy who is tolerated because you think you can get some money out of him.










  • Relatively little is known about Pynchon’s private life; he has carefully avoided contact with reporters for more than fifty years. Only a few photos of him are known to exist, nearly all from his high school and college days, and his whereabouts have often remained undisclosed.

    A 1963 review of V. in The New York Times Book Review described Pynchon as “a recluse” living in Mexico, thereby introducing the media label with which journalists have characterized him throughout his career.

    He’s living the dream.










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    I’m way too old to be a Millennial, so I obviously can’t directly sympathize, but the ridiculous prices today really trigger the introvert side of me. I have this strong desire to move somewhere that land is still very cheap and become a crazy hermit who lives in a shed or something.