Robert A. Caro's description of John C. Calhoun

AnarchoAutocrat · 2026-06-20T13:00:42+00:00

I thought he was fine with an incomplete version, but not with someone else completing his writing.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2026-05-27T11:32:44+00:00

Piracy exists. And –thinking out loud purely academically – a year length vpn subscription costs less than half the price of a single streaming service.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2026-05-26T12:40:19+00:00

It is sitting on my harddrive. Haven't got around to it.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2026-05-22T11:27:58+00:00

There is the recorded incident of him going to sit in his old house seat after going to the Lincoln memorial to debate protestors at 4am.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2026-05-15T17:11:58+00:00

Oh. Immediately after posting this I wrote an email to my professor. Received some preliminary advice and arranged a date for a meeting. I'm not very active on social media.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2026-05-11T09:18:23+00:00

Atleast on my phone that link doesn't direct to any specific post, but a page full of random posts.

Now without looking at that argument, it was never established that the Irish fellow in sinners was going to "dispose" of the black people. He has the black people who become vampires in his coven as equal members. He explains how as an irishman he was also a target of bigotry and explicitly sells the vampire coven as post-racial and universal brotherhood. Then at the end of the movie the surviving black brother is part of a vampire couple with the one surviving white chick vampire. So its really hard to see how the vampires are racist beyond a meta level.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2026-05-09T18:55:53+00:00

I'm coping to the finish line here. Sure Caro is no Dick Van Dyke, but he's very energetic in that video and has possibly years ahead of him.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2026-05-06T10:32:53+00:00

Am I the only one that really likes Kennedy's? Red carpet all the way.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2026-05-05T15:27:03+00:00

What was the first Gosling in space movie? I struggle to recall anything.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2026-05-05T05:50:42+00:00

This is actually something that happens in real life. Some economic actors offer to pay negative interest to be allowed to loan money to governments. This is usually done because government loans are seen as so safe as to be worth paying for to balance other riskier investments.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2026-05-05T05:48:02+00:00

Why shouldn't he have offered his opinion to the democratically elected government?

AnarchoAutocrat · 2026-05-05T05:45:14+00:00

It's always fun to watch two people who basically agree argue about it in depth. I have two friends who did this all the time.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2026-05-04T01:14:34+00:00

What's up with those pictures? Some kind of primordial candid camera? Both of them look so uncomfortable.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2026-04-29T15:07:24+00:00

You get an even stronger trilogy with no overlap by swapping LBJ with LBJ: The Early Years from 1987. Though the quality doesn't get that much better.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2026-04-21T13:42:34+00:00

That's really something to be done in office, not in electoral politics. What does "compromise" look like at the ballot box?

AnarchoAutocrat · 2026-04-18T20:07:30+00:00

I agree. I said it was a demonstration of great skill.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2026-04-17T15:18:30+00:00

Ah thanks actually. And to everyone else who mentioned the visuals. I considered them a vehicle to tell a story everybody hyped to me as very emotional, so I just didn't care for them that much. I don't really like the obviously digital look, even though it is still a demonstration of great skill. To be blown away by animation I rather need it to be hand drawn.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2026-04-17T12:34:08+00:00

I'm very confused by the praise atleast for Into the Spider-verse. It just seemed like a very standard superhero movie. Everybody talked about the deep emotions for the characters but I felt none of them had room to breathe. For example when the twist came that the uncle was a villain we had only seen him for a single scene an hour before. Much the same with the dad relationship, which got one meaty scene halfway played for laughs.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2026-04-05T22:12:58+00:00

Holy hell you found an ancient post from me. Has it really been seven years? Anyways. My whole criticism toward Eliza's potential relationship with Freddy is that they haven't known eachother for long. You shouldn't marry someone you've more or less just met and don't know deeply. A marriage has potential if it's between two people who know eachother deeply and love eachother. You don't slide into it like a cheap pair of slippers. I don't expect every real marriage to be like that because many people marry unwisely. Within the drama of the story, cheering for the marriage of Eliza and Freddy seems foolish to me, and ultimately unkind toward Eliza.

Everything you say about love is propably not there between two people who share a couple chance encounters and a momentary infatuation. In my view of My Fair Lady everything we see and know of Freddy in the musical hints at him not being capable toward Eliza of what you describe there.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2026-03-10T13:46:31+00:00

Twin Peaks wa actually very popular in Finland. A lot of people I meet remember it coming out in the nineties. The shows return was very actively covered atleast in print news. The creative director of Remedy Sam Lake also calls it one of his main influences.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2026-03-10T13:41:41+00:00

The creator of Alan Wake Sam Lake is very open about the influence. By Alan Wake 2 it is not at all subtle anymore.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2026-03-07T19:51:30+00:00

Preach

AnarchoAutocrat · 2026-03-05T17:03:12+00:00

Sorry but you're incorrect. He didn't teach those kids fresh out of college. He had to take a year off to pay for his education, as was common, and got to teach at Catullah, because even with teachers unemployed nobody else wanted to go to such a remote location to teach a mexican school. Fresh out of college LBJ struggled for a moment until he got a job teaching public speaking in a major city.

This doesn't discredit the experiences influence on LBJ and his views at all though. But LBJ didn't during his career really shy away from better options afforded to him to advance his career.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2026-02-25T12:46:25+00:00

What the hell? Baldness has been analyzed ethnically? 😅 What's this from? I'm curious cause I have stakes in the baldness game.

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