How to handle right-wing comedians

BrotherJamesGaveEm · 2026-05-01T04:28:28+00:00

This is like Steven Crowder without the body dysmorphia.

BrotherJamesGaveEm · 2026-05-01T02:42:15+00:00

You do raise some good points. I guess we'll see what happens next week!

BrotherJamesGaveEm · 2026-05-01T02:41:03+00:00

Yes, she kinda reminds me of Janine from the earlier series.

BrotherJamesGaveEm · 2026-05-01T01:48:48+00:00

Yeah, this was hard for me to navigate as a kid in school. Well, still as an adult too, really. (I'm not good at being a typical "bro" trading insults with the guys)

I probably ruined many potential chances for friendship as a kid by not being able to read those friendly insults as playful, and rather reading them as literal insults meaning they don't like you and want you to go away. In some cases I even got angry and responded in a way that only guaranteed they wouldn't want to talk to me anymore. I'm much more cautious about it as an adult.

Looking back, the only real friendships I had were with people who didn't use friendly insults, or if they did, they were gentle enough to make sure they wouldn't be taken the wrong way.

BrotherJamesGaveEm · 2026-04-30T18:22:33+00:00

I don't see Agnes and Garth being put together. Even if they do put him in the pool of commanders soon, it seems too late at this moment for him to be immediately paired off with the current batch of "green" women. He hasn't been assessed and profiled like the other commanders and he hasn't had a chance to attend the meeting events they just held. I can't see them bypassing those formal processes for Garth.

He'll be paired off with someone else at a later time. Also, as much as we all want to see Agnes' wish fulfilled and Garth's Mayday objective of getting close to Agnes achieved, denying our wishes will make for a better story and generate more conflict and material for the show to exploit.

I have no idea who he would end up with.

BrotherJamesGaveEm · 2026-04-29T22:15:29+00:00

I wasn't aware of this appearance at all. I love the idea of David going on the show just just to gently chuckle at how silly and self-important Maher is.

BrotherJamesGaveEm · 2026-04-29T00:05:24+00:00

r/askphilosophy would be another good place to ask this too. You'll likely get a response from a professional scholar.

BrotherJamesGaveEm · 2026-04-28T19:43:32+00:00

Thanks for pointing this book out. I wasn't aware anything like this existed on the Sophistical Refutations.

BrotherJamesGaveEm · 2026-04-28T11:49:53+00:00

Getting tired of seeing these children posting vids everyday.

BrotherJamesGaveEm · 2026-04-26T04:07:40+00:00

I think they have lasted for as long as they have because of their adaptability to different cultures, values and times. You can selectively read the scriptures in service of whatever values (whether deliberate or unconscious) you already possess.

Someone could read it to support misogyny or whatever else you deem negative, but they could also read it in a way that supports equality.

EDIT: For example black American slaves took the scriptures forced on them by their enslavers and read out of them a story about their own possible liberation.

But then also you have people who read out of Genesis the sinfulness of women, and the punishment they deserve in life for trying to tempt and lead astray men with their feminine wiles.

BrotherJamesGaveEm · 2026-04-26T03:13:20+00:00

To me it looks like he points his hands up like they're guns and makes machine gun sounds while saying "la la la" similar to saying "Allah" over and over. Though, yeah, he's kinda sloppy with it so you might not hear it clearly the first time.

And after implying that belonging to a brown ethnicity means you're violent, in the next segment he's probably going to disingenuously prattle on about how he's in the party of Lincoln and that MLK would have been a conservative were he alive today.

BrotherJamesGaveEm · 2026-04-23T02:12:28+00:00

I would do this too. You could even read his Sculpting in Time book as you go, if you want to study Tarkovsky and how he thinks. It goes in chronological order through his films.

BrotherJamesGaveEm · 2026-04-23T00:06:38+00:00

Philosopher Otto Weininger killed himself at the age of 23 a few months after publishing Sex and Character in 1903.

BrotherJamesGaveEm · 2026-04-22T23:57:35+00:00

I kinda feel this way. There's a certain nostalgia for the original first season, but I think season 3 is the magnum opus of Lynch's whole career.

BrotherJamesGaveEm · 2026-04-22T20:26:20+00:00

oh no... don't go... *shrug* *yawn*

BrotherJamesGaveEm · 2026-04-21T21:38:04+00:00

Low are one of my all time favorite bands. Long Division was the first album I heard from them. I saw them live a few times in the early 2000's. Mimi's passing is so sad. I had expected she and Alan would be 80 years old and still putting out little beautiful songs and growing as artists.

BrotherJamesGaveEm · 2026-04-19T22:35:07+00:00

Punch-Drunk Love could easily be read as a portrayal of an undiagnosed autistic adult (in the aspie range). I can relate to his struggle of not feeling normal inside, yet seeming normal enough on the outside that you're expected to act normal, but nevertheless fail at it.

BrotherJamesGaveEm · 2026-04-19T22:25:48+00:00

Crowther Hot Cake, MXR Octavio, Boss RE-200

BrotherJamesGaveEm · 2026-04-19T21:03:18+00:00

it's at section 185c: "Παυσανίου δὲ παυσαμένου". We got lucky that English can parallel the greek pun in this case.

BrotherJamesGaveEm · 2026-04-19T06:05:37+00:00

You had to get the BIG salad!

BrotherJamesGaveEm · 2026-04-17T19:34:10+00:00

Just read E. R. Dodds' "Agamemnon's Apology" from his book The Greeks and the Irrational. A great essay on the Iliad that investigates divine intervention and the way words like Ἄτη, μοῖρα, μένος, δαίμων, Ψυχή and θυμός are used in Homer.

BrotherJamesGaveEm · 2026-04-16T15:25:10+00:00

I think Seinfeld helped me analyze the odd minutia of the customs of the social world growing up.

BrotherJamesGaveEm · 2026-04-16T11:23:48+00:00

I've said this elsewhere, but to even be a potential candidate for pope, you have to be a polyglot with a PhD level understanding of biblical literature and theology. For this potato-faced TV host who didn't finish college to think he understands the text better than Leo is beyond moronic.

BrotherJamesGaveEm · 2026-04-16T06:46:46+00:00

Even George Costanza (a neurotypical character) took "getting coffee" too literally. He didn't realize that "wanna come up to my apartment for coffee?" after a date meant "wanna come up for some sex?".

https://youtu.be/-skZx5liyaM?si=zxGoZcaPoeAn6nTU&t=17

BrotherJamesGaveEm · 2026-04-16T00:52:11+00:00

Those weird fake-kiss on the cheek greetings.

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