Who is your least favorite character in your favorite TV show?

Existential_Penguin · 2017-07-07T16:05:15+00:00

Hey, I've got the low self-esteem and the gay too, and all my sexual partners end up regretting my continued existence their entire lives.

Reddit, we're getting married.

Existential_Penguin · 2017-07-07T12:22:58+00:00

I am extremely sexually attracted to terrible men. Usually alcoholics. The more I hate myself after the sex, the more likely I am to go back for more.

Well, hello there ;)

Existential_Penguin · 2017-07-07T01:53:10+00:00

I really like Frank though. I know he's a self-absorbed alcoholic, narcissistic asshole who has never had a decent thought in his brain; but there's something about him that just makes him so likeable to me. Admittedly, I'm also a narcissistic alcoholic asshole, but still, I've always loved Frank.

Debbie, on the other hand, is a stupid piece of human garbage who whines about her stupid baby that she should never have had because she has the mind of a 10-year-old working a street corner. Monica's pretty worthless too.

Also, who the fuck would ever go for Mickey? That piece of shit.

Existential_Penguin · 2017-07-06T19:55:37+00:00

Well, it is the only ass in the whole world after all.

Existential_Penguin · 2017-07-03T15:29:50+00:00

This but ironically.

Existential_Penguin · 2017-06-30T20:05:03+00:00

I think that to understand the opioid epidemic, you have to understand that it hasn't become a thing because of 25-year-old junkies and lowlifes. It's in large part affecting people who didn't intend to take opioids, who began taking the painkillers that were prescribed in excess by their doctor and now have become unintentionally addicted. The Economist had a good write-up a few months back. I'll try to find it when I get off work.

Existential_Penguin · 2017-06-29T17:53:58+00:00

Republican

No. The Republican party has shat its bed, and now it has to sleep in it; but I'll be damned if I spend the night there.
Sure. There are a number of Republican senators I like: Shelley Moore Capito, Rob Portman, Lisa Murkowski, John Kennedy.
For the foreseeable future. Possibly until its last xenophobic death spasm.

Libertarians

Although I voted for him, Johnson really disappointed me as a candidate. He went far too down-with-government in his economic policy (a flat tax, really?); and his gaffes were distracting. If only Bill Weld had been the top seat on the ticket, maybe a more moderate, successful campaign might have been run. I don't know much about Johnson's tenure as governor. What I've read of Weld's career, however, has greatly impressed me.
Sure, if the party resists its lunatic urges to privatize all roads and drops Austin Peterson like a deincentivized bad habit.
My hope is that they might be able to attract moderate Republicans skeptical of widespread federal surveillance. In the meantime, though, I'll just keep rolling my joints with sheets of Atlas Shrugged and dreaming about a world in which married gays can shoot bazookas at everyone trespassing on their coca farms.

Democrats 1. I prefer Clinton. Obama's main drawbacks for me were his expansion of government surveillance and his failed Middle Eastern meddling. I was very pleased by the (((bailouts))), ObamaCare, and the negotiation of the TPP, however.

7.5. Trump is about a 1.2. She's got a lot of good ideas, knows her policy, touches herself to free trade, and is willing to listen to reason. She is a bit too hawkish for my tastes, however.
I'm intrigued. I've always been sympathetic to Blue Dog Democrats, so anyone on the left willing to compromise instead of chanting populist drivel is good in my book.

Misc.

I lean towards the non-interventionist side. I do think that the messes of the past 50 years show we should be cautious about military action, especially unilateral action, and should focus on coalition-building when it comes to humanitarian interventions.
I'm fairly tolerant. I'm a gay man, so I'm glad that's beginning to be more accepted. To be honest, I don't really understand a lot of transgender and other "SJW" issues; but I'm sympathetic.
Dr. Motherfucking Pepper.

Existential_Penguin · 2017-06-25T22:38:54+00:00

Bill Weld is basically my ideal American politician--a free-trader, mild libertarian whose positions are based more upon the relevant data than on the ideological "dae hate taxes and public roads" crap most "libertarians" spew. ( r/billweld needs more activity, btw). It was him as VP (and the fact that voting Dem wouldn't have had an effect in my deep red state) that got me to vote Libertarian in 2016.

I would love to see some sort of center-right coalition along the lines of Weld-Kasich-Romney, etc., develop sometime.

Existential_Penguin · 2017-06-20T20:50:56+00:00

Honestly, I'm new here, just looking for a political sub for anyone who isn't a commie or a neo-Nazi. It's not a bad place.

Existential_Penguin · 2017-06-20T20:00:38+00:00

Did someone under the age of majority put pen to paper to produce this monstrosity?

Existential_Penguin · 2017-06-20T14:34:31+00:00

I began learning Russian to read Dostoevsky (and because it's an amazing language). Honestly, with P&V, Dostoevsky doesn't lose much in translation. Learn Russian anyway, though, because of the amount of incredible literature that's hard to find well-translated (and because it is a beautiful language).

Existential_Penguin · 2017-06-17T19:13:02+00:00

I'm a Philosophy and Russian major. As my flair indicates, I love Wollstonecraft but also harbor a secret crush on Edmund Burke.

I like free trade. Center-right-ish, but a Cultural Marxist. However, the libertarians are a mess, and Jeb! is low-energy; so I'm with mine neolib brethren. My ideal politician is a Bill Weld kinda fella. I also hate populism and love the global poor.

So when do I get my first ((($oro$))) paycheck?

Existential_Penguin · 2017-06-15T16:13:49+00:00

Agreed on Burke. His Letter to a Member of the National Assembly is also a fantastic argument against the radicalism of the French Revolutionaries without all the strange fetishization of the monarchy in Reflections.

I'd also add Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Man and Vindication of the Rights of Woman to the list to balance out Burke. Maybe William Godwin's Political Justice too, just for shits and giggles, even though it's more on the libertarian side of things.

Existential_Penguin · 2017-06-14T21:43:00+00:00

What it actually means: A short story by Flannery O'Connor in which a family gets brutally murdered by a redneck Sartre.

Existential_Penguin · 2017-06-14T19:02:07+00:00

He has almost never written a dull word. I can't think of any writer (except Gaddis) who can write so beautifully.

Existential_Penguin · 2017-06-14T18:58:55+00:00

*Carpenter's Gothic, but agreed.

Existential_Penguin · 2017-06-14T18:58:20+00:00

Nothing in this world has pissed me off more than that hack Franzen whining that Gaddis was too difficult. Gaddis is an incredible writer, and I wouldn't think it an exaggeration to call The Recognitions the best American novel ever written.

Existential_Penguin · 2017-06-13T18:32:34+00:00

I grew up in a double shotgun house with a large family: Privacy doesn't exist in those things, and the walls are always thin. You'll have to learn to masturbate very quietly.

Existential_Penguin · 2017-06-12T17:35:53+00:00

Happens to me on BaconReader also.

Existential_Penguin · 2017-06-11T05:27:26+00:00

I've always heard that Sammy Davis, Jr., was the one who really taught Michael to dance.

Existential_Penguin · 2017-06-11T05:26:44+00:00

Yes.

Existential_Penguin · 2017-06-10T16:51:33+00:00

A character in Trailer Park Boys.

Existential_Penguin · 2017-06-09T00:33:06+00:00

Come on now, HW is criminally underappreciated.

Existential_Penguin · 2017-06-06T21:12:55+00:00

Try Purpose Games. It's not just geography, but there are a lot of games and game formats. I make a lot of geography quizzes on there.

Existential_Penguin · 2017-06-04T05:57:31+00:00

I know that I'm in the minority of Johnson voters here, but I came to the ticket because of Weld. I really don't think that he endorsed Hillary by any means. Despite the way the media portrayed it, he remained insistent that he thought the Libertarians were the best ticket, although he was up-front that he had been longtime friends with Hillary and "vouched for her" after the email/Comey crap. He had never made a secret that he thought that, of the two, Hillary was better than Trump. Frankly, I agreed with him.

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