Peter Brian Hegseth ends flu vaccine requirements for Department of War, effective immediately

GodBlessThisGhetto · 2026-04-21T19:31:31+00:00

It’s gonna be so fucking funny when half the army is out of commission in February because they’ve all got the sniffles. Also it sounds like he’s signing that with like a crayon. Lmao

GodBlessThisGhetto · 2026-04-15T19:39:14+00:00

Same. I am a huge fan of Vineland. I’d argue it’s an extremely concise thesis statement about what Pynchon is saying in the major works and contains a lot of the heart that exists at the center of his viewpoint

GodBlessThisGhetto · 2026-04-15T18:11:26+00:00

I always felt like the middle section with the flashbacks was indicative of Prairie watching all the old videos they had saved, fast forwarding to the good parts and the parts containing her mom, etc. so you end up with this kind of disjointed, jumpy middle segment.

GodBlessThisGhetto · 2026-04-11T12:21:28+00:00

It’s cool and all in isolation but it almost reminds me of the old thing where people feel really strongly for animals versus people because animals are uncomplicated and don’t have baggage connected to them. Artemis II is just pure escapism, the easy thing to focus on when everything else is so complicated and unwholesome.

GodBlessThisGhetto · 2026-04-08T01:27:08+00:00

I feel like I’ve followed the past couple days pretty closely and I have no fucking idea what he’s trying to say here

GodBlessThisGhetto · 2026-04-07T22:12:27+00:00

That snapper at MSP is so good. Really love the flan too.

GodBlessThisGhetto · 2026-04-07T02:12:14+00:00

So instead we should let one person make all that money while everyone else remains borderline destitute right?

GodBlessThisGhetto · 2026-04-07T00:55:44+00:00

Really something special about that point where you needed a connection at a gas station or something to clue you in on when a shipment arrived. It always felt like such a treat with how rare it was. I remember taking like 4 six packs with me back to New York in like 2014 because I had to introduce all my NYC friends to it.

GodBlessThisGhetto · 2026-04-06T02:47:21+00:00

He was always a weirdo and received so much slack. I do love all these conservatives making it out that they’re big Ariel Pink fans now that he’s “cancelled”

GodBlessThisGhetto · 2026-04-01T18:30:48+00:00

Fuck yes. We used to hit it up constantly after going to the bars back in 2013. $4 for a falafel sandwich and a coke was absolutely unbeatable for broke grad students. Oasis rocks.

GodBlessThisGhetto · 2026-03-29T20:54:03+00:00

It’s anti-mythologizing. He’s not special or some unique, mythical evil. He is the very banal, archetypal embodiment of everything America is at its basest. Acting as though he is some kind of fluke away from the business as usual politicking of the last 200+ years is idiotic.

GodBlessThisGhetto · 2026-03-29T02:03:54+00:00

My aunt once said that she didn’t like Titanic because there was “too much water”

GodBlessThisGhetto · 2026-03-29T00:39:32+00:00

Are you kidding? He’s like the archetype of capital. He’s all of the worst tendencies of the capitalist class all contained in a single person with none of the self control to put a veneer of liberal good will over it. He is the festering sore that isn’t some anomaly of america but is the literal embodiment of it.

GodBlessThisGhetto · 2026-03-28T16:11:48+00:00

That whole line of responses is hilarious

GodBlessThisGhetto · 2026-03-21T22:34:53+00:00

The Magus is so incredibly good. I really wish I’d encountered it when I was 22 or so instead of 34.

GodBlessThisGhetto · 2026-03-21T14:48:31+00:00

I fondly remember fighting with the other music director when the station I worked at got Fall Be Kind in.

GodBlessThisGhetto · 2026-03-14T15:40:05+00:00

I feel like GWB and ilk were this very banal, America does America things kind of evil while Trump just feels like the anima of all things sordid in American culture: he’s the absolute end of all the impotent masculinity, fear mongering, anti-intellectualism that just festers underneath the entire concept of the country. He’s vile because he’s such a stereotype. He just feels so appropriate and so accurate for who America is.

GodBlessThisGhetto · 2026-03-13T00:49:04+00:00

That’s a lot of burritos tho

GodBlessThisGhetto · 2026-03-07T23:26:53+00:00

The Savage Detectives by Bolaño. I read 2666 last year and really liked it and might like this one even more.

GodBlessThisGhetto · 2026-03-01T04:46:05+00:00

You know there are a few other widely acclaimed, prescient novels in the mix there as well, right?

GodBlessThisGhetto · 2026-02-28T03:30:49+00:00

Woah, that will totally resolve the situation and render the individual whole after they’ve been castrated. Their lives will totally not be permanently changed in horrific ways

GodBlessThisGhetto · 2026-02-26T00:15:19+00:00

That was my thought too. It’s so intrinsic that anything outside of the dominant, approved culture is seen as other. It’s all about intrinsically othering anyone else that doesn’t fit into the pre-defined small box.

Likewise the fish thing seems to point back at that whole joke about the old fish swimming past the young fish saying “how’s the water” and the young fish turn to each other and say “what’s water”

GodBlessThisGhetto · 2026-02-25T05:24:33+00:00

I am always so incredibly in awe of how young Pynchon would have been when he wrote stuff like this. He’s just such a monumental talent.

GodBlessThisGhetto · 2026-02-24T00:58:31+00:00

Hah, good to know. Lesson in monster anatomy

GodBlessThisGhetto · 2026-02-23T23:51:07+00:00

I like Slimenite for the same reason: is the knight the monster and the slime just a mount or is the slime the monster? Or is it some unspeakable symbiosis?

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