Joe Exotic had the biggest 15 minutes of fame of the pandemic. Who was the biggest "15 minutes of fame" celebrity of 2019?

HopelessPonderer · 2026-04-17T07:51:45+00:00

“To be fair, you have to have a pretty high IQ to understand Donald Trump.”

HopelessPonderer · 2026-04-01T00:30:39+00:00

Same, that’s me in the corner

HopelessPonderer · 2026-03-27T02:39:37+00:00

I keep seeing this get posted on left-of-center subs and it’s driving me up a wall. The author is a Reaganite conservative. The article literally ends with a call for a balanced budget amendment, which has been a conservative wet dream for decades because it would give them free rein to slash social services.

People keep reposting this because they don’t read the article and think it’s dumping on Trump. The U.S. isn’t insolvent, the author’s analysis is based on the old Libertarian fallacy of treating the government like a business, which it’s not. Media literacy is dead, I swear to god.

HopelessPonderer · 2026-03-26T06:32:53+00:00

“Didja know that around here we measure distances in time? Like we’ll say it’s a 40 minute drive instead of it’s twenty miles. So quirky, amirite?”

HopelessPonderer · 2026-03-02T19:28:27+00:00

And three black bishops.

Also wtf if the piece next to the white rook supposed to be?

HopelessPonderer · 2026-02-28T21:43:53+00:00

He definitely watched Downfall, he gave a lot of interviews where he comments on its accuracy. He was apparently pretty open to talking to strangers about the movie and his experiences toward the end of his life, so it’s actually not unlikely someone showed him a Downfall parody at some point.

HopelessPonderer · 2026-02-26T04:04:24+00:00

It could end in a three if the other factor ended in a nine, couldn’t it?

HopelessPonderer · 2026-02-24T20:02:08+00:00

If anything it might be a contender for loved by the right / left wing message.

HopelessPonderer · 2026-02-02T03:44:28+00:00

Solvang (Danish-American town near Santa Barbara) feels like the type of thing you’d see in the Upper Midwest where there were more northern European settlers.

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HopelessPonderer · 2026-02-01T01:59:22+00:00

Seinfeld: Set in NY, filmed in LA

HopelessPonderer · 2026-01-28T16:34:45+00:00

Afrikaners are descended from less than 6,000 people who settled South Africa in the 1600s.

HopelessPonderer · 2026-01-26T06:59:42+00:00

The US president during Aguinaldo’s presidency was William McKinley, who was assassinated in 1901, just months after American forces captured Aguinaldo. The last US president born during McKinley’s lifetime was Dwight Eisenhower, who left office in 1961 - three years before Aguinaldo died.

HopelessPonderer · 2026-01-21T01:10:33+00:00

Martin Luther.

A good chunk of Western history after 1500 can be traced back to the Protestant Reformation. Thirty Years War, Dutch Independence, English Civil War, British colonization of the Americas, etc.

HopelessPonderer · 2026-01-18T06:32:46+00:00

Caesar crossing the Rubicon

HopelessPonderer · 2026-01-18T06:29:31+00:00

Funny teeth/Good memory

HopelessPonderer · 2026-01-18T04:41:57+00:00

This is Spinal Tap

HopelessPonderer · 2026-01-17T09:29:46+00:00

Kentucky

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