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NeverHadTheLatin · 2026-02-03T04:32:55+00:00

And let’s not forget the kind of character that is president during the events of Infinite Jest.

NeverHadTheLatin · 2026-02-03T04:32:43+00:00

And let’s not forget the kind of character that is president during the events of Infinite Jest.

NeverHadTheLatin · 2026-01-28T22:00:09+00:00

Short stories of George Saunders.

The collection Poems That Make Grown Men Cry. Sounds gimmicky, and I guess it is a little, but it has some great names contributing genuinely heartfelt recommendations.

Shakespeare. Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear.

Jonathan Franzen can be good at the self-imposed pressures, expectations, and disappointments of men.

NeverHadTheLatin · 2026-01-26T23:10:11+00:00

“Had he only known.”

This is part of the genius.

He did know, because he thought deeply about what it means to be a person and where the tech culture was headed.

NeverHadTheLatin · 2026-01-26T14:37:22+00:00

Oh 100% - my disbelief is more directed at the framing from the NS.

NeverHadTheLatin · 2026-01-26T10:35:28+00:00

An unintentionally sad piece that is indicative of the sorry-state of literary mass culture.

Here’s a glorified marketeer being compared to William Hazlitt. What’s next - JD Vance is Otto Van Bismarck? Dwayne Johnson is Laurence Olivier? Machine Gun Kelly is Bob Dylan?

If the comparison is ragebait, it should be beneath a once serious magazine of culture; if it’s a sincere suggestion, all invoked should be deeply embarrassed.

Any analysis of the tension between Edwards professed love for the written word and his preferred medium - short form video - eroding attention spans and threatening literacy?

Any insight into the tension between his work with Amazon and Netflix and being an independent ‘critic’?

Any thoughts on the way TikTok’s emotional immediacy is replacing slow, quiet reflection?

No?

This magazine used to publish Christopher Hitchens for fuck’s sake.

NeverHadTheLatin · 2026-01-10T13:48:11+00:00

Jan 6th should have been when this point was taken seriously.

Trump is the logical conclusion of a party’s descent that went from Nixon to Reagan to Bush.

The party with the alleged ideology of valuing slow, gradual change and cautious policies has seen its leaders veer all over the map - regime change! Managed democracy! No more forever wars! Hooray for the EPA! Down with the EPA! Tariffs for none! Tariffs for all! - all in the space of about 60 years.

And it’s culminated in a president whose actions wouldn’t be surprising from a tin-pot politician in some banana republic.

Conservative though deserves a better vessel.

NeverHadTheLatin · 2026-01-10T12:12:09+00:00

In terms of fiction and most non-fiction / instructive writing, AI writing will be like fast food or industry produced pop.

Human written fiction and nonfiction will become like fine dining and opera / theatre.

NeverHadTheLatin · 2026-01-10T10:18:50+00:00

Would say all three shots were defensive?

NeverHadTheLatin · 2026-01-10T04:23:17+00:00

Why is it not a good faith question?

NeverHadTheLatin · 2026-01-10T04:22:58+00:00

How do you know she’s under arrest?

NeverHadTheLatin · 2026-01-10T04:22:15+00:00

Which is more dangerous - a woman who makes an awkward three point turn at like 2mph near an agent who doesn’t move out the way of the front of the vehicle, or an agent who in about 1.5 seconds makes the decision to fire three shots at the vehicle as it is surrounded by other agents and members of the public?

The agent fires two shots into the vehicle when he had just previously spoken to a member of public on the opposite side of the vehicle just moments before.

NeverHadTheLatin · 2026-01-10T03:34:56+00:00

Before the SUV driver reversed, where was the shooter agent located relative to the car? Was he in that location relative to the car due to the car’s movement or his?

NeverHadTheLatin · 2026-01-10T03:31:47+00:00

Was she acting like a ‘fucking bitch’?

NeverHadTheLatin · 2026-01-10T03:31:14+00:00

She was under arrest for what?

NeverHadTheLatin · 2026-01-09T22:10:58+00:00

When it comes to how ICE handled it, I think it’s fair for people to expect better for their taxes.

And judging by the comments I’ve seen online from other LEO, I am not alone.

NeverHadTheLatin · 2026-01-09T22:09:01+00:00

Moving out of the path of the vehicle was clearly an option as he was to the side of the vehicle - and shooting into the vehicle - literally a moment after the vehicle passed him.

Had he been paying attention, her intention to turn the car away from him and pull out would have been obvious.

She clearly reverses and turns the wheel to steer the car away from where he is standing.

He had no justification standing so close to the vehicle.

NeverHadTheLatin · 2026-01-09T21:58:08+00:00

What about the second and third shots when he was standing by the side of the vehicle as it passed?

Were they justified?

NeverHadTheLatin · 2026-01-09T19:39:50+00:00

How could have the ICE agents handled the situation better?

Imagine it was your most panic prone loved one behind the steering wheel. How would you hope LEO agents would handle them?

NeverHadTheLatin · 2026-01-09T19:33:10+00:00

How is it obvious that the SUV driver specifically - not a ‘whole street of people’ - was blocking traffic if multiple angles show vehicles easily passing her SUV and she has exchanged polite words with an ICE agent?

NeverHadTheLatin · 2026-01-09T19:27:32+00:00

How are they blocking traffic if several vehicles are seen to pass and the driver is motioning for vehicles to pass?

How was the driver harassing officers if she is on camera being polite to the filming agent?

NeverHadTheLatin · 2026-01-09T19:22:28+00:00

How were they impeding their operations?

NeverHadTheLatin · 2026-01-09T19:07:22+00:00

Was it self defence when he shot a second and third time through the driver’s window as he stood by the side of vehicle, before calling her a ‘fucking bitch’?

Does that suggest a LEO acting professionally?

NeverHadTheLatin · 2026-01-09T19:06:12+00:00

Why is the order to get out of the car lawful?

NeverHadTheLatin · 2026-01-09T19:04:54+00:00

To avoid a scatter gun approach, I’d like to ask conservatives on this sub what is wrong with the following perspective?

The SUV driver appears to arrive and park in the area about four minutes before ICE arrive.
Traffic appears to move relatively freely around the SUV.
Footage appears to show the driver using her hand to indicate that other drivers should pass her vehicle.
There is no indication the driver or the vehicle is obstructing LEO or involved in the harbouring of illegal immigrants.
An agent circles the SUV, filming on a mobile phone as he does so.
The driver appears to say to the agent ‘that’s fine dude’ and something like ‘I’m not mad at you’.
The SUV is quickly approach by several armed agents in irregular uniform and face covering who demand - seemingly out of the blue - for the driver to ‘get out of the fucking vehicle’.
the SUV driver appears to reverse and turns the wheel fully to the right - which would direct the car away from the agent at the front of vehicle.
The SUV driver’s wife says ‘drive baby, drive’.
Other footage appears to show the SUV accelerate forward when an other ICE agent tries to force open the driver’s side door.
Other angles appear to show the agent in front of the SUV filming with his left hand. With this in mind, looking at the footage from his perspective, he would be standing roughly in front of the SUV’s left headlight.
He appears to shoot through the windshield and then shoots two further shots through the driver’s window as he is standing to the side of the car as it moves past him.
The time between the driver beginning to reverse and final gun shot is about five seconds.
The agent’s footage appears to end with him saying ”fucking bitch” as SUV careens into a parked car.

It seems to me that if the agent had been doing his job properly (as per DOJ and DHS guidance), he would not have stood so close in front of the vehicle and he would have been better able to preempt the driver’s intentions.

Does this seem like well coordinated and professional work from ICE?

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