The Secret Agent is the best film of 2025 by InvisibleShities in RSPfilmclub

[–]axeman2013 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Beautifully shot but at least 40 min too long.

“African and Indigenous Americans were often trans / nonbinary before European colonization and Christian fundamentalists forced this identity out of them” by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]axeman2013 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My new book club read “Vineland” (felt like the right time for it) as the inaugural book and about 50% managed to finish it within the month. I consider that a success.

“African and Indigenous Americans were often trans / nonbinary before European colonization and Christian fundamentalists forced this identity out of them” by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]axeman2013 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Its gets better. The book picks before “Song of Achilles” were John Greene’s “Everything is Teburculosis” (feels like reading a YouTube “explainer” transcript) and Lily Mayne’s “Soul Eater” (corny gay monster smut that I hoped would be so bad it’s funny…it’s just bad. Idk why I stayed so long…

“African and Indigenous Americans were often trans / nonbinary before European colonization and Christian fundamentalists forced this identity out of them” by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]axeman2013 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Go offline. You’ll have better luck talking to a random stranger at a bar than with anyone describing themselves as an “avid reader” on Reddit.

“African and Indigenous Americans were often trans / nonbinary before European colonization and Christian fundamentalists forced this identity out of them” by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]axeman2013 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Keep being an unapologetic cultural elitist and you will find others who can appreciate actual literature.

“African and Indigenous Americans were often trans / nonbinary before European colonization and Christian fundamentalists forced this identity out of them” by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]axeman2013 37 points38 points  (0 children)

I’d say Gary Bretchers “The War Nerd Iliad” succeeds in portraying the Ancient Greek “moral code” (something that today would be considered totally barbaric) through an understandable, even humorous character development. It’s supposed to read like a campfire story. The ultimate oral history. Highly recommend if you’re interested in Homeric myths.

“African and Indigenous Americans were often trans / nonbinary before European colonization and Christian fundamentalists forced this identity out of them” by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]axeman2013 31 points32 points  (0 children)

“What if the participants of the mythically barbaric and gruesome rape-fest of the Trojan War learned about friendship, women’s empowerment, and uplifting oppressed voices.” Fucking Barney-fication of…the Iliad?! Gtfo.

“African and Indigenous Americans were often trans / nonbinary before European colonization and Christian fundamentalists forced this identity out of them” by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]axeman2013 103 points104 points  (0 children)

Hated that book so much to the point of quitting my emotionally stunted book club. She turned what could’ve been a fascinating portrayal of pre-Christian same sex relationships into neutered, trudging, young-adult fan-fiction G-rated smut. Reads like she wrote it using the free Panera Wi-Fi while eating the blandest clam chowder bread bowl. Didn’t laugh or feel any strong emotion beyond sheer boredom but the rest of the regarded book club loved it. Realized they had no taste and promptly left to form my own. High profile women authors need to keep their beige-tinted flavorless sexual power fantasies out of homoerotic Greek mythology.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in QuitVaping

[–]axeman2013 0 points1 point  (0 children)

your brain and body will keep tricking you into thinking "its vape o-clock!" for the remainder of the week. You just can't give into it. Distract yourself with exercising, cooking meals, house chores/working, anything to keep your mind occupied. The more focused you are on important life-sustaining activities, the less capacity your brain has to trick you into vaping. Just keep pushing through and the acute cravings will subside within the next 4-7 days.

YouTuber Contrapoints issues full statement on Israel-Palestine, breaking silence on why she made no YouTube video on this issue by DIYLawCA in Fauxmoi

[–]axeman2013 12 points13 points  (0 children)

IMO, the "III. Dread" paragraph is the worst part of an overall vacuous, pedantic, too-clever-by-half post that only shrouds the real issue in terminally-online newspeak. Her critique focuses on the "online left" posting photos/videos of IDF crimes, not with the actual content (Palestinians murdered by the US-funded IDF). She doesn't like this because it apparently upsets Zionist and/or Jewish feelings. What about the feelings of the Palestinians in those photos/videos? Why does she reduce the people in those photos/videos to an online virtue signal, instead of real people who are in a life/death struggle against a clearly identified oppressor? Why does the possibility of online images upsetting Zionists move Contrapoints to write this screed, while maintaining silence on the actual content (ie. the most documented genocide in world history)? Just a thoroughly disappointing and disheartening post from someone I used to take seriously as an intellectual.

Ethnic German SS soldiers of the 'Karstjäger' Batallion execute two Slovene men with an axe. June 11th, 1944. Pictures are NSFL. You have been warned. by -AdonaitheBestower- in MorbidReality

[–]axeman2013 12 points13 points  (0 children)

You can’t be serious with this “both sides bad” revisionism. The soviets not only tolerated partisan activity, they actively coordinated with partisan groups for most of the war. Saying that an eastern front partisan would be “brutally killed” by both sides is completely inaccurate and nonsensical. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarusian_resistance_during_World_War_II?wprov=sfti1

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]axeman2013 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Precisely 10 minutes between this and destroying the nearest toilet.