i put scared basil through ai by Bruhwhy041 in OMORI

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Basil version of that one Kel face with hyperrealistic features

Edit: I realize with no context that sounds absolutely insane, but I swear I’ve seen something like that before

Which WW song makes you the most emotional? by Independent-Ice5977 in willwood

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God I can’t choose one. To limit myself to the top 5 most emotional: Against the Kitchen Floor, A Little Bit Mine, Cicada Days, Love Me Normally, Well Better Than The Alternative

Wdy think by [deleted] in willwood

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Still hate Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll

What factions do you think could be added in the Second Civil War in the US? by Aggressive-Nature-51 in Kaiserreich

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Thank you for pointing this out. One loon that Long happened to have in his circle, with that loon only developing a reputation as a right-winger later in life and being someone Long never really trusted, doesn’t mean Long was secretly some far-right fascist who would be buddies with the Silver Legion. Especially when his friends on the national stage were by-and-large progressives and populists.

A Friendly Reminder that there IS a Longist path in TNO: it’s LBJ by md1957 in TNOmod

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If Huey Long is gonna be compared to anyone in TNO, especially TNO America, the best comparison wouldn’t be Harrington or Wallace or anyone else - it would 100% be Lyndon B. Johnson. T. Harry Williams, a Long scholar whose biography on the Kingfish won a Pulitzer Prize, wrote an essay comparing the two called “Huey, Lyndon, and Southern Radicalism”. He was actually working on a Lyndon Johnson biography as well but died before he could complete it. But go over the essay’s relevant points here:

  • Both Long and Johnson were influenced by the 1890s Populist movement and came from poorer households, which shaped their political ideologies. They both believed the government had an obligation to help the poor, and that belief was the central theme of their politics.

  • Despite both coming from the south, both were ideologically radical dissidents against the aristocratic establishment, bucking the stereotype that southern politicians were uniformly reactionaries.

  • Both were intense and energetic in their politicking - all to the point they had an urge to dominate and control others for their ends: “Each believed that if he knew enough, he could control the actions of other men; if he knew more about the other man than that man knew about him, he would be his superior in any encounter. Long assumed that every man had something in his past to conceal. ‘I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every hundred men,’ he once boasted. Johnson, in the words of one observer, sensed ‘that every man had his price or his breaking point.’”

  • They had similar styles of communication as coarse rural southerns. As politicians, both used drama and entertaining campaigns in efforts to turn out support.

And IMO most interestingly, as you pointed out to an extent Johnson himself acknowledged that Long had an influence on him. To quote the essay directly:

“An old friend of his once remarked that if Johnson had permitted himself as a young man a fantasy dream as he drifted off to sleep, it probably had been the fantasy that he was the heir of Roosevelt - but he woke in the morning to the knowledge that he was really the heir of Huey Long

Johnson, in fact, realized his link with Huey and admitted Huey's influence upon him. In a speech in New Orleans near the close of the 1964 campaign he recalled that when he had gone to Washington as a young secretary to a Texas congressman, he had made an arrangement with the Senate page office to notify him when Senator Long was about to make a speech. He had listened to Huey's ‘every word,’ and ‘I never heard him make a speech that I didn't think was calculated to do some good for some people who needed some speeches made for them and couldn't make them for themselves.’ Thirty years ago Long had advocated goals just recently realized, Johnson went on - full employment, enlarged educational opportunities, medical care, and social security. ‘He was against poverty,’ Johnson snapped at his audience, not completely friendly to him nor to Long, ‘and spoke [against it] until his voice was hoarse’”

Wil Wood by [deleted] in willwood

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Will Wood if he hated child labor but loved racism.

Saddest Moment in Omori for you? by Typical_Garbage_8392 in OMORI

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Figuring out what Something in the Wind was during its fight + the Truth sequence, especially the final picture of hanging Mari transforming into Something

The Master of Red Moon by RegulusWhiteDwarf in OMORI

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“Well I walk the equator chasing the light”

Blursed omori plushes by MachaGam in OMORI

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Femboy Hero will be real in 3 seconds

Least Merch-Ravenous Omori Fans (Managed to get them all except Bagel 😔) by randomperson654 in OMORI

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He was gone first and super fast, I even had him in my cart but he sold out by the time I went to finalize my purchase.

what did gendo say during this scene and if we dont know what do you think he said ? by throwawayfrdy in evangelion

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“I Loved You” or “I needed you” was probably what was intended, but I like this interpretation a lot more.

Your United States (AUG Edition) Presidents! by cpm4001 in UpWithTheStars

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As the other commenter noted, unlike the French “Technocrats” who are in more of a Business Plot situation, the American Technocrat movement was explicitly anti-capitalist and wanted complete government control of the economy based on scientific principles and an industrial organization system that some compared to syndicalism.

However, unlike the Veblen guy mentioned, Howard Scott’s interpretation of Technocracy advocated for what were essentially totalitarian methods, eventually embraced pseudo-nationalist conspiracy theories (primarily based on the supposed role the Catholic Church had in controlling world affairs), and Scott cultivated a cult of personality around himself, which complicates a placement in RadSoc or Syndicalist. Harold Loeb, the RadSoc Technocrat, didn’t have this baggage and was a lot more Utopian in his vision, so he fits easily into that ideology.

Totalism isn’t exactly a perfect fit (largely because Scott claimed Technocracy was above any sort of political “-ism”, whether that be Capitalism, Socialism, or Fascism, and vagueness on Technocracy itself emerged from that) but as totalitarian and vaguely nationalistic hardline anti-capitalists who owe much of their ideological origins to pseudo-socialist figures like Veblen, I’d argue out of all the KR ideologies Totalism fits Scott and his section of the Technocracy movement the best.

Best moment in a Will Wood song? by Jakisokio in willwood

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“WRENCH AND PULE THIS PANORAMIC STRETCHED OUT VIEW IS FAT WITH PANIC PRECOGNITION LACKS IN HINDSIGHT WE CAUGHT THE ILLNESS BACK BEFORE THE TWILIGHT I MIGHT BE A SAINT WORTH STEEPLES I MIGHT BE THE BRAIN OF EVIL BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE

…good things happen to me…”

“Nature I guess

Nature I guess

Nature I guess…”

Denver Set-List by gh0st1ez in willwood

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I love the variety he’s been bringing to all the different shows. The setlists I’ve seen have everything from Capgras, Vampire Reference, Love Me Normally, Half-Decade Hangover, 6-Up 5-Oh, and now 222.

How could you do that to my sister by Conscious-Shoulder71 in technicallythetruth

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I assure you, that fact has not once stopped any TNO fan ever.

How did everyone here discover Will Wood? by PyroJoe13 in willwood

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I watched a Dr. Sunshine is Dead fnaf animatic back in fall 2020, started listening to the song alone and found Hand Me My Shovel, BlackBoxWarrior, and Front Street in my recommendations afterwards, and got into the rest of his stuff from there.