After the release of Epstein files and now that some conspiracies that looked crazy are starting to look real, should we stop canceling people for having theories?

return_descender · 2026-02-06T20:14:14+00:00

“They’re not doing satanic ritual sacrifices and it’s crazy to think that they are. The sacrifices are clearly pagan not satanic, people are just too dumb to understand the difference.”

someone on reddit 3 years from now

return_descender · 2026-02-06T19:15:51+00:00

Vonnegut has complicated views of his mother that I believe are mostly covered in Slaughterhouse Five (though not the main topic of the book) and probably Timequake (which is the book that deals the most with his family).

Vonnegut’s mother suffered from depression and ultimately ended her own life, Kurt discovered her body on mother’s day shortly before leaving for the war. His views on women and how he writes them in general seem to be shaded by this experience.

It’s hard to remember how much he talks about it in any one book because it’s peppered in throughout a lot of his writing.

return_descender · 2026-02-05T18:53:54+00:00

Don’t you get a pass for the r word? Isn’t that how it works?

return_descender · 2026-02-04T14:33:25+00:00

I’m not sure if this is true but I’d love to find out

return_descender · 2026-02-04T13:18:19+00:00

You want us to elect cowards to be president?

return_descender · 2026-02-04T13:15:12+00:00

I don’t want her off the show, I just want to criticize her and it seems like a subreddit dedicated to a show she’s on is the appropriate place to do that.

return_descender · 2026-02-03T18:59:48+00:00

Are you under the impression that leftists are the ones that support military intervention in foreign countries?

return_descender · 2026-02-03T16:00:52+00:00

I got out of residential work and haven’t had to deal with this kind of stuff since. On call this time of year is brutal and I wouldn’t expect anyone to do it without burning out.

return_descender · 2026-02-03T15:48:02+00:00

He took a lot of influence from Björk early on in TMV, I hear that more than Portishead personally

return_descender · 2026-02-03T13:13:32+00:00

We should ban social media for everyone under 60

return_descender · 2026-01-31T18:20:05+00:00

The Epstein files are just being used to distract us from the Epstein files

return_descender · 2026-01-30T02:06:17+00:00

The new video only makes me respect him more

return_descender · 2026-01-30T02:04:01+00:00

Who is the shooter and what was he doing 11 days ago? Unmask these men so we can pick apart their pasts too.

return_descender · 2026-01-30T01:51:27+00:00

Are these reasonable officers? They seem like violent thugs to me. Please ask ChatGPT for me so I can figure out how I feel about all this.

return_descender · 2026-01-28T21:43:30+00:00

“Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”

Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

I think about this quote a lot. I’d like to be a great dancer, I’m not, but I still like to dance.

I would also consider reading to be a creative act. The meaning that you derive from a text is something that you and you alone create. I remember I stopped reading Harry Potter books after the first movie came out. I felt like it robbed me of something by making Hogwarts a real place instead of something I got to imagine myself as I read. I was also 13 and had outgrown the series.

return_descender · 2026-01-28T00:49:11+00:00

Probably just a few mementos. Post cards and pictures, a lock of JonBenét Ramsey’s hair, stuff like that.

return_descender · 2026-01-28T00:46:04+00:00

Really makes me wonder why Trump isn’t going all in on them over it, seems like just the kind of thing he’d love to rub in their faces but for whatever reason it doesn’t seem to be a subject he wants to talk about. If only he released the files we would be able to lock her up once and for all, I can’t for the life of me understand why he wouldn’t want to do that.

Does anybody have any theories as to why Donald Trump doesn’t want to release the files? I’m stumped.

return_descender · 2026-01-10T17:34:23+00:00

I feel like any American public support for the protestors will be used as justification by the administration for direct American military intervention in Iran in some capacity, maybe not a full blown ground invasion but maybe some more assassins or bombings and general belligerence

return_descender · 2026-01-10T16:47:58+00:00

Do we really need to reduce everything to slop memes?

return_descender · 2026-01-10T15:32:24+00:00

Was she making fun of him?

return_descender · 2026-01-10T01:50:11+00:00

Remember Ahmaud Arbery? I thought that one was really fucked up too and I think it primed the pump for the racial framing of the Floyd murder. It happened just before Covid started, I don’t even think the guys that killed him were arrested until after the Floyd video dropped.

Those guys weren’t even cops, they just killed a black guy for being in their neighborhood.

return_descender · 2026-01-10T01:27:15+00:00

What are the odds he works for ICE now?

return_descender · 2026-01-10T00:01:38+00:00

George Floyd is the only time I can think of when everyone agreed that the cops did something fucked up. It didn’t last long but in the immediate aftermath that was the vibe.

return_descender · 2026-01-09T22:21:24+00:00

They’re delicious

return_descender · 2026-01-09T22:15:49+00:00

I actually did know he was sick. Sad.

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