# ![@BlackestofLies Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1103730377393233920.png) @BlackestofLies Eleutheria🦉🇵🇸

Eleutheria🦉🇵🇸 posts on X about israel, murder, russia, iran the most. They currently have [-------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [---------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

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**Social topic influence**
[israel](/topic/israel), [murder](/topic/murder), [russia](/topic/russia), [iran](/topic/iran), [elon musk](/topic/elon-musk), [money](/topic/money), [ukraine](/topic/ukraine), [china](/topic/china), [in the](/topic/in-the), [south africa](/topic/south-africa)

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"@illocutie By not basing what is and is not worthwhile to pursue on external factors you cannot control"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1674559500467191808)  2023-06-29T23:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@SeelsorgerLevi I said something along these lines at St. Augustine's House once and they told me I didn't understand the concept of universal clergy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1674562392636915712)  2023-06-29T23:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Helenreflects The Democratic Party has basically been in the business of creating cults of personality around their presidential candidates through slick advertising since the 1960s. There is nothing rational about the people who like him. Just look at the ticket's current approval ratings--"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1674572452054335490)  2023-06-30T00:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Goodtweet_man @sinner_sainted Also these monsters are working these guys seven days a week [--] hours a day and making them piss in bottles to keep up with their quotas. You'd think that would factor into this discussion. But no"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1674574514821185537)  2023-06-30T00:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@bob_noss @looksbizarre Long delayed sequels are almost always horrible. The only one I can think of that I like is The Color of Money. And I would sort of kill to have PTA or Tarantino do a sequel to that with Cruise playing the older pro taking a talented rookie under his wing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1674583423669895168)  2023-06-30T00:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"It looks like the referral for the psych-oncology unit at UCSF is finally going through this week. I wonder why I need therapy. Oh right. $20k chemo prescription NDE C-PTSD neverending cancer treatment--"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1674593653099208704)  2023-06-30T01:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@FeyeraBender The book on the Phenomenology is widely read for good reason. And unlike a lot of secondary literature it doesn't try to slyly revise Hegel to fit with the author's preferred ideology"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1678101435995787264)  2023-07-09T17:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@SeanMBurns @JanetMaslin They spent $400m on principal photography alone. Factor in the marketing extensive reshoots and the nightmare preproduction and the budget is easily at least $800M. Outside the opening couple of weeks theaters take most of the ticket sale money. Not a pretty picture"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1678124619751100416)  2023-07-09T19:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@SeanMBurns @JanetMaslin Disney is going to lose at least $400M on this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1678124950736236544)  2023-07-09T19:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@citizenkeith @JanetMaslin Home video as a revenue stream is dead. It's why we're back to bare bones releases when there is a release at all. And Disney having its own streaming service means they aren't making money directly off the movies on streaming"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1678138178140794880)  2023-07-09T20:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Specifically it's his own take on Judaism. In the Ethics there is a beautiful passage where he breaks down the tetragrammaton as God's declaration that He is the ground of all reality and being the great "I am.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1678444408159756288)  2023-07-10T16:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@realrobdurden Give it time. They'll circle back. They're still parroting the ruling class line that it's insane to think neo-Nazis run the military in a country where a Jew is the head of state. Even when you know an entire unit of that military literally dresses in neo-Nazi uniforms"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1678531752124358657)  2023-07-10T22:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I love it when people who know less than I do about a subject confidently and incorrectly correct me on that subject"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1678881683377102848)  2023-07-11T21:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@ikesharpless @Raymodraco Seems like a better option than American Prometheus by your description"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1682583195597025280)  2023-07-22T02:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@bob_noss @dankestcordle Indeed. I think the prank is on the studio. Like "oh you want a dark badass Spider-Man--well my black suit Spider-Man is going to closely resemble a villain from a Fosse musical and Topher Grace is going to be Venom.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1691622375694164209)  2023-08-16T01:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@JakeFlo95664193 @ImNotThick1 @thethiny Get more comfortable with "button masking" style play. I did my first extended aerial combo with Liu Kang today and it was awesome"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1693069879656509718)  2023-08-20T01:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@ScottchoMan Thank God. Mel Gibson basically took over the film during post-production and made it a torture porn movie with Kris Kristofferson as the villain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1698324960555806733)  2023-09-03T13:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@AngelliAngelo You earn votes. Nobody owns your vote. Also "taking away votes" from other candidates is the goal of all organizing. For that reason most arguments the two major parties offer against third parties are internally inconsistent at best. And campaigns are not ethical arenas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1698745255103979770)  2023-09-04T17:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Dynasty1031 They do. They just also understand almost nobody actually has access to the courts and much fewer people have any will to fight a major corporation. You don't need the law on your side when most people just cave out of fear"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1700704447872274751)  2023-09-10T02:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"The storyline that I am most looking forward to in the expansion DLC and/or sequel is the founding of the new Shirai Ryu. Roster so far: Scorpion Smoke Harumi Raiden and Hanzo Hasashi as a little boy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1703254973939937716)  2023-09-17T03:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@NetherRealm They're just doubling down on what we've known to be the major ontological error of the West since the birth of quantum mechanics i.e. MK's approach to the multiverse makes it very clear the writer/writers view time and space as nearly separate phenomena"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1703270564574769183)  2023-09-17T04:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@NetherRealm The Realms being alternate universes with the main planet of each Realm being an alternate version of Earth is already close to a dramatization of Many Worlds for popular audiences. Throwing alternate timelines into the mix just bogs down the lore and shows you don't do research"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1703271776887996770)  2023-09-17T04:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Toying with writing something on the video game console being a kind of experience machine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1708302171346001939)  2023-10-01T02:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@NathanTankus @HollyBlomberg EMILY's List is a major player in every city that is a major fundraising job for the party and the guy is rumored to either be primarying Biden or replacing him on the ticket without a fight. So this move does not surprise me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1708681863865467382)  2023-10-02T03:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@thekc23 @NathanTankus @HollyBlomberg CU is kind of overrated. It &a more a sumo on it the problems of our system than the cause. Campaign finance laws were a joke before it. It just made shady fundraising easier. It didn't make it newly possible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1708723463752720739)  2023-10-02T05:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"If this were spun off into a series Socrates could easily be the main character of his own game. It writes itself. Have it revolve heavily around the reign of The Thirty make them a branch of the Cult of Kosmos and have the game end with his trial and death"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1715444680907993297)  2023-10-20T19:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"3) I'm also not a huge fan of turning Alcibiades into comic relief revolving around sex jokes. He's one of the most feared military leaders Greece ever produced and he was famous for switching sides in the wars between the Greek states. He should have had a more substantial role"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1715445898355077465)  2023-10-20T19:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"How big of a role did the @FBI have in the production of Killers of the Flower Moon I am shocked by the extent to which it lionizes the Hoover era of the FBI. It makes Mississippi Burning look like a rigorously researched documentary"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1720175336888140119)  2023-11-02T20:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@BayouPhilosophy He died just before the pandemic He was my teacher and hero and his daughters are really nice people. He raised his kids well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1722811637860839799)  2023-11-10T03:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Sharon_Kuruvila DC is like every other major city in the country has pockets of affluence built on the bones of an underclass it is grinding to death in public view. San Francisco and the real Detroit are the most obvious examples of this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1723921393971294668)  2023-11-13T04:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@smithbarryc We have never fully recovered from any economic downturn since the 1970s. Homeless live under every bridge and overpass in the country. A lot of them are employed. We've been living a dystopian nightmare for at least [--] years. Trump is a symptom of this decay not a cause"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1724048223063740687)  2023-11-13T12:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I think A Good Year Prometheus and Napoleon would be an interesting lineup for studying Ridley Scott's incoherent British nationalism and disdain for the French"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1728650512374042816)  2023-11-26T05:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"You could do a festival of polemics for and against Britain with a set of three films by Mel Gibson. The degree to which Gibson hates the UK due to the English Reformation is pretty funny"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1728651473855328379)  2023-11-26T05:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@ashleypaigey Beginners The Whale Moonlight The Hunt AI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1728658989456761340)  2023-11-26T06:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@thisishannahkim That occurred to me given how much people in Analytic philosophy love talking about speckled hens etc. Looking forward to seeing your engagements of that My short answer is I don't think fiction requires you to be able to completely envision or understand the things in it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1729299458016567448)  2023-11-28T00:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@thisishannahkim The inability to comprehend the subject is kind of the core of the horror in HP Lovecraft stories for example"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1729299715223961717)  2023-11-28T00:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"1. Dancing. [--]. Cringe comedy. [--]. Tequila. [--]. "Private-public partnerships." [--]. The idea that the mind is a product of the brain. [--]. Taylor Swift. [--]. The idea that "trauma" is an appropriate label for any unpleasant experience. [--]. Cranberry sauce. [--]. Hazy IPAs. [--]. Pork rinds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1729543970236027060)  2023-11-28T16:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@baste_goblin @sinner_sainted LMAO. You consider yourself a Christian and think that nobody standing up for a persecuted person or group mean that what is being done to them is justified I grew up with some lunatic fringe Lutheran conservatives. But I don't think any of them were this far gone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1729631860102213949)  2023-11-28T22:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@VPrasadMDMPH @Cigna Uh you can. The overhead in the American healthcare system is outrageous. We spend more than every other advanced nation on Earth on health care but have worse outcomes. Mainly because enriching the providers rather than health outcomes is the main driver of the system"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1729653563507319177)  2023-11-29T00:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@BouncingDeadCat @VPrasadMDMPH @Cigna And that has to do with the insane administrative PR and marketing costs of our broken and corrupt system how"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1729657566668460475)  2023-11-29T00:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@BouncingDeadCat @VPrasadMDMPH @Cigna It doesn't come close to fully explaining the failures of our system especially when most obese Americans can't afford a doctor and aren't helped by the ACA when it comes to securing quality coverage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1729659194150678644)  2023-11-29T00:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@InsightTweeting @AnsrMax It's a little more complicated than that. One of the kindest people I ever met was a "half-breed" and the local white community and the tribe were in a competition to see which one could treat him worse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1729670764637397455)  2023-11-29T01:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Helenreflects Oh it gets better. He actually sabotaged Johnson's peace talks with Vietnam before committing all those war crimes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1730340610463474100)  2023-11-30T21:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Helenreflects Also he was instrumental in the creation of the petrodollar/the economics of all conflict in the Middle East since the 1970s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1730343871006261602)  2023-11-30T21:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@JayOfTheDeadMF Yeah I'm wondering if he disguises his natural accent even in interviews or he's going into Tom Hanks in Elvis territory"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1730415727017124173)  2023-12-01T02:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@PoorOldRoloTony @TheifofBagdad It's a great movie. The scene where Nolte figures out how the enzyme works is like something out of On the Structure of Scientific Revolutions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1730710440597131576)  2023-12-01T22:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@PoorOldRoloTony @TheifofBagdad Beyond that it is just a very true depiction of a family struggling with a serious illness. It Away From Her Manchester by the Sea and First Man are the Anglophone movies made in my lifetime that perfectly capture the toll chronic and serious illnesses take on a family"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1730712110630588639)  2023-12-01T22:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@GRCinemaTicket Chuck Norris is intentionally funny. Seagal is unintentionally funny at best"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1730717876871725382)  2023-12-01T22:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Sharon_Kuruvila Israel helped found Hamas in order to undermine the PLO. They are now losing this conflict to Hamas and Hezbollah. And Ukraine was always going to lose the war. Your foreign policy takes are actually pretty bad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1730722207100514601)  2023-12-01T22:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@PJ11819211 @Sharon_Kuruvila I'm not a huge fan of that account but she appears to be referring to the fact that most of the Israeli casualties on 10/07 were in fact friendly fire from Israel when they finally realized what was going on and just unleashed Hell on the area killing a lot of Israelis"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1730724461824122984)  2023-12-01T23:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@CurlyMcNulty I had a Lyft driver try to convert me to Islam after finding out our destination was a monastery once"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1731029812050030891)  2023-12-02T19:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@flaviusvalens1 @natsfert Another approach would be to get a pine or cyprus at a nursery and turn it into a bonsai project"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1731426236034154713)  2023-12-03T21:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@BucketsTheCat @InternetH0F Gere and the gerbil wasn't a random rumor started by kids. Sylvester Stallone did that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1731725879787806803)  2023-12-04T17:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@GutkinLen Students deliberately skew the results of these. As an undergrad we had a grad student instructor who was not only a horrible teacher but also rude to the point of being feral. Everyone hated her. But the majority of the class gave her glowing evals due to her race/gender"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1731745654215696767)  2023-12-04T18:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@ZeeAlgoritmi @elonmuskewl @InternetH0F Shhh shhh. His success is due to his mathematical genius. NOT because he was born to a rich dude and a model in Apartheid South Africa and learned to work the system from the top"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1731762157195325940)  2023-12-04T19:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Farthest you've been in a compass direction: North: Dunnet Head Scotland South: Honolulu Hawaii East: Paris France West: Honolulu Hawaii"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1733147504961835435)  2023-12-08T15:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@SillyPutty78 Also the unemployment rate went down because Biden immediately cut off pandemic UI upon getting into office and as we learned in [----] the government just stops counting you as unemployed once you're off benefits and out of work for more than a few weeks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1733152097556889852)  2023-12-08T15:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@ThomasPolega People forget that the skeleton in his closet--and the reason that he narrowly lost to Ratzinger in the previous conclave--is that he was complicit in the abduction torture and murder of liberation theologians by his home state"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1733502628578091180)  2023-12-09T15:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Odyne_LaFee Paris with weekends in Cairo Dublin Edinburgh Berlin Athens Kyoto Amsterdam Rome Florence etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1733550077589991580)  2023-12-09T18:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@GDebatta She's a member of the Family which is the cult operated by the people behind the National Prayer Breakfast. It's pretty bizarre. Netflix did a documentary on them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1734776444210098545)  2023-12-13T03:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Outside of Pig this is my favorite Nic Cage movie"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1735067877567508870)  2023-12-13T22:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@BayouPhilosophy It is a beautiful film. I have a strong feeling you'd like this too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1735069814908133695)  2023-12-13T22:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@mikemovies I really don't like his revenge movies. They're nihilistic. And the take he has on race relations in the modern US the CSA Nazi Germany and Israel shows his political and historical viewpoint to be incoherent at best"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1735337209199477110)  2023-12-14T16:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@TheGreyBrandon Decent especially if this is in Ada County/Boise. Boise seemed to be where upper middle class people who can't afford Hawaii and are too lazy for Alaska go when they can't compete in real cities"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1735383280583885187)  2023-12-14T19:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@BillVillayne @GDebatta Dressing horribly is kind of an equal opportunity thing at the top of the political industry. Why These people have never had to compete for anything. Their parents and their friends/business partners hand everything to them. That said this isn't really that bad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1738038980585947427)  2023-12-22T03:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@BillVillayne @GDebatta Especially when not wearing a belt dipping into the belt line a little is OK and the colors do technically go together You want to see truly bad dressers like boxy suits and ties that go to the crotch Look at any given photo of Rahn Emanuel and his staff"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1738039479510950096)  2023-12-22T03:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@leftofcool13 @AngelliAngelo You could say the same for most countries in the Middle East which is why it is intentionally misleading propaganda. But then again intellectual honesty isn't something I expect from child murderers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1738079191231557974)  2023-12-22T06:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@StacyRost You're totally right here. In my late teens and early twenties I was on a wildfire crew and learned what crafty bastards raccoons are the hard way. They're worse than bears"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1739323466472644728)  2023-12-25T16:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"On the way to Christmas dinner I parked next to a van literally covered in political stickers like a hyperactive kid decorates his desk. Why do right-wingers do this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1739507252632182801)  2023-12-26T04:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@dementedkirby @agnosoul This one is built around "Three Little Birds" and somehow makes the film look even worse than the original trailer did. The casting is horrible. The costuming and sets look cheap as fuck. The writing is atrocious. The only thing it has going for it is that it uses his music"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1739797814924980451)  2023-12-26T23:58Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@dementedkirby Did you find the ending a little weird"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1739801817280811362)  2023-12-27T00:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@aidanfella @asukertelmosdad I saw this interview and I also do not get the meme. Is it just riffing on the part about Norm having a bad memory for celebrity names"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1740130446497968510)  2023-12-27T22:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@tyorrique Will Ferrell was the best name I've seen come up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1740163360656941548)  2023-12-28T00:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Sophia_Nyx Wait was he in the animated or live-action one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1740234986970903035)  2023-12-28T04:55Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@EnidIsais_ I'm glad you enjoyed it. For me it works on two levels. 1) This is Paul Thomas Anderson doing his version of an early Adam Sandler movie which I find interesting. 2) Like you the overall message of the film really resonates with me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1743818328375005364)  2024-01-07T02:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@stunninggun Amy Schumer and Sarah Silverman being identified as comedians was pretty unbearable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1744180692039401556)  2024-01-08T02:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@stunninggun Examining the toxic American workplace through the lens of the Regan era real life state market collapse is my favorite part of this. Always floored me that Alec Baldwin's character was original to the film and only later added to the play"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1744492617831006654)  2024-01-08T22:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I turn [--] in a little over [--] months from now. And I am pretty sure I'm actually in love for the first time in my life. With a very conservative very Catholic Mexican lady. Song of Songs strikes me as a potent source of wisdom these days"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1744881035240947872)  2024-01-10T00:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@philoso_foster You can take the boy out of Apartheid South Africa but you can't take Apartheid South Africa out of the boy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1745131204784107986)  2024-01-10T17:11Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@katrinachalie Kevin Pollack has a pretty hilarious BTS story about this film"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1745309625405341982)  2024-01-11T05:00Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@katrinachalie Matt Damon also has a great story about that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1745536495912632733)  2024-01-11T20:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@OrthodoxOrigen They officially endorsed Young Earth Creationism a few years back. I have a bad feeling that they'll officially merge with WELS around the time ELCA goes extinct. You'll have all the dumb crazy Lutherans in America in one org"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1745641469678162099)  2024-01-12T02:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@OrthodoxOrigen I'm with a Mexican poet. I'm open to converting to Catholicism so she can have a church wedding. But I'm not exactly crazy about that. I would really prefer for US Lutheranism to just die in my lifetime. But it seems like "Confessional Lutheranism" will have its day before that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1745643905817956797)  2024-01-12T03:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Shrdlu @sentientview There are very few randomized control studies on this. The mask proponents tend to cherry pick the results in their favor while ignoring the pages of the studies detailing how shitty and inconclusive the data is in any direction"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1746383973331480944)  2024-01-14T04:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Shrdlu @sentientview The way waves are presented is stupid. There really aren't "waves." Campbell has covered this extensively l. And I wasn't prescribing a course of action just saying data that could support strong conclusions is sparse. But liberal fans of authoritarianism tend to ignore that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1746388134278160761)  2024-01-14T04:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"10 artists to get to know me: JS Bach Stevie Wonder The Magnetic Fields Buena Vista Social Club Frank Zappa Ennio Morricone Metallica Daft Punk The Grateful Dead Eminem [--] artists to get to know me: Nah you don't to get to know me sorry. [--] artists to get to know me: Nah you don't to get to know me sorry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1746633618624221219)  2024-01-14T20:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@AngelliAngelo There is also to me the far lesser complaint that he looks slightly Asian. The ruling class has a lot of balls to have the sole memorial to the American Civil Rights Movement sourced and built by foreign slaves especially under the country's first black president"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1746943494160302286)  2024-01-15T17:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Doestoveskys_88 The number of people who do not get that you sacrifice audio fidelity by going wireless is staggering"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1747669449434665408)  2024-01-17T17:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@bob_noss But the issue of theater program being shitty goes back to when major corporations took over the main studios from the old Hollywood system"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1747716711238001123)  2024-01-17T20:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Sophia_Nyx 1) Ren & Stimpy 2) Batman: TAS 3) Animaniacs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1747731703395987794)  2024-01-17T21:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@JoshuaLWatson He uh also causes an entire population of pigs to commit suicide"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1747975539829420089)  2024-01-18T13:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@OrthodoxOrigen He is an anti-labor oligarch who just confirmed that that position is firmly rooted in being a product of Apartheid South Africa. I honestly don't think he realizes far right unionism used to be a thing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1748009246913101915)  2024-01-18T15:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Dirca_palustris @CivicNatalist @JoshuaLWatson Things come back to bite him in the ass all the time which is kind of the reason why both the Jerusalem based religious authorities and their Roman occupiers conspired to murder him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1748135834044498083)  2024-01-19T00:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Dirca_palustris @CivicNatalist @JoshuaLWatson The examples that come immediately to mind: 1) Judas Iscariot. 2) He gets called out for having a ministry that is a debt strike campaign and responds with the "render unto Caesar" speech. 3) He gets called out for working on the Sabbath. 4) He gets blamed for Lazarus' death"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1748137347827511688)  2024-01-19T00:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Ronutan @littlemoomilk @Davidkrumholtzy @NateSilver538 Reading party preference into donations is wrongheaded. Gary Oldman and Michael Caine are both very open hard right Tories. And they are in most of his films. Robert Downey Jr. is a neocon/GWB Republican. Matthew McConaughey is about as traditionally conservative as you get"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1748793795502825956)  2024-01-20T19:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Helenreflects My nieces really like her and I feel like Eddie Murphy in Bowfinger around them: "It's like they're speaking a secret white language that I can't decode""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1748892922148475012)  2024-01-21T02:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@AngelliAngelo This is the worst possible lesson to teach a child. "You're already unpopular so keep your mouth shut when the truth is unpopular.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1749572779614388455)  2024-01-22T23:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@AngelliAngelo Remember kids the most important thing in life is to desperately grovel for the approval of people who will never accept you. If you build a shrine to US Senator Bernie Sanders made out of IOUs and used kleenex while chanting "cowardly is right for me" you'll get extra dessert"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1749574235276898501)  2024-01-22T23:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@acidhorizonpod *Plays score from Les Miserables.*"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1749588879928414527)  2024-01-23T00:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Why white women especially upper middle class and wealthy white women have a hatred for white people in general that you rarely ever see in even the most militant American minority groups is an enduring mystery for me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1750589244391985502)  2024-01-25T18:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"You'd think that being in the upper classes of a society in decline and somehow ending up as the main beneficiaries of Affirmative Action would have mellowed them out a bit. But no They're just equally entitled and angry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1750590038872854547)  2024-01-25T18:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@xgabegottliebx With you being a parent of a young kid do you have any interest in philosophy literature for children or groups like PLATO"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1750607258998985157)  2024-01-25T19:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@BayouPhilosophy In truth aren't most philosophers these days trained to seek funding for the university they work for through work in incredibly niche/borderline useless areas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1750607690618032321)  2024-01-25T19:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@CurlyMcNulty It is an interesting show. It literally was the pilot project of HBO original programming so you don't get The Sopranos Deadwood Rome et al without it. And it is a very weird very 1990s marriage of avant-garde theater and television"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1750613923236319653)  2024-01-25T20:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@GDebatta I love that upper class liberals are still [--] years behind most moderately informed people n understanding Russiagate was a hoax generated by the Clinton campaign"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1750614669382045966)  2024-01-25T20:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@lockflank808 @GDebatta When someone in high office actually commits a crime in this country the response is pretty farcical. What usually happens is you get a very weak excuse as to why a case isn't being brought and later find out the evidence against that person/entity was staggering"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1750795550507893112)  2024-01-26T08:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@lockflank808 @GDebatta See: Every major bank in the [----] financial crisis Chris Christie the Clintons the Bidens et al. Hunter Biden for example left a laptop with evidence against his family that was so damning that they claimed it was a Russian psy-op--and we're now finding out that was a lie"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1750796875354304824)  2024-01-26T08:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"The dog thing is also ridiculous. They literally force you to kill a dog as Ellie and then give the dog arguably a bigger story in Abby's half of the game than Joel had. Problem: You're pretty much required to kill dogs exactly like that one for half the game before this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1750847481393623396)  2024-01-26T11:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Abby encouraged her dad to murder Ellie in the ending of TLOU1. She only stops herself from slitting a pregnant woman's throat because it would upset a kid she likes. Abby tortured Joel to death after he risked his life to save hers. This is just a flat out evil character"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1750850985181024310)  2024-01-26T11:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@wanwit8 I hate people bringing trauma into this. I don't think the writing team at Naughty Dog would know real trauma if a WLF dog named Trauma bit them on the ass. -- Lifelong cancer patient who grew up abused and impoverished watched most of my family die and has never tortured"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1751002086551191600)  2024-01-26T22:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@wanwit8 0utside of that dig at the company Abby is portrayed as being a sociopath willing to advocate Ellie's murder at the hands of her "doctors" while her dad is still alive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1751002406048207190)  2024-01-26T22:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@RightHegelian @h_blaubear He thinks that most ontology is deeply mistaken and rejects it. But treating that as a total rejection of a Christian worldview is mistaken. Orthodox Lutherans paint Hegel as an atheist by following very similar reasoning"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1760440625810600243)  2024-02-21T23:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@RightHegelian @h_blaubear Heidegger explicitly identifies viewing man and the world as separate things as the foundational error of Western ontology and offers that as his entire reason for rejecting it. I honestly think you are wildly misreading Heidegger"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1760442076691615877)  2024-02-21T23:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@RightHegelian @h_blaubear Nietzsche didn't have mental health issues until late in life. And mental health issues don't entirely discount a worldview. The only work you could even argue was written during a mental health crisis is his last one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1760489637464990101)  2024-02-22T02:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@SeasLife60 @MonitorFake @GOPoversight He lives off his dad's graft still uses drugs is not especially educated for the son of a former US Senator and sitting US President is probably the guy who left coke in the White House last year and refers to his dad as "Pedo Pete" in his contacts. I'm sure MENSA is calling"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1763050255820656784)  2024-02-29T03:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@SeasLife60 @MonitorFake @GOPoversight LMAO. You have a WWII era slogan for Ukrainian nationalism in your bio. You're posting literal Nazi slogans to your social media profiles and you're calling other people dumb online. Lulz"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1763051153481416799)  2024-02-29T03:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Thinking of taking a weekend trip sometime in March. Ideas: 1) Expensive impractical: Amsterdam. 2) Affordable impractical: Yosemite 3) Affordable practical: Oakland"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1763351667670679940)  2024-02-29T23:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@HuxleyDick Leaning towards it. I'm probably returning to the Bay in the fall to finish grad school so I thought I'd see how things have changed since I left. Amsterdam is solely for psychedelics. It blows my mind that therapeutic psychedelics in Oregon and the Bay Area are so expensive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1763354590077178319)  2024-03-01T00:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@HuxleyDick With Oregon in particular just getting your foot in the clinic door is somewhere in the $5-10k range out of pocket. A weekend in Amsterdam would literally be cheaper"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1763355214290284947)  2024-03-01T00:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Koutchboom @PoorOldRoloTony Relative to the parks floundering"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1763368490130628864)  2024-03-01T00:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Koutchboom A couple of references to Nader and Gore is about it. And Matt Damon clearly is loosely based on Rick Santorum"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1764437549379191153)  2024-03-03T23:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@BayouPhilosophy @PhilosopherJoeC The degree to which external notions of freedom dominate this debate is in itself a major problem. Freedom over thought for example is comparatively little discussed. And if we are not the author of our own thoughts moral and legal philosophy just turns to shit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1765052651262349323)  2024-03-05T16:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@PhilosopherJoeC @JoshuaLWatson You have to make some special plans exemption from determinism for humans for that to not be the case. And there really is no grounds for that if you accept the view of the world that basically rules out free will altogether"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1765378447067717925)  2024-03-06T14:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@singhmony_7 Voices are not entirely genetic. The things that go into a human voice are way too complex for voices to have very strong/ nearly identical similarities outside of like identical twins raised in similar circumstances"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1766258278835929383)  2024-03-09T00:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@singhmony_7 Colin Hanks looks almost like a clone of his dad. Does he have a somewhat similar voice Yeah. Does he sound exactly like Tom Hanks No. And there are reasons for that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1766259002290459084)  2024-03-09T00:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Helenreflects The American version of this is Barack Obama. His mom was basically Shailene Woodley's character in The Descendants and he spent his childhood trekking the globe with her and her endless supply of grad student paramours before she joined the fucking CIA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1766270427226423471)  2024-03-09T01:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@acidhorizonpod Uh Golda Meir blamed Palestinians for "forcing" Israelis to kill Palestinian children. She was at least as insane as Netanyahu"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1773031743844393418)  2024-03-27T16:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@riah4real Returnal Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart Mass Effect: Legendary Edition Ghost of Tsushima Guardians of the Galaxy (Eidos Montreal one) Cyberpunk 2077"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1773038800714781093)  2024-03-27T17:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@SaeedDiCaprio @stunninggun This is like wandering around a market in the South in the 1850s asking people where the slavery is or literally asking the same question in the 1980s when hanging out with Elon Musk as a boy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1773070690196836381)  2024-03-27T19:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@RampageGio I love that this guy basically openly sabotaged the Gore campaign during the recount didn't pay any kind of price for that George W. Bush is now a celebrated figure among upper class liberals--and they still hate Nader"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1773112227261817160)  2024-03-27T22:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@VerminusM But you still accepted the invitation of a foreign government with your home government's blessing to go displace and murder poor people and steal their stuff. That makes you a horrible human being"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1773374163358814322)  2024-03-28T15:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@AleMartnezR1 You could argue he's not given his ontology/metaphysics. (He's closer to what a modern would call a "panentheist.") But he was devoutly religious. A non-believer would not write the commentary on the Hebrew Bible that we find in his work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1773445975321022731)  2024-03-28T20:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@InsightTweeting Biden might get us into WWIII and is currently financing and arming a genocide. Obama expanded Bush's wars and extrajudicial murder and also seriously undermined the very concept of habeus corpus in US law. Clinton by default is the lesser evil. He only did normal war crimes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1773446686985326859)  2024-03-28T20:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@derdunklekommt I am weirdly naturally strong for some reason. When I was a wildfire fighter in my late teens I could lift fallen mature oak and pine trees off the forest floor with one hand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1773467112390201589)  2024-03-28T21:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@ValeerDamen Uh have you noticed that most anime characters look like idealized white people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1773482137708323263)  2024-03-28T22:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@AngelliAngelo If they wanted to make this argument they should have made sure the out of shape poorly trained psychopathic teenagers carrying the genocide out weren't constantly uploading evidence of intent to social media. They make the staff at Abu Gharib look prudent and disciplined"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1773689689842614694)  2024-03-29T12:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@bernardtjoy I find Blood Meridian a slog to read"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1774402031228448962)  2024-03-31T11:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@RampageGio @dohelu At this point I'm wondering when they'll get around to the Netanyahu point of saying that the Nazis weren't that bad and that the Holocaust was actually a conspiracy of the Arabs/Chinese/Russians"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1775737699653271825)  2024-04-04T04:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@OrthodoxOrigen In my experience most modern people in the analytic tradition downplay or even outright deny the distinction is relevant"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1777884908880638027)  2024-04-10T02:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@RackerBob @RampageGio I lived there for about a year working on a campaign. At the time the main political issue of the day was bear-baiting. And their governor was often completely hammered in public"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1778051302410605000)  2024-04-10T13:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@unusual_whales Most wealth accumulates by the working classes in the 20th century was wiped out in [----] and we had a "jobless recovery" with a real unemployment rate hovering around 25% for [--] years and then an even bigger upward transfer of wealth so I am shocked that the figure is this high"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1778452609982148756)  2024-04-11T15:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@OrthodoxOrigen I really don't get the point of alts/socks. Like social media takes up a worrying amount of my time with one account. Why would I want several"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1778941568185155841)  2024-04-13T00:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I grew up riddled with cancer in the worst conditions possible. And I did everything society told me I needed to do to be successful. [--] years in I'm struggling and I see the stupidest people on Earth engaging in pedophilia and genocide and raking it in. WTF"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1778945169091592269)  2024-04-13T00:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Oh great the threat of WWIII somehow grew during my viewing of @monkeymanmovie. Wonderful"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1779329396467540124)  2024-04-14T02:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@MistyDreamZzz We're currently in a proxy war with Russia antagonizing China with a military build up in Taiwan and both countries have interests in the countries Israel and the US are bombing. Direct conflict with Iran could set off a regional conflict that becomes WWIII"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1779714900958527588)  2024-04-15T03:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@BurtThe82142 @TSchwarzbard Also most IDF "officers" are in their teens and 20s and are conscripts which is why they get their asses handed to them whenever they fight an actual armed combatant. Even though they've razed Gaza to the ground they still managed to get their asses kicked by Hamas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1779877096611000412)  2024-04-15T14:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@BurtThe82142 @TSchwarzbard IDF is great at murdering unarmed women children and senior citizens and blowing up hospitals and schools. Fighting an able-bodied armed adult They lose every single time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1779877446986371552)  2024-04-15T14:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@BayouPhilosophy @neohempelian @robertrbeckett I saw someone post feedback like this where they said she didn't demonstrate enough knowledge of x scholar and she was the scholar in question"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1779939923770200097)  2024-04-15T18:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@vanjimbo @AngelliAngelo Netanyahu basically has to respond for his own survival due to the moronic bloodlust of the Israeli population and his desire to avoid prison"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1779951539765063756)  2024-04-15T19:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@AJLond1n He thinks the US election system is fair and that elections in the US actually impact policy outcomes. That's cute"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1781473997605224775)  2024-04-20T00:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Helenreflects No. The first four seasons are top notch. The last [--] are so bad especially with how they butcher the characters of Tyrion Jaime Dany and Jon that it retroactively makes the whole show worse. The actors whose characters died within those first four seasons are lucky"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1782194067612504507)  2024-04-21T23:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@OrthodoxOrigen @NISHI_NO_KI @AppleClassical We broke up because I was a former wildfire firefighter who could lift [---] lbs and she wanted me to hit her in the face as hard as I could which I refused to do because you know I'm not a psychopath and didn't want to maim/kill her"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1782251378066567200)  2024-04-22T03:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@OrthodoxOrigen Eh more like the hospital/clinic/insurer is the boss. Our mental health care system has been a joke ever since Reagan shut down residential mental hospitals in the 1980e which also started the modern homelessness epidemic in America"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1782434629305442747)  2024-04-22T15:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@AngelliAngelo They also fired staffers for past matijuana convictions and failing drug tests while his son was doing coke in the White House--"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1782439051884474809)  2024-04-22T15:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@sfchronicle I'm surprised that this dumb blowhard didn't immediately blame the Kremlin for this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1783717954523443708)  2024-04-26T04:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@aufgehenderRest Frankfurt is intentionally hilarious. Stroud literally taught an upper division course in how to write philosophy and his work shows why h was a great fit for that. Parfit wrote a book on the philosophy of mind that is basically treated as a religious text in Buddhism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1784231007853621283)  2024-04-27T14:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Helenreflects The problem is that the very people embracing this kind of message in US politics who are also viable candidates running for one of the two major parties almost always turn out to be the most vicious examples of wolves-in-sheep's-clothing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1784327967776362907)  2024-04-27T21:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Helenreflects Thinking very specifically of the Clintons GWB Obama the Squad and basically everyone involved in the Bernie Sanders campaigns who fall outside those earlier groups"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1784328414230614378)  2024-04-27T21:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Helenreflects I think you'd like the Tomb Raider Survivor series if you like puzzles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1785152037531029612)  2024-04-30T03:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Helenreflects I would also recommend TmAsssas na Creed: Odyssey Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Guardians of the Galaxy by Eidos Montreal Mass Effect The Last of US Cyberpunk [----] and Red Dead Redemption 2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1785154816081289271)  2024-04-30T03:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@BayouPhilosophy I'd use denominations to weed out the kind of churches you definitely don't want to explore and keep an open mind. You seem to like conversation and music so I would encourage you to explore the Quakers ELCA and independent Lutheran groups and Lutheran-adjacent Protestants"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1786135353490858344)  2024-05-02T20:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@noetic_emetic It is always weird when people say patently wrong things when calling you stupid. The pre-Socratics were toying with the earliest versions of the concepts behind modern physics. Boiling his idea of flux down to a metaphor for the past is at best oversimplifying it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1786808092149297222)  2024-05-04T17:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@aquariumtigers @Retrogamebrews Well-designed games make it worth it and also add replay value. E.g. in Ghost of Tsushima you can liberate the whole island and beat the game while only winning a few trophies. Getting the platinum requires you to get better at the game and explore every last nook and cranny"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1787162454679822709)  2024-05-05T16:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@mikemovies I was almost rolling in the aisles laughing at how Scott frames the beheading of Marie Antoinette like some historically unparalleled act of barbarism. Uh the English publicly beheaded a monarch guy. You guys infamously threw a Viking leader into a fucking snake pit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1787176150101618706)  2024-05-05T17:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@mikemovies Also it literally ends with a running tally of everyone who died as a direct result of Napoleon's part in the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars--but weirdly doesn't get into how many people the crowns of England Russia et al killed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1787177497811190200)  2024-05-05T17:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@vadergrrrl @Felixandres77 @MiddleEastEye USC somehow had an even worse response. I am convinced the lawsuits from the Occupy crackdown and the fact administrators got fired over it are the only reasons Berkeley is behaving somewhat sanely in comparison"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1787205910131245271)  2024-05-05T19:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@vodkabooty Putting on boots being effeminate is a weird take. A rural transplant to what is basically New York City working at a newspaper and having that apartment with that view is what takes me out of it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1787934867466162530)  2024-05-07T19:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@StChad_1517 Realizing WELS were neo-Nazi wife-beaters and that most of their seminarians on social media have Nazi-themed profiles and the r/ExLutheran subreddit is at least 90% horror stories of surviving growing up in WELS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1787981449850961998)  2024-05-07T23:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@unusual_whales It would be so great if scientists and engineers had an ounce of self-respect and weren't the most shameless whores for money on Earth. That is pretty much the main thing holding up Musk's reputation as a "genius.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1787988293914960124)  2024-05-07T23:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@aaronjmate Didn't you and every other actual journalist on this beat report that the USG agreed to turn a blind eye on leveling Rafah if Israel stopped trying to lure the US into a direct hot war with Iran"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1787994609970536694)  2024-05-07T23:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@ocmd73 I really do not get how you can very regularly announce that you just lost hundreds of millions of dollars and still somehow stay in business"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1788633895229096045)  2024-05-09T18:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@ChrisBocay @BayouPhilosophy That scene in Ferrari where Ferrari is explaining to his son that a more efficient engine tends to be more appealing to the eye reminded me of those parts of the book"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1788657227206987958)  2024-05-09T19:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Helenreflects This. Read it aloud. Listen to recordings of poets reading their own work. Listen to Shakespearean sonnets recorded in original pronunciation. Poets like Rilke speak of poetry in musical terms for a reason"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1788962797965177281)  2024-05-10T16:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@BayouPhilosophy @addyman_michael @MeghanCarron I think Helen Keller is a good example here. She clearly had a very rich interior life with sophisticated empathy-based politics. Thinking that she was basically a non-human animal on the level of Cartesian automata before Annie Sullivan showed up is horrific to me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1788977703972110546)  2024-05-10T17:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@sfchronicle I love how austerity is the only solution CA Democrats ever propose to any problem. We have a budget surplus. We must embrace austerity to ensure we don't run a deficit We have a huge deficit. We must embrace austerity to ensure it doesn't get any worse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1789104037482446974)  2024-05-11T01:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@sfchronicle Apartheid South Africa couldn't afford to buy the US Congress and the administration of every major American university. That is pretty much the difference"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1789111024030986489)  2024-05-11T01:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@THEKabeNewt @QuetzalThoughts Feel free to make this point when IDF thugs aren't posting themselves blowing up hospitals and physically assaulting American students on social media and when they stop hitting aid workers with surgical drone strikes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1789413705567887759)  2024-05-11T21:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@BayouPhilosophy I think you'd like Iron Horse. It's a Metallica cover band in the bluegrass genre"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1789423743485329678)  2024-05-11T22:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@RiverParrish1 @QuetzalThoughts Yeah they showed a lot of restraint by destroying all civilian infrastructure blocking all aid and killing their own aid workers and then dropping white phosphorus on the "safe zone." They're selling beach front settlements in Gaza as we speak. It's a genocidal land grab"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1789530868714995994)  2024-05-12T05:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@RiverParrish1 @QuetzalThoughts The World Central Kitchen event alone proves they deliberately kill aid workers you condescending ghoul. They bombed clearly marked aid vehicles with precision strikes three separate times. Harry Zahav announced plans for the Gaza settlements in December"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1789537936255705339)  2024-05-12T06:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@CurlyMcNulty I think it gets way too much credit for being "groundbreaking." It feels like a step backwards from NYPD Blue. In that show alcoholism domestic violence corruption and police brutality are widespread. In The Shield only like five guys in the whole LAPD do any of that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1789685435704447364)  2024-05-12T15:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Helenreflects Math is generally taught very poorly. The YouTube channel @Numberphile is good at communicating why mathematicians find math fun to a general audience. The @CloserToTruth series of videos on whether mathematics is discovered or invented is also good"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1789793351405056506)  2024-05-12T23:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@ChrisBocay @Helenreflects Stroud has a good joke about this featuring Foucault: S: You teach here very clearly and well. Why is your work so impenetrable F: In France nobody takes you seriously unless your writing is 90% bullshit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1789805259441033631)  2024-05-12T23:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@ValiantReaper @CultureCrave You mean the last four seasons"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1789810456116514841)  2024-05-13T00:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@keithfrankish Stroud played American football so I'd go with him in a defender position. Searle was a skier landlord and creep so I'd go with goalie. Nothing escapes his hands coins ski poles students--"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1790088404971163704)  2024-05-13T18:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@CultureCrave I've been around Coppola a fair amount in San Francisco. Unless he completely fucking lost his mind when his wife was dying I have a real hard time buying that he would act like that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1790464491034906662)  2024-05-14T19:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@bjkingape @Helenreflects @Ofdelasalle @nonanswernom @nberlat @milena_ivanova_ You are a great stylist have you ever taught philosophical writing I've taught it a handful of times and Barry Stroud has always been the model for that course"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1792302179413585990)  2024-05-19T21:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Helenreflects Thanks. You're a wonderful person. @alvanoe @GordonMarino Stroud's kids etc. Are all wonderful people who know my situation. And I am grateful to know all of you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1792374420570542549)  2024-05-20T01:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@GDebatta "Show your work" is so fucking entitled that I viscerally want to slap the guy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1792641377999663607)  2024-05-20T19:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@GDebatta It reminds me of the daughter of a Texas rancher heavily subsidized by the federal government who worked for Battleground Texas and told a server working at an understaffed bar during a major sporting event to "do better" when she had to wait for a drink"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1792642234908578050)  2024-05-20T19:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@GDebatta I was really really good at what I did--run Field and Communications for top ticket and House races--but cancer and disillusionment with the long con the party ran with heart care reform ultimately led me into being a very bitter academic voting third party mainly as a FU"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1792648125355639137)  2024-05-20T20:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@GDebatta @thelcms Yeah extraordinarily high IQ very traumatized. I'm a genius but also batshit insane and very physically ill which kind of fits with the life story"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1792657555405357241)  2024-05-20T20:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@GDebatta @thelcms I was very poor so I couldn't afford Johns Hopkins but I did go to Berkeley. I was devoutly religious so I didn't exactly fit in with the philosophy department. But Barry Stroud was my hero. He recognized early on that I was a strong writer and took me under his wing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1792663862908711137)  2024-05-20T21:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"#Furiosa was great. I wasn't expecting a Mad Max cameo or for it to lead directly into Fury Road"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1794868055471980980)  2024-05-26T23:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@CurlyMcNulty There's a [--] year gap between when she makes a living tableau out of Dementus and the beginning of Fury Road. I'm guessing there is a stable where Joe keeps the babies who are deformed but viable and that is where that dude is during Furiosa and that Scrotus dies during that span"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1794932075839258792)  2024-05-27T03:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"My one gripe is that I think Miller missed an opportunity to link Furiosa and Fury Road even more tragically by revealing that the aquifer that supplies the Citadel and the Green Place are one and the same"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1794944455562432541)  2024-05-27T04:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@ScottchoMan In the early aughts I was a state firefighter to pay for college and missed the WWF and WCW merger. Uh they had a romance storyline between Eric Bischoff and Stephanie McMahon WTF"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1794968457525833776)  2024-05-27T05:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@tenshi_anna Isn't Newton the Newton of philosophy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1795080090906247358)  2024-05-27T13:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@BayouPhilosophy Add blood sausage made from the blood of a captive and you're literally a Mad Max warlord"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BlackestofLies/status/1795081700390609381)  2024-05-27T13:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

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