michaelcyclemaker.bsky.social
57 posts
36 followers
51 following
Getting Started
Active Commenter
comment in response to
post
I mean… things have felt decidedly quiet and anti hype compared to usual
comment in response to
post
sarcasm? or is it actually light?
comment in response to
post
They fuckin
comment in response to
post
How awful is it Dave?
comment in response to
post
You first
comment in response to
post
Weird that you leave out this part where he explicitly says it was wrong for him to think that.
comment in response to
post
I don’t know that we’ll ever get something that explicit from him. But I don’t think that he is the raging zionist that a lot of people imply he is. His only public comments have been that his feelings on Israel are complicated (having been born there).
comment in response to
post
From a Times article quoting a Washington Post interview.
comment in response to
post
Let me find the full quote for you.
comment in response to
post
no he did not. He talks about how as a teenager he saw Israelis being lynched and the violent rage it made him feel, and that after reflecting on it he realized that he was disgusted with himself for having had the thoughts.
So it’s really about reckoning with those evil impulses.
comment in response to
post
So why are you leaving out the part where Neil says that the story is actually about the disgust he felt with himself for having those violent thoughts? The story is not about Israel vs Palestine.
It is about the letting go of the hate and the cycle of violence.
comment in response to
post
I think this one is probably my favorite.
comment in response to
post
+the great depression
comment in response to
post
lmfao, isn’t it more like. No treaty of versailles, no hitler?
To my understanding. Germany got absolutely reemed post world war I which created massive instability and worsened inflation.
comment in response to
post
Fuck your cowardice Hakeem. Stop pushing the democratic party to be timid! WE NEED FIGHTERS. NOT ACCOMPLICES.
Immigration is not a “distraction” and neither are these fights for Kilmar and every person who is OWED due process.
Step down and let a real fighter take the reins.
comment in response to
post
Why the fuck do you people keep saying this? WHY are you preemptively complying with this administration? We CANNOT fucking give into this garbage.
comment in response to
post
Overall I’m enjoying it a good deal. But I do feel like Craig Mazin as a writer seems to be a little allergic to subtext. Sometimes it’s felt like the characters are explaining themselves to the audience when they shouldn’t.
comment in response to
post
He doesn’t literally trust them. He’s being snide here. He’s saying if they are honest with themselves we KNOW this is evil.
comment in response to
post
Can you elaborate on those “useful” contexts. I’m assuming it’s a context that doesn’t require verifiable accuracy from hallucinated information?
comment in response to
post
3 hours! Don’t miss out on the chaos!!
comment in response to
post
Yep! Companion is incredible. One of my favorite thrillers in quite some time.
comment in response to
post
“Tony Fox”
*eye twitches.
comment in response to
post
Yes! It’s incredible! A masterpiece that should not be ignored.
comment in response to
post
To say this is to preemptively give up like a coward.
Stop putting this into the aether. We need to fight this and push against this to the very end.
comment in response to
post
While I think this is correct on a smaller level. It’s hard to overstate how much of a crisis it is over generations. It is not an issue of sliding population, it’s an issue of exponential shrinking and the inability to maintain society and infrastructure.
comment in response to
post
I mean better that, then a selfish cunt who says “rights for me not for thee.”
comment in response to
post
Weird ass response. You could have completely ignored this.
comment in response to
post
THIS IS WHY SO MANY OF US WERE SCREAMING FROM THE ROOFTOPS.
This is why so many of us were saying “regardless of what valid qualms you have with the current democratic party, we can’t afford to let Trump win.”
It was obvious this was what would happen. There are no guardrails.
comment in response to
post
Let’s not wait on this until it’s too late😡 #ImpeachmentNOW
comment in response to
post
The lunatics are running the asylum.
comment in response to
post
Hoping that we can build something better in the aftermath of all of this, but it’s real hard to be optimistic right now. Too many people still asleep at the wheel or drinking the coolaid.
comment in response to
post
didn’t you hear? It’s all computer.
comment in response to
post
Sans is undersized
comment in response to
post
link? I haven’t heard about this yet
comment in response to
post
Yes actually, I think that our country’s politics are in absolute crisis and I’m looking for actual ideas. Something to change the direction for the better. Or are we at the embracing demise phase?
comment in response to
post
Well now I know you’re absolutely not serious about any of this. Do you think that was the answer I was looking for?
comment in response to
post
What do you think is the direction we should head? Just because Ezra sounds like a wonk, doesn’t change that there needs to be a reckoning in liberal politics and an acknowledgement that many of these policies have helped make life unaffordable.
comment in response to
post
Maybe it’s just the limitations of the medium, but condescension was not the intent. I just meant that it might feel “icky” because of how we’ve all been acculturated within liberal politics, and that sense of guilt can be misguided.
comment in response to
post
That’s not what he said. Please read again. A completely different anecdote.
comment in response to
post
Cool story. Right now he’s saying more interesting things than about 90% of liberal/left thinkers and he at least feels honest about the shortcomings of current liberal politics. I’d rather dems listen to him than most of the other current “thinkers”.
comment in response to
post
I meant no offense. I just think that there has become an unhealthy sense of guilt/shame within liberal/left circles that has helped foster the current pickle we are in.
We can do good in the world by providing enough resources for all of our citizens.
comment in response to
post
I think that might be something worth looking inward about. Abundance is good when shared. I assure you that abundance is not a dirty word. It is just the antonym of scarcity.
comment in response to
post
lol no. That is absolutely not the point Ezra is making in the slightest if that’s who you are referring to.
The point is that current liberal politics have helped create scarcity of housing, resources, healthcare, education and a mindset of pricing out regular people from reasonable living.