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Title cards from some classic noir movies (1940 - 1952)

thelifeandtimesofacrazyblond

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The excerpt paragraph made me look up and stare at my wife for three solid minutes waiting for them to return to the couch. I couldn’t move on with my life. I had to read it aloud to them to their audible disgust and then they read all the comments with unbridled delight.

Now we keep repeating “Like Zorro.”

dxmedstudent

The Bad Sex Awards are a gem. You don't have to be male to be nominated.

I legitimately thought the passage exerpt from his book was meant to be satire, then realised that this seems to be a real exerpt from a published novel. With worse sex scenes than I've seen in fanfiction written by teenagers, many of whom haven't even HAD sex.

As a professional writer you can't really expect that nobody is ever going to comment on what you write. Especially if you write sex scenes that are uh...interesting or pretentious.

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krchov

(by @mhalachai)

degenerate-perturbation

It is a truth universally acknowledged,

liberalsarecool

But, I don’t know – it’s hard for me to see any Trump ties to Russia…except for the Flynn thing and the Manafort thing

and the Tillerson thing

and the Sessions thing

and the Kushner thing

and the Carter Page thing

and the Ivanka hanging with the oligarchs thing

and the Roger Stone thing

and the Felix Sater thing

and the Boris Ephsteyn thing

and the Rosneft thing

and the Gazprom thing

and the Sergey Gorkov banker thing

and the Azerbajain thing

and the “I love Putin” thing

and the Donald Trump, Jr. thing

and the Sergey Kislyak thing

and the Russian Affiliated Interests thing

and the Russian Business Interests thing

and the Emoluments Clause thing

and the Alex Schnaider thing

and the hack of the DNC thing

and the Guccifer 2.0 thing

and the Mike Pence “I don’t know anything” thing

and the Russians mysteriously dying thing

and the Trump’s public request to Russia to hack Hillary’s email thing

and the Trump house sale for $100 million at the bottom of the housing bust to the Russian fertilizer king thing

and the Russian fertilizer king’s plane showing up in Concord, NC during Trump rally campaign thing

and the Nunes sudden flight to the White House in the night thing

and the Nunes personal investments in the Russian winery thing

and the Cyprus bank thing

and Trump not releasing his tax returns thing

and the Republican Party’s rejection of an amendment to require Trump to show his taxes thing

and the election hacking thing

and the GOP platform change to the Ukraine thing

and the Steele Dossier thing

and the Leninist Bannon thing

and the Sally Yates can’t testify thing

and the intelligence community’s investigative reports thing

and the Trump reassurance that the Russian connection is all “fake news” thing

and the Spicer’s Russian Dressing “nothing’s wrong” thing

and the Chaffetz not willing to start an investigation thing

and the Chaffetz suddenly deciding to go back to private life in the middle of an investigation thing

and the The Lead DOJ Investigator Mary McCord SUDDENLY in the middle of the investigation decides to resign thing

and the appointment of Pam Bondi who was bribed by trump in the trump university scandal appointed to head the investigation thing

and the The White House going into full-on cover-up mode, refusing to turn over the documents related to the hiring and subsequent firing of Flynn thing

and the Chaffetz and White House blaming the poor vetting of Flynn on Obama thing

and the Poland and British intelligence gave information regarding the hacking back in 2015 to Paul Ryan and he didn't do anything thing

and the Agent M16 following the money thing

And now the trump team KNEW about Flynn's involvement but hired him anyway thing

and The Corey Lewendowski thing

and the Preet Bharara firing thing but before he left he transferred evidence against trump to a state level Schneiderman thing

And the Betsy Devos' Brother thing

And the Sebastian Gorka thing

And the Greg Gianforte from Montana thing

And the pence actually was warned about Flynn before he was hired thing

and the Pence and Manafort connection thing

And the 7 Allies coming forward with audio where trump was picked up in incidental wire tapping thing

and the carter Page defying the Senate's order to hand over his Russian contact list thing

and the Obama coming forward and sayin he warned trump directly thing

And the trump wants to VETO Sally Yates' testimony thing

and the trump tweets attacking Yates and defending Flynn thing

and the "no evidence of collusion" attributed to Clapper, who never said such a thing, thing.

and the amnesia epidemic that hit every member of the Inner circle when it comes to remembering meetings with Russians thing.

and the "18" days before Flynn was fired thing

and the witness intimidation through tweets thing

and the McGahn "Why does it matter to the DOJ if one White House official lies to another official?" thing

and firing Comey thing!

and the temporary FBI head, McCabe, being also under investigation thing

and the banning the US press but allowing the Russian press to the Russian ambassador Oval Office meeting thing!

and the Certified Letter thing!

and the threatening Comey thing!

and the firing of Comey thing!

and the I respect the investigation but it is a witch hunt and no president has been so persecuted thing!

and the Kushner back door thing!

and the appointing Christopher Wray, as head of the FBI, whos law firm represented the trump organization and has ties to Rosneft and Gasprom Russian organizations! Yea that thing.

and the blaming Obama for the Russian hacking that a week before he called a hoax and witch hunt!

and the Kushner/ trump jr meeting with Russia's top propagandist Natalia Veselnitskaya thing.

and Peter Smith who actually colluded with Flynn thing

And trump and Tillerson meeting privately with Putin thing.

And trump allowing VISAs to 150 known Russian spys thing.

And trump offering to work with Putin on a cyber security thing.

And the Natalia Veselnitskaya having dinner with a republican congressman after "the meeting" thing.

SO yeah, there’s probably nothing there,

- Michael Jochum

fromthedust

Glen Baxter (English, b.1944)

www.glenbaxter.com

tamamita

There you have it. It was all just a big lie just to starve the Palestinians.

tamamita

Remember, Netanyahu admitted to funding an ISIS-affiliated gang in Gaza who were responsible for stealing aid.

This was all a big setup, and western media ate it.

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Break out the parasols and cloclwork and brush up on your etiquette, it's Steampowered September here at the Prompt Foundry!

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depsidase

hungry-4-both

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A man whose family on both sides were murdered by the actual Nazis denouncing the war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu and his terrorist IDF for their systematic extermination of Palestinians in Gaza.

tamamita

You people are four years old

sabojude

It's always strange how some Zionists will treat Zionism like this closed off Jewish religious practice that only Jewish Zionist's specifically are allowed to discuss. It treats Anti-Zionism as outsiders weighing in on something that doesn't concern them.

Of course, we're already aware that Jewish anti Zionists tend to fall outside the Zionist definition of Jewishness, which further emphasizes that this is merely participants and supporters of a colonialist project who'd rather not see their precious project be treated like what it really is.

Of course, the matter of the fact is that I was involved in on the discussion against my will, by virtue of being a Palestinian. I do not possess the luxury of ignoring the occupation I live under.

It's utterly absurd to subject someone to something, and yet deny their right to express their opinion on the matter. You don't exactly see Haudenosaunee storytellers loudly broadcasting closed oral traditions off a megaphone and then expecting people to ignore it. Because that would be absurd.

And yet, for some reason, people still think this arbitrary rule is one must be followed. The feelings of the occupier and their supporters is treated as if it carries more weight than the livelihoods of the occupied. It's pure liberal idpol. It's using terms about feelings and identity to control the narrative around the reality. Ultimately, though, there's a silver lining, and it's that regardless of how strong our feelings about something are, this has little to no baring on the reality at hand.

reachartwork

(reposting on request of @tamamita)

The stance that Zionism is some inherent aspect of Judaism deserving the same respect we give to the closed parts of the practice is always very silly to me. The reason non-Jewish people shouldn’t weigh in on some aspects of Judaism - sefirot, halacha, rituals and symbols - isn’t because of some iron law of noninterference, but because those rituals are only meaningful to us in the first place; there’s no reason for a gentile to be participating unless they’re specifically invited because why would it be meaningful to you at all in the first place?

Zionism, on the other hand, is just Jewish-flavored ethnonationalism. There is no ritual or mystic component that renders it "only meaningful to insiders." In fact, it necessarily involves outsiders - especially the ones being slaughtered in our religion’s name, but also anyone remotely opposed to the concept of an ethnostate. There’s nothing sacred about that, and you’re perverting the idea of a closed practice to justify fascist bloodlust when you tell people "non-Jews can’t have opinions on Zionism."

Saying only Jews can debate Zionism is like saying only Afrikaners could debate apartheid. Prima facie absurd.

The category of "closed practice" was developed to protect minority communities' internal cultural and religious integrity - it was never meant to shield nationalist policies of territorial dispossession and violence. Conflating the two is self-evidently bad faith and I think a lot of zionists know that deep down.

mantis-lizbian

it also feels like it overlooks Christian Zionists, which feels really weird to me. like this is in no way meant to diminish the impact and shithousery of Zionist Jews, but Zionist Christians outnumber all Jews, Zionist or not by an absolutely monstrous number, and like... i can't help but feel like that fact along should give Jewish Zionists pause about the ideology, especially if they think it's supposed to be a closed thing. like... you're not even a little curious why there'd be so fucking many? that doesn't feel... ominous to you at all? like not even to address how trivial it is to show many are also rabidly antisemetic even when you completely set the state of Israel aside, y'know. like just ignore that massive red flag for a sec. like why would it be so important to all these people that we all be thrown in one place together? just... that's gotta bug you, right? a little niggle at the back of your mind? no? nothing? oy vey.