Jeffrey Metzger
@sayjefe
He not busy being born is busy dying
Review of Phil Neel's Hinterland, one of the best books I've read this century and more brutally relevant every day. Link below.
This is Pope Francis literally sitting in Church Square in Mosul, the heart of the ISIS persecution of Christians, in 2021 A female suicide bomber and a van travelling at high speed with explosives both attempted to kill him during this visit
Have you noticed the pattern in which one Pope after the next will focus on the Jewish state & slandering it, while completely ignoring the actual genocide of Christians in the Middle East including right this minute in Syria?
Trump won’t bring back manufacturing and is abdicating development on the technological frontier and knowledge economy. The US economy will float along on foreign tribute, cannibalized boomer wealth, bloated security services, rentier tech and remnant fossil extractivism. Bleak.
Hate it when people think culture, intellect, taste are more important than 3% annual growth that all gets hovered up by brain-dead rent-seekers
Thinking about this observation from @tylercowen again:
"It's for charity, Liz. All the proceeds go to Manes & Minors to sponsor miniature horses who play keyboards at hospitals to wake up kids from anesthesia"
Losing it over this therapy horse that vigorously plays the piano to wake kids up from anesthesia
took a break from tying a woman to a railroad track to come argue
Cmon lmao
Classic tradslop post. Reminiscing about a perverted 19th-century society as depicted in a 30-second TikTok-style abridgement of a 20th-century movie that you haven't actually seen.
Was it all worth it ? Is the Ethiopian food that good ?
a male selfie is a cry for help
a male selfie is a cry for help