The Quuuuuill

and you’d be right! it’s honestly very thoughtful and contemplative

i think there’s a universe out there where Rocky and First Blood establish Stalone as being the contemplative action movie guy. both those movies had interesting things to say about grief, loss, disappointment, and carrying on with the traumas of what pursuit of the american dream actually mean

no but actually tho. the first one is about a veteran having an emotional breakdown when veterans frequently do: the winter holiday season

“yeah you know the pizzas are hot and ready right? like you just walk in”

a conversation my dad had many times before they started just going “okay got it. one supreme. one cheese. one pepperoni. we should have that ready in about 20 minutes” (we lived 20 minutes from the store)

y’all let a woman with $2mil in meth onto an airplane. tsa at lax is clearly… lax

i was thinking today imagine if we resolved global conflicts with the dirty dozens

if only there was some sort of word for a political movement that weaponized the trappings of individual liberties in the name of killing marginalized people. i do nazi myself thinking of one

“lee-tray”

in this context i actively refuse to respect British spelling

these MFs convey weight in whatever the fuck “stone” is. don’t let them shame you for not using liters

it’s more horrifying than that. they’re fine with the boot on their neck as long as they can keep their boot on someone else. they don’t think they’re temporarily embarassed millionaires. they think the rich deserve to be rich, and the suffering deserve to suffer, and they’ll vote based on making sure the suffering continue to be in pain

you have to sell us the rights to extract the flammable stuff because through a process of generational trauma, you might starve to death otherwise.

no but for real though. if you have some money to spare feed your nieghbors. it will help keep them for selling their mineral rights. i’ve seen it work

our planet is becoming embroiled in wars and ethnic cleansings that all started with the question, “who owns the flammable ground stuff?”

the fact that the flammable ground stuff could become worthless if we all focused on it is very dangerous to the richest and most powerful people. they control the most flammable ground stuff. they figured out they can stay wealthy and powerful if they start a bunch of wars and kill any ethnic group who generally thinks maybe who owns the flammable ground stuff are the indigenous people who should own the ground the flammable ground stuff is in.

the song “let’s have a war” by Fear summarizes things nicely

this is exactly my read. democracy is collapsing because the masses are voting in the fascists

i mean wordwide. the entire planet is shifting fascist

god the number of people around hwre who said they were sitting out the 2024 election because they voted in 2020 and not everything got fixed…

people even voted in fascists because they thought daddy would come home and fix all this

out in these streets. cops make the streets more dangerous by far

the closest we get to a hero in the currently operative adventurers are niteowl ii and silk spectre, both of whom are aware they operate in the moral gray area of relativism and are constantly haunted by the question of whether or not what they do is right. as if to drive home that no, no it is not, they can’t engage sexually until they engage in violence. they try to justify their actions as being the best thing they can do in the moment given the constraints of the scenarios they find themselves in, but ultimately their actions are selfish and self serving. in many ways, this is why the comedian laughs. this contradictory form of nihilism is the joke all the adventurers must grapple with. they each respond differently. silk spectre chooses not to analyze or engage with the joke, preferring not to get it. niteowl ii and rorschach are different versions of understanding the joke, and choosing to carry on as if it wasn’t even the truth of their reality, choosing instead to lean into the philosophies they represent: relativism and objectivism, respectively. in walter kovacs telling mr manhatten to kill him, we see the failure of objectivism: objectivism leaves no room for making the best of a bad situation, de-emphasizing harm reduction and harm prevention in the name of righteousness. in niteowl ii’s inaction, we see the failure of moral relativism. niteowl ii is driven to inaction by his inability to take any real kind of a moral stance.

watchmen is such a misunderstood comic…

um. no? it’s their regional monopolies