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Another article from The daily beast
Homeless, Zip-Tied, Hungry: Ilhan Omar's Daughter Recounts Protest Arrest
Stolen from destiny (a woman's name) sub https://old.reddit.com/r/Destiny/comments/1cb3dvo/from_homeless_left_without_food_to_teen_vogue/?sort=controversial
Some info on this foid ( instagram links)
I would recommend everyone to browse her instagram to get a glimpse of what her life is like:
https://instagram.com/israhirsi/
Typical activism as an aestetic, privileged oppression role-player. Her entire instagram is a carefully curated advertisement to set her up as a future politician or professional activist/shit stirrer.
Some highlights:
Before this, she was featured 3 times in vogue, starting when she was only 15 in 2018.
She has been a speaker at many events and even had her own ted talk.
She had a collab with adidas ... and that at least two times- Don't forget to check out her collection (of course in colab with adidas) but she really hates capitalism
She is a certified coke-drinking zionist
Just a couple weeks ago she was featured in interviewmag
Some hamasabi fans are trying to fight the ultra jew supporting ddg
Only poor people are allowed to struggle
.. to struggle financially? Well yeah dumbass thats how it works.
it's not LMAO
He literally says "financially" ... what part of that don't you understand? "hurr durr no u hurr no it's not durr" - moron.
SOCIALISM IS WHEN NO BRAND DEALS
This thread is sitting at the bottom
No, that's not what OP is saying. The framing of the stories' headlines suggesting a harrowing experience whose severity might be exaggerated is the problem. Her story was immediately publicized and her "struggle" turned into a photoshoot. She is a well-off child of a US government official. Any hardship that her protest resulted in can be mitigated. She isn't wandering the streets bumming cigarettes and searching for her next meal.
THEN ITS ALL READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!!
THE SOMALIS ARE NOT IMPRESSED OR ARE THEY?
Keep in mind that both her mother, father and step-father have multiple properties, Rep Omar has a $174K salary (and fringe benefits) and her step-father has made millions in political consulting and her father Ahmed Hirsi appears to be doing well financially.
Any of them can pay for her hotel, pay for train/plane tickets to get them to their multiple properties, pay for a hotel in NYC and I bet she has enough money in her checking account/credit card to take an Uber from NYC to Washington DC.
In short...she is lucky to be privileged (not her fault, and happy for her). But look what she says and the write-up about her (To her credit, she's standing up for Gaza, but she has very little to lose as a Teen Vogue, Nike and other companies' active/brand darling):
Despite the legal trouble, she said she was chiefly concerned about where she would spend the night.
โWhen I got to 1 Police Plaza, my roommates had brought me a bag of clothes because they knew that I was likely evicted,โ she said. โWe were reading our email and it said we had 15 minutes to go get our shit if we wanted it, and we'd have to go with a public safety escort.โ
โI was like, โI'm not going to do that.' But I was a little bit frantic, like, โWhere am I going to sleep? Where am I gonna go?'โ she continued. โAnd also all of my shit is thrown in a random lot. It's pretty horrible.โ
Hirsi is effectively barred from entering campus during her suspension, a punishment only levied against Barnard students, she claimed.
โI don't know when I can go home, and I don't know if I ever will be able to,โ she said. โI haven't formally been evicted. I haven't been sent a โmove out' email, but they've just said that I can't get in, whatever that means.โ
โI have like four shirts, two pairs of pants. Only Barnard students are evicted, and I think it's pretty crazy,โ she continued.
Days after the suspension, food was also a concern.
โI cannot go to the dining hall. I sent them an email like, โHey, I rely on campus for my meals, I rely on my dining plan,' and they were like, โOh, you can come pick up a prepackaged bag of food,' a full 48 hours after I was suspended,โ Hirsi said. โThere was no food support, no nothing.โ
But this feller was d to heck
On the other hand #RealSomalis are happy
proud to know a somali is standing up against the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the people of Palestine
The power #those ppl have is actually scary.
Real, more power to her ๐ฏ
She has a good head on her shoulders. Risking losing what she has for standing up for what's right. Great to see people like that. She's been very vocal as well. They're saying she's a ham*s supporter. ๐๐๐ these ppl are crazy. Wonder how far they'll go with this
A RANDOM NO GOODER POSTS WRONG THINK (WARNING GOOGLE DOCS, XITTER LINKS)
And I'm just going to copy/paste my comment from a little while ago before people start saying "being anti-war is not being antisemitic"
For posterity, here's some of the examples of extremism within the activist movement at Columbia. This goes beyond "pro-Palestinian advocacy" into calls for, and actual, violence.
Note, there are varying degrees of it being individuals vs. the group, but these are the type of people in the crowd there and many of them are indeed group chants. I have also set aside some widespread ones (from the river to the sea) that are disputed in character. That said, many many many of these are coming from large groups of students within the main quad (which has been locked down to only students/professors)
Candidly some sources are not great in terms of me agreeing with the viewpoint of the tweeter, but they contain relevant and real video:
Physically assaulting an Arab Israeliย https://twitter.com/ShaiDavidai/status/1781080951902109774
"From the river to the sea, Palestine is Arab!" / "Resistance is justified"ย https://twitter.com/ShelleyGldschmt/status/1781785252886913358
"Let it be known that it was the Al-Aqsa Flood that put the Global Intifada back on the table again. And it is the sacrificial spirit of the Palestinian Freedom Fighters that will guide every struggle on every corner of the earth to victory."ย https://twitter.com/thestustustudio/status/1781904507611287981
"We are all Hamas!"ย https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1781031465179914677
"Yehudim yehudim [(Jews, jews)] go back to poland"ย https://twitter.com/Davidlederer6/status/1781948249214996901
Includes people / groups that invited an actual, no hyperbole terrorist to speak (member of PFLP)ย https://www.jns.org/columbia-suspends-four-students-for-holding-event-featuring-pflp-member/
Light things on fire / "intifada revolution there is only one solution"ย https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1781019445399556338
"On Oct 7th, Palestinian resistance in Gaza broke free (crowd cheers) [.....] we intend to do the same"ย https://twitter.com/ShabbosK/status/1782085741431922909
""We say justice, you say how? Burn Tel Aviv to the ground!" / "Hamas we love you. We support your rockets too!" / "Red, black, green, and white, we support Hamas' fight!"ย https://twitter.com/IsraelWarRoom/status/1781933305501212872
"Long live the intifada! Intifada intifada"ย https://twitter.com/ShaiDavidai/status/1781084853653365025
"Go back to Europe!" / "You have no culture, all you do is colonize"ย https://twitter.com/ShaiDavidai/status/1781927148439109958
Have posters with the faces of PFLP and PIJ spokesmen (designated terrorist groups)ย https://twitter.com/HagarChemali/status/1782219589352350000
"From Yemen to Gaza, globalize the intifada"ย https://twitter.com/KassyDillon/status/1781312033922625797/photo/2
"Never forget the 7th of October. That will happen not 1 more time, not 5 more times, not 10, not 100, not 1,000, but 10,000 times! The 7th of October is going to be every day for you"ย https://twitter.com/EFischberger/status/1781287784897991134
"Al Qassam [(Hamas)] you make us proud, kill another soldier now" / "from the river to the sea, palestine will be arab"ย https://twitter.com/EFischberger/status/1780915336063177006
Student proudly rocking Hamas logosย https://twitter.com/CampusJewHate/status/1781054901755215954
"Resistance is justified" (again...)ย https://twitter.com/AvivaKlompas/status/1782085643990073673
"protesters on the sidewalk chanted โFrom New York to Gaza, globalize the intifada,โ next to a cardboard sign that read, โInspired by Palestinian resistance.โย https://www.timesofisrael.com/over-100-arrested-in-columbia-u-unrest-as-nypd-clears-gaza-solidarity-encampment/
And as a reminder, the student groups organizing these protests (CUAD and SJP, among others) released a letter on October 9th in support of the 10/7 attacks. ("We stand in full solidarity with Palestinian resistance", "Despite the odds against them, Palestinians launched a counter-offensive against their settler-colonial oppressor", "We wholeheartedly condemn the email sent [...] on October 8th that [...] obfuscated Palestinian resistance as โterrorismโ)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RcXX5DEO3yfJ9R4ksURnzpIPCyVxo575-Y-SoC_vZFk/edit
Finally Real brothers of !ummah with a real opinions
Where is her hijab?
This is the same girl that was supporting gay marriage on tiktok and questioning Allah. (OP)
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With very little research, a lot of people are blaming an Aaron Peters, someone who has supposedly been filing false DMCAs for sport for years. One of the affected copyright infringers did a deep dive.
The major consensus is that Garry fell for a ruse, but who knows
Who dunnit
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@Dramamine @BWC PING RELEVANT GROUPS !grillers
So basically someone told her to protest so she did, like an obedient
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- STAN_ARTMS : tradwife goals
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British Muslim Influencer โAli Dawahโ, who has over a million YouTube subscribers, only permits his wife to communicate with him by writing on a whiteboard pic.twitter.com/75LnZ1Ijn8
— ษสสำึว ำสีผสษส ๐ง๐น๐น๐ฉ (@kunley_drukpa) April 21, 2024
It's so infuriating to watch yt men do things like this because the world was obviously created by a woman!!
!moidmoment !atheists say it me y'all: ALLAH IS A WOMAN. ALLAH. IS. A. WOMAN. Periodt!!!
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40126958
There is a large amount of creators on the platform that live off their content and eCommerce enabled through the platform. So it disappearing overnight would severely impact people who have a majority of their livelihood through the app.
Won't someone think of the poor zoomer influencers?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40127055
Banning TikTok will cause an entire generation of Americans to lose all trust in their institutions. Whatever vanishingly small influence China may or may not have through TikTok---still completely unproven innuendo---pales compared to the absolute public relations coup that would win were it banned. If you think cynicism is bad now, there will be zero trust in the democratic process and the rules-based order were this to happen.
Fellas is democracy gonna die because nurses can't twerk on TikTok anymore?
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๐คฃ he just read the teleprompter ๐คฃ
— Clown World โข ๐คก (@ClownWorld_) April 24, 2024
"Four more years? Pause?"
pic.twitter.com/2g00pkHNd3
Him realising he had to keep that shit going for 4 more years
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- X : Rule 4
- DaddyReagan : groomercord posting
- CHUDLORD : I HATE THE ANTICHRIST I HATE THE ANTICHRIST
- JollyJihad : Join our groomercord server and get AIDS and -ACK
- UncleAbortion : Wow it is so much better than the website! No annoying losers!
- King_K_Rool : #FreeGrue
- collectijism : Stupid link banned me. I hate this website. I can't wait to tell the fbi I
- Rankine_911 : this is entrapment
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I used to be pro fro Cho but after she pathetically threatened to sue @TheGrillcast and then had her mental breakdown to quit the site only to come back not even 1 day later it was time to block her.
Well turns out she probably found out today that I blocked her and she had another manic episode.
!jannies get rid of her on your jannie team she has no business being a jannie.. in fact not sure why she's not banned after she leaked peoples phone numbers and doxxed a few rdrama users
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Frick all the Uvalde cops
They're all peepees
They don't peepee guns
They just run
When the shots rung
Chief Arredondo
The head honcho
Couldn't let the shots blow
For a whole classload
of kids
Talking about a barricaded subject
Nothing but a sick injustice
He's a man who can't be trusted
No disembowlment, but he's gutless
Sheeeit
The moral of the story be
No more weapons of war in the store
Because they used so morbidly.
Today we won't be discussing Uvalde, although that was my initial intention. Instead, I want to speak about Joseph Campbell and the world of archetypes and the hero's journey. Why? Because I don't always control what topic my mind wants to focus on. I took a singular xanax and I'm feeling mellow so let's begin so I get back to playing Alan Wake 2. I've been working on this one for a while so I hope you enjoy it!
The Early Days
Born in 1904 in New York, Joseph Campbell's interest in mythology was sparked at a young age when his father took him and his younger brother to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Madison Square Garden, and to the National Museum of History, and he soon recognised similarities between the stories and symbols of Native Americans and those from his Roman Catholic upbringing. Later in life, he would study Hinduism and find the same symbols once again. He would also study Arthurian medieval material, and he would recognise the same symbols. Upon entering Dartmouth College in 1921, he studied biology and mathematics. However, he would eventually transition to the Humanities, earning his master's degree in medieval literature in 1926.
In 1928, he discovered the works of Freud and Jung which would influence him greatly. Comparing the two, Campbell argues that the Freudian unconscious is โbiographical, not biologicalโ, while the Jungian unconscious is โbased on a biological point of viewโ. Unlike Freud, Campbell points out, Jung recognised the collective unconscious which is universally shared and from which mythic symbols emerge. During his lifetime, Campbell would expand on Jung's ideas of archetypes in the realm of mythology, theorising how these images manifest in the myths, stories, and traditions of disparate cultures around the world.
Campbell on Myths
In The Power of Myth (1988), Campbell outlines much of his beliefs and theories regarding myths and their purpose. The text takes the form of an interview between him and Bill Moyers, an American journ*list and political commentator. The simplest definition Campbell gives for myths is that they are โstories about godsโ. Of course, this causes one to question what gods are. Campbell argues that a god is a โpersonification of a motivating power or a value system that functions in human life and in the universeโ. Furthermore, โthe god idea is always culturally conditionedโ. To illustrate how culture might affect a society's idea of God, Campbell compares societies that live in different geographies. According to Campbell, societies that live in the desert will lean towards monotheistic ideas of God because โwhen you're out in the desert with one sky and one world, then you might have one deityโ. If a society dwells in a rainforest, however, they are more likely to practice polytheism because, as Campbell argues, the jungle is a place where โthere's no horizon and you never see anything more than ten or twelve yards away from youโ. Hence, we are more likely to speak of โthe gods, plural, of the rainforestโ.
In Campbell's view, myths are stories that are concerned with higher values and grand life aims relating to self-actualisation. This is clear when Campbell outlines what he believes are the four purposes of myths. Firstly, myths serve a mystical purpose. They assist to show humans โwhat a wonder the universe is, and what a wonder you areโ, as well as to evoke โawe before this mysteryโ. The second purpose of myths is to reveal a cosmological dimension. As Campbell explains, myths do this by showing โwhat the shape of the universe is, but showing it in such a way that the mystery again comes throughโ. The third purpose of myths is a sociological one. Myths, according to Campbell, assist in โsupporting and validating a certain social orderโ. Although โthe main motifs of the myths are the same, and they have always been the sameโ, the sociological function of myths differs from society to society, and it can also change over time. The fourth purpose, the pedagogical function, is the one that pertains most to โgods'. Campbell elaborates by explaining that myths serve to teach us โhow to live a human lifetime under any circumstancesโ. Important life lessons are transmitted from generation to generation through myths, and virtues are personified as gods that serve as guiding forces for the individuals and societies who follow the myths.
Campbell identifies a close relationship between myths and dreams and claims that โmyths and dreams come from the same placeโ. Expanding further, he explains that they both โcome from realisations of some kind that have then to find expression in symbolic formโ. The difference between myths and dreams is that a dream is a โpersonal experienceโ whereas a myth โis the society's dreamโ. The contents of dreams typically concern themselves with matters that are personal to our lives. Hence, drawing from Freud, Campbell argues that a dream โis an inexhaustible source of spiritual information about yourselfโ. Myths, however, are more universal and although their sociological functions may differ, the mythic images remain similar across time and cultures, such that it appears as though โthe same play were taken from one place to another, and at each place the local players put on local costumes and enact the same old playsโ. Summarising the differences, Campbell states that โthe myth is the public dream and the dream is the private mythโ, and that one can tell that they are in accordance with the public when their dreams coincide with the myths of society.
Campbell offers two explanations for the similarities between myths around the world. The first theory involves archetypes. In the same way that human bodies are relatively similar the world over, so too are psyches similar. Hence, โout of this common ground have come what Jung has called the archetypesโ. The second explanation Campbell gives is that myths spread through diffusion. To illustrate this explanation, Campbell gives an example of an agricultural society that develops myths around agriculture. As agriculture spreads, the accompanying myths will also spread. Consequently, aspects of agricultural myths such as the killing of โa deity, cutting it up, burying its members, and having the food plants growโ will โaccompany an agricultural or planting traditionโ but will not appear in a hunting culture. Rather than choose one explanation over another, Campbell states that โthere are historical as well as psychological aspects of this problem of the similarity of mythsโ.
Death, Rebirth, and Myths
Campbell notes the particular importance of metaphorical death and rebirth, stating that โall children need to be twice born, to learn to function rationally in the present world, leaving childhood behindโ. He claims that this wisdom is captured in the Biblical verse 1 Corinthians 13: โWhen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish thingsโ. This death and rebirth, Campbell argues, is achieved through puberty rites. As Campbell explains, โin primal societies, there are teeth knocked out, there are scarifications, there are circumcisions, there are all kinds of things done. So you don't have your little baby body anymore, you're something else entirelyโ. Campbell even cites his own experiences of wearing short pants as a boy and wearing long trousers when he was older as a kind of puberty rite.
What must be noted is that rebirth is unattainable without the preceding death. In several religions, as Campbell points out, โthe god of death is at the same time the lord of s*xโ. In this way, death and birth become intertwined concepts, and one cannot exist without the other. Giving examples, Campbell lists the death god Ghede of the Haitian Voodoo tradition who is also a s*x god, as well as the Egyptian god Osiris who is โthe judge and lord of the dead, and the lord of the regeneration of lifeโ. From this, Campbell concludes that the central lesson to be drawn is that โyou have to have death in order to have lifeโ.
To be clear, the death and rebirth metaphorized in myth is not a clinical death that involves the cessation of all life processes. This is also the case with Freud's concept of Eros and Thanatos, and with Jung's death and rebirth archetypes. According to Campbell, within myths, death is a psychic process that we must all undergo if we are to achieve self-actualisation. He stresses this when he states that we are all born dependent on others and are required to be obedient to our caretakers. To โevolve out of this position of psychological immaturity to the courage of self-responsibility and assurance requires a death and a resurrectionโ. Hence, the death and rebirth motif is a metaphor for โleaving one condition and finding the source of life to bring you forth into a richer or mature conditionโ. The use of death and rebirth in this manner will be found in the selected psychedelic texts that will be analysed in the subsequent chapters.
According to Campbell, psychedelic experiences can be incorporated into a ritual that induces a rebirth experienced as self-transformation within the participant. Rituals are closely related to myths because rituals are, as Campbell defines them, โan enactment of a mythโ (182), and โby participating in a ritual, you are actually experiencing a mythological lifeโ. Giving an example of how psychedelics can be used in ritual, Campbell analyses the North American natives of north-western Mexico. This group associates the peyote cacti with deer and prepares very special missions to collect the peyote and return with it. According to Campbell, these โmissions are mystical journeys with all of the details of the typical mystical journeyโ. The mission begins with disengagement from secular life. This requires the participant to confess all their faults before beginning their journey. As they approach the area that contains the natural growth of peyote, they pass special shrines that โrepresent stages of mental transformationโ. Once they find the peyote, they approach the cacti as though they were deer. As Campbell explains, โthey sneak up on it, shoot a little arrow at it, and then perform the ritual of collecting the peyoteโ. All these steps are not necessary from a practical perspective. However, they are necessary in a mythical context, as the ritual is a โcomplete duplication of the kind of experience that is associated with the inward journeyโ. Replying to Moyers who asks why the process must be so intricate, Campbell elaborates by saying that โif you undergo a spiritual transformation and have not had preparation for it, you do not know how to evaluate what has happened to you, and you get the terrible experience of a bad trip, as they used to call it with LSDโ. What is suggested by Campbell is that the process of self-transformation โ or the psychic/spiritual death and rebirth โ is not arbitrary, and some guidelines must be adhered to, lest one suffer a bad trip. Campbell looks to religion and mythology to discover what these guidelines are.
Campbell argues that Christians also experience death and rebirth through the rituals and narratives of their religion. This is done by achieving a rebirth that represents a transcendence of one's current self. To do this, however, requires one to relinquish attachments to one's self and, in this way, experience a kind of metaphorical death. As Campbell explains, โyou die to your flesh and are born into your spiritโ. Campbell characterises this as a metaphorical return to the garden of Eden described in the Bible which is guarded by cherubim, and which humans have been banished from. He claims that to pass the cherubim and return to the garden requires an Ego death. Hence, โif you are no longer attached to your Ego existence, but see the Ego existence as a function of a larger, eternal totality, and you favour the larger against the smaller, then you won't be afraid of those two figures, and you will go throughโ. To find harmony, which is represented by the garden, therefore requires not a fear of death nor an unfettered attachment to life. This view of death is at odds with modern conceptions of death. From this perspective, death is not an end that is to be avoided, nor is it seen as the antithesis of life. Rather, it is conceived of as something that must be balanced with life to achieve harmony. Without death, there is no self-actualisation and only stagnancy is possible. As Campbell writes, โyou have to balance between death and life โ they are two aspects of the same thing, which is being, becomingโ.
The motif of death and rebirth being a process of self-transformation is not limited to shamanic cultures and Abrahamic religions. It also makes an appearance in many Eastern religions and myths in the form of reincarnation. Campbell suggests reincarnation must be understood metaphorically because a literal interpretation fails to capture what is being conveyed by the myths. The idea of reincarnation, according to Campbell, suggests โthat you are more than you think you are. There are dimensions of your being and a potential for realisation and consciousness that are not included in your concept of yourselfโ.
The Hero's Journey
The idea of death and rebirth as part of a psychological transformative process embedded in mythology is best expressed in Campbell's theory of the monomyth, which claims that in stories around the world, a recurring pattern of the Hero's Journey is present. In short, the Hero's Journey centres on an everyman who is thrust out of his ordinary world into an adventure that variously tests them, and ultimately has them facing death. By overcoming death, the hero is reborn, and they bring the treasures they gain back to their home. This story, although it may take a different archetypal form, retains the same structure, as it describes a universal psychological process. Hence, in The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), Campbell claims that:
whether we listen with aloof amusement to the dreamlike mumbo jumbo of some red-eyed witch doctor of the Congo, or read with cultivated thin translations from the sonnets of the mystic Lao-tse; now and again crack the hard nutshell of an argument of Aquinas, or catch suddenly the shining meaning of a bizarre Eskimo fairy tale: it will always be the one, shape-shifting yet marvellously constant story that we find.
In this work, Campbell explores his theory of the universal monomyth. The central figure, the hero, represents the idealised self as well as the highest ideals and values of a culture, and โis the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations to the generally valid, normally human formsโ. It is through the hero that myths illustrate that โthere must be, if we are to experience long survival โ a continuous โrecurrence of birth' (palingenesia) to nullify the unremitting recurrences of deathโ. There is a similarity between the Hero's Journey and psychedelics' effect on the psyche, as they both concern shifting one from familiar states of mind to unfamiliar, often novel mental states that can result in tumultuous experiences. As Campbell explains, โthe first work of the hero is to retreat from the world scene of secondary to those causal zones of the psyche where the difficulties really resideโ.
Conclusion
Nobody is going to read to this point so I can admit I'm going to try again with the girl who rejected me. I'm going to tell her I still have feelings for her and I can't get over them. Last time she rejected me, she also said she doesn't know how she feels so there's a chance if you ask me. I'm going to tell her I love her and I want to give a relationship a chance. If I fail, then it's truly over beyond belief.
Tune in next time when we discuss Richard Huckle, Peter Scully, and Cars 2.
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Anita Ekberg was a Swedish actress who was also a trained archer and knew how to box. In 1960, she had a remarkable encounter with the paparazzi.
— Fascinating (@fasc1nate) April 24, 2024
After warning them to leave her alone repeatedly, she beat one up. Undeterred, they continued to follow her. She retrieved aโฆ pic.twitter.com/Hp1MaPaZCN
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Oh my godโฆ
— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) April 24, 2024
I missed this originally but heโs also proposing a 25% tax on UNREALIZED gains.
UNREALIZED.
Thatโs for wealthy individuals but still, absolute insanity. A lot of people would just leave the US and the government would likely have less tax revenue than before. https://t.co/J0XecKgAM0
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deep breath
Spoilers for a 20 year old TV series & TW for special interest 'tism...
The creator/showrunner/lead writer of Gilmore Girls was Amy Sherman-Palladino (ASP), and she's the main person responsible for the unique cozy vibe and fast-paced, reference-heavy dialogue of the original series. She's also something of a crazy control freak who had a very particular predefined arc in mind for the show, one that would highlight the parallels between Rory and her mother and grandmother, Emily (the 3rd Gilmore Girl). For years fans heard about the mysterious "final 4 words" that she already knew would end the series. She's like the opposite of the GoT showrunners who had no idea how the frick they were going to wrap up the ending.
ASP may be a stubborn b-word but she's a good writer with strong hat game
Except... ASP was forced out after the penultimate sixth season of the original run in a contract dispute with the network, the details of which have always been hazy. Toward the end of the sixth season, ASP added a bunch of zany plots (e.g. Lorelai throwing herself at Rory's deadbeat dad, Christopher) that almost seemed like a vindictive attempt to sabotage the show on her way out the door. The new show runners dumped into the thick of it for the seventh season did their best to tie up all the bizarre loose ends, and in doing so they moved away from the predestined fatalism of ASP's original arc - the theme of which could be loosely summed up as "no matter how you try to run away from it, you always grow up to be your mother."
Spoiled douchbag boyfriend, meet spoiled douchebag dad
For example, ASP always had in mind that Rory's rich, spoiled boyfriend, Logan, would be "her Christopher," a dissolute playboy who toys with her heart, knocks her up, and ultimately abandons her - but during the final season without ASP, the writers moved away from that storyline: Logan becomes estranged from his wealthy family, he has to stand on his own two feet, he exhibits personal growth. By the end of the series, he's ready to commit; he doesn't abandon Rory, he wants to marry her, but she decides she's not ready to settle down so young. The original series ends with Rory Gilmore, a promising young journ*list heading off to Iowa to cover the long-shot presidential campaign of a promising young Senator named Barack Obama.
The seventh season is divisive among fans for a few reasons (the hasty resolution of many of ASP's S6 landmine plots, the dialogue feels kind of off, some new characters are sloppily introduced late in the game) but I think most people enjoyed seeing Logan grow up a bit and the way his relationship with Rory matured. Most people liked the ending, and thought it was fitting to have Rory choose herself and her career over a man. There's a little bit of added millennial nostalgia/wish-fulfillment and serendipity to see Rory climbing onto the Obama campaign bus when we know he's going to win that race. As viewers, we figure Rory is off to a great start with a bright future ahead of her covering a landmark campaign up close.
Go get 'em, Ace!
Then, eight years later, Netflix gave ASP an assload of money to make A Year in the Life and she used it to take a giant shit all over Season Seven. She basically returned to Stars Hollow with the intent to settle old scores and give Gilmore Girls the ending that she knew it had to have: even if it didn't make a darn lick of sense almost a decade later. She has claimed that she has never watched S7, that she doesn't even really consider it canon. She said she had an assistant watch it and take notes for her. In AYITL, she kept one baby born in S7, and threw out almost everything else, determined to tell her version of what season 7 should have been.
Netflix: Buying your childhood to wear as a four-piece skinsuit
Lorelai and Luke (her main love interest/will-they-won't-they) act like newlyweds wrestling with the decision about whether to have kids, even though they've been married for the better part of a decade and Lorelai is pushing 50. Rory is broke, directionless and struggling like a new college grad, not like a woman in her 30s with access to a multimillion dollar trust fund. Logan is instantly back to being a useless frickboi: engaged to a beautiful woman we never see, but carrying on an affair with Rory.
The only good storyline in AYITL centers on Emily coming to terms with the loss of her husband, Richard (Rory's grandfather) and that story was forced on ASP by the real-life death of the actor Edward Herrmann. She had to actually write a new, age-appropriate story for Emily instead of dusting off whatever she wanted to do for S7, and it's so much better for it.
Poor Ed's brain cancer is the real MVP of AYITL
There's a bunch of other minor shit that sucks in AYITL: fat-shaming that feels very early-2000s and out of step with modern culture, lazily retconning certain characters to be gay for added diversity, an unfunny retread of the "Ann? Her?" gag from Arrested Development. But the main reason A Year In The Life is terrible is that ASP was too stubborn to incorporate any of the stories that other writers had given to her characters, so instead of a thoughtful extrapolation of how these characters might have lived and grown or changed over almost ten years, she did S7: ASP's Version. It's 2016, not 2007, but no one has changed at all or learned anything in the meantime.
A Year in the Life ends with the famous "final four words" that ASP had always preordained, even if they no longer make any goddarn sense from a narrative perspective:
"Mom?"
"Yeah?"
"I'm pregnant."
Barely 32 years old and having a bastard with this dude!
Thank you for coming to my TED talk, as a reward for your patience, enjoy this spot-on Mad TV parody:
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Why would I ever defund the police when theyโre about to help these spoiled children face consequences for the first time in their privileged, antisemitic, $80,000 a year tuition lives? https://t.co/keQYENaEz4
— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) April 24, 2024
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Reportedly escorted off for having a tantrum
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A drunk businesswoman who glassed a pub drinker after he wrongly guessed her age has been spared jail after a female judge said 'one person's banter may be insulting to others'.
Mother-of-one Joanne Dodd, 39, flew into a rage and attacked Carl Cooper after he suggested she was 43 in the beer garden of the Unicorn pub in Manchester city centre on September 9 last year.
Mr Cooper fled to the potty in a bid to get away from the heated situation, but when he came out Dodd ran towards him and twice shoved her wine glass in his face.
He was left with a four inch laceration to his face, narrowly missing his eye, and an injury to his thumb.
When quizzed Dodd, who runs a firm which organises children's sleepover parties, said she was suffering from 'low self esteem' at the time and said the banter was 'disobliging' towards her.
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I have done a deep dive and have leveraged AI to analyse this schizo poster because it's really too much for any sane human being to comprehend. He literally posts essay after essay putting @sneedman, @RitalinRxAlt, and the like to shame. bring your word count up .
Anyway, the gist of it: dude sees layers and layers of conspiracy everywhere. He links shit that is and isn't real, trying to tie it to his incredibly long ramblings. He somehow manages to pump out a novel a day leaving the likes of Brandon Sanderson blushing (George RR Martin is already in the grave). He also claims to be a cowboy.
For the sake of relative brevity, I am presenting several examples of his most controversial unhinged posts as links to the full novel of a post on reddit that have the anchor text formatted as responses to prompts to chat GPT3.5 with "give me a one sentence breakdown of the previous post that highlights some of the more strange and fringe aspects" with the full text. Please let me know when you have finished perusing the library of babel.
I have broken up the following screed with some relevant marseys designed to occupy the attention of dramatards.
In short, I cannot offer you a summary of what this individual believes in besides a deep seeded pro NATO stance because they say so god darn much. They are literally posting as I compose this post. I can't keep up, I have to somehow sate my human needs for nutrition, hydration, waste expulsion, and sleep. It's not possible to keep up with this machine of a human typist. I cannot imagine the WPM this neighbor spews, may god have mercy on his family.