Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
Disabled Alaskan Monarchist doomer
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Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
5hr ago
No? I think it's both funny and clever, and in the traditional vein of "devilish contracts are foiled by word-play" stories. There's always a catch to the genie's gifts, and the gifts of Sauron are no exception. The Witch-king, by this view, may in part have surrendered to the lure of his ring through "I will be truly immortal and no-one will be able to kill me", and then the loophole smacks him in the face.
That he is taken down by a woman and a hobbit is completely in harmony with how the demons are foiled in Hindu mythology. They perform penances to gain boons from the Supreme Trinity, immortality is not possible, so they ask for elaborate conditions ("nobody can kill me except...") and think they have gained because this particular set will never come to pass.
It's also not unknown in European tales either, beyond just Macbeth. My favorite for "complex loophole" bit is Welsh, from the fourth branch of the Mabinogi. Specifically, that Lleu Llaw Gyffes cannot be killed "during the day or night, nor indoors or outdoors, neither riding nor walking, not clothed and not naked, nor by any weapon lawfully made."
So he gets struck down at dusk, wrapped in a net, with one foot on a cauldron and one on a goat, using a spear forged for a year during the hours when everyone is supposed to be at mass.
Because, like you note, there's always a loophole to these things.
Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
2d ago
Nobody at your apartment complex wants to go through the effort of filing a complaint for something that doesn’t bother them.
You obviously aren't familiar with a certain type of (almost always female) busybody who goes out of her way to find where people are Not Following The Rules, and then making a big deal of it to whomever she can, mostly because she enjoys the petty powertrip involved in pushing people around, and making them comply just because you can. The one who will call CFS every single day if she sees you're not parenting your kids the way she thinks you should. The kind who get out rulers to measure lawns so she can rat people out to the HOA.
(I'm thinking of my late grandmother — the one who was a "special ed" teacher because the crippled and cognitively-impaired kids were easier for her to bully.)
Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
2d ago
Having to band together with locals to fight nature is an amazing social lubricant.
Don't forget fighting hostile Natives, too. That was also a notable factor.
Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
4d ago
Thanks. A quick Google turns up the original phrasing, which searched in turn gives Douthat's original 2016 tweet:
A thought sent back in time to the theocracy panic of 2005: If you dislike the religious right, wait till you meet the post-religious right.
Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
5d ago
I'm looking forwards to Harris losing to Vance or Abbott or Rubio
But how would she do against DeSantis?
Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
5d ago
Go ahead and insert the Douthat quote.
Which quote would that be?
Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
6d ago
But if I were to meet an American who described himself as a white nationalist, I would put money on him having voted for Trump over any competing candidate.
You probably haven't listened to anyone over at therightstuff.biz, then. Several of them openly supported Biden over "Zion Don," and some of them even Kamala — because there's plenty of open "anti-Zionists" over on the Democrat side, while Trump is "practically one of the Tribe" since he "gave his daughter to one of (((them)))." That the "Russian Collusion" narrative about 2016 was right in every detail… except that it wasn't Moscow that meddled to install Trump and give him his weekly marching orders, it's Tel Aviv. That, contrary to what many on the right claim, Trump did accomplish in his first term everything the people who got him into the White House put him there to do: he moved the embassy to Jerusalem and gave tax cuts to Jewish billionaires.
Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
6d ago
My questiob is WHY do progressives still want to fight dead battlegrounds either lost permanently to the enemy or scorched to irrelevance.
First, I doubt they'd believe that anything can ever be permanently lost to their enemy — after all, "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice." It's a pattern in progressive historiography where prior failed attempts at pushing some cause are lauded as prefiguring the later successful ones. Second, I must once again quote Mrs. Britten's English Zone:
Early literature written by Puritans in America often appeared as first person narratives in the form of journals and diaries. Early American colonists wrote their accounts of immigration, settling in America, and day-to-day life in journals to pass their stories down. Many Puritans also wrote letters to send back to Europe to family and friends they left behind. Very little fiction appeared during this period; Puritans valued realistic writing with an emphasis on religious themes.
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Even the letters they wrote to friends and family in Europe performed more of a purpose than simply communicating about their lives and keeping in touch. Puritans' religious beliefs affected their lives on all levels, and their writing illustrated their religion's values, such as the importance of the church and the influence of God in their lives. Writing often became instructive, teaching Christian values. The Puritans did not believe that literature was for entertainment; therefore, they frowned upon "entertainment" genres such as drama (plays) and fiction novels.
How do you demonstrate that you are one of the Elect, if you aren't promoting Virtue, fighting wickedness, and serving Christ DEI in everything you do?
I think you missed that you responded to Arjin, when the quoted statement you're arguing against was made by Eupraxia one comment up.
So, why are you attacking Arjin for a comment he didn't make — and even argued against — instead of the person who said it?
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