Chula Vista

Never read a book but have always enjoyed his articles and op-eds.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Exo

I like Katie Porter but I thought this was cringe as f*ck.

First off, it's a terrible book written by a grifter f*cking loser so he's going to get a large influx in sales for his sh*tty book now.

Besides that, the optics are terrible. I don't want the democratic party to be the edgy f*cking snarky "look at how much this doesn't matter" party. All this is doing is giving the right reasons to pass another horsesh*t bill or tweet another hateful tweet that gets lunatics riled up. It's political theater at its finest and I'm tired of seeing it from elected officials regardless of party.

Just sshut the f*ck up and do your job. Funny thing is, I generally like Katie Porter and the job she is doing. I still do, but I can also think this sh*t is f*cking lame as balls.

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Chula Vista

I totally get that. I just think it was a perfect counterpoint to the absolute three ring circus going on on the other side of the aisle.

Actually, especially because it was her and the last thing you would have expected. She's 'done her job' and then some during her stint so far so I'm cutting her a little slack.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

TheBig3

Read this: https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii1...rican-politics

Mucha na Dziko

I wrote a 150 pages long work on "how the world should be like, but for some inexplicable reason it isn't" back in 2019-2020.

I was pretty proud about the first 50 or so pages, and thus I gave the manuscript to my friends, lovers and family to read.

From what I understood of what they told me was that even though my writing style was phenomenal and clear, the things I wanted to say were apparently "not-very-scientific", "not-very-ground-breaking" or even "not-new".

So I stopped trying and the rest of the book is basically me being me. Without the pose of a prophet.

So some chapters are absurdist comedy stuff, some are psychedelic short-novels and some are just rants about how the world is unfair.





The world is ****ing unfair.

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jwb

I know nothing about her but she likes like that one frumpy bitch from The Office (US).

But is all this anger really just coming from the book she was pretending to read?

Queen Boo

I agree, what is supposed to be a crucial government function is nothing but performance theater for social media now, and I hate to come off as a "bOtH sIdEs" dipsh*t but it really is a bipartisan problem even if one side is objectively worse.

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jadis

I love Meredith, the best character

A few years ago every chain bookstore in NYC had a display shelf with that book and 10 others with titles like Un**** Yourself: The Ultimate Guide to How Become a Guy Who's Pussygetting and Money

Exo

Did you only read the part about the book?

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jwb

I actually only looked at the pic tbh