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Jose posted:https://twitter.com/ne0liberal/status/1477659600145072137?t=puVesThVAWNjFSYUOUsZ1g&s=19 Nina Turncoat aims to have 9.9999/10 Americans live paycheck to paycheck so she is upset by the unacceptably low number.
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Lol, even under the "perfect" budget you're supposed to spend about half your income on bills. Which means even the platonic ideal should be living paycheck to two paychecks. They're surprisedthat 80% of people fall short of perfection? gently caress off.
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neolibs? oh, they're definitely getting the gulag.
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HootTheOwl posted:Lol, even under the "perfect" budget you're supposed to spend about half your income on bills. Which means even the platonic ideal should be living paycheck to two paychecks. They're surprisedthat 80% of people fall short of perfection? gently caress off. no they're surprised that someone might consider those life forms people
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HootTheOwl posted:Lol, even under the "perfect" budget you're supposed to spend about half your income on bills. Which means even the platonic ideal should be living paycheck to two paychecks. They're surprisedthat 80% of people fall short of perfection? gently caress off. Uhhh no, you're then supposed to also save a bunch which builds up a buffer so you end up being able to miss more and more paychecks as your buffer increases. The problem with that is that more savings means less consumption and we live in a consumption and growth based economic model so enough people doing this would cause a crisis destroying the whole system. The solution so far has been massive amounts of personal debt.
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Some absolutely incredible entries https://twitter.com/Abookishdiaries/status/1560078943843020800?t=wnFNcQkXJ3hIhRzmZ95D1A&s=19
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I love the idea of declaring Dr. Seuss racist against Asians, but citing Oh The Places You'll Go and not like... the "Slap a Jap" war pamphlets lol
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I'm misogynoir William Shakespeareprojecthalaxy posted:I love the idea of declaring Dr. Seuss racist against Asians, but citing Oh The Places You'll Go and not like... the "Slap a Jap" war pamphlets lol she's almost certainly including things an author did outside of the content of the book, so Dr Seuss does count as racist because of the wartime propaganda he created
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projecthalaxy posted:I love the idea of declaring Dr. Seuss racist against Asians, but citing Oh The Places You'll Go and not like... the "Slap a Jap" war pamphlets lol
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fortunately that lady doesn't have to worry about that as she's a pioneer and the very first person to ever stumble upon the fact that art creators can be bad people
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Ender's Game is not where Orson Scott Card compared Hitler to Obama you obviously didn't get the revised edition with the new foreword
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Neil Gaiman as transphobic
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If you're doing notable works why wouldn't you put the actual Shakespeare plays in then lol
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DACK FAYDEN posted:I don't think it's citing OTYPG as the source of the racism, that column is labelled "notable works" - much like Ender's Game is not where Orson Scott Card compared Hitler to Obama and said "roving gangs of Negro youth" or whatever the gently caress was gonna result from the 2012 election Oh whoops lol. I didnt click through and see the headings so I just sorta skimmed then saw the Seuss one and thought that was the "evidence". I apologize for the mistake and now am forced to fully back and vouch for all of their takes.
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gradenko_2000 posted:you obviously didn't get the revised edition with the new foreword
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john green - wrote about a kiss in anne franks house 
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Michael Crichton, known for The Terminal Man and other works,
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orson scott card is going to publish an appendix to enders game that is all of the demosthenes and locke posts, they will all be about the trans menace and how obama is the new hitler
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Aug 18, 2022 15:24
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Lol one of the cancelled authors has provided a rebuttal. 
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I'm reading No Good Men Men Among the Living and I am astounded by how many times American soldiers machine gunned pro American Afghani officials and civilians. Mayor's waving flags and poo poo were hand cuffed and executed in schools by American soldiers who then got a star for it. What the gently caress
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Aug 18, 2022 15:25
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michael crichtons book red sun really is one of the most racist things ive ever read though lol, it's astonishing what was acceptable to say about japanese people 30 or 40 years ago
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lobster shirt posted:michael crichtons book red sun really is one of the most racist things ive ever read though lol, it's astonishing what was acceptable to say about japanese people 30 or 40 years ago He was on a roll in the early 90s with that and Disclosure, the story about what if a man got sexually harassed huh, did that just blow your mind? I don't remember Airframe enough to say if it was amusingly bad or just boring.
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In my prewoke period in middle school i was a big crichtonist. Congo, Airframe, Sphere, Timeline, i read em all
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Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:He was on a roll in the early 90s with that and Disclosure, the story about what if a man got sexually harassed huh, did that just blow your mind? I don't remember Airframe enough to say if it was amusingly bad or just boring. Airframe I don't recall was particularly "problematic", just that it was a retelling of a real event I think Crichton was also the guy who, when one of his books was reviewed badly by a critic, then wrote his next book with a stand-in for that critic as having a small penis and also was a pedophile
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the best michael crichton book is timeline 
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gradenko_2000 posted:Airframe I don't recall was particularly "problematic", just that it was a retelling of a real event
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gradenko_2000 posted:Airframe I don't recall was particularly "problematic", just that it was a retelling of a real event Haha yes and "thankfully" the baby he raped wasn't badly injured because his dick was so small 
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lobster shirt posted:the best michael crichton book is timeline Timeline and Prey were when he really started to phone it in, just grabbing whatever papers fell under his desk and shuffling them into a novel
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Aug 18, 2022 15:39
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im laughing at the entry for harper lee, which reads in part "uses the white savior complex in most of her works". she only has two! and the second one is basically just a first draft. also laughing at cancelling ayn rand for racism
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Crichton could be godawful but all his imitators and followers are even worse. Can't read a goddamn thriller nowadays without the capital-H Heroes being Spec Ops Delta Tier One Operators who are sad because they killed some folks, but maybe they can learn to live again with the help of a fiery Italian/Latina woman. Tried to read a goddamn bigfoot novel and the prologue was that Bigfoot tried to save Anastasia Romanov from the communists, and then in the modern day those goddamn evil Russians were at it again and only a black budget CIA squad can save the world. Everything has to be jammed into this stupid framework.
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honestly the most surprising thing about that list is that jim butcher isn't on it. he's very problematic!!!
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Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:Crichton could be godawful but all his imitators and followers are even worse. Can't read a goddamn thriller nowadays without the capital-H Heroes being Spec Ops Delta Tier One Operators who are sad because they killed some folks, but maybe they can learn to live again with the help of a fiery Italian/Latina woman. Tried to read a goddamn bigfoot novel and the prologue was that Bigfoot tried to save Anastasia Romanov from the communists, and then in the modern day those goddamn evil Russians were at it again and only a black budget CIA squad can save the world. Everything has to be jammed into this stupid framework. airport novels have really gone down in quality since the heyday of the 80s and 90s lobster shirt posted:honestly the most surprising thing about that list is that jim butcher isn't on it. he's very problematic!!! 
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oh dang i missed it.... sorry everyone
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James Joyce just skating past this list with a stack of saucy letters
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i do not remember a graphic depiction of sexual assault in the dresden files though, what's the deal with that. it has been a while since i read them though.
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lobster shirt posted:i do not remember a graphic depiction of sexual assault in the dresden files though, what's the deal with that. it has been a while since i read them though. There's a couple of scenes I can think of (Maeve forcing herself on a paralyzed Harry) but I'd hardly call it graphic. Depiction though, yeah.
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drat that’s some good hot takes. lol at calling Harper Lee inherently racist bc she writes the N word what about Nabokov?? guy is clearly a pedophile
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I wonder what the author of the Codex Problematicus wants us to read instead, and why its their YA kindle single
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Jose posted:Some absolutely incredible entries no thank you, twenty year old lowbies don’t rate to me
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