Doug Rooney

The Your Party have basically become the caricature of a dysfunctional socialist party 😞

Just learned my new favorite Chinese phrase “银样镴枪头” or ''like a silver spear tip/head'' - in other words very beautiful but completely useless

So which of the gods of Chaos is Donald Trump currently communing with do we think?

This is what the kids are calling Emperor Napoleon III maxxing

Is this the Fully Automated Luxury Communism they have been telling be about?

Why in the US do people say EYE-ran? Is the fear that correct pronunciation may lead to empathy?

''The Swerve'' by Stephen Greenblatt

Fun little micro-history of the bookish world of the Italian Renaissance humanists. Not sure he quite landed his argument that the rediscovery of Lucretius and Epicureanism launched modernity though

4/5

Is the Christian position that God has a massive dick, and, if so, what does God's dick look like?

You simply don't get high ranking British politicians called things like Sir Dingle Mackintosh Foot anymore

It is my firm belief that in the future psychologists will discover that the desire to move to Dubai is a key indicator of severe mental illness

Gaza was a laboratory - the plan is to globalize the genocide

''Do you even read theory, bro?''

The theory:

Obviously the Two Sessions are important and actually a pretty decent story for Chinese media to lead with but unfortunately my brain has been cooked by the click bait model of news media

Love that Chinese State media is like ''ah yes the Two Legislative Sessions, the top (and perhaps only) developing global news story in March. Yes, sir, everyone is glued to their phone monitoring the situation at the NPC''

Total eclipse of the heart (whatever the moon is doing is cool too I guess)

Always a little confused that in Chinese it is also the Middle East (中东国家) given that the region is in fact to the West of China. Starting a petition to get Chinese speakers to call it the middle West or something

I think someone should name a non-evil company after something in Lord of the Rings because satanic billionaires are way over represented in the LotR fan community right now

Podcast: The Philosophy of Looksmaxxing Is it Fascist or are the Americans Just Like That?

NEW EP: we discuss all things Looksmaxxing. Who is Clavicular and why is he smashing his bones? Where did looksmaxxing come from? What does it tell us about modern America? And, most importantly, why assassins need to be looksmaxxing

open.substack.com/pub/dougroon...

Babel by R.F. Kuang: fascinating meditation on imperialism, resistance, academic culpability and anxiety of elite members of the diaspora set in fantasy alt-history 19thC England. Use of linguistics in magic system v. clever but boy is linguistics dull 😓

4/5 stars

Podcast: The Philosophy of Looksmaxxing Is it Fascist or are the Americans Just Like That?

NEW EP: we discuss all things Looksmaxxing. Who is Clavicular and why is he smashing his bones? Where did looksmaxxing come from? What does it tell us about modern America? And, most importantly, why assassins need to be looksmaxxing

open.substack.com/pub/dougroon...

I would like an Internet the Americans can't use because I will see something labeled Republican rebel songs, click on it then realize that Republican means something very different in the US

Boy am I glad we aren't integrating AI into the Western military infrastructure or anything. If we were doing something that stupid I would be very concerned right now

During the Scramble for China do you think anyone was ever like ''Hey, Germany, did you invite Austro-Hungry? Then wtf are they doing here?!?''

The Greens only have 5 MPs and we have already reached this is the Iranian Revolution levels of hysteria. The next couple of years in British politics is going to be truly mental

Queer Islamo-Communism with Chinese Characteristics will be the strongest ideology the world has yet seen. Nothing will be able to stand against it

Ironically this was what the Labour party was kind of founded to do but now is filled with the weirdest twitter obsessed politics junkies

Hope Wins! Scottish Greens.

Greens beat Reform! 💚

Congratulations to Hannah Spencer and our friends @greenparty.org.uk on their historic by-election victory in Gorton and Denton.

We will never let the politics of hate divide us. The Greens will always put people and planet before profit.

So Labour basically have no idea what they are doing, right

Looksmaxxing community in shambles

As a Scottish person I obviously believe strong regional accented English is good and proper but as someone learning Chinese I obviously believe everyone should speak clear, standard Mandarin. No this is not hypocrisy. And no I will not be explaining why it isn't hypocrisy