SteveInCO

Reg, these are brilliant!  Thanks!!!

Title: IKEA: Thus Spoke Flatpack Zarathustra
Subtitle: “God is dead. And so is the Allen key.”

[INT. IKEA – SHOWROOM MAZE – DAY]

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE wanders the endless labyrinth of display rooms. He wears a thick mustache and the expression of a man who just read his own Yelp reviews. Blue-and-yellow signage hangs above him like the oppress…[Read more]

Title: Simone de Beauvoir Visits the LEGO Aisle
Subtitle: “One is not born a mini-doll, but rather becomes one.”

[INT. TOY STORE – LEGO SECTION – DAY]

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR strides in, coat sharp, intellect sharper. She approaches the LEGO shelves with purpose. To her left: bold, complex LEGO City and Technic sets — helicopters, space stations,…[Read more]

Title: Camus and the Claw Machine
Subtitle: “One must imagine Sisyphus… at the arcade.”

[INT. SEASIDE ARCADE – EVENING]

Albert CAMUS stands before a claw machine glowing with neon emptiness. Inside: plush toys piled like meaningless stars in a cold, indifferent cosmos. Camus smokes, hands in coat pockets, collar turned up like a rebel philoso…[Read more]

[INT. TOY STORE – MIDDAY]

Bright lights. Aisles of blinking plastic joy. Enter JEAN-PAUL SARTRE, trench coat flapping, cigarette hanging precariously from his lip. He scans the shelves with existential dread. A CHEERFUL TOY STORE ASSISTANT approaches, smiling.

ASSISTANT:
Bonjour! Can I help you find something for your child?

SARTRE (gruff):
I h…[Read more]

[INT. DOMINO’S PIZZA COUNTER – NIGHT]

A weary DOMINO’S TEENAGER in uniform leans over the counter, chewing gum. Enter MARTIN HEIDEGGER, dressed in a long coat and scarf, brow furrowed with cosmic angst. He surveys the menu like it contains the secret to Being.

DOMINO’S TEENAGER:
Hey there! Welcome to Domino’s. What can I get ya?

HEIDEGGER (sl…[Read more]

Imagine the panic and frustration that must cause the remaining members of the regime 🙂 What else do they know about us and how do they know it!!

Just because you are paranoid doesn’t mean they are watching you!

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Jordon Peterson goes to Home Depot

We need a complete series like this. Martin Heidegger orders pizza, Nietsche shops for skateboards, Sartre shops for toys, etc.

Several of the most recent posts here hit hard. I especially appreciate Jake’s examples of outspoken women focusing on their past experience of Muslim culture. My biggest hope at the moment is for more women to jump in. My biggest worry is that it’s too late, as political systems continue to double down on their most self-serving agendas.

Setting aside how we feel about what they want, asking the United Nations for help…really? They might as well ask the Tooth Fairy. The U.N. is about as relevant as a screen door on a submarine nowadays. Whenever the General Assembly wants to do something nowadays, it goes to the Security Council to die.

They’re just pissing into the wind.

Trump has warned people to evacuate Tehran… maybe an hour or two ago? I saw pictures of bumper-to-bumper traffic there, from a quick-response news source I’m currently getting a trustworthy vibe from. But tbh, I’ve normally ignored up-to-the-minute attempts online to provide reliable news scoops.

Unseen, I’ll remove this comment if you don’t…[Read more]

@Enco

The horse is dead. No point in beating it.

@Enco

Your source doesn’t look like it’s reliable on an AP or Reuters level.

I did check an AI (Gemini) asking

During the ongoing war between Israel and Iran, are there any indications which way the general Iranian public is leaning regarding supporting their government?

And got this response:

Based on recent reports, there are strong…[Read more]

Coinbase.

Jordon Peterson goes to Home Depot

I am a few Iranian friends here in Ireland. They are ex-Muslims and have not been back to Iran for 24 years. They are hoping that the regime topples soon and are thanking Israel already. I was speaking with my friend in Ukraine today.  He said they are so happy that Israel is actively attacking the Iranian drone manufacturing facilities. They…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Armin Navabi who hails from Iran is pretty stoked about everything and says he’s getting messages that Iranian citizens are cheering Israel for attacking the Islamic Republic!

I’m seeing no indication of anything other than Iranians rallying around their flag.

Where’s the evidence that the Iranian public is rebelling o…[Read more]

Ms. Phillips’ analysis seems to chop the left into two distinct and separate camps. One reasonable and siding with Israel and the other totally antisemitic. Are there avowed liberals taking down pro-Israel posters? No doubt. And the reason is that when you have the numbers of people involved, you’ll get all sorts of attitudes.

She assumes that if…[Read more]

Sorry Enco…Yes the first video is the one you meant. I had repeated the link for it for the last video, which I have now fixed. So click ‘lost’ again 🙂

Thanks Reg!!