And like, even without a positive case for Platner there were Signs with fetterman - in politics before he had a discernable political ideology, was always entrepeneurial abt it, had a weird relationship w/ nat. left when bernie didn't endorse him in 18, and he and the pgh left hated each other.

I do get the other dooming aspects tho.

I don't really think that tracks. Say what you want about the whole thing but I don't think Fetterman's reaction each time something new happened would be "oops!"

Likewise afaict relationship w/ bernie and labor different between the two of them.

Also, I don't know if it's better or worse but the differing reasons for *why* Frenesi/Perfidia are attracted to Brock/Lockjaw is pretty significant in re: What The Movie Is Trying To Say

I guess what I will say is this: the (probably necessary) cutting out of Frenesi/Perfidia's extended family and focusing on Zoyd/Bob + Prairie/Willa as a nuclear dyad makes the "we fight on in generational cycles and lose but have each other" ending feel more hollow and individualistic.

Saw the movie -- wild, excellent, a great Western, agree with almost ever adaptational choice. As a political text? If I speak, I am in big trouble...

Next up - heretical gnostic text that will get me in trouble in NuDSA :(

Done, will be interesting to see how it got adapted. Other thoughts mot particularly verbal tn

Dang, it's like... one battle... after another...

I have weirdly opted out on a lot of the critical discourse on TP but rather than the memes (ie: driving around SoCal and noticing The Pattern) the thing that grabs me over and over again are these perfect behavioral observations he'll drop with no warning

A little, ah, a little...... something to read rn

She isn't, but the rest of us are

Up next, making a futile effort to get through this before it's out of theaters here

Finished! In many ways a confounding book. I liked (or rather, appreciated) the sort of rolling structure of the book - a series of vignettes and essays that are loosely chronological but reflect the scattered way in which we relate our own lives. I'm not sure I enjoyed the experience tho.

Are they betting on the middle of the officer class being more sympathetic to them? Browbeating the top brass only seems to make sense as a move to sow division / give (implied political) permission to lower ranks to disobey superior officers

starting to wear on me as we reach the halfway point ngl

Yeah, though I do worry abt the 'de-baathification' effect of having all of these guys unemployed all at once and licensed to carry firearms

Hard to describe in words how delightfully neurotic the book is. The framing device is a confession to murder, yet here we are on page 100 discussing a particular stone in a wall that the narrator held religious reverence for as a child.

Ladies and gentlemen, we got him