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Figure 1. Scenes from They Live depicting subliminal messages on billboards that are only visible with special glasses.

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Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here)

Andrew Tate embraces conspicuous consumption, flaunting his supercars, diamond watches, and other luxuries while at the same time extolling having children. This combination of pro-natalism and consumerism arose during the Reagan era, inspiring film director John Carpenter to produce the 1988 science fiction film They Live. (more…)

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Every so often a woman writes something online that makes me want to punch her until my fist comes out the other side of her head, but I can’t do that, because they’d send me back to prison.

This time around, what got my Irish up is an article with the verb-free headline “The Pandemic of Lonely Men Not Women’s Problem,” which was written by a certain Melanie Allen, whose looks are, thankfully, not my problem. (more…)

Raskolnikov as he’s depicted on the cover of one of the editions of the book.

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Imagine you’re a young man who, despite his pronounced intelligence, lives in poverty. You are full of energy and vision, but lack the capital to achieve what you want to achieve. Furthermore, you have no marital or sexual prospects, and the only woman that’s been kind to you is a literal prostitute with an alcoholic father and an infirm mother. Not only that, but your family is facing such dire poverty that your sister is forced to marry a disgusting and immoral pervert who is more than twice her age just to spare herself and your elderly mother death from starvation. (more…)