Non-Pol Hot Takes

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@microbet

I don’t actually know Emerson, but I assume he was cool because he was friends with Thoreau.

It is the hot take thread, so my hot take is that in Emerson you find an extreme and inevitably incoherent embrace of individualism, that any hippy-dippy outlook a person may acquire in life is valid so long as it’s authentic. You need a little bit of that to not become a lemming, but too much you end up writing derivative neoplatonic derp for new world rubes like:

The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present, and the only prophet of that which must be, is that great nature in which we rest, as the earth lies in the soft arms of the atmosphere; that Unity, that Over-soul, within which every man’s particular being is contained and made one with all other; that common heart, of which all sincere conversation is the worship, to which all right action is submission; that overpowering reality which confutes our tricks and talents, and constrains every one to pass for what he is, and to speak from his character, and not from his tongue, and which evermore tends to pass into our thought and hand, and become wisdom, and virtue, and power, and beauty. We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.

The Over-Soul

[microbet]

I would have taken it back after the one about the eternal ONE, but not after the Anarchy one. It also prefigures Bakunin, Kropotkin, Orwell, Chomsky, Subcomandante Marcos and Ocalan.

I guess it really prefigured

"I heartily accept the motto, “That government is best which governs least”; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe- “That government is best which governs not at all”; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. " - Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

[Jalfrezi]

@anon46587892

Emmerson was pretty progressive but he’s no Lake. .

Not getting enough love.

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@Jalfrezi

@anon46587892

Emmerson was pretty progressive but he’s no Lake. .

Not getting enough love.

I didn’t get it until you (and because it was you) replied.

How about Palmer?

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Ok, that was a gold star level but I didn’t know the reference

[Chuckleslovakian]

Pickles?

WTF?

Are all of you pulling a fast one on me. How does anyone like pickles? Am I living in the Truman Show where everyone pretends to like pickles just to mess with me?

Pickles on hamburger. Ruined

Chick Fil A on there most simple sandwich just has their chicken between buns, but with pickles. Ruined

Pickle flavored potato chips. Ruined.

I’ve seen my nephews and nieces argue when I say please take these fucking pickles off my plate and they happily eat them.

I mean I get I’m in the minority, but what a terrible flavor.

[microbet]

Dislike. I love pickles. I just ate one.

When my younger daughter was little and would go to Subway (which my children loved - they hated all other sub shops because they were enemies of Subway) she would get just the bread, cheese, a lot of pickles and mustard. One time the sandwich artist gave it to us at no charge because he didn’t think it counted as a sandwich.

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Take a few fresh sliced cucumbers, season with dill, garlic, put em in a plastic bag and shake them up. In fridge for a day, next day crisp garlicy dll piickle heaven

[6ix]

@smrk4

Take a few fresh sliced cucumbers, season with dill, garlic, put em in a plastic bag and shake them up. In fridge for a day, next day crisp garlicy dll piickle heaven

if you want to ruin a perfectly good cucumber you might as well poopoo in the bag while you’re at it

[6ix]

yeah i said it

[Smacc_25]

I just put 3 pickles on my Scampy & Chips…

[6ix]

@Smacc_25

I’ve never ate Tacos… Are they good?

Did you know that the Scottish invented fried chicken?

[Rexx]

They had to make up for the bagpipes.

[Smacc_25]

Tbh… No

But us Scots fry everything including Pizza in batter, , cream Eggs, Eggs in batter with sausage(Scotch eggs)… Etc.

Scotch eggs are amazing…

Gordon Ramsay’s Scotch Eggs with a Twist

[SensiblePerson]

[Trolly]

Do they not have tacos at all in whatever country you’re living in?

[anon10387340]

@Rexx

Although people who drink both are definitely weird, the even weirder people are those who abstain from both.

Super common in USA#1 to drink both.

[anon10387340]

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Lucky Man

[anon10387340]

@eyebooger

I initially read this as “Non-Pol Pot Takes” and was very confused.

Funny, several times I was scrolling the splash page and thought I saw “pol pot” but then couldn’t find the thread when I looked closer.

[anon10387340]

@zarapochka

I personally prefer number one. You can make pickles remaining crunchier by adding few young oak leaves in number one.

@6ix

if you want to ruin a perfectly good cucumber you might as well poopoo in the bag while you’re at it

So if I got things right here we’re adding number 1 and number 2?