You hear them bang on and on about this cycle:
Bad times create strong men.
Strong men create good times.
Good times create weak men.
Weak men create bad times.
This is absolutely true, 100%
So the facists are right!
Too bad they confuse who the strong and weak men are…
Sorry for the rage bait title, I just wanted to joke a bit.
This is a photo of four bottles of champagne each dedicated to Trump, Putin, Musk and Orban respectively for when the world no longer has to deal with their miserable existance.
Strong men make weak me moan :3 or something like that idk, tried making gay jokes but I’m bad at it.
Wait a minute… HARD MEN CREATE GOOD TIMES
You silly kitty
mrrreow meow
When I was in high school, the girls running team had shirts that said, “Fast girls have good times!”
At uni our US literature professor kept referring to that Flannery O’Connor book as “a hard man is good to find” and I found her hilarious for that
Bad times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create bad times.
This garbage is derived from “The fourth turning” Strauss–Howe generational theory. Which can best be explained by H. L. Mencken
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
Need a 5th for Netanyahu
Yeah, I can think of a few more as well
Peter Thiel and Rupert Murdoch, amongst countless others
Yep, I hardly ever drink, but I am perfectly willing to make exceptions for these dickheads.
It’s absolutely insane that the boomers were so arrogant they never realized their favorite quote was shittalking about them.
Bad times create strong men, when they’re wise and rightly guided, else they just traumatize people.
Strong men create good times, if you define strong as virtuous and not just “physically imposing” or even just emotionally resilient.
Good times create weak men, when “good” is defined as “hedonistic, consumeristic and with no ethical expectations”.
And weak (morally wormy, stupid, etc) men do create bad times. 🤷
Hard times make men strong,
Strong men make good times,
Good times make men soft,
Soft men make me hard
Conservatives talk a lot about hard and soft men
What about Murdoch? 👀
That’s blatantly false, and extensively debunked by Brett Deveraux in a series of articles: https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-part-i-war-at-the-dawn-of-civilization/
I thought I was the only one doing this. I only have two bottles, though.
I have a special bottle of cognac for Kissinger, but I was abroad for work when he returned whence he came so I didn’t get to enjoy the occasion. I haven’t opened it yet given how shit the situation everywhere is, but maybe celebrating small wins is vital even when important stuff is happening.
