I can't buy anything anymore because I know it will be a scam.
Are you boycotting Israel?
>>540193854Life is a scam. Being born is a scam.
>>540193973Nigger you literally wanted to be here and He told you it was going to feel like 80 years and you said "okay"
>>540193973Ad absurdum pilpul get lost kike
>>540193854Most things and most people are, Annie
>>540193854Same goes for voting and getting a degree and going to the hospital and trusting reviews for media and...Even this ol codger knows:>Everyone is dissatisfied. Democracy over. A confused citizenry reduced to helping rich egomaniacs build fiefdomsIrvine welshNote: article is click bait, mainly ADS now, and articles which are in actuality LONGER ADS dressed up as articles, written by some fool who doesn't know what acceleration ism is! In Current Year!!!https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/aug/03/irvine-welsh-trainspotting-new-novel-can-nothing-save-usCan't even trust TG anymoreI tell ya what.What's worse, guardian going further in the shitter or the fact that Europe is so b USED UP that they're all coming here, and to Las GD Vegas , Miami and fucking NASHVILLE?JFC, kill me now. I always assumed there was some hidey hole, tucked away, where reactionary could go and that, via Trump, every Euro worth their daily would STAY PUT and NOT ENSHITTIFY THE AMERICAS WITH THEIR HIDEOUS, MUTANT EGOS
>>540193973A tale as old as time. https://annas-archive.gl/md5/6beb3e80a199d9060b8df4af28c30957Here's a library built around clear-eyed contempt for cant, crowds, and power — writers who, like Hugo in that passage, distrust both the tyrant and the mob that flatters him once he's safely dead.The misanthropes and moralists1. Montaigne — Essays2. La Rochefoucauld — Maxims3. Pascal — Pensées4. Swift — Gulliver's Travels5. Voltaire — Candide6. Samuel Johnson — Rasselas7. Schopenhauer — Essays and Aphorisms8. Nietzsche — Twilight of the Idols9. Ambrose Bierce — The Devil's Dictionary10. Cioran — The Trouble with Being BornPower unmasked11. Machiavelli — The Prince12. Thucydides — History of the Peloponnesian War13. Tacitus — The Annals14. Suetonius — The Twelve Caesars15. Shakespeare — Julius Caesar16. Shakespeare — Coriolanus17. Dostoevsky — The Grand Inquisitor (in Brothers Karamazov, but worth a standalone edition)18. Orwell — Animal Farm19. Koestler — Darkness at Noon20. Conrad — NostromoThe mob and its idols21. Gustave Le Bon — The Crowd22. Ibsen — An Enemy of the People23. Sinclair Lewis — Babbitt24. Mark Twain — The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg25. Twain — A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court26. Zola — Germinal27. Balzac — Lost Illusions28. Flaubert — Bouvard et Pécuchet29. Molière — Tartuffe30. Ben Jonson — Volpone...[1/3]
>>540195605Doomed idealists and disillusioned romantics31. Cervantes — Don Quixote32. Stendhal — The Red and the Black33. Turgenev — Fathers and Sons34. Chekhov — Selected Stories35. Flaubert — Sentimental Education36. Melville — The Confidence-Man37. Melville — Bartleby, the Scrivener (pair with a Kafka volume, below)38. Kafka — The Trial39. Camus — The Fall40. Céline — Journey to the End of the NightBitter wit and dark comedy41. Jonathan Swift — A Modest Proposal (pair with Gulliver, or find a satires-collected edition)42. Alexander Pope — The Dunciad43. Evelyn Waugh — A Handful of Dust44. Waugh — Scoop45. Thackeray — Vanity Fair46. Gogol — Dead Souls47. Saltykov-Shchedrin — The Golovlyov Family48. Wilde — The Picture of Dorian Gray49. Bierce — Tales of Soldiers and Civilians50. Hugo — Les Misérables itself, to close the loop — the one write-up in this pile that still believes something's worth saving, which after 49 volumes of contempt might land as the most radical book on the shelf.The organizing bet is Hugo's own move in that passage: contempt for opportunists who only turn on power once it's safe, and just as much contempt for crowds who worship success and abandon the fallen. Montaigne and La Rochefoucauld give you the aphoristic bitterness in small doses; Tacitus and Machiavelli show you power with the sentiment scraped off; Twain and Ibsen skewer the mob directly; and the run from Kafka to Céline is where bitterness curdles into something closer to despair — worth having on the shelf precisely because Hugo, unlike them, refuses to stop there.NAPOLEON Comprehensive biographiesNapoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts — probably the best single-volume biography; sympathetic but not uncritical, drawing on newly available lettersNapoleon: A Political Life by Steven Englund — more focused on his political maneuvering and legacy
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>>540193854Just take out a massive amount of debt and flee the country so they can't sue you for not paying, it's a perfect system.
