what did Hunter S. Thompson mean by this?
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what did Hunter S. Thompson mean by this?
what did Hunter S. Thompson mean by this?
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Hard to say, he was heavily intoxicated most of the time.
democracy is a smokescreen for effective oligarchy
WASPS were too nice and let israelites into the club we’ve seen how that’s gone.
Yes, and read the culture of critique.
This guy gets it.
he meant to say npc
Probably just saying you have to be active in a democracy.
In a democracy you have to be a crook, a scammer, a grifter. This system only works by being gamed because it functions by people desiring power and trying to screw their competitors over enough so they can win it, dividing the country against itself in the process. Democracy isn't popular because it works, it's popular because it doesn't and it makes countries weak, which is exactly what the internationalists want.
That was the thing with Thompson, some of his quotes were pretty great and others (I'd say most) were more like "don't cut yourself on that edge bro" tier. He was very hit and miss, although Rum Diary, including the movie was amazing; I never understood why it didn't do better.
The expression is hit OR miss
Oh yeah...I just woke up. Hey but wouldn't they both work? "hit or miss" vs. "hit and miss?"
Oh nevermind, yeah, "hit and miss" implies that something was indeed hit but it wasn't the target. "Hit OR miss" implies states that the target gets hit or it doesn't.
Literally ESL here. English is a very difficult language to learn, sir.
It’s Hit and Miss. It means some times he hits the mark and sometimes he doesn’t. For example you might say a sketch show is hit and miss because some of the sketches are funny and some aren’t
As opposed to "hit or miss"? I look it up but I'm not finding good explanations of the differences between the two.
Guess they never miss, huh?
Not necessarily. "His material is hit and miss" can just mean "his material is 'quite good' and 'quite bad'". There is no reason to assume chronology instead of it being two separate categories. Though there really should be a comma.
Hit and miss makes grammatical sense when not talking about one thing. You couldn't say hit and miss the date, because there is only one of those so it can't hit and miss both. You could say hit and miss to describe a large set of things; like how train times are hit (on time) and miss (off time).
I liked the book (rum diary) a lot but I think the movie failed by trying to be fear and loathing 2 instead of focusing on being a faithful adaptation. The director is no Terry Gilliam exactly.
it means that maintaining an apathetic position while your peers engage in governance could lead to your ruination, especially when their moral and ethical sensibilities are antithetic to your own.
He means that democracy is fake and gay shit in place to let you think your vote matters but ultimately if you are not a somebody (a player in the big scheme of the game) then you are a pawn.
Hunter S. Thompson was a useless junkie that spent his days seething about Nixon
And you are a stupid nobody that spends his day complaining about Hunter S. Thompson so STFU
No he’s right tho. Hunter was a dipshit. If I saw him in real life I would’nt have said a thing to him I would’ve just b***hslapped him across the face, which is (sadly) what no one did.
He spent two sentences stating a fact about Hunter S. Thompson.
Hunter S. Thompson, by comparison, spent multiple books over multiple years seething over Nixon.
Not exactly apples to apples here, is it?
It was just his style, he also seething about dog poop
Nixon was a foil for his rage. He made Nixon out to be an American anti-christ. Everything objectionable about our nation wrapped up into a single enemy. But he did go a bit overboard with the eulogy.
https://cityofnewalbany.blogspot.com/2019/05/hunter-s-thompson-eulogizes-richard-m.html?m=1
None of us understand what Nixon and Watergate did to the US because we've lived our entire lives in its wake. People genuinely believed that politicians were trustworthy elected representatives who cared and had their best interests in mind at the beginning of the 60s.
Thompson was incredibly perceptive on trends like that and could see it as it was happening long before it was properly understood by any of his peers, and he was completely correct that Nixon was emblematic of that turn.
Most people don't understand him very well. In real life he was a lot more similar to the overwhelmed moralgay fighting a losing battle in the Rum Diary than to the caricature from Vegas. The drugs and danger and stealing and thuggishness are an exaggerated persona he built up. There's even a Rolling Stone passage where he takes a long car ride with Nixon before he was elected because none of the other reporters could talk about football with him, has a human moment discussing sports and laughing together, and comes away from it frustrated that he couldn't look Nixon in the eye and hate the guy as much as he felt like he should.
He'd have intense TDS if he was alive and didn't have alcohol induced brain damage.
https://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story?id=1250751
Reminder that he "killed himself" shortly after writing this article in response to 9/11.
In a democracy they can vote for the guy who will do the job
They always forget what the job was, protip is not about the israelites
Was Thompson CIA? Thinking about the travelling, the ability to ingratiate himself with various groups like the biker gang, and his constant seething about Nixon. It seems really weird that he never considered that Nixon was subject to a coup, but he also acted like a CIA mouthpiece in denigrating him
What is he doing?
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Still confusing what's going on, but this comment clears it up:
>or those that don't know, this isn't a legit gun fight. It was set up by him and his neighbor to mess with the camera people. He is firing over his head and the guy is peppering his property, but there's no intention of actually hurting the other.
Gonna need a source on that, besides Hunter is still firing live ammo in the direction of someone
For the will of the people to be expressed in government and society the average person has to be a citizen who does things themselves, not a subject who waits for things to be done to or for them.
HEE HAW