• zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
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      14 days ago

      That’s like saying that a lot of people get murdered in Stephen King’s stories, so he must have homicidal fantasies.

      Horror writers look for ways to shock and shake up their readers, and judging from the comments here, he succeeded.

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        Jonathan Swift must have really wanted to cannibalize poor children!

        I’ll never forget bringing that up in a classroom and realizing adults had no idea it was satire.

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        Yep when your job is to shock, gross out and give people very specifically a moral and ethical panic attack

        You tend to do some fucked up stuff.

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      15 days ago

      I assumed that there was a reason that he agrees with trump on not releasing the Epstein files.