March 11, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Maybe he believes in redemptive suffering?
September 18, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Maybe he believes in redemptive suffering?
"When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in dynamite."
— Sergio Leone.
— Sergio Leone.
March 1, 2026 at 6:45 AM
"When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in dynamite."
— Sergio Leone.
— Sergio Leone.
Tomorrow's explainer:
"What is 'redemptive violence'? A complicafed history that's not as scary as you think."
"What is 'redemptive violence'? A complicafed history that's not as scary as you think."
October 11, 2024 at 11:34 PM
Tomorrow's explainer:
"What is 'redemptive violence'? A complicafed history that's not as scary as you think."
"What is 'redemptive violence'? A complicafed history that's not as scary as you think."
Baldwin: A Love Story, a book by Nicholas Boggs, has a singular focus on the redemptive power of devotion.
A new James Baldwin biography explores how his lovers influenced his work
Baldwin: A Love Story, a book by Nicholas Boggs, has a singular focus on the redemptive power of devotion.
n.pr
October 12, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Baldwin: A Love Story, a book by Nicholas Boggs, has a singular focus on the redemptive power of devotion.
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This feels redemptive after yesterday’s wipeout.
September 22, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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If you look at all the latest the ICE videos and recruitment imagery, it's clear they are attempting to recruit people for a campaign of redemptive fascist violence.
Yes. ICE service is being sold to disaffected MAGA goons as an opportunity to wage a campaign of cleansing, restorative violence against Americans as an act of patriotic national service. And most normies now see that this isn't anything akin to real law enforcement.
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
January 16, 2026 at 1:05 PM
If you look at all the latest the ICE videos and recruitment imagery, it's clear they are attempting to recruit people for a campaign of redemptive fascist violence.
Hillary simply understated how awful Trump supporters are. They are the most dreadful humans in the history of the planet— completely devoid of redemptive value. Every one of them is a monster, and they are entirely incorrigible and irredeemable.
July 15, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Hillary simply understated how awful Trump supporters are. They are the most dreadful humans in the history of the planet— completely devoid of redemptive value. Every one of them is a monster, and they are entirely incorrigible and irredeemable.
Notice the revelatory regret he has over calling single women as cat ladies framed as redemptive while his comments about Haitians eating cats is …unmentioned.
June 16, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Notice the revelatory regret he has over calling single women as cat ladies framed as redemptive while his comments about Haitians eating cats is …unmentioned.
Baldwin: A Love Story, a book by Nicholas Boggs, has a singular focus on the redemptive power of devotion. n.pr/3J6uOib
A new James Baldwin biography explores how his lovers influenced his work
Baldwin: A Love Story, a book by Nicholas Boggs, has a singular focus on the redemptive power of devotion.
n.pr
October 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Baldwin: A Love Story, a book by Nicholas Boggs, has a singular focus on the redemptive power of devotion. n.pr/3J6uOib
The Salt Path has never appealed to me. Redemptive memoirs are really not my thing.
But if Penguin had pitched it as an audacious heist getaway story...
But if Penguin had pitched it as an audacious heist getaway story...
July 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM
The Salt Path has never appealed to me. Redemptive memoirs are really not my thing.
But if Penguin had pitched it as an audacious heist getaway story...
But if Penguin had pitched it as an audacious heist getaway story...
Suburban dipshits, trapped in their boring houses & boring jobs & boring lives, dreaming about an opportunity to finally win their fathers' approval through redemptive violence. Just the saddest most pathetic humans on the planet.
December 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Suburban dipshits, trapped in their boring houses & boring jobs & boring lives, dreaming about an opportunity to finally win their fathers' approval through redemptive violence. Just the saddest most pathetic humans on the planet.
The Greenland stuff really checks off the last box in Robert Paxton's definition of fascism: "pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of external expansion"
January 6, 2026 at 10:38 PM
The Greenland stuff really checks off the last box in Robert Paxton's definition of fascism: "pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of external expansion"
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“redemptive labor for the toiling underclasses but not for me!” vibes
“redemptive labor for the toiling underclasses but not for me!” vibes
April 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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“redemptive labor for the toiling underclasses but not for me!” vibes
“redemptive labor for the toiling underclasses but not for me!” vibes
In the third redemptive story, a person who did something terrible in the past sacrifices themselves somehow in order to save the day. Sometimes the redemptive person dies as a result, but sometimes they just lose their reputation or their fortune or some other advantage.
January 28, 2026 at 12:32 PM
In the third redemptive story, a person who did something terrible in the past sacrifices themselves somehow in order to save the day. Sometimes the redemptive person dies as a result, but sometimes they just lose their reputation or their fortune or some other advantage.
And Amber Glenn gets her redemptive final skate. What a day.
"She posted pictures of her and teammate Alysa Liu with their Olympics team skate gold medals on TikTok with the caption: “They hate to see two woke bitches winning."
[GOLD for Alysa!]
www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
[GOLD for Alysa!]
www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
For LGBTQ Winter Olympians, visibility matters just as much as medals
There's a record-breaking number of out LGBTQ+ athletes competing in the 2026 Winter Olympics, including medal winners for Team USA.
www.usatoday.com
February 19, 2026 at 10:10 PM
And Amber Glenn gets her redemptive final skate. What a day.
Yes! And also using the tools of civilized society, the law and government, not the fantasy of redemptive violence via the gun or lynch mob
August 23, 2024 at 3:13 AM
Yes! And also using the tools of civilized society, the law and government, not the fantasy of redemptive violence via the gun or lynch mob
Purity culture *is* pedophilia and rape culture. It inherently sexualizes children, keeps them ignorant and controlled, and victim-blames them when they are abused. There's nothing redemptive or protective about it.
March 8, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Purity culture *is* pedophilia and rape culture. It inherently sexualizes children, keeps them ignorant and controlled, and victim-blames them when they are abused. There's nothing redemptive or protective about it.
Ms Rachel taught me the value of friendship, reassuring nursery rhymes for our scared young, and the redemptive power of high yield explosives
September 20, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Ms Rachel taught me the value of friendship, reassuring nursery rhymes for our scared young, and the redemptive power of high yield explosives
I think that's why dying is such a popular redemptive method in movies. It's ultimate, but it's quick. Not so much work.
January 28, 2026 at 12:33 PM
I think that's why dying is such a popular redemptive method in movies. It's ultimate, but it's quick. Not so much work.
hollywood running out of redemptive villain prequels:
before he was hitler, he was... adolf
before he was hitler, he was... adolf
July 23, 2026 at 7:39 PM
hollywood running out of redemptive villain prequels:
before he was hitler, he was... adolf
before he was hitler, he was... adolf
<—THIS IS A SUMMER GAME MESS FREAK-OUT / COPING ZONE. —>
June 5, 2026 at 8:57 PM
<—THIS IS A SUMMER GAME MESS FREAK-OUT / COPING ZONE. —>
I wrote about Holocaust remembrance as Christian redemptive drama.
"A trip to Auschwitz or Dachau isn’t some instant cure for antisemitism. It does not wipe away years of bigotry and far-right sympathies in some blinding flash of moral enlightenment." Joel Swanson writes on JD Vance's Dachau visit: ow.ly/SEEt50V27om
JD Vance is Merely the Latest Conservative Christian to Use Nazi Camps to Cleanse His Antisemitism Sins
On Thursday of this past week, Vice President JD Vance visited the site of the Dachau concentration camp in Germany, making him the latest in a string of American public officials to visit a former Na...
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February 19, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I wrote about Holocaust remembrance as Christian redemptive drama.
hey man is everything ok? I noticed a blinkered venality beclouding the redemptive potential of all your aesthetic grasping
May 25, 2026 at 7:40 PM
hey man is everything ok? I noticed a blinkered venality beclouding the redemptive potential of all your aesthetic grasping
This is a redemptive reading I can get behind.
March 11, 2026 at 1:03 AM
This is a redemptive reading I can get behind.