Namely, that the bad nihilist doesn't know that they're a nihilist, but goes on believing all sorts of dumb shit.
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But a Russian is either an apocalypticist or a nihilist: an apocalypticist at the positive pole and a nihilist at the negative pole.
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If you're a nihilist or a fatalist or an optimist.
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Does that mean that Bowie was some sort of nihilist?
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So he's a nihilist with respect to everything except winning?
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"I'm not a complete nihilist," he said with a laugh.
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Stone paranoid nihilist thrillers and two-hankie Whitney Houston romances and
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The first two Nihilist tapes – Premature Autopsy and Only Shreds Remain.
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Elgar solved a Nihilist cipher—an encryption technique used by Russians
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Clowes isn't quite the same laughing nihilist as he was before.
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Despair can quickly lead to nihilist notions that politics is hopeless.
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I completely share your point about Nietzsche not being a nihilist.
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A nihilist English major who saw a market for post-modern apps?
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Other times, she was a postmodern nihilist, deconstructing the arbitrariness of language.
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Nihilist Arby's was created by copywriter and the Lawrence Arms frontman Brendan Kelly.
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Trump will not be the last nihilist who runs for president and wins.
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But listen just a little closer and admit that actual nihilist it ain't.
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It doesn't behove me to be the nihilist any more, even for creative reasons.
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Texas: No. The way you prevent becoming a nihilist is by buying the book.
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He describes himself as a "positive nihilist," and has developed some unconventional canvassing strategies.
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It's somewhat like an amalgam of Nihilist Arby's, SpongeBob, Joe Rogan and Rick Sanchez.
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Unlike his father, who believes firmly in the process, Elliot is Gen Z nihilist.
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But he may have the greater distinction of being another oxymoron: an elitist nihilist.
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Even here, though, events have overtaken policy through the extreme and nihilist challenge of ISIS.
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The Austrian director Michael Haneke has been called a cynic, a nihilist, and a fraud.
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Clinton portrayed her rival as a nihilist who doesn't understand African-Americans or their faith.
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On the record, "Nihilist Abyss" traces that but reveals that that pain serves a purpose.
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While there were fellow narcissists among his forebears, was there a single nihilist like Trump?
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Some, inspired by Netflix's recent thriller about Ted Kaczynski, have embraced the Unabomber's nihilist primitivism.
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Their new album, Fed Into The Nihilist Engine, is itself a study in contrasts writ small.
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"I'm a nihilist," he says while draped in a Revolutionary War-era flag, the footage shows.
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The end product is a nihilist garbage fire with a fake female-empowerment bow on top.
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He avoids the nihilist trap that causes so many journalistic assessments of politicians to be unsatisfying.
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He was anything but a nihilist — the word Roy often uses to describe these young men.
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For Nietzsche, the famous mustachioed nihilist, happiness is a kind of control one has over their surroundings.
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The closest equivalent may be the Twitter phenomenon Nihilist Arby's, except in this case, it's not parody.
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She is the associate editor of openDemocracy Russia and a co-founder of the Anti-Nihilist Institute.
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Neil LaBute has long been accused of being a meanspirited nihilist who does not like his characters.
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He's actually the park's most broadly sketched character, a flashy nihilist unaware of the machinations behind the park.
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In Pyotr, Dostoevsky created a demagogue and pure nihilist, a political figure who appeals to people's baser desires.
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On a day like today, however, it feels like we all stand for something, which is nihilist laughter.
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Arguing with a nihilist is like intimidating a suicide bomber: The usual threats and enticement have no effect.
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And that majority, under McConnell's gleefully nihilist direction, would grind the judicial nomination process almost to a halt.
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I realize that there is the argument that allowing this to be shown just encourages the next nihilist.
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Arthur: So the pro-Trump arguments come in three basic categories: Let's call them negative, nationalist and nihilist.
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Being labeled a perverted black nihilist in a world hunting for targets of hatred makes every paragraph urgent.
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In the noughties, she seemed genuinely hedonistic, bacchanalian, unlike all the other proto-nihilist party babes who crashed.
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I'm still not sure he actually wants to be president, but I'm absolutely positive that he's a political nihilist.
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But Rorschach in Watchmen is a repugnant, egotistical nihilist, a hateful, paranoid vigilante who constantly puts himself above the law.
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A nihilist is above you and your persnickety arguments in the same way that Trump fancies himself above the law.
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For me, Cioran is like an atheist, not just in a strictly religious sense, but as a kind of nihilist.
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And eventually, because of the nihilist pressure of the unstoppable gush of language itself, cynical to the point of despair.
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In fact, this show's nihilist streak (trying to change the past usually gets you nowhere) is doubly in evidence here.
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The disconnect between how Watchmen's creators thought of Rorschach and how some fans have perceived him — a self-interested nihilist vs.
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Twitter goes to war against ISIS We must use every tool available to us to defeat their nihilist ideology of hatred.
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The last shot of the film is nihilist and mysterious and really quite horrifying, but also maybe hopeful and definitely hilarious.
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"I am in a continuous negotiation to reconcile my own nihilist tendencies with the drive to create lasting objects," she explains.
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They include "Western constitutional democracy," human rights, media independence, civil participation, pro-market liberalism and "nihilist" criticism of the party's past.
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Hector accepts it — being a flashy nihilist can come in handy — but it definitely leaves Maeve with something to prove to us.
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His nihilist flailing has made long-term planning almost impossible — for everyone, really, but especially for businesses with multi-decade investment horizons.
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One of the things I hear most from people about Nietzsche is that he was a "nihilist" or an advocate of nihilism.
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The film's nihilist swan dive into its own stylistic excess gave it a cool that applauded our ability to stand outside of it.
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McConnell's nihilist approach often involves wielding power not for the sake of a specific policy outcome, but to accrue yet more political power.
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He learned much of his political style from anti-czarist exiles in London, especially the anarchist Peter Kropotkin and the nihilist Sergius Stepniak.
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Sarah thinks at first that Nyles is a sentimental schmuck, but it turns out he's a cynical nihilist — a lot like her, actually.
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It's the first time I was able to express a nihilist character, this character that believes the values as they stand are completely ridiculous.
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The election-fueled, Facebook-incubated cottage industry of Macedonian teenagers and nihilist opportunists ready to cater to the paranoid masses had yet to emerge.
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My gimmes in today's acrostic included HAMILTON, NIHILIST, THOUSAND, REWIND and EMBELLISH, which helped me begin to toggle between the quote and the clues.
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If someone invites you back to their home and has art this big, you're a nihilist for not sticking around for a second drink.
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He plays the nihilist barber who takes up with a piemaker (Helena Bonham Carter) to produce some very close shaves and unusually tasty meats.
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Olek isn't a nihilist or looking to make a statement of artistic disownment by burning her own works, a la John Baldessari's The Cremating Project.
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Belatedly, Saudi Arabia has become a vital partner in the fight against jihadists; it is better placed than the West to challenge their nihilist ideology.
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In Sydney, Shawn Yates and his high school friends were shredding rails and head banging to bands such as Death, Nihilist, Morbid, Nocturnus, and Autopsy.
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We ran stuff on many bands including Nocturnus, Benediction, Morbid, OxLxD, Autopsy, Nihilist, Righteous Pigs, Mayhem, E.N.T, Soothsayer, Bloodcum, Sindrome, too many to list/remember.
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To paraphrase T.S. Eliot, a fellow nihilist in a time of great international peril: Sweet mushroom cloud, come quickly, for I speak not loud or long.
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What prospect worries you more: that Trump is a ratings-chasing nihilist or that he might actually believe all the things he said on the trail?
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IS IT correct to find parallels between violent white supremacism and neo-Nazism on one hand, and the nihilist fury of ultra-militant Islam on the other?
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""Nihilist Abyss" is a really raw and open piece but it's— if I've done it right—the idea is that you can meet me there," she says.
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Judd rebukes NASA's offers of help, the Chief Engineer is found brutally killed, and Matt (the aforementioned Head of Customer Relations) turns out to be a nihilist.
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Nihilist beliefs, like "anything is better than what we have now," are easy to buy into when people are afraid of the future and insecure in the present.
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During the rally, Mr. Bivins filmed as Mr. Christian yelled racial slurs, made threatening remarks about Muslims, Jews and "fake Christians" and referred to himself as a nihilist.
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A nihilist dreams of going out in a blaze of glory, taking as many with him as he can, because he hates his life and despises life in general.
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Both have been able to carve out a loose, nihilist and sarcastic aggression that the Cleveland and the North Eastern Ohio scene has become all too well known for.
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The videos are akin to the memes making light of the devastating Australian fires or the Iran bombings: nihilist quasi-jokes as a means of coping with horrifying truths.
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Instead of granting him the title of postmodernist, let's say instead that Trump is a nihilist who seeks to trample, to trash, to blight, to break and to burn.
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He and everyone knew why he was there: to administer Hollywood a mostly consensual lashing, to be the nihilist in chief, the guy who doesn't care what anyone thinks.
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A heavy reliance on suicide as a plot device feels callow, but a story set in the shadow of Franco's dictatorship hints at a politics behind the nihilist abandon.
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This obsession with labeling cryptids and monsters as queer, a practice that is in turns nihilist, absurdist, and completely illogical, is a perfect parody of the time we live in.
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And under such conditions, the only way to survive in a system governed entirely by nihilism is to become a nihilist yourself—even for self-styled members of a resistance.
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That being said, if you go by the scene's visual cues—heavily reminiscent of a Day of the Dead celebration with a few puppets of Nihilist philosophers mixed in, maybe?
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But Savage is something much better: a petty tyrant who sees the entire zombie apocalypse as a challenge to his authority, until he finally cracks and becomes a chortling, expansive nihilist.
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I also asked him about Nietzsche's reputation as a nihilist, the significance of his "God is dead" proclamation, and what his political musings might teach us about our current political drama.
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A self-described "nihilist," Christian dropped out of high school as a freshman and later earned a high school equivalency certificate and attended Portland Community College for a year, he told police.
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The assassins Hazel (Cameron Britton) and Cha-Cha (Mary J. Blige) have been improved from the comic version, elevated from nihilist psychopaths to bickering partners constantly getting screwed over by their cheap employers.
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Notably features this moving image of Andre Miller voiding his mind and accepting the cosmos so he can channel their divinity on the court: WINNER: NIHILIST MICE No. 2 Raccoon–Treadmill Deeply unnerving.
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And she sees the deregulation of the airwaves (the end of the Fairness Doctrine under Reagan) and of Wall Street (under Clinton) as key reasons our politics is now so nihilist and unequal.
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We have as president the closest thing to a nihilist in our history — a man who believes in little or nothing, who has the impulse to burn down rather than to build up.
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Yes, Phoenix's Joker in the latest film by Todd Phillips is a villain we've seen before—not as the nihilist clown to an archetypical Batman, but as the angry white man obsessed with validation.
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I think that's how you avoid going insane or becoming a nihilist by staying in tune with other people who believe as you do and trying to work together for our betterment as a society.
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And McConnell, as a political nihilist, always has an advantage over people determined to prove things work: It's much easier to simply make things not work, if the only outcome you care about is electoral.
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I think that comes through very clear in the one true crime episode, about two rich nihilist lovers, Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, who planned the "perfect" murder together in Chicago during the Jazz Age.
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With his surfer-ish looks, whimsical attitude and taste for LSD, which he said he began experimenting with in early high school, he seemed more like a hippie-era troubadour than a Generation X nihilist.
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The biggest transformation of all has come during the fight against the Islamic State, which united all manner of Iraqis against nihilist fundamentalists: Shiite and Sunni, Kurd and Arab, Muslim and Christian, religious and secular.
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But in keeping with their optimistically nihilist tone, the Kurzgesagt team offers some words of advice for confronting the inherent mortality of everything: "It doesn't matter what happens in a million trillion years," the narrator points out.
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So, if you're a nihilist who doesn't get why some Moon blocking the light from some star on some lonely planet is so exciting, rest assured: there actually is some grander scientific knowledge us humans hope to gather.
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The Greek man was arrested Saturday and charged with joining a terrorist group, the nihilist Conspiracy Cells of Fire, as well as assembling and posting a letter bomb to Papademos with intent to kill him on May 25.
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Still, it is laughable for Mr. Zarif to lay all the blame on the Saudis when it is the Iranian regime that long ago set in motion the nihilist culture of international terrorism that plagues the world today.
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We all seem to remember a time when online spaces were more like Vine; in folding, we watched the last absurdist dinosaur go extinct just in time for the nihilist hellworld tragicomedy of the Trump presidency to begin.
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He saw himself as a Nietzschean lone wolf, a nihilist, even a renegade, a stammering loner who would stand out from the crowd and shout; but there ought to be room for him, he thought, and people like him.
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The militant group that claimed the Berlin attack has described itself as a nihilist guerrilla operation, and it has been designated as a terrorist organization by Europol, Europe's law enforcement agency, and by the United States Department of State.
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Standout "nihilist blues" featuring Grimes is nu-metal-influenced existential europop, and sounds like two characters in an anime fight scene ("Paradise is in my soul / And I'm terrified I can't get out / I'm lost in a labyrinth / Please don't follow").
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Juan Cole writes: France and Belgium have seen a number of nihilist attacks in the past year and a half, which has pushed the government to institute and extend a state of emergency that seriously infringes on basic human rights.
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Despite the fact that WoV Portland-area leader Jack Donovan calls himself an "anarcho-fascist" and has spoken at alt-right conferences, efforts by Rose City Antifa to expose this group and their local workings have met with resistance from nihilist apologists.
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"I think he is part nihilist, part anarchist, part exhibitionist, part opportunist, who is either actually on the payroll of the Kremlin or in some way supporting their propaganda objectives, because of his resentment toward the United States, toward Europe," she said.
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Now, I've gained back 15 of those 35 pounds and I'm as happy and emotionally stable as any middle-aging queer nihilist, which makes me not the most fun at parties but still better than someone who mistakes you for a tiger.
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Still, there's a kind of empty, nihilist morality at the heart of the Safdies' films — or maybe not really one at all — and Uncut Gems won't really leave you asking any questions other than deciding whether Ratner is chaotic good or chaotic evil.
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Huppert, who's been cast as parodically French before (in I Heart Huckabees, she's a chic nihilist cooing lines like "It is inevitable to be drawn back into human drama"), here plays a woman who easily cloaks her psychopathy under silk scarves and stylish trenches.
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He did not abandon the race even as the sex abuse charges multiplied; instead, aided by the political nihilist Steve Bannon, he doubled down, insisting the women were lying, part of a plot by the "establishment" and "fake news" to prevent him from changing Washington.
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" Starring Mr. Marks and Ms. Hughes and billed as a "post-Christian nihilist pop opera," it presented a love story of religious and sexual awakenings reinforced by Mr. Marks's intricately wrought, omnivorous score: One exuberant duet combines electropop and the shape-note hymn "Wondrous Love.
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His good-natured silliness became the snarl of "We're just joking!" above an anti-Semitic murder fantasy, part of the winking but painfully serious ideology that helped put a genuine nihilist — a man who really, truly seems beyond caring about anything but his own name — in the White House.
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On the other hand, secular campaigners often blame oppressive forms of religion for a high proportion of the worst assaults on human welfare: from religiously inspired ethnic cleansing to female genital mutilation to the nihilist jihadism which treats every form of faith but its own as a legitimate target.
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How the band managed to channel the Scandinavian death metal sound in the early 90s (they even covered Nihilist on one demo) during the pre-internet, full embargo clime of Cuba's so-called Special Period, in the days after the fall of the Berlin Wall, I'll never know.
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The chemical weapons deal was an enormous gift to extremist groups like the Nusra Front and the Islamic State, lending credibility to their nihilist discourse that the world is against us and those who seek justice for Muslims in the Western world order are misguided, even agents of crusaders.
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While it's old news for fast food brands to take to social media with their own nihilist takes, all ready for meme posterity, Applebee's is building the anxieties of the age into brand strategy, selling food and drink that's specifically targeted at dulling the pain of our current existence.
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His continued presence in a series that has few qualms about dispatching characters who've outlived their narrative use, combined with his actions in "Dragonstone," signals a shift that becomes all the more intriguing as the series moves toward its endgame: Westeros's preeminent nihilist may have finally found purpose after all.
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Through record labels like Resistance Records, Elegy Records, and Unholy Records, distribution enterprises like Rouge et Noir, and magazines like Requiem Gothique and Napalm Rock, fascists merged haterock and neofolk with anarchist and nihilist thought in order to convincingly carry their ideas and themes into subversive, though politically ambiguous, countercultures.
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But a mishap in the grocery cart—caused by a nihilist honey mustard (Danny McBride) and an aggressive, roided-up douche (yeah, I know, but Nick Kroll does his best)—leaves them stranded in the supermarket with said lavash (David Krumholtz) and bagel (Edward Norton, doing a groaning Woody Allen impression).
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But privately, he assured people that these were merely opening bids in the negotiation; that he was really the same pragmatic New Yorker he had always been; that he would be a flexible, wheeling-and-dealing president, not a crazy nihilist like Ted Cruz or a mean racist like George Wallace.
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The Big Lebowski: The Dude, Walter, and Donny vs The Nihilists When the toe-cutting nihilist gang finally square off against the heroes of the cultiest classic offering from the cult classic filmmakers The Coen Brothers, we quickly discover that combat training is clearly another thing that they don't believe in.
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Jessica Barden and Alex Lawther play a budding nihilist and an aspiring psychopath who meet dark (he's looking for a first victim and she'll do) and hit the roads of northern England in a stolen car, discovering that the adult world can be a colder place than even they could imagine.
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Days before the party's 350 or so most senior officials gathered in Beijing this week for a secretive conclave (as they normally do in the autumn), a party website published a compendium of Mr Xi's public remarks on the nihilist problem (intriguingly headlined: "Xi Jinping: There Can Be No Nothingness in History").
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Dynasties celebrates these animals simply because they are a gorgeous and weird thing on our planet, desperate to make it; they are not just like us but they are also not nihilist monsters with no philosophies, they came from a long line of animals just like them, each generation microscopically wiser and more refined.
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In the past /r/Wallstreetbets has been portrayed as Reddit's riskiest, troll-iest stock trading community (the subreddit's tagline: "It's like 4chan found a Bloomberg Terminal"), a place of sick gains and staggering losses, online bravado and real life trades, where the burn-it-all nihilist of 43chan is obliged to put their money where their mouth is.
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More specifically: Eater had noted that depression was a popular advertising stunt in 2018, calling attention to when Steak-umm—the cheap, frozen, thin-sliced meat you throw on a frying pan—acknowledged that it sucks to be young; when parody accounts, like Nihilist Arby's, began to spring up; and when Wendy's really dropped a mixtape on Spotify titled We Beefin?
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"Making the case for Future as a nihilist fueled by depression has become such a popular exercise for rap writers that we're almost tripping over ourselves after each successive release to tell you how miserable he's become," wrote Spin's Israel Daramola, and in fact, it has become a cliché to point out how pointing out Future's misery has become a cliché.
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While Whitworth wasn't explicitly critiquing our society, his nihilist tirade nonetheless snapped us out of our dazed viewing, made us forget for a moment that we have a reality TV show president who buys fast food for championship athletes, who shuts down the government because he doesn't get what he wants, who tweets out policy decisions seemingly off the cuff.
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In a string of tweets that may or may not have been an elaborate conceit for a meet/meat pun, Steak-Umm made some seriously salient (and super self-referential) points about social media and modern society: (We've reached out to Allebach Communications to ask them to elaborate on this decision to seriously lean into the existential and nihilist point of view, and will update if they get back to us.) Well said, Steak-Umm.
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It ain't that easy," Wayne told MTV News earlier that year, adding that the pain of withdrawal would be intense and questioning why everyone was so concerned: He reflects that same sort of nihilist attitude on "Me and My Drank," which pays homage to rap's previous syrup casualties: "I sip that Big Moe, I drink that Pimp C / rest in peace Big Moe, rest in peace Pimp C / and fuck what they say / Mr. DJ Screw I'ma do this for you.
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