Basically what the title says, the old subreddit had a post asking who would win an oiled-up naked booty-throwing showdown, frankly I think the posture of the abyss here says it all.
The pay counter at my local Mexican restaurant had me uncontrollably laughing as Geronimo glared at me handing my 21.99 to the cashier.
I was reading “Undaunted Courage” by Stephen E. Ambrose and there have been a few sections involving dudes getting scalped and I remembered a bit cobbler mentioned in one of the YeeHaw videos.
Putting bounties on dudes scalps is wild because how are you gonna verify you have the right guy’s scalp? By the sounds of it, they didn’t bother to check. So surely guys were just scalping the first person they ran into and saying it was the bounty. I have to imagine some of these bounty hunters didn’t even know what their bounties looked like.
My new insane history theory is that male pattern baldness evolved in American Europeans specifically to defend against being scalped by some guy just looking to get paid asap.
Obviously this is a schizophrenia induced delusion but it crossed my mind while I was reading and couldn’t help but laugh about it.
Thank you.
The left side is the Blood Meridian Saga in what I think is a good order to read (untitled blue book is Moby Dick). I read Blood Meridian just before the video came out and decided to do the work to properly appreciate it. I did skip 1491 and Paradise Lost and jumped straight into Don Quixote. The right hand side is miscellaneous books mentioned by Cool Cobbler not necessarily related to (re)reading Blood Meridian. Debt is referenced in the Blood Meridian video and I figured I’d show off The Dawn of Everything while I’m at it.
If enough people give me hecking chungus updoots I’ll do a whole bookshelf reveal so you can laugh at my pseudo-intellectualism and wasted money.
Edit: I haven’t read most of this. I’ve only read the LOTR Trilogy, The Fire Next Time, Slaughterhouse Five (albeit a decade ago so I may as well have mot read it in my memory), and Blood Meridian.
Also Paradise Lost and The Moors Account are not on the Cool Cobbler Book Club reading list but Paradise Lost is semi relevant and Moors Account is historical fiction from the perspective of Estebanico of the Narvaez Expedition/Cabeza de Vaca account and I wanted to check out how faithful it is.
The humble internet weirdo:
I know DJ peach cobbler was suffering from Alcahole addiction and is better now.. but what happened in the middle .. ?? he changed his house .. he donsen't involver any Fience or wife jokes in his videos anymore .. and he seems to be extreamly depressed now...
what actually happened ...
Skipped the introduction. Enjoyed the prologue and first chapter so far.
Drafted April–May 2026. Section IV updated May 7 to reflect the Saudi airspace denial that materialized between drafting and publication. Section II updated May 9 to reflect the UAE's confirmed OPEC exit (announced April 28, effective May 1, 2026). The framework predicted the pattern that produced the events. That's part of why I'm publishing now rather than waiting for further refinement. Anyone reading this after the next few news cycles should know the analysis was assembled before the confirmations, not after.
A note on what this is. This paper is analytical. It is not a call to action. The point is to give a structural account of what is happening, so people stop interpreting separate symptoms as separate problems. I am not telling you what to do about it. I do not have the solution. The structures that are failing are bigger than any one person, and pretending otherwise would be exactly the dishonesty this paper is trying to refuse.
What I can offer is a framework. If it lands, the rest of the reasoning follows on its own. After that, the call to action is someone else's job. Mine is just to clear the ground.
The thesis, in one sentence. The structure that has organized global economic and political life for three generations is in late-stage decline, the decline is structural rather than cyclical, and it will keep failing because the conditions that produced it no longer exist.
Full article below
https://open.substack.com/pub/0aguy0/p/post-imperial?r=8dd2a4&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
