#max fisher

[veliseraptor]

Social platforms are unnaturally rich with sources of moral outrage; there is always a tweet or news development to get angry about, along with plenty of users to highlight it to a potential audience of millions. It's like standing in the center of the largest crowd ever assembled, knowing that, at any moment, it might transform into a mob. This creates powerful incentives for what the philosophers Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke have termed "moral grandstanding" - showing off that you are more outraged, and therefore more moral, than everyone else. "In a quest to impress peers," Tosi and Warmke write, "grandstanders trump up moral charges, pile on in cases of public shaming, announce that anyone who disagrees with them is obviously wrong, or exaggerate emotional displays." Off-line, moral grandstanders might heighten a particular groups sensitivities a few degrees by pressuring peers to match them. Or they might simply annoy everyone. But on social networks, grandstanders are systematically rewarded and amplified. This can trigger "a moral arms race," Tosi and Warmke cautioned, in which people "adopt extreme and implausible views, and refuse to listen to the other side.

Max Fisher, The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

[kucka-g]

WHO PUT HIM UP THERE??

[tommydashwood]

[playgirlpontius]

Dave England in Shred (2008)

[tokosparrow]

oh my god hi it's me again😭 can i req for max fischer x gn!reader and it's just them on a study date? so like reader's dad thinks that max is distracting reader from their grades even though it's the exact opposite

have a great day! feel free to ignore🎀

a/n: i honestly LOVE this request, study date with max is so cute >.<!! also this is a little longer then i expected so sorry about that guys :P

you’ve seen the many times max failed each test back to back in every class. as you both sat in the library after gathering books, you soon decided to offer him to a little study date to be able to help him at least score above a D. he felt himself getting a bit hesitant about the offer as his main focus was the clubs he managed and of course he told you this straight up because he felt as if he needed to explain why he can’t just throw them away right then and there.

“max…you won’t be able to manage them if you keep failing these tests, you’ll get expelled sooner or later, and who else will manage them when you’re gone so soon?”, you felt a bit guilty as you say this, you didn’t want to guilt trip him into it, but yet you found for it to work as you saw max take your words into consideration.

“fine…i’ll do it.” he muttered in agreement after a couple moments of consideration, he soon gave you a small smile after being pulled into one of your tight hugs as you smiled from cheek to cheek which he absolutely adored. “let’s go to your house after school today, okay?”

as the school day ended and the two of you walked into your home, max couldn’t stop himself but take a good look around like he did much many times before, maybe he just liked how warm your home environment was but soon his train of thought was brought to a close when he saw your dad.

“hi dad!” you happily said as you shared a hug with your dad and not noticing the look he was giving max. “dad, remember my boyfriend max?” you asked as you pulled away and held onto your boyfriends arm with a smile.

“the fischer boy…isn’t he the one the one with the failing grades?” your dad asked with a disrespectful tone in his voice, you saw max being taken aback from the comment, soon about to say something in response before he interrupted by your talking, “yes but he’s here so i could help his grades”

“whatever you said Y/N, but i’m sure he’s distracting you from getting good grades yourself,” your dad expressed with worry as you watched you take max into your room, “there’s nothing to worry about dad, you know i don’t get distracted that easily” you chirped as you shared a smile with your dad before shutting the door behind you.

you faced toward max and saw the sadden look on his face, soon sitting next to him and placing your head onto his shoulder, then feeling his head onto yours soon after, “my dad doesn’t really hate you max, he’s just worried you know..” breaking the silence between the two of you as you glanced up at him as your eyes meet his.

“it felt like it…do you think i’m not worth enough for rushmore?” max asked bluntly which surprised you. you sat up properly and gave him a serious look which made him a bit more worried.

“of course you’re worth enough, you did write a hit play when you were a kid which got you into there,” you say with a smile which gave max a bit of relief when hearing your reassurance. “but we need to work on your grades through, which is why i need you to work with me!” you said as you stood up to grab textbooks to ease him into understanding the material needed to pass those tests in the future.

with many complaints and study dates that came and went, you saw the slow improvement with max’s grades that reached to at least high D’s, C’s, and low B’s, which you of course were proud of alongside max’s dad, soon following with your dad being much more pleasant with max being around once he was proven wrong.

yet max was so grateful for you and he’d never shut up about it for as long as he’s with you.

[mannytoodope]

[rknase]

you have no idea what i've been doing

[schlock-luster-video]

On December 11, 1998 Rushmore debuted in Los Angeles and New York.

[quotesfrommyreading]

That Russia and Ukraine’s war would seem to fit an old pattern at all, rather than charting a new direction in warfare, as had been widely predicted, may offer wider lessons for the world.

“Strategic weapons have not replaced and will not replace armies,” Stephanie Carvin, a Canadian analyst, wrote in an essay on the trajectory of warfare that has circulated widely among experts.

Conventional forces alone can seize and hold territory, making them the central unit of warfare. Newer technology like drones or satellite communications have not altered that dynamic, nor have new methods such as cyberattacks or media manipulation.

“There’s no doubt that ways of waging wars have evolved since the time of Clausewitz with the introduction of new technologies,” Dr. Radchenko said, referring to the 18th-century Prussian general credited with modern military theory.

But, over and over, he added, what might initially “get called a ‘revolution’ in military affairs actually plays out as fairly slow changes.”

But by the same token, Dr. Carvin wrote in her essay, “Weapons can help produce cease-fires, but they cannot themselves create long-lasting, established peace.”

Despite many attempts by large and small military powers alike to develop methods of warfare effective enough to force their political goals on their adversary, none has yet found a way to sidestep the hard work of negotiating a mutually acceptable peace.

  —  What 70 Years of War Can Tell Us About the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

[veliseraptor]

Such anger creates a drive, sometimes overwhelming, for finding someone to punish. In a disturbing experiment, subjects were asked to assign a punishment for someone else's moral transgression. They became harsher when led to believe that they were being watched, harsher still when told that their audience was highly political or ideological. Many heightened the punishment even if they thought their victim did not deserve it. Their motivation was simple: they expected that cruelty would make the observers like them more.

Max Fisher, The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

[kucka-g]

Best Jason Schwartzman character poll results !!!

#15 a tie between Louis XVI, M. Jean, Ross, Thaniel Block with 7 points

#14 Devon with 9 points

#13 Cousin Ben with 19 points

#12 Josto Fadda with 23 points

#11 a tie between Jonathan Ames and Jesper with 26 points

#10 Jason Schwartzman as himself with 28 points

#9 Lucky Flickerman with 40 points

#8 Kurt with 43 points

#7 Augie Steenbeck with 44 points

#6 Jack Whitman with 60 points

#5 Ash Fox with 64 points

#4 Max Fisher with 70 points

#3 Jones Hall with 74 points

#2 Spot with 133 points

#1 Gideon Graves with 139 points

here's the twitter thread with the results

https://x.com/Kucka_G/status/1743298617400574148?s=20

[arcticdementor]

(link)

[thatonekimgirl]

A (very long) series of CONRAD FISHER looking at Belly Conklin in The Summer I Turned Pretty | Season Two.

BONUS: Two ANGSTY AF gifs of him thinking about Belly.

[mannytoodope]

Herman: What's this?

Max: That's the Perfect Attendance Award and the Punctuality Award. I got those at Rushmore. I thought you could choose which one you like more, and you could wear one, and I could wear the other.

Herman: I'll take Punctuality.

Max: Okay, come here.

Bert: Oh well, well, well, look what the cat dragged in

Max: Sorry I'm late. I want you to meet someone. Mr.Bloom this is my father Bert Fischerahe

Herman: Nice to meet you, Mr. Fischer

Bert: Mr. Fischer was my father's didn't call me please, so Max tells me you need a haircut. I can see that. Why don't you sit down and We'll have a look?

[vengesim]

"Golden Hour"

Some baby Pricefield because I never stop thinking of them

[rknase]

hi i wanted to post this on valentine's day but i completely forgot. polycule identities

jack: gay cis male (he/him)

max: gay demiboy (he/him)

pedro: pan trans male (he/him)

chase: gay aro cis male (he/him)

sammie: straight cis male (he/him) (he's more of a friend than a partner but they want to include him in everything)

lux: gay demi/demi trans male (he/they)

hank: bicurious, still figuring it out (he/him)