I’m learning to hate people more but in general the thing that earnestly held me back was just using empathy - even if i am objectively in the right I can still see how people get to a decision or behavior usually, and it always regulated me to remind myself i’m just another dipshit with stuff going on that someone is gonna see and absolutely fucking hate, and thereby hate me.

I just try to give the benefit of the doubt that I’d want. I don’t have people’s story. I don’t know how they got to whatever they’re doing, or why.

But also this never covered all use cases and sometimes it’s just better to hate. I dunno man it feels like it degrades me to lean into it though, i kinda hate hate

please, please, please stop mistaking unintelligent rhetoric as an indicator of actual intelligence.

There are smart fascists. Aligned with class interests, correctly seeing problems on the horizon, and dealing with them in the fascist manner: It’s such a profoundly dangerous mistake to go “hawww they’re too dumb to be dangerous.” No. They’re not.

solvent paint markers are cheap and i use them at home on canvas all the time.

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i feel like you should

hey I had given up on this thread so thank you for the bump but also holy shit, thank you dear because this song fucking slaps

added to my playlists. holy shit.

where people like AOC are a sheepdog, guys like this are literally wolves in sheeps clothing. This is the rhetoric of a reactionary signalling who is to be blamed to the public, to the donors and the party elite - they know why they lost, they’re fine with it - the money says fascism is the way forward, and the money gets what the money wants. Everyone at that level gets a payday so it doesn’t matter.

Don’t take it as an absolute fool saying the wrong and busted thing, take it as a signal that yes, the drive to the right will continue unabated. Cheney endorsements will seem quaint in 2028.

I told a bunch of libs a prophecy back in 2016 and again in 2020 that bernie sanders was not radical, and represented a deep compromise that a lot of people on the left put up with in order to have any kind of ideological penetration into mainstream political discourse; as well as an attempt stop the bleeding for a nation that a) absolutely doesn’t deserve to have the bleeding stopped and b) was riding on the hope that literally any of the machinery of power worked as advertised so that maybe (real) incremental work could be done to bring things to a stable and less globally destructive place. That if (when) he failed, that represented a full break for a lot of people. He was a canary set out despite already knowing the mine was toxic - but when he came up dead that was going to be it. There would be no walking back from the increasing contradictions of capitalism, there would be no stopping the reaction to those conditions.

I wasn’t fully radicalized - I hadn’t abandoned electoralism entirely yet - but lots of smart and correct people said this was a pointless maneuver and a waste of emotion and resources, and would just disillusion new activists before they could make a difference. It still feels necessary, to have a public display that dispelled the illusion of business as usual that people still largely believed. It was and (for a shrinking number of Americans) still is a refuge and a cope that things work the way we’re told.

I feel like Bernie managed to permanently damage the liberal establishment’s air of civility and pragmatism, because suppressing the commie became more important - i feel like I saw the mask slip the most not for Trump, but for Bernie, and I think American leftists really needed to see that happen.

Any kind of retrospective defending or reflecting on Bernie as “correct” is bittersweet. Too little too late. Bernie fucking sucks. He sucked in 2016, and in 2020, and he was only useful because he was willing to publically attack capitalism and empire rhetorically. If he had gained power, if he had any agency to act on his heart he’d have done some stuff that would leave us in a maybe more stable position and perhaps more positive goodwill for socialism among the credulous - which might be a less fucked playing field for leftism, but nobody should pretend he was gonna save anything or spearhead the vanguard.

The canary is dead, and going “gosh their song was so pretty I wish they were still alive” feels really useless coming from the gasses that killed it.

this phrase gave me a headache thanks

comrade you are clearly delusional

opponents of israel are treated like enemies of the state

i’d say it’s weird but it’s not at all, it’s been a thing that has been slowly ramping up for a very long time

the feds are getting really good at boiling the frog.

These psychopaths turn everything into metrics. The pro-palestinian calls are probably marked, they’re probably associated with the name on the voter registry, and that probably goes somewhere nasty.

This is kinda paranoid but in general people should probably not offer their genuine opinions to officials of a major political party or any operative of the state or federal government, even if it gives you some wicked sick catharsis, because these losers absolutely keep score and I am pretty sure we’re going into a phase of governance in this country where having plausible deniability for your ‘disloyalty’ is a good thing - and for whatever reason, support to israel is seen as a critical indicator.

tbqh epstein is an excellent normie-facing case study in why you should never lend a shred of credulity to any “offical” story or line - it’s always a lie and it’s always a lie the exact same way Epstein committed suicide - institutions give the lie legitimacy, the media uncritically reports the lie, nobody is allowed to question the lie without having it challeneged and going through a gauntlet that destroys critical voices

and if that doesn’t work it just vanishes from the media entirely.

that’s the game lol

goes without saying that you should

isn’t it amazing how this demonic government has trained a portion of thier citizenry that is rightly alarmed by the idea of fascism, to only be able to see it in the le epic cheeto man, but react like a Westworld host to forbidden information about its presence at literally every level of US governance? Like it’s fucking sad. A good instinct made useless. Fucking awful.

mandalore is so good. The norse adventure game in space is more insane, but the cabellas videos are pretty amazing too

if you’re new to this guy, go watch his mystery of the druids video and the ring saga

vav can do different stuff depending on context too. not sure vav as a vowel indicator is as old as the tetragrammaton? i know some features of the writing system are later innovations - most accomodations to vowels don’t go back to paleo-hebrew iirc, but the tetragrammaton probably isn’t that old anyway.

Anyway if that vav is signalling a vowel, it could be an english o/oo sound, or a lot of things

I’m not an expert, i am just the specific kind of nerd that will slowly learn archaic languages at whatever pace i can manage and i’ve got subpar hebrew literacy for it, so i don’t wanna mis-represent my credentials here.

It’s still that way. I guess later some letters started indicating certain vowel sounds a bit more directly, but it’s mostly little dots and lines that only get used to teach or are placed on text where ambiguity isn’t acceptable.

the only way it’s “Yahweh” is if it has some very special secret vowels because “יהוה” doesn’t sound like that lol

Hey, I’m a religion nerd?

But religion nerds who know way more than me and can make a better case for what atheism really is under the hood have made videos i can share.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfcwTiOGnig

This guy is pretty good in general, if you want to understand religion on a deeper level than like, what’s common to everyone. Because common knowlege about religion is garbage. Like huge garbage. It’s all shit. I can’t have normal conversations about these topics anymore, because i know more than most people and not enough for everyone i learn from. It’s great.

edit: also i should probably define terms. I’m aware atheism can mean non-religious, but given that in name it’s defined in terms of negating religion, people who study religion are still probably the best lens we have to study it as a phenomenon, but i don’t want to imply any kind of personal belief about what atheism is - what it is is complicated and it does range from a redditor who is a little too into dawkins, to atheistic forms of religious behavior that don’t fit neatly into categories of belief or non belief - it’s a weirdly huge topic.

i think i hate this