Definitely becoming a believer in that good times weak men shit tbh. These people think shit just appears in front of them by magic. Clean water comes out of your tap, ratshit absent from your cereal, and your Amazon package at your porch all by magic. Do whatever you want and it will keep coming
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I want Burkean conservatives back who see Shesterton's fence everywhere.
https://myferretsatepepethefrog.blogspot.com/2025/01/black-horse-american-revelation-xviiii.html
https://youtu.be/lDvYj6nlwI8?si=OuBVFeuEb3LStTkC
where human beings need to think triadic-ally like a triangle
it is not just love, hate, it is the third category of the stupid
for knowing the names of things, such as writing is different
is different than the embodied knowledge of doing the things enough time to “know” it in your body. All of this is very obvious in the original greek for the words he is creating are modification of older words like to know a thing via seeing it is an idea from
likewise knowledge comes the word not of book knowledge or idea knowledge but for a word that means to be aware of / to understand / to have sex with. Aka its in your body not outside of you.
Thus I know nothing is starting with a good foundation
… and I know that you know that “good times, weak men, et cetera” is actually brain-rotting reactionary horseshit.
For anyone who doesn’t, I keep a an excerpt of a long series of posts calling shenanigans on it.
A ton of white ladies who are teachers and nurses are going to lose their jobs.
No concept of any of this.
Without immigrants your shit will rot: guaranteed.
People for real just did not vote this year - can you believe this shit
However bad you think the complacency is, it's actually way fuckin worse
* At the cost of incoming atrocious, pointless suffering.
ancient Greeks would never
he gave his life to save others from Nazis, his last words being a request to tell the world that "homosexuals are not cowards"
https://bsky.app/profile/aelkus.bsky.social/post/3lgvag5pshc2y
I'd be careful about lionizing 'personal responsibility', which has been a conservative canard for decades. The Trumpian moment needs systemic analysis, not focus on individual personalities.
Dem pols create good times.
Good times create GOP voters.
GOP pols create hard times.
(No wonder the Right is anti-education/science/expertise, the only software patch humans have developed)
Fresh lettuce and tropical fruit in the dead of winter? *shrug* I dunno, man, maybe a freezer or something?
Social media in particular has really lowered my opinion of people as a whole.
One of these days the masses will pull their head out and claim their power.
We live in a society of ignorant conspiracy theorists who got a D in science.
So coddled while fantasizing about persecution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmgozEWbN68
scarcity brings out the worst in ppl and abundance concentrated in few hands is just simulated scarcity but self-conscious and thats been america since its beginning since its colonies even
A thousand generations of my ancestors would have given their right hand to trade places with me.
wait come back let's talk about death from dental infection & the lovely breath preceding this
it's actually astonishing anyone was conceived, let alone lived long enough to reproduce, in the past
Appreciate what we have, be cautious about change because the status quo is a lot better than other times and places.
Now it’s just childish ingrates who don’t understand anything and are mad about it instead of curious. Sucks.
The country calls them illegal immigrants.
https://www.history.army.mil/covid19/Spanish-Flu1918_On-Point-Magazine-Dr-Bob-Smith.pdf
The 20th century wasn't just about civil rights, it's also about stuff like indoor plumbing, paved roads, & electricity, and the two are interlinked.
What foundation do we strive to build today? Any?
It does make one wonder what if anything lasting is being built in this one today.
In my late 90s/00s classes, I remember Tammany Hall/corruption, robber barons, corruption, labor exploitation, pollution/tenements. It didn’t click for me how it underpinned the next 100 years.
This "hardship builds character" trope is misleading and a conservative canard against the welfare state.
HOW DO YOU PLAN TO ACCESS IT, GENIUS, WHEN YOUR COMPUTER NO LONGER WORKS BECAUSE THE POWER GRID'S DOWN AND YOU CAN'T LOG ON TO THE INTERNET?
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Libertarian_paradise
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Galt%27s_Gulch,_Chile