redcycle.bsky.social
Reality is an illusion, the universe is a hologram, buy gold, bye!
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Clearly the big brain solution here is to abolish gender segregation and make all sports coed.
Might even peel off a few of the mansophere types who are just happy the FEMALEZZZZ!!!!1 don't get a special trophy anymore.
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"Guy who calls Dems neolib shills but also gets mad they won't recite the Manifesto by chapter and verse" is more common than I thought it'd be.
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We live in a truly decadent society where beliefs are secondary to treats. This is true regardless of whether you are a institutionalist liberal who folded like a deck of cards or a grandstanding leftist who wants revolution as long as it only affects you in positive ways
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In 2023 I was a weak linzite (presidential regimes are generally better than parliamentary regimes)
By the end of 2024 I was a strong linzite (presidential systems are dangerously unstable)
Now I’m a giga-linzite (presidential systems are autogolpe ticking timebombs. They are guaranteed to explode)
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Once you have fully integrated that fact, everything makes sense. Like if you do believe that Dems are choosing to lose by not embracing leftism/socialism/whatever, then yeah, saying Americans need to touch the stove is evil! Instead, just pressure Dems to run on Bernie's platform and you'll win!
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Many of them aren't and they reconcile it with 99%/1% rhetoric: the evil American empire is the fault of an evil few elites (plus liberals, which are like 5% of the public at most), the masses are blameless and need not suffer
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Guy who defends the murder of the Romanov children when you suggest that people who freely voted in the deaths of tens of millions in the third world should have fewer treats:
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Woke PRI
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A lot of this is best resolved by assuming the people in question think they have a God-given right to be the protagonists of any resistance activity, and if they aren't, it can't be 'true' resistance
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Commie historiography of WW2 is just an unironic version of the bit in Animal Farm where Napoleon starts claiming Snowball fought with the humans during the revolution.
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It certainly isn’t helped by knee jerk leftist contrarianism hollering about how ALL SIDES WERE BAD, REALLY! And like yes the good guys did bad things but there were no genocidal murder camps or Unit 731 so…
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American liberals sure were thrilled with the Whigs by 1854, weren't they, just screaming for halfhearted malaise and compromise with the slave power, it's why we totally still have them as a party that exists today and they totally didn't get their lunch eaten by a new party with an actual spine
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Un...
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I don’t hate “kitchen table issues” talk per se, but at a certain point it really does become a pathology where you feel like you can’t talk about anything else. You actually can say both “trump take egg” and “trump do massive corruption” without being sheepish about the latter.
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I do miss the delightful chaos of being on fifty websites of extremely varying quality instead of being on three websites of mediocre quality.
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Like, you get the benefits but you also get the protectionism, the nativism and other bigotries, the borderline worship of the ignorance of the “common man”…
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China-wanking huh? The more things change...
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Any form of intimacy opens the possibility of abuse. That's why it's special, and again and again we see people trying to eliminate abuse by eliminating intimacy (through various moral panics)
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what i'm sensing is a lingering despairing resentment that 10 million people marching in the streets worldwide couldn't stop the Iraq invasion, so now "peaceful marches have no political weight whatsoever"
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Gotta say, as much as being Extremely Online sucks shit *now*, being Extremely Online in the late 00s-early 10s was unironically the greatest thing ever.
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Remember when "access to healthcare" was a punchline among these fucking people?
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Neither side wants to admit it but Stancil in 1792 is a radical newspaper publisher who finds the guillotine too *kind*. In 1922 he's a writer at Pravada saying they should liquidate *more* kulaks. The Archleftists and Stancil have more in common than they want to even fathom.
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These people think the Tiananmen Square protesters deserved it.
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Ahnold torpedoing Darrell Issa's carefully-laid master plan to take over California, by complete accident, at the last minute, will be an all-time top 5 politics moment.
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Do you feel like a hero yet?
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Karl Marx rolls "worst analysis of human nature ever", asked to have his ideology systemically discredited over the course of the next two centuries
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Yeah Clinton 1993-1995 was basically as New Left as you could get in the 90s, he tried liberalism, got thumped in 1994, and decided the American people wanted Hitlerism and gave it to them good and hard.
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They looked at Liz Truss and went "we don't need that sort of big government nanny state nonsense".
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These are the sort of people who if say, Canada was invaded by the US would refuse to actively take part in opposing the war on the grounds that 'it's a war between two settler kkkolonial states!'
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Also, there has never in the history of social media been an Ableism Discourse in good faith and it certainly won't start now about Abbott.
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What your cynicism really is is just pure cowardice. You are vaguely aware that there is a huge problem and you might be a tangential participant in it. But addressing that would be jarring, fixing it would be difficult, so it's easier to just say the concern is Dumb Boomer Shit
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it's especially galling since apparently a huge portion of the show is about the catastrophic underinvestment in schools and social services!!!
I guess some significant demographic is violently disinterested in earnest explorations of modern existence because, again, it is too ~*~*CrInGe*~*~
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"I'm very worried about how young men in particular seem to be swinging more right and eagerly embracing a culture of violence and domination. But, most importantly, I don't want to appear too ~~~~cringe~~~~ about how worried I am"
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I think it's that they see the Tea Party and the Joe Rogans and they only see that these things are powerful, successful, and famous, and they miss or deliberately ignore all the awful things about them. It's a politics of "there is no good or bad, there is only power and those too weak to seek it"
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The left doesn't want to acknowledge the real reason for Bernie's surprise success (general antipathy towards institutions) because it means The People don't actually yearn for socialism and the center doesn't want to acknowledge it because it means being The Rebel Alliance party, forever
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I think a politically correct wry joke about a perceived double standard is an exceptionally restrained response to this, quite frankly. I think the discourse on this website has a double standard regarding the bounds of propriety for libs and leftists. I find this an irritating state of affairs.
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A vulgar leftism that imagines private individuals as intrinsically morally superior to corporations or the state will always make this mistake. Your sympathies for "ordinary" people have to be tempered with the knowledge that normies want and believe evil shit all the time.