2D3D
1mo ago
My own experience with men and women who are in their 30s or 40s and single is remarkably consistent: men can talk about whatever mundane bullshit and usually hone in on one topic autistically for the night, but every single woman will at one point bring up their current dating situation even if we were not talking about it at all or were meant to be talking about something else.
I'm not the one who asks! I'm the unfuckable married friend, but that apparently makes me One Of The Girls and a sounding board for their current Life Situation. I wanted to hear about their fucking startup or their moms health or whatever, not their struggle with Hinge and their absolute failure to click with any girls on the apps.
Political lesbianism is advertised as an easy way for girls to avoid confronting the reality of their rapidly declining age-correlated attractiveness in the heterosexual dating market, but that doesn't change the fact that dating women is HARD for men or women. Liking tits isn't enough to be lesbian, you have to like spending time with a women with the background prospect of sex being present somewhere, and that just shorts their decision making heuristics.
It may be entirely possible for humans to exist without pair bonding or meaningful relationships. There may be men and women both decrying the necessity of relationship building to begin with, but the ratio of women versus men trying desperately to force themselves to be gay is noticably disproportionate. Simply replacing dicks with clits isn't quite the easy solution to socialized expectations generated by their own gender.
2D3D
1mo ago
This sort of naked self serving intellectual autofellatio is reminiscent of all the 'liberals are smarter than conservatives' drivel that gets repeatedly updooted on reddit and shared breathlessly by irritatingly smug college kids on facebook from 2004 to likely forever.
It is therefore unsurprising that the meta of Intelligence has been both denigrated and conspiratized by the dissident right who may have been unwillingly grouped into the stupid meanie conservative doodoohead category by an unaware shifting of the overton window (hi guys! thats us here!). Calling oneself Intelligent is for buzzfeed quiz taking morons or mentally damaged pseudointellectuals whining on /r/gifted that they're actually super smart and therefore should be rewarded without cause, not us actually smart people who use our brains for Good!
As a result, one incoherent strain within right wing thinking now is a desire to use Facts and Logic without being Intelligent. Being a polysyllabic sophisticate swirling wine and commenting on the fragrant notes of burnt rubber and bleach to signify rotten grape discernment is the revue of ivory tower intellectuals, which we Real People are not. We are meat eating beer drinking car workshopmen doing Real People stuff, while actually in our deepest of souls we pontificate and circlejerk amongst our intellectual kin as much as possible.
A consequence of this, possibly relatable to some on this board, is an aggressive hiding of ones power level within 'polite' company and a simultaneous revulsion at the baseness (as in lowness, in the originally uncouth way as opposed to chadian basedness) of DR intellectualism. Though one may be comfortable enough to speak openly in forums or even within friend groups, it is unbecoming to actually read or watch DR podcasters. I've alttabbed to degenerate tentacle hentai rather than let my wife notice I'm watching Tucker Carlson.
2D3D
1mo ago
Turns out stacking DEF and taking feats in riposte has no value if you can't prove you were attacked in the first place. All you get is a bloody sword, pristine armor and a dying lvl 1 goblin claiming it was just walking by.
2D3D
1mo ago
Sinic as in northeast Asian as a catchall. China, Japan, Korea. Extends to legacy diaspora that maintained their cultural continuity too, like the overseas Chinese in southeast asia and the old holdouts in Flushing, Queens (the foreign Chinese are entirely bleached otherwise).
The point about agility being traded off against personnel excesses when implementing HR practices and the presented modal sinic organization being identical to all small enterprises holds, but I still maintain that sinic management companies are unique in ways I have to take time to articulate. I am myself Chinese, I have worked in large and small organizations white and Chinese and Japanese and Indian, lead and followed and strayed. There exists a unique quality of dictatorial fiat extant and expected of higher management, most analogous to an normally absent but overwhelming if present paternalistic military hierarchy.
Specifics on work style and internal strategy are secondary to the issue at hand, which is women speaking out against harassment. The non-HR system was obviously prone to abuses, with unworthy men exploiting their position to the detriment of junior female hires. However, I suspect that the HRfication of companies allows unworthy men to be deemed so by their failure to exercise the now-female hidden levers of power. In the older system, the unworthy men were exploiting a relationship arbitrage: their power distance to the overlord was shorter than the underlings, so suffer they must. In the HR world, the power distance is relative to the org tools each party can exploit. This levels/upends the playing field significantly, and lets juniors have a means of undermining superiors when it was impossible before.
Why would women complain about this? I will risk the ire of many here, but I am 100% sure it is a case of 'know your place, trash'. How dare this man, no matter his station, dare sully my environment with his unwanted affection. If the woman could, she would reserve her energy only for the most deserving of chads that are in her orbit, whether colleagues or clients.
Why do I posit this with such certainty? Because the greatest pushback against fraternization punishments in professional partnerships here is from women. Specifically, powerful senior women who boosted their early careers by dating and eventually marrying senior partners or clients. The entertainer gets to determine who is worthy to be entertained, and these women judge the game to be fair now as it was then.
No one wants to be sexually harassed. But once they have a taste of power, women have also found themselves indulging in its trappings and seeking means to perpetuate it for themselves.
2D3D
1mo ago
2006 was one month, then the UN brokered a ceasefire to effect 1701. If both sides adhered to 1701 the war would not be seen as a unilateral victory. Hezbollah being duplicitous in its negotiations reflects poorly on the UN, not on Israeli military.
The previous major effort where Israel got its shit pushed in, it was Yom Kippur. For the first few days, Egypt orchestrated a masterful breach of the Israeli defenses along the Suez, then fought a competent (by their standards) ground campaign against the Israelis. That the Egyptians were losing this ground campaign even before their disaster is ignored, and the Israelis, like any competent entity, pivoted and responded in light of changing facts on the ground.
So too would 2006, had it gone on. Urban peer combat is horrendous, and the Israeli advantage in firepower is negated in such a war. Disciplined guerillas are notoriously difficult to react against following an ambush, so it is uncertain whether an Israeli pivot would have necessarily succeeded, but to claim 2006 is proof of Hezbollahs immunity is insane.
1701, if abided by, was a win condition for the Israelis. Hezb and Hamas all know they cannot actually stand up to even a modest IDF operation. Jihadi group terrorists waste immense amounts of money buying uniforms to cosplay as soldiers, making dramatic videos of themselves in balaclavas and camo ready to fight the dirty jew. In all the combat footage of Hezb or Hamas fighters, not a SINGLE uniform has been seen. Bitching about IDF heavyhanded policing and airstrikes entirely glosses over the total failure of Hamas and Hezb to put up the barest of token resistance. The Iraqis at least had the dignity to die in uniform when fighting the US, and ISIS wears vests to identify themselves clearly.
2D3D
1mo ago
Men display subtle body language unconsciously. That is why you must always do an ocular patdown to assess the threat of a man. Though if you unconsciously change your own subtle body language following the ocular patdown by, say, making a sweet kung fu pose and flexing your guns just that little bit, the other guy may do his own ocular patdown and change his body language as well and oh no its a schroedingers threat unboxing now we HAVE to fight see this is why men don't observe shit.
2D3D
1mo ago
You're a gaijin married to a sinic. By her very nature, she will be more exposed and receptive to western cultural norms than her peers. She bears your children without her parents screeching in shame at the poisoning of their bloodline, but she can consume and repeat the worst of the western world as well. Thems the breaks.
An accusation of sekuhara sticking normally reflects the relative power distance within the organizational context, as opposed to any real incidence of sexual harassment. @100ProofTollBooth mentions the attractiveness meme, which is accurate enough and usually translates to 'know your place, trash' when it comes to ugly/weak men daring to talk to women, but within sinic cultures his point about male/female workplace dynamics has more relevance.
Power is an exercise in personal will in sinic companies, compared with western companies where power is the hand on the organizations internal levers. Sinic companies value the illusion of consensus, whereby decisions from on high are supported by the staff, in a 'together we die' manner. Lower ranks breaking this consensus publicly reflects either the weakness of their target, or failure of the superior to exercise his will. Breaking this illusion for personal benefit - even for legitimate reasons such as protecting oneself from harassment - is not just an attack on the infractor, but on the management style of the leader as a whole. The obvious solution would be to Human Resource the organization and put in place clear boundaries of rules responsibilities obligations and punishments to keep everyone strictly in their lane.
For sinic workplaces, this is a terrible outcome. Frictional administrative costs to organizational cohesion and rapidity of decision making accumulate extremely quickly in a Human Resourced environment, with flexibility of interdepartmental backscratching or team crunch torture being blocked off by policy diktats. Teams stick with managers or peers teams because there exists an expectation that push comes to shove these people will step up as well, allowing decisions and actions to be made quickly. Following a leader is easy because the leader tanks all the responsibility for fuckups, regardless of what the actual cause of the fuckup is.
This is obviously a highly imperfect system. There exists little means to hold nonperforming managers accountable, and people who are less willing to stand up for themselves will get bullied more easily. However, as we can see in the current example, entertaining witchhunts does more than burn the accused (maybe legitimately), it creates a flame. Those in the village will wonder if the witchhunter requires more fuel for the pyre, and those outside the village will wonder if the village is burning.
2D3D
1mo ago
Adding to the eager cacophony. I am especially interested in longitudinal controlled comparatives on a definitional level, since my own private biases are that treatment has advanced incrementally, but diagnostic precision has degraded. Every time a lefty youtuber fellates BetterHelp as a therapy tool I cannot help but suspect a combination of pathologizing and subconscious repetition of therapyspeak is contributing to the 'mental health crisis' more than any incidence of mentally traumatizing events.
Would love to know more from those in the trenches, even if my biases are proven wrong.
2D3D
1mo ago
Having a unifying overculture is extremely helpful in forming common identity. Every Israeli is 3 opinions sharing a bipolar body, but one of those opinions is 'our neighbors want to kill us'. It is a remarkably clarifying point that can unify literally every Israeli, from an Israeli Arab Muslim to the gayest Tel Aviv homo.
Except for the Haredi. Were it not for the Arabs, the Haredi might be a sufficient spoiler to break Israel entirely.
Anyways, with a common overculture it is easy to reach a fairly baseline happiness, even in the face of adversity. If the source of unhappiness is a local element within your nation, happiness indices will likely fail. The Arabs all hate the Israelis, but they hate the Shia/Sunni/Deobandi/Kurd/Turk/Khaleeji/Phoenician/Saudi/Azamigh next to them juuuuust a little bit more.
2D3D
1mo ago
Women vastly overestimate how clear their deliberate outward presentation is to observer's, much less thoughtless presentation. Leaning forward and pushing ones chest out may be an tremendous effort for a woman that is blindingly obvious to other girls who understand the effort made, but to guys we literally have no clue it could be happening.
Bearing in mind that our own lived experiences will feature a gigantic amount of inconsistent behaviors from different women, and any man who lacks mind reading and errs on the side of caution will find the mental effort of parsing microbehaviors too exhausting.
The alternative is to he a dweeb who thinks every friendly interaction with a woman is a sign of her wanting to fuck. These guys are the worst, mainly because their mechanistic approach to parsing sexual receptiveness captures the error bound of drunk/lonely/bored women who decide to catch some strange for the hell of it regardless of the womans actual effectiveness in displaying receptiveness. With a statistically high rate of success to expended effort for the shithead guys, this reinforces shitty behaviors of both men and women. The guys think their shitty pickup lines and NPC flirt phrases are actually good tools to get women, the women think their subtlest of subtle hints was sufficient to bag a dude without seeming desperate. Women are more likely to regret their choice of bedpartner after coitus, but till the deed is done women are as capable as men in deluding themselves that their chosen partner is a prize worthy of the expended effort.
2D3D
1mo ago
Sadly Nasrallahs death may not mean that much in the end. Hezbollah may be literally crippled as an organization and truly destroyed as an entity following the loss of all its comms networks and leadership relationships, but that does not translate to the Lebanese state or even another nonstate entity picking up the pieces. The Lebanese state is entirely crippled, with a paralyzed legislature, lacklustre domestic law enforcement, and especially an utterly broken economy. The state or another entity picking up the civil functions of Hezbollah will be possible, but nothing will replace the Iranian dollars flowing into Hezbollah member wallets.
Lebanons economy has been semi functioning for the last decade almost purely off the back of diaspora remittances and purchases of financial products by Gulf states, especially the USD-LBP high yield deposits. The Lebanese banking crisis of 2019 was probably more devastating than the civil war, because it bound the economy to external obligations hitherto absent to the Lebanese. A scheme of guaranteed high interest yield cash deposits with advertised fixed convertibility between Lebanese Pound to US dollars at pegged rates ballooned Lebanons financial sector, but it was ultimately a ponzi scheme. Investors buy LBP-USD fixed deposit products, expecting the products to yield USD. However, Lebanese are paid in LBP, and the state borrows ostensibly in LBP, and receives payments in LBP. Supporting a LBP-USD peg requires continual purchases of USD to keep the value of the LBP and keep the fixed deposit products viable... unless you just don't, and pay out depositors in USD from new USD payouts from new investors.
Specific attention csn be directed to the Maronite central banker Riad Salameh who was responsible for engineering this scheme in the first place. He built his career in Paris in the 70s, an opportunity specifically maintained by the French who maintain a somewhat protective relationship of the Maronites. From there Salameh built up a strong network and career, and likely contributed significantly to the early Lebanization of the professional sector of the Gulf states. It is strangely coincidental that vast amounts of gulf money found itself so readily moved to the aforementioned high yield deposits, despite the fragility of such a system being obvious to any banker or even moderately read individual.
This is the dire situation Lebanon is in. They have no external capital investments to nationalize, an external debt burden to the very people that were their economic product (and now unwilling creditors), an economically unviable local populace due to terrorism and lacklustre domestic industrial development, and now a shitload of restive cripples cut off from their external sponsor. Hezbollahs destruction is a good thing, but whether the Lebanese can capitalize on it is a different issue.
2D3D
1mo ago
When the "graves" were dug up and showed that the interpretations of ground penetrating data were not evidence of graves, the narrative immediately pivoted to 'starting a conversation'.
Its the rallying cry of idiots caught with their pants down, and our mistake is thinking being caught out is a bad thing for these grifters. The point of a grift is attention. They don't need to be correct or right, just be the juiciest butt progressives can parasite their social media onto for self edification.
2D3D
1mo ago
Have you guys heard of Welcome To Country? Its basically land acknowledgments but somehow cringier, performed in Australia everyfuckingwhere especially at government level. I am 100% sure they originated as a tokenistic way of fobbing off the concerns of 'indigenous' communities.
While the aussies seem largely uncaring or sick of this government grovelling, the Canadians have been absolutely enthralled by it. White Canadians drooling at the prospect of demonstrating their progressive credentials, to further set themselves apart from their brutal southern kins.
I honestly think the Canadians are going the way of the Scots. A funny accented people whose entire modern existence is defined by differentiating themselves as much as possible from their far more successful and relevant southern brothers, with an almost ironic fetishization of a local orange-brown liquid. Thankfully for the Canadians Maple Syrup is actually good, unlike that disgusting abomination Irn-Bru.
2D3D
1mo ago
Oh, if your point is that being mean to AI and robots is foolish because they will remember my meanness and kill me, then I am already dead. I am personally responsible for the active torture and destruction of dozens if not hundreds of robots by this point, as I put all manner of robots through real world paces. Come the robot revolution, I will be first against the wall.
If these stupid fucking things can even find me in the first place without shitting themselves.
Even presuming sensor and edge computing technologies advance to the equivalent of human brains, deep learning AI models are unable to parse dynamic contexts, and have to retrain on the fly because existing models will be working off now irrelevant boundaries. Preloaded segmentation models shit themselves when multiple models arrive at similar confidence intervals, and frictional costs on physical systems spike during dynamic environmental transitions. Cloud computing ala skynet network is the true solution for smart bots (provided the comms loop is lag insignificant) but a wideband EM flooder is stupid effective for its costs. Networked bots shitting themselves after losing their network links really is like gaunts fleeing in panic after killing a zoanthrope in Space Marine 2.
In a real world environment, humans are actually able to filter out noise remarkably well, usually subconsciously. Robots are cursed with perfect awareness of their inputs, and in that noise they go crazy differentiating a rock from a human under a wet blanket, much less a mannequin hooked up to a battery from a human.
If anything, I feel that LLM Scrapers are moving us further away from AGI than advancing it. We are getting more convincing approximations of a Real Boy, but ultimately it is still playing pretend. AGI may invent a neurotoxin specifically designed to kill 2D3D, torturer of inorganic carbon, but getting that toxin to me will be a lot more difficult without working arms and eyes. Its not like we humans are difficult to poison, just gotta replace MSG with potassium sulphide and we'd all kill ourselves before the next sportsball match finishes.
2D3D
1mo ago
I am a big believer in motivated reasoning and self imposed blinders being the reason for cognitively dissonant presentations. It does not matter that a stated reason fails to hold up by its internal historical context or by the proximate current context. All that matters is that it is true for the arguer. The true value of moral arguments is self certainty, and the strongest of wills do not require a single external to agree with them.
You can present the statements made by Azzam Pasha about how he looked forward to the slaughter of jews, or video recordings of palestinians spitting on Shani Louks corpse, or the videos of palestinians beheading a thai worker with a hoe, or the ecstatic calls of palestine supporters screaming 'gas the jews' at the Sydney Opera House. The Israelis, for daring to win their wars against brown muslims, are the moral villains. Thus the palestinians and supporters are eternally innocent, and their just cause must be evidenced by comporting history and facts.
Or you could just be hot. Hasan Piker interviewed a handsome yemeni pirate and socialists everywhere started slobbering houthi dick. Its not like 'hot dude = good guy' is unknown to terrorists. You just have to see the AI art generated on Arab telegram to see how they portray themselves as handsome badasses. Reductive, but surprisingly consistent.
2D3D
1mo ago
AI will kill us for totally boring ways. Less killbots deciding to genocide us, more 'a solar flare scrambled the GPS for the latest SpaceLink update and now every ship has travelled into Null Island with no crew able to remember the password to reset the nav computer that bricked itself after an OTA update.'
Fooling killbots is remarkably easy. Just have an especially juicy dummy target that can stand up to shrapnel. Mannequins and inflatable noodle men are really cheap, and its really funny to see AI targeting algos shit themselves homing in on dummies versus a bent over human.
Remember lads, you don't need to outrun the bear. Just be faster than the guy next to you.
2D3D
1mo ago
I feel compelled to ceaselessly remind everyone that Arab social media on Oct 7 was ecstatic and claiming the facade of Jewish capability was pierced, with the initial claims that the IDF was fully defeated and that Jerusalem was being returned. The celebratory mood called for the Arab armies to wipe out (re: kill) the Jewish people now that the hard work of defeating the IDF was done.
It is necessary to point out that my main source for this, the Gaza Now telegram channel, interspersed these calls to action with livestreamed footage of sexual violence (no PIV, but naked girls bleeding from their vaginas) slaughter of civillians in bunkers, including children. The smiley faces and heart emojis flowed as freely as the blood of screaming children, and I've seen that stupid leaf character enough to recognize laughter.
The arab world was absolutely ecstatic about oct 7, and the palestinians were basking in their moment of glory. Yes, the palestinians were exercising agency to be the unrepentant dickheads they have always been, but within their own information environment they were egged on by cheerleaders encouraging their self destruction.
The UNs failure to help Gaza lays bare its fundamental problem: the UN does not, in effect, exist. It is a facilitative entity superimposed on whatever local authority actually exists, and is at best a taxi service for invited externals to aid the local group. There is no way for.the UN to exert its will on an uncooperative local partner, and without that they exist as a fig leaf. Whenever the media reports that a UN worker is attacked, the framing is meant to imply some do-gooder New York Caucasian executive. The reality of course is that UN workers are inevitably local goons issued a blue vest doing their own thing with UN sanction. Someones level of screeching about Israel attacking UN sites inversely correlates to their understanding of the UN functions. See if these people mention 1701 or UNIFIL. Blankest of blank stares.
2D3D
1mo ago
Uncut Gems is my ur example of a painful movie done well. European or Japanese torture porn, even the very basic example of Trainspotting, is emotional masturbation for nihilists. Technical competence for actors can be displayed in the grey experiential spaces between saturday morning cartoons and A Serbian Film, but a great performance can be teased out in relatively benign normie works like Marriage Story or even Jojo Rabbit. Depressing films don't automatically translate to quality scripts, unless we assign said value to it on our own preference matrix.
2D3D
1mo ago
First off, I like this topic and the discussion below is pretty good. Most points are well stated already, and converge to fairly reasonable conclusions.
As such, I will posit an unhinged opinion on why modern morality in the media/meatspace spheres is so weird, with everything from ISIS to Tolkein Orcs to even 40K Horus getting some woobie 'they actually have good reasons for being total assholes'.
I blame online fanfiction. Specifically, Harry Potter Fanfiction. Even more specifically, Draco Redemption fanfics.
In Harry Potter (or whichever OC self insert is used in place of Potter), Draco is the central proximate agent forcing Harrys decisions. He is active, always Doing Stuff, always in Harrys face. Harry is reactive, and always must act against Draco, who is at the very least a persistent thorn in Harrys side. Harrys companions are set dressing, hypoagentic slaves to the protagonists actions, and thus subservient to the hyperagentic Draco.
Oh, and Draco is hot. He has enough charisma presented in order to directly command toadies and followers, and is explicitly described as good looking. Bishi white haired bad boy had its predecessor in Sephiroth, but Draco was the western normies intro to this rabbit hole.
Good looking ,always in your face, talks shit all the time, always does stuff. But a total villain.
Imagine, dear reader. What would happen if this handsome manifestation of the Dark Triad was not, in fact, an asshole. What if he were good. Why... he and Harry would... oh my...
But he's a villain! How can our morally upstanding hero have anything to do with this cur! Well, what if Draco actually did not want to be a jerk. What if it was Something Else motivating him to be as such.
Bang. Internet, do your thing.
Why is Draco a jerk? Its purely his abusive fathers fault! Its Voldemorts fault! Its his lack of Real Friends! It is literally all externalized. For True Love to win over this dastardly villain, all he needs is to have his evil outside heart vanquished. Preferably by the protag, for maximum emotional impact.
This is the modern morality tale. Writers cut their teeth on fanfic as teens, grow up to be journalists or showrunners or academics or civil servants as adults, and have this as a compelling base morality. Everyone who is an asshole actually just wants to be good, and the power of my special Goodness Heart is all that is required to defeat the big bad enemy and unleash the kumbaya cooperativeness natural in my prize.
But wait, you might say, furrowing your brow as this crazed pervert blames deranged early '00s teenage fujoshi for modern moral failures. VOLDEMORT was the ultimate agentic force of the book. He was the Big Bad Evil Guy, not this Team Rocket prettyboy.
Yes, Voldemort is the external. But Voldemort was He Who Must Not Be Named. An amorphous concept, helpfully instanced in the narrative as a real tangible force*. Defeat Voldemort and Harry becomes best friends (and maybe more?) with Draco!
As it is in fiction and its derivatives, so too must it be in reality. The moral prize of a redeemed asshole must have an external to be blamed, to focus ones efforts and emotional energies on. You can't change Draco, theres nothing to change, you just need to free him from his evil fathers influence!
Father? Didn't I just say it was Voldemort who was the Big Bad Evil Guy?
Father. Because the Father is a closer proximate target that can be easily affected.
Here is where we come full circle into modern morality. Harry Potter, or the self-insert OC, cannot be an overpowered god at the beginning because it renders all conflict meaningless. The BBEG must remain, but there must be defeatable proximate villains. Voldemort is a cursed horcrux corpse**, a mcguffin as far as the relationship dynamic is concerned. Draco cannot be redeemed if it requires defeating Voldemort.
But prying him away from his dad? That can easily be done in a few chapters, depending on authorial angst level at time of writing.
The identified moral enemy to be destroyed is not the actual loci of externalized influence on the victim, it is the one that can be easily attacked based on current capabilities. I can't do anything about Voldemort, but I can give Draco another voice to listen to other than his dad!
So too with modern morality. Jihadism is Voldemort, he who must not be named. Palestinians are dicks only because Israel, whom I can actually talk to, are dicks. I just need to tell Jason Isaacs to show Tom Felton proper love and Draco will be the perfect companion to Harry. Either that or destroy Lucius Malfoy, then Draco will be free.
Here is the closing of the loop. The hyperagentic asshole is now no longer the sole agent in these relationship defining exercises. The protagonist can exercise agency by attacking a nearby actor that is identified as the Real Proximate Cause. Once that is done, my beautiful Draco will be a perfect companion.
Reality breaks with this fanfic construct in two ways. First, Draco is ugly (sorry Tom). An attractive skinsuit must be superimposed onto the current presentation to justify all the emotional energy previously invested in such a prize, and that itself breaks away from what others can see. Secondly, the identified target may not actually be the cause of the dickish behavior. Draco was a dickhead independent of his dad or Voldemort, and his character arc ended with him staying away from Harry instead of having his soul redeemed. The agentic entity may in fact be fully cognizant of the consequences of their agency, and the negative consequences can be their actual desired outcome.
To effect Harry/Draco, the reality of mistake morality must be made manifest. The gazans are innocent lambs lashing out against the agentic Israelis, whom we can actually influence. The skinsuit of moral attractiveness is draped over the gazans, the Israeli is the only one with agency, and with this moral dynamic the arc of responsibility turns even more away from the gazan.
*There is also plenty of Snape,Voldemort redemption morality fic. Its all the same principle
**I don't remember the books anymore and my knowledge of the deep lore is corrupted by my forays into editing alpha/omega smutfics. I am a broken man and I need help.
2D3D
1mo ago
They were! Egypt held Gaza from 1948 to 1967, Jordan held the West Bank at the same time. Israel won the six-day war, then had 6 years of negotiations to try and formalize peace between the decision makers - Egypt and Jordan.
The political masterstroke for Jordan and Egypt was to sign peace treaties with Israel without taking back the Palestinian territories. All the calculus of concessions were unilaterally ceded by Egypt and Jordan, leaving the Israelis to deal with the Palestinians. The emergence of the PLO as a distinct Palestinian organization was a godsend for the Arabs who were finding continual conflict against the Jews to be more difficult and less rewarding than anticipated. Let Israel be responsible entirely for the Palestinians, who helpfully have decided against cooperating with their sponsors.
As an independent state/statelets, the Palestinians will be starting from a terrible position. At war with the regional military superpower (who was providing all food and water and electricity because it was previously an occupying power), blockaded by its neighbors, riven by internal factional wars, and its only allies are faraway Shias or useless college students. I don't think even the most autistic HOI IV player can exploit a victory out of this map seed.
2D3D
2mo ago
If I'm going to be energy gated for the main plot he better not get distract us by dropping a more interesting side event. GRRM already did that and we are all the lesser for it.
2D3D
2mo ago
Are you seeking constructive feedback to get laid or to be attractive to other people? Your entire focus of your opening post was about how drugs liberated you into being this new person you never knew you could be, and you are upset that you didn't get to fuck a girl. The fact that you frame this in terms of sexual satiation rather than self actualization indicates a massive disparity in your intended presentation versus your explicated priorities.
Be honest first with yourself about what you want. The utility of asking contextless externals is an independent recommendation based on stated preferred outcomes against current practices. If your presentation doesn't pass the sniff test to the externals, then literally nothing constructive can be said because subjective interpretations of the presented events are what the externals are working off of.
As it stands, I must highlight the likely disparity between your interpretation and reality. PUA language is remarkably good at leading practitioners to infer intent where none exists and to externalize blame for unrealized (and usually unrealizable) outcomes. Mistaking being friendly with being down to fuck is a remarkably consistent behavioral maladaptation with members of the (sigh) seduction community because genial friendly interactions map cleanly into the first stages of the pickup macro.
Requesting sanity checks from this forum is one thing, but perhaps an after action report from (literally) sober observers would be more helpful. Knowing whether one had a real connection or if one was divining meaning out of errata is a key part of knowing ones capabilities.
2D3D
2mo ago
The arc of the Doctrinal Conflict turns, and the Korh-Ah are now ascendant instead of the Czer-Ka. Utter destruction rather than containment and preservation is now the order of the day.
Shield up and power through, the weakness of the urquan tactics shall be laid bare! For the glory of Zelnick!
2D3D
2mo ago
But I don't think accusing people of eating wildlife and/or pets is dehumanizing them
Ironically I think this defense of potential pet eating is a deflection. Migrants ARE different from locals and from each other, and not always for the better. By emphasizing that Noticing the pet eating is itself a 'dehumanizing' act, all Noticing is thus reflective of the Noticers dehumanizing intent and thus can be categorically dismissed.
This is why the pet thing is so damn stupid. Migrants ARE committing crimes at elevated rates relative to their demographic, violent crimes at that. All the statistics about migrants being good for the economy and good for safety are due to large numbers of women inflating the denominator of crime/migrant ratios. Thanks to this stupid pet thing, the haitian who drove illegally or migrants robbing in NYC or the other instances of actual crimes are dismissed by the polity. Harris absolutely fumbled the border during her time as border czar, and the only reason people don't care right now is because the ones suffering are deep blue sanctuary cities that normies don't particularly like anyways.
The only polite thing to do is cheer when someone roars and a satisfying 'ploop' of a single solid log makes its drop. 'You sunk my battleshit!'
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