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BaronVSS
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1yr ago
Those initial migrants are likely to be middle class as a result of the visa restrictions, and so are likely to invite other middle class people rather than lumpens.
Uncle Ted's real problem wrt his actions (which were to send random mail bombs to computer repair shops and universities) are that he was spectacularly unlikely to topple the industrial society in which he lived through them. I think, in his heart, he knew this. The techno industrial machine couldn't and cannot now be stopped by anything weaker than something like a massive solar flare or a meteor hitting the earth.
The reason is simple: it allows the following: if you're critical of technological progress, you're endorsing the worldview of a domestic terrorist.
Terrorism is only bad if you lose. At one point, Marx and his friends may have been considered terrorists, now they are widely known and in many places revered historical figures. The IRA, through judicious deployment of semtex under cars and inside bins next to which small children would stroll eventually secured a permanent route to reunifying what they perceived to be their country. Others are downgraded to rebels or traitors, but successful terrorists are never known as such.
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1yr ago
Daggerfall didn't have prostitution in the final release. At one point it was meant to but this was removed to lower the age rating. The assets themselves were kept, hence why whenever you walked into a temple half the characters therein were dressed in a priestly fashion and the other half weren't wearing any clothes.
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1yr ago
Objectivity does not factor in to whether someone is an NPC or not. NPCs are primarily concerned with morality over all else. Whether the Scythian Goat Herder goes along with the decisions of his clan in all cases or whether he can manage to question some of the poorer ones, that is what makes him an NPC, not questions about a planet he cannot adequately see with his primitive technology.
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1yr ago
The post is fake. Reddit users write far more than they need to on their story, including useless details that a real person being bothered by their problem wouldn't include. However, it appeals to a real, observable phenomenon: a dude is worth as much as his stacks of paper.
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1yr ago
Kiwi Farms
Where would you go to find it now? Ever since it antagonised that politically influential anime enjoyer I haven't been able to find a trace of it.
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Do the rich and the poorly really associate with each other? The only place I can think of where the two might meet are city centers. Otherwise they have separate neighbourhoods, separate services, separate meeting places. Meanwhile women can be found in all walks of life at every social level (unless you're a dude on an oil rig)
I disagree. All coverage I see of it, excluding The Telegraph, is framed with the assumption that 200K people died and this is an utterly horrific failure of the government and not an inevitability of a nation state becoming fat and old. I look at all the headline images that journalists choose to run and I Cannot Help But Notice that most of those wearing placards or holding up pictures of the deceased are old people lamenting even older people.
I fear the response to the pandemic has been normalised: when something like this happens again, we will shut down schools and places of free association, we will usher everyone inside their homes to look at screens all day, and we will demonise anyone pointing out the utter disaster of this policy. The operating policy of the country is determined by what is best for the all powerful owner occupier class and the national religion.
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1yr ago
Not all measures were removed in all countries at the same time. In the UK, the restrictions were 99% gone by February, but many places in the anglosphere or adjacent continued until the late year.
Personally, I think the following things contributed to society's funny amnesia moment:
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The length of the pandemic. It had gone on for nearly 2 years, and as time went on the average person gradually stopped being as afraid.
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Non-terrible vaccines had been administered into a majority of 50+ individuals in WEIRD anglospheric nations, which are the only countries that matter. At this point, much of the functional threat of the virus has been eliminated.
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The increasing number of leaks that lawmakers, particularly those at the very top, were throwing racous lockdown parties while everyone else was being denied freedom of association. In the UK, partygate rendered any further restrictions politically difficult for the government to implement.
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The timing of the Ukraine war. Socially, it immediately supplanted COVID as the Big Thing Everyone Cares about and governments were no longer rewarded for spending vast amounts of state resource on it. Politically, governments had to rapidly change their priorities to account for the war and its knock on effects.
I think this has nothing to do with AI. This guy was a terminally online type who became radicalised due to the lack of meaning/purpose in his life and tried to let out one last primordial scream before he went.
On a side note, this case indicates that you should never commit a high profile crime and be taken alive, because your embarrasing post history will be read out in court for the whole country to witness.
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The disproportionate attention paid to the worst of the incels have clouded the fact that most sound men have a negati
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I have been feeling like this for around 2.5 years now. I read some of the work(s) of Nietzsche, Stirner and a book about evolution whose name I cannot remember to pass the time when I was working in an empty office during the lockdowns and came to largely the same conclusions that you have.
My cope is to commiserate with a like-minded online friend and cry laugh at the comically awful nature of existence.
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At this point, social expectations and shaming/threats of violence from Big Baz.
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Elden Ring is apparently easy if you've played souls games before and hard if you're accustomed to the typical game released nowadays where you are gently handheld through cinematic spectacle you occassionally get to influence by pressing buttons and moving your thumbstick.
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I would question how much it has subverted morality vis a vis the actions of the master caste. Christianity itself was picked up as a trend among the Roman elite. Yes, churchmen and nobles paid lip service to charity, kindness, goodwill under Our Lord Jesus Christ and so on but when the chips were down they behaved as barbarously to underclasses as their spartan and roman predecessors. Even now, in the age of the welfare state, the primary benefactors of a morality that is supposed to care about the weakest among us, all benefits from things like DEI and so on go to the upper middle class.
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I don't know what else there is to talk about. The outcome of the war, whatever that may be, has been decided by now by people with significantly larger dicks than ours and novelty of combat between two near-peer nations has worn off. I assume that, when the news is reporting the war, the Ukranians are making progress, and when the news goes dead silent on the war then the Russians are making progress.
I care primarily about the personal impact: that I get to suffer inflation and energy scares due to my government's (or indeed, every western government's) complete and total aversion to energy security. As for morals, the ultimate moral of life, learnt most bitterly in the years before, is that the strong do whatever the fuck they want to the weak, and the weak suffer and invent slave moralities in order to pretend that they are not suffering.
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The best thing a median man can hope for is to be the largest fish in a small pond.
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In their defence, the official app (and new reddit) is utterly horrific and using anything else is a requirement to browse the site.
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Ireland is not really considered "British" soil in the popular conciousness, NI is seen by everyone barring loyalists as this colonial venture we didn't really clear up. Much of what happens in the UK news cycle doesn't consider NI and May's coalition government was the first time many people actually learned about the separate but equal part of their state. In addition, most of the oppression was done by the loyalist ulster government, who are neither truly Irish nor mainland British, rather than the westminster government.
I would say that the British State currently has little room to commit any of the atrocities you describe. We have no heavy industry, as most of it was shipped offshore to East Asia and other places around the world and thus no Lithium Miners to abuse for the benefit of the global market. The worst crime that can be attributed on this basis is that the government leaves people who cannot adapt to the information economy to rot.
Morever, outside of the post WW2 waves of migrants, the UK has no immediate different ethnic group to victimise - white welshmen and scotsmen have more in common genetically with englishmen than they otherwise wish to pretend. If there was perhaps a group of Zorostrians who lived in Cornwall/Devon at the turn of the 20th century we may very well have had recent state oppression on british soil.
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When I was 16, I and every other boy in my RS class was made to stand up and recieve chastisement by our then RS teacher, who proclaimed that the world was made for us, by people like us (my school was 99% white working class), that we had it the easiest out of any group of people and that we had a duty to right this imbalance. This is not my lived experience (though I attribute that to my undiagnosed and untreated autism), and it is broadly not the lived experience of young men, who have worse outcomes than their fathers and are expected their bear the dwindling of their piece of the socioeconomic pie and the societal narrative that this is not so with a smile on their face.
And frankly, given the events of the pandemic, I am not so convinced that there is a large divide between the British and Chinese states.
Eh. Voting systems are weaponised and have always been weaponised to express agreement or disagreement with a point rather than to indicate quality. Hope is irrational.
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