TitaniumButterfly
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TitaniumButterfly
9d ago
There's even video of him performing fellatio, isn't there?
Can't believe how many times I've seen this question litigated given that I don't care about the guy at all and don't seek out information related to him.
I don't know why 2020's America, a society which produces mass material prosperity on a grander scale than any other in human history, is full of people (on both sides of the aisle) claiming that they are suffering to the point where raising the black flag and starting slitting throats would be an understandable response. But empirically 2020's America is not full of people who are actually suffering to the point where raising the black flag and starting slitting throats is a likely response.
COULD IT BE that there are other forms of suffering than lack of excessive material prosperity?
Have you tried finding a spouse, raising a family, or buying a home lately? Have you tried finding a good career? Particularly if you're young enough to be competing with AI for entry-level positions? Have you tried finding a healthy community to be a part of?
By the grace of God I have succeeded in all these categories. But I can see the writing on the wall and now I'm terrified about the world in which my children are growing up.
Lots of people seem to be settling into pod life. Thin gray walls, netflix, delivery slop, no (or exclusively poor) romantic relationships, sterile sex only, if any. They do not know their neighbors. The prospect of ever having property or children -- especially multiple children -- recedes farther into the realm of fantasy every day. There is no unifying identity; no shared values. Just alienated fragments of what used to be a collective human organism, dying in infantilized isolation. More and more turn to substance abuse just to feel okay for a little while. Others turn to increasingly-radical political movements which blame the pain and horror of modernity on the other side. This is about to get much, much worse.
Man does not live by bread alone.
TitaniumButterfly
12d ago
Furthermore, I think some immigrants get here with visas to take jobs (undercutting domestic labor), then import a bunch of family members who immediately start extracting resources from every government program they can.
But at that point the fig leaf has wilted and you might as well just admit that you don't have principled economic reasons to oppose immigration.)
@FtttG Bad form. >:|
TitaniumButterfly
13d ago
Yes, this is very well-attested in general. It's not a secret.
TitaniumButterfly
13d ago
The thing is they kept up that reaction long, long after we knew what it was.
But yeah I'd like to see a documentary on the Chinese response. There's tons of great footage out there and some of it is the most dystopian stuff I've ever seen. Drones flying by apartment blocks telling people not to go out on their balconies and sing, and marking those who do.
TitaniumButterfly
13d ago
The woke mania and economic decline of the United States is an intentional Boys from Brazil style attempt to recreate the social and economic conditions of Weimar Germany in order to provoke a future fascist backlash.
Can you unpack this a bit? Who's doing it? How? Why?
TitaniumButterfly
13d ago
I wonder if AI will be able to tell from facial features.
TitaniumButterfly
30d ago
Jews, Christians, and Muslims all conveniently ignore some of the uglier stuff in their holy books that if taken literally would oblige and/or excuse them from behavior considered repellent in the modern age.
I don't have time (or maybe inclination) to dispute this but for calibration purposes could you offer some examples? Or don't, if that seems too onerous a request.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
This was the same era when a popular middle-class pastime was going to the insane asylum to laugh at the antics of the lunatics.
What?
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
There's almost nothing that women can do better than men that society values.
How would you distinguish this from the qualifier I already employed, which was 'important'?
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
This analysis pleases me.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
We all have complimentary roles to play for one another.
I really think the barrier to people accepting this (obviously correct) perspective is that while there are many, many, many important things that men can generally do better than women, there's almost nothing that women can do better than men except that it has to do with bearing and raising children. In which case they do shine!
But people notice this and fundamentally flinch away from the idea, because our entire generation has been raised to hate it and find it low-status.
I don't believe that Tolkien generally has female characters campaigning with men. My impression is that outside of a few extreme outliers such as Galadriel, women in Tolkien's works are mainly apt to fight only when left undefended, such as when their men are away at war, or perhaps in a situation where defeat means annihilation of their people anyway.
Definitely don't get the impression that Tolkien's works are full of girlboss fighters who run around being warriors most of the time. Rather, like reality, they contain a few outlier women who are somewhat capable of standing their ground in desperate moments, but would really prefer not to unless absolutely necessary.
It helps to remember that the movies changed this up a bit; a lot of Arwen's badassery in the movie was actually Glorfindel in the books.
Luthien's an odd case to be sure, and I've never been quite sure what to make of her as a character. In any case she's definitely an extreme outlier.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
just make it legal for veterinarians to treat consenting humans. Give them immunity for malpractice for anything below gross negligence -- if you want to get a million dollar payout by convincing a jury that a doctor treated you wrong, you should have gone to a hooman hospital.
This idea is absurd and I love it even though I can't imagine what second and third-order effects it would have.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
It really does surprise me that we don't see more people snap and retaliate directly. Presumably the demographics most likely to do that are also the ones most likely to get free healthcare in the first place.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
Yes, extremely, though he is also very busy.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
That's just normies being bad at decoupling.
I don't really see much to engage with here; your assertions are packaged in such a way as to discourage careful consideration and it would probably be helpful for you to clearly articulate a thesis.
For example,
We have seen deliberate attempts to smudge together all vaccines into one monolithic product and doctrine.
Just don't know what to make of this. That sounds kinda like something I could believe, but it's vague enough that I can't exactly go find out more or argue, can I? Except to say that I'm not sure I have seen that, no. Perhaps someone will demonstrate it at some point, in which case I'll likely adopt the position and also be upset about the matter.
Also you seem to be a single-issue poster which indicates crankery in general. Leaves me less interested in investing in understanding whatever it is you're trying to say.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
Thanks, TIL
TitaniumButterfly
2mo ago
I think it arose because Capital demanded that it arise.
TitaniumButterfly
2mo ago
I'd rather have seen a section from Aristophanes' Assemblywomen if we were doing this.
TitaniumButterfly
2mo ago
Solid point and I accept it, though in this case my reasoning is more that "Once those problems are solved we'll be back in a position to deal with the others." It's a sort of faith in my heritage.
TitaniumButterfly
2mo ago
And so we're back around to the subject of the OP.
TitaniumButterfly
2mo ago
Honestly never heard of him. But he has short stories which are enticing as a sample. Really I'd like more good apostolic Christian sci fi.
All right, I'll bite on that bait. You rogue.
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