TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
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TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
1d ago
As always, I think the language about 'skin color' is intentionally-evil rhetoric. The question is about ancestry, genetics, and shared culture; of which skin color is an exceedingly minor and unreliable indicator.
A huge number of leftists sincerely believe that racism is about skin color and frankly I think the only responsible thing to do is push back on that whenever it comes up.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
1d ago
Not benign to whom? I think it's extremely benign for western civilization.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
1d ago
Oh man I didn't realize that was Cleese. Just scrolled past what I thought was another twitter anon rehashing a well-tread point.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
1d ago
(what's the word that means the opposite of anarchotyranny)
Justice? Not sure if that's granular enough.
Re: democracy in general, I don't think any of the American Founding Fathers would disagree. In fact they'd be greatly disturbed that we're even talking in terms of democracy rather than republic, and were well-aware that universal suffrage would be a fatal mistake.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
2d ago
I'm asking myself whether, if elected President, Kamala would have admitted she finds anything silly about this if asked. Can't know, of course, but I suspect not.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
2d ago
Enrolling in clown school is the least questionable decision I see in this story.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
3d ago
The Verve: "Bitter Sweet Symphony" was everywhere
They got sued for it, too!
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
3d ago
Will we ever get the truth about the origins of Covid?
I've taken the time to review the below thread and am pretty sure the answer is "no".
It’s amazing how far many of us have gone since only 20 years ago and believing we could Democratize the world to now I would not consider myself a believer of Democracy in Germany because of the simply fact that ethnic Germans in half a generation lost the ability to control their own politics.
My thoughts as well. Sweden is also in this situation and several others are rushing headlong into it.
I've been trying for a while to think of any mistakes nations have made of the same magnitude, throughout history. Vortigern hiring the Saxons might be an instructive one.
It's so weird to me, though fitting in retrospect, that sanctimonious grundyism is what's finally killing Europe. Old ladies tutting reproachfully at anyone who makes non-socially-approved arguments turns out to be an existential threat. Or perhaps it's just that the men have forgotten God and their own right place in the world.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
5d ago
I just made a dedicated keybind on my moonlander keyboard. I have a bunch of neat special purpose keys. :)
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
6d ago
Valheim has a very big world and most of it is entirely useless and empty. Lonely place though.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
8d ago
Care to elaborate?
I am not a priest, but my understanding is that demonic 'possession' is a gradual process with much consent involved. It's a long slope of choosing to conform to evil urges until one is remade in the shape of them and no longer seeks to resist.
Addiction is probably a handy parallel to consider. The people who are into gooning are excellent examples of what possession looks like. Surrendering their agency to things that want to hurt them until it's habitual and they will act even against their own interests, not even wanting to stop any more.
Once aware of this dynamic I expect that most of us can find examples in our own lives. Local minima that seem to be pulling us in and must be resisted.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
11d ago
What sort of negative consequences do you expect?
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
11d ago
Yeah it's just old. And near the bottom of the roll.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
12d ago
Yes, this is my go-to as well. Still trying to convince everyone else to do it.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
12d ago
My wife wants me to tape something. I go to the packing tape roll. Naturally someone has come along and abused it such that the strip isn't ready and on the guard. Instead it's compacted into itself such that even finding the edge requires specialized lighting and a keen eye.
I wrestle with it. It fragments in every direction. There is no way to get the entire thing up and off the roll, but in time I manage to consign enough of the recalcitrant bits to oblivion that a whole stretch rises up and off the spindle.
The teeth do nothing. The tape is infinite and invincible. No combination of the cutting edge and brute force are enough to cause it to tear. Any amount of yardage is wasted attempting to get it into working order.
I manage to extract a couple of inches, make sure that the remainder is well-situated such that this won't happen again, and make the minor repair.
My wife wants me to tape something...
Hey that's pretty good! Really gotta finish Legend of Galactic Heroes.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
12d ago
Yes.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
12d ago
I'm still blown away at the whole thing about the relationship between cocaine and scorpions. TIL.
You realize, the asymptote of your rhetorical line is the wholesale replacement of the non-white peoples of the Earth (plus or minus East Asians) by whites.
I'd be dishonoring you by flinching away from this, so I'll say yes, with a caveat. In fact other races do have a tremendous amount to offer, and my ideal ultimate human race is only directionally-white. I'm also not such a fool as to suppose that I know best here. However you slice it, opportunities for gainful admixture are very much on the table. But some things are better than others, and yeah, a good future looks comparatively white.
Perhaps the natives, once reduced to a manageable population, might be allowed a few reservations in the interest of preserving the local fauna.
It's a serious and interesting question and here again I don't suppose myself up to the task of answering it, though I'm pleased that someone has at least floated the topic. This is what we should be arguing about.
Do you wish to wage the race war?
Bear with me, because again I will not show you disrespect by pretending not to understand what you're asking. But I'll digress a bit because the frame just doesn't comport with my own.
The worst case scenario happened before either of us was born and the time for what you're talking about was long, long ago. At this point? Again we have to gesture at AI and remember that, in a sort of dark-mirror land acknowledgement, every conversation we are capable of having must necessarily be in obsolete terms. Again I say that, inasmuch as this is so, it's a fruitless exercise to try to chart any course into the future.
But if I were to float a best-case romantic fantasy scenario, it would be something like a medium-level collapse, balkanization of every mixed country, and the formation of something like the tribes in The Diamond Age, at which point white peoples would (and should) roll up most of the earth.
This should be with an open heart to the best of other peoples, and eagerness to accept them as our own. But you and I both understand this prospect to be marginal. Most cannot compete and so will end up failing to reproduce or in some kind of preserve, yes.
The question of what sub-Saharan Africans have to offer The Good is an interesting one. Should we let them have a place to rape infants and shatter the heads of bald men? Is that worth... anything at all intelligible to us? What does it look like to 'keep them around' but also curb their worst tendencies? Why would we do so?
I don't have clarity on any of this but, like you, I'm mainly upset at the lack of anyone to talk to about it. Oh and, you know, the awareness that clear thinking and good ideas aren't especially pertinent.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
12d ago
Are you trying to be difficult, or do you sincerely not see the analogy?
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
12d ago
If you're a woman, sure.
If you're a man and war were declared, very different story.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
13d ago
That's a slogan, not a legal principle.
What the hell is a car tab?
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