ynthrepic
@ynthrepic@lemmy.world
- Comment on Performative Perp Walk 2 days ago:
Terrorism is supposed to be the dogmatic or ideologically motivated killing of civilians, often by those who are willing to die in the process. It’s terror inducing because it could seemingly happen anywhere at any time to any one, and it’s a lot easier to cause harm to others when you’re suicidal and not hoping to get away with it.
Of course, that’s not how it’s routinely used, or perhaps was ever really used by anyone except academics.
- Comment on Looking for answers 1 week ago:
Okay, but I’m talking about violent coups really. Not just not-so-peaceful protests.
Even so, it seems violence didn’t help the Union movement all that much either. I’m no expert though of course.
- Comment on Looking for answers 1 week ago:
A few weeks to months following the rebellion. Maybe a year at most.
It’s different if the rebellion does not itself topple the structures of government. I’m talking about violent coups specifically I suppose, not a bit of violent protesting that motivates an existing government to act.
- Comment on Looking for answers 1 week ago:
It really isn’t though. It’s always two steps forward three steps back. Anything good that arises out of the destruction, always comes at an immense cost, and usually corrupts the revolutionary leaders who made it happen.
Is there any violent revolution in history for which genuine peace followed in the immediate aftermath?
- Comment on Good to see AAFES looking out for my health 2 weeks ago:
You should see New Zealand.
- Comment on I swear to god 5 weeks ago:
Centaur World is incredible. Best kids show I’ve seen as an adult. They need your viewership to make more crazy stuff.
- Comment on Oh Elon 2 months ago:
Not yet, but he’s already eyeing a role in government. Wouldn’t surprise me if he eventually manipulated Trump into creating a special class of immigrant citizens who receive naturalization because of “service to the nation” granted by the president or some such.
- Comment on No thanks. I'm good. 4 months ago:
If I recall Coyote Peterson’s crew ate some… yep, haha. They definitely thought some of the essence of dung carried over to the final product.
- Comment on Good point 4 months ago:
My hope would be that the girls your friend rails behave and feel the same way and their respective partners if they have them know it too, or they’re single and that’s their thing. Maybe they don’t care about herpes, chlamydia, or HIV too…
I know that isn’t even mostly the case, but I think there’s a culture in which we can be more honest and happy with having a bit more love in our lives, but it will take work and conversations like this are a small part of that I guess.
- Comment on Good point 4 months ago:
I would be uncomfortable with my partner hooking up with a stranger. That’s a betrayal of our shared values, and creates risks for both of us (e.g. unwanted pregnancy, STDs, and general drama that could create a lot of unnecessary stress). I would rather know that she has fallen for someone we’re both know preferably, and who she loves and believes she can trust implicitly. I would still feel a healthy amount of jealousy, and be worried about thing going wrong, and her being hurt. But I would trust her judgment, and trust she won’t run away and leave me to raise our kid on my own. But yeah, the sex, and intimacy in this case, wouldn’t bother me too much.
- Comment on Twitter 4 months ago:
I fully expect him to sell it before long and the new buyer will change it straight back again.
- Comment on Good point 4 months ago:
What makes cheating, cheating, is the betrayal of trust involved more than any specific acts of intimacy. The reality is in monogamous relationships merely falling for someone else, even without then knowing how you feel, already feels like a betrayal in your heart as a loyal partner who wishes you only had eyes for your SO and nobody else. Even porn in some cases is a betrayal. It’s a whole lot of unnecessary suffering not to acknowledge how the overwhelming majority of us won’t mentally thrive under these conditions. Therefore, setting expectations appropriate for your situation is key.
For my part, my SO understands that due in part to her relatively low sex drive and complete lack of initiative, certain needs of mine aren’t being met, and we’ve talked about it. I still love her deeply, and we have recently had a child, and I have every intention of meeting my obligations as a father and partner for the rest of my life. But, there’s a real possibility I could fall for someone else one day. I already have friends who I can say I love and would jump at the opportunity to be intimidate with should they show that kid of interest. What interests me though, are loving bonds, not hookups (I mean STD risks and all sorts. Ew). I want to be close with those who I sleep with, and i want them to know I love my partner and will always be there for her and our child. But, there’s space for them too, if they want in. Ideally, my partner likes and accepts them too - and the more close they are as friends (or even lovers too) the better.
In any case, that’s the dream I guess. Nothing has happened yet, and I find with a baby to look after, I’m in no rush, and certainly even with everything out in the open, it’s still too much drama to navigate at the moment. But if it does happen one day, at least it won’t result in a litany of lies that lead to guilt and suffering all around. At least, that’s the idea. I know it will never be quite that easy in reality, but it wouldn’t be life otherwise!
- Comment on Good point 4 months ago:
People aren’t honest enough with each other and their own needs. Meanwhile we build other dependencies in line term relationships that have nothing to do with physical attraction, but are in most cases are more important for all kinds of reasons.
Monogamy is basis of a lot of unnecessary suffering because it’s resisting a very real need we continue to have even when our relationships become romantically stagnant. If we could all just be honest about it with our SOs without fear, and work together as we do anyway to maintain other commitments to each other, we could have a culture where there’s a lot more freedom to seek more intimacy and love in a way that isn’t dishonest, that isn’t “cheating”.
- Comment on Stay Mad 5 months ago:
Hah, I didn’t want to say “except Kamala Harris” but that may be the truth after all.
On the other hand, it could be racism rather than misogyny. I have a feeling Taylor Swift would have no trouble winning. 🤣
- Comment on Stay Mad 5 months ago:
Okay, yeah nah I’m with you. I like to think that’s what I was getting at, but you said it better.
If I could vote for Biden I too, would do so without enthusiast. Let’s hope he steps down though. I swear anyone else has a bettwr chance at this point.
- Comment on Stay Mad 5 months ago:
I’m sorry if you’re having a hard time, but the statistics and the Bills Biden has passed are improvements for many, even if they don’t help you personally.
Anyway, hopefully we agree we both want Trump gone, and Biden too. Given how terrible Biden was at the debate there’s a good chance now, and that will mean a better chance the democrats defeat Trump.
Then, the work begins to achieve something even better than what the Democrats have to offer. But it isn’t coming from the right-wing, that’s for sure.
- Comment on Stay Mad 5 months ago:
Nobody is saying things are fine. They’re just not as bad as they could be, or as bad as might feel to a lot of middle class folks. It’s still very shit for baby though don’t get me wrong.
Not going to wish violence on Biden - he’s only improved things relative to where they were at the end of Trump’s term. But I do want him to walk off into the sunset away from the presidency.
Trump on the other hand I agree is living excrement so I’d be quite happy for him to be flushed. I don’t care about revenge though. I just want his stink gone from the world.
- Comment on Stay Mad 5 months ago:
Hey, at least you got a reply. 🤣
- Comment on Stay Mad 5 months ago:
The perception is not quite the same as the reality.
Nevertheless, Trump is doing a better job of fueling this view and promising change, even if it’s all lip service - he doesn’t care because his followers believe everything he says.
The reality is things are better now than in 2020 for most Americans. Unemployment is very low, and wages are up. Relative to the richest of course things are only getting more distant but again, you want Trump to bring equality? Good luck with that, lol.
- Comment on Stay Mad 5 months ago:
The US political system has some issues. That’s why. Ask the DNC.
- Comment on Stay Mad 5 months ago:
The best thing that Biden ever did was just to not be Trump.
The economy is booming.
It’s just that he’s simply not Trump.
I’m not sure you realize just how big of a single issue this is.
Trump is a psychopathic cult leader running a campaign of lies, defamation, and retribution. He aspires to be the US’s first authoritarian leader, and wants to turn the nation into a nuclear Switzerland. He wants to keep inflation high so that corporate America so continue to enrich the few at the expense of the many. He is literally telling business prices will continue to rise, while simultaneously promising the public that he will bring Biden’s high prices down. It’s utter madness.
Because he is “not Trump” could not be a deeper reason to vote for Biden. Especially when not voting or voting for a third party candidate effectively empowers Trump’s campaign and the many more on the right who will always vote for their team no matter what.
- Comment on Jenkins. 5 months ago:
The good news is that if someone went back and changed the past, then events would transpire such that they never had to go back in time for that reason, and so they wouldn’t., i.e. nothing would change. Not unless the whole exercise spins only the time traveler off into their own new universe in which they’re the only one with a memory of this alternative timeline from which they came.
- Comment on What a life to leave your children 8 months ago:
Work is fine, if it’s meaningful to you. Consuming is basically everything we do that isn’t “work”. And death is inevitable.
If we didn’t all have to do soul destroying jobs when we’re young, I think we’d grow up with less of a desire to waste our youths trying to die young taking stupid risks in the name of YOLO or whatever. It also doesn’t help most of us never stop do sounds south destroying jobs.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. More progressivism is needed to get us toward a post-work future. Check out ‘solar punk’. That’s a future worth wanting.
- Comment on Admit it, this is so accurate 😂🚌 8 months ago:
That’s what I meant too, so yeah. Other than the driver’s seat of course.
- Comment on Admit it, this is so accurate 😂🚌 8 months ago:
Depends on the type of accident, but generally as far away from the point of impact with the bus as possible.
On balance of likelihood that’s going to be the back of bus.
High speed rear end is unlikely for a city bus. Most likely the bus rear ends someone because it can’t stop in time, or a head-on collision of some kind on a narrow road.
- Comment on Always look on the bright side of life 11 months ago:
It is torture on its own, which might be the more critical point. The extent varies, but spending time on most of the world’s prisons still break your mental health in ways that will only make reintegration back into society harder in the end.
We almost all know this already, which is the tragic part.