ogmios
@ogmios@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on If we're living in a simulation, why would the simulation creators allow the sims to ponder and speculate whether or not they live in a simulation? 1 week ago:
Like a limited ‘fake’ world edifice structured through legal fictions like money, which attempts to assert that it is significantly more pervasive than it actually is, through stories like The Matrix, to instill a sense of hopelessness upon anyone who even considers not submitting to it.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
It’s literally propaganda straight out of the Chinese Communist Party’s playbook, and useful idiots repeat it for them.
- Comment on Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool. 4 weeks ago:
Largely because it’s very obviously being used as a political propaganda tool, and any criticism at all is being treated as a horrific crime.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
That might actually be the most suspicious possible scenario you could have come up with.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think people would take it as anything else, regardless of what the media might say.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Well if the second president who has openly opposed the CIA is also assassinated, people might be a wee bit ticked off.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think you’d be in a very good mood for very long if that happened.
- Comment on Why is the word "expat" a thing? 4 weeks ago:
You’re looking for a source for the answer to a question so idiotic that it has probably never been asked before in the history of man?
You can’t be a real person.
- Comment on Do the ultra-rich consume popular media? 4 weeks ago:
Talked to a mason once who informed me that one of the first rules they have is to never watch TV or listen to the radio.
- Comment on Why is the word "expat" a thing? 5 weeks ago:
Usually. But if the premise is particularly stupid I might choose to prompt the speaker to actually think about what they’ve said for a moment.
Or you could just read any of the numerous other comments here which offer other explanations.
- Comment on Why is the word "expat" a thing? 5 weeks ago:
Do you seriously need someone to explain to you why there are multiple words with similar meanings in the world?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
It shouldn’t take a PhD to understand that openly hating a huge portion of the working class isn’t going to make you popular with them.
- Comment on Why is the word "expat" a thing? 5 weeks ago:
Hear me out: Maybe everything isn’t some conspiracy to hate others.
- Comment on A guy just got arrested in Houston US for allegedly being an ISIS member. I grew up in Reagan and 911 era are these people just saying this or are they actively buying bombs? 5 weeks ago:
I’m talking about how the united states would gather AMERICAN CITIZENS who have comitted no crimes whatsoever, send them to camps, and have them mass killed
User name checks out.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Because society is so terrified of the technologies we have created that it has adopted the ideal that everything needs to be perfect right here and now, and so any deviation from acting out that Utopian fantasy is met harshly, even though it’s obviously not true to any rational person.
- Comment on Is there as much enthusiasm for Trump online today as eight years ago? 1 month ago:
Ah, I may be skipping over some details that are considered common knowledge over there. So basically Epstein, and others he was involved with, and others like him, appear to have been offering their “services” to provide for the fantasies of the rich and the powerful, whatever they may be, while also collecting blackmail material on those same people for political purposes. This appears to have been connected to Mossad, and is believed to be largely responsible for allowing some of the more corrupt behaviours within western societies to persist.
- Comment on Is there as much enthusiasm for Trump online today as eight years ago? 1 month ago:
The parts that concern me the most are areas where the political parties tend to walk in lock step, such as mass surveillance and monetary policy. The fact that Trump has had a rocky relationship with the GoP ever since he announced his candidacy for the 2016 election helps his image with others who are concerned about the “uniparty”.
- Comment on Is there as much enthusiasm for Trump online today as eight years ago? 1 month ago:
This video may help to shed some light on the issue for you. Basically, it’s been going on for much longer than most people realize.
- Comment on Is there as much enthusiasm for Trump online today as eight years ago? 1 month ago:
If you really want to know, I have maintained a presence on both left and right wing sites since the schism ~2016, as a life long liberal who felt they could no longer support the insanity over the past decade, but is still apprehensive of hardcore conservatism.
To be blunt, the energy among the right is extremely high right now. The Puff Daddy case has them celebrating like crazy, because despite what people here like to say about them, ending the institutionalized sex trafficking is actually the most important issue for many of them. Along with that, they’re extremely happy that the democrats have such a weak candidate, as they see this election to be the largest potential obstacle to actually being capable of addressing said institutionalized sex trafficking.
- Comment on Is there as much enthusiasm for Trump online today as eight years ago? 1 month ago:
The internet and social media has made it much easier for everyone to wall themselves off into groups containing people with only their viewpoint.
It’s not people who share your viewpoints, unless you buy into the artificial left/right dichotomy and are willing to simply accept whatever popular talking points permeate your silo. Conversely, if you actually wanted to share a space online with only people who are actually from your own country, or even just western society broadly, such a thing doesn’t exist at all. While the issues of political division within America are significant, what flies completely under the radar is how trivial it is for bad actors from places like Russia and China to participate freely in political debates, often without anyone actually being aware of it.
- Comment on Portal 2 project lead wants Valve to return to single-player games 1 month ago:
Best I can do is more hats.
- Comment on Tencent's soulless Age of Empires Mobile cash-grab is here to ruin your childhood 1 month ago:
Tencent
That’s all you had to say.
- Comment on How modern is it to have "sympathetic" portrayals of Hell? 2 months ago:
It should also be noted that the Gnostic scriptures, an alternate version of early Christianity, doesn’t actually mention Satan at all.
- Comment on Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future? 2 months ago:
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. is my personal favourite of Bruce Campbell’s work. Starts off as any ordinary western, for entire seasons, before getting very, very weird.
- Comment on Corporate greed is killing RuneScape. What do people play instead? 2 months ago:
Come home, chill, chop some trees, level some skills, be a mage and kill some bad guys Well, that sounds a lot like what I found in Albion Online, though I can’t speak for how it’s changed. From what I understand, it has some extensive guild/clan systems too, where you can work together to build larger projects and wage war with rivals.
- Comment on Corporate greed is killing RuneScape. What do people play instead? 2 months ago:
Bit of an interesting game, when I tried it a long time ago, but it was too much of a grindfest for me. Then again, I never got into Runescape either for similar reasons.
- Comment on How the fuck do you meet new people? 3 months ago:
Join a “fun league” sports team, take a community arts course, go to church, work for a volunteer organization, just to name a few ideas.
- Comment on The surveilled society: Who is watching you and how 4 months ago:
Anyone who wants to really. The networks we’ve built have so many vulnerable points, in order to simply function at the scale it does, that it’s absurd.
- Comment on Trump Is ‘Weird,’ Vance Is ‘Creepy.’ Finally, the Democrats Start Name-Calling. 4 months ago:
I think you might need a slightly stronger platform.
- Comment on Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours, ‘willing to do anything,’ says Squarespace CMO 4 months ago:
Good luck finding her in the first place. Why do you think they push the Internet so hard?