melpomenesclevage
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- Comment on Night dreaming is rated xXx 4 weeks ago:
yeah im imaginging their torrid love affair, and gentle growing old together. trying to decide which one dies slowly of an incurable illness while the other loses his mind to dementia. or maybe at like age 70 they’re the only survivors of a plane crash, and both end up dying, though not at the same time, in a far-distant survival situation they both know they’re not making it out of alive, and just try to have as much time together as possible?
- Comment on Night dreaming is rated xXx 4 weeks ago:
I love how much I see myself here. thanks.
- Comment on Skill issue 4 weeks ago:
yeah I was just kind of riffing, assuming nobody wanted to really melt down silicone in their home.
- Comment on Skill issue 4 weeks ago:
genuinely do not give a shit if you download mine.
kind of concerned with how it was ever digitized in the first place, but, like, once it is, you have my blessing.
- Comment on Skill issue 4 weeks ago:
my inner engineer wants to challenge this: if you have a 3d scanner on a stick and the right kind of 3d printer…
- Comment on Skill issue 4 weeks ago:
yeah. all your free time is conclusions being handed to you and the illusion of agency.
and it’s not like everyone’s sitting around playing shit like ‘disco elysium’ all day.
- Comment on Skill issue 4 weeks ago:
no. as a mildly misandrist lesbian with lots of obsessive crushes:
provably not.
- Comment on Luxury bones? In *this* economy. 4 weeks ago:
you know, there’s a solution to that whole state of affairs.
- Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 5 weeks ago:
wow, comparing my thus far perfect driving to farts. ruuuuude. anyway, I should be able to do genetic experiments on human embryos because im pretty sure I won’t fuck it up.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
when a fascist accuses someone of something; they’re always guilty of the thing themselves.
- Comment on Climate-denying conservatives after every year for the last decade has been the hottest on record [Day 105] 5 weeks ago:
the ‘dont step on me’ is just a part of their non-con kink.
- Comment on Climate-denying conservatives after every year for the last decade has been the hottest on record [Day 105] 5 weeks ago:
yeah, no fucking mercy for chuds. exploit this bitch. find something kinda-luxury-kinda-functional but entirely made up, so she can always buy as much as she can afford, then just be her ‘cheap’ supplier. say you’ve got a good deal because you know a guy. then just… keep it up.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
lindberg; guy who famously killed his own baby. apparently pretty good at planes.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
only because they’re made dumb, they’re made small, they’re made blind and deaf and numb because seeing and hearing and feeling hurts too much and this way is just easier. not thinking is easier. not caring is easier. it’s not like thinking helps. it’s not like caring helps. not when you’re totally atomized.
but there are things to do. things you don’t even have to be intelligent or compassionate to manage.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
so, the 1940s were a result of what happened in the 20s and thirties. and america almost went nazi. like, we almost had a nazi president elected instead of FDR the first time, and the business plot almost worked. would have, if they hadn’t chosen a military leader who’d turned socialist since retiring.
the 1960s… honey. do you really believe america was leftist? there were some kids who were. the anti war movement was pretty big, and they all had to be okay with lefty tactics, but it’s not fair to say ‘america was leftist’. richard nixon still got elected the first time.
americans are traiend to be cattle. this is true. and yes, the techniques for that training are better than they used to be.
look up what happened in the late 70s and 80s. it kiiiinda started under carter, but you get the sense he would have pulled back once he saw how it was going, and also tried to do good stuff (it just literally all got stopped). look at the career of newt gingrich. plus, ronald reagan and it’s consequences have been a disaster for humanity. they set in motion subtle sabotage of society that devastated the potential of future education or anything becoming less awful, while most of the cool people around at the time were exiled locked in deep dark cages or straight up assassinated by feds.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
you can, but it doesn’t happen often.
- Comment on Trump supporter Rick Fuze was arrested in CA for using a stun gun on peaceful protesters outside a Tesla dealership. The woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor with 16,000 citations. 5 weeks ago:
this woman is an HIV researcher, which I think is a step or two harder than ‘old hippie’. this woman has already been on the front lines of a genocide.
- Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 5 weeks ago:
okay but like what if I’m really sure I’m special, and have no concept of it not being fine? and besides I’m a great driver, so you’re actually bad for insulting me with a speed limit. how dare you. besides; it’s probably fine.
- Comment on unleash your humanities 5 weeks ago:
yeah, you need to kill more of the nazis. you always need to kill more of the nazis. you need to keep killing the nazis until they aren’t nazis anymore.
yes but you can’t allow anyone to be wrong ever
yes, always try for better, but this purity bullshit is not helpful.
clear cut enemy
I dunno, a lot of the nazis around my part of the world are pretty visible. they look like the least fun dudes ever going to a gay leather event, or the obsessively clean cut white guy in a boring shirt. I mean, you won’t get all of them like that, but they do like themselves a uniform, even without an army. like, the burning cross nazis and the swastika nazis and the militia-bro nazis that kind of straddle the line all dress different, but they’re all pretty obvious.
- Comment on Stairwell To Happiness 5 weeks ago:
I… I have lived in this apartment. I do wear a lot of black.
- Comment on unleash your humanities 5 weeks ago:
you’re not going to figure it out arguing on social media. there are people I would love to have this argument with, but you aren’t one of them yet.
- Comment on unleash your humanities 5 weeks ago:
spiritual
no such thing.
solipsism
movement in that direction is present a lot of places. do you know what the word means?
worth
can’t unmix the drink, babe. sometimes, the best solution is a bullet. once you get past a certain point nazi, you cannot become a human again.
scholars have suggestions beyond violence
yeah, and they all boil down to ‘prevention’ and debates over the amount of violence once you fail to do literally any prevention. once you hit a critical mass of nazis, you gotta kill the nazis. they can’t be cured. my perspective doesn’t precisely match any of them, but once you get to this point, all the options other than violence are already off the table. ask me a decade ago, maybe there’s another way out. but the hour is fucking late, dude.
- Comment on unleash your humanities 5 weeks ago:
he was instrumentalized by nazis because he used one word they liked, and had vibes they wanted to appropriate, and knew their people wouldn’t actually read it-except his sister/editor, who absolutely became a nazi a couple decades after his death, as soon as that was a thing that you could be. he actually explicitly dismissed the underlying (and extremely silly) basis of the master race thing in one of his books, despite dying in the year 1900. basically saying ‘your virtue comes not from your ancestry, not from the past, but by working your ass off to build and become more than you were. don’t be a little bitch who hides in other peoples accomplishments, real or imagined.’ the phrasing in the translation I read was something like ‘we are the hyperboreans, you and I, reader, who endeavor to somethingorother’ and it would take so much education on popular 19th century estoteric racist cope to explain that one line to you, like one of those weird references in a jane austen novel that you need to either be of the time or a historian or a complete no-life nerd to get, but it is also explicitly the basis of the whole ‘aryan master race’ thing, which he explicitly calls bullshit on decades before the concept of fascism, or the war that birthed it, was a glimmer in d’anunzio’s eye.
it’s part of how fascists consume information. you skim and look for the stuff that confirms what you already believe, no matter how much you need to contort cherry pick or cut out whole paragraphs between words or just totally misremember stuff. it’s solipsistic as fuck.
the punching in this context is a metaphor for shooting, as I said. it’s a whole identity thing.
sure, you could try appeasing them, or soft approaches, but they’ve hit a critical mass where, if that were ever possible, it certainly no longer is. they need to be killed. they are solipsists, they have no concept of truth, and they don’t see you as human. they have made themselves into subhuman things that cannot be reasoned with, because they have no more reason. they cannot be negotiated with, because they do not live in the same reality as you. they cannot even be held to a treaty, because they do not have a conception of ‘truth’ or you-as-person; it does not and can not exist in their totalizing world view, which is hostile to contradictory information. it’s kind of terrifying that a person can become so entirely not a person anymore without substantial damage to bodily function. if you want to understand fascism, there are several scholars to start on. arendt is a popular one, if you don’t want to get to commie. if you want something absolutely shitlib friendly, ecco isn’t bad.
- Comment on "Americans can't coo-" 5 weeks ago:
well, they think it can grow forever based on subsidies and false value. so far it’s holding. it looks like it’s about to become the official car of the reich, and be shunned everywhere else in the world. dunno how that’s gonna work.
- Comment on unleash your humanities 5 weeks ago:
this is literally a response to someone who said hating nazis was bad because they saw a movie about cyborg ninja alien space wizard samurai.
so, like, some compensation is definitely warranted. remains to be seen if I overshot.
- Comment on unleash your humanities 5 weeks ago:
please don’t try to learn this on social media. read an actual long-form book. you will not understand this based on social media interactions; I promise you.
- Comment on "Americans can't coo-" 5 weeks ago:
right they need to be profitable.
they don’t need to make products to be profitable. which is the thing I actually said.
and I fully expect they will, if they kiss the ring.
- Comment on "Americans can't coo-" 5 weeks ago:
corporations don’t need to actually make products to be profitable. look at tesla. I assumed it was a few suburbanites and the rest is financial instruments/subsidies, to the extent I thought about it at all.
- Comment on "Americans can't coo-" 5 weeks ago:
I said it elsewhere in this thread. I haven’t known somebody with a dishwasher, outside bourgoise suburbs, in a while.
- Comment on unleash your humanities 5 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure they were based on books. I could be wrong.
problematic is not the same as nazi. as demonstrated by many of our (great) grandfathers, who killed a whole buncha nazis, and generally believed killing nazis was cool and good, but were still massively racist homophobic transphobic misogynist assholes. again, you can call me whatever slurs you want, as long as you’re shooting nazis in the head while you do.