kelpie_returns
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- Comment on They Wylin' 7 hours ago:
Hell ya. Thanks!
- Comment on They Wylin' 10 hours ago:
They unfortunately do not make bleach for your mind’s eye. This is a weight we will all have to carry, kin.
- Comment on They Wylin' 10 hours ago:
You got this without the text? I like silly cats
- Comment on The House Of The Guy Calling You A Libtard 1 day ago:
A lot of the propaganda they’re fed does certainly dehumanize people, but they are still not all receiving the same information. That is what some are receptive to. Others would never have it if they knew that was the truth, which is why they have so many other avenues for selling this shit in every color and shade you can imagine. Gaia tv, prager u, countless woo-woo “woahhh dude” influencers, tradwife influences, ‘moderates’ who jsut like playing devils advocate but will hear nothing of this racism, good sir! And just on and on and on. Everybody is not tapped into the same internet.
There are people that simply never hear the racist stuff because that is the whole point of the operation; to obscure reality in order to be sure that as few people are acting on good information as is possible. They are plugged into the kinds of propagandic feeds that best suit their values, and pushed further and further down that tract. They get pavlov’d into knee-jerk reactions to the people pointing out the racism (among other things) that they are so artfully removed from, which turns into this self-feeding loop, pulling them further and further from reality.
And thats not even getting into what they did with the spanish speaking community; literally giving them incorrect translations of speeches and policies that make it all sound safe, standard, and sane. Not everyone has access to the same information as you, and not everyone is information-competent enough to even recognize what makes that difference, especially not after being taught to learn fear of the idea of challenging their beliefs.
I think you are severely underestimating the breadth and long-con of this project, as well as what kinds of people have been brought in and how. Though I do agree with you on how to solve the problem. Fine details may vary, but it’s clearly time to try something different.
- Comment on The House Of The Guy Calling You A Libtard 1 day ago:
This assumes that we’re all receiving the same information about what all’s going on, which is very definitely not the case. Literally watch 5 minutes of fox news and compare what you hear to the actual events they’re contorting. The difference is basically immediate and painfully obvious. That is only one of a countless many arms in what is one of the most wide-spread and thoroughly controlled propaganda campaigns in history.
We all lived through the first term, but some devious steps were taken to ensure that different groups were receiving very different coverage. This is getting harder for them to do now that the consequences of their lies are starting to outwiegh the lies themselves, but many of these people were and are still being fed bold-faced lies right along with the same kind of propaganda that literal cults deploy. The sort of mind ganes that are used in order to prevent their victims from ever individually coming to the conclusion that something is very fucking wrong. They are running near-every inch of an information ecosystem that traps their victims by making them completely repellent to the sane, effectively isolating most of them from the people that could otherwise help them see reason.
Many of them understand whats actually happening and are going along because of the hate within them. But many others are being manipulated through well tested and well documented means, which are being deployed in a novel way (via these high control/high volume digital ecosystems) and on a scale that we have not yet had enough time to learn how to properly combat.
They are basically breaking people down, isolating them, and driving them into a useful simulacrum of insanity, if not outright madness. It is a mistake to forget the shades of grey and the humanity that underlines every decision made, both among the perpetrators and the victims alike. If the goal is to do what’s right rather than punish anyone and everyone who wasn’t perfect to your standard, then these distinctions really and truly matter. Some of them need rehabilitation, and others need the full brunt of what these rotten choices should earn them. They’re just not a monolith.
- Comment on The House Of The Guy Calling You A Libtard 1 day ago:
*Some of these people. Many have been outright deceived, and many others (people living in trailers, I mean) are and have long been fully opposed to all of this lunacy.
- Comment on the dog that poops rocks is my favourite Fire Emblem Engage character 3 days ago:
Your sn inspires trust so that seals it. Am I a 90s hacker rn cause I’m in
- Comment on the dog that poops rocks is my favourite Fire Emblem Engage character 3 days ago:
So it’s like the dragon-girl in Fates but it actually does something worth doing? Sounds fun enough and is cute, but holy shit does it look so not what I’d expect of this series.
Glad to hear they did another ‘look at all the cool gals and guys we done made’ after Awakening cause that was a blast (maybe my favorite in the series even?) and even gladder to hear they moved back to more of their older gameplay. I liked Three Houses well enough, but it just wasn’t the one for me. The characters were great and the split paths thing was fun, but the mechanical changes just did not hit the notes I want from FE in enough ways that I got burnt out enough on run 2 that I just never tried for a 3rd. I still have no clue what Claude’s story looks like lol. Been putting off Engage for that reason, so it’s nice to hear they’ve moved back into form a bit. Will probably be getting a copy after all :)
- Comment on the dog that poops rocks is my favourite Fire Emblem Engage character 3 days ago:
I started playing when Sacred Stones dropped and Engage just happens to be the one title I haven’t tried some version of yet. Fire Emblem has changed.
So uhhhh…wtf am I looking at?
- Comment on How Old We're You when You Learned the Word, "Fascist"? 4 days ago:
In a better world it would
- Comment on Grocery shopping. "Please have courage." 4 days ago:
Anyone know the source?
- Comment on I miss him 4 days ago:
Kyle MacLachlan tho. What a mensch, that fella.
And you and me both. Maybe I’ll even actually finish it this time!
- Comment on I miss him 4 days ago:
S01 was exactly the strange vibe I was hoping for from it, but, by the time I got up to the agoraphobia plotline, the vibes had shifted so significantly that it just felt like a different project altogether.
I later learned that Lynch had very little influence over that portion of the story, which made me feel a bit relieved. Every other Lynch piece Ive seen has made me feel something strong in one way or another, so finding out that he didn’t actually miss on s02 kinda made me feel like all was right in the world (or at least in this one tiny corner of it) again, silly as that may sound lol
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 4 days ago:
Whoma is dat?
- Comment on I miss him 4 days ago:
Same. I hear season 2 is a bit of a rough watch (for tonal reasons) but worth it for what comes after and how it all adds up in the end.
- Comment on She's out of town and I'm cleaning her entire collection as a surprise 1 week ago:
The only path left is combat. Tonight, her iron shall be re-cast…in blood.
- Comment on WAKE UP, SHEEPLE 1 week ago:
Only men are allowed to run for or win office. Then, either when their term is up or after they fuck up hard enough to warrant it, another election is run to replace their seat because women kill and then fucking eat them. Rinse and repeat.
This keeps the power perfectly balanced between the big two genders and also has the added benefit of being totally rad and fun
- Comment on WAKE UP, SHEEPLE 1 week ago:
Depends on the market
- Comment on WAKE UP, SHEEPLE 1 week ago:
Poop economy kinda goes tho. I’d be (hopefully not literally) rolling in it!
- Comment on Soulja Boy is selling video game consoles again, and he's already being accused of ripping off an existing handheld: "He does not have permission to rebrand our products and sell them as his own" 1 week ago:
How disappointing :(
- Comment on Feminism.... Not even once folks 1 week ago:
Ai slop being used for paper-thin fear mongering? How thoroughly shocking.
- Comment on What exactly is the reasoning behind Satan ruling Hell? 1 week ago:
I think its kind of a matter of interpretation? The “why” is that he either refused to bow before men (who he thought of as beneath himself), or, the less fun option, he just didn’t follow daddy’s wishes and got sent to the corner.
As for his “award”, that too is kind of…opaque. One way to interpret hell is as the absence of creation, as in literally outside of Yhwy’s world of creation. So either a new second world for unworthy creations to go when they end, or just literally a void of nothing, because to be removed from God’s world should be to be removed from reality.
Ideas about hell being a place where the unrighteous are tortured largely come from later, non-canonical stories, with the biggest name easily being Dante’s Inferno (which itself seemed to be largely about the author taking jabs at people from his own era that he didn’t like or agree with iirc).
I’m not a scholar on the subject tho, so take it with a grain. This is just what I’ve heard, and I’m quite sure that I’ve heard some incorrect and half-true things before.
- Comment on sushi delivery 1 week ago:
Being in the right area is the first big step. The spot I first tried was in Seattle (Japonessa Sushi Cocina) and it was exceptional. Highly recommend it, though it isn’t exactly what I was talking about. It’s kind of more of a booksmart joint compared to the streetwise charm of the style it was inspired by, if that makes sense. Follows many of the same sensibilities, but has a bit more interest in subtlty.
The second spot I tried was in Houston. The name was something very generic and forgettable like ‘Sushi Tex-mex’, ‘Sushi Texas’ or something like that. More intense experience, in a good way. Of the two, I was surprised to find that I actually liked this place more, tho not by a whole lot. Bigger portions for less, and fast and loose with their ratios. I enjoyed that it was a less disciplined but equally earnest endeavor, I guess. I have the pallette of someone who would happily eat nothing but licorice and root beer if it wouldn’t run me ragged though, so make of that what you will.
And ofc the best place to try it is supposed to be where it came from; Mexico’s west coast. The carts are, from what I’ve heard, the best version of it by far. I haven’t been able to try this true authentic stuff yet because my country is making all of the worst choices it can atm (faster than usual, I mean), but if you’ve got the ability to travel safely, this is the spot to go looking.
And there are also supposed to be some places in southern California, but I haven’t been or heard more about them than that.
- Comment on sushi delivery 1 week ago:
It really is. There is a growing genre of fusion cuisine buzzing around the mid NA continent that is basically sushi hardware with Mexican food software. Lots of fried dishes, as much flavor in each bite as they can fit (counter to typical sushi philosophy, but highly effective in practice), and a whole lot of staple ingredients of the area (think tons of onions, dairy, peppers, and spices.
Sushi that is confrontationaly tasty is basically the whole idea, and it is easily some of the best experimental cuisine I’ve tried in a long, long time. Can’t recommend it enough tbh
- Comment on where the cuties 1 week ago:
“They’re metals…in your lungs” 😟
- Comment on Be this guy. 1 week ago:
Less short and sweet, but more punch to the point. I like it!
- Comment on Vive la république 1 week ago:
Holy shit. The best kind of bad, that. Appreciated, stranger!
- Comment on Vive la république 1 week ago:
Anyone wanna drop the og meme? Haven’t seen this one before
- Comment on Where can I post my Halloween outfit? It's awesome. 1 week ago:
My plans for the night were to watch Terrifier and get stoned with a homie. Love to see it and well done, dude!
- Comment on Hard Ass Bikers 2 weeks ago:
Tfw ywn pull up to the library 15 choppers deep, all hooting and hollering (until you get inside ofc, then it’s all excited whispers and the occasional manly giggle) about how excited you all are to ask the librarian which Virgina Woolf novel he’d recommend next now that the book club has finished Jacob’s Room.
Why even live? 😔