HalfSalesman
@HalfSalesman@lemmy.world
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- Comment on All of a sudden he thinks that it's a spectacular plan. 3 days ago:
American Christian Evangelicals want the end of the world prophecy to happen.
Israel fucking hates Muslims and Islam and want to reclaim their holy land. They’re Jewish supremacists.
Iran fucking hates Jews and Judiasm and really fucking hate Israel, and not because of the Gaza genocide. Out of these three, Iran would merely prefer to stick to proxy conflicts and not direct conflict, but they still fucking despise Jews.
They’re all religious nutcases. This is basically 40k level mindless hatred, every group is evil.
- Comment on All of a sudden he thinks that it's a spectacular plan. 3 days ago:
Its both. Its religious cope to suggest that religious belief is not a motivating factor for a significant portion of this war and its participants. Both among the owner class and working class.
Religion is fucking stupid and harmful.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 week ago:
I’m about to clock out from work and I wont have access to this account until Monday morning. I may or may not respond to you after this, but I am curious enough that if you have something notable to say I probably will.
Why would I give a shit about anything you have to say after hearing something like this?
I don’t know you so I couldn’t say. It sounds like you shouldn’t if you are an incurious person or intellectually fearful person.
I don’t care about your virtue though. Why should I? We will never meet in person. We don’t need to respect each other here, that isn’t why we’re talking still. We’re here for the discourse, no?
As a matter of strategy, a very good phrase, I don’t take opinions from people who are societally suicidal.
Strategy to achieve what? I’m advocating to make things better for individuals. Conscious beings. However, the collective, society, human civilization, none of these things are themselves conscious. Why do you care about these concepts over the conscious individuals materially contained within them?
When I talk about bolstering and reinforcing a strong community, perspectives like yours are exactly the kind I’m talking about pruning. Society cannot suffer your intellectual poison. If you want to die, do it on your own terms.
I never said I wished to die. At least not in the sense that you probably think. I already exist, me dying does not close Pandora’s Box, it cements the the fact that to live at all is a horror and a tragedy. Conscious mortality is fundamentally disturbing.
I’m sad that I have ever existed because I’m doomed to face death and suffering, but mostly the former haunts me. It haunts me that my loved ones will one day die, some already have a long time ago and it still disturbs me on a fundamental level. I’m also horrified at the prospect of bringing more conscious beings to suffer the same nightmarish fate of being brought into existence strapped to a metaphorical conveyor belt ending in death and oblivion.
My only expectation of you is that you will live, and that living means something to you. The only thing you can do is disappoint me.
Because I will continue to live or commit suicide? Or are you saying either or? I’m not entirely clear one what this means. As paradoxical as it sounds I don’t legitimately know if I’m capable of suicide. Its strange to even think about given my sheer terror of death itself, but also yeah… death will happen eventually, why not rip off the bandaid? I really don’t know what is the rational choice. Perhaps I am a hypocrite in this way.
If our axioms are really fundamentally different from mine, then perhaps there is no reason for us to continue. But if any of the questions in this response to you has you reconsider anything there might be something interesting here to talk about.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 week ago:
Imagine that everyone was doing that. Everyone wants to get drunk and high. Who is supporting them, then?
Its an irrelevant question because this isn’t what would happen. I would go so far to say that we’d even still have centralized services, its human nature and its efficient. And if it did somehow happen it still wouldn’t matter: a system of enforcement would barely hold things together anyway in a society of people who insist on being lazily drunk/high all day. People who authentically want to be that way are rare.
That said, if it really magically came to be: So be it. It’d functionally be the end of humanity and I’m more or less ok with that. I’m a soft anti-natalist. I wouldn’t be happy, but I wouldn’t be that sad if the alternative is a continuation of what currently is (capitalism) or some kind of collectivist authoritarianism.
I’ll raise the stakes on this: what you’re describing is fundamentally anti-taxes. I don’t care if you pay your taxes or not, this world view of yours is not accomodating of compelled financial contributions. Billionaires who have stolen our money and are hiding it in little safety deposit boxes would be unobligated to return it to us. This is, obviously, a profoundly conservative stance to maintain.
Taxes are largely meaningless to an individual without an earned income or land. Taxes can still be a function of a society that operate with the ethical north star I’ve described. Accepting taxes would just be the contract one signs when they decide they want to work for additional money on top of a UBI/welfare/whatever. At least ideally.
As for billionaires, they’ve effectively stolen the power and responsibility from the collective in the current system. I was describing of the collective with their leveraged wealth, exploitation, negative extenalities of their business, excessive political manipulation power, etc. While they are themselves individuals, the collective owes them only the lack of an expectation to work while staying comfortable, not their outsized wealth based influence over the collective. And since they now wield the actual power they are morally culpable for the state of mass individual suffering. In fact, they’re essentially often responsible for depriving other individuals through their political activism of “economic bootstraps” and the like. They’re almost always literally ideological enemies to my perspective, with perhaps only a handful of exceptions.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 week ago:
How does the world take responsibility for its individuals if its individuals refuse to take part in anything?
That isn’t what I said, in fact that seems like a pretty bad faith interpretation, though I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that’s some kind of psychological defense mechanism or really poor reading comprehension, rather than deliberate manipulation of the conversation.
What I was getting at is more of a guiding principle for how society ought to operate, rather than a strict mandate of how things must be. And in reality, if we did operate in this way things would likely function better than they do now, where the individual is expected to sacrifice to the collective. Having to kowtow to the cultural, social, & moral norm demands of the mob for your survival or comfort is a curse born of collective conservative thinking.
A sufficient portion of people naturally want to contribute. I would even count myself largely among them. Helping people feels good, solving problems feels good. However, I deeply resent that it is expected of me. That I owe anyone anything. Further, if you have a lazy slob that wants to stay home and get drunk/high all day and not work: society let them, and support them. Forcing that sort of person to work for a living does nothing actually beneficial for society anyway and they never choose to exist. We collectively don’t have the right to demand anything from them.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 week ago:
Anyway, I tend to speak pretty tersely when I’m soapboxing, so don’t take it personally.
I try not to ever take it personally. I only get annoyed if insults or character attacks are the only thing a person has to post as its intellectually boring. I don’t find discussing my flawed character interesting other than maybe for context for further good faith discussion. You can be as mean to me as much as you want as long as your responses have substance otherwise, and I appreciate the substance of yours. Its rare.
You wouldn’t (I imagine) because you’re thinking about personal freedom over community health.
This gets at the core of the issue yes. That would be correct. No one chooses to be here and we are all individually expected to serve the whole or suffer. I feel a deep chasm between me and people who think that’s perfectly fine or good, which is most people.
I don’t think individuals owe the collective anything. I in fact think the collective owes the individuals.
I know there are people like myself as well and I similarly sympathize with them. So this isn’t a selfish “woe is me”. Its a sense of injustice that anyone must bow to social sources of power of any kind on any “moral” ground. Individuals don’t owe the world anything, the world has more responsibility for the individual’s existence than vice versa, the world should take responsibility for the individuals it fosters the birth of.
I’m probably not be misanthrope, but I might be a “misallist”.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 week ago:
The first two seem like reasonable concerns, but like, people have eyeballs. When you go out in public… people are seeing you. If someone has a photographic memory and the savant ability to perfectly replicate what they’ve seen by drawing it, would you take issue with them? Obviously an edge case, but those people technically also exist. Their cooperation with authorities to me to share what they’ve recorded is the issue you would take.
Don’t get me wrong, I believe privacy in one’s own home ought to be a legal right, but I don’t understand extending it into a place where that’s functionally impossible on a number of levels. I’ve been recorded plenty where I live by people pulling out their phones. While I do feel some level of tension from that due to the current state of our government, I don’t think that public recording on a fundamental level shouldn’t be a allowed. Hell, even in secret, sometimes people have security camera systems around their living space and the camera’s “reach” into public spaces. Also I’ve secretly recorded conversations I’ve had as well for legal and employment security reasons.
- Comment on send thoughts and peer review 1 week ago:
Why not foster hope through science? Religion is unneeded for that.
Plus, if the situation was hopeless scientifically, the kid would be better off accepting reality than to endlessly hope for something that will never come. Just build with what he can instead of daydreaming about what can’t be.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I need to find someone like you in my area, I’m trying to lose myself and sex is generally a good way to do so but I need to get my hetero on. Plenty of dude ready to get down but not enough good horny straight lady’s.
- Comment on I'm in! 5 weeks ago:
This is just a regular political meme. A good one but still wrong by category.
Your post is not unhinged enough to belong here.
- Comment on I'm in! 5 weeks ago:
Wrong community.
Also they like it when they do it because it means they’ll prevent minorities from becoming armed.
- Comment on Anon hangs out with a coworker 1 month ago:
Spiritually I get it. Though I do invite people over to my apartment a lot and have anxiety so I’m a “bare minimum to not get comments about lack of furnishing and decor” kind of minimalist.
I still need a proper TV stand and couch though. And I do get comments for having the big screen tv on the floor and just a bunch of chairs instead of a couch, only two cushioned chairs too. Foam mattress on the floor though with plenty of pillows and blankets. I need a rug too, basic linoleum flooring gets kinda chilly.
Balancing that versus maintaining a healthy bank account is difficult though with the amount I make and the location making my rent kinda steep (I like being able to bar hop via walking)
- Comment on What a great idea 2 months ago:
If we’re talking about people blocking lanes with their cart. I agree fuck that shit. I want to grab my 6 pack or whatever and leave.
That said, I’m barely cognizant of my surroundings other than the one thing I’m there to buy usually so I’m almost certainly not a champion of spacial awareness. But I’m quick.
- Comment on Introverts Rock 3 months ago:
Ehhh, I wouldn’t place it at the same level as astrology. I do think people do the self fulfilling prophecy shit with it though.
I thought I was an introvert for a long time so I kind of became an insular hermit for like 5 years of my life after college and then I realized I was horribly miserable at the end of it.
And then when I forced myself to socialize I realized I actually fucking loved it and my introversion was from bad early social experiences due to autism and living in a backwards rural hellhole.
- Comment on You guys had a peak? 3 months ago:
I feel like the downward trend after the peak is accelerated if you are specifically studying philosophy.
- Comment on Anon is smart or dumb 3 months ago:
Dumb only if you are jumping to conclusions about how unattractive you are. (Likely)
Smart if you somehow have empirical data (not just vibes) demonstrating your innate and unavoidable unattractiveness AND find horniness -> masturbation a net negative experience. (sad but understandable)
- Comment on Forever young 3 months ago:
I’m solidly middle aged and the last shooter I played regularly was a Battlefield game. Despite my age and there being a lot of players in any given match I got good enough at the game to move the needle on matches consistently and virtually always stayed on top of my team’s scoreboard.
Reaction time and aim is important but overrated. Understanding the game’s mechanics at an in depth level is far more important. This was true even back when I was a kid playing Halo PC and CoD4.
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 4 months ago:
I feel like one of the covenant prophets would have been more fitting what with how racist they are.
- Comment on Just reach out 5 months ago:
The city where I socialize is where the cops would probably bother me if I was drinking a beer outside in public. Small towns here in the US are full of dipshits and bumpkins so I tend to avoid people when in one if possible.
- Comment on Just reach out 5 months ago:
In what context? His front porch?
- Comment on Just reach out 5 months ago:
“Going with the flow” doesn’t necessarily mean “blow all your life savings”, and it’s kind of ridiculous to claim that it does.
Its a good thing that isn’t what I said.
- Comment on Just reach out 5 months ago:
Even if you aren’t treating people to stuff you still end up spending money. Just being out and about costs gas in the US because everything is so spread out. You get hungry and need to eat, there’s 10-20 bucks unless you’re lugging around a lunch box with you.
You want to socialize every once and a while it’ll add up. If you want to socialize consistently (which is key to establishing strong friendships or finding a significant other) you honestly need to be touching grass everyday and then it really adds up.
Also, pay attention to my words: Trying to maintain this is unsustainable in the US. I did not say it was impossible to do once in a blue moon, but that’s not really a meaningful social life. Seeing a person for an hour once every few weeks to play frisbee at the park (or equivalent activity, in my case board games) isn’t going to create a meaningful bond. Most people in my area make maybe a little over half what I make in pay at best and I can barely afford to socialize consistently. I do almost all my socializing at work and that shit doesn’t really count.
- Comment on Just reach out 5 months ago:
You can do nice things for people that aren’t expensive.
It is easy to say this but hard to execute. If you treat people to things that are gratis or cheap a lot of people will think you are a cheapskate or miserly. At best they’ll think you are poor which also isn’t great either, because even good people don’t want to feel like they’re potentially getting into a relationship that expects them to spend more money than the friend to go out and do things with them (unless, again, they’re rich and don’t care about spending a bunch of money).
If you dress nicely go out to hang with people but skimp out on spending money people will definitely think you are a miser or penny pincher. If you go out looking like a pauper or poor schlub people will generally just avoid you. I’ve done both.
- Comment on Just reach out 5 months ago:
The meme does not only suggest a conversation is needed. It implies money is needed. “Going with the flow” in the US TBH probably will cause the average person to spend an irresponsible amount of money. I know because I’ve done that and burned a number of holes in my wallet in pursuit of friends (and intimacy). Sure it works plenty of times, but its not sustainable unless you’ve got plenty of money to burn. Most people don’t.
- Comment on Just reach out 5 months ago:
lol
- Comment on Just reach out 5 months ago:
Reach out and spend wads of money on someone. Its cool he did that but this assumes this is a sustainable means of making friends and it just isn’t.
US society is simply not structured in a way for adults to naturally make friends and it verges on being outright antagonistic to making close friends.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 5 months ago:
I did not choose to be here and I resent that there are expectations put upon me when I wasn’t the reason I am here now.
I also resent that I was born just to die one day.
It is also fundamentally horrifying that so many people are born into painful awful experiences and then die, with that being more or less mostly all they knew while alive. And that some people live happy lives on its own doesn’t justify the horror in my eyes at all.
That said, I wish I could be drunk right now but I’m at work.
- Comment on New EA Owners Hoping AI Will Cut Costs And Boost Profits, It's Claimed 5 months ago:
Battlefield 6 is fucked.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 5 months ago:
What I really don’t understand is bringing more people into temporarily existing without the ability to get their consent and calling it a “gift” that now they get to face the lovecraftian horror of future non-existence.
Pre-birth is not like post death. The arrow of time doesn’t reverse.
- Comment on Anon doesn't understand streamer fans 5 months ago: