aesthelete
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- Comment on Channel 5 found Gen-z "looksmaxxing" influencer Clavicular is funded by Peter Thiel 2 weeks ago:
It’s always the guy you most suspect
- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 2 weeks ago:
The basic idea is the same. No state needed. People function to help each other, etc.
Sorry, I’m a big David Graeber guy and he made a point to discuss this in some of his work.
I don’t know if you’re in software, but IMO communism is like agile. It works well at small scale, but once a community loses autonomy and division of labor becomes a thing…it’s over.
Socialism is an attempt at SAFE (scaled agile framework for enterprise). IMO it doesn’t really work, but I do like the idea of having markets where it makes sense, and having social programs that are not profit motivated…so basically Bernie’s position.
- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 2 weeks ago:
Communism of a sort existed…in tribes.
- Comment on Valve Uploads Steam Controller Unboxing Video, Launch Imminent 2 weeks ago:
🤞
- Comment on I'm nit sure tbh 2 weeks ago:
Both. It’s both.
- Comment on Some neighbors have no chill 3 weeks ago:
Ok so after another reply it was then. Bye!
- Comment on Some neighbors have no chill 4 weeks ago:
I’d recommend you bow out of this one, it’s abundantly clear that you’re in over your head here.
I’d recommend you see a shrink because you’re escalating the importance of yourself and of one of the stupidest arguments I’ve ever seen.
Should I block you now, or after the next wall of text you produce?
- Comment on Some neighbors have no chill 4 weeks ago:
That a particular post “sounds” fake as hell is indeed a specific, qualified claim.
I’m not saying that nothing similar ever happened at any point in time. I’m saying that this particular post sounds fake as hell.
- Comment on Some neighbors have no chill 4 weeks ago:
That is not what I commented.
Why are so many arguments on the Internet started like this where a specific, qualified claim is made and then the response tries to pretend a universal, unqualified, ridiculous claim was made instead?
- Comment on Some neighbors have no chill 4 weeks ago:
Sounds fake as hell tbh
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 4 weeks ago:
They lock essential things (e.g. food, water, shelter, medical services, etc.) behind a paywall because they know it is not true that people do not always—or even usually—want money.
But people do need essentials to live, and if they’re the only ones who can give you money to get those things, then they can order you to do what they want instead.
- Comment on Strange are afoot at the Walter Reed 5 weeks ago:
They did open the strait though, just to anyone who will pay a $2 million bribe in not USD.
- Comment on Woke 1 month ago:
People say I’m weird. Okay, I was raised by a very weird family in very weird circumstances, doing my best to be sane and normal in a weird situation.
I feel for you. At least some members of my family are either psychopaths, have narcissistic personality disorder, or both. I think the comorbidity there is pretty common.
The lifelong damage caused by being raised by a pack of wolves is real.
- Comment on Woke 1 month ago:
Having empathy in this society run by psychopaths is depressing and anxiety inducing indeed.
It bleeds into everything in this whole place. You know when you’re using something — a government system, a website, a support line, an application — and it feels like nobody thought about how shitty the experience would be for you? That’s what it feels like to live in a society that has no empathy. The people that design these systems do not give a shit about how you’ll feel being subjected to them, because they have no empathy.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 month ago:
We’re finally learning that it indeed sucks to suck
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 2 months ago:
I remember ratio FTP sites
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It makes more sense to me conceptually if I just imagine that most people in this country in the last decade had the tops of their skulls removed, had someone take a dump in there, and then seal it back up.
Seems like there are a lot of 💩🧠s floating around nowadays.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO’s awkward taste test sparks mocking online: ‘His aura screams kale salad’ 2 months ago:
I wondered what Nathan Fielder was up to lately.
- Comment on meanwhile on instagram 2 months ago:
What even are these platforms? Why would anyone use them?
- Comment on This MF is quadrupling down and dropping Alien files before dropping the full, unredacted Epstein Files. GODDAMN. 2 months ago:
Never seen more definitive proof that there’s “no there there” then when this fucking asshole acts like this it’s a big deal.
- Comment on Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people? 2 months ago:
I want eat the rich the game
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Love how we’re setting a low bar for 2028 two years ahead of time and without having a candidate first. 👍
- Comment on Video game romances need to evolve beyond lore dumps 2 months ago:
It’s kinda sorta not a game in many ways but dispatch did a decent job I thought.
- Comment on Praise Be 2 months ago:
The Republican party is not a monolith guys, it’s made up of several distinct groups such as child rapists and child rapist enablers.
- Comment on Why limit yourself? 2 months ago:
The little plastic gnomes of coloration
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 2 months ago:
Yes, in the same way must Germans didn’t seem to know that the SS camps were death camps, it’s very possible – if not probable – that these places are either death camps already, or going to become death camps very soon.
There’s a reason that the administration is so cagey about allowing Democratic politicians in to see the facilities. The other thing is that concentration camps never start as explicit death camps, and the first casualties are always from things like lack of food and disease. Nothing about this suggests any differently.
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 2 months ago:
Adding $3 trillion in GDP would not remove the debt anyway. Assholes like this one don’t even understand how GDP is calculated.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Celsius is percentage boiling.
- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 3 months ago:
Tell them elections are cancelled
- Comment on Jon Stewart on presidential runs and why there's hope for America 3 months ago:
Actually… celebrity worship of this type is why America is in the hole it is in.
Actually, it isn’t. Sure, Trump is from reality TV but without the four decades of neoliberal rot hollowing out the country people aren’t desperate enough to think this fool can fix everything alone.
Trump is a product of decades of austerity, lax antitrust enforcement, and reverse welfare.