2D3D
5d ago
Pornhub should submit IP logs of everyone who watches sissy hypno or BNWO porn. Might be a better precursor for mental illness than tweetscraping.
2D3D
5d ago
Discord is memed as the alt right nazi pipeline but it is also where commies and socialists engineer kaiserreich worlds where communism crushes the british empire and leads to the paris commune ushering in a gay utopia. Many of these people would quite likely lurk or reveal their schizo preferences by going to the nazi side of discord which also overlaps with the nazifur and oh god I have to stop talking about this. My point is that the language is not necessarily indicative of a specific affiliation, but simply a general brainrot that exists regardless of underlying ideology.
Attempts to paint him as trans or groyper or furry seem to miss the forest for the trees: he killed a right wing polemicist that was viewed by the left as an existential threat to civilization, but also an accessible one. Tucker Carlson isnt going on campus jaunts, Trump has a security detail, Shapiro looks like literally every normie around. NPR actually featured an article about Kirk, with clear urgency about the threat. By contrast Fox also talks about how Hasan Piker "America deserved 9/11" is a threat who hates the USA too, but no one shot Hasan.
Things do happen and chuddha has failed his all-ins on nothing multiple times, but false flag accelerationism is where he keeps getting his bets paid off.
2D3D
6d ago
If not them, then who. Thought leadership in the democratic party leadership now is a midget boxing match between Ezra Klein Abundance vs Mamdani DSA and Newsom picking the ball up from Clinton and Obama. In that gaping absence whatever counts as thoughmass in the democrat space is whichever reaches escape velocity without censure or successful clawback. Plausible deniability means the accusations stick as a cloud.
2D3D
6d ago
I agree that Klein didn't condone the killing, as I stated in my parent post. I meant to largely point out that Klein scthick is mainly trying to eke out a defensible progressivism and the new ground he staked as abundance ish deliverism is where hes finding out is shaky.
But jesus those tweets don't help. The replies there are basically "im actually celebrating have have to pretend i'm not".
2D3D
6d ago
I thought only chapotraphouse on the left got purged. Everything else that was axed were either unmoderated dead subreddits or narrative breakers like /r/gendercritical or hell this very subreddit /r/themotte.
2D3D
6d ago
I dunno about that. I think the mental frictional cost of using social media purely off the popular page is so high that you either get off the site entirely or create an account to curate out trash. Anyone who uses reddit but doesnt actually see a problem with /r/politics or /r/pics slop is someone to be wary of for either being uncritical of the opinions presented or too dim to be aware that he is being propagandized.
2D3D
6d ago
Does Klein even have relevance? I honestly dont know if any eceleb outside of titty streamers would gather enough people to care about even harming them. Hasan kicked out Klein for failing to slob Hamas knob, and Hasans relevance is only within that circle of DSA revolutionary cosplayers who hope for someone else to pull the trigger (like whoever did to kirk) so that the dirty work of clearing the way for the chosen vanguard is done without sullying their hyperallergic hands.
2D3D
6d ago
That weird softvoice "and so i think" type of offensively gentle call to action is quite characteristic of ezra klein, but klein wont even have the balls to explicate the implicit castigation of kirk that dowd exhibited. klein is, if anything, a catastrophist who sees the progressive order of his vox days breaking down internally and instead of progressivism drifting towards his chosen island of centrist stability he is finding that the new island he calls home is itself fracturing. there was a email leak at one point that showed klein did have balls to say mean words, so maybe in the background klien and proximates like shor are screaming "dont you all see how fucking bad this is for us"
2D3D
22d ago
Which just invites the question of why the left isnt using the same weapon against the right. Make its own cartoon memes of how bad things really are for the poor migrants and refugees and oppressed BIPOC.
Why, it may just be that the language wielding elite prefer to wage war on their turf where they can use vague words to shape perceptions using the moral weight of such words asymetrically. Refugee, child migrant, trans children, urban youth, journalist, UN worker. All these terms elicit a mental approximate closer to the stock image photo of what a sympathetic portrayal for such looks like, usually a prepubescent child eyes full of wonder or a do gooder westerner in squalid conditions with a heart full of hope and a belly full of vigor.
Maybe the push from leftist media to scrub images and videos of what happens on the ground is entirely because the definitional warfare breaks under reality and repeated evidence of "17 year old" of certain demographics being statistically overrepresented starts making Noticing more common. Worse if the left tries to pretend something is the inverse, like when Rittenhouse was portrayed as killing Blacks to supercharge the narrative of white nationalism running unchecked.
The Left can't use the low hanging fruit of visual art to its cause, a fruit plucked only by Ben Garrison or Stonetoss in the past but now accessible to every angry person with an internet connection. The meta is shifting, and its not in the favour of the left.
2D3D
24d ago
I swear you gotta find chinese cultivation literature written by women for women. The guys there are the angstiest most memory addled (literally necessary every female cultivation novels male protag gets hit by pans/trucks/magic/curses every 5 minutes) wangstfests ever. The men will have an all consuming inciting incident that traumatized them and they will have no plan of action (or a ridiculous 2 million step rube goldberg plan nothing in between) that cannot be resolved unless the female acts as the motivating force for them to move forward. After that its just endless emotional traumas and memory wipes to torture the protag and the male love interests repeatedly so the denouement of love declarations can be made over and over and over again.
2D3D
24d ago
Heroes who suck at their jobs don't get traction from boys. Heroes who have emotional angst get traction from girls even if they suck at their jobs.
Famously, several properties were sustained by women deep into fanfic before it was even a thing. Gundam, Sherlock Holmes and Star Trek are examples where rabid female fanbases saw deep meaning where authors probably didn"t intend it and interest was sustained as a result. It wasn't a girlboss doing girlboss things that made girls interested, it was angsty shit. If girls wanted to see girlboss badasses they'd watch Star Wars and demand to play as Luke while the little brother is Leia being rescued.
Girl protaganists aren't associated with badassery because for the most part girls aren't badasses in real life. Mom may crush it at her rock climbing gym but she still needs dad to lift the heavy rock in the garden. By practical reality observable feats are skewed male, and thats just biology in action. Slam dunks by six foot plus dudes look awesome, positioning for shots at the backline looks lame. Female combat sports are awesome, much more so than male, but thats within the constrained environment. The world we actually live in simply requires physical reality to dominate and thats just what historically we end up sering most of.
I think a bigger problem is that social justice made certain categories verboten to criticize and thus they survive the writers room far longer than they should have. The Acolyte should have been smothered in infancy when the witch chant was proposed, but because the lead was a black woman championed by a queer person no one stood up to say shit this is lame we gotta rework it. By historical analysis most creative works, even ones with straight white dudes, suck. Its just that a mild tilting on the scales can make the sea of suck force bad ideas survive much longer.
2D3D
1mo ago
Why is Palestine entitled to Israeli food? They can't pay for it, and actively stymie distribution of any food that arrives onshore. Thefts are unattributable because Hamas keeps its uniforms only for parades not for enforcement or fighting Israel - which it has largely stopped doing only because its proximate threat is the Gaza clans that now have a chance of fighting for their own slice of the narrow pies.
However you slice it, the governing body of the Gaza refuses surrender yet demands food for its own people from the Israelis it swears to destroy. When Armenia held Nagarno it supplied the enclave, not the Azerbaijanis. Israel ceded occupying power decades ago, yet the Gazans have expected Israeli water food and electricity without any expectation of paying for it even when waging war. If Gazans want to not starve perhaps kicking Hamas out might help.
2D3D
1mo ago
Not to speak for the OP but there a liberating clarity in the proferred societies rightwingers espouse. By material or immaterial benefits being realized by knowing the rituals and paths it at least provides a framework towards which apotheosis can be achieved for at least some theoreticals. If all we have to look forward to is anodyne self destructive indulgence like /r/antiwork mods pray for, rightists would at least want to nuke the swamp before throwing themselves into the woodchipper.
2D3D
1mo ago
Yea the big diff is that rightist postrevolutionaries fully expect to either be dead in the dirt or cracking skulls or someplace clear in the value chain even if its the bottom (this tilled land will be the field for my lords children to feast on!) Circular paperwork is right wing hell.
2D3D
1mo ago
Tattoos are identity signallers more than anything else. If that identity is "basic bitch" good for them for declaring it openly, just as much as "tacky manchild" is an identity. When identity has a barrier to in-group signalling, then it becomes a useful gauge. Shitty gangbanger cosplay tattoos signify generic douchbagginess, a young man with a high and tight haircut and an eagle globe anchor is a boot high on USMC propaganda.
But the real diff is that context matters. In anodyne polite PMC society a brony tattoo is a skin decoration just like a labubu handbag tag. Its when you go INTO the context of where a tattoo holds meaning that the posers true power level is revealed. A Russian with a full chest of tattoos going to a banya better know what the fuck he's doing or he'll be set upon harder than a Mystique cosplayer at comic con.
2D3D
1mo ago
Best mecha anime was Macross Frontier, honestly. Others mentioned Code Geass below as well, which works. Both have good mech animation, good characters, good pacing. Most of the gundam examples have moments of brilliance bogged down by oceans of slog. The ones cited by others have great scenes or episodes and then multiple filler or slogs that just make it unwatchable.
But the true best robot anime ever is Megas XLR. A giant death robot with a hotrod for a head and a hotter redhead as the boss of the mechs 2 idiot pilots? Pure joy.
2D3D
1mo ago
Best anime for anime watchers is Cromartie High. It is near perfect in pacing, absurdity and meta-jokes about anime as a medium to begin with. The english dub is actually better than the sub simply because the ridiculousness of the voiceover heightens the comedy, even when relatively subtle wordplay (rare) is involved. Konosuba achieves largely the same and is a good rip on the extremely tired Isekai power fantasy genre.
Otherwise for seriousness I found Gundam Witch From Mercury one of the best examples of longterm psychological manipulation presented in any medium, all while wrapped in an enjoyable high school drama with good action and decent worldbuilding. Last 2 episodes compressed a season into 2 episodes which is nuts but otherwise it was pretty excellent. A good lighthearted series is Dungeon Meishi which makes an attempt at internal consistency and logical subversion/adherence to fantasy tropes, so its a good time there.
2D3D
1mo ago
Not to get all culture warry, but its really funny that younger girls see how being sexless blobs made their elder zoomer/milleniel sisters 'happy' and decided that being pretty actually might be more fun.
In any case, boo on you all for perving on 3D women. Superior 2D all the way. Mute by default, and now available in near realtime paperdoll.
2D3D
1mo ago
And the Jews lived in Jerusalem before per the Roman record, till they were displaced by invaders later on. Guess its a new invader now, or are we going "no take backsies". In which case India better return Dehli to Islamabad per the Mughal Empire.
2D3D
1mo ago
Their claim to Israel is that they bought the land in exchange for half the skin on their babies pensises which is a rediculus premise for a country.
Reductive racism back on the menu!
How about this: the entire Arab claim to the region is from a pedophiliac warlord preaching tolerance when he was weak and sheltered by the Banu Qurayza, then he betrayed them and enslaved their women and children through promising religiously ordained rape and slavery of unbelievers to mobilize desert nomads into a bandit horde. The chronological Quran is the inverse of the Bible: peace tolerance and manumission before victory, absolutist Arab supremacism justifying subjugation and humiliation of unbelievers once a power base was established.
THAT is the root of Arab claim to the region, forced conversions and displacements of Copts and Maronites and total annihilation of Chaldeans and Assyrians and Zoroastrians. Baby foreskins are currency to purchase land? What a wonderful concept. Arabs certainly found it easy to pay for their lucre with thriving Zanzibar slave eunuchs too, though simply slaughtering locals and forcibly converting remnants was also a great currency.
All this framing is obviously intensely hostile and deliberately so, because reductive polemicism opens up similar avenues of attack to other actors, avenues by which the directionality of hostility make clear why such polemicism is avoided by modern anti-israelis. Objecting to the jewish state on such grounds means objecting to the Ottoman Mamluk and Sassanid/Roman predecessors as well. Return to glorious Eber-Nari as the last relatively clean incarnation of that damnable region.
2D3D
1mo ago
That horse has bolted. Hard to go 'ok bros we didnt lose but lets try peace anyways' and survive if peace succeeded. The immediate response would be "we could have been ok but we followed you for NOTHING".
To rebuild, the existing foundation must be destroyed root and branch. Total Hamas defeat is in fact a clean starting point for a new Palestinian political conceptualization to emerge. Jordan would be best, but given what happened to the West Bank where the Palestinians chose irredentist claims such an outcome is distressingly remote.
2D3D
1mo ago
Not to be pedantic, but here
https://theconversation.com/what-cattle-conflicts-say-about-identity-in-south-sudan-181637
Its not even permanent land its basically nomadic pastoralists raiding as has been their tradition for centuries.
Perhaps that still counts as economic necessity, but it is a choice to engage in primitive cattle herding instead of pivoting societally to productive economies. Raiding and conflict is a manifestation of intractable differences between cultures, not the cause. Bedouins are seizing on the opportunity to assault Druze with a cassus belli, not that they were content to live in peace absent external influence. Uncorking Libya resulted in Tobruk and Tripoli creating competing clan based governments immediately. Right NOW the Cambodians are assaulting the Thais over a dead temple region and the Thais are eager for a scrap due to insane local politics (tldr Thaksin clan and the royal/military both benefit from conflict specifically against the Cambodians).
There are plenty of people who WANT to exterminate their culturally distant geographic proximates. The issue is whether a unifying culture can supersede underlying cultural distances. The unifying project of "never again" has provided a stable shell for Franco-German-Anglo relations to stabilize, but this is an aberration facilitated only by tangible outcomes. If the overculture fails to deliver, guillotines follow. And we live in an era where the major cultural touchstones are torn down with no functional replacement ethos. Neoliberalism and neoconservatism were destroyed by MAGA and progressivism, but annihilating the Protestant-Calvinist northeastern spine along with the neolib/con framings leaves the USA with a much more fractured cultural landscape.
2D3D
1mo ago
Literally there were rallies celebrating the Oct 7 attack hours after. Complete with nazi slogans and cheers for the slaughter of "hipsters".
And many, many more.
Don't pretend for a single second that sympathy was extended towards Israel in any meaningful amount. The telegram channels were full of celebration and promises of painting Al Aqsa with Jewish blood and when it was clear that victory was not exhaustive then it immediately flipped to "we will suffer a genocide!".
The western left position is purely oikophobic. It is subversive and vanguardist in equal measure, casting down the holders of power while preserving institutions so that the left can occupy the vacant seats. The contempt the western left displays for its cultural proximates is a side effect of its primary desire to place themselves on top of the power structure by exploiting any underclass vector.
2D3D
1mo ago
"of their own creation" is doing too much heavy lifting. In 1948 the Arabs invaded immediately, with Egypt and Jordan making little effort to integrate the Gaza and West Bank polities that were their nominal responsibility. When Jordan tried, they were rewarded with Black September. Lebanon collapsed when Palestinians allied with Hezbollah to use a functional state as a shield to launch rockets from. Gazan fields are a nice thing to show, because it immediately invalidates the "open air prison" narrative that makes Gaza seem like Kowloon Walled City under constant bombardment. Turns out there ARE open fields where Hamas could have operated from instead of under hospitals!
Ultimately holding Israel responsible ignores that the agency that Palestinians display repeatedly. Given the choice between a hardline maximalist versus a theoretical cooperative entity they have ALWAYS chosen hardline maximalism. There is no actor in Palestine territories calling for peace and recognition of Israel, and their cause is supported not just by geographicallyproximate Arabs who on a good day find it incredibly funny to irritate Israel eternally and on a bad day (most days) wish to drown the sands in Jewish blood in accordance with the Quran, but by rich westerners who at best are ideologically blinded by manichean moral framings and at worst are just barely (and cowardly) hiding their antisemitism. Hate jews if one wishes, as many do, but at least be honest. Sophistry works in echo chambers not in reality.
The arab population within Israel is 20%. They are the Palestinian arabs that stayed in place and did not flee, and for that they were granted citizenship and participation in a project that makes this population the richest and most prosperous of their monoethnic neighbours. This domestic population has assholes just like the Haredi and settlers are largely assholes, but it is not nearly as bad as the Palestinians who are given maximal succour for their eternal dickishness.
There is a two state solution REPEATEDLY offered. It is Hamas that and PA that reject a 2 state solution that does not involve ISRAELI disarmanent and permanent withdrawal from Gaza. Hamas wants eternal ceasefire (Israel ceases Hamas fires) and no disarmanent. I see zero demands for accountability for Hamas and the Gazans who express repeatedly their desire for Hamas to press maximalist claims, and I directly attribute such fervent optimism to foreign pressure on Israel to accept the unworkable. Hamas repeatedly breaks ceasefires to cheers from Palestinians and their win condition is satisfied either way.
Israel is not being ALLOWED to take responsibility because international pressure is inconsistent and shapes domestic politics into temporally transient positions. There is little chance Israel can effect either a maximalist cleansing operation or a reconstruction effort with both eternal foreign pressure and Gazan intransigence. Again, the hypocrisy is on full display. No one gives a single shit about Arktash, Palestine is incomplete until it is made whole from river to the sea with jews expelled to the void.
Maybe they should do that. Arab populations exploded with foreign food and healthcare access. On their own recognizance they would not be able to feed or medicate themselves and their populations would revert to the limit of their organic capability. Again, Israelis should just Migrant Fleet on a 4 year Carnival Cruise buyout. It'll also improve the reputation of that cursed company.
I only know Kirk as the smallface meme of a smugfuck conservatard parodied as dunking on strawmanned liberals. In otherwords, a modal mottizen. Which is why the reaction of liberals to basically be gloating that Kirk is dead is one part personally impactful since I'm not that far removed from Kirks relatively anodyne willingness to entertain novel arguments and impatience with devoting too many brain cells to argue into infinity against categorically bad faith opinions. The end state of that difference in opinion should be 'fuck that guy', not 'cap that fool'. Frankly, most liberals don't really know Kirk either. He's a totem, a standin for Trump and all the men they hate. The bad taste jokes of Kirk dying doing what he loved aren't funny they're schaudenfraude (understandable) escalating into wishcasting for every other conservative to die (bad). Political violence when its social is corrosive to a country. Culture arms races for privileged access cripples any measure of prosocial cooperation. An actual arms race cripples cooperation while also destroying whatever makes the spoils have value in the first place.
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