MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
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MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
5d ago
Calling CatgirlKulak, paging Dr. CatgirlKulak.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
5d ago
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
9d ago
Well… not about this, at least.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
9d ago
Glad to know I’m not crazy
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
10d ago
Easily one of the top 20 memes of the 21st century, never fails to entertain
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
10d ago
This is the motte & Bailey on display; as far as I can tell people like Robinson & Gaines are well within the Lizardman constant on the right.
People shrink or expand the circle that includes “Nazi” at will to defend their argument, I’ve seen it right here in this discussion.
Therefore
”Nazis aren't real in 2025. You need to more precisely define what you mean. A guy waving a Soviet flag in 2025 isn't a Bolshevik, he's a progressive.”
Is correct.
I’m also super over this. It’s like these people have never heard of a self fulfilling prophecy; if you keep telling people that wanting to have a functioning society is fascism, do you think that will just scare people away forever?
Ironically I get huge “hitler in the bunker / battle of Berlin” vibes from these increasingly shrill and desperate progressives who keep spamming the “hitler” button hoping to score a critical hit. Maybe with a touch of Baghdad Bob.
Increasingly the only people listening are just the most thoroughly propagandized. The story of multiple institutions desperately vying for the support of a shrinking and increasingly socially isolated group of people is just the story of progressives in The Long Current Year.
It’s also extra funny because
1.) I’m not white
2.) I’m very pro Israel
3.) I’m not even remotely anti-Semitic
4.) I’m married to a non white immigrant with non white children
5.) I live and work in a very high percentage immigrant community
And I’m not even the only person who I know personally that meets this description that I know of that is entirely over this shit. On paper someone like me would have sympathy for the supposed “anti-Nazi” side but at this point I wouldn’t piss on a progressive if they were on fire.
Because I firmly believe this dominant progressive narrative which superficially is ‘on my side’ is deeply toxic and extremely bad for everyone. I don’t want to live in South Africa, and I don’t want my children to live there either, but if the supposed “anti-fascist” forces prevail that’s increasingly what looks like would happen.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
10d ago
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
10d ago
“If you continually tell people that everything they want is fascism, they’ll eventually come to the conclusion that fascism is everything they want.”
Or as Sh0eonhead comically put it in a clip I can’t find;
“Oh wow, that sounds great! You’re telling me this is fascism? Uh, waiter! More fascism please!”
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
10d ago
Do not cite the deep magic to me, witch! I was there when it was written.
CS Lewis / Tolkien tag team, a classic
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
11d ago
While this is true, amongst the young it’s mostly used to describe pro-Hamas types on social media who use the watermelon emoji because it has the same colors as the flag of Palestine (🇵🇸 🍉)
When I think of a watermelon in a political sense I think of what you’re describing, a commie using (often fake) concern for the environment but only when it pits them against their favored enemies.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
12d ago
…would you actually believe him if he said ‘yes’?
any number of players can play this game.
It seems rather obvious to me that for a very large number of people on the right or their sympathizers, the bottom has absolutely fallen out in terms of their regards to how they are perceived by their self-declared enemies.
On a personal note, I certainly don’t care. I’m interested because I’m intellectually inclined to want to really understand and discuss why things are the way they are, I enjoy it and it gives me pleasure and I think it makes the world a better place.
But I don’t care about leftists, at all. Certainly not about their perception of me and the right. I have no concern for their wellbeing, even just as people, and any pangs of sympathies I might have had for them are gone. I don’t actively want them to suffer, at least for no reason, but for most of the people who celebrated Kirk’s death I wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire.
I did not feel this way ten years ago when I was more of a garden variety paleo-libertarian, I didn’t even feel this way five years ago after I had become a really strident right winger. Not even close.
As far as I’m concerned, open war is upon us whether we will it or not. The way the culture war has proceeded simply cements that notion.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
18d ago
I’ve done well doing well the “I can neither confirm nor deny the Santa Question” with my kids.
I also don’t make a big deal about Santa either so it works.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
19d ago
I think omnipresent surveillance has pushed it even lower class than is otherwise natural, as it’s never been easier to get into legal trouble for brawling due to the ease of recording and the social & psychological incentive to do so.
Likelihood of facing consequences is higher and the penalty is more severe.
It’s why I think every teenage and adult man should engage in some sort of combat sport and / or semi risky and preferably outdoor endurance sport like mountain biking, trail running, rock climbing, etc.
Danger is to the male brain like salt is to the diet; no intake is extremely harmful, moderate amounts are beneficial, and too much is inevitably fatal over the long run.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
19d ago
Living and working in America is not a universal human right.
This extremely basic concept that a very large majority of American voters agree with was painstakingly sidelined in all major institutions by the elite of both parties during my entire lifetime, to keep the tap of virtually unlimited cheap labor flowing.
Seeing people cry tears of blood at the enforcement of very basic immigration law is hilarious, but also a sad reminder of how far collectively we have strayed into decadence and away from the foundational job of a functional state; providing territorial integrity.
The question of who is a member of a community and who is not is so fundamental, it’s what is known as the “pre-political”; it’s the primer of a common political identity that allows for political action to be taken and sustained without violence from opposing parties.
There are people who decry the crumbling of taboos and polite conventions in politics and point their finger to this person or that person, but this is the very heart of it, and no return to civility is possible without resolving this issue because civility is based on group solidarity and group solidarity cannot survive past a certain threshold of diversity, because past that threshold there simply is no “group” to have solidarity with.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
1mo ago
Minority Report:
Target is left-wing: Shooter has a chance of being even more left wing than target.
Unusual, but I can’t see a counter example where right wing target was killed for not being sufficiently right wing, at least not in the last 50 years.
Understanding this asymmetry is key; it explains the power dynamics and is a source of massive projection.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
1mo ago
Realize that if they don’t agree with this that they’re on the wrong side, and then switch sides. Like most of the post / ex liberals who are now MAGA, including Donald Trump himself.
Americans are not going to hug this one out, this ends when one side defeats the other.
There are a million ways that can be done, including multiple ways with minimal necessary violence, but that’s basically it.
This is not me waging the culture war, this is me seeing very clearly the nature of the thing.
None of this was inevitable or predestined, and yet here we are.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
1mo ago
Putting aside any partisan feelings, I think she’s probably the clear front runner for the dumbest presidential candidate of my entire lifetime.
I don’t think it’s recency bias either, I’ve been wracking my brain for a while trying to think of a counter example and I’m coming up empty.
I understand why people voted for her even though I staunchly disagree, but she’s like the real life version of Veep with about a standard deviation less IQ. Whenever I hear her talk I think about that H.L. Mencken quote.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
1mo ago
Or from 1921 - 1965 which saw America rocket forth in global dominance during a time of heavily restricted immigration.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
1mo ago
Yeah I’m literally watching a high quality two hour documentary on the conquest of Greece by Rome while working out, right now. On YouTube. For free.
I think the lament says more about the OP than reality; long form and high quality content is broadly available it’s just increasingly not produced by the typical blue tribe producers.
If you’re deeply embedded in that cultural narrative, yeah sure it might feel like we are declining culturally. Lots of cultural institutions output have been horrific for the last 10-15 years.
But my access to high quality information and educational entertainment has never been better.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
1mo ago
Because shitty employers access to a virtually unlimited pool of willing foreign serfs enables much of the shitty behavior in the first place, and it’s a much simpler and direct way to put upward pressure on employment conditions by siloing off the pool of potential ‘employees’ that would accept them in the first place.
Cutting the Gordian knot is always preferable to some theoretical future action that is so complicated and conditional its chance of success is slim.
The perfect being the enemy of the good and whatnot.
I’ll state again; the H1B program and its consequences are uniquely unpopular with the Trump base and broadly unpopular in the American voting public, therefore this attack on it seems very politic and straightforward. Is there some special reason you’re defending it?
As an American, I’m puzzled as to why I should emulate European employment practices that have resulted in such a weak economy and society rather than seek to return to the health and dynamism of the American past? Or construct a uniquely American future based on our own values?
I have, where I live has a very large Desi population and in my line of work I have to deal with a lot of relatively lower class Indians.
The negative effects on the social fabric are distinct from large scale Latino immigration but notable. There’s a clustering effect that I can see happening in real time.
Where I live they’re neck and neck with El Salvador as the major origin point of migrants, and now that El Salvador isn’t a violent hellhole but rather a stable and prosperous country, the flow of people from there to here is slowing down.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
1mo ago
Why would Trump’s constituents, and the wider voting public, want this when they can just opt for the simpler solution and turn off the tap?
Why would you prefer a total overhaul of American labor law and work culture instead of restricting a program that’s very unpopular with the American public?
I think increasingly, day by day, it’s becoming rather easy to state the preferences of the Trump base and the American voter more broadly in polite society, and it’s increasingly difficult for the people who oppose it who vocalize their opposition without revealing hidden preferences.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
1mo ago
Listen, if I want to fantasize about an all female squad “trampling on my rights” until I “succumb to fascism”, that’s my business.
I just want to say I loathe French but this is an excellently written post.
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