BaronVSS
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BaronVSS
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5mo ago
Covid massively accelerated tribalism and polarisation in the offline and online worlds, and internet communities are no longer capable of existing without expelling dissidents to maintain coherence (and to lighten the workload on the tireless internet custodian who is paid very handsomely for his services.)
I can't even say I'm terribly sad about this. I would like for things to come to their inevitable conclusion sooner rather than later.
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6mo ago
The Incredibles
Technically, Bob's relation with his family is somewhat dysfunctional and goes up and down throughout the film until they work together at the end.
They believe it captures the lived experience of young men who enter the alt-right/manosphere/incel pipeline for whatever reason and thus provides the antitode to that way of thinking. It doesn't for a whole host of reasons, the primary one being that the main character is 13 years old and most fears young men have about their social status and manhood kick in from around 15-16 onward after maturity has hit.
The political and educational establishment and those who share their views fail to adequeately diagnose the problem. This is primarily because they can't understand the experience of being young men and have zero interest in doing so. Indeed, every "men are doing badly" talking point is always discussed from perspective of its negative second order effects, mostly in relation to women. Starmer's gushing over this is indicative of naive confidence. He thinks the essence of the problem has finally been captured, and so do all the left of center opinion pieces on this show that were written shortly after its release. Frankly, it all feels a bit coreographed...
I have written about this before, once three years ago and once last year and I haven't seen anything to suggest that they've learned a single thing since then. There is nothing new to write about under the sun. I want to volunteer myself as a consultant to the government on the manosphere and how its influence might be curbed, purely because I cannot handle the unending nonsense coming from my computer screen and I would like it to stop.
If you are an unironic autist (like me) do not be ashamed of writing down your words before you say them.
I would not be half the psuedo-normie that I am if I didn't write scripts for most of my difficult encounters.
The Hock taketh and the Hock giveth back
He was the son of two recent african migrants to the UK, and thus absolutely falls into the oppressed side of the oppressed/oppressor dichotomy which the two tier accusation is describing. It is crudely (but correctly) recognised that if he was a white anglo the state would not have reacted in the way it did during the initial time after the killing and during the unrest.
The Tories are not meaningfully different from Labour when it comes to the overarching governance of Britain. Both defacto support growth hindering policies and the vast burdens on state spending. The only meaningful difference is that Labour is the natural home of those who believe in the current view on fairness/equality and the Tories might be the home of those who disagree, but are utterly incapable/uninterested of moving against it.
The backstory, having been previously been withheld by government diktat (I wonder how many months the papers were collectively sitting on that mugshot, itching for the chance to print it) has now been published and we have learned some very interesting things, namely that:
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Despite suggestions the contrary, he had been defacto known to the authorities and was referred to Prevent several times. For reference, Nigel Farage was reprimanded for hinting in the months after the incident. *
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He had been caught with knives on 10 separate occasions.
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He had previously been expelled by his school for violent behaviour, but later attempted to return to commit a rampage with a knife about 3 weeks before he would commit the atrocity described above. He was indirectly stopped by his father, who pleaded with the taxi not to take him to his destination. His father then seemingly took no action after this.
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He had obtained the materials required to make ricin and terrorist literature from organisations from Al-Qaeda.
However, no terror related charges were passed against him. Upon conclusion of the trial, the immediate reaction from the government once this information has come out has been to redirect heat away from the government. Instead, the public is now to think of terrorists as "loners, misfits, young men in their bedroom" and to pass judgement against Amazon, so mentioned because he bought the knife used to commit the deed from Amazon.
I think this particular arc has come to its resolution, but the effects on the culture will be long lasting - the phrase "two tier" is now embedded in the public conscious, and the man in the street now has the perfect phrase to describe the observed worldview of the centre and left of centre (the Oppressed/Oppressor dichotomy) and their handling of disputes.
*Your definition of "known to the security services" may vary!
Finally, I don't mind being autistic, but I do think autism is an illness. The overly systematic way of thinking, the need to be "correct" and find the "truth"
I dislike my own autistic weaknesses (hypersensitivity to senses and rejection among them) and would shed them if I had the chance, but the one part I am genuinely thankful for is that I have so called "black and white thinking" (or, as I like to call it, having principles). I am amazed humanity developed any sense of indvidualism at all because the majority of people I see are herd followers and comply with any number of nonsensical things in order for the perceived security they get at great cost sometimes to their own personal fulfillment.
Neitzsche does not advocate for a retvrn to ye olden days where man only focussed on the superficial and the vibes. The end result of focusing on that would result in a world full of deanos, a terrible place where the Last Man reigns supreme and humankind cannot advance. His ideal was a merging of the master and slave moralities and something greater yet to come.
I have come to the conclusion that the term as currently used is indescribably useless. Where once you had a number of conditions (autism, aspergers, PDD-NOS), there is now the one condition that covers an absolutely massive array of people with all sorts of different personalities, capabilities and needs. Yes, we now have levels in their place but they almost never enter discussion. Instead, the only differentiation comes between "high support needs" and "low support needs". In conversation however, this is almost always dropped - everytime someone mentions an autistic person, or autistic people, or themselves, one is usually referring to either of these groups, implicitly disregarding the other.
My view is that is we have a number of neurological differences that are grouped together under a single diagnosis, like a super venn diagram with multiple concentric circles, and a person can potentially appear in multiple places in the diagram. This means that it is possible for two people to technically be diagnosed with autism and have a minimal overlap of symptoms, or indeed any traits in common. This poses a number of problems. Firstly, normies expect the term to describe a specific kind of person and get confused/accuse you of lying when you say that you have that condition. Secondly, what paltry assistance you might receive is not tailored to your traits and so is useless. Thirdly, any spaces that might exist for you on paper in practise contain people who have nothing in common with you whatsoever.
Beyond that however, I think we have also expanded the definition to include borderlines (people who might have had one or two traits to a minimal degree that wouldn't have previously qualified) and the disability is being further co-opted by progressive, terminally online neurotypicals to ascend the progressive stack. In addition, we have massively damaged the development of children through lockdowns, so who knows if their brain is actually wired that way.
Personally, I do not know where my own endlessly entertaining brain disease comes from. I am inclined to think that I am one of those people who has it inflicted on them by GOD, THE VIOLATOR as a joke. The only familial link I have is a great uncle who was diagnosed with a number of learning disabilities in his youth (including dyxlexia) but towards the end of his life at some point received a diagnosis of autism. My mum and dad are both normal, my dad excessively so. My brother is "weird" but for the most part neurotypical, and any weirdness I think he accrued from me while growing up.
If this passes, I hope other anglo nations follow. I despise the switch to BST, I always feel the lost hour of sleep but never feel the hour I supposedly gain back. I don't care whether Noon-Is-Noon or not, it is my heartfelt wish that the time chicanery ends.
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10mo ago
Then it was revealed the three bullet casings each contained a different word: one said deny, one said defend, one said depose.
Now I am wondering if he had an entire magazine of bullets with words carved on them in case he missed the first few.
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11mo ago
Kitboga has done immense damage to India's reputation
Thanks to him, I cannot think about the word "redeem" without automatically associating it with India.
I wonder if the yelling scammer guy is aware of his own popularity.
I got 31.
When I was doing this, I realised that almost nobody is using AI to make corporate art. This makes me think things.
In about 10 years of shitposting on the internet about politics, I have come to the same conclusion. Pre-2020 clownworld, most of my writing was a mix of snark and observation with some anger, and everything since 2020 clownworld has been almost entirely anger. I have not changed anyone's mind on anything, and nor has anyone changed my mind on anything. Changes of opinion came entirely from reflection in my own time when I was alone, and certainly could not have occurred in the hyper-confrontational thunderdome that is the internet. At best, it was an outlet for my inner need to akshually when I see peace being valued over truth, and at worst a complete and total waste of my time.
Ultimately, the correct way to impose your will on others in a post industrial society is to form a sufficiently motivated group and use infiltration or intimidation to take over important insitutions and then use those institutions to enact your desire to the howls of misery and rage of your political enemies. Arguing on the internet is worse even than voting. Voting at least exposes the flaw the system and makes it clear to those aggreived that voting cannot get what they want.
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