Bartender_Venator
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Bartender_Venator
18d ago
Conservative groups will support conservative causes on 1A issues, but as far as I can tell there's no right-wing equivalent to the ACLU representing the Nazis
Not in the 1960s, but FIRE today is somewhat right-coded and has taken over the old ACLU's mantle of representing without fear or favour.
Bartender_Venator
18d ago
There aren't really any social expectations. I have friends on instagram who post ten stories a day, some have like three posts total, some have artposts but never show their face, etc. Don't reveal any more of your privacy than you feel comfortable with.
If you want to post, take cool shots at shows/raves and put them up either as stories, or as posts with a little comment about how great it was. A big part of your hobby is putting on cool spectacles, it's a natural fit. Tagging the organizers or friends who were with you is a nice touch. Play around a little with stories of food, since that's always safe, so you can figure out how to put text, stickers, tags, etc. on them. If you have cool hobbies outside of raves - cooking, hiking, making stuff, whatever, you can also put them on your stories so people know you're a well-rounded person.
For girls, instagram is better than a number if you're not going to immediately try and date them, since they will post stories you can like or comment on, people appreciate getting wholesome little comments or relevant recommendations in their story replies. Just as an example, about a month ago, I met a girl who I'm not trying to date but would like to be friendly with - last week, she posted she was visiting Portland, and I replied to the story and we had a pleasant chat about places to go in the Oregon wine country. If you're /fit/, don't overplay it on your posts, but you can throw up thirst trap stories whenever there's plausible deniability (I often ask buddies to take pictures of me when I'm dancing shirtless for that reason).
One thing you can do to get better connected and make people like you on Instagram is to promote people's stuff. Is someone you know advertising a show, an event, whatever that appeals to you? Put it on your story. Venues will often follow you back if you do this for their stuff. The flipside of this is that Instagram is a great, and in many scenes, the best way to keep up with what public events are happening, so you may find that an unexpected bonus.
Bartender_Venator
18d ago
Plus, there are studies coming out that says nattokinase is great for your blood pressure. Sadly not the case with these girls.
Bartender_Venator
19d ago
But there is a second story! Who is Kinbote, really? Did he kill Shade? Where are the jewels? Are the index cards of the poem actually in the right order? Is Zembla even real? I recommend this frankly brilliant and insane paper to see how deep the rabbit hole goes, and it's not at all apparent from simply opening the book any more than Gwyndolin's story is from looking up the description of his crown.
You're welcome to avoid that, I honestly wouldn't ever consider watching Satantango again, but for anybody interested in Seiobo, the first chapter is available free here and has bitten quite a few of my friends with the bug.
Choose-your-own-adventure books have some similarities but are too limited. You could, in theory, write one that kept track of variables, had branches that intertwine deeply, etc., but nobody actually would. It's a huge difference, I'd say bigger than that between a comic book and a movie. I'm not sure what you mean by "experience" - if you mean words aren't an experience, I recall people experimenting with choose-your-own adventure DVDs, but those have even worse capability issues than the books.
Bartender_Venator
19d ago
That plus full body tats, piercings of any sort other than the ear
Yeah for me it's when Mottizens claim that heavy tattoos and facial piercings objectively make a woman unattractive. For me the libidinal effect is something similar to seeing/smelling a perfect crust on a steak. Maybe, as @Earendil would say, I have evolved to digest organisms that would be poisonous to others, and my phenomenology has evolved likewise.
Bartender_Venator
19d ago
On that note, I'm currently reading Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory, and it's very helpful to try and get into the mind of an Englishman from that period - the ways of thinking they brought into and then out of the War.
Bartender_Venator
19d ago
She has said that she doesn't want input into the sentencing, that she'd rather let the state decide. That's a perfectly valid Christian path, I believe - forgiveness of the soul does not imply foregoing justice in this world. That's how Christian societies remained functional and (reasonably) lawful for millennia.
Bartender_Venator
19d ago
games where the entire main story is a lie that the player can optionally uncover
You can do this in a book, like Pale Fire - many postmodern authors have tried with varying degrees of success. What makes Dark Souls unique is the minimal information you get and the diegetic storytelling (Silksong take inspiration from the latter and really ramps it up).
I think the question of difficulty and slogging-through as an emotional experience is closer to the core of the question, but that's also in books and films - look at Laszlo Krasznahorkai's Seiobo There Below or Bela Tarr's adaptation of his novel Satantango, or Twin Peaks: The Return for TV. IMO the slam-dunk in this list is branching paths, like morality choices changing the game.
Which, I'd guess, is also why when state politician #586 is killed, the resolution honouring her and condemning the killings gets passed unanimously. No toxoplasma.
Bartender_Venator
22d ago
Had he won the primary or presidency, I think it would have turned out very similarly to Jeremy Corbyn in the UK. Bernie has been in politics on the fringes of his party for a long time, but has no friends in high places, would face a generally unfriendly media, and is extremely weak to idpol infighting. Do I think he could have beaten Trump? No, but Trump's victory would have looked very different. Bernie is not a strong character in direct interpersonal conflict, and he would face a great deal of that from within the party before even getting to Trump. Then you'd have relentless Trump bullying, probably in a manner closer to the primaries than to his contest with Hillary - say what you want about Hillary, she's no shrinking violet - playing up all the weirdnesses of Bernie's character and platform. Trump probably runs significantly closer to the center on policy (not that that's ever affected people's impressions of him), and the Republican Party donor class falls in line behind him far faster. The election is decided more conventionally, since the outcast white working class is more divided - that's one part of this scenario I'm not sure about, the extent to which "white working class rage" is sidelined as a media topic compared to our timeline, or if an anti-both-candidates media plays it up even further. The one wild card would be the extent to which the leftist organizers and agents (in the sense of media agents) behind the rise of the Squad, Mamdani, etc. step into the limelight earlier and pull something crazy off, though they would be younger, less organized, and in a less developed social media environment.
If Sanders won, there would be a crazy three-way power struggle in his administration between the Old Left (him), the New Left (woke), and the party establishment. I really find it hard to see anything other than the Old Left capitulating as far as possible to New Left demands. Sanders himself is not really woke, but the entire activist apparatus supporting him, and anybody under 70 he could get to staff his admin, would be New Left as much as they are Old. Sanders himself was very happy to drop policy planks, like immigration skepticism, where the Old conflicted with the New. But the end result is very different for "woke", in that it becomes the flagpole of an insurgent populist movement rather than an establishment ideology. Essentially, instead of a Trumpist right against a woke establishment, you have a much weaker but still fairly powerful populist right (this is not the critical defeat for populism that a Hillary victory would have been), a bipartisan establishment, and a SocDem/woke populist left. Bernie most likely ends up a pretty ineffective and chaotic one-term President (think Trump 1, but more internal shambles and economic problems than enemy action), which also harms wokeness by association. The private sector's wokeness is bigger in some ways but comparatively muted in others, at least among upper management, since the vibe is not "us the institutions resisting Trump", but more a fearful compliance with the Administration of the type you're seeing now. The civil war we saw in news media between cautious management and woke staff kicks off way earlier. Covid finishes the Sanders administration off, and the next admin probably inherits a significantly worse economic position, ratcheting up the three-way tensions between woke/Trumpist/establishment going into the incoming Republican (Cruz?) administration.
Bartender_Venator
22d ago
Funnily enough, nowadays it seems like the tomboyish girls from conservative homes tend to swing right (I knew one who showed up for a coffee date holding Maps of Meaning, didn't own a single skirt), because if they go left they, uh, stop being tomboyish girls.
Bartender_Venator
23d ago
At this point we do have very good archaeogenetic evidence for an elite caste of steppe riders taking over settled societies and maintaining distance from the agrarian population for a very long time. It's still visible, albeit highly diluted, in the Indian caste system, for instance. The reason people still talk about Nordicism in this context, apart from the WWII resonance, is because there aren't many people around from the Pontic/North Caspian steppe to crow about their Yamnaya forebears. I did say to the author that it would be more historically accurate to put a steppe on Tidus rather than just islands, for that reason.
Bartender_Venator
25d ago
"Bartender Venator" is a reference to the main character of Ernst Junger's Eumeswil, that should probably be sufficient to figure out who I am.
Bartender_Venator
25d ago
I don't think you've demonstrated that the struggle of divergent prototribes to assimilate in IIRC the bronze age directly maps to what can't be read as anything other than a criticism of modern welfare states.
I suspect that, like most commenters assuming this is going to culminate in thoroughly-litigated culture war thread talking points, you're jumping ahead of yourself and this is in fact going to get much weirder and more interesting.
Bartender_Venator
25d ago
Surely the closest analogue is Anders Behring Breivik, even down to focusing on killing the youth leaders of the enemy party. Not American, though.
Bartender_Venator
25d ago
Also, Vesta, the Roman goddess of the hearth, is somewhat hermaphroditic (I specify this because I'm not sure about Hestia in Greece). One of her symbols is a phallus, the flame has the power to reveal a phallus and impregnate a virgin, etc.
Bartender_Venator
26d ago
There's almost certainly nothing you can do, unless it's a state university in a red state with a very particular hook in the course material so sufficiently egregious an elected official or journalist can use it to rile up some sleepy boomers. Welcome to the ivory tower - it's not going to get any better.
Bartender_Venator
26d ago
In England all professional Americans without specific signifiers (very strong Southern yee-haw accent, for example)
I knew a Texan lawyer in London with a deep, deep Texas drawl. Liked his cowboy boots in the office, a lot of expansive mannerisms, etc. Apparently did wonders for his career - he was a fiercely talented guy and would run rings around the Brits and Euros as soon as they underestimated him.
Bartender_Venator
28d ago
One man's excessive laissez-faire in finance is another man's government strangling every other industry. But that was largely baked in by the time Thatcher came to power.
Bartender_Venator
28d ago
This post appears to have been removed without a modhat comment explaining?
Bartender_Venator
28d ago
I would like to see a full clip of the first, not conveniently cut before he finishes speaking. The context of the argument appears to be that he is pushing back against the tiktoker for saying that every word of Leviticus must be taken completely literally. He's clearly using it as a gotcha against her quoting Leviticus - he opened the argument with "I mean, Satan's quoted scripture." For the second, he is saying that appointing unqualified and incompetent candidates because of diversity commitments implies that black women are not capable of doing the job, that this is the argument that progressives are implicitly making when they appoint a KBJ to the Supreme Court because Biden committed to picking a black woman.
Something you will find if you spend time on themotte is that it's a good idea to check the sources people show you for their claims and think critically about them.
This is a very important point now that "Cancel Culture" has become a generic term. Part of the reason, I think, is that the cancelled ecosystem has grown strong enough that it's not as easy to drum people out of society. For a timely example, Blake Neff was canceled and fired from Tucker Carlson's show in 2020, then hired by Charlie Kirk. Of course, there were attempts to keep him canceled, but Kirk didn't care.
Still, even though the situation has improved greatly in the post-covid era, it's important to remember that canceling didn't originally mean punishment, it meant unpersoning. I suppose, too, that the belief of cancelers that they would be able to keep their targets canceled forever was inextricably linked with the Great Awokening belief that their total, eternal cultural victory was inevitable. Whoops.
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