Eetan
9hr ago
If you had two stickers, one labeled US and one UK/EU, which sticker would you put on the first man, and which on the second?
EU citizens most probably think about US slightly more than US citizens about Europe, but what is more important that these thoughts are very tenuously based on reality.
In US imagination, Yurop is shithole whose inhabitants live in caves, eat grass, are daily blown up and beheaded by terrorists and, last but not least, are deprived of iced drinks and air conditioning. Some time ago, Blue Americans saw Europe as paradise where everyone has guaranteed health care, but this waned.
In EU imagination, AmeriKKA is crack hood where nothing happens except school shootings and gang violence. Some time ago, Europeans, especially Eastern ones, saw US as land of plenty where everyone lives like Texas oil multi millionaires but this faded too.
Eetan
14hr ago
Is regular attendance to therapy sessions (that look more like interrogation by political comissar than like anything helpful) condition for receiving these meager Alaskan gibs?
Eetan
15hr ago
This does feel like the missing piece.
Typical story from 19th century classical literature:
Young man born in the gutter pulls himself by his bootstraps, becomes rich, moves into high society, finds himself unwelcome. No matter how rich he is, he is still seen as a peasant.
What to do? Marry his daughters into nobility. But what nobles would want to marry muggle girls? Only broken, impoverished and maximally degenerate ones.
Despite protests, dad forces the weddings to proceed. Everyone suffers maximally and dies horribly.
This is why 19th century eugenicists saw arranged marriages as dysgenic, as mixing rising high achieving blood with old degenerate one that produces nothing but disaster.
Eetan
16hr ago
Siege - current aerial dismantlement of Iranian industry and infrastructure, plus consistent effort to close supply lines. This means bombing and mining Caspian sea ports, and pressure on Central Asian countries to do not allow supply from Russia and China.
In this scenario, supplies of missiles and drones will soon run out, and all crypto yuans stashed by Iranians are just 1 and 0 in cyberspace.
Eetan
18hr ago
Yes, and the text does not say he was the first man ever who was doing the forging. Just that he was good enough at it to be notable.
Eetan
19hr ago
This person is "arms engineer" in the same way as DDR soldier.
Xitter handle says "based in Bulgaria", but this seems to be VPN. OP complained about having to explain to people what was East Germany not likely to happen in the former socialist brotherly countries.
Even if OP is physically present in Bulgaria, their true homeland is anime world. DDR they idolize is not actuall DDR from history, but DDR from Hetalia fanfic.
Not that there is anything wrong with it, this Earth sucks and the rest of the universe isn't looking much better.
Eetan
19hr ago
It's such a crazy relic of the post that there used to be young earth creationists and evangelicals all over the internet even in left wing spaces.
Yes, and they were happy to debate, eager to demolish the godless evilutionists by reason, facts and logic and prove Biblical truth once and for all.
They lost and were demolished themselves, but had proven themselves to be worthy enemy. The atheist movement then committed ritual suicide later when there was nothing left to do, but this is another story.
This is all over and is not coming back.
Current conversion pitch is "Just go to church, bro. There is cool art and music, bro, and it is good place to pick up girls" and the hope for victory is no more "we will convert the infidels" but "we will outbreed them".
Eetan
20hr ago
In trad society, arranging marriages is job for the old women of the family (with assistance of professional matchmakers when family is of means).
The worst horror tales we see in 19th century classic French literature and modern third world happen when father driven mad by greed (or desire for noble title) messes with these things.
Eetan
20hr ago
Technically, the tale that Tubal-Cain was the first smith comes from tradition, the Biblical text does not say it.
I don't suppose Adam and Eve left the Garden with a steel foundry or bronze weapons.
Another famous traditional tale is that God created the first tongs for the first blacksmith, because you need tongs to make another tongs.
IRL, shipwrecked sailors on desert islands of old and modern bootstrapping hobbyists solved this by making the first tongs of hard wood soaked in water (large supply of them to replace as they burn off) and used them to fashion the first passable metal tongs.
Eetan
20hr ago
Things are habbening all over the world, most of them bad and getting worse. But, on lighter culture war note, communism is still dead and gets deader every day.
Arms Engineer Mocked for DDR Border Guard Uniform on Campus
Even such events not very important offline, but inspiring one of the largest xitter storms of the day can't restore it to life.
Even compared to nazism, communism is dead. Nazi LARPers are skinheads, motocycle gangs and most dangerous prisoners, while communist LARPers are this. The final and ultimate degradation and humiliation.
Capitalism always wins, and when capitalism wins, it will seize your sacred symbols and turn them into fetish attire for pleasure of most degenerate freaks. As when barbarian warriors of old trad times made drinking cups of skulls of defeated enemies, only much more degrading.
And there is nothing you can do about it.
"All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind."
And the promise seems to be not entirely rhetorical. Pasteur Institute of Iran had been hit and so was, according to Trump, largest bridge in Iran.
The bridge hit is confirmed. Is Commander in Chief now picking bombing targets personally?
Liberation mode off, Genghis Khan mode on.
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Eetan
1d ago
Come on, man. I know that creationists are one of the traditionally iconic outgroups in rationalist-adjacent spaces
Used to be, during the golden age of Dubya. If we are retvrning to these times, why not bring back creation-evolution wars? This was the pinnacle of internet.
Eetan
1d ago
And things keep habbening, Christian husband and father Pete Hegseth now threatens (or promises) to retrvn back to the Stone Age. Whether he means Paleolithic, Mesolithic or Neolithic is left unspecified, and so is whether he means Iran, US or the whole world. "Stone Age" trending worldwide on Xitter right now.
Very very problematic thing to say for a member of church belonging to Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches!
From CREC Book of Memorials:
The doctrine of creation lies at the heart of Christian living, deeply embedded within our assumptions about worship, knowledge, faith, celebration, beauty, and redemption. In recent decades, many conservative evangelicals have been moved by the science of the day to oppose the historic view of creation in six sequential days of common length, several millennia in the past. Instead, they hold that the bare ideas of creation presented in Genesis have little to do with the actualities of creation. Falsely pitting poetry and symbolism against history, they distort the text of Scripture and divorce ideas from the created order in ancient Gnostic fashion.
Right now, we can be sure Mr Hegseth's pastor gives him very stern talking and calls him to repent and renounce satanic Darwinist lies unbecoming for true Biblical Christian.
And we all can continue monitoring the situation.
Eetan
1d ago
Umm ... admit that when your society provides malcontent like you with free therapy instead of gulag or bullet to the head, maybe you are not as repressed and persecuted as you imagine yourself to be, maybe your perma blackpill doom visions of the future are not so certain as you wish them to be?
Eetan
1d ago
Sure, but I would guess she was basically just changing her schtick to try to stay relevant.
Well, then she failed badly.
Imagine in alternate timeline, Greta supported Israel. "Israel is free and democratic country, the most green country in the world that makes desert bloom. Stand against terror, stand with Israel!"
Would she be more or less relevant, would she be more or less famous than in OTL?
Eetan
1d ago
her appearance has gone downhill
Suddenly, during few weeks in October?
Anyway, Greta's appeal was not due to appearance. If you see her as sex idol, you are alone with handful of most degenerate freaks of Four Chan, and you have a problem.
Greta's authority was authority of oracle, speaking the voice of Gods, very very very trad. This is why she was welcome in UN and invited by presidents and prime ministers.
Eetan
1d ago
What a curious thing to say.
Not surprising thing to say if you are consistent anarchist rejecting all forms of statism and political authority as robbery, extortion, kidnapping and murder. From such POV, government officials and their lackeys are not human, but two legged predatory beasts.
Easy to find if it is the case - would OP also list Israeli officials and functionaries among "non-people"?
Eetan
2d ago
forget Greta ever existed
The world already forgot about Greta, in one of most rapid deplatformings and cancellations in history.
All after Oct 7. From world famous celebrity invited by presidents and speaking in UN, to nonperson, because Greta chose to stand with Gaza.
This was the rare moment when astroturfed controlled movement became thing of its own.
Eetan
2d ago
You spend long time advocating for a dinner.
Your spouse finally relents, starts cooking and makes huge grease fire in the kitchen.
Now you are against dinner? Hypocrite!
If this goes on longer, the environment lobby should be really happy. There should be quite a significant drop in fossil fuel use globally.
If the situation drags for longer, imported oil and LNG will be replaced by local coal. Coal resources are immense, coal mining and burning is proven 19th century technology, even the shithole parts of the world can handle it.
It already begins in Korea, the bellwether of the world.
Time to RETVRN to cozy 1970's East Germany.
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Eetan
3d ago
Well, it was possible to be marinated in current events before internets and before CNN.
You only had to be gentleman of leisure living in big city, and be subscribed to papers, proper respectable "all day" newspapers with morning, day and evening editions.
You woke up, found morning papers at your doorstep, and when you read them, news boy will bring you day papers, and once you finished these, evening papers would be there. You could be monitoring the situation full time in 1926 (or in 1876).
And if you were poor bum, you could have the full internet experience in your local coffee house. Here you could sit all day, read about current habbenings in papers and magazines from all over the world, and debate them with your fellow coffee house bums.
Eetan
4d ago
Things are happening, and are going to happen in even more spectacular way.
Yes, you can do in the real life dungeon crawl from fantasy fiction and gaming, first time since Vietnam tunnel warfare. Yes it would be awesome.(to monitor from far away now, ofc.)
Of course it is disinfo, of course the real boots on the grounds will arrive somewhere else in completely unexpected place. No way would Commander-in-Chief announce his plans to the enemy in the open. This couldn't happen.
Eetan
5d ago
Reality check: You can stand against society alone, but to raise kids, as one wise stateswoman said, you need a village.
Your kids need peer group of people with the same beliefs who will stand with them and support them.
Otherwise, it is just all media, school and society telling them W, while dad alone is rambling non-W. Why should they follow the old dodgering dodger?
Just one sad example: case of Adrienne Black.
Born as Don Black in racist family and raised as racist. Not some Klansman primitive, but devoted scientific HBDIQ aware racist. Little Don knew his IQ tables and bell curves as soon as he learned to read.
Dad was prominent white supremacist and Internet pioneer.
He did everything he could to raise Junior in racism and white supremacy.
And all his efforts were undone on New College of Florida by power of Jewish friendship and love.
In May 2013, Black started to befriend several Jewish people on campus, and gradually realized that her own beliefs were wrong after attending multiple Friday night dinners with Jewish friends.
Habbenings intensify.
F-15 confirmed shot down, large rescue op underway, according to latest news one of pilots found.
For comparison, here is full list of lost US aircraft during Desert Storm in 1991.
Not looking good for Iran. Chinese patriots are trying to brainstorm some ways of shooting American top tier wonder weapons. We will see if Iran will listen.
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