Fruck
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Fruck is just this guy, you know?
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Fruck
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29d ago
Oh of course. Your mention of this time last year made me think there was something election related involved and I got lost in trying to remember what the youths were saying back then.
Fruck
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29d ago
What about their opinion on the Israel situation do you find baffling in particular?
Fruck
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30d ago
From 'persecution fantasies' to 'well they should have better opsec' is a hell of a redirect.
Fruck
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30d ago
For clarification, Brian Kilmeade suggested killing the mentally ill homeless.
JONES: Billions of dollars to mental health and the homeless population. A lot of them don't want to take the programs. A lot of them don't want to get the help that is necessary. You can't give them a choice. Either you take the resources that we're going to give you, or you decide that you're going to be locked up in jail. That's the way it has to be now.
KILMEADE: Or, uh, involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them.
And it is fucked up and he should have been fired, at the very least for being so fucking stupid about it. As for the Watters comment, his 'leave it, bomb it, or gas it' remark clearly falls into the category of non-literal, shock jock hyperbole. It's in the same rhetorical family as 'Eat the rich' and other classic leftist slogans - it uses violent imagery to attack a symbolic institution, but no reasonable person interprets it as a literal plan to commit violence. So there is a major difference between these two statements that you are eliding - and that's before we get to the whataboutism with Jones - Watters expressed the desire to do violence against an institution, whereas Kilmeade expressed the desire to kill millions of people.
But the real kicker is neither of them are politicians. Neither of them are running for attorney general, a position that puts them in charge of determining justice for the millions of people in their jurisdiction, and neither of them expressed an explicit desire to see their direct political opponents dead and then doubled down on it afterwards. I really hope this doesn't count as consensus building when I say that everyone knows internally the difference between wishing for the death of faceless enemies and thinking of a person, a specific person, and wanting them dead.
Also, are the mentally ill homeless and every other country in the world core constituents of the Democrat party? Because I thought that was just a snarky joke.
Him saying he really fucking means it. https://postimg.cc/nXMNVw2N
Edit: reading further down I see the dance, so in case someone pretends they think by that I mean when he says the office joke, I mean when he says
Yes, I've told you this before. Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy
And
I mean do I think Todd and Jennifer are evil? And that they're breeding little fascists? Yes
Fruck
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30d ago
Yeah I don't like it when populism is defined by its stupidest proponents either, but that's the world we live in. Do you think people with those values would not recognise themselves as globalist, academic, secular or progressive?
Fruck
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1mo ago
Larry Sanger has a good term for it - GASP. Globalist Academic Secular Progressive.
Fruck
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1mo ago
Pretty much. Sometimes it's easy to recognise when you have been crazy, but most of the time yeah it is 'oh I overreacted but I was basically right.' The confounder in all of this is the intelligence of the person being discussed of course.
Fruck
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1mo ago
To build on @Muninn's great explanation: Schizophrenia is in a way pattern matching in overdrive. What anti-psychotics do is dial the frequency in closer to the station that we call reality, but there is always still some fuzz. So a lot of people go on anti-psychotics for a while and because the fuzz is still there they don't really feel very different - or worse, they feel like they have traded the frankly fucking magical world they lived in for the grey lifeless slog all the zombies live in, because it has no effect on the symptoms like anhedonia.
And on top of that they also get to enjoy fun side effects like feeling dog tired all the time, constant headaches, weight gain despite constant vomiting, and the always delightful sensation of your muscles seizing of their own accord so you look like you have cerebral palsy because your jaw desperately wants to rest on your shoulder and your hands are doing their level best to retract into your elbows. On top of that, there is the widespread belief in the community that if you find yourself gurning you have been on anti-psychotics for too long and you are rolling the dice on involuntarily gurning for life.
Fruck
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1mo ago
This was an excellent post, and I agree, this is textbook paranoid schizophrenia. Call the police man. Anonymously if possible, he is better off with you in his life imo. I would have and I am a paranoid schizophrenic. My reaction to reading he wants to get a gun to "be a man" and "take care of business" was "ohhhh shiiiiiiiit." Paranoid schizophrenics aren't dumb, we are good at connecting dots (too good), and if after a police visit he can't connect the dots that determine why him saying that to anyone is a bad idea, then he is too crazy to have a gun anyway.
I really appreciate the fact that you are thinking deeply about this, but the fact of the matter is that society just isn't equipped to individually assess every mentally ill person for the intricacies of their lunacy, and we know that schizophrenics have an elevated risk of substance abuse problems and as a result criminal behaviour. That doesn't mean we should be locked up, but it does mean society should limit our freedoms in some ways unfortunately. We can not be cops, we can not be judges, and we shouldn't have guns. I don't want to be treated like a toddler with a bomb, but I also don't expect society to commit suicide just to appease me. I might be fucking crazy, but I'm not a narcissist.
Fruck
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1mo ago
Psychosis does not equal schizophrenia. Men with schizophrenia are indeed more likely than the sane to commit violence - 4 to 7 times more likely depending on your source - but the absolute risk is actually very low - 1 in 4 schizophrenic men are likely to be involved in violent crime and schizophrenics make up about 0.3 percent of the population.
On top of that you have the fact that the vast majority of that 4 to 7 increase is by schizophrenics with substance abuse problems. Which makes sense when you understand the critical factors that separate schizophrenia from garden variety drug induced psychosis - the negative symptoms. It's actually really hard to summon the interest to violently assault someone when you spend most of your time in a state where you can barely summon the energy to give a shit about eating. When getting angry at a guy who cut you off in traffic feels like a lot of effort. When watching TV or doomscrolling feels like a chore.
That said, I agree with your overall argument, crazy people shouldn't have guns. But also, saying you don't buy into slippery slope arguments is like saying you don't go for this 'multiplication' the kids are doing, the world is shaped by patterns whether you buy into them or not.
Fruck
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1mo ago
On my first post I complained that there's not enough exploration in Silksong. I'm glad to say the situation improves a lot once you read the Citadel at the top of the map. It acts as a massive hub area disconnected from the main fast travel network, with many hidden areas you can discover and tackle in different orders, lots of unlockable shortcuts, etc.
Lol yeah I got to the final boss of act 2 and I didn't have double jump so I knew I was missing an area, so I went hunting and I found six more biomes.
Fruck
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1mo ago
Oh I am loving the absolute shit out of it so far. I have two complaints - the inventory management system is stupid, just needlessly convoluted, although that might be compounded by the second issue - I want a combat difficulty between story and hard, because the refilling of all your health and sanity with each save makes most of your inventory useless, but my heart can't handle the tension of fighting disturbingly sexy scarecrows while three hits from death at all times.
I don't know what the story is about yet and I don't want to speculate, but the characters are great so far. I am both terrified of my friends and desperate to save them, especially after the beginning and Hanako is such a melancholy protagonist, which just makes the game feel more claustrophobic.
Fruck
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1mo ago
It'd be nice if they also said "and also cheering for murder is bad, you ghouls" but I don't particularly expect it of them any more than I'd expect Rush Limbaugh to tell his listeners to stop saying the people who died in ICE custody deserved it.
You just take it for granted that mainstream broadcasters are arms of the left, like that's somehow acceptable. And yet in an environment where the people who are supposed to speak to the whole nation are only willing to tell one side to stop being ghouls, you want to blame the twitter algorithm for the lack of left wing sympathy in anyone's feeds?
British police are trained how to do it, and American police could be.
You know, I nodded in agreement when I first read this, my mind going back to old episodes of Taggart, Inspector Morse and Prime Suspect. And a great example immediately came to mind - DCI Schenk in Luther, in this scene, which is excellent. But all of those shows are from a different time. Luther is the newest, and even then Schenk's character arc through the series is he's a good cop who plays by the rules but along with Luther his style of policing is considered outdated by the establishment and discarded in favour of small black women who should be presenting children's shows. The British police don't know how to do it anymore either.
Edit: in fact I would guess there was some correlation between the decline of the British police force and relative lack of non-comedy British cop shows. Because there certainly wasn't a lack in the past.
Fruck
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1mo ago
Come on, you can't dish up all those details and then not explain what you mean. It's like you crafted this post to make me both want to learn more about the book and never learn anything else about it.
Fruck
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1mo ago
In the bible it says: "But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only."
So every morning I get up and say "The world is going to end today, today is the beginning of the end times." And every hour on the hour I say "Now, it's going to happen now."
Am I saving the world? Maybe. Probably. Of course if the world ever does end, then my experiment still has value, because it will prove God doesn't exist (because if he did I wouldn't have been able to predict the end).
Fruck
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1mo ago
True, but it does fly against ALL of the messaging of the Harris campaign, which was that the only reason anyone wouldn't want to vote for Harris is because they are a bigot who should listen to their betters. If it's unacceptable to vote for Trump or not vote because you aren't feeling a woman president then it is similarly unacceptable to not vote for the gay vp. That kind of petard self-hoisting is very entertaining imo.
Fruck
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1mo ago
Yeah I'm bouncing off I think the final boss now, good God what a fight. Previously when I was starting to tilt I'd whip out my threadolin and go play it for someone new (everyone reacts to it, singing along, including enemies. Trying to play it for bosses is a good way to learn their moves, because you have to play it for a few bars, you can't just hold Y and trigger it.) But I've already played it for everyone now and I just keep dying to this damn boss. At least in Elden Ring you spawn outside the arena instead of having to get back to it each time. I know it's a pretty minor inconvenience, but it gets frustrating after a while.
Fruck
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1mo ago
No chum, we've been there for a while. Remember Jerry Seinfeld and Dave Chappelle and Roseanne Barr and Norm Macdonald and Daniel Tosh and... You get my point. We're at the point in the culture wars where there is now symmetry in the parsing.
Fruck
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1mo ago
Yeah the issue with police stand downs isn't the physical damage, it is the psychological damage. This might sound hyperbolic but it is unfortunately accurate - it works the same way terrorism works, utilising the spectacle of violence to achieve a political or ideological aim by manipulating the emotional state of a much larger audience. It creates deep insecurity and distrust in the general public on top of a general sense of unease and danger.
"Not every room in my house needs to be aesthetically pleasing! Where's the variety? Where's the tension? If every room in my house is painted pleasant colours, I will take aesthetic pleasure for granted and I won't appreciate those rooms as much! That's why I painted my living room traffic cone orange with bright pink molding."
Also I don't know why you would assume a Japanese production with Japanese artists working in a Japanese style would make a white character, but they didn't. She's mukokuseki.
Edit: lol that was you calling her a big tiddy Asian girl, so I think even you know you're being reductive.
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