MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
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MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
13d ago
I’m not sure all of the behavior is antisocial on purpose. Cyclists are in a difficult position— too fast to be considered pedestrian, but also much too slow to really safely ride with cars and certainly don’t have the same kind of rider protection that cars offer. Some of the bad behavior might well be because following the rules is sometimes worse than not.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
14d ago
https://youtube.com/watch?v=A5A9RSHS7es?si=_-o10eeIryBiuOsV
It’s called vintage dollhouse.
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Renrijra Krin
14d ago
I mean im not convinced that most people have a singular self in the sense that they have a core. Identity forms quite often from reactions to things or events, roles taken on, etc. so it seems one can use those deliberately by finding a not terrible set of identities and using them.
One example of a fairly sane YouTuber is a woman in her thirties who has turned her life into what life would have been like in 1940. Of course she’s very well aware of tge LARP, she mostly does the aesthetics and trying out the fashion and lifestyle. She’s pretty grounded. It’s obviously apolitical, which I think helps because it seems once political stuff enters the equation, you’re going to end up radicalized in one way or another.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
14d ago
But then why aren’t the more upscale places and homes more colorful? If anything, they’re much more neutral toned than the middle and lower class based places.
My theory is that somehow color got associated with low class or cheap. In order to not look cheap, you do neutrals.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
14d ago
I don’t see this as all bad, to some degree everyone is acting. You don’t curse in front of grandma even if you do in other places. You don’t dress the same for work as you do to just hang out. As long as the character you play is something of a decent human being, it’s probably not harmful.
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Renrijra Krin
14d ago
But that’s quite often how trans comes off to me as a woman. They’re wearing super feminine things while tge cis women I know are rocking sweats and hoodies. Like one trans woman comes to work dressed in a pink or black dress and knee high socks and having his/her hair up in a ponytail with a ribbon. The actual women he/she works with are wearing hoodies, tee shirts, jeans or slacks. And the mannerisms seem to be trying too hard, like they’re consciously trying to be as feminine as possible, something other women don’t really do. At times, a lot of this feels exactly like what you’ve describing here, like someone took every stereotype of what women are like and chose to do all of those things. And I can’t help but mentally go into trans-racialism which isn’t a thing yet, but would explain better how this comes off. Imagine that I decide that internally, im black. So I start buying the kinds of clothes I’ve come to understand black people wear, I bring watermelon and fried chicken for lunch because black people like watermelon and fried chicken, I start talking in redicuoulsly bad Ebonics. At some point, you’d point out that you’re not only not acting like real black people, but you’re acting out a racist’s idea of what black people are like. Saying that you “feel like a black person in a white body, and all of this stuff im doing im doing because im an authentic black person,” is silly. And I really think in either case the question must be asked “what does being black/male/female/hindu etc. feel like?”
And at some level nobody else is thinking about their various identities in that kind of way. You’re living life, a perfectly ordinary life where you do things without thinking about them too much.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
15d ago
He’s publicly supporting a group of rioters. It seems like at best to be incitement, and given that he asked the LA PD to go and protect rioters, might well be more serious.
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Renrijra Krin
15d ago
I don’t see these people as tactical geniuses. Up until this point, they’ve basically been able to thus far force Chuck Schumer to use his angry letter writing pen, have Cory Booker sit on the Capitol steps (before he voted in favor of a Trump nominee), and get a New Jersey mayor arrested. Even this isn’t a loss, he gets to look tough and make the governor of California display his impotence. All the while Trump can continue to work on getting his budget passed, arrest migrants in the court house (and now that judges are on notice, they don’t even try to sneak them out the back door). All of this is losing handily, no matter how many times they swear that it’s making Trump look bad.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
15d ago
I’m not entirely convinced that anyone can know the internal experience of any group that you are not a member of. You can approximate, sure, but my question to anyone claiming to be having the internal experience of being the opposite sex is “what does being that gender feel like exactly?” Like, im a woman and im not sure I could explain the feeling of femaleness to another person. And I’m certain I could never understand the internal experience of maleness. I could approximate, but my thought of what maleness feels like (interest in competition, visual based sexuality, practicality, and disinterest in arts) would likely offend males much like any other stereotype even if true in other areas.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
15d ago
So if the cops arrest my neighbor, and I see them gathering outside, I can get between them and my neighbor and not have interfered? As long as the cops haven’t officially declared they’re now on official duty they just aren’t? It like, cool, I can loot a 7-11 and have twenty big guys “protest” outside and keep the cops out. It’s just ridiculous to me to say crowds of people can surround a bunch of cops, prevent them from even starting their official duties, and hide behind the first amendment even if they’re throwing rocks (which is assault).
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Renrijra Krin
16d ago
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I don’t see how anyone intelligent can see the protests continuing when the NG can arrest and shoot people who interfere in a federal investigation. Nor do I believe that Newsom is going to avoid prosecution for siding with the protesters assaulting federal officers. They wanted this, they wanted to mess with the government because they have TDS. Now they can paint tge ground with the blood of protesters who want to LARP as rebels.
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Renrijra Krin
17d ago
I’m with you, zero confidence that Americans will go along with this, because Americans have been raised up until maybe 15 years ago in a world of abundant wealth where hard choices didn’t have to be made. Or the can could be kicked until basically now. They aren’t used to “suffering for the greater good”, making do or doing without. So they aren’t going to tolerate such a thing. Add in the opposition making a point to blame the GOP for the suffering and promising to go back to the before times when the public could expect high standards of living, cushy office jobs, university education, and cheap consumer goods, and you will see the revolt.
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Renrijra Krin
17d ago
I tend to find most of those people have policies they care about, maybe worker protection or something are not as ill as the vibes based group. I’m not going to say you can’t be interested in policy or active in policy positions and be semi sane. But a lot of people are using politics as a substitute for identity and morality to the point that it takes on almost a cult mentality and you have little else going on in your life, or if you do, you’ll worry about the political implications of your other life choices. I find such people sad.
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Renrijra Krin
17d ago
I mean it depends on how much you raise the taxes. You might get away with a modest 5% increase in taxes, maybe even 10%. But if you go too high, the victim of those tax increases is going to be much more interested in being not American because nobody sane is going to agree to give a country he doesn’t even live in 60% or more of their earnings. Why do that when you can become Romanian or something and only pay a third or less in tax? What would these overseas Americans gain from remaining American when the things they have in other countries can be just as good?
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Renrijra Krin
17d ago
I’ve always put this somewhat before that. Around the start of the 20th century the idea that the West as a civilization was good and right and its ideas were good and right we’re already declining. Vietnam was more unveiling than the change itself. You can look to almost any institution you care to name, and in the 19th century they were self-confident, willing to impose themselves, and seen as obviously right and good, and the way forward is to impose those values and ideas on the world. Western Christians in 1840 were trying to impose Christianity on colonies. Now those colonies are more orthodox than Western churches who now apologize for ever taking Christianity seriously. In the past, it was self evident that imposing western ideas on the rest of the world was making the world better. Today, we have teach-ins to make sure that no one thinks that democracy, human rights, free trade, or science are better than tribal authoritarian governments that put women in tents and refuse to let them speak.
I submit that Western civilization is old and has various serious philosophical illnesses. Most of them are not fatal if treated in time. But I don’t think they will be.
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Renrijra Krin
17d ago
I think that’s actually a terrible idea. While wealth is global and markets are global, citizenship is bound to a government and land, while the humans that create it are not. What I fear would happen is that not only would wealthy and smart people abroad not want to come here, but that a good number of people would renounce citizenship and simply go to a place with good infrastructure and low taxes. A smart country like Ireland or Russia or Korea could reap the benefits of our stupidity simply by not taxing the geese laying the golden eggs. All they have to do is resist the temptation to tax the free money coming in and reap the benefits of jobs created, inventions patented, wealth spent in their country by billionaires fleeing high taxes in America.
Wealth of any sort has pretty free exit, as do rich people.
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Renrijra Krin
18d ago
Honestly, politics encroaching on my fun is so much of a turn off that I think even if the men would agree with the content, the annoyance would make the message radioactive. This is exactly what happened in gamergate. Woke messages in gaming turned a whole lot of apolitical young men into sold out right wingers. I’m just rather amused by the idea that the left is about to spend 20 million dollars to resurrect Gamergate of all things, and guarantee that Gen Alpha is going to see even the center-left as scolds and unbelievably stupid.
It’s just mind-blowing. You lost an entire generation of young men by invading hobby spaces and gaming and other things those young men did for fun and to escape politics and life in general. So the solution is to do it harder?
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Renrijra Krin
18d ago
It’s not just a problem of brain rot though. We’ve had a narcissistic culture for decades before brain rot hit the accelerator. Americans prize autonomy, their own needs and wants, and tend to see anyone or anything that requires them to give up their freedom and autonomy to care about others, do things they don’t want to do, or takes the focus off themselves as negative. It’s not that other people don’t want this, but Americans have long taken this to extreme levels. Brain rot simply weaponized this cultural trait and uses it to push political and social ends. Marinate an American raised in the culture of autonomy and narcissistic tendencies in content that tells them they are oppressed and abused by anyone who wants them to do something they don’t want to do. Then celebrate those who “throw off the shackles of oppression” by blowing up all their relationships, quitting their jobs (claims of burnout), dying their hair odd colors (rejection of the norms of society). People who read that stuff end up destroying themselves.
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Renrijra Krin
19d ago
I think interpersonal exit is an evolved form of the teenage door slam. It’s almost always done publicly, either online or in person, and if done online and the program doesn’t generate a satisfying message that tells the audience that they’re blocking people who say or do X, don’t worry, they’ll announce it. As such Theres a certain level of narcissistic behavior involved — the person must be validated in some way for “having the courage of their convictions” to remove someone from their lives.
To me, I think that at least a partial answer among friend groups is to not give them the narcissistic supply. Don’t support them, don’t acknowledge it happened, make a point of including the shunned in group activities. After a while it stops being fun because nobody’s calling them “stunning and brave anti-racist.” They’re just throwing a teenage girl temper tantrum, and they’ll get over it once they realize that they’re not getting their way.
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Renrijra Krin
19d ago
I mean I think it’s true of most things. Obsession is a sign of a problem. Most people tend to find a balance between interests, hobbies and life. I think this is part of the impulse behind the JBP advice to “clean your room” before you take on the great issues of the world. If you’re unhealthy, you’ll get obsessed and it takes over everything else, and probably make things worse.
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Renrijra Krin
19d ago
On a personal level, or a community level I think creating and maintaining “politics free zones” is a good idea. It can be anything from a gaming group or hobby group or just a group of friends who meet regularly without allowing political talk. Fostering the same kind of thing in family, friend groups, or business settings.
On a personal level, I think it’s unhealthy to spend more than an hour or two a day thinking about politics. As such after you’ve read that much news, it’s probably a good idea to just go do something else. Read a novel, draw, watch a drama or sports, dance, play a sport, hang out, whatever, but don’t marinate in political news. And I think personally reading news, especially from a good reputable source, is better than watching videos or getting it from social media. Reading is much less likely to be sensationalized or emotional.
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Renrijra Krin
19d ago
I think we see this sort of backwards. People who make their politics, religion, or sexuality the center of their personality generally are not emotionally healthy. TBH, I think we have an ongoing mental health crisis that’s manifesting itself through politics.
There used to be a normal way to do politics when I was a kid in the 1980s and 1990s. Sure people had an interest in politics, but it was nothing like today. For one thing, the thought of breaking a friendship over politics was something that didn’t occur to people. You disagreed, even argued, but you were still friends and still did things together. And furthermore, politics was just one thing among several that a person might be interested in. There would be other things, TV shows, sports, cars, art, music, and hobbies that took up most of people’s time and attention. It was a much healthier way to do politics, and frankly made for better politics. When people tune out, it’s possible for the leadership to stop posturing and campaigning and start governing.
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Renrijra Krin
20d ago
Most of these guys are alternative media and make their living at least partially from their online writing. As such, it’s not surprising that they’re adopting the opinions of their audience, at least publicly. If my audience is full of gymbros, I can’t keep them reading if I’m going against their long-standing belief that seed oils are poison. So I might choose to be silent, but it’s in my interests to let it be known that I think seed oils are bad.
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Renrijra Krin
20d ago
I’ve often thought that almost everything in politics over the last 25 years could be summarized as “the old neo-liberal, postwar consensus on major issues is completely outdated and we are despairing of finding something that would actually fix our problems.” Violence is the end of that road, and unless we find a solution to the very serious problems, we’ll be there very soon.
The career path as it once existed no longer works for most people. The college to living wage job pipeline is clogged and the expense of even making an attempt at going through that is prohibitively expensive. To try costs hundreds of thousands paid out of every paycheck.
Housing is in crisis to the point that most young adults have given up on ever having one. And with that and the rise of two income households, the possibility of having a baby is just too daunting. Especially when adding in the cost of living, child care, and so on.
AI is poised to take milllions of jobs within the decade. We haven’t even begun to talk about it, but I suspect that within a generation, technological unemployment will be a big problem.
No solutions have been provided for any of this. And in fact most political leaders have been ignoring those problems alongside lots of others for a long time.
I’m not seeing the hate. There are problems with e-bikes and mopeds, and I think the infrastructure simply isn’t set up properly to make biking safe for cyclists and the cars around them. Trying to put bikes on the same roads as cars doesn’t work because of the speed and size differences and when the acceleration is added in, it’s hardly shocking that bikers end up getting the short end.
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