MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
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MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
8mo ago
Common cultural practice over many years isn’t evidence of something?
If I told you that I saw a group of afghans in my town and one of them was wearing a burkha, you would automatically assume I’m lying for clout?
That’s very interesting.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
9mo ago
This is a nuclear level cope, I have a hard time taking this seriously. Sneak attacks work, that’s why people use them.
If Israel had even close to population parity in any of those wars some of the nations that had waged war against them in the past likely wouldn’t even exist today.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
8mo ago
Multiple, unrelated people at different times all complaining about a well documented and common cultural practice by a foreign group that suddenly emerged in one area in very great numbers?
Yeah, a normal reaction to that is to think there’s probably at least a bit of validity to the claim.
Automatically discounting that as false is evidence of liberal brainworms or motivated reasoning. You think magic dirt is enough to transform the cultural practices of literal hordes of foreign peasants in an instant upon arrival?
How on earth can you believe that? It strikes me as intensely autistic.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
8mo ago
If you’ll notice my posting history it comes in little bursts. I basically never write very long entries. There’s a reason for it.
That’s because outside of this cute rarefied forum, I don’t have a silly little email job that allows me to get large amount of screen time and pop in here and write big theses with multiple citations. I have a real job in which I work insane hours and it that requires my full attention, and a family with young children.
So I found myself parked on the side of the road trying to find a source in an old x thread that would pass muster to make some random person believe that fresh off the boat immigrants from one of the most backwards countries on earth immediately change their entire way of life and diet the second they pop off the plane due to ‘magic culture’ and ‘magic laws’ which are basically unenforced. And that people in different countries eat different meat, including bushmeat. The absurdity of the situation sank in, and I resumed the important task I had at hand.
Even now at the ass crack of dawn as I write this on my phone, my daughter points to this as she climbs on me over and over again and exclaims “wow! That’s a lot of words!”.
Very politely, I’ll recommend you do a google search. Specifically about cat eating as a cultural practice. If you do it “raw” you’ll be greeted by a tidal wave of screeds of legacy media screaming “hoax” at the top of their lungs you. There’s also a handful of reels & tiktoks from people, some Haitian, saying this is true.
But if you know a bit about search, and can pull articles from say ten years or older, you might be surprised at what you see. The thread on X that I was looking for but unable to find even included a bbc article about which cultures ate cats, but I’m certain the Haitian portion of it was scrubbed after the controversy. They tend to do that.
Anyways, I’ve wasted enough time on this. Good luck in your search to find out that not everywhere is like the USA, I guess.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
9mo ago
Based on his other responses in the thread I’m guessing he thinks the Wermarcht was pretty competent.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
4mo ago
This is a fair point, and that’s why I said it’s not a precise comparison.
Do we have examples of elections being held in circumstances exactly like Ukraine’s? I genuinely don’t know, although I know elections have been held in war torn countries before.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
4mo ago
How old are you? This song is instantly recognizable to a huge portion of Millennials, zoomers and gen alpha across cultures.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
7mo ago
It’s actually the reverse; by the time the Roman Empire was split the eastern portion of the empire had far outstripped the western portion of the empire in terms of wealth, power, population and prestige for more than a century.
In the Taiwan / China analogy, which I do t think even applies very well to premodern empires, you’re the one insisting Taiwan is China.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
9mo ago
where is the evidence that the American or British are particularly effective soldiers.
Time on task.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
9mo ago
Yeah, fair enough.
Stray cats and dogs are common bushmeat in Haiti. Haitians in Miami in the 80s were nicknamed “the cat eaters” for that very reason. Furthermore, the sacrifice of small animals for voodoo rituals, endemic to Haiti and very common, is well documented.
Why on earth is it strange to think that recent immigrants of little to no education would continue their cultural practices of their homeland until they are properly acculturated?
As far as I’m concerned the burden of proof is on the people saying it’s not happening.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
2mo ago
So you have no theory of mind for Trump, his team or his supporters?
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
9mo ago
I’m tapping the sign right now.
Journos Delenda est
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
9mo ago
I think it barely matters. Even if article five isn’t invoked for some inexplicable reason, the resemblance to the interwar years is mostly superficial.
There’s a key difference; Poland would absolutely fucking shred a Russian invasion on a military level. Russia since the war began wasn’t even guaranteed on any given day to be the most powerful military in Ukraine.
Poland’s military spending and might is nowhere near the disparity that existed in the 30s when the Soviet Union was an emerging superpower.
If anything this war has revealed that the Russian military is a paper tiger riddled with incompetence and corruption. They’re laughable compared to the past, and demographics get worse for them each passing day.
They really are a third rate power at this point. If Ukraine, one of the poorest and most corrupt European nations, is giving them trouble even this deep into the third continuation war, then they don’t have a ghost of a chance at winning a war against Poland, or the Baltics, or Finland.
I’m very sympathetic to the DR in general but the Russia cope is absolutely bonkers, almost a perfect mirror image of the twitchy-eyed Ukraine boosters. That country is completely pozzed on almost every level.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
4mo ago
I think one reason the justification for suspending elections is particularly unsympathetic to Americans is that we held an election even during a raging civil war.
It’s not exactly the same scenario as Ukraine, but it some ways it was worse. And it was 150+ years ago, and we still managed to do it.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
9mo ago
Your average democrat might lie less often than Donald Trump but they are much, much more dishonest in my opinion. It’s not even close.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
10mo ago
Good ban. And I loved CWR.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
5mo ago
It’s also the most obviously correct strategy.
Literally millions of people living outside of Rome were considered Roman, even by the people living in Rome. They had the rights of citizens, they called themselves Roman, and other people called them Roman, including their enemies.
They followed and were subject to Roman law, practiced Roman rites of religion, when the empire converted to Christianity they did too, they had a “Roman way of life” that was particular to them ie culture.
It’s like thinking someone who lives in Dallas isn’t American just because at one point Texas was part of Mexico.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
7mo ago
No, what happened is what it is to be Roman simply changed. In the beginning it meant living in the city and surrounding area of Rome, then it denoted a status being a citizen of the empire, and after that it became essentially a sort of super-ethnic category that rested atop more specific ethnicity, much like “Latino” or “Arab” or “Desi”.
They went through a process of ethnogenesis. It’s a historically common process, ethnic groups don’t just spring from the earth.
After the 3rd century or so Rome wasn’t even the most important Roman city anymore in any given year.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
8mo ago
You know when you’re watching a movie and a line of dialogue includes the title of the movie?
Same energy as this comment.
God, I hope so.
Boomers as a voting block are too formidable but millennials outnumber genx so it might be the first opportunity in a generation to actually smash that Ponzi scheme to a million pieces.
Someone’s got to take the hit when we draw the line, and millennials got mega fucked economically by a combination the vagaries of history and poor public policy.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
9mo ago
Napoleon: “Britain is a nation of shopkeepers, we needn’t fear them.”
Same energy.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
4mo ago
It’s been apparent to me for years and years that the vast, vast majority of opponents to Trump & Trumpism have little to no theory of mind when it comes to their political enemies. Sometimes even proudly so, boasting of their ignorance from the rooftops as if it grants them high status.
They fail the intellectual Turing test over and over because of the iron information bubble they’ve built for themselves, and even when they leave the physical bubble to places like this where open Trump support isn’t instantly banned / siloed / throttled / etc, often the bubble still exists in mind. Even now after the walls have come down in social media and the censorship has cooled, even if only relatively.
Many are incapable of simple listening, not even to speak of comprehension. It’s too late, They’re Not Going To Make It, and they have no idea what’s in store for them.
Sad!
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