firmamenti
2yr ago
Anti-catholic rhetoric is still anti-catholic and has no place in any modern society. The rise of anticatholicism is dangerous and should be called out and stopped immediately whenever it's seen.
firmamenti
2yr ago
What you’re seeing is the rise of anticatholicism.
Definitely something that we as a society need to be more aware of. Anticatholicism has no place in society. Canadians at all levels need to take a stand against it.
firmamenti
2yr ago
firmamenti
2yr ago
I don't know man. What would Jesus do, or maybe more correctly: what would Jesus instruct us to do?
Sit idly while people are tricked into consuming deadly poison (fentanyl)? Offer them a coat and a few dollars while they die, but do absolutely nothing about the thing that is killing them?
Our priest this week included in his sermon some talk about this. How disgusting it is that we as a society just walk past these """"""homeless""""""" people. Believe me Father, I don't want to just walk past them, but what, seriously, can I do? These aren't "homeless" people, they're people in the middle stages of a drawn out homocide on behalf of drug cartels.
firmamenti
2yr ago
Because a massive bank lied to them and because incompetent federal regulators didn’t catch it?
Should they just have already assumed the government was made up mostly of completely useless rent seeking tyrants? Keep in mind a lot of them are pretty young and may not have figured that out yet.
firmamenti
2yr ago
I am geeky and nerdy. This level of asking a woman to be a prostitute for you is not geeky or nerdy, it's sexual harassment.
firmamenti
2yr ago
This guy sounds like an absolute sperg, and actually discouraging this behavior is a sign of a functioning society.
"Hello, would you like to have sex with me?" is not an appropriate thing to say to a woman unless you are in a relationship with her. "Hello, would you like to have sex with me and then have me absolutely ignore you emotionally and treat you like free prostitute" doubly so.
Do not behave this way. "Friends with benefits" is not a thing for people who are asking reddit if they are autistic or not.
firmamenti
2yr ago
Only because you mentioned him: Just want to say that I cannot recommend martyrmade's history podcasts enough. Just absolutely unbelievable levels of quality. As far as I've found there is nothing that even comes close to it.
firmamenti
2yr ago
The democrats are no longer trying to claim that it came from a wet market. That's the difference.
firmamenti
2yr ago
There was a hearing today in the house about the origins of covid19: https://youtube.com/watch?v=aXXWRaM-sWQ
I highly recommend watching this. The level of gaslighting being done by the "bat soup" conspiracy theorists here is absolutely a spectacle. I feel like we are watching a narrative being generated in real time here.
Jamie Raskin's seething is particularly incredible. He is now claiming that Covid was Trump's fault because Trump was being too nice to China, and was too nice to Xi. They are continuing on now that The Republicans, and their "conspiracy theories" about covid origins have caused people to lose trust in institutions.
I'm almost at a loss for words at watching this. Absolutely incredible.
They're now saying that this entire hearing is invalid because one of the witnesses wrote this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Troublesome_Inheritance?useskin=vector&useskin=vector
firmamenti
2yr ago
You just defined it. There was an idea in your, and you used words to get it into my head.
You don’t need to redefine existing words to do this, and trying to do so only generates confusion for everybody involved.
firmamenti
2yr ago
Your "simple point" basically boils down to:
"I can change reality by personally redefining the definition of words and then insisting that is what people mean when they use them"
My simple response is:
"No you can't."
Your point is a bad point. You're doing the exact same thing that sovereign citizens do, which I think is an interesting observation. You cannot change reality by changing the definition of a word which was created to describe that reality.
Here's another example of somebody doing the same thing: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mt6Hfiyj3Tg&t=256s
In this case, he is redefining words like "credit" to mean something other than the thing they are meant to describe. You don't get to personally redefine "woman" or "gender" or "sex" or anything else and then insist that reality reflect that and that people not sharing in your redefinition rotate their reality to match yours.
Something I’ve noticed about gender trolls is that they feel like they can “gotcha” reality by redefining words.
Has anyone here ever heard of the “sovereign citizen” movement? A culture war adjacent recent happening was the trial of a mass murderer named “Darrel Brooks”. Darrell is, and also was, an adherent to this movement.
His belief was essentially that he could use some clever wording to get himself out of trouble for having obviously, on multiple videos, killed a bunch of people at a parade in Waukesha Wisconsin. Despite being obviously guilty of this crime, Darrel spent weeks wasting time arguing with the judge about him, the person in the courtroom, not being Darrel Brooks, but being a “third party intervenor”, as if this would catch the judge in a linguistic gotcha that would prove that the obvious objective reality that the court exists in wasnt actually so real after all.
You can see some of what I’m talking about here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jm-E3FNUIvs
What’s interesting about that these sovcits is that they aren’t stupid, the arguments they make have some internal consistency; it’s just that they think that if they torture the words enough, that they can warp reality.
I think the gender trolls are suffering from a similar sort of delusion. No matter how much somebody might torture the meaning of words, and no matter how complex and seemingly sophisticated these linguistic arguments might become (they do seem to get ever more complex over time), they will never change the reality that women are in fact women, and men are in fact men, and that there is a very very tiny minority of people who suffer from a genetic defect which causes them to be neither. You cannot make a linguistic argument that alters reality because the language is only a tool which describes reality.
Saying “well actually sex and gender are different! So this whole time when you’ve been using the worded gender to describe something, you didn’t realize but you were actually an adherent to my ideology!” Is just…silly. No, my mother saying “gender” because she does like saying “sex” in front of people, does not change what she meant, which was a description of a reality where men and women both exist.
Oh come on...
It's beautiful. People living in some horrifying hellscape, and still managing to find humanity there. Nick Offerman's character made a literal refuge for himself, and eventually somebody he cared about to live in. His work, and his masculinity is what kept them safe. We need more of this, not less. I agree that it seems a little tedious to make these characters gay, but...gay people exist. Slightly autistic sexually confused (I mean because it was implied that Offerman's character suppressed his homosexuality and never acted on it) dudes are the exact type of person I'd expect that have elaborate zombie preps.
My critique for the people who think that telling stories like this is pointless: what is the point of the broader story? None of it is real. It serves no utilitarian purpose at all.
"Some dude and a kid go to Montana" - is that really the whole story? I don't think so.
firmamenti
2yr ago
I'll admit that I'm typically pretty sensitive to these sorts of things, and while they are obvious in this show, the show is good enough that they're ignorable.
This show is really good. I think towards the end of The Walking Dead, there was this idea that audiences simply didn't have an appetite for zombies anymore, and that's why people were so hard on that show. No, actually, it's just that TWD became horrible.
I will say that everybody on that show seems to be a lot gayer than is statistically reflected in society, and while I love to complain to my wife about how annoying it is that writers will just lazily make characters gay as a way of making the story more dramatic, I ultimately don't care.
My thoughts on the most recent episode: I actually didn't pick up on the CW angle of the rapey cult leader. I know plenty of of protestants who seem about a half a step away from fitting into that archetype.
firmamenti
2yr ago
Is there anywhere you guys are hanging out to discuss the war in Ukraine?
firmamenti
2yr ago
I live in a 15 minute hellhole. There are probably a dozen coffee shops within a 15 minute walk, almost as many churches, a bunch of drug stores, some clothing stores, infinite amounts of restaurants
It’s early morning here and I can hear the light rail’s grating, electronic simulation of a bell dinging and angrily bleating at cars as it rumbles past my house. It’s morning, but dark in my house because of the blackout shades I had to install after my city switched to dystopian white LED flood lights to “prevent crime”. All night long people literally drag raced up and down my street reaching speeds of >100mph directly in front of my house.
I used to sit on my front porch every night and chat with neighbors as they walked by, but these days the neighbors mostly sit in their own houses, rightfully fearful of the homeless drug addicted schizophrenics who have laid claim to the sidewalks here.
No I do not love my 15 minute city. Tear out this god awful light rail, it does nothing but bring crime to the neighborhood, tear down ALL of the streetlights, start enforcing the laws against open drug use, and speeding, and maybe then this city would be enjoyable.
But the same people who advocate 15 minute cities seem to think these horrifying hell demons are virtues, not things to be overcome, so no I do not want to give them any power. If they want to build their childish utopia, they can do so out in the desert from scratch. Stop ruining cities.
firmamenti
2yr ago
I guess I’d like to see the “growth” happen among the people working for Camry then, too. Cake man should realize that he was getting sucked into his own side project, and the younger chef (I’m sorry I’m seriously terrible with names) should have had an aha moment where she realized her greenness and unwillingness to listen to Carmy almost sank the business.
Maybe there’s something there where the viewers are meant to take on the role of the naive staff and see Carmy as a bad guy?
The scene where he apologizes to the young chef was particularly ridiculous to me. She screwed up his restaurant, then in the middle of him trying to fix it, when he would most need help, she just walked out and he is now apologizing to her about this?
Again, loved the show. 10/10, can’t wait for more of it. Just like talking about this part of the writing.
firmamenti
2yr ago
Have you guys watched "The Bear"? A couple of notes on this show:
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This show is absolutely excellent. If you've worked in a kitchen, or if you've ever worked in any sort of extreme-stress environment, this show captures the feeling perfectly.
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Just to stress again, I absolutely loved this show. 10/10 acting, cinematography, story, music. It's a perfect show.
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There is a heavily implied theme here, which is that the main character, Carmy, has a toxic personality, and that he needs to overcome this in order to succeed. Some of the other characters, the young female chef, as well as the older "gentler" male cake making chef have conflicts with the Carmy over how mean he is being to them. Eventually these two quit, then "forgive" him, then they eventually return.
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Many bits have been spilled about how the theme of this show is "toxic masculinity".
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The problem I have with this is: Carmy is presented at the beginning of the show as an absolute savant level of chef. He is young, has already been declared as the most promising up and coming chef by some prestigious magazine, and has worked at both The French Laundry, and Noma, two of the top restaurants in the world. In one scene the younger female chef is explaining to the cake maker chef how when she finished culinary school (she also went to a very prestigious school, CIA, but hasn't done anything yet) she went out on a tour of top restaurants, and that Carmy (the man she now works for) cooked the best meal she has ever had in her life.
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The people who work with Carmy, who complain about how mean he is, are morons. Young chef girl screws up multiple times in ways that could be disastrous for the restaurant. Cake maker man has been essentially trying to teach himself how to bake while on the clock, and the "blowup moment" where he quits is during a high stress situation (that young female chef created and Carmy is in the process of trying to solve). Cake maker wants Carmy to taste/give feedback on some donuts he has been trying to learn to make. Carmy yells at him that he doesn't have time for this right now, and cake maker quits.
In the setting of the show, where Carmy is one of the top chefs in the entire world, the reality is that he would have an endless list of people willing to work for him for free, who would be willing to follow every command he gave to a t. Additionally, if this top chef was known to be working at some crappy beef sandwich restaurant in Chicago, they'd have a line around the block of people wanting to taste his food.
Again, this show is amazing, and the CW elements are easily ignorable. I'm curious if anybody else watched this show and had similar frustrations about it.
(Also: I'm not sure why I like writing posts like this as numbered lists.)
firmamenti
2yr ago
Just don't list your pronouns, and don't make a big deal out of it. If somebody asks you to list your pronouns specifically, agree to do it, but then just don't, and if they press you on it later claim you forgot and then just again don't do it.
If somebody wants to escalate "rokmonster won't put pronouns in bio" all the way to you getting fired, then just claim bewilderment when their boss asks you to do it, do it, and then quit and get a different job somewhere else.
firmamenti
2yr ago
The argument that those two get in in the clip you lined is an excellent example of why shows like this are so useless. Once they state their own position, their cohost simply misstates it back to them. It's obvious that the conversation is going nowhere. What is the purpose of subjecting people to the rest of this?
firmamenti
2yr ago
I think that the internet has really, really broken this man's mind.
firmamenti
2yr ago
I will first point out that the question of whether or not libertarians are “right-wing” is a very hotly-contested topic, and that I would answer the question with a definitive “no”.
Let's start with: what do you consider 'right wing'?
Also, when was the last time that any of the art produced at Burning Man made any sort of cultural impact on the general public? I’m certainly not aware of a single example, although I admit that it’s not an area about which I’m very knowledgeable.
I don't think there is really a way to address this question. In my world, burning man is a massive cultural juggernaut. It defines building/architectural styles, sculpture styles, music styles, clothing styles. It's practically inescapable.
Burning man had its own exhibit in The Smithsonian: https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/burning-man
Hmm, man I'm really at a loss as to how to address your question of what cultural impact burning man has had.
Anti-Christianity is one thing, but anti-catholicism is especially dangerous because of the places it leads to. I think we need to be specific about calling out anti-catholic sentiment, and yellowstone is a perfect example of it. That type of hateful depiction belongs in the KKK meetings of the 1920s where it came from, not in a mainstream television show. Imagine that it's 2023 and things like that are being pushed on mainstream TV. Insane how far backward we've gone.
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