sun_the_second
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Hardline Ukrainian pro-Ukrainians (as opposed to pro-Ukrainians of opportunity) mostly hate Navalny for supporting/not opposing Crimea's annexation back in 2014.
https://www.mk.ru/politics/2014/10/15/navalnyy-ne-otdam-krym-ukraine-kogda-stanu-prezidentom.html
"Let's not deceive ourselves. And my advice to Ukrainians to not deceive themselves either. Crimea is staying as a part of Russia and is never becoming a part of Ukraine again in the near future."
(when asked if he'd return it if he became president) "Is it a sandwich, to be passed back and forth?"
Predictably, Navalny has earned the nickname "sandwich" among a certain slice of people.
sun_the_second
4mo ago
You cannot stop people from thinking gross thoughts. Moreover, they will be using AI in the near future to generate all they could ever want, and already do, and even if your children weren't in the dataset, it is diverse enough that something close enough to your children could be generated.
Focus on preventing real harm.
sun_the_second
5mo ago
Please edit the rest of your comment to be consistent with The Bard's grammar, then.
sun_the_second
4mo ago
They believe it though. The illusion of censorship is that hiding something makes it disappear, like a hand in front of a baby.
It is impossible to prevent people from writing an uncharitable post against their ideological opponents by forbidding them from calling them faggots (or insert any other snarl word). But I do believe it introduces significant friction and reduces the amount of such posts.
sun_the_second
6mo ago
Most people aren't perfect at code switching between "want to abuse janitor" and "want to impress chick" personality. Also, not all social inferiors are socially inferior in the same way. I've heard of guys being popular because they mogged on some guy in their social group or fended off a bum, not so much for yelling at a girl behind the counter in McDonalds.
In short, when angry guys in the manosphere observe that women don't like them even though they like other assholes just fine, they often fail to observe that they're not the correct sort of asshole.
Seeing as approximately no one ever will offer a life-changing sum of money to an underage girl in exchange for sex, much less in a scenario where both parents are fine with this, I'm quite comfortable rejecting such a hypothetical offer and signaling contempt towards the notion of elites literally buying our children.
Contrary to what some rationalists think, you cannot simply win any argument just by inserting arbitrarily large numbers.
sun_the_second
1mo ago
I don't agree with this psychoanalysis. Cuphead has an easy mode, Devil May Cry games have an easy mode, Touhou games have an easy mode. In none of those games' communities does anyone boast of completing the game on easy mode. If there's any chase for social cachet, you're essentially calling those people very delusional because there is no cachet in beating ezmodo. Instead, the normal mode or higher (depending on how sweaty normal mode is) becomes the socially accepted "real completion".
Some people just want to experience [some fraction of] the game's mechanics and beat the final boss and not watch it on Youtube. There isn't any more social aspect in that than idly swiping gems in a 3 in a row game on the train.
sun_the_second
2mo ago
"Americans have an agent in a Russian prison in the middle of shitfuck nowhere, specifically in the one Navalny was transferred to ~a year ago" sounds a bit less plausible than "Americans could blow up a pipeline in the sea".
sun_the_second
3mo ago
Have you seen the average email or high school essay? For most people, outsourcing that to GPT-4 is an unqualified improvement.
The goal of those is usually proof of work/attention given, not quality.
sun_the_second
2mo ago
He's been in that specific prison for two months. If CIA could not only turn a prison guard on such a short notice, but also to coach them well enough to make it look like a medical accident - while Navalny was allegedly about to be exchanged, a valuable asset to watch and guard - well, I applaud them.
sun_the_second
4mo ago
What? I thought it was a simple question. If Canada decided it wanted the state Maine or Michigan for itself, would you be asking "WTF are Americans fighting for?"?
sun_the_second
1mo ago
Not too long ago you boasted how you and yours exploit Western weaknesses and do it with no remorse because you do not respect the way the West does things. I consider that a data point in favor of protectionism.
sun_the_second
4mo ago
Who forced you to stay in the shitty tax-heavy West where you were losing money compared to your homeland?
sun_the_second
4mo ago
If I wanted to see memes of aichads owning artcels, where would I go? It’s really important for my mental health.
Generate some?
sun_the_second
5mo ago
Posters do come and argue for literal existence of God.
sun_the_second
6mo ago
Oh please, that just sounds like all the old corporate bullshit about "rockstars". Just install competency tests. If they pass, in my books they love IT enough.
sun_the_second
6mo ago
No wiggling, please. You, personally, directly, with your own two hands and provided tools, physically until death. How much do you ask for it?
sun_the_second
25d ago
I do believe women can be interesting as people to men. It's just that, without sexual attraction in play, they have to compete with the other men on that front.
Maybe women find it naturally harder because they aren't interested in the same things as men to connect with them platonically as well as their male friends. Maybe most women never learn to be interesting due to having sexual attraction on their side. When I match with a woman on a dating app and see an empty bio or something that barely provides any hooks for a conversation, I am certainly overcome with an intense wave of apathy, no matter how hot she is.
sun_the_second
1mo ago
Also, "uniquely a shithole" would require me to first watch 1 hour of the worst a dedicated 4chan hater could dig up about other places, as well.
sun_the_second
3mo ago
Regarding 2, I see Christians perhaps not arguing, but casually stating that Christianity is literally true, quite often. In fact, the two groups I observe here are the church-as-pragmatic-social-grouping folks and the Jesus-is-king folks. None of the "casual Christians" who basically believe in all the same generic good things a generic atheist believes in, but call it God.
sun_the_second
4mo ago
To add context, on a cursory skim of that list (without looking the actual texts and videos up, which are likely to be blocked/deleted anyway), it appears to mostly consist of, in rought order of prevalence:
- white, pro-Russian/Slavic nationalism (including antisemitic remarks)
- derision of Russia as a state, including its current actions
- white, anti-Slavic nationalism (including antisemitic remarks)
- pro-Ukrainian content (in Ukrainian)
- content favoring non-Slavic non-Middle East Russian ethnicities (Tatars etc)
- mixed generic anti-social content (school shootings, thug violence, organized crime culture, etc)
- Islamic content presumably considered extreme (including antisemitic remarks)
- Orthodox content presumably considered extreme
sun_the_second
5mo ago
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Harder to keep a sniper rifle concealed than a submachine gun?
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Escalation from "street gangs' kind of violence to "assassination" kind of violence will attract more cop attention?
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Longer and more complicated setup = larger chance of getting caught?
sun_the_second
6mo ago
How much money would you torture a child to death for? Tradeoffs exist, right?
sun_the_second
1mo ago
How about "cries of anarcho-tyranny or no"? Judging by the decline in sex zoomers seem to be having, society is keeping a tighter handle on drunk teenage parties - just through self-policing rather than the panopticon of the elders.
Recording a public assembly is harassment now? I am having serious trouble imagining you apply the same standard towards any situation where your sympathies are reversed.
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