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veqq
32m ago
Trivial to find: https://odysee.com/@LightElf:0/Kanye-West-Heil-Hitler:9
Not worth listening to, rather terrible, but such is our fallen society that some like rap.
hydroacetylene
36m ago
Encourage Protestants to use the power of the state to enforce their religious morality and they may well decide to come after Catholicism, which they have traditionally seen at best as a corrupt and degraded form of Christianity.
The dominant strain of Protestantism in the USA does not care about non-moral theological differences within nicene Christianity and is also unable to do much of anything without assistance from conservative Catholics. This is a reasonable worry from a Mormon perspective; and Mormons know this. It is not a reasonable worry from a Catholic perspective.
Catholics, BTW, were mostly not burning witches. Witch burnings by country is basically a Protestant heat map.
Eupraxia
Shut up and quantify
40m ago
Yep, I recall reading somewhere that Asians tend to respect Jews for their disproportionate influence, the thought process going something like:
You're telling me that this tiny minority dominates your finance, media, and government? Sounds like they're doing something right, what's their secret?
hydroacetylene
41m ago
He knew he had a shot at one day being pope a long time ago. He may have known this before entering seminary.
I’m kinda surprised the onion hadn’t been making fun of Pizzaballa(because of his name) or Tagle(because of his general tackiness and unpredictability giving them fodder).
hydroacetylene
49m ago
Is the there anyone who likes him other than some autistic losers?
ABigGuy4U
51m ago
Given his difficult relationship with Ms. Swift I suspect that might be intentional.
hydroacetylene
52m ago
East Asia seems not to have adopted that particular prejudice, for one.
TheBailey
soapy mop
1hr ago
link's not working for me...
Hmm...this page doesn’t exist. Try searching for something else.
However, it's loading (cached?) on the main public Nitter instance
https [://] nitter [.] net/kanyewest/status/1920387087049572704
[EDIT: had to mangle link because The Motte worthlessly normalizes them]
Incanto
1hr ago
Played classic in 2019 and a bit of SoD but my guild eventually fell apart in SoD phase 3 and I lost the motivation to continue.
AvocadoPanic
1hr ago
wouldn't call antisemitism universal
Are there peoples or cultures where it's absent? I don't mean uncontantacted people's in remote areas.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
1hr ago
Though on the other hand, we might end up remembering having this kind of culture spanning, unifying narrative as kind of comfy compared to total balkanization
Since it's being used as a cudgel against anyone who isn't all on board the multiculturalism and diversity express (or a rhetorical device to back up any Israeli foreign policy strategem), then away with it!
The narrative isn't so highly energized because of objective historical reasons: the Mongols celebrate Genghis Khan as a national hero. The Turks and Algerians couldn't care less about the atrocities they committed, slave-trading, slave-raiding and genocide. Mao and Stalin have mixed but vaguely positive receptions in their countries. The Hitler narrative is there to achieve a political result in the contemporary world, to justify the high and growing costs of this system and military adventurism.
Templexious
1hr ago
The hate fuentes gets on this forum glows brighter than the existing discussion around fuentes himself.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2hr ago
Did “they”?
Post about specific groups or specific people. If you can’t do so without waging the culture war in the fun thread…don’t.
stolen_brawnze
I am the way Sia says "batteries" in that one song.
2hr ago
I took the opposite interpretation of that Onion article. It's obviously absurd that he would make all those efforts if his true goal were the papacy itself. Exploring how absurd it looks all spelled out like that is supposed to have the effect of humor.
Corvos
2hr ago
That’s what I mean, yes. Reasonably savvy Chinese are allowed to play in the supervised play area. They are not permitted to leave it and do their own thing in secret.
anon_
2hr ago
effective piece of viral far right propaganda
This is quite the claim buried in there. Is I t?
SubstackNecron
3hr ago
This is I think what we used to call "Posting"
SubstackNecron
3hr ago
Whether Kanye is a truly great artist
He is nothing if not this. Its the one thing you can't take away from him. If he's is great NOW is a debate but overall I can't see how you would argue to the contrary.
ABigGuy4U
3hr ago
There is an idea of an @AvacadoPanic, something illusory. But there is no real him.
They are explicitly designed to be much more fun and addictive.
A quote below from your article linked in the above line.
I leave you with a final argument from fictional evidence: Simon Funk’s online novel After Life depicts (among other plot points) the planned extermination of biological Homo sapiens - not by marching robot armies, but by artificial children that are much cuter and sweeter and more fun to raise than real children. Perhaps the demographic collapse of advanced societies happens because the market supplies ever-more-tempting alternatives to having children, while the attractiveness of changing diapers remains constant over time. Where are the advertising billboards that say “BREED”? Who will pay professional image consultants to make arguing with sullen teenagers seem more alluring than a vacation in Tahiti?
“In the end,” Simon Funk wrote, “the human species was simply marketed out of existence.”
Solid points.
That all said, switching gears to adult stuff.
I game, but I would have been better off if I had never been introduced to the hobby. At most, some of the very best video games I have played (Metal Gear Solid, Fire Emblem, Days of Ruin, Cave Story, Iji, etc.) have provided approximately the same level of enjoyment, emotional release, and intellectual stimulation as a great movie or a good novel, except that they took much longer to do so (your average video game takes 20+ hours to beat, compared to 2 hours for a film and however fast you can read a book). At worst, games like Tetris and Civilization IV have consumed countless hours of my life through highly-optimized dopamine loops with nothing to show for it.
We're in adult entertainment territory here and I suppose I would disagree with this. Steam tells me I've played Cyberpunk 2077 for about 25 hours or so and I'd say I've enjoyed it a lot more than any movie. Maybe even more than 12x ~2 hour movies, though the median movie is bad.
The art direction in Cyberpunk is top notch and often inspiring and while some of the storylines are camp, some of them are really thought provoking and interesting. It's very good interactive sci-fi and I don't want it to end, though I'm near the end of the expansion pack now.
If I were playing video games 10 hours a week constantly chasing that high I might reconsider the category. But Cyberpunk is like an hour or two every few weeks right now. Seems fine.
At worst, games like Tetris and Civilization IV have consumed countless hours of my life through highly-optimized dopamine loops with nothing to show for it.
Yeah I hear this. I've only played like 20 hours of the first or maybe second Civilization in my life, when I was a kid, and it taught me a bunch, but I could see how if this grew to 1000 hours between all of the sequels I'd feel like they were a loss.
I suppose in my ideal society I would have access to video games but most people who seem to ruin their lives with them would not.
Fuentes, who I'm not sure if he was behind Ye's ideological evolution or was just there to cheer it on, seems to be recognizing the Right's strategy of relentlessly and exclusively appealing to low human capital is not gonna go anywhere good:
Special Agent Fuentes was more than happy to pal around with Kanye when his ridiculous cringe mental illness antics were making the far right look like a bunch of unserious clowns. Now when Kanye knuckles down and independently puts out an actually effective piece of viral far right propaganda, Nick is suddenly hammering the “uhhh actually guys we have to distance ourselves from this, it’s making us look low status”. Even though Nick’s own low human capital has been making the far-right look low status for over half a decade.
It’s doing massive numbers on X, the only platform it’s not actively being suppressed on.
So… yes.
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