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OracleOutlook
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
8m ago
Check out Astronautalis. Greek mythology, historical references, etc.
This is our Science: https://youtube.com/watch?v=PbnumphZdPE
The Case of William Smith: https://youtube.com/watch?v=I20yLeuhUDs
quiet_NaN
10m ago
Genghis Khan is some 800 years ago, the Nazis are 80 years ago. Perhaps in a few hundred years, there will be Nazi-themed restaurant chains called "Adolf Hitler Wirtshaus" which will serve vaguely German dishes which will be invented near the end of this century.
This matches somewhat with the outgroup/fargroup distinction. Genghis Khan is very much in the fargroup outside Asia. You can safely dress up as him for Halloween and nobody will bat an eye, he is playing in the same league as Darth Vader or Sauron.
I think that a lot of factors play a role in determining when a tragedy or atrocity loses its gravity. Raw numbers are one thing -- a single death is more easily shrugged off than a million (but I would argue that this scales only logarithmically, because humans are scope insensitive. Accidents are forgotten quicker than atrocities.
Sometimes, a traumatic event becomes almost permanently imprinted in a culture. As far as Roman occupiers go, Pontius Pilate is hardly one of the worst. Using the death penalty against some guy who has offended local religious sentiments as a favor to the local elites is just how the sausage gets made, hardly a reign of terror. But because the killing of that guy spawned one of the most successful memes of all times, dressing as him for Halloween is probably a bad idea.
For the Federal Republic of Germany, Nazism plays a central role in the founding mythology. Where before Germany had been a Great Power run on Prussian militarism and patriotic fervor, with a tenuous relationship to democracy, it basically reinvented itself after WW2, rejecting its ambitions to rule the world and fully embraced democracy. (While keeping all the Nazis around, but that problem solved itself through time.)
Of course, there is another state in whose founding Hitler inadvertently played a major role, which is modern Israel. As long as these two states are around, they will remember the Nazis as the Big Bad.
roystgnr
11m ago
Seriously???
Back when I got the start of the series, they were all so hard to find in the US that I had to order a used set off eBay from the UK. I had no idea that some were hard to find but others were impossible.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
21m ago
https [://] nitter [.] net/kanyewest/status/1920387087049572704
it's gone now.
Tree
48m ago
I don't know in what world Xi would not endorse his ally's peace talks offer. Also why trump would be swung by Xi's endorsement in putin's favour.
An offer to talk is worth zilch, as the tariff talks clownshow has demonstrated. I like kasparov’s take of calling the americans chicken, Ukraine's best hope is that Trump throws a fit at Putin's refusal. Someone tell him heavily subventioned arms exports lead to trade surplus, it's like chinese EVs.
Eupraxia
Shut up and quantify
53m ago
And only men can produce the sperm required to conceive said child. Primary sex characteristics are table stakes.
BurdensomeCount
Messenger Status: Shot
55m ago
Ouch the Indians need to step up their meme game.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1hr ago
The ability to produce, birth, and feed a child.
Eupraxia
Shut up and quantify
1hr ago
What physiological/psychological advantages do women have over men? The only solid ones I can think of off the top of my head are a better immune system, greater flexibility, and greater conscientiousness. I've also seen some stuff about more acute color vision, more efficient use of fat stores during endurance activity, and better scores on verbal/memory IQ subtests, though I haven't investigated those as thoroughly.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
1hr ago
They have a more diverse array of “market dominant minorities” so they’re more familiar with the concept in general and yet less familiar with the particular expression of the phenomena re: the Jews. Which explains their thoughts on the subject.
They have market dominant minorities in Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia & more…
AvocadoPanic
2hr ago
If antisemitism is a response it could be there's be insufficient exposure.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322X.2023.2287877
their number in East Asia never exceeding 36,000 (currently around 10,000), Jews there are the subject of both distinctly strong positive and negative views
in a worldwide survey across 101 countries conducted recently by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The survey, which is discussed in detail below, revealed that, among respondents in China, Japan and South Korea, no less than 20, 23 and 53 per cent, respectively, could be regarded as holding antisemitic views
Pharaoh seems not concerned with the Israelites until they've become too numerous in Exodus 1:9.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
2hr ago
Goes great with our post modernist half joke meme president!
Seriously. Every time people think about this song they will say nigga heil hitler in their head. And when the sky doesn't fall as a result, some of those people who were told it would will realise they have been lied to. This is an effective use of outrage to send a message. It's basically the right wing version of Childish Gambino's This is America - except This is America was fuelled by the progressive zeitgeist, and thus was basically substance free, reliant on censorship to both provide substance and shield the song from critics, so my progressive friends' opinion of it was along the lines of 'we have to prop up black people so even if it's kind of empty we can praise it for what it didn't say'.
But Kanye is right (wing lol) so he can't use censorship to his advantage by leveraging silence, he has to leverage outrage. I like both Childish Gambino and Ye as artists, but I'm pretty sure I already know which of the these songs will have a bigger impact.
5434a
2hr ago
How narrow are your goalposts? Does it need to be on a par with Shakespeare's sonnets to qualify or is anything more intelligent than Love Me Do good enough?
There's a certain ceiling as rap is based on simple loops and unpitched AAAA BBBB rhyme schemes and the further you go beyond that the more you risk a counter of "that isn't rap".
Stan by Eminem is a fairly easy example of something that surpasses the guns, drugs, whores and gold stereotype without having to reach for a laboured meta analysis that the guns and whores are a reflection of those artists' social environment akshually and are being held up as an ironic means to confront society's hypocrisy ("I was only pretending to be a violent greedy thug!"). On the other hand a vast amount of rap genuinely is wilfully degenerate so I can understand why so many people condemn it and write it off wholesale.
orthoxerox
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3hr ago
Some recent diplomatic news from Ukraine: a bunch of EU country leaders have endorsed Zelensky's offer of an unconditional 30-day ceasefire and are trying to convince Putin to agree by painting him as a warmonger and threatening him with additional sanctions.
The counteroffer from Putin is that he's willing to start direct peace talks instead. It's easy to see why he's reluctant to agree to an unconditional ceasefire: he hasn't secured any strategic objectives since the land bridge to Crimea and his current approach is to keep pummeling Ukraine until it runs out of men first and the front buckles. An unconditional ceasefire clearly benefits the defender: Ukraine gets a month to rotate its troops, resupply the frontline, build additional defensive lines.
Now, there are several ways in which the situation could evolve. I think a lot depends on the outcome of Xi-Putin talks. If Xi endorses Putin's direct peace talks offer, this will be a major signal to Trump that he also has to support Putin and not Starmer/Macron/Merz.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
4hr ago
I’m going to disagree here. Yes, we knew about the Indian removals of the 1800s and the slave trade and colonialism. But they weren’t things that people were supposed to feel deep guilt about. Indian removal was seen as perhaps unfortunate, but necessary to build a civilization in America. Hitler changed that because he moved at an industrial pace and we won in time to film the aftermath. He was also a gift to the Military-Industrial complex, as the specter of Hitler somewhere in the world was useful to convince tge populace that they should send their sons to some military adventure out in the world, and for that, we needed a huge military. Anti-racism is also politically useful globally because it gives those nonwhite nations a reason to choose our side — we fought genocidal racism.
Without Hitler I don’t think it happens. Without Hitler racism goes from being the evil to being on par with any number of other political evils that we knew about and don’t celebrate, but don’t punish ourselves over. And there are plenty of other evils to bring up.
SnapDragon
5hr ago
As far as I can tell, the vast vast VAST majority of it is slop full of repurposed music and lyrics that get by on being offensive rather than clever. Rap artists aren't known for being intelligent, after all. I suspect most "celebrated" rap music would fail a double-blind test against some rando writing parodic lyrics and banging on an audio synthesizer for a few hours. Much like postmodern art, where the janitor can't tell it apart from trash.
There probably are some examples of the genre that I could learn to appreciate (Epic Rap Battles of History comes to mind), but it's hard to find them because of the pomo effect.
Crowstep
5hr ago
They said rap should be subversive, well what did they think subversive meant? Vibes? Essays?
Honestly it's a pretty good song, bizarre subject matter aside. This Youtube link is live as of this writing, although it seems like the platform keeps taking new uploads down.
Maybe I will live to tell my incredulous grandkids about how we were all expected to perceive one specific 20th century dictator through a prism of quasi-superstitious dread.
I wonder if 'racism is the paramount evil' would still be a defining characteristic of western ethics if WW2 hadn't happened? I mean, the Transatlantic slave trade and the scramble for Africa still happened, smallpox still wiped out the American Indians. Maybe we would just find some other kind of racial guilt? My assumption is that it all stems from the fact that we're so outbred and WEIRD, not from the particular events of the early 1940s.
ulyssessword
6hr ago
there is artistically great rap music.
Link?
ArmedTooHeavily
7hr ago
Writing off entire major genres of art is needlessly impoverishing yourself. I'm not even a rap fan, but it is obvious that there is artistically great rap music.
dr_analog
razorboy
8hr ago
No love for Excession? That's got to be in my top 3 among the series.
Apparently due to some legal tie ups this was never released in the US!
Though I see on Amazon it will be available November 11th 2025.
ArmedTooHeavily
8hr ago
an actually effective piece of viral far right propaganda
You have got to be kidding me. It's a song about how he likes to watch other people fuck his wife, how huffing nitrous oxide is one of the only things that makes him feel better, and how he (a black man) hails Hitler. It's a post-modernist half-joke meme song.
madeofmeat
8hr ago
What does it mean to hold yourself in the right way if righteousness doesn't exist?
It means that you need to work hard to come up with an idea of right that is good and that you can hold yourself to, and to keep checking how it's actually working and get back to the drawing board if it looks like something is off.
I understood your
If I am wrong about the universe, I will not be wrong in how I have held myself.
meaning that you feel like you have some internal sense of righteousness that's not completely outsourced to whatever is outside yourself out in the universe.
Do you have a link?
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