PZK [he/him]

Imagine if Hamas used their power…

Imagine pretending to not know how power works, but advocate the opposite argument for Israel.

In the decades before 2016, Trump’s hot mic incident would have been lethal to any politician. It doesn’t seem like much in hindsight because he ended up winning, but the Republican party was panicking and scrambling for an alternate candidate.

In a way, it ended up creating a lot of the political climate in the United States today. Republicans realized doubling down often was a viable strategy and have done it ever since. It also added to Trump’s mystique, that he could buck the established norms to such a degree, that it convinced many chuds that anything was possible if they were a big enough asshole.

It was probably a major source of my radicalization, because the fact that he won in spite of it lead me to believe that optics were not the only thing going on with politics. It made me pay attention and figure out why this would happen and why it didn’t matter.

The same people who defend the idea of meritocracy will also defend nepotism and inheritance as legitimate forms of success.

Reaction videos are an occasional guilty pleasure of mine. But I avoid channels that are explicitly about “reactions” because as UlyssesT said, they end up all being the same reaction to different things.

I do genuinely enjoy seeing people be excited and happy. But so much of that “industry” is fake. People either go over the top or provide nothing in addition.

I think some niche youtube channels are fun, but it certainly is becoming a bore. If I had to guess, it probably is from everything being localized to a handful of websites and those are in turn optimized by an algorithm for profit instead of something enjoyable. The internet has been turned into what is addictive instead of fun.

My personal theory is that we are so detached from joy that many find “reaction videos” a source of amusement because we can’t feel excitement ourselves anymore, so people vicariously enjoy something “new” by watching someone else be very excited and happy about it.

I only really partake in interacting with people I don’t know on Hexbear, and anything else I leave exclusive to people I know in real life.

Its a fantastic reservoir of knowledge at your fingertips, but a terrible and inhuman way to interact with other humans. Much nuance and body language is not seen, and people essentially develop the same kind of anonymous rage they feel when driving a car except it is in front of a computer screen.

After he was directly criticized for his love of slavery in spite of it’s increasing worldwide recognition as a moral evil.

This would create quite an evil mouse. I imagine the risk here is that the mouse would break free and run away with the ring and bring it to Sauron.

Edit: Someone already beat me to it.

Remember, it will be the voter’s fault in the end if the democratic leaders don’t get what they want.

Who would have thought a balloon is not useful for spying. You have little to no control over its direction, it isn’t discrete, and most silly of all, why use that when you have satellites?

I guess the US was outwitted by a balloon after spending billions of dollars on cutting edge spy planes and powerful satellite cameras.

I think objectively the answer is honeybees.

I think subjectively, the answer is the Mantis. But there are too many cool ass bugs out there. Cecropia moths are really rad.

I fortunately don’t have any of this. I do exercise regularly but I wonder how long it is before some chronic pain starts appearing.

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A lot of what you are describing here is why leftism is dysfunctional in the west. Since leftism in the west isn’t always a matter of material survival, western leftists use it to hyper-individualize themselves. Essentially they use leftist ideology to try to improve their class/conditions within a capitalist system without attempting to overthrow it. They also attack each other when one person does not see another’s personal problems as “the one true leftist perspective.”

A key factor is sometimes these criticisms are not coming from someone who is looking for solidarity, but supremacy. This is why people become defensive, because these accusations are not always launched with a cooperative perspective in mind, but a competitive mindset that is a result of western societal framing. Many of the examples cited can also be liberal perspectives quietly excusing capitalism. Basically saying "if it was only ‘x’ group that was removed from power, or put in charge, the current system would work.

I am already pasty white bald. But my shine is respected.

Or they are fear mongering with the intent to sway opinion that societal collapse is imminent so that we all must be ready to use extreme measures.

“Societal collapse” in their mind is the collapse of their privileged life. “Extreme measures” meaning find ways to quietly genocide a group of people before it becomes an open power struggle.

Honestly most of the time I see a variety of ball cap on a white dude it feels like a tell. Not necessarily always a chud but I feel the ratio is in that direction. I would be curious if there is actually data on this or just a prejudice of mine.

Intense fearful gaze is another one, which is why they also love to wear sunglasses everywhere. The funniest thing chuds do is take selfies of themselves scowling with sunglasses on in their pickup truck.

Every accusation is a confession… sadly.

Of course he would never understand, hes part of the problem.

Everything is political, not just when your views are challenged.

They sound like posters on r/conservative. Don’t tell them that though, it will make them furious.