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Update on the r/TankieTheDeprogram drama: The ACP mods have been kicked out! Their offensive didn't even last 24 hours against the Tankies. We are yet to hear from the head mod u/Alexitine about this failed infiltration attempt.
hello everyone. tankiethedeprogram ACP mod drama is actually so insane. on a minor level considering everything but like, what's going on... if this is seriously some sort of psyop (which i dont like to accuse liberally bc it takes away from honestly evaluating how many ppl organically come into shitty beliefs, absolutely not saying that psyops do not happen on a far broader scale than most people imagine) that's like. fucking crazy
mod in question was on r/asksocialists agreeing with post that said transgender people on left were degenerates oh woah it might be over
I always feel really wierd, class wise...
Like...I'm not super poor. Obviously I have internet, a house, electronics, and I don't have to work part time to afford college (with scholarships)
But...sometimes I feel really poor too. But I can never tell what poor I am. Like, I have a friend who is transferring and he was talking about how his parents will be paying A TON more in tuition than i am.
And ive talked about it before where last year I felt really, really ashamed about my mom not having an important job like everyone else in the class (She works as a laborer while everyone else had parents who worked as lawyers or dentists or upper managers, etc.) And like...logically I shouldn't, i know that. I don't think anyone else cared either, but for some reason having to say that just made me feel really ashamed for some reason.
I think I just feel like I don't fit in either world. I'm too "artsy" (for lack of a better term) and effeminate and privileged to really feel working class, but too limited and stressed to feel super privileged either.
I'm not asking for a ton of sympathy, i just wanted to get these thoughts out, because my emotions are involuntary so i wanna know why I have them
I feel this too sometimes but it's important to remember that the idea of working class being exclusively manual, blue collar workers is a very intentionally created image created by people who are not working class
I’m so looking forward to March Madness…this silly, ridiculous basketball tournament makes me feel like a kid in the best ways. Watching these intense finishes and upsets with my friends, driving to the games in college, watching these 20 year olds have this sudden and fleeting moment of fame.
It’s extremely exploitative, especially before NIL. And the whole thing rakes in millions of gambling dollars every year… but it reminds me of childhoods greatest moments
I hate seasonal allergies with a burning passion. And the burning passion being my eyes and lungs.
Happy International Women's Day, comrades. We hold up half the sky.
women? more like, "woahman" because women are amazing 😎
i spent like a good 10 minutes refreshing this site looking for the soviet women/american women quote and it didn't work today but i was gonna send that to my friend for womens day
Happy International Women's Day!🌹
issa march 8th, everybloody!
happy women's day! i know this is an important day to most of you since it's one of the traditions that are linked to socialism. we celebrate it here in romania
HAPPY WOMENS DAY!
Is it just me, or are error messages commoner on Lemmygrad than they used to be?
Thankfully they tend to be brief, but they are annoying all the same.
traffic is way higher than normal.
Definitely for me. I'm assuming some of it is the servers having higher load from people checking in on Iran news.
"Hmmm...load" - Dr. Hakim.
Hexbear seems to not be federating properly with Lemmygrad
just noticed that too, must be something with the new 0.19.16 version. 1.0 is getting close to coming out so hopefully it will be resolved by then
did some poking around, hb can see everything we're posting but we cant see anything from hb
stumbling onto cryptofash website is the weirdest thing ever.
ETA: the reason why i stumbled there was bc it was first page result when i was looking for data on how many people watched nayirah testimony aside from wikipedia (later referred to wikipedia’s citation instead since i couldn’t find much) and there was a site that looked fairly obscure and small. click and it’s talking about israel… okay… weird about it, but sometimes people who have fair critiques of israel are also antisemitic and weird (which is wrong, but usually their factual content on israel is right, so even if you categorically disagree; sometimes theyll CONTAIN things that are factual and of value) so i read their article on nayirah testimony. hey this language is weird. go to About. trheres a statue. im like oh no. neoclassical aesthetics. proceed to read most heinous thing ever.
trying to read on nayirah testimony and my two options are "cultural marxism and jewry are evil pollutants" and democracy now hard "uyghur genocide is real" agenda. yes the factual contents for both on the nayirah testimony are right but their frameworks are sooooooooo stupid (i mean demnow is better than blogspot that has 10 likes, one of which has SS logo profile picture, but)
wait this sounds so lenient to the cryptofash website byy comparing it to demnow. it's like saying azov is like amnesty intl. like yes amnesty IS stupid as hell butlike. at least ‘well intentioned’ even though it still says dumb shit or furthers capitalist aims (DPRK propaganda, back then supporting the words of nayirah testimony though they revoked that, uyghur genocide myth.) like i did not properly articulate this but it’s a genuinely repulsive thing to see and it makes your stomach roil and demnow is not at least on that level of explicitly backwards corrosive and evil ideology even if ultimately it supports neoliberal world order/‘liberal democracy’. the other people are open eugenicists
Small motor rally in memory of Stalin
It's really funny that "dark woke" Azov Something did a really thrash video giving horribly thrash dating advice while complaining that "the Left" failed "young men" (by not indulging their reactionary need to prove themselves as men through pick up artistry), when three years ago Shaun already did an actually quite good video giving advice for young men, including dating advice but also a lot of general self-growth advice. It's like the embodiment of left-aesthetic reactionaries in video form, absolutely refusing to feel uncomfortable with their own internalised misogyny, pampering their male egos, and thinking they're cured of all it just by declaring themselves "dark woke" or some other inane shit. He even opens the "advice" section pretending it isn't solely dedicated to heterosexual men, like non-het non-male dynamics are just drop-in replacements. In Portuguese we even have a word for this kind of redwashed pick up artist, "Esquerdomacho" (lefto-male? "Sexism" in Portuguese is "machismo" so the word has that connotation too).
It's gross, and the attached 91-page lefto-PUA manual is extra gross, but also funny in how bizarre it is. I feel every paragraph is huge screenshot-worthy "WTF". Like "first dates only from Monday to Thursday"? My guy, what do you think is the point of weekends for employed people? Dreadful stuff.
If only nuclear proliferation was easier. I know people say "just get nukes" but enrichment is a really, really hard and energy intensive task. It's very hard to hide a centrifuge.
Talking about nation-states here, not personal centrifuges, feds. /s
Time to open up a coffin business in the US.
3d-printed coffins ran by a shell company with "PATRIOT" in the name. You then get a cardboard box in the mail with a 3d-printed vial and directions to the nearest crematorium. Gob bless.
Fascist america will deploy troops.
I have no party and I must revolt 🤐
Theres some sort of poetry to the fact that Japanese music is infamous for having really up beat tunes while simultaneously having dark/depressing lyrics
marj bar amrika is my new vocal stim
Honestly, as cool as it is, I think we need a new magic system that isn't "humans have collective powers that make things real when they think hard."
Persona does it, Disco Elysium does it, that new analog horror Mt. Greylock does it, and (from what i can tell) life and suffering of sir brante also does it [although I'll give that one more of a pass because it's not obvious at first and i don't think it's ever explicitly confirmed].
And it's like...its interesting, but I wonder if there'd be a way to make a magic system without patheonic gods nor the psychic examples like the ones mentioned above.
Genetic magic gets a bit weird sometimes.
I liked how WORM did their magic, but that's partially a "pantheon". The "pantheon" is just a massive collective intelligence trying to prevent entropy so they start experimenting with humanity and breaking reality itself to try and find a solution to entropy. (There probably is none and they're torturing humanity) also heavily paraphrasing this.
chaos magicka seems interesting but hard to put into a show or game I feel like. I am reminded of "wild magic" from DND which could be a way to do it.
I've always been fond of magic as a "limited, physical resource". Spice from Dune, for example.
I think I'm a bigger fan of magic being intrinsic to the world/humans. But I think part of my aversion to spice-like magic is just that I don't like the idea of mages just being drug addicts, or that it's similar to drugs.
I'm not the biggest 40k fan [reading Slannesh's backstory made me realize I was reading something made by the British in the 1900s] but i like their magic. Like how it's an inherent part of the universe without being explicitly created by something, and with every race having a different reaction (or none at all) to it. It also has this esoteric/Lovecraftian aspect that's cool.
I'll have to check put WORM, thx for putting it on my radar
I think I’m a bigger fan of magic being intrinsic to the world/humans.
You might get a kick out of the Inheritance cycle, it has my favourite magic system to date. Magic comes in the form of knowledge about the "true language" (there called Ancient Language) of the world, as using it means exerting complete control over whatever you named. I quite enjoy it.
It's a young adult serie so expect some simpler themes, but still quite good imo
Thanks for the reccomendation but that was actually my favorite fantasy series as a kid lol. But I'll give it a reread since its been a while
I don’t like the idea of mages just being drug addicts, or that it’s similar to drugs.
Differences in opinion, I suppose. Drugs, alcohol and other mind-altering substances are intrinsic to the human experience; but not something required by everyone at all! It's like music, not everyone cares about it but it's something that has shaped and been a part of humanity since likely before the inception of the species we are. A good chunk of animals experiment with these. Terence McKenna's "Stoned Ape Theory" is complete bullshit but it makes good science fiction like most grand, ridiculous conspiracy theories. You can do far more than just street drugs or "drug addicts". You can make an analogy of oil or natural resources guarded heavily by an elite who seeks to dominate the working class who produces this miraculous substance capable of temporary psychic abilities. I think of Oddworld, perhaps.
[reading Slannesh’s backstory made me realize I was reading something made by the British in the 1900s]
The more modern takes on Slaanesh made me appreciate her more. The chaos gods are, in my opinion, focused on showing the more grotesque, horrible or atrocious acts they commit. They make good stories, indeed. However, Slaanesh isn't just giant sex demons. It is music, art and creation. It is to entertain and be entertained. Every time you create, make music or make art; you feed her. It isn't just orgies and space drugs.
with every race having a different reaction (or none at all) to it.
Fabius Bile reacting to Slaanesh is always a classic. I will post my favorite excerpt here!
‘What have you done?’ he demanded. His words fell flat, the echo stifled at conception. ‘Some trick of witchery?’
‘Nothing so crude. Merely a moment, stretched to its utmost.’ The Quaestor floated closer. ‘To my perceptions, all time is thus. A collection of eternal moments, one bleeding into the next with infinite slowness.’
‘Why?’
‘This is the moment of testing. The moment your hearts are weighed against the Phoenix’s feather. Are you not curious at the outcome?’
‘Not remotely. I know my worth, and I know my crimes. This court holds no jurisdiction over me.’ Fabius straightened, trying to slow his heart rate. His muscles strained against unknown pressures. It was as if he stood at the bottom of a vast ocean, and the weight of thousands of fathoms pressed down on him.
‘Its jurisdiction extends far beyond your ability to conceive, alchemist. You have committed crimes of such monstrous elegance that even the gods themselves grow uneasy. Look – see – they sit in judgement of you.’ A too-long finger drifted upwards, and Fabius followed the gesture. He looked up, and something looked down.
It was not a face, for a face was a thing of limits and angles, and what he saw had neither. It stretched as far as his eyes could see, as if it were one with the whole of the sky and the firmament above. Things that might have been eyes, or distant moons or vast constellations of stars, looked down at him, and a gash in the atmosphere twisted like a lover’s smile. It studied him from an impossible distance, and he felt the sharp edge of its gaze cut through him, layer by layer. There was pain, in that gaze, and pleasure as well. Agony and ecstasy, inextricable and inseparable.
With great effort, he tore his gaze away. ‘There is nothing there,’ he snarled, his teeth cracking against each other. His hearts stuttered, suddenly losing their rhythm. He pounded at his chest, as internal defibrillators sent a charge of electricity shrieking through him. The chirurgeon flooded his system with tranquillisers, and he tapped shakily at his vambrace. A secondary solution of mild stimulants joined the tranquillisers, stabilising him. He ignored the urge to look up. There was nothing there. Nothing at all. ‘There is nothing there,’ he said again, tasting blood. ‘There are no gods. Only cold stars and the void.’
The pressure increased. Something whispered, deep within him. It scratched at the walls of his mind, trying to catch his attention. He ignored it. ‘No gods,’ he repeated. ‘Random confluence of celestial phenomena. Interdimensional disasters, echoing outwards through our perceptions. I think, therefore I am. They do not, so they are not.’ He met the Quaestor’s bland gaze unflinchingly. ‘Gods are for the weak. I am not weak.’
The Quaestor nodded expectantly. ‘No.’
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Also i decided to watch some of The Office, and I know the show came out in 2005 but my god Michael is just...shockingly bad.
Honestly I thought Dwight or Jim would be my least favorite but I think I saw Michael make 5 racist remarks/"jokes" and 10 more incidents of sexual harassment in like 3 episodes.
And I know the show is pointing out how he is being really rude and offensive, but like...damn I needed a primer on what to be expected here
FWIW, he's worse in the first couple of seasons than in the rest of it. The first two were modeled after the British version, but the British version only ran for two seasons, so after they ran out of material to mimic, they went their own way with it and Michael gradually starts getting written in a way where he's more of a bumbling obnoxious person with a good heart than he is a narcissistic asshole.
But even then, yeah, the show can be painful to watch.
I love seeing all this Spanish-Turkish solidarity on my social media
Bless that Marine Brian McGinnis for doing what he did, and fuck all the bootlickers come out to spread their filth.
The bullshit has been exponentially ramping up since DJT's election and it's probably only going to get worse from here. A new war in the Middle-East where we fight for Israel, the continued spread of ICE buying facilities for camps, etc, etc. Now, with this utter disrespect to human morality in Montana, breaking a man's arm trying to wrestle him out of the building for standing up and saying the right thing, we truly know what path we're being put on. You know shit's truly fucked when we've been doing things 100x worse than any lie we could tell about Kim Jong Un/North Korea.
Also, if you go and watch the video, the room full of people are just sitting there and staring off while a man gets him arm shattered.
If only something like this was real:
Edit: I meant what I wrote above in the intention of americans to join the oppressed by imperialism.