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You’re welcome I have plenty of cringe anecdotes that should make anyone feel better about themselves maybe I’ll poast them sometime

he was very active on DART. Did he change his username?

Be honest. How many of you have liked your own post? This is a safe place, we won't judge

there was one time on DART I did, then I realized how cringe that is so I unliked it, then whoever I was arguing with must’ve been smoking me bc they had a lot more likes so I got insecure and liked my comment again

It feels childish now but I was only 47 years old at the time

I agree with this. I think it also applies some very soft but non zero pressure against engagement. If I see a take I really agree with I’ll just smash that mf like button instead of like the old days quoting and saying “this” or even better saying “I agree” then augmenting for some reason

I’ve inadvertently fallen into my local high fertility tradcath bubble, even though it’s not really for me (I definitely feel out of place) it’s such a different world. You’ll meet 28 year old women pregnant with baby #4 and people will be surprised if you “only” have 2 kids in your early 30s, etc

Then I look up people on Facebook and see the totally abysmal coupling and birth rates among my high school graduating class….except for the people who coded as religious from what I can recall. They usually have two kids by now. You can criticize any religion until you’re blue in the face and I would probably agree with a lot of it but the social norms of people who actually a religion seem more conducive to human existence just objectively

People can get mad at the OP but what he’s saying seems to be objectively true. We’re early yet but it seems like secular societies just self destruct after a few generations.

At some point it makes you wonder why humans are seemingly built for religion. What did they know 🤔

And I'm guessing that you are Superman who is competent in all fields.

I can confirm that this actually is the case for him. I regret to inform you

Start reading chick lit and you’ll get a girlfriend. Become fully conversant in the Jane Austen and Bronte sisters canon and get yourself a cute bookish gf

What exactly is the point of a society where men and women are completely at odds? You want South Korea? Will you and the rest of the superior sex be content to play videogames in your lonely apartments in your 60s and 70s?

I like that after Sabre rattling against Denmark for no reason, he’s now happy with getting a “deal” that seems to be the exact same agreement we’ve had since the 50s.

This whole thing is bad for the US but it actually has the potential to be quite good for Europe if they take the right lessons from it. I mean they won’t but this is exactly why you don’t want to trust your defense to somebody else for decades. You can never be certain what’s going to emerge from another country, putting yourself in a position where you’re utterly dependent on them is such a bad idea

Trump as he watches the Nobel results, reaching for the phone to hold an emergency Joint Chiefs of Staff meeting:

Good Donald, goooood! Nuke them. Nuke them now.

But I…

Do it.

Just wait until a huge portion of the population gets one shot by AI generated “social” media feeds that not only find but actually create content exactly suited to what you want to see. We’ll be longing for the days of a 1.5 tfr. I hope I’m wrong but I don’t think I am

Bruh this is legitimately one of the things that most fills me with dread. In the USA we’ve already had a below replacement birthrate for like 20 years now (closer to 50 if you only look at native born Americans.) Up until the 2010s the dating market was so much better than it is today and virtually all married/childbearing couples coupled up in better eras.

When I view my own circumstances it feels like getting the last chopper out of ‘Nam

although your misogyny here is extremely cringe and a part of the problem lol. “Now, women went from saying, "If you voted for Trump in 2024, then you're ghosted permanently." to having itchy vaginas saying, "We won't want you if you're conservative, but change your views and THEN we will accept you!"” yeah I don’t think that’s what happened lol. And the idea that young men DONT want to have sex with women couldn’t be more wrong and to the extent there’s any truth to it, it’s a sign of something significantly worse than anything political.

I see common mistakes and bad behavior with both genders. The gender war stuff is extremely cringe to me and a sign of a culture that definitely is not going to make it. Men and women are two parts of the same coin, society only continues when they work together towards a unified goal. They are quite literally (and unsurprisingly if you think about it for more than 15 seconds) the perfect complements to each other. If they’re having issues coupling up it makes no sense to blame women or to blame men, it represents something deeply wrong which is unsurprising giving how far away we are from our ancestral environment. We simply were not built for modernity and it’s unclear what if anything is going to come out of this

Kirk I'd say was an assassination by his own 'side' but that's a discussion for another day.

Aint no way I’m gonna let you drop this incredibly spicy take and then refuse to elaborate further. Please tell us

I would say we need to draw a distinction between smart conduct and illegal or immoral conduct. In both cases what they did was extremely dumb.

Going into a riot zone with an AR-15 to defend a used car lot is stupid. Putting yourself in a situation where you’re going to get into a confrontation with a bunch of law enforcement officers is stupid, and bringing a gun with you when you’re going to do that is doubly so.

But in both cases they weren’t guilty of a crime (at least not overly serious ones) they’re guilty of being stupid. I’ve always hated the “fuck around find out” or “play stupid games win stupid prizes mentality” where as soon as someone does something dumb everything that happens to them afterward is automatically justified no matter how disproportionate. So yeah for both the attacks on these individuals ring hollow to me and definitely seem like obvious motivated reasoning. What Rittenhouse did was dumb but objectively he was the victim of attack, was on video from multiple angles running away from all of his attackers and only firing on people trying to hurt him, etc. That he was ever brought up for trial was an insane miscarriage of justice. The Pretti shooting while there’s probably more info that could come out from what I can see now it looks extremely bad. I would be shocked if it turns out to be a justified shooting

@airmax1227

confirm this

Our glorious leader and owner was born this day on 12/27/1955

Thank you, unfortunately I’ve been traveling and will be again soon but intend to reply. Great post

Facts

Yeah leftists are definitely fixated on status, approval from authority, feeling superior to others in visible ways, etc. That’s why it would be so hard to have an academia that isn’t at least somewhat leftist in orientation. They LIKE the school environment!

It’s too late. May as well change your avatar to a Groyper

Academia is probably always going to lean left to a large extent because politics is mostly a pre rational inclination based on personality types. And the bookish, nebbish, lawyery personality types who do well in academia correlate strongly with leftist orientation

there’s definitely political discrimination against conservative would be professors but that isn’t close to explaining everything. You’d have to really work to get a conservative leaning faculty and even then you’d probably be compromising on quality a lot

also in the era of Trump people educated people have been alienated from the right wing more and more. Idk how much I can blame scientists for being anti Trump when he cut so much research funding…yes a lot of it was for BS but much of it wasn’t. Or doctors who lived through Covid having an instinctual disgust toward right wing politics when they had to witness tons of people needlessly die because of insane anti vax conspiracies that were almost exclusively from one side. And an anti vaxxer now at the head of HHS….

The Bible.

Well, it's more of a mythology, interwoven with fantasy fiction.

The Bible.

I’ve been thinking about the mythology of Genesis for a few years now. For a while I was totally fixated on this part in particular:

To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’

“Cursed is the ground because of you;

    through painful toil you will eat food from it

    all the days of your life.

18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,

    and you will eat the plants of the field.

19 By the sweat of your brow

    you will eat your food

until you return to the ground,

    since from it you were taken;

for dust you are

    and to dust you will return.”

It’s bizarre how in a way that is exactly what happened…if you compare the lifestyle of an animal at the top of the food chain (what human hunter gatherers basically were) to life in settled society. Especially the horrible, grinding, Malthusian, agricultural civilizations that dominated for millennia after that verse was written…yeah it really does seem like the price of knowledge is toil. Did Neolithic people view farming and agriculture as an irreversible mistake?

Genesis is the oldest and deepest thing we have. These stories are so old, they were clearly passed around for a long time before being written down. Imo Genesis is not ripping of Mesopotamian folklore like Gilgamesh but rather they both have a common ancestor that’s much older

also the worldwide flood myths are pretty probably about the post ice age sea level rise imo. Most of the places humans lived would’ve gone underwater

Towards the end the POV character, having discovered/incorporated into his mental architecture the concept of “likeness” for the first time, despairingly compares the “new people” with God (their version of it)…I found that so powerful. An enemy so overwhelmingly superior they may as well be God like in their power. It may not have happened in the clashing of species (although it probably did) but there’s plenty of examples in human history of this sort of thing

anyway it was a good book that basically nobody has read

also I’ll be rereading Wuthering Heights in anticipation of the 2026 film so we’ll see how that goes

Idk if it influenced my worldview much but I recently read The Inheritors by William Golding and I don’t think I’ve had my mind tripped so much by a book in a long time. It’s a book about first contact between Homo sapiens and a group of Neanderthals and the ensuing disaster. Most likely not accurate to what actually happened, although it could’ve happened exactly like the novel in isolated pockets. Or with a different hominid species.

It portrayed what it would be like to have to contend with an *overwhelmingly* technologically and intellectually superior enemy very well. The portrayal of a fundamentally human but still alien mind was excellent. I don’t really know how to describe it other than to take my hat off to Golding

One thing I liked about the book is that it would’ve been extremely hackish to have the POV character be some type of savant but he was actually, if anything, he was dumber than average and his mate better understood what was going on. It was difficult to even understand what was happening a lot of the time because the POV character is effectively portrayed as an alien mind AND he himself is confused, so you’re working against two filters. But that made it feel very real and true to life, the process of trying to figure out what was going on put me in the same position as the characters.

and there’s zero buzz on this book even though Golding (author of Lord of the Flies) considered it to be his finest work. Even when I tried to strike up a convo with ChatGPT about it it just hallucinated a bunch of stuff. Looking at Goodreads it seems somewhat polarizing and I can see why but I personally loved it and will definitely be rereading

>influential fiction book

>chooses a book about the holocaust

what did she mean by this????

I should’ve suggested it at a different time I’ll be out of town then

When are we playin mafia/jackbox again???

It’s definitely a universal thing, very few people are actually principled believers in free speech. We’re extremely lucky the founders were wise enough to write it down

based on surveys I’ve seen on attitudes (ie if it’s acceptable for certain people to speak, if you accept free speech period, etc) it is almost certainly more common on the left. And the “left” (really deranged social media users with botted likes we for some reason gave credence to) were cancelling normal people for stuff that either was an apology level offense like having a negative interaction with a person of a different race literally one time, or expressing a viewpoint supported by ~40% of the country, not celebrating a politically motivated assassination

but the right does it too. Look at the Dixie chicks. They were totally right. I think we all need to just choke down the norm that what you say off the clock is none of your works concern even if it’s grotesque.

I don’t know if I think Kimmel should’ve been pulled immediately like that but he did knowingly lie about a hot button issue for no real reason on public airwaves. I don’t really have sympathy for him

Thanks Airmax, it’s cool to see some old faces who weren’t on DART. Not sure how yall pulled that off but looking good so far