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Not looking forward to November, when every sneering "morally principled" Harris voter will be like: If Harris wins: “throw these vile Arabs/Muslims into the ocean, they don't deserve us” If Harris loses: “throw these vile Arabs/Muslims into the ocean, they don't deserve us”

@StillBRS @pissvortex yeah, sometimes I have a moment of self awareness while listening to Nile or Cattle Decapitation and I'm like "how tf is this even music?!" but then I realize it brings me joy so who cares

@pissvortex Sometimes I think about old guys in the 60s or so who complained about new music sounding like a bunch of noise, and they'd be talking about the Beatles or something. We have whole genres now that would melt them.

@memudin @erotema_foryou @ripplebrain here, let me add punctuation to resolve the ambiguity: “fabricate [. . .] an entire country out of nothing—in the desert” I think they intended for the "out of nothing" phrase to belong to the word before it, not the one after it.

@erotema_foryou @ripplebrain "fabricate a spoken language, history, and eventually an entire country out of nothing in the desert" - nope.

Larp is a powerful tool. Many of the most successful political movements of the 20th century had strong elements of larp. Both communists and fascists utilized it. The Nation of Islam is a form of larp, and so is the Ukrainian national idea we see today. Larp is what allows Russian soldiers to wear Soviet and Russian imperial patches next to each other. The founding of America involved elements of larp. But no mass larp can hold a candle to Israel. A handful of members of an Eastern European ethnic minority managed to fabricate a spoken language, history, and eventually an entire country out of nothing in the desert in the span of just a few decades. This larp produced a gaping wound in the international order that has required trillions of dollars and millions of violent deaths to maintain. The larpers demand that the entire world validate their roleplay and recognize it as real, even when it conflicts with every value the modern order claims to uphold and makes its leaders into hypocrites. No lie is too big or brazen, no contradiction too obvious in the maintenance of the larp. Vast elements of a world-spanning state and media apparatus must work around the clock to keep up the illusion. If Italian Americans began speaking exclusively in Latin, calling themselves Romans, and using the US military to ethnically cleanse central Italy of Italians, it would be *less* absurd than the Israeli larp. To say what I'm saying here is considered the highest of crimes because it breaks immersion.

@Fawxcs @ripplebrain @JucheAffirmer My fav is "Ummayyad Spain" revanchism. That's "only" ~800 years old, & culturally so far removed from modern Spaniards. RW fascists will tell you immigration trends are trying to reestablish it, but to be a true larp a la Israel it would have to be an organized, militant invasion

@ripplebrain @JucheAffirmer It’s always funny to think of ridiculous things that would be LESS ridiculous than the idea of “isreal” If Denmark wanted to reform a Ukrainian colony, or if the Irish demanded parts of Celtic Spain and France. These are all MILLENNIAS closer than the idea of larping as David

@DoimoManu @ripplebrain those bakelite phones could easily double as deadly hammers

@ripplebrain They forgot floppy discs and rotor dial telephones to add to the panic graph. C9H12, as in lethal dose, requires an amount, as female specimens are more resistant to it per ml/kg. I would add to the potential barrel a chubby Kristol, just for fun and an extra amount.

On the bright side, ethylidene norbornene (ENB), which is a monomer synthesized via Diels-Alder reaction with ethylene that's highly sensitive to supply shocks, is an essential component in maintaining Victoria Nuland and Robert Kagan's cell structure. Without it they'll rapidly decompose into an odorous black fluid.

@Enver_at_Home @bonzerbarry @xghostnotesx Didn't know Albanians were capable of crafting such eloquent poetry. "Paragon of Perspicacity" is just Art.

@bonzerbarry @xghostnotesx gosh i wonder if there will be any consequences; surely not, since the Great Orange Sage, the Paragon of Perspicacity, has belched forth this utterance from the deep, septic well of his tactical wisdom

Trump threatens to bomb power plants in Iran if they don’t open Hormuz

@ItsCrystalSue @ripplebrain we're talking about millenarian accelerationism here and americans are Canonically Uncool when it comes to epic infrastructure, so yeah..

@Opethism @ripplebrain I’m really hoping it speeds up passenger rail service expansion in the U.S. but I know that’s just wishful thinking.

Expect to feel this sense of disbelief more with each passing day. We're entering The Fun Zone and there are no brakes on this train.

@barbarismcrit pettiness goals, I can only look with envy at this absolute legend

It never occurred to me until recently that you can defend yourself in open court in song. You can just do that. Life is beautiful man.

If Netanyahu is in fact dead it will be so beautiful to see Israel again become the oasis of loving-kindness it was before he cruelly forced himself upon it.

The ballistic missile that will obliterate you specifically into nothing has already been manufactured

@CreekshitinDaws @kenklippenstein "established reality" lmao even brainless LLMs are zogpilled

@kenklippenstein Just ask Grok

Here’s the Deputy Secretary of State casually replying to a guy calling his American passport a “zogpass”

@WogStalker wait, the OP is NOT sarcastic? Poe's Law in action, christ

A “well-functioning modern state” that depends on foreign aid.

@ripplebrain Spirit world? Paging that weirdo "PhD" guy who is the undisputed world champion of non-sequitur slide deck responses.

Polynesian catamaran navigators could guide ships through the strait using their connections to the animal and spirit worlds. Just an idea.

@adamjohnsonCHI people are having difficulties counting to 5, plus mass psychosis surrounding AI, plus wishful thinking that this would somehow end all evil.

Why is everyone saying Netanyahu is dead im so confused

@flying_rodent It is ontologically impossible for Starmer to: a) make the correct decision on anything, and b) have a principled stance on anything. He's an empty vessel, not even filled with opportunism.

This could get quite grimly amusing if they get a poll bounce for their handling of this disaster, and it dawns on them that the best way to save a couple of hundred councillors is to lean hard into non-cooperation and pushing back against the US.

@blob_watcher Leaving this here.

Let's check in on how Israel is doing. Oh. Oh my. (from the FT today)

@worldprincetwo @MuizDweller @parandeye_zard @ripplebrain Occam's razor says he just hates Cuba on a fundamental level

@MuizDweller @parandeye_zard @ripplebrain Marco Rubio’s entire foreign policy is based on his hatred towards Castro

A breathtaking inversion of reality. America is best compared to a giant gun a crowd of immigrants are constantly vying for control over, wrenching out of each other's hands, pointing at their enemies abroad, etc

@PatBlanchfield nate bronze could never

its the prediction machine at five thirty eight dot com before you put the two roosters and the caltrops in

@Atris35 @ThatchEffendi I was there last Monday. The clock felt looming above me, tbh

@Opethism @ThatchEffendi I have been, all these tall building look insignificant once your facing the Kaaba while everyone is huddled towards it it's 15m tall after all and everyone is facing it from all sides

If I was Muslim I don't think I'd ever stop being angry at the House of Saud.

@Atris35 @ThatchEffendi Have you ever been there? It's shockingly imposing, and my uneducated guess is that most people who see the mosque in person feel that something is just wrong with having such imposing buildings surrounding it. Impressive, yes, but has no soul.

@Opethism @ThatchEffendi Possibly, I personally don't like the hotels to be so close too. But it's almost always a situation of damned if you did, damned if you didn't as you can see from the replies and discourse here.