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#NoKings (Only queens!) Such a stupid joke. But there it is, writ large across the fabric of the sky

@0xAlaric New Sincerity. vs Post-Modernism? Dialectical resolution of these supposed "opposites"? Meta-modernism. Beware useless, ego-driven philosophies.

Really dislike the most popular brand of sketch comedy being “it’s cringe when people express any genuine sentiment, because someone else before may have experienced the same thing.” Might be more socially toxic than Woke ever was. The premise is that enjoying things for their own sake is shameful because it might define you as a Type of Guy, so in order to have any genuine emotion you have to couch it in irony to avoid the vulnerability of existing in a continuous sense. Instead of liking a song and thus worrying about how that reflects on you, you inhabit a character that’s The Type of Guy Who Likes That Song for a few minutes. It’s not you, it’s someone else. You’ve never experienced an emotion, except for irreverence and computer-mediated reflexive derision for those who do. We should throw rotting fruit at “sketch comedians” (who do nothing but iterate out the last few cracks of real human experience) in the streets, as the Romans once did to actors and other undesirables

@0xAlaric Sincerity is brave. Took me a while to appreciate the particular criticism that modernity is defeatist. But I see it now. Just pointing out flaws and, I would say, *excessive* focus on exceptions / deviations / etc, yup. But baby bathwater? Metamodernism. Epistemological Nihlism.

Never trust someone with shit taste in music. These sad socks DONT KNOW HOW TO *LIVE*! Or, worse by far, "not really into the arts". 🥱Dangerous ppl lack empathy, humanity, SPIRIT. See the "foundational" piece: Infestation of Small Soulled Bugman! Enjoy?💟 youtu.be/z0AS7GVdC0A

"Hitchin' on a twilight train Ain't nothing here that I care to take along Maybe a song To sing when I want No need to say please to no man For a happy tune Oh, I love my Rosie child" How have I been listening to this song for decades and never looked up the words?

@Arkypatriot lol "When people have no sense of meaning, no responsibility, and no reason to get up with intention, frustration and emptiness can turn into anger, restlessness, and destructive behavior." Translation: "Oh shit, theyre reading books and realizing how good the rich have it! Run!"

I don’t agree with universal high income A paycheck may keep the lights on, but it does not give a person purpose. People need more than comfort and idle distraction. They need something that makes them feel useful, needed, and alive, whether that is work, family, faith, service, building something, or striving toward a goal. When people have no sense of meaning, no responsibility, and no reason to get up with intention, frustration and emptiness can turn into anger, restlessness, and destructive behavior. A life without fulfillment is not really living at all. People need a reason to matter, because purpose is what keeps both individuals and society steady.

@Kekius_Sage READ THE BOOK.

Is there any chance we could escape a simulation if we are living in one?

@greendragonhq >I think the following rule would be found generally true: that ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance. orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-fou… ?

Billionaires paying their fair share of taxes is the best-case scenario for them. Historically, when people become sufficiently upset with the wealthy, they drag them out of their castles and hang them in the town square.

Liberalism, but borders and effective social programs (w/out equity of course)? Socialism but again no collectivist racial bs, and small-'s', B Sanders style (not real Socialism!)? (Let's pretend BS is legit for the sake of argument). Republicanism.. but from the 1890s? A little?

@MJTruthUltra I keep tellin ya, people are repelled by the world's richest man only speaking to them about money. theyve been taken advantage of their entire lives by exactly these type of people. "sell it", explain, whatever, from the angle of how the AI benefits them TODAY, in material ways?

Elon Musk: “We'll have universal high income. We're basically just issuing money to people The People: We don’t want it though Elon: But The output of Business Services will so far exceed the money supply The People: But we don’t want it though

@TheAliceSmith Watch Woodstock and decide for yourself. They left mainstream culture and were the OG backinnawoodsers. They were DIY. And drop outs. And anyways, I'll take whats useful from wherever I find it,

Hippies were just spoilt rich kid revolutionaries enjoying some weird and abusive sex before they got a nice job in academia or politics. They were the woke of their time. Don’t romanticise them.

@TheAliceSmith They were cool, mostly White people. I'll take whats useful from wherever I find it, thanks. thanks.

@NinaSzn01 I havent had cottonmouth in years. Ever since legalization, really. that level of high even when layering edibles and vapes and flower, is never reached for some reason.

That's how weed used to feel in high school...
The weed nowadays be having you overthinking and despising your existence😭

@dumbbitchzine thanks for the suggestion

Hollywood did make a film about Jеwish gangsters. It’s called “Once Upon A Time In America,” and it was Sergio Leone’s final masterpiece that he waited his whole career to finally be able to make, and it was produced by Arnon Milchan, an Israeli billionaire who is openly a Mossad operative— who also makes a cameo in the film, as a driver who turns a blind eye to one of the most horrific rаpe scenes in movie history. The movie is almost 4 hours long. Unlike other mobster films, it shockingly doesn’t romanticize this mob not one bit. It portrays every character as disturbingly wretched and unforgivable. No sympathy whatsoever is inspired in the viewer. Arnon Milchan says it was his favorite of all his films to produce— and this guy produced some of the best movies of all time— Legend, Fight Club, Brazil, Devil’s Advocate, The Fountain, Natural Born Killers, and many others. It has a star studded cast: Robert DeNiro, James Woods, Joe Pesci, Tuesday Weld. It’s the truth hiding in plain sight. Everyone should watch that movie. It is required viewing.

@WallStreetApes IS THAT A WOMAN, ...OR A MAN?????!

American walks through downtown Minneapolis Closed businesses, empty malls, no one been out at shopping plazas during lunchtime She goes to areas that used to be full of people when she was growing up. Democrats destroyed the city with immigration Minneapolis storefront data shows roughly 29% of locations are now empty. Thats 1 in 3 (insane) 80% of the vote in Minneapolis goes to Democrats

@sciencegirl I think Republican bumpkins OBSESS over this shit cuz their lives are so fucking boring.

What are your thoughts on Modern Art

‘People-oriented’ from a one-party state is almost satire. Feudalism at least had fragmented power and some space outside it. Marxism concentrates everything. Property, production, and speech under one authority that claims to speak for everyone. You don’t just answer to a lord. You answer to a system that owns everything and answers to no one. The real-world version, like in China, looks exactly like what these people claim to hate. Cronyism, state-corporate collusion, insiders getting rich off political power, just scaled up and made untouchable. It’s centralized control with no exit. Feudalism controlled your land. This controls the system you depend on to live.

Dropped the term “suicidal empathy” with a group of educated, highly successful liberals yesterday and they had never even heard it We live in entirely separate worlds

@minordissent Childish Fairy Tales for all!! OR ELSE!!!!!!!!!

Culture is downstream from art. If you fix the degeneracy and nihilism of our artists, the degeneracy and nihilism of our culture will fix itself.

@AnarkYouTube semiotext(e).

It's so bizarre reading modern left discourse. People don't even discuss theory at this point. They participate in sub-cultural political fandoms where they root for their niche ideology like a sports team. The meaning of words is irrelevant. It's all performance now.

@TetraChad There's plenty of EGO to go around. People 'present' differently on where you engage them, as well. I've been really... 'abused', once or twice, and could've gotten paid maybe, but more generally just insulted and judged BY DOCTORS, pretty much from 14 yrs up, (so, a long time!)

The stereotype is that white collar ppl look down on blue collar. The reality is opposite. Blue collar culture is arrogant AF. Those dudes mock everyone who doesnt live like they do. And if theyre blue collar AND live in a rural area it's 1000x worse, literally insufferable