Jason
I say we nuke the entire site from orbit
It's the only way to be sure
PhD student of Scottish mountaineering history and culture.
He/Him
medium.com/@GreedyRunner
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- one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things
- i say this with love because everyone starts somewhere, but it's just that, sometimes you see someone with a massive platform and they're like "it kind of seems like republicans favor the rich?"
- worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
- obviously billionaires shouldn’t exist but it’s crazy to think that the library gamble kind of worked
- People still talk about early-20th-century robber barons as if they're "the good ones" so long as they're the type of top-hat-wearing union buster who also donated to orphanages
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- acab includes people who suspend wint (dril)
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- Discworld QOTD, from The Wee Free Men "Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular."
- the witches will also solve your problem whether you'd like them to or not, which strangely enough also does not make them particularly popular
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- This is the same impulse that leads a lot of men to say they hate rapists and would kill any rapist they encountered, while being friends with rapists, or true crime podcast hosts to talk about murderers as monsters. (Brief thread)
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View full threadYou know, in your bones, this complexity if you have loved and been loved by someone who abused you. It seems like there is no way forward except to either be gaslit by them (they loved me, so they cannot actually have abused me) or by yourself (the abuse was real, therefore the love was not).
- Our brains love binaries, as humans, so it feels like it has to be one or the other—they were a monster, or we loved each other. Either the abuse is excusable or the love was false.
- The world isn’t divided into sinners and saints, and our brains seem to have as much trouble actually processing that as they do with very large numbers. We say people are complex but we can’t actually deal with their complexity up close.
