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- Comment on Was the fall of Rome this stupid? 2 days ago:
Yes. Marked by opulence and a distracted upper class, depending on foreign born nationals and the impoverished to defend them from the mob. A military class they eventually spit on and denied access to anything “Roman” which wasn’t a great incentive for you know, defending them from their own disgruntled citizens or enemies at their door. They cared more about their money and orgies and pedophelia than they did at maintaining the cogs of Empire of which their lifestyle depended. Bread and circuses and a whole lot of arrogant prejudice.
- Comment on A look at the living hostages released by Hamas under ceasefire deal 2 days ago:
Funny how Palestinians “die in detention” and Israelis “are killed in captivity”
- Comment on British citizens serving in the IDF can now be tried for war crimes in the UK 3 days ago:
Charge them. If the court wants to be wormy fine. Charge them. Make the courts confess their two-faced practices. Bring up the charges, make them show their bare behinds to the world, publicize far and wide. Talk about it. Make some noise.
- Comment on Palestinian held without charge dies in Israeli custody 1 week ago:
That we know of
- Comment on If you lose your memories, are "you" dead? If a close relative/friend lose their memories, are they still "your relative/friend"? What the hell even is memory? How sentimental are you about memories? 1 week ago:
You can actually do this which is the wild part about memory and cognition. It’s basically what a lot of therapy practices are.
- Comment on If you lose your memories, are "you" dead? If a close relative/friend lose their memories, are they still "your relative/friend"? What the hell even is memory? How sentimental are you about memories? 1 week ago:
If you lose your memories, are “you” dead?
No, because other people hold many of those memories for you. And while memories and conditioning play a role in personality they aren’t the end all on who we are. We are still us, even if a bit “different” from before.
If a close relative/friend lose their memories, are they still “your relative/friend”?
Absafuckinglootly, because I carry that friendship and _I _ owe that loyalty. Just because they can’t remember us, I don’t get to abandon them. Loyalty. People need to learn it.
What the hell even is memory? How sentimental are you about memories?
Memory to me is often jarring and annoying. I suffer from unrequested flashbacks frequently.
But, memory is kind of amazing because you can have a shared memory with someone and it be completely different from their experience. Memory is so malleable, and often a coping mechanism, both natural and taught, for dealing with traumas is literally rewriting your memory to something you can live with. Shaving off the pieces you can’t or making them more “dull”.
I had night terrors after a bad accident until my brain literally rewrote the visuals of some of it and while I could verbalize it to you, I couldn’t “relive” that piece anymore which was a huge physical and emotional relief when it finally happened. And I didn’t do it, my brain did it on its own. Memory is weird.
Memory is often deceitful anyway, so relying on it as heavily as we do is actually kind of odd. Our perceived memory is stronger than the real event. We catalog all kinds of other information on top of what is actually the “present”. Think about when you wake up and commit a dream to memory. The retelling of the dream to yourself is actually stronger than the dream itself. Our “story” is the memory not the “present”.
Neat question. I could ramble on this topic for a long time…
- Comment on Musk becomes first person to hit $500 billion net worth, Forbes list shows 1 week ago:
As children starve and hundreds of thousands die of preventable disease.
- Comment on Works every time 2 weeks ago:
Worked for years until I developed this pesky side effect called alcoholism.
- Comment on More Ships Join Greta Thunberg's Gaza Flotilla to Break Blockade 2 weeks ago:
I can’t believe they’re launching another wave! This is very encouraging. I really hope the tides are truly turning. Please please please open a humanitarian corridor.
- Comment on Columbia | Petro Calls for Moving UN HQ After Trump Admin Revokes His Visa Over Protest Speech 2 weeks ago:
I think this absolutely needs to happen. The question is which country? What nation(s) are sufficiently stable to be trusted to respect nations’ sovereignty and international law?
- Comment on Elon musk is a pedophile 2 weeks ago:
Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree it would seem. Just look at his dad.
- Comment on Thanks for the memories 2 weeks ago:
Even better
- Comment on Thanks for the memories 2 weeks ago:
No clue. But I think it has something to do with Israelis blowing trumpets and burning cows in Israel.
- Comment on Thanks for the memories 3 weeks ago:
Rapture was the 23rd-24th. Sorry, it looks like you’re stuck here with the rest of us degenerates.
- Comment on It's not that complicated, guys. 3 weeks ago:
Woah what is actually going on there??
- Comment on US presidents are getting younger over time 3 weeks ago:
I present to you Trump era science! Don’t let those facts stand in the way of the truth.
- Comment on Ibuprofen 3 weeks ago:
This is the way
- Comment on Ibuprofen 3 weeks ago:
No need to just ask my kidneys
- Comment on Ibuprofen 3 weeks ago:
Uh, excuse you, it’s car ibuprofen.
- Comment on Anger in Egypt after pharaoh’s gold bracelet stolen from a Cairo museum is melted down 3 weeks ago:
It was allegedly later sold to the owner of a gold workshop for the equivalent of about $3,800. It was eventually sold for around $4,000 to a worker at another gold workshop, who melted the bracelet down to make other gold jewelry.
It survived something like 3,000 years, only for some idiots to make pennies off of it. How tragic.
- Comment on The Left Wants Violence! 3 weeks ago:
Well, whether the world likes it or not, it impacts everyone globally. That’s Neo-colonialism for you.
- Comment on The Left Wants Violence! 3 weeks ago:
Yes. I’d say that is a very common practice. Especially since the gun belonged to the grandfather. Regardless of political background most white, rural families have heirloom guns.
- Comment on The Left Wants Violence! 4 weeks ago:
Some context clues you missed… “Typical” as in mainstream, and “leftist” is put in quotation intentionally. Also, we’re discussing American politics, so if you’re not familiar with our thinking, and are not interested in framing within that realm of thinking, then you can take your drum beating elsewhere. It’s useless in this discussion.
- Comment on The Left Wants Violence! 4 weeks ago:
…the vast majority political violence is done by extremist elements on the right.
Read a good point on another comment section that went something along the lines of:
Tyler Robinson was raised in a right-wing, specifically very MAGA, household. And what is one of MAGA’s primary values? Destroy what you don’t agree with. He didn’t use typical “leftist” problem solving when confronted with something he didn’t like, instead he employed the tools he was raised with, specifically violence against opposing views. Even if he flipped ideological perspectives (to a degree), he didn’t change his methodology. That rearing of hate and black-white thinking was still heavily embedded in his psyche.
- Comment on It'S tHe SaMe PiCtUrE!!! 4 weeks ago:
Absolutely the Kennedys have skeletons in their closet. You’re referring to Rosemary his sister. She was actually institutionalized until her death in my home state. Another fun fact, Stalin’s daughter also died in my home state. We keep all the skeletons in our closet. We also have some of the most notorious serial killers ever.
- Comment on It'S tHe SaMe PiCtUrE!!! 4 weeks ago:
I mean you’re absolutely wrong. Muckraker journalism and intelligence was very alive and well in the 60’s and decades following. It’s wild to say otherwise. They all knew and they knew a lot. No one was covering for him raping women or diddling kids. Flat out. Full stop. He wasn’t even known to be particularly deviant, just slutty.
His own socialite wife didn’t shy from making public wry remarks about her husband’s affairs and the public discussed it constantly. And these women’s accounts are very different in tone from the victims of Trump and the eye witness accounts of MEN surrounding Trump about his behavior.
A fuckboy vs a pedophile (potentially incestuous) and multiple-time accused predator are not the same and whataboutism around that is pretty wild. It is a very disingenuous comparison.
JFK was no saint, but he’s nothing to the level of Trump. And Epstein’s child trafficking ring is not the same as the 1950’s and 60’s mob’s prostitution activities. Some families didn’t even dabble in prostitution at all. And you can’t even compare them to today’s mob. Old families even into the 70’s and 80’s had certain standards of conduct. You can’t even start to compare them to modern global traffickers.
Hate on JFK all you want but pretending there’s some magical missing evidence on him is such a stretch and goes against a lot of evidence of his actual conduct. His haters are many and his life is thoroughly documented. Every juicy lead followed to exhaustion in his time and after.
Meanwhile Trump gives even his best buddies the heebie jeebies.
- Comment on It'S tHe SaMe PiCtUrE!!! 4 weeks ago:
To my knowledge none of JFKs affairs were non-consensual, with minors, nor with non-compensated women.
Trump was friends with, and likely using his businesses to help, known child sex traffickers, raped children himself, pissed off his adult prostitutes and brags publicly and privately about his various sexual assaults.
I mean call JFK a whore but adult sex workers and consenting movie stars really aren’t comparable. And who gives a shit about the mob? Let’s not pretend morality aligns with the law. Not all puppies and rainbows but they’re not the same.
And I would say there was a lot of blackmail in the day. They certainly got MLK Jr. and all the JFK women talked, there were even hearings. His scandals weren’t exactly quiet. In fact they were rather well known.
- Comment on Elon Musk calls for dissolution of parliament at far-right rally in London 4 weeks ago:
Finished with the US. Off to destabilize the UK.
- Comment on The first rule of debate club 4 weeks ago:
You could say… it sprung a leak…
(I am so going to Hell…)
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Hey look! The usual suspect… a young white Christian male… I mean, wait uh… umm… well shit.