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Sideblogs:
@vacuouslyfalse: history sideblog where I post quotes and occasional analysis of the history books I'm reading, and longer-form posts about discourse/politics/history.
@excludedmiddle: misc interests sideblog, includes coding competitions, chess, RPG discussion, and sc2/other gaming stuff, in approximate order of frequency.
About me, I guess:
happy one year(ish) to mostly abandoning this blog! it's been a pretty great year for me - i got a new job that's much more engaging, i've been working out a lot and i'm in much better shape than i was a year ago, and i spent the past few months learning a new skill and hanging out with my friends.
make no mistake though, i am still exactly as online as i used to be and none of these improvements are due to spending less time on the internet. there is no escape from Online - all i can do is decide how much of it i want to spend getting yelled at by strangers that i do not like or respect
Hey remember when you had a racist meltdown because you couldn't comprehend that Palestinians have access to the internet? Didn't you throw a whole pity party about leaving? God you're pathetic.
in retrospect i think the big mistake i made with this blog was not immediately treating every self-identified ML as having shit idiot brain fungus on par with the terfs or the white supremacists
thinking about julius ceasar crossing the comic con again and want to get your take. julius caesar crossing the comic con, the anime expo. I've discussed this before. what's your take on julius caesar crossing the anime expo in his julius caesar in his uhm, deadpool cosplay probably. I believe julius caesar would watch deadpool 2016 and decide he is a big fan but not really be able to get trhough many of the comic books without being like "this is a bunch of dumb bullshit for kids" but sort of pretend he read them to establish a cultural identity as like, a suburban dad-level "nerd" guy. and anyway he'd like memorize a couple of deadpool's catchphrases (I don't know shit about deadpool, I assume he has some) and then he'd like say them for the camera etc. to youtubers filming and maybe he'd even go up to some girls and like, be a little too pushy like totally "ironically" in-costume flirting with them, emboldened by the fact that he was wearing a mask, but then like afterwards feel super weird about it. he'd julius caesar crossing the comic con in a deadpool costume. invading rome defying the senate by crossing the comic con. julius caesar at anime expo 2015 looking forward to the new season of, attack on titan or whatever.
from the archives
hey guys i finally beat Balatro
How do you even accomplish something like this omg...
here's the world record speedrun of this type of thing if you're curious
short answer: plasma deck, mime and baron, 4 copiers (blueprint/brainstorm), ectoplasm and antimatter for extra joker slots, DNA to bring the deck up to a large enough size, and boss reroll voucher so you can fight The Serpent with burglar so you can get enough handsize for the final hand
vote blue no matter who guys love saying "trump would be even worse on palestine" but literally how could he possibly be worse than biden short of nuking the gaza strip. biden might be the single most zionist president in US history lol
honestly i don't think there is a vote in the 2024 election that makes a difference for Gaza. i think Trump will be as bad or slightly worse, but for the Palestinians, more likely than not it will not have a major impact.
four possible-to-likely ways Trump could be worse:
but even if Trump can make things worse (and i do think he always can) it's completely impossible to make the argument to vote for Biden to help Gaza. Biden is not going to help Gaza.
two things i feel relatively certain about:
1) one day we’ll all look back on sj culture wars discourse as emblematic of a very specific time period, much in the way we look at the atheism discourse of an earlier era
2) whatever comes next will be even worse
people who don't follow chess I promise this post is really funny
#a beginner is usually better able to win against a master because they will play moves that are unpredictable.#so maybe not that many?
cannot possibly stress enough how false this is
anyway. i think most people left of mainstream US liberal are uh. insufficiently scared of Trump. this has become a cringe take over the years but i think electing him again has a really terrifying set of tail outcomes that are unlikely but possible
like he probably can't end US democracy! that's really hard to do. probably. but he has stated pretty directly that he's gonna try. and i would prefer if he did not
Hiii, I am curious to learn more about your personal politics. Are u socialist of democractic socialist? Do you reject Marxism–Leninism? Are you more of a reformist of revolutionary?
Over time I've moved away from talking about my own ideology on here for a variety of reasons (I have lots of disparate influences and there's no label I 100% identify with, everyone loves to start heated fights on here, it seemed a bit self-absorbed, etc.) But considering that it has been years since I've really made any attempt at laying out what my viewpoint is, it might make sense to do so again.
There are three terms you could fairly use to describe my views:
This all puts me very firmly in the reformist camp of the reform vs. revolution debate. I would not consider myself a Marxist, although there are ways in which Marx's thought has influenced my own both directly and through the thought of others in the broader Marxist tradition.
In further detail:
imagine if you went to mass and the priest played a recording of your last confession sesh for the whole convocation to listen to. wouldn't you feel betrayed?
