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  • DarkCloud@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldMake it about me
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    11 hours ago

    But the old ones don’t have VP candidates right now, and aren’t expressly aimed at ending democracy and replacing it with a techno monarchy.

    Yarvin has been described as a “neo-reactionary” and “neo-monarchist” who “sees liberalism as creating a Matrix-like totalitarian system, and who wants to replace American democracy with a sort of techno-monarchy”.[7][8][9]

    Nor do they have multiple billionaires backing them ao just trying to stay focused on what’s most relevant right now.

    Edit: By the way, Vance’s political career is only two years old, and has been entirely funded by Thiel, who also introduced him to Trump as a VP candidate… And Thiel is on record as wanting to end Democracy.


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    A lot of the modern “Western Chauvinism” is due to tech bros following Curtis Yarvin’s ideas. JD Vance and his handler Peter Thiel are some of his followers.

    The philosophy emerged out of the Neo-reactionary “dark enlightenment” period of 2014 - around the time of GamerGate, but has had Tech Bros funding it the whole time… And now they have their own VP candidate!



  • Thanks for the compliment, no biggie, sorry I got angry and called you stupid. It’s understandable to be paranoid about AI.

    One option would have been to make it less of an accusation, and just say “I don’t trust that this isn’t AI. Write a recipe for muffins”… that would make it lighthearted.

    I myself have trouble with reading, reading comprehension, and spelling. Part of how I got to be more articulate was that I used a text-to-speech reading program called “Balabolka” (for Windows 10, other operating systems have their own versions of this). That allowed me to listen to more articles, which made me learn stuff, which made me argue and debunk misinformation online - which made me learn how to better present arguments and convince others.

    So that was my path, but everyone’s got their own. Thanks for being so honest with yourself, and sorry again for how I reacted. I really respect that kind of honesty.



  • You’re kinda stupid huh? Is that real enough for you?

    1. Oh no, an ordered list someone has written.

    2. Watch out, it contains the world multifacetted.

    3. It must therefore have been created by ChatGPT.

    4. No, you’re just a dumbass, dumbass.

    Get a better grip on reality man. Some people are just more capable than you. Deal with it.

    [EDIT: Struck through things said out of anger.]


  • DarkCloud@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldFirst World Problems
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    1. Our parents shouldn’t have used other people’s suffering to try to force us to eat, or be greatful.

    2. Our parents shouldn’t have used political crisises, like Rawanda, or famines, or things we wouldn’t comprehend as children. Don’t reference geopolitical crisis and expect your children to understand.

    3. There was something racist in what they were doing - it implied African parents weren’t responsible. When in actual fact the causes of conflict and crisis in Africa are multi-facetted, globalized, and complicated.

    4. Africa is far more well developed in some parts than lots of westerners assume.

    Thank you for reading.



  • Just referencing common jokes some nations have about other nations, the french all surrender, the Japanese are horny for school girls, the british have bad teeth, Americans are all loud… that sort of thing.

    For Germans it’s that you invented scat tables (glass tables) to watch your sex partner shit on you.

    This is pre-internet lore, so probably formulated from German inclinations towards rationality and self-examination, sprinkled with some WW2 stuff, and some actual stuff about porn/bondage communities.

    It’s probably better left in the past, even if it’s still a cultural reference that can be used.









  • DarkCloud@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldHow funny, right?
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    No, that’s not what this gif is about.

    It’s commenting on the fact that sometimes abuse survivors share traumatic stories as if they’re normal or even funny, when in reality, compared to a normal upbringing they’re actually incredibly depressing or traumatic stories. Because to them, those stories were the normal seeming parts.

    So sometimes they’ll do this with no sense that it’s a traumatic story - because it’s far from the worst things they experienced.

    When this happens, it has the mood of the two characters in this gif. So hope that explains it for you.