Talcosis

Wasn’t there some professor that started uploading actual educational non-porn lectures on pornhub a while back?

Yeah, everyone except the people that end up against the wall.

More often than not, those people aren’t the ones causing the structural problems in society. The really rich people with the power all escape before that point.

Yeah, no shit. I do things to improve my life. If you don’t, then you’re either lying or an actual example of capitalist caricatures of leftism, just looking for a handout.

Edit: And if you’re not acting to improve your life and the lives around you, what’s the purpose of revolution? Action for the sake of Action? That’s point #3 on Umberto Eco’s list of the 14 common features of fascism.

What an astute observation! I wouldn’t even describe it as a boil, maybe a light simmer if anything. Because you know what? My life is pretty nice.

So now that we have established that fact, perhaps it would be prudent to consider how you reach the majority of the population that is in my boat (not literally, I mean, when I’m on my boat I’m generally reading a book on my own). But I mean the ones that think like this and don’t read books by Kropotkin.

I mean, that was implied. CoughEpsteincough

I am glad that you were able to build a community of your friends and neighbors.

I do not have the time or resources to do so.

So you labeled that as me being a consumer brained idiot on par with Alzheimer’s. Now you’re surprised that my general demeanor towards you is negative?

Okay. I guess your world doesn’t have a place for me then. If it’s camps either way, I’d rather do it the easy way.

Okay. Well, when all your hard work leads to actual tangible results that are better than the status quo, then we’ll talk.

Until then, less blabbing and more sleeve rolling

Yes, I am certain that your life will begin improving measurably when the food runs out.

Okay. Well, when this glorious mythic Revolution begins, we will see what happens. Until the second coming of the Revolution, were stuck in reality. Although it seems some of us might be stuck is a certain level of Revolution Revolution worship.

Revolution.

Oh no no no, when I said killing minorities I meant more along the lines of white guys blowing away anyone that ain’t white through a locked door in self defense.

Correct on all counts.

And yet, the reality is that the collapse of society will lead to even more casualties. The other reality is that I don’t know of a single collapsed society that became altruistic, and did not devolve into local warlord killing each other.

Alternatively, there can be the simple recognition that breaking the system that exists will result in a mass casualty event as current systems keeping the masses alive break down, and the resulting collapse will be capitalized on (lol) by your local warlord.

I’m sure the local warlord will be a great bastion of anti authoritarian praxis.

I invent the stuff we make stuff out of.

This is a style that I first noticed with Archer, and it is very hard to do well. I enjoyed Archer, I enjoyed some of Rick and Morty, but I also recognize that I’d refuse to engage with someone like that in real life. Iasip takes it to the extreme of being genuinely unpleasant.

It would be nice if self defense often meant an abused person ending their abuser, but what it usually looks like is shooting minorities.

I feel like a billionaire pedophile can afford to buy a fall guy to take the death penalty for them.

The problem with “self-defense” is that it is often a “pre-emptive self-defense”, which is indistinguishable from aggression. Especially when it becomes a question of personal self defense using lethal weapons.

Note that the premise that the general population gets stupider over time is incorrect. Flynn effect.

Hmm. Didn’t know that, I never actually looked into the background of what happened to the show.

Otherwise, I think we agree. Very much rushed storylines. The way I saw it, season 8 should have been the fight against the white walkers, season 9 should have been the war between Daenerys and Cersei, with Daenerys going full mad king at the end, and season 10 should have been Bran pulling together a crew to depose Daenerys and establish himself as king.

Instead, that all happened in season 8, and Bran’s season was reduced down to one block of expository dialogue.