sonicthehegemon

unsolicited opinions on everything under the sun. facebook refugee here against my will. personal account; views my own.

[sonicthehegemon @achilleselbow]

Not on here much these days, but for those who are, I wrote about Luigi Mangione, effective altruism, Walter Benjamin, and the art of futurist omelet-making for @the_point_mag https://t.co/98KdS9PM6X

[Sami Gold @souljagoyteller]

Just a note that, by this point, the most conservative estimate for people killed in the Gaza genocide (around 70.3k) is higher than the largest estimates for the Rohingya genocide (around 43k), Yazidi genocide (5k), and the Bosnian genocide (60k). It’s at about the same level as the East Timor genocide (85.3k) and Italy’s genocide of Libyans (83k). If we go by the most maximal number given for deaths, 335.5k (as stated in an article by Devi Sridhar in The Lancet), the Gaza genocide outnumbers the deaths in Stalin’s Great Purge (about 248k), the killing of Assyrians by the Ottomans (200k), the Herero and Nama genocide (110k), Isaaq genocide (200k), Saddam’s campaign against the Kurds (182k), Maya genocide (166k), Tamil genocide in Sri Lanka (253.8k), and killing of Serbs in WWII (around 248k). At that point, you’re in the territory of the Rwandan genocide, Bangladesh genocide, Darfur genocide, and the Armenian genocide

[sonicthehegemon @achilleselbow]

@Absurd_Ruka @souljagoyteller Look up who was selling weapons to the Bosnian Serbs and you'll see this parallel is more than coincidental

[sonicthehegemon @achilleselbow]

I bet Graham Platner listens to All That Remains and Falling in Reverse

[sonicthehegemon @achilleselbow]

@dieworkwear as someone who exclusively wears ripped jeans and band shirts, this is the only post of yours I've ever been interested in

[sonicthehegemon @achilleselbow]

@Alex__1789

[sonicthehegemon @achilleselbow]

@ThatchEffendi excuse me don't you mean 'warrior on a horse'???

[sonicthehegemon @achilleselbow]

@steelineYT @thoughtographic there are entire fields of philosophy dedicated to exploring the relation between materialism, determinism, and consciousness, which is by no means settled. I recommend at least reading the Wikipedia summary of some of these instead of just shooting from the hip

[Liam Kerr 🍍 @liamkerr]

Hard to debate people whose case for DSA is literally "a path out of my post-college mental health crisis"

[sonicthehegemon @achilleselbow]

@jacqka @pkgandakin You should read more about the actual Luddites and what they were doing. Technology is not neutral and is not separate from the system of social relations that determines both its development and its uses.

[sonicthehegemon @achilleselbow]

@pkgandakin Reminds me of this passage from Kate Soper
https://t.co/Mu1OVCCvda

[sonicthehegemon @achilleselbow]

@TheRobinCommon1 @red_dilettante The 'two marxisms' concept reminds me of this excellent passage by Kate Soper

[sonicthehegemon @achilleselbow]

@keem6o1 @JeSuisUnDumbass @clashreport If you have such disdain for the US and Europe, let's see how long you last without their support. Maybe Russia will help you out, since they're a lot closer to your mentality.

[sonicthehegemon @achilleselbow]

@bossman2850 @AlexVanSickel @LSynnove The first poll is stacked with pie-in-the-sky promises (Ukraine is not joining the EU that soon and Russia won't accept any 'reliable security guarantees') while only vaguely referring to 'territorial compromises' and still barely clears 50%.

[sonicthehegemon @achilleselbow]

@keem6o1 @JeSuisUnDumbass @clashreport "this land is more important than our lives" fucking fanatical death cult logic, just like the islamists you claim to be defending civilization from. no wonder civilized countries want nothing to do with you.

[sonicthehegemon @achilleselbow]

@keem6o1 @JeSuisUnDumbass @clashreport lol so you're arguing that israel is a theocracy now?

[sonicthehegemon @achilleselbow]

@keem6o1 @JeSuisUnDumbass @clashreport Yea I *am* having fun here, and I didn't even have to be drafted into the army to kill children and then spend the rest of my life listening to shitty psytrance and acting tough to cope with it. Nobody wants to live in your 'promised land' bro and anyone with a brain is leaving.

[sonicthehegemon @achilleselbow]

@keem6o1 @JeSuisUnDumbass @clashreport I dunno, me and my other Jewish friends around the world seem to be alive and well without having committed ourselves to bunkering down in a genocidal fortress state waging permanent war on all their neighbors, maybe that's not the greatest survival strategy, but what do I know

[sonicthehegemon @achilleselbow]

@keem6o1 @JeSuisUnDumbass @clashreport whine harder about antisemitism and how everyone is mean to you when posts like this go viral and show everyone what you really are

[sonicthehegemon @achilleselbow]

@ThatchEffendi maybe not if they had won, but it's not at all surprising that they went that route after losing

[CommieTurk @PunishedCommie]

Incredible opener lmao

[sonicthehegemon @achilleselbow]

@toujoursyucky @TransRightsMFer @hog_lawyer @lilbabygandhi he sicced militarized riot police on protesters when they were still peaceful & unarmed, then tried to push a law criminalizing all protest through parliament. if a 'western' leader did 1/10th of that you'd be screaming bloody murder and begging for intervention. die in a ditch.