@dionysophy Great stuff. Relevant to this is the rise of Santa Muerte who, according to one scholar, "is at the center of the single fastest-growing new religious movement in the Americas."
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@michaelmalice I have found that, in a strange way, it is a gift, because they force us to confront our own life and death, our own selfishness, our own helplessness in the face of our pain and the longing for self destruction. Suicide is both a death and a murder, and yet more than both.
related. pirated a copy of need for speed underground and loaded it up with a buddy. for some reason the audio was really glitchy. we had no clue what was going on until we heard it was a song saying "get low, get low" at 0.5x speed, pitched down. what happened next was hilarious
Just extraordinary.
This woman, her party, and nearly the entire political and media establishment of Germany, did everything they could for years to avoid having a "fact-based debate" — indeed everything they could to control the narrative around the statistical data clearly showing the damage that immigration from the Muslim world was doing — and sought to marginalize and shut down or even ban persons, political groups and parties begging for such a debate.
I was repeatedly suspended and ultimately indefinitely locked out of Twitter in the pre-Musk era for doing nothing more than tweeting European government statistics on immigrant crime and welfare dependency.
One of the major psychological diseases today is the urge to make everything public; to keep anything hidden or secret is felt to be almost a crime.
— Helen Luke, The Way of Woman
Testosterone supplementation erased the audience effect in male generosity.
Men on placebo became more prosocial when watched; testosterone-treated men did not.
In other words: they didn’t let an audience dictate their behaviour.
If you have turned against Israel since 2023, you have fallen for the next biggest psyop since Covid-19, and you're the guy in the mask running around screaming at people to get their next booster.
@LPVT802 Libertarianism is the only political ideology which is big enough to account for the complexity of humanity. That is its great promise. But that is diminished so long as we squabble over things that do not violate the NAP and are therefore not our problem.
@LPVT802 Nothing I have said contradicts natural rights and the equality of individuals before the law. Love and hate are not so one dimensional. Quite often we hate family members and yet still love them at the same time. Humans are complicated. You are painting with a broad brush.