Daniel Beaver

Master of Reality

[Daniel Beaver @danielbeaver]

The world ended when it got sucked into the LHC black hole in 2012. All our experiences since then are just the DMT visions of our spagettifying brain being stretched out into infinity by the event horizon.

[pennipotentum @spinozylvannian]

Chinese international student in my class was telling me about how his evangelical dad in Beijing believes that Trump was chosen by god to win the election, but that this victory is part of a larger divine plan to destroy the united states

[Daniel Beaver @danielbeaver]

@andonlabs https://t.co/xkv8gQ5dYT

[Daniel Beaver @danielbeaver]

@DavidMohr5 @emkenobi Peaceful protests are ignored. If they get boisterous, the police gas and beat you, and throw you in prison. I think people underestimate the level of state repression of protests in the USA.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Revolutions are made by people who have done the math and concluded they have nothing left to protect.

The genius of late capitalism is that it never lets the math resolve that cleanly.

You have debt, yes, but you also have a 401k, small, underfunded, but real.

You have a mortgage that owns more of the house than you do, but it's still called "your house."

You have a job that could disappear tomorrow, but hasn't yet.

You have healthcare tied to that job, fragile, contingent, but present.

Every one of these is a small leash.

Not strong enough to make you safe.

Strong enough to make you cautious.

You're not trapped by chains.

You're trapped by a thousand small tethers, each one too minor to revolt over, all of them together heavy enough that you never do.

[Spencer A. Klavan @SpencerKlavan]

When a human being dances, he’s reaching up toward something sublime, letting the music draw his natural form upward into grace. Even if it’s a pop song like Billie Jean, even if it’s a desperately troubled human like Michael Jackson. When he stumbles, the eye reads the fall as a fall from grace—just like we can’t help but read death as something unnatural tugging a soul that was made for life down into the dust.

When a robot dances, even if it dances amusingly and well, it’s being prodded into an uncanny mimicry of something that’s not congruent with its matter, like an amputated limb galvanized by electricity into a sudden jolt of movement. When it falls, we see its true nature: inert, lifeless, mere stuff.

The intuition tracks what the eye alone can’t see, which is why you’ll notice no one has the impulse to get up and help the robot the way they might a man. It’s the difference between raw matter being pushed up from below against gravity, and spirit reaching down to draw matter up into the dance.

Also it’s freaking hilarious.

[Armchair Warlord @ArmchairW]

I'm increasingly convinced that the entire concept of jus in bello is something that cannot actually be understood by neoconservatives, because their entire ideology is founded on the (false; cope) premise that the United States would be invincible if it became ruthless enough.

[Daniel Beaver @danielbeaver]

@IroncladOak @LongTimeHistory Are you just evil?

[Alex Jay Brady 🥶 @AlexJayBrady]

Wow yeah sounds like a really bad wound bro
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[Daniel Beaver @danielbeaver]

@DCinvestor Feckless Dems won't roll back but a fraction of the "progress" the GOP made in just two years. The worst case scenario for the GOP is very satisfactory to them. And hey, presidential elections are basically a dice roll, they might get to do it again in two years.

[Sense Receptor @SenseReceptor]

Tim Dillon on America as a "moral black hole":

"We do deserve everything we get as a country."

"The suburban American has a bloodlust that is absolutely insatiable."

"The common person is... unfortunately... culpable... [like] the people cheering on this war in Iran."

"We're a sexless country, we're a joyless country, our only joy is in exporting violence. It is the only thing that unites people and gets them excited... and they don't care that we bombed a school of Iranian children... [these people are] a moral black hole... there is no morality. They're amoral."

"I don't know how much of it can be blamed on outside forces or even these billionaires, who we know are evil."

[Prince Vogelfrei 🐦‍⬛ @PrinceVogel]

Maybe it all went wrong when we killed the whales. Maybe their songs kept the great dream together. Vast brains slowly, carefully ordering the world with actions subtler than the apes could ever see. God is dead. His blubber lit a lamp in London

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Political maturity is finally admitting to yourself that the angriest, most disconcerting communist you've ever met was pretty much right about everything.

If you learn enough, stay humble enough, and pay close enough attention, eventually that's what happens. You realize that, generally speaking, the really high-octane commies have the most lucid understanding of the world out of any group out there, and the only reason this wasn't always obvious to you was because you live under a capitalist power structure which aggressively indoctrinates its populace from birth into believing that communism is No No Bad Bad.

They have the most lucid and correct understanding of capitalism. They have the most lucid and correct understanding of imperialist extraction. They have the most lucid and correct understanding of western warmongering, global power dynamics, white supremacy, institutional racism and misogyny. That's why they keep being proven right, about everything from US military actions to the fascism of the far right to the abusive nature of the so-called "moderate" liberal to the moral depravity of billionaires and the capitalist class.

If you've spent your life moving in sufficiently diverse and interesting circles, you've encountered outspoken Marxists in the past. What they said may have made you uncomfortable at the time, either because you were still too indoctrinated into the worldview of the capitalist empire or because you were still too interested in youthful frivolity to grapple with the serious subjects they were discussing. And eventually you realize that the discomfort you were experiencing is called cognitive dissonance, which is what being wrong feels like.

Maybe you got annoyed because they took their politics way too seriously and made it their whole thing, constantly pointing out the injustices and abuses in whatever subject came up when you were just trying to relax and enjoy life. And eventually you realize that the only reason you were able to just drift along without thinking about politics too much was because your worldview was sufficiently aligned with the political status quo to keep you from noticing all the exploitation, oppression, injustice and propaganda which pervades every aspect of our society. You didn't notice it because it didn't clash with your understanding of the world at the time.

If you keep your mind open, keep learning about the world, stay humble enough to see your errors and course-correct accordingly, you eventually see through all those distortions and understand that you had the commies all wrong.

There are still individual communists who get things wrong of course, and like most people in this psychologically disordered world a lot of them are emotional train wrecks who still need to do a lot of inner healing. But there's no group which perceives the abusive dynamics of this civilization with a greater degree of intellectual clarity as a whole.

[Will Slaughter @BamaBonds]

Elon rug-pulling SpaceX shareholders by diluting them out with $2 trillion plus of Tesla/Twitter funny money all while making himself the worlds first trillionaire via executive stock options is the greatest ever achievement in the the history of financial engineering.

[Daniel Beaver @danielbeaver]

@ScottJenningsKY You direct replied to his statement, we can see what he actually said. So my question is: are you merely an illiterate moron, or an evil lying sack of shit?

[connor @ConnorEatsPants]

@JDVance Sorry but you were the only baby ever worth choosing crack over. Every time your mom neglected you was justified. Sorry. Amy Adams sucked in that movie too, sorry. Nothing you touch ever goes right. You should try some of Elon’s medicine sometime. Sorry.

[Daniel Beaver @danielbeaver]

@DefenceHQ What a bunch of pathetic, wriggling little worms the British have become. Have some self respect for yourselves, Jesus.

[Daniel Beaver @danielbeaver]

@DHSgov How DARE you fucking post these lies, you sack shit, you absolute scum.

[Daniel Beaver @danielbeaver]

@infantrydort If you won't accept "Morality" or "Legality" as reasons to not to do something, then what basis do you have for any constraint whatsoever? Surely you don't mean to suggest that we should simply murder everyone around us and take their stuff? Or ARE you suggesting that?

[Daniel Beaver @danielbeaver]

@JasonJournoDC @ScottAdamsSays @DailyCaller Saint Peter ain't falling for that trick