For your consideration;

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofu-dreg_project

The lack of quality would be hilarious if if wasn’t so fucking dangerous for people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWDty6iNcgA

Without a doubt, yes.

I mean you can’t force anyone to think what you want them to, as in it’s not some extremely suggestible state that makes people compliant and obedient.

But what it does is essentially make you more able to change your opinion. An openness of mind. And right wing rhetoric is very close minded. So making a right winger open minded usually results in them turning to the left.

Despite his strong connections to the right wing crowd, even Rogan is pretty leftist when it comes to the policies he actually supports, despite being a poorly educated steroid-abusing American meathead.

The only thought I had seeing that was “he was in the right”.

I mean there are others but the others shouldn’t be fought really but it’s insanely hard to cure dumb with these drug laws.

“It’s my retirement plan”

Uff that hit too close to home

Not to money junkies it isn’t, but to people with a healthy senses of empathy it would be.

Believe it or not, fascism isn’t inherently anti-progressive. You’re just forced to conform to that government’s brand of progressiveness.

Well, fascism is. I think that quote would work better of you changed that to authoritarianism.

If you think that’s confusing, just remember there are right-wing fascist Trekkies

Their favourite episodes must be all the alternate universe ones.

Even they are gonna have a hard time justifying a conviction with “b-but we saw it in a meme!”, I think.

No, they can’t. They’re just the canary in the coalmine, so to speak.

and don’t stop to help and the person would have lived if you stopped but instead that person dies then yes, you are evil

Also that’s actually a crime in many places. Well here in Finland at least. You have a duty to render aid if no-one else is there. Obviously you can just drive by an accident if someone is already helping but if there’s no-one else around, you’re required to stop to help, by law.

The point isn’t “Taylor Swift is immoral”. The point is “the system is immoral and the evidence for it can be seen by looking at, for instance, Taylor Swift.”

Being against billionaires doesn’t mean one is genocidal ffs.

People like Elon Musk and Donald Trump divide people so they don’t think about what they’re doing. You’re helping them.

No U, bootlicker.

Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like banana.

No but see these psychopaths aren’t physically that dangerous and are smiling in a not-unpleasant way, so it’s okay. /s

I’d like to be “chief philanthropy officer” as well.

Eh. So much shit that could’ve been preserved when we emptied out the house I grew up in as dad died and grandma moved to a home. No room where to put them and nooot really anyone to preserve them for…

Lots of old electronics as well. I hope I have the gameboy somewhere, but it’s also possible it was in my storage a few years ago when it burned down because a bum fell asleep in the storage room with a lit cigarette.

I had a green one. Think it might still be around somewhere too.

“system has lost its self-evidence, its automatic legitimacy, and now the field is open.”

I don’t disagree with this. And it’s actually nice to get into nuance with someone. The point is that I have a genuine reason to worry about Russia and Russian propaganda — basically everyone has but if they make more of move on Europe, Imma be 30km from the frontlines, and with the current drone technology, I don’t like my chances in what I’m doing, which is not something I’m gonna reveal here just in case there actually is a war. (My war time posting, that is.)

The legitimacy of western democratic capitalism is (rightfully) losing credibility

Sure, yeah, but you do realise what you sound like when you make statements like that? I’ll gladly discuss how fucked up Western politics are when I know I’m not talking to someone straight up worshipping Russia.

For one, I’ve already explained how I will defend Finland and Europe if it comes down to it, but how people just overhype Finland. “Happiest country in the world”? What fucking garbage. One of the most miserable countries in the world, when it comes to general enjoyment of life. Perhaps one of the safest countries in the world, sure, where you’ll usually have your basic needs met and won’t have to resort to violence or crime, but… “happiest”? Not even fucking close.

It’s not about racial or etchnic takes when Zizek talks about ‘capitalism with Asian values’. Essentially he’s remarking that a lot of Asian countries are pretty authoritarian, but know that they need to rely on making bank, which is why they successffully employ capitalism, but impose some authoritarian features on the people owning the companies doing the trade. Not exactly monopolising trade, which would mean no capitalism, but basically… monopolising the people doing capitalism… so… it’s not gonna “play itself out”. How would China starve itself of people and business, while being so resource rich? Even with super heavy regulation and authoritarianism, they could go all the way down to NK level and still have… a population. So you know… you won’t be seeing “the end of” anything like that…

“No war but class war” isn’t a statement about the existence of war other than class war lol.

Yes but you can also see how quotes can be interpreted in several ways, yes? And the importance of actual war goes above class war, no matter how I’d like to kick up a revolution and start building barricades.

It’s hectic. We can’t use hectic. I want to rage and break things and yell at morons. But unfortunately that’s just never worked and annoying as it is, we have to compromise with morons.