You can’t expect anyone to believe this in the era of the doorbell camera.

There is absolutely no fucking way that MPs do not have cameras outside their homes and would not have evidence if there were break ins. Even the Daily Mail comments section is calling this fake.

That’s not even to mention the DNA evidence…

I’ve wondered for a while what percentage of the population are becoming (or faking) being Haredi in order to avoid military service

Einstein was a broad progressive in today’s terms.

I’m not particularly sure “broad progressive” is accurate. The man defended Stalin’s purges and trials so he would be called a hardcore tankie by any “broad progressive” today.

There’s an element of bourgeois embracement in it too depending on the works, “yes we’re vampires but we’re sexy and kinky and do fucky fucked up things”. A sort of revelry within being a vampire and above the morals of humanity.

You don’t need to simplify for libs that have a belief in their intellectual superiority, you can tickle their “i want a discussion with a smart person” emotional response and then be rude and insulting until they mold themselves into a shape that’s easier to influence. They do this willingly if you press the right buttons because feeling intellectual is more important to them than anything else. Step one to achieving that is making them see a smart person in the first place then perforating your smartness with being rude to them for the bullshit they do/say until they adjust the way they are.

Finkelstein does this too but he does it in person directly to people’s faces which impresses me every single time because honestly you have to be really highly regarded by the other person for them to allow you to be rude to their face and still want to talk to him because they know how smart he is. It’s an impressive balancing act he pulls off.

I do something similar but by being wordier. By genuinely coming across as intelligent and well-read but also insulting them at the same time the intellectual high ground they build their superiority on crumbles. They then start making demands about civility and rudeness in the conversation, I only reward people with civility when they open up to some level of intellectual curiosity and openness. Stick then carrot.

Does not always work, when it doesn’t work I just double down and hope to create such an uncomfortable interaction that they don’t do the same thing to the next communist they talk to. That way that person might have a better setup to get somewhere reasonable with them. None of our interactions happen in a vacuum, if an interaction isn’t working out you can at least set things up for the next communist on a luckier day.

“We are going to cut your fucking head off when we get the chance Vincent”

Worked on some of the crowd, some scattered. Didn’t work enough.

Hold the line.

This is why I always stress that politically apathetic people are more reachable than nominally progressive people. And much of the reason is because they don’t get brainwashed by Western news media. There’s still the issue of other forms of media like movies and videogames of course, but that’s different from news directly telling them what to think.

Agree. A prerequisite for pulling people away from liberalism is that those people have to make the conscious choice to dismiss that media and start actually thinking and engaging their brains. Only through conscious and deliberate choice does a new thought form that isn’t dictated to them via passively absorbing whatever is the current bourgeois-line being pressed by the entirety of media.

This goes for both conservatives and liberals too, they’re captured by two different media ecosystems and only conscious choice by both groups drags them out of it.

Once they’ve made that conscious choice to start thinking about shit for themselves you get the beginnings of a leftist who just needs to go on a journey where they learn a whole lotta things. People develop leftwards over time once you hit a few prerequisites that break them out of the mind manipulation system, some faster than others depending on their total access and engagement with real leftist content.

Personal opinions:

People whose views are entirely formed through repetition by the current media hegemony must engage in some form of internal introspection and critique in order to internalise new thoughts and ideas or else they revert. It is a conscious choice to take on a new thought about a topic.

Without engaging this conscious process of internal interrogation to form the new thought nothing happens and they revert back to default as soon as surrounding repetition prompts them to it.

This is why, in my opinion, making people uncomfortable and bullying liberals is often more effective than friendlier conversation at actually changing views. Liberals that are made uncomfortable by a conversation find that they dwell on it internally afterwards and this causes some element of internalising new thoughts.

This is not much use when discussing with people you have to see everyday in your life though when you can’t use it.

Your brain isn’t broken, this entire genre of fiction is basically “the nobles and aristocracy are parasites and suck us dry, literally”.

I’m sure this will make the students less violent!

That movement is sexy is that some tech or is everyone capable of this? I don’t recall being able to get vertical that easily on characters without vertical abilities.

I asked the Deadlock subreddit why there was no gameplay clips being submitted to the subreddit and they were like “clips are boring once you’ve played a while you’ve already seen it” and this basically convinced me not to give the game another try because who tf wants to play a game that it’s own community considers too shallow to post and enjoy good plays?

They were assholes about it too lol

It is really really really awful. I do not know how it got the go ahead.

Not just asthma either. Rates of cancer go up by 10% within 50m of busy road.

That would be a boring post though

I know this thread is 5 days old but I only just got forced to update, here’s the solution to use the old good style:

Type about:config into browser tab

Find Browser:Nova setting and toggle it to disabled.

Problem solved

EDIT: I just now noticed you also edited that into the post. Carryon.

I’m not talking about pronunciation but rather what the drinks actually are. They still get that pang of anxiety when they have that first experience of asking for “large black coffee” when one is not on the menu, and they also get it because they know they don’t know what the name is for that on the menu so they feel like they’re exposed as frauds.