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Jeanne-Paul Marat

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  • 🇮🇳🇮🇱 Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi declares full support for Israel.

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  • I have hated this guy since before his election and he has continued to get worse (mostly)

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    Am i normal for having an emotional reaction to this? [Cw: Pedophilia]

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  • Yeah. I don't want to be overbearing or anything. I think she'll be okay. I just know what it was like to grow up so fast and have a lot of expectations placed on me, and...Idk, obviously everything isnt about me. I mean, obviously she's succeeding where I failed so I think she's doing fine. Idk. I don't interact with children that much, and never a child who reminded me so much of, well, me.

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    Am i normal for having an emotional reaction to this? [Cw: Pedophilia]

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  • I'm sorry if it came off as privileged. I mean, obviously I knew about "creeps" (for lack of a better term for how I had imagined them in my adolescence) as a child. Don't go off with strangers, don't accept candy from vans, that kind of thing. Maybe I hadn't considered...casually I guess. The idea that any person i talk to could be one of those people. I dont mind if its a psychiatric issue but to act on it has a sense of...disgusting selfishness that i hadnt considered possible in average people (edit: no, thats not right. Obviously most "average people" have the capacity for it. Theyre not all pedophiles, but it was the milkmen and school teachers who joined the gestapo and ss). It's one of those things that makes me feel like I'll never be a girl because I was never exposed to that kind of thing as a kid. (Not saying that being a girl is tied to how much you were abused, just that I feel like im...infringing on the space. That i get to be a girl without having gone through that. Hopefully that makes sense)

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    Would US separatist movements be possible and/or advisable?

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    General Discussion Thread - Juche 115, Week 9

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  • How much damage do you think bad English language history channels like Oversimplified and Mr. Beat have done to students?

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  • Both of those are mostly watched by younger viewers to my knowledge, oversimplified especially. I would say they "pad the gaps" per se. History education is notoriously shit in the USA, so these type of channels are less Robert Conquest and more trivia night, if that makes sense. Oversimplified, Mr.Beat, extra history, etc. Mostly serve to be broud strokes about lessee known history, foreign history, or just general overviews for those that aren't super well informed.

    As for me, I did watch these channels when I was younger and definitely wasn't as critical of them as I should have been, but I did grow out of it. Extra history and Mr.Beat are still decent if you're curious about something that isn't important. I think my biggest gripe is when they're the most popular or even only source for something online. For example, the French revolution has some documentaries and some others, but by far the most popular English source on yt is oversimplified. Given my username, you can assume my feelings on him. Conversely there is extra history's sun Yat-Sen series which is...decent, from what I can tell.

    I will say, despite the numerous flaws, some information is still better than no information. I'll let Samuel Clemens take it away,

    "When I finished Carlyle’s French Revolution in 1871, I was a Girondin; every time I have read it since, I have read it differently being influenced and changed, little by little, by life and environment (and Taine and St. Simon): and now I lay the book down once more, and recognize that I am a Sansculotte–And not a pale, characterless Sansculotte, but a Marat. Carlyle teaches no such gospel so the change is in me–in my vision of the evidences.

    People pretend that the Bible means the same to them at 50 that it did at all former milestones in their journey. I wonder how they can lie so. It comes of practice, no doubt. They would not say that of Dickens’s or Scott’s books. Nothing remains the same. When a man goes back to look at the house of his childhood, it has always shrunk: there is no instance of such a house being as big as the picture in memory and imagination call for. Shrunk how? Why, to its correct dimensions: the house hasn’t altered; this is the first time it has been in focus."

    -Twain In a letter to William Dean Howells [although to compare these channels to any of these great authors is not a one to one comparison]

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    General Discussion Thread - Juche 115, Week 9

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  • Do you need an addiction to survive in capitalist society? I know it sounds like cope but basically everyone I know who isn't retired or a child has some addiction. Not cripplingly addicted in most cases. Maybe a "dependency" would be a more apt term. It's less that a person is constantly under the influence of it, more like they need it in small doses consistently [i.e, someone who smokes a cigarette every half an hour or something] or needs to get absolutely lost in it [i.e someone completely sober 95% of the time but gets shitfaced on Saturdays]. Is it natural to have some addiction like that or is it necessary only due to capitalism?

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    "It's an explanation not an excuse" is a pointless nothingburger of a platitude

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    General Discussion Thread - Juche 115, Week 9

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  • Honestly seeing people talking about the incident at the BAFTAs involving tourettes [albeit, the response from the organization was shit] reminds me why I don't talk about my psychiatric problems. The "it's am explanation not an excuse" crowd don't ever actually care about disabilities and just want to judge people

    Fuck it I'm making a post about this

  • People actually get paid to write this sort of 'analysis'

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  • Scratch one flat top...

  • General Discussion Thread - Juche 115, Week 8

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  • I wonder if there's any major difference (psychologically, biology, etc) in showering vs bathing everyday. Because presumably humans evolved to bathe (in rivers and such) rather than shower. But idk I'm not a paleontologist

    Edit: anthropologist. I dont...why did I say paleontologist?

  • Where my fellow 1dime haters at? We have been vindicated, again.

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  • Natural conclusion of "Marx is a continuation of the enlightenment" foolish revisionism. Inshallah he will be exploded

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  • Christians will complain about how lgbtqia+ is so confusing while having 100+ different denominations that are supposed to be just following the teachings of one guy

  • Trump says he will order the release of Pentagon files on aliens and UFOs

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  • Guys I got some early leaks:

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  • I think I have problems not doing things that are wrong that simultaneously don't hurt people.

    I know that didn't come out well, I'll elaborate.

    If it involves someone else who's alive, then I'm basically constantly trying the best way to make them happy. I'll try not to be rude, demeaning, etc. And I especially won't try to hurt them. I've had a thought that I would rather kill myself than do that to someone else (as counter productive as it can be, obviously). The only exception is the internet, but I try to be cordial when I can.

    But...if it doesn't hurt someone else I turn into a big libertine. Like I used to cheat on tests in high-school [I dont now because it's impractical in college]. I know there's the kantian argument of "if everyone did it it'd be bad so no one should do it," but...idk

    The thing is that i don't feel guilty. If I make someone feel bad or something I'll feel guilty for years. I had a friend who I treated poorly (long story, family trauma related) and I've still felt naturally guilty. But when I cheated on those tests I didn't feel naturally bad. My conscious brain tells me "that's wrong" but my emotional center just doesn't register it. Idk why. Maybe it's how I was brought up.

    I know it's not exactly a good marxist way of thinking. But this is my conscious, logical part of me writing this. That instinctual part is just rolling their eyes at me and wondering why I'm taking it so seriously. I'm gonna talk to my therapist about this too.

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  • Three body problem, I've been reading it lately and I regret not having done sooner.

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  • It's interesting that this discussion on ceremony is so long standing. It was a source of debate between Confusious and Lao Zi. [Well, Confucianism and Daoism, since its possible Lao Tzi wasn't just one guy]

    But yeah, I'm very glad i didn't grow up with those types of intrusive thoughts. I mean, even in secular organizations you have some of that, so a religous brainworm like that would definitely have caused even more mental health issues.

    And also, as much as I obviously enjoy the order created [for the most part] by the papal system, the lack of debate and the abject superiority complex a lot of Christians have is very...annoying. I mean, I guess I get it cause talking to liberals makes me want to die sometimes, but I really wish that more would try to engage with me without saying I'm the devil incarnate or something. Simply discussing and debating is healthy for the brain.

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  • I wonder if I would've been religious or not if I had been exposed to it when I was younger. I think I'm probably better of having not been, but whenever i look at religion, especially catholicism [since part of my family are devout catholics] i always get a sense of what if. I feel like my personality would've been amenable to it [arguably it still is]

    Edit: to elaborate, I like the sense of community, authority and rules. It's why I especially like catholicism...theoretically. In practice it's horrible. But compared to the horrible mess that is aggregate protestantism [Mormons, 7 day adventists, baptists, Jehovah's witnesses, anabaptists, megachurches, etc.] I like how there's a council of people who make decisions and says "x is real, y is not real" etc.

    But i never liked going to events or being in suits as a kid so idk

  • Chongqing, China

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  • I hope i get to go here and/or live here one day. It seems so cool and I love the food

  • Options, options

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  • Ah...I thought that was an exaggeration/joke in the post. Yeah that guy is horrible, I didn't mean to make fun of the situation

  • Is learned helplessness connected to Christian martyrdom thought?

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  • Mmm, I'm not well versed enough on Christian theology or the social influence of Christianity as opposed to other world religions.

    However I would say that if we are supposing Christian teachings are at play here, it would more likely be the Christian "reward for adversity and prayer" doctrine [I'm not sure what the proper name for this is].

    I'm stealing this from a liberal show [the west wing] but I think it encapsulates the point we'll enough. "A man lives in an area plagued by storm. The man prays every day for safety. First, he hears on the radio that there is a storm coming and that he needs to evacuate, but he stays put and prays for God to protect him. Then, a fireman comes and tells him he needs to evacuate, but the man doesn't and says God will protect him. Then, as the storm approaches, a helicopter arrives and the man is once again implored to evacuate, and once again he says no because God will protect him. The storm comes and the man drowns. When he arrives in heaven he asks God 'Why didn't you save me?' And god replies 'I tried, I sent a radio broadcast, a fireman, and a helicopter.'"

    I think it's more that kind of thinking that you're looking for rather than martyrdom

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    I know people might just be joking but I can't stand the foolish logic

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    Thoughts on Napoleon Bonaparte [le original, not le petite]?

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    Imo I would rather an angloid not even try to pronounce something than pronounce Chinese names stupidly.

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    Nows a good time to be reminded that Orwell was an [attempted] rapist

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    A quick thought on ideologies

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    A quick thought on Humankind and civ 7

  • Thoughts on ...? @lemmygrad.ml
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    On Georges Danton?

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    Sorry, We Never Would have been at Brunch

    open.substack.com /pub/journaldemarat/p/sorry-we-never-would-have-been-at
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    Marat

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    Nicaragua?

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    At least that's my understanding.

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    Yeah ngl i get it

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    cw: misogyny racism rape mentions

    It's embarrassing that it took this passage to explain to me why sexpats are a thing

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    Finally realized my problem with Syllabi

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    Sorry for my outburst

  • Thoughts on ...? @lemmygrad.ml
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    Thoughts on Linus Tech Tips?

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    Iran temporarily closes airspace Western military official says signals show US attack 'imminent'

    I know it's Jpost but

    www.jpost.com /middle-east/iran-news/article-883422
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    The "Venezualans" celebrating aren't just Gusanos, they are 汉奸