People have a margin of subjectivity on top of the material circumstances they are born into. If we judge them by that alone we get a sort of sports-like VAR (Value Above Replacement) analysis, which sure whatever. Unfortunately I think that is too limited. If you’re born into a maximally genocidal settler society I don’t want to see or interact with you. Only those fully transcending their circumstances and joining the other side, like Franz Fanon, are worthy of respect.
This made me think of Star Citizen where they spent like two years doing "physics-based movement" for player characters before scrapping it and rigging everything because it just felt like absolute garbage to play.
To me it illustrates that feel can only come from an iterative process of exploring & trying new things, not first principles.
Famously market-oriented fundamental particle physics research. Except this STEM dork wouldn't have a problem with that for uhhhhhhhhhhhhh [SIGSEGV noise]
Thankfully the most boomer ass opinion my dad has is that electric cars are bad. Except he hates them because they’re not gasoline cars and I hate them because they’re cars.
I have had the misfortune of knowing very severe narcissists in this life, one of whom in a relationship afflicted me with a similar mindset. The basic mindset is this: when things go your way, it is because you are brilliant and chosen and an example to those around you. When things don't go your way, it is because people have let you down by failing to recognize your inherent superiority; thus they must be punished, and you will use your talents to become a plague upon the world.
Spouse who is a psychiatrist read your post. Says there is not really enough information to go on but uppers do have a lot of dopamine which can induce/trigger psychosis. It is admirable you want to help your boss after they have helped you. Unfortunately if they don't want help voluntarily the only other option is helping them involuntarily, i.e. involuntary commitment and the rules on that vary by state/country. In typical psychiatrist style they don't want to say much more than that without having direct information about the situation.
(My own analysis now) I agree going to their boss is a risk that can go either way. Their particular online environment also actively denigrates therapy that curtails their ideas as being Jewish/liberal psyops to keep people from understanding the truth. The general extreme zionist alignment of the current US admin also provides a constellation of objective facts they can plausibly hang their hat on, not to mention the whole Jeffery Epstein thing. So you're operating at the level of competing narratives now. And frankly even us on the left haven't coalesced around a comprehensive counter-narrative yet. Just a few weeks ago there was a struggle session here about whether the US/zionist relationship is reciprocal or one way (driven by the US) which resulted in a long-time user getting banned. I don't want to really start a struggle session but this is a larger issue we need to figure out our story on because ZOG conspiracists are eating our lunch.
breaking the bit to relate that GORP stands for "good ol' raisins & peanuts", referring to a simple & cheap trailmix evoking a minimalist/oldschool approach to enjoying the outdoors
your life starts to revolve around giardia. if there is a life action you could take that increases your probability of contracting giardia you have to take it. see a puddle? drink from it
Covid, big as it was, did not have the scale to actually trigger a revolution I don't think. I don't mean to dismiss the scale of suffering and death. But I think an event on the scale necessary to trigger a revolution would probably have to directly imperil and permanently, drastically change the lives of upwards of 25% of fighting-age people.
We must expose israeli students to appealing ideas like “you should extend the assumption of humanity to people you’ve been taught to hate for your entire life; in return you don’t get any more free real estate” wow I wonder which way they’ll swing?
I do not think it will. If it does happen it will be unpredictable and triggered by an unrelated factor. All the successful revolutions of the 20th century (except perhaps Cuba's?) came in the wake of reality-overturning events like a world war or successful anti-colonial struggle. In the fiction book Green Mars (spoilers to follow) the Martian independence revolution is kicked off by massive collapse of the Antarctic ice sheet on Earth and subsequent 6 meter sea rise. So mostly it's about being ready to take advantage of events instead of building expressly toward revolution. And that event does not arrive on a schedule.
This is such an incredible nothingburger of a story lol even Trump doesn't give a shit
Trump defended Witkoff on Tuesday night. “That’s what a dealmaker does. You’ve got to say look, they want this, you’ve got to convince them of this,” Trump said while onboard Air Force One. “That’s a very standard form of negotiation.” He added that he imagined Witkoff “is saying the same thing to Ukraine”.
“He told me, ‘Rabbi, I love the idea and I can’t thank you enough,’” said Rabbi Schneier, who is an outspoken critic of Mr. Mamdani. (The mayor-elect expressed his interest in hearing more details about the Schneier pitch, according to Dora Pekec, his spokeswoman.)
So the NYT asked Zohran spokeswoman about what the zionist rabbi said and they neutrally responded that yeah he told the rabbi he would be interested in hearing more. This is "🙅🏾♂️ Zohran says no more protesting outside of Synagogues selling stolen Palestinian land 🙅🏾♂️"?
People have a margin of subjectivity on top of the material circumstances they are born into. If we judge them by that alone we get a sort of sports-like VAR (Value Above Replacement) analysis, which sure whatever. Unfortunately I think that is too limited. If you’re born into a maximally genocidal settler society I don’t want to see or interact with you. Only those fully transcending their circumstances and joining the other side, like Franz Fanon, are worthy of respect.