You can do whatever you like of course but it would be morally irresponsible of me not to tell you that what you intend to do is hella cringe.

Does this fool even understand that if people like Kirk had their way anyone who looks like Cenk would be deported, enslaved, or executed?

This is a rhetorical question, of course. Everyone knows liberals don’t have self-awareness.

It’s a bad week to be Right-wing.

Two L’s in a row - can’t wait to see what happens tomorrow!

Yugopnik has zero chill and I’m all here for it. He’s always been my favorite of the trio because of this.

Life imitates art.

I guess? But their anthropocentrism is largely coming from a lack of knowledge about what exists beyond the Earth rather than a rejection of it. This makes a difference.

I remember reading about a priest - Catholic, I think - who was asked about the possibility of sapient alien beings and how the Church would respond to their existence. He explained that as God created all life that these beings would also be Children of God and deserving of the same treatment as humans, with a caveat that since they weren’t descendants of Adam they would be unaffected by the Original Sin and thus couldn’t be baptized as they wouldn’t need Christ or forgiveness. He also posited that they would worship God in accordance to how God wished them to and that Christianity was needed for humans while alien beings would have their own equivalent if they needed one.

It was an interesting theological exercise into how aliens would fit into Christianity and he’d clearly put some decent amount of thought into it.

By comparison I think I remember reading about the late Pope Francis saying he’d baptize aliens which was kinda funny.

Anyway, I don’t think it’d be a revelation that would require massive theological reforms to address.

I’m not sure how this would affect major religions? I don’t believe there are any that deny the existence of otherworldly life.

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I am no longer having a bad day. 🙂

fuck

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What individualism does to the brain.

“I’m doing well so things must be fine!”

Of course it’s a teenager.

Misogyny was also a factor. Most of the hostages were women so it was easy to dismiss their concerns with police conducts by infantilizing them.

A lot of “brainwashing” stories are like that, ignoring the perspectives of the “victims” (especially if they’re from marginalized groups, like women) in order to prevent the “perpetrators” from being legitimized. A similar thing happened with Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army.

“Stockholm Syndrome”, “brainwashing”, “indoctrination”, etc. is all just gaslighting. Manipulation is definitely real but mind control is simply science fiction.

I figured that I would probably live to see the end of the American Empire but I always figured I’d been old and gray by the time it happened. It feels so surreal to watch the world transform from a unipolar world to a multipolar world so quickly. By the time I was born the Cold War was long since over, China barely existed as a geopolitical power, Russia was still on life support, and the only proper “enemies” we had were Iran and North Korea. My entire childhood was growing up in that world where the US was top dog and could do whatever it wanted without impunity with no real way to challenge it. It wasn’t really until my late teens that it no longer became possible to hide the decline and now it’s in full swing not even a complete decade later. Living through this historic change is bizarre to me; I always expected it to be far off into the distant future or at the very least another two decades away. I had no idea how close we were to this point. I’d probably be more excited if I didn’t have to live in this shitty country and thus deal with the fallout of a dying empire directly affecting my personal life, especially as it descends into naked fascism.

Reminds me of that Lenin quote about days where weeks happen and what not. Still difficult to believe this is real.

“We had to kill civilians so they wouldn’t expose us.”

• highly trained military personnel part of a special forces unit
• unfamiliar with the basic concept of taking hostages
• doesn’t consider dead bodies full of 5.56 rounds will raise suspicion

Trillions of dollars in funding and this is the level of ‘expert’ training our soldiers are undergoing. America’s string of military defeats & stalemates post-WWII make so much sense.

Americans plaster George Washington’s face on everything and liberals don’t bat an eye.

Vietnamese affectionately call Ho Chi Minh “Uncle” and liberals lose their mind.

Paying taxes to a country you don’t even live in is insane.

KGB ball licking unit

rip bozo

This is the direct consequence of pinkwashing imperialism & colonialism.