I finished watching Frieren and it gave me Goblin Slayer vibes when they spoke of the demon species.

I wish I could say I liked it but having finished it, it was at least different change of pace from other anime and media made for teenagers.

I suppose using it as a shorthand is misleading since it lends credibility to its misnomer; do we just stick to calling it LLMs then?

AI has its utilities, but capitalists searching for new frontiers and trying to find a genie that can solve climate change, poverty, wealth inequality, and really all of humanity’s problems - directly and indirectly caused by capitalism - is not going to happen.

John Oliver went into the starvation in Gaza yesterday. This feels like a precursor of the intelligentsia being “always against this” or “not realizing” that Israel was “going too far”.

Jon Stewart/Mike Duncan/Tony Gilroy

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/history-meets-galaxy-with-tony-gilroy-and-mike-duncan/id1583132133?i=1000716624551

Seems like a way to slow down younger generations discovery of Israeli war crimes and commentaries against it; a way to find future dissidents and silence them.

Some people also went to Lemuria.

Why is the starvation of Gaza the pivotal point for these western liberal democracies and not the genocidal rhetoric, bombing, and annihilation beforehand?

Is it because the starvation is more apparent an act of sadism than simply immolating civilian population through bombings?

I think Hexbear grew out of its growing pains by early 2023, with the exception of the dunk_tank shutdown incident.

This vibe has been the norm since that year, I think.

Zionism was considered a fringe movement prior to the Holocaust, the prevailing attitude was towards the Labor Bund, socialism, or liberalism. But because there was a sizable population, following, and political, economic support for establishing an “Ulster” in the Levant, Zionism was permitted and sustained by Western capital and empire.

The war, the genocide, eradicated much of the Jewish socialists and traumatized the survivors into believing the antisemitic beliefs that Jews, despite being native to their European states for centuries, were always strangers - and the strangers should go back to their ancestral homeland: Palestine.

Zionism, as a living coping mechanism for centuries of abuse during Diaspora, indulged in these twisted fantasies in order to free the Jewish people from their oppressors and threat of annihilation. Zionism professes itself as the agent of Jewish self-determination, but while the Israeli government drives the car, Europe and the US pave and path the road, supply the gasoline, and act as their mechanics.

There is so much institutional and ideological saturation of Zionism within Jewish institutions that make it very challenging to be liberated from; however the brazen and constant barrage of Israeli politicians, media figures, IDF troops, and the Palestinians crying out for help through their own broadcast of the starvation and genocide is deepening a rejection of Zionism.

Fft was and is my favorite.

“The gods have no eyes for chattel” never ceases to boil my blood.

Sounds like social engineering to break your will, ensure compliance, and plan for worker obsolescence.

I think the USSR used to just give you a job, shelter, medical care and support but they did expect you to work barring disabilities that prevented you from doing so.

These posts and comments as you’ve presented them are just general misanthropy hidden behind assigning social worth to labor to wages, a rant on their learned helplessness to the sentiment of : why don’t I receive help? Why is my life so hard?. It is the cry of the alienated capitalist subject.

What happened to Dirt_Owl?

Kind of a tangent but I looked up history of the dunk tank and then it took me to the Jim Crow museum.

What a sick, evil, depraved society.

I’d like to think things are a bit better, maybe if only a little, but that kind of brazen evil is really horrifying.

Then a synapse fired and that is the reality the oppressed have always found themselves in. Especially right now in Palestine.

NYC mayor has nigh dictatorial powers in the city, being only be able to be checked by the state govt, NYPD, and the MTA

A few days ago I asked about that zwei_squirell post and other heterodox questions that were amounted to dooming in this site.

I appreciated the feedback, analysis, and insight.

However, I certainly don’t want to read a “trust the plan” comment. It comes off as a very adolescent, juvenile, and dismissive response; it comes off as hopecasting and political lethargy.

I think it was the Schezwan sauce comeback where someone made a scene at a McDonalds exclaiming the quote “I’m Pickle Rick”.

The show, aside from Roiland, is OK. I don’t understand the big deal before or since then around the show.

Thank you.

Is there any refutation of zei_squirell’s post from the other day that I can read up on? This war’s forecast seems heavily in the US/Israel’s favor.