/b/ - Siberia

>>157059
OP are you a bot?

>>157060
You don't seem to understand

>>157061
No I was just checking

>>157062
Stay strong.

>>157059
The probkem.is, people are too ok with school being divorced from worldly affairs.

It's become too acceptable to be dysfunctional throughout your twenties and thirties.


It's costing us so much and people are too dumb to notice

>>158784
Adolf hitler, ofc. He was such a whacky guy!

>>158785
He was a twat.

>>158786
>>158786
No way really? Wowie, I didn't know!

>>158787
Yup, I was shocked too.

>>158788
kek

lol

this oigha has gone insane

This guy needs to take into account how the socialists/communists get mass-murdered through CIA psyops in Indonesia in the 60s. In that context, China's Cultural Revolution was justified.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_1965%E2%80%9366

I know I've been beating this dead horse for weeks now, it's just that the Left really fucking sucks at internet propaganda.
Somehow the Right managed to turn Gamergate into a Great Replacement issue and pushed Trump into the whitehouse purely off the energy of mad gamers scared transgender feminists will take their games away. Now the next generation after Zoomers are addicted to watching Andrew Tate and think the only way to "make it" in America is a crypto AI scam. How did the Left fail so hard that we couldn't counter this messaging at all?

've noticed there's a trend with the American left to have these kneejerk reactions to whatever the right says on issues that have nuances. Basically whatever right wingers say is bad must be good or isn't real, like pornography addiction. With the latter I cannot tell you how many times I've encountered leftists who firmly believe that porn addiction isn't real.

There's LITERALLY white boomers in fucking appalachia that are more concerned with trans people in bathrooms than the fact their children are being diagnosed with cancer from the toxic sludge corporations are pumping into their water supply. These people have completely divorced politics from real world issues. The Right has successfully removed any kind of materialist context and replaced it with random Twitter drama turning into national issues. Meanwhile where is the American Left…? Why is there like no one at all that can counter this?

The left does not like to propagandize because it does not like to do absolutely anything.

Everything is deemed unecessary, liberal or "immature". When people point out that the rightoids propagandize like crazy then its shrugged off by saying "w-well they have the state supporting them and the glowie and uhhh anyway for that reason its pointless to do anything and we should simply allow them to do as they please because we were going to lose the propaganda war anyway, ugh youre such an immature liberal"

>>157085
>Somehow the Right managed to turn Gamergate into a Great Replacement issue and pushed Trump into the whitehouse purely off the energy of mad gamers scared transgender feminists will take their games away.
What year are you writing this from? It was never true.
In 2016 Trump got like 3 million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton and it was still mostly just the usual GOP voters and a some people in the rust belt and elsewhere who switched from D to R because of actual economic issues.
In 2024, Gamergate was less than irrelevant and Trump was running against a genocidal man with visible dementia and a shit economy, and then the DNC switched him out for someone with the exact same policies who had helped cover up Biden's senility.

I agree with most of the rest of your post, so maybe it's silly of me to quibble with that one bit.
The right does have institutional support, and that's a major fact in how the left got fucked up so hard, but it's also not a good excuse either. None of those things are good excuses. For as stacked as things are against the left (and getting worse all the time), the left could be doing a thousand times better than it is if American leftists were willing to take risks. I think there's also something to be said for how often people who see themselves as being on America's left… still fall into the trap of getting bogged down in stupid culture war issues. Culturally, some people are more "socially liberal" or "socially conservative"… but neither of those things is class politics, so trying to condition participation in the entire workers' movement on unanimous agreements about that stuff is obviously a bad idea and a distraction.

The American left desperately needs to take drastic action now and stop being so complacent and cowardly.

>>157087
*major factor

>>157085
>Basically whatever right wingers say is bad must be good or isn't real, like pornography addiction. With the latter I cannot tell you how many times I've encountered leftists who firmly believe that porn addiction isn't real.

Why are you imageboard users so morally obsessed with sex and porn?

>>157087
>In 2024, Gamergate was less than irrelevant and Trump was running against a genocidal man with visible dementia and a shit economy, and then the DNC switched him out for someone with the exact same policies who had helped cover up Biden's senility.

Irony is, Trump has the same flaws as Biden

>>157085

>Now the next generation after Zoomers are addicted to watching Andrew Tate and think the only way to "make it" in America is a crypto AI scam

Can you provide proof of this?

>These people have completely divorced politics from real world issues. The Right has successfully removed any kind of materialist context and replaced it with random Twitter drama turning into national issues. Meanwhile where is the American Left…? Why is there like no one at all that can counter this?


Why should there be any "countermeasures?
Also, these people you're talking about weren't damaged by Twitter drama. They always were like that.

>>157087
>The American left desperately needs to take drastic action now and stop being so complacent and cowardly.

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It's a bit anthropocentric. While solophism is a valid logical conclusion the termonology "weight" is a bit nebulous. The truth is that regardless of how you feel the mass of a specific rock is always going to b X regardless of the subjective interpretations of opposing parties.

This is a garbage rationalization for solipsism. The weight is measurable.

Do a bunch of acid. Do enough that you have undeniable hallucinations, but not enough that they're completely totalizing - you should see manifestations, mandalas, etc. but still be able to tell what room you're in. Depending on your weight and drug habits, 3 hits should do it - 2 could do it even. Dosage of tabs varies wildly, though, so do research - Psychonaut, Erowid, etc. can help. Put on black metal or The Cure or Xenomorph or something like that. THEN formulate an argument for the reality of subjective experience, and factor death into it too. Weight is not subjective, your current argument is bad.

>>155750
What about when he showed off his stolen bra collection?

>>156028
>>156029
>>155845
These kind of Internet stars are Millennials doing this and yet Millennials are blaming Gen Z for this

Youtube keeps taking down his videos, even non-affiliated archive channels…

https://humans.fandom.com/wiki/EDP445
>Moreland has been recently embroiled in multiple controversies, including serious allegations of child grooming and pedophilia. Following evidence of the sexual misconduct, Moreland deleted all of the videos on his YouTube channel and lost over 300,000 subscribers
He really had all that, darn…

They used Siri to translate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIXwhmLcbZ8&t=615s

>>158760
Wait a minute, this was racist

>>158759
I agree with the concept, but in practice it makes me feel gross to see; watching another human being in so much terror and fear is off putting to me no matter how horrible their actions are.

Empathy is a strange and wonderful thing.

>>158763
This
Irony is, most of the real sexual predators are right under their noses and they go by unpunished


Also, most sexy predator-baiting shows are often focused on the catch rather than protecting the vulnerable

Alot of these stings are often using fake personas to begin with.

And from what I heard, Chris Hansen's show "To Catch A Predator" was staged.

I have lived extensively in both, from the bumfuck middle of the forest as a hermit surviving, to the middle of a sprawling megacity, and I can tell you one thing for sure, you take yourself (your baggage, your conditioning, your skills) wherever you go. The things humans do in cities is analogous to what animals do in forests. Its the hamsterwheel that is samsara. I think you, as a city slicker, will actually find rural life to be more bullshit than city life. I've seen it happen both ways. I will also say that where your story ends is usually a result of where you started. Good luck finding yourself lainon. It can take a few years or a lifetime

I left my city and I hated it. I just came back. We don't live in a major metropolis, but, it's around 800,000 residence. I came back. I was living in a bum fuck middle of nowhere town in idaho for 8 years and fuck that. Those people are backwards.

City life is bad only in the sense of a lot of pollution and smothering but that doesn't make it inherently bad.

In nature, animals make their own metropolitan districts.

>>158740
>No, it's juvenile. Don't try to correct me, dumbass.

How is it juvenile?
More adults whining about pop culture from a "it's not cool like it used to be" angle.

>Because it's a bunch of rich guys, largely concentrated in a few wealthy areas, who use insidious marketing and heaps of money, based on the same tricks developed by the likes of Edward Bernays at the birth of PR, to manipulate people into a state where consuming particular products is perceived to be a default state or a signifier of normality. These products then supplant local culture, people accept them as "ours" because they are told to, even though they actually represent the will of small, economically disconnected people very far away, and what those people think everyone else ought to be listening to or watching or doing right now.


You know that local cultures are not static and can be influenced by metropolitan areas even in the old days.

The problem is not "cultural appropriation", but rather that said products are oversold.

>Meanwhile, the culture on the ground, the remaining regional culture, tends to be far more connected to the pulse of the people. It isn't filtered through the whims of the state. When it comes to music it's even generally better - like more interesting, better hooks, less boring. But I'm supposed to pretend like it's not!

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>>158742
>More adults whining about pop culture from a "it's not cool like it used to be" angle.
And that's juvenile.

>You know that local cultures are not static and can be influenced by metropolitan areas even in the old days.
>The problem is not "cultural appropriation", but rather that said products are oversold.
Neither of these sentences is engaging with anything I said. I never once said "cultural appropriation," nor did I say anything about "local cultures being influenced by metropolitan areas."
I'm talking about payola and Bernays-style PR by millionaires connected to the corporate state, keep up.

>Umm, you know that a lot of our pop culture is due to regional scenes being recognized in Hollywood, right?
Again, this isn't engaging with anything I said.

It's not a counter-point to anything I said to say that the mass-marketed media which is pushed to replace better organic cultural expressions sometimes offers inferior imitations. That doesn't contradict my argument that pop culture is a sort of cultural brood parasite, if anything it supports it.

>It's not juve
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>>158745
Your post is fair point
I apologize for being dense

But now you understand my frustration with these "incels" constantly whining about "TFW no gf" thinking that romantic love is owed to them by default?

Now you understand my frustration about childhood and adolescence being manufactured?

Our gender relations are also manufactured.

>>158750
Why do people say we think that? That's such a fucking sterotype. Maybe pull the log out of your own eye before you point out the stick in mine because I have tried to play the dating game I have tried to be that bad boy edge lord I have tried everything to actually find a partner (with varying success) but I am still alone. And If I don't have a family to look forward to in my life then I have no reason to work.

>>158753
This is what I'm talking about.
Yes, I'm well aware that most of you have payed the dating games far too many times for any low-prospect man.
But the point I'm saying is that romantic love is oversold as an automatic grant for adulthood.

Also you confessing you've tried the "bad boy persona" is especially cringe worthy.

And why do you people always say that having a family/partner is your sole motive for working?

Do you not know how many family men are disenchanted with their lives?

If you need a family to motivate you to work, then I'm sorry my friend,you're already ballast.

>>158705
Jesus christ, what the fuck? Are you then advocating for just letting all these "good" homeless junkies take what they want (which makes everything more expensive for those of us living within the rules of society) as "reparations" or something?
I don't know why you're so offended by my post. I'd certainly consider myself a liberal, but that doesn't mean I'm going to stand by and assume it's the "Evil System" that put these people where they are. I used to be tangentially connected to that world. I smoked heroin and ran around with these scummy people and watched them shoplift and scam whoever they could for enough cash to get their next fix. Luckily I'm not retarded, so when it looked like I was going to have to graduate to the needle and start living like these people, I checked into rehab and got my shit together. As SOON as it became "get act together" or "live on the streets with your addiction", the choice was clear.

I wish I could better understand where you're coming from and what you think the solution would be. I don't advocate rounding up the homeless and moving them past the city limits exactly, but I also don't like them camped out around downtown businesses panhandling and smoking and letting their dogs shit and bark at people trying to engage in commerce.

I know we need to just fix everything so this doesn't happen, but what's the solution? The 1% just keep taking and taking and leaving us less. I've seen situations where homes are provided to these people and I've seen them not even be able to keep their FREE fucking room together. They live in filth and cause drunken fires and shit. They end up being too wild for their government-given surroundings.

I'm saying the difference is that I was on that road to ruin and I did the hard thing and lived in a shelter and pissed in a cup and made curfew until I could wrangle a place of my own for a new start. There are resources to help you save money and get back on your feet. I used those resources. And when I've suggested such places to beggars on the street they start in about the rules and how they like their drink and their drugs.

Some of these places are hardcore religious and I don't believe you should have to hear a sermon for your dinner, but still it's better than the streets.

I don't think all these people are bad. I just can't see your Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>158709
>I'd certainly consider myself a liberal,
Ok, that explains it somehow.

>>158711
Explains what? That you don't have any response because you don't know anything about who you're responding to?
You don't have any issue with my opinions after all. That's what I thought.

>>158712
"Liberal" is a slur around these parts here

That anon doesn't like you because you don't automatically sympathise with junkies to the point of becoming a door mat.
Alot of LeftyPol users are pro -NEETs and glorify the lumpenproletariat

>>158743
>"Liberal" is a slur around these parts here
Yes, and he helpfully self-identified.

>That anon doesn't like you because you don't automatically sympathise with junkies to the point of becoming a door mat.
No.

I went into my position here: >>158705
I am clear and unambiguous. My position has fuck all to do with how "sympathetic" I personally find junkies. It also has nothing to do with whether any given individuals are "good homeless" or "bad homeless," that entire framing is retarded. It's a systemic problem, and the things which would benefit the homeless broadly will benefit all of them and will benefit me. That's not conditional on what interpersonal beef I do or don't have with some individual guy, that shit is irrelevant.

>Alot of LeftyPol users are pro -NEETs and glorify the lumpenproletariat
I'm not glorifying anything. I am a lumpenprole. Nothing I say has anything to do with "glorification," and I've explained this to you, specifically, before in other threads where you've made the same misrepresentation of others' positions. I'm not sure if you're really this dense or if you're just trolling or something worse. I don't romanticize or glorify anyone, get it through yr skull that the existence of the lowest rungs of the working class is not conditional on your approval, we are literally just people who have had shit opportunities for 'mainstream' work, an extraordinarily common thing since the capitalist economy keeps shitting the bed. There are millions of us, and the only people who don't interact with us regularly are the richest capitalists, we're not some alien thing which anybody in this milieu is "glorifying."