opponents of israel are treated like enemies of the state

i’d say it’s weird but it’s not at all, it’s been a thing that has been slowly ramping up for a very long time

the feds are getting really good at boiling the frog.

These psychopaths turn everything into metrics. The pro-palestinian calls are probably marked, they’re probably associated with the name on the voter registry, and that probably goes somewhere nasty.

This is kinda paranoid but in general people should probably not offer their genuine opinions to officials of a major political party or any operative of the state or federal government, even if it gives you some wicked sick catharsis, because these losers absolutely keep score and I am pretty sure we’re going into a phase of governance in this country where having plausible deniability for your ‘disloyalty’ is a good thing - and for whatever reason, support to israel is seen as a critical indicator.

tbqh epstein is an excellent normie-facing case study in why you should never lend a shred of credulity to any “offical” story or line - it’s always a lie and it’s always a lie the exact same way Epstein committed suicide - institutions give the lie legitimacy, the media uncritically reports the lie, nobody is allowed to question the lie without having it challeneged and going through a gauntlet that destroys critical voices

and if that doesn’t work it just vanishes from the media entirely.

that’s the game lol

is there any category of behavior more craven and disgusting than simping for a youtuber in someone else’s comments?

isn’t it amazing how this demonic government has trained a portion of thier citizenry that is rightly alarmed by the idea of fascism, to only be able to see it in the le epic cheeto man, but react like a Westworld host to forbidden information about its presence at literally every level of US governance? Like it’s fucking sad. A good instinct made useless. Fucking awful.

vav can do different stuff depending on context too. not sure vav as a vowel indicator is as old as the tetragrammaton? i know some features of the writing system are later innovations - most accomodations to vowels don’t go back to paleo-hebrew iirc, but the tetragrammaton probably isn’t that old anyway.

Anyway if that vav is signalling a vowel, it could be an english o/oo sound, or a lot of things

I’m not an expert, i am just the specific kind of nerd that will slowly learn archaic languages at whatever pace i can manage and i’ve got subpar hebrew literacy for it, so i don’t wanna mis-represent my credentials here.

It’s still that way. I guess later some letters started indicating certain vowel sounds a bit more directly, but it’s mostly little dots and lines that only get used to teach or are placed on text where ambiguity isn’t acceptable.

Nero was a proper piece of shit.

But the caesars at that point still ruled via popular mandate, or at least the optics thereof. More like military support supplemented by acts that placated the greater citizenry, because the aristocrats carried the torch of getting their oligarchy back for a while. The shadow of augustus was pretty long.

But you never got soldiers hollering “imperator” at you without being a huge fucking genocidal scumbag so it came with the job - he’s not some misunderstood saint.

the only way it’s “Yahweh” is if it has some very special secret vowels because “יהוה” doesn’t sound like that lol

Hey, I’m a religion nerd?

But religion nerds who know way more than me and can make a better case for what atheism really is under the hood have made videos i can share.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfcwTiOGnig

This guy is pretty good in general, if you want to understand religion on a deeper level than like, what’s common to everyone. Because common knowlege about religion is garbage. Like huge garbage. It’s all shit. I can’t have normal conversations about these topics anymore, because i know more than most people and not enough for everyone i learn from. It’s great.

edit: also i should probably define terms. I’m aware atheism can mean non-religious, but given that in name it’s defined in terms of negating religion, people who study religion are still probably the best lens we have to study it as a phenomenon, but i don’t want to imply any kind of personal belief about what atheism is - what it is is complicated and it does range from a redditor who is a little too into dawkins, to atheistic forms of religious behavior that don’t fit neatly into categories of belief or non belief - it’s a weirdly huge topic.

i think i hate this

does this code as like annoying pandering to anybody else

to answer the thread title: yeah kinda probably

Power at the national level needs replacements occasionally, but there’s strong evidence AOC was always astroturfed and was always positioned as a sheepdog - it sucks but it’s probably time to revise your understanding of her career to include a removal of any sincerity in her image at any point. It was always a work.

But sometimes one or two oddballs actually end up there, but I really think in general, these folks get bent over and read in like every state asset does. Bill Hicks had a joke that the CIA shows you a different angle of the kennedy assassination - I think it more likely the second you fuck up you are put in a position to be blackmailed - that Diddy/Epstein pedo shit surely goes deeper than a couple of pimps getting one over on some pop culture celebrities - we know better than that - and while I’m not saying everyone in congress is a nonce, i am saying they either did work that got them the nod to take the position from powerful people, or they have blackmail. I don’t think you stay in the club otherwise.

oh, it was changing before i even left highschool. I saw the writing on the wall because the 2008 election is about when the stormfront shit really amped up in response to obama’s candidacy and subsequent presidency.

I stuck around, partly because i didn’t want these shitheads displacing me on a place i considered a primary community for me, but also I felt like there was a rhetorical battle to be fought. When you’re anonymous, the winning pov is usually the one that can sustain itself the loudest and longest. I guess back then I really didn’t appreciate that the right wing enjoys more robust support from groups very willing to astroturf spaces like that, it felt like a worthy fight.

But by the time I began transitioning and reckoning with my queerness, the final straw was how deeply sick and unwell the lgbt community is there. I realized that maybe this place was super toxic and that it was time to go.

I’m mostly embarassed, but I still get wistful about what might’ve been

Man, i remember being like, 16, it’s 2005 and /b/ is raiding an early right wing streamer or stormfront, and we’re starting to do “activism” on the internet and it’s pretty robustly left wing even if not like, really grounded in theory and prone to liberal derailment.

But like, all those harassment targets followed us back because it turns out “don’t talk about 4chan” said tongue in cheek isn’t real opsec.

It was still a shithole full of things I can’t excuse and won’t defend full stop - I still remember when the vibe could’ve gone a very different way, and I die a little inside remembering the agonizing witnessing of the fascist slide, because it did happen god damn it, i remember.

I checked in recently and the porn was all race shit and cuckold stuff, the incel vibes were off the charts worse than they’d ever been when i was younger, the earnest posts were fucking deranged. It’s really sad. It’s a shame they should all probably be consigned to the wall because a psudo-anonymous org is probably a useful idea for activism

ah yes, the historical purpose

Gosh, I am not sure this is the website or thread to get into it tbh

lmfao “information should be free but that’s the author’s decision not yours” buddy you fucking suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

the rules based order and decorum dorks, it turns out, really don’t like it when people don’t pay lip service to dying like a dog for your country when called to do so.

I really am not looking forward to the change that comes on the back of this level of anger, frustration, and alienation, but while I can’t fully relate to you, I’m with you in the spirit of, “there’s basically nothing of this society that shouldn’t be torn down and annihilated”

Whatever is coming will be really fucking ugly and deserved, I won’t raise a hand to stop it even if i’m outside of it, unless it’s on the backs of a bunch of white fascists, then i’ll die fighting it I guess.

I’m sick of being desperate. I’m sick of watching loved and desperate people fall down to be crushed underfoot. Meanwhile I’ve got the dumbest people in the world telling me a ballot will fix this.