Are you here because Reddit banned you? by TheBlackSun in AskSaidIt

[–]HugodeCrevellier 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yes.

I used to love Reddit and spent/wasted much time on it.

But then things got less and less organic, i.e. they seemed more and more manipulated/bot-ified? And their mods just went full woketard: To lie became mandatory. To tell objectively true facts became a 'bannable offence'. At this point on that site, unless you submit to agreeing with all kinds of complete bullshit (e.g. that a man pretending to be a woman is in fact a woman), you get diagnosed with some 'phobia' and/or labelled a 'hater' and then, of course, you get banned by some opinion-control inquisitors.

Sorry but ... nope.

Hurrian Hymn #6 - the oldest known melody in human history (circa 1400 BC) by xoenix in music

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

For sec there, it seemed that he was about to launch into 'California Dreaming'!

Proving God exists using Math by Mortis30 in debatealtright

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You present no arguments and spam videos instead, and that's not how I debate.

Proving God exists using Math by Mortis30 in debatealtright

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That I'll debate doesn't mean I'll feed clickbait spam.

Proving God exists using Math by Mortis30 in debatealtright

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's not a valid point. Regular human minds figured the objects and rules of maths. That these rules are objective and/or that numbers can be imagined to be infinite does ... not ... prove god(s).

Incidentally, nor, especially, does it prove distasteful tribal dictator-deities, like Yahweh (the one such videos typically seek to promote). This deity, which some crafty charlatans invented and managed to infect our civilization with, is shockingly and demonstrably evil when examined by objective ethical criteria. But here we are, still infected, talking about it, so many of us having barely risen above those that (when told that their tribal deity demanded it) actually stoned people to death (over nonsense).

Anyway, I wish that some people would stop trying to keep spreading the infection, especially when pretending to use Philosophy to try to push whichever crappy tribal deity/mythology they've been brainwashed into.

Trump says he’d disregard NATO treaty, urge Russian attacks on U.S. allies by Cancelthis in funny

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

European foreign policy, which includes defence, must not be dependent on the likes of Trump, Biden and/or the assorted sociopaths manipulating them.

Proving God exists using Math by Mortis30 in debatealtright

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The objects and rules of maths derive from reasoning, i.e. the mind. Numbers are infinite! Therefore, maths come from an infinite mind!! ERGO GOD(s?) EXIST!!! QED!!!!

:/

CBC News panel on the reporter who was arrested by hfxB0oyA in MediaAnalysis

[–]HugodeCrevellier 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

He purposely bumps into the journalist and then, knowingly lying, claims assault. So, the questions are never answered. What a piece of shit! Should he not get fired?

Pepsi and Lay’s pulled from supermarkets in Europe over price increases by PanzersGhost in Europe

[–]HugodeCrevellier 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

OK, but all that being somewhat accurately said, it's still a surprising move.

Carrefour purports to be fighting inflation by this, not fighting unhealthy crap being offered, nor microplastics, etc.

Incidentally, in terms of unhealthy crap being offered, the other[s], of the handful of food-cartel corporations that peddle almost all 'food' products, are no better.

Pepsi and Lay’s pulled from supermarkets in Europe over price increases by PanzersGhost in Europe

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sure, theoretically, in 'an infinitely large universe of perfectly rational consumers', Smith's magically benevolent invisible hand might arise.

But this is feels like some Capitalist version of that last bastion of Communist apologists, to claim that the reason it was so catastrophic towards human happiness is that all previously applied Communism was 'not true Communism!'

For societies to actually improve, where citizens can be freer and happier, we may want to start ignoring the two idiotic 'ism's that have plagued the 20th century (and certainly not to feel allegiance to them!) and to instead start looking for policies that actually make sense.

Did Bread or Beer Create Civilization? by ruperttaylor in Foodfun

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Writing, which is an essential aspect of civilization, was indeed invented by the Sumerians well before 5th century BC Greece.

However, in terms of governance, the Persians and everybody else used the same system (government by some 'Alpha male', with perhaps some subservient allies) most commonly used in apes, including non-human ones, like chimps and gorillas.

Most peoples' instincts draw them to this so strongly that they'll invent some imaginary eternal alpha-male dictator/emperor/king/warlord/lord-deity to worship, lest, god forbid, they should find themselves without one.

What the Greek miracle achieved is to invent (besides philosophy/science, the Logos/logic, reason over superstition, medicine, etc.) politics, Democracy and everything else we consider truly civilized.

Basically, that you're not, today, the subservient bitch of some warlord or rabbinate (claiming to speak for some invisible supreme warlord in the sky) is thanks to some great thinkers in 5th century BC Greece.

Pepsi and Lay’s pulled from supermarkets in Europe over price increases by PanzersGhost in Europe

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, and corporations, more generally, are greed-driven organizations, systemically so, i.e. designed to be so.

And Adam Smith's Invisible hand is, of course, a myth.

And this myth provides the narrative for the plutocratic/sociopathic scam currently destroying civilization.

Pepsi and Lay’s pulled from supermarkets in Europe over price increases by PanzersGhost in Europe

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's a surprising move.

You'd think that Carrefour would let customers decide whether to buy the overpriced crap or not.

And large corporate retailers don't often take the side of consumers against other corporations.

THE CHAT SAYS THAT THERE ARE 49 USERS. by BOOB-SMASHER in whatever

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Who does, truly, own/control this site?

Did Bread or Beer Create Civilization? by ruperttaylor in Foodfun

[–]HugodeCrevellier 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, agriculture was certainly a factor, a necessary, but (and here's the thing) not a sufficient factor on the path to civilization.

ALL atheist arguments answered in 10 minutes by Mortis30 in debatealtright

[–]HugodeCrevellier 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yahweh-worshipping clickbait, starting with a straw-man argument followed by the confidently-wrong assertion that demonic possessions(!) have been scientifically established(!!), by which point I realized I had already given the moron too much time.

Did Bread or Beer Create Civilization? by ruperttaylor in Foodfun

[–]HugodeCrevellier 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There's a tendency to dismiss the creative brilliance of a group of people and to instead assign their brilliance to economic factors:

Materialist conception of history

Inspired by Enlightenment thinkers, especially Condorcet, the utopian socialist Henri de Saint-Simon (1760–1825) formulated his own materialist interpretation of history, similar to those later used in Marxism, analyzing historical epochs based on their level of technology and organization and dividing them between eras of slavery, serfdom, and finally wage labor. According to the socialist leader Jean Jaurès, the French writer Antoine Barnave was the first to develop the theory that economic forces were the driving factors in history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_materialism

Did Bread or Beer Create Civilization? by ruperttaylor in Foodfun

[–]HugodeCrevellier 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

did you mean Marxist-like?

yes.

Did Bread or Beer Create Civilization? by ruperttaylor in Foodfun

[–]HugodeCrevellier 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Right, so, if you give some bread or beer to chimps, they become civilized!

But seriously, of course not.

This is materialist (Marxist-like) nonsense.

The brilliance of some people, who also happened to drink wine not beer, created civilization.

Alexander Scourby KJV Audio Bible, Ezekiel Chapter 4 - Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem: And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering.. by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Right, so, when you, mindlessly and without critical thought, are regurgitating whatever superstitious crap was shat-out by some smelly unwashed goat-herders, you imagine yourself to be casting ... 'pearls before swine'(!!), ... the 'swine', of course, being whoever sees the kind of stinking pile of shite you're pushing for what it actually is.

Did Bread or Beer Create Civilization? by ruperttaylor in Foodfun

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Only that the civilizers, the Hellenes and Romans, happened to drink wine ... so beer has nothing to do with it.

The dirty tactics of Zionist censorship against pro-Palestine voices. by HibikiBlack in debatealtright

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ah, the stench of a steaming pile of hasbara early in the morning!

Alexander Scourby KJV Audio Bible, Ezekiel Chapter 4 - Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem: And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering.. by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The sooner the worship of Yahweh and its associated drivel fades, the better, ... as it's lasted too long as it is, and has done untold harm to our civilization.

Globe earth vs flat earth pastors go off at eachother in heated debate by johnsmith315 in SaidIt

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Using crap written long ago, by self-serving charlatans, to evaluate reality, what could possibly go wrong?

Marvin Guy, Who Shot a Cop During a No-Knock Raid, Found Guilty of Murder by Drewski in news

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Right.

So, the prosecution argued that Guy 'trapped' and 'ambushed' the police, when they broke down his door and, guns blazing, invaded his home, where he was sleeping.

But of course! :/

AI propaganda photo by xoenix in whatever

[–]HugodeCrevellier 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Might the hasbarats be distributing the AI versions just to create doubt over it actually happening?

Elon Musk Calls Scottish Leader ‘A Blatant Racist’ by [deleted] in politics

[–]HugodeCrevellier 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Scots , who are 96% white, and Christians, have been so "Diversity!" brainwashed (into inverse-racism, against themselves), that they've elected some Pakistani as their prime minister.

Yet, and sure enough, the contemptible Islamist turd that, for the sake of 'diversity', the Scotts placed in the top position of the Scottish government, now complains that the Scotts are racists(!?) and that there are too many white, i.e. Scottish, people in positions of power, ... in Scotland!!

Now, if that POS actually cared about either Scotland or even diversity, he would seek to have more (white and Christian) Scotts in position of power in Pakistan ... and not the other way around.

But no, Islamists always seem to flee their shithole homelands (ostensibly because, well, they are shitholes) and then to go to some (any remaining) civilized countries ... and then try to turn them into the same kind of shitholes they fled ... you know ... for 'diversity!''s sake. :/

Judge rules Alex Jones can't use bankruptcy to avoid paying $1.1 billion to Sandy Hook families | CNN Business by ActuallyNot in news

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The 'Justice(!) System' in the North American colonies has become a complete joke.

Using wrong gender pronouns may get you two years in jail under Labour by xoenix in TumblrInAction

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

By 'wrong' pronouns do they mean using the actually right pronouns, the demonstrably, biologically, objectively, correct pronouns ... or do they mean that they'll stick you in jail if you truly use pronouns incorrectly, like using 'she' (feminine) to refer to a male or 'them' to refer to a single person, which also seems extreme of course but at least less insane? :D

The 3 Companies That Own The World by Questionable in corruption

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It will be such a shock to the (currently hopelessly corrupt) system if Kennedy somehow gets elected president of the USA.

Deaths Caused By Hurricane Hilary To Be Labeled Suicides by Oyveygoyim in funny

[–]HugodeCrevellier 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Brilliant! :D

An AI camera system caught almost 300 drivers breaking the law during the first three days of its use in the UK. by [deleted] in Artificial_Intelligen

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Depriving people of of all freedoms, to do anything whatsoever, must save a shitload of lives and make the statistics look fantastic. Let's combine this with totalitarian surveillance, to enforce compliance. What a wonderful world!

An AI camera system caught almost 300 drivers breaking the law during the first three days of its use in the UK. by [deleted] in Artificial_Intelligen

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Those in favour of totalitarian spying should volunteer to have cameras and microphones installed in their houses ... 'for their own safety' ... oh wait ....

An AI camera system caught almost 300 drivers breaking the law during the first three days of its use in the UK. by [deleted] in Artificial_Intelligen

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You, unwittingly, hit upon another aspect of the issue.

Whether to wear a seatbelt or not is a personal decision. Criminalizing it (nobody challenged this!?), is part of a process of brainwashing people (e.g. you) to accept the idea that you're not free to decide, in general.

Furthermore, such laws, which the thoughtless don't understand, are an attack on the basis of democracy itself. Democracy rests on the idea that the citizens of a society are, and certainly must be treated as, responsible adults. They decide the fate of their society, for fuck's sake!

So, the state is supposed to serve its citizens and must not, as a general rule, try to treat them like mentally-challenged children.

An AI camera system caught almost 300 drivers breaking the law during the first three days of its use in the UK. by [deleted] in Artificial_Intelligen

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Once you've defined everyone as a criminal, you can ensure subservience.

Evolutionists will tell you men evolved all this stuff by random beneficial mutations and it makes sense because "once up on a time, a zillion years passed" by iamonlyoneman in whatever

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It depends on what you mean by 'kind of thing', but if land mammals ('one kind of thing'?) can evolve into dolphins and whales etc., fish-like sea mammals ('a different kind of thing'?) then one kind of thing can indeed evolve into 'a different kind of thing'.

Today's pinnipeds, seals and sea-lions, etc., seem to be on their way there.

When you look at pinnipeds, do you imagine that they were 'designed' that way?

All of these complicated chemicals didn't evolve to be in men's sperm they were designed into it.

Wait, what, why, on what basis?

Is 'complexity' the issue that's bothering you about it?

Cannot complexity 'emerge' as it were?

91 criminal charges by g0ldfish in politics

[–]HugodeCrevellier 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In corrupt South (and now also North) American Banana Republics, the popular and almost certain winner of the next elections is almost certain to either get assassinated or get pelted with bullshit charges.

Barbie banned from Algerian cinemas for 'corrupting morals' by [deleted] in Movies

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

'Medieval-minded morons ban inane woketard crap!'

Evolutionists will tell you men evolved all this stuff by random beneficial mutations and it makes sense because "once up on a time, a zillion years passed" by iamonlyoneman in whatever

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean. But the process of evolution is undeniable. That living organisms change/evolve characteristics through many generations has been proven ... ad nauseum.

Evolutionists will tell you men evolved all this stuff by random beneficial mutations and it makes sense because "once up on a time, a zillion years passed" by iamonlyoneman in whatever

[–]HugodeCrevellier 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Oh, joy ... let's still deny stuff that has been demonstrated to be the case over and over ... in order to try and make the world fit primitive tribal nonsense by smelly Middle-Eastern herders!

Evolutionists will tell you men evolved all this stuff by random beneficial mutations and it makes sense because "once up on a time, a zillion years passed" by iamonlyoneman in whatever

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What is or not 'beneficial' is determined afterwards, depending on whether it increases or decreases your chances of reproducing, no?

My mother-in-law visited us for supper. She was a teenager when the Apollo missions went to the moon. I asked her what she remembered about it. She remembers listening to a news report on the car radio at the K-mart parking lot. She asked, Why do we need to go to the moon? by In-the-clouds in space

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

But of course, that the whole of Africa isn't capable of sending a man to the moon, still today, is ... whitey's fault. :/

The Last Video About the Flat Earth V Heliocentric Globe Earth Model of Rome you'll ever need to see -The Serapeum [3.39.07] by doginventer in conspiracy

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What man already understood millennia ago, in antiquity, well before e.g. the purported time of Christ, some people today still cannot manage to wrap their heads around, in 2023(!), opting instead of the (too-uncertain/complicated?) truth, to believe in childish fairytales offered by charlatans.

Bloomsbury USA president dies in speedboat collision in Italy by [deleted] in Europe

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Awful! A terrible tragedy for an entire family. The poor children! May she rest in peace.

"Web Environment Integrity" is an all-out attack on the free Internet by [deleted] in Internet

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

People need to be aware of this ... so they can fight it.

reddit censorship gone crazy: ‘Kill the Boer’ Song Fuels Backlash in South Africa and U.S by [deleted] in MeanwhileOnReddit

[–]HugodeCrevellier 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Reddit's woke-ish totalitarian inquisition that imposes some inane ideological monoculture is why most of us here are reading and writing on saidit instead, even though saidit was launched much later, and we're re of course much fewer.

reddit censorship gone crazy: ‘Kill the Boer’ Song Fuels Backlash in South Africa and U.S by [deleted] in MeanwhileOnReddit

[–]HugodeCrevellier 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is the way.

Racism by Death_By_Democracy in AskSaidIt

[–]HugodeCrevellier 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

No, nice try. In a few cases, as a matter of immediate safety, the freedom of speech may be curtailed by law. 'Yelling fire in a crowded theatre' is a specific (the most commonly known) example of this. What you, on the other hand, are threatening and advocating, violence, assaulting someone (punching them in the throat!) for expressing an opinion, is a serious crime and should land you in jail.

Why is the Copenhagen interpretation of QM so popular? by [deleted] in Physics

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Maybe that binary (on/off) is not the right way to understand existence at quantum scales. The quantum realm seems to be a kind of sea of virtual events, which we call 'particles' but probably shouldn't. More helpful analogies may exist than billiard balls. For example, is a wave top/crest in the sea a distinct thing, fully separate from the surrounding water? Where does it begin, and where does it end?

Catholic church admits that a telescope named LUCIFER (later shortened to LUCI) is at the Vatican outpost in Arizona and that they have access to it. They deny "owning" it.... but they funded it. They used a telescope named LUCIFER, which is the name of God's adversary! by In-the-clouds in space

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

'If', you don't, nor do you seem to be trying to. So, where to begin? I suggest reading Plato's Euthyphro as a start, perhaps.

Racism by Death_By_Democracy in AskSaidIt

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If someone tells me face to face that Palestinians are sub-human (which I have been told on a couple of occasions by Zionists on line) they are going to get a punch in the throat.

That's basically criminally insane. If something can be thought, then it can be said. And people can think both correct and incorrect things. We don't need nor want self-appointed thought-enforcers assaulting people over wrong-think. The partially successful goal of the Enlightenment was to replace dogma with reason. So, let's not descent back into some neo-abrahamic dark ages, where diverging from the approved orthodoxy gets you assaulted.

Racism by Death_By_Democracy in AskSaidIt

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

As I'm pointing at the moon, you're examining my finger.

Racism by Death_By_Democracy in AskSaidIt

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's not the words, it's the acts. The demonstrable self-serving bullshit of biblical mythology, for example, is a sewer of jewish-supremacism. But that, on its own, is not the problem. An essential issue might for example be the theft of the Palestinians' ancestral homeland. The excuses concocted to do this, to steal these people's ancestral homes(!), are incidental. The words merely provided rationalization to justify a crime. But the words themselves are not the crime.

Racism by Death_By_Democracy in AskSaidIt

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In an apparent desperate attempt to avoid the objective truth, you're now trying to get pedantic about the accuracy of the term 'genocide'. Right! And because of this, the debate has now gone off into some pointless tangent. Look, no matter how you twist it, you simply can't avoid the demonstrable (and one would expect uncontroversial) fact that, as Hillary Clinton might say: 'We came, we saw, they died'. Period.

Racism by Death_By_Democracy in AskSaidIt

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The answer to the white guilt / noble savage narrative is probably not some counter-narrative denying the genocide of the indigenous Americans, but an attempt to actual historical accuracy and to as objective as possible an understanding. You do seem to try to do that more than most, I must say. This, of course, is hard work, tedious, difficult and imperfect ... and one may not like the conclusion ... ergo the popularity of merely slinging self-serving narratives at each other. All that being said, it's basically certain that the invasion of the Americas by foreign populaces played a decisive role in the virtual extinction of the original Americans, and is not just coincidental.

Catholic church admits that a telescope named LUCIFER (later shortened to LUCI) is at the Vatican outpost in Arizona and that they have access to it. They deny "owning" it.... but they funded it. They used a telescope named LUCIFER, which is the name of God's adversary! by In-the-clouds in space

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What do you mean 'was' this or that, 'beautiful', 'visible', etc?

Don't Yahweh-worshippers believe that the deity's adversary currently 'is' (e.g. 'visible') ... as in today?

As for that ... 'solution':

It's that the deity then becomes human, and vice versa, in order to be sacrificed to the deity (i.e. itself!?), so that it (the deity i.e. itself) can be appeased into forgiving humans (sparing them from mass murder) ... oh, and into forgiving the spirits that rejected it and fell here with Lucifer, so they may repent and be forgiven of their enormous guilt.

OMG, pardon the pun.

If it were just you believing such stuff, as opposed to entire institutions, and a large chunk of our species, with you being just another follower among billions, I'd suspect some kind of mental issue.

Well, I still do ... only it's a mass mental issue ... and it may prove to be our species' 'great filter'.

Racism by Death_By_Democracy in AskSaidIt

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When you force someone into a situation against their will, into reservations, concentration camps, prisons, etc., if they then die ... by whatever means ... you're the one responsible for their death. It's actually surprising to me that the prisoners in prisons, where rapes, murders, etc., seem to be considered normal(!?), don't sue these institutions for anything/everything that happens to them ... but that's another issue. The point is that, there's no avoiding it, the 'wretched refuse' of other continents, the lowest classes and the criminals, which are the people that went to the Americas, are responsible for the genocide, and replacement, of the American Nations, the actual/ethnic Americans.

Racism by Death_By_Democracy in AskSaidIt

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Some of it by accident , some of it on purpose, but the fact remains that the American Nations were essentially wiped out.

Racism by Death_By_Democracy in AskSaidIt

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Racism can be mere generalization, something between 'speciesism' (different species have different characteristics) and 'familialism' (children share characteristics with their parents). In the USA, the real ('indigenous') Americans having been essentially genocided away, the population there is no longer an ethnicity. These real Americans were replaced by assorted imported/foreign ethnicities, 'European-Americans', 'African-Americans', 'Asians-Americans', etc. So, of course, in the USA, to recognize the validity of racial/ethnic characteristics is an issue, a political(?) one, a contentious one in any case ... becoming a taboo.

Catholic church admits that a telescope named LUCIFER (later shortened to LUCI) is at the Vatican outpost in Arizona and that they have access to it. They deny "owning" it.... but they funded it. They used a telescope named LUCIFER, which is the name of God's adversary! by In-the-clouds in space

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Pretending to believe that planet earth is flat, that contrarian exercise (to see how far something so obviously false can be taken), is not that interesting, and it distracts from real issues.

Racism by Death_By_Democracy in AskSaidIt

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We can't seriously hold that the virtual extinction of the Americans is unrelated to the invasion of new arrivals to the continent, can we?

One way or another, we must agree that the American Nations were essentially wiped out. Now, whether this was mostly by accident or mostly on purpose doesn't really matter for my point: They were replaced by other ethnicities, foreigners, from other continents.

This, now, requires, in trying to concoct some kind of new semi-coherent nationality/ethnicity, the imposition of the pretence that all ethnicities are the same or, better yet, that there's no such thing as ethnic differences ... nor ethnicities.

Catholic church admits that a telescope named LUCIFER (later shortened to LUCI) is at the Vatican outpost in Arizona and that they have access to it. They deny "owning" it.... but they funded it. They used a telescope named LUCIFER, which is the name of God's adversary! by In-the-clouds in space

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Starting with Constantine (whose mother, 'a woman of low social standing', was a follower of the cult) it was soon promoted by Roman Emperors. It offered justification for the kind of dictatorial system of government which they liked, with an absolute monarch/'Lord'/dictator-deity ruling the Universe, with no checks nor balances from other perspectives/Gods. Roman emperors are the ones that imposed it upon the empire. Had it not infected Roman Emperors, that cult, and the distasteful self-serving tribal bullshit that went with it, would have remained obscure ... probably for the better.

Catholic church admits that a telescope named LUCIFER (later shortened to LUCI) is at the Vatican outpost in Arizona and that they have access to it. They deny "owning" it.... but they funded it. They used a telescope named LUCIFER, which is the name of God's adversary! by In-the-clouds in space

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'Lucifer' means 'bringer of light' ... literally ... and that's a great name for a telescope.

But no ... 'God's adversary', the enemy of a deity that, accordingly, must therefore be the ... 'bringer of darkness'?

Also, a deity with an equally magic and invisible adversary in a ... 'mono'-theism?

But of course! :/

So much damage has been done because the Romans were somehow fooled into conflating 'The One' (a Platonic philosophical concept for the original/universal consciousness) with the worship of 'Yahweh' (some primitive, barbarous and demonstrably evil Middle-Eastern tribal deity, and its associated mythology) ... leading to all kinds of nonsensical crap.

Ben & Jerry's says that the United States was stolen from the Indians so we need to give the land back to the Indians. How about Ben and Jerry's start by turning over the ownership of their factories to the native Indians. by RandomGuy in whatever

[–]HugodeCrevellier 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Native 'Americans' or Ethnic Americans, First Nation Americans, American-Americans, etc., ... native 'Indians' are native to India.

Ben & Jerry's says that the United States was stolen from the Indians so we need to give the land back to the Indians. How about Ben and Jerry's start by turning over the ownership of their factories to the native Indians. by RandomGuy in whatever

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

When you were in school, you were incorrectly taught to call them 'Indians'.

Unfortunately, this idiotic error keeps being perpetuated, even being taught is school(!), though it's clearly a misnomer, i.e. it's wrong.

The Native Americans, Ethnic Americans, First Nation Americans, American-Americans, etc. are the only fully real Americans for f*ck's sake!

They're the only ones for whom America is, since prehistoric times(!), their ancestral homeland, with everybody else showing up during the past few centuries and correctly referred to as European-Americans, Asian-Americans, African-Americans, etc.

The only real, American-American, Americans are those whom you call ... 'Indians'!?

Though you can choose from any number of more or less accurate names for them, the one thing that these Ethnic-Americans are definitively not is ... 'Indians', who are from ... surprise, surprise(!) ... India.

Highly Gifted Student Blames Affirmative Action After Top Schools Reject His Near-Perfect Credentials by Questionable in politics

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The USA, which once offered lessons in meritocracy, now offer a lesson on how to build a totalitarian idiocracy.

Actress Ellen Page repeatedly punched herself in the face and heard “voices” telling her to become transgender … by [deleted] in transgender

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Mental illness becomes even more tragic if/when some industry figures an affliction can be exploited for financial gain. Unfortunately, healthy people can't be milked for money. So, some 'health' professionals will therefore encourage the delusional.

Anatomy of a NATO-Planned, Trained, and Armed Disaster - Simplicius analyzes the bradleys/leopards disabled in ukraine a couple days ago by iamonlyoneman in whatever

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This conflict is tragic for both sides.

The sooner it's over, the better.

No schadenfreude to be had here.

While weapon merchants and other assorted sociopaths wring their hands, these are brothers killing each other. :(

Ted Kaczynski, who planted fear and death as the Unabomber, dies at 81 by Fourier in news

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The issue, sometimes, is not the ideology itself, at least, not necessarily so, but rather the means that the insane will choose to impose it on society, e.g. the man's manifesto.

Moving Earth away from the sun could solve global warming, expert says 🙄 by [deleted] in NotTheOnion

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No, even if it were feasible.

14 years old by Oyveygoyim in whatever

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Coming soon from Hollywood, the story of the white kid who raped and murdered his black teacher, "a poignant take on the evils of racism!". :/

Zelenskykike is finally going after Moscow! Putin will decide to nuke Ukraine too late. Let the quagmire continue! by [deleted] in WarWatch

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The United States of America is the only country ever (so far) to use nuclear WMDs on people.

They did so while under no danger whatsoever, on a country that was essentially surrendering, on cities full of civilians, unnecessarily, mass-murdering men, women and children by the hundreds of thousands.

US president Truman, the contemptible POS that ordered these grotesque acts of mass murder, is the ultimate 'War Criminal', and if he isn't one, then the term has no meaning.

In the USA they have statues of the murderous turd, and he, together his ally, Stalin (the worst mass murderer of the 20th century), the other 'good guy' of WWII, divided the world along their respective spheres of influence.

This is now our world.

Chat GPT speaks any language that you like including pig Latin and ghetto slang by POOPCORN in whatever

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Riiight.

Pink Floyd under investigation in Germany for being too Nazi. by Mr9to5 in debatealtright

[–]HugodeCrevellier 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh, the stupidity ... or, rather, what happens when sociopaths get to manipulate, and thus weaponize, duly compliant useful idiots (or cowards).

Chat GPT speaks any language that you like including pig Latin and ghetto slang by POOPCORN in whatever

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Did you reply to the wrong comment, or did you just have a stroke? :D

Chat GPT speaks any language that you like including pig Latin and ghetto slang by POOPCORN in whatever

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A pidgin is technically not a legitimate language, not really. It's rather an amalgam of them, with a limited and simplistic vocabulary and grammar. In other words, pidgin langwej, na wan simpol we wey pipul dey tak dey comunikate wen two or mor group of pipul we no get one langwej we dey comon: normalli, e no get plenti words and grammer and e dey tek som words and grammer from difren langwej. :)

Chat GPT speaks any language that you like including pig Latin and ghetto slang by POOPCORN in whatever

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The BBC treating some goofy pidgin/slang as if a legitimate language is even more bizarre/humorous than some AI doing so, is it not?

Chat GPT speaks any language that you like including pig Latin and ghetto slang by POOPCORN in whatever

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The BBC treating some goofy pidgin/slang as if a legitimate language is even more bizarre/humorous than some AI doing so, is it not?

Chat GPT speaks any language that you like including pig Latin and ghetto slang by POOPCORN in whatever

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin

(real bbc news site, not a spoof)

Anti-Putin militia claims to have overrun Russian border village by noshore4me in WorldNews

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Who's financing them and isn't that simply ... 'treason'?

Need a break from the craziness. by Alienhunter in TumblrInAction

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OMG, transphobic hate speech! :/

AI art: America as a dog.... by In-the-clouds in Artificial_Intelligen

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US Supplies Weapons to 57% of ‘Authoritarian’ Regimes - “These findings fly in the face of Biden’s preferred framing of international politics as a ‘battle between democracies and autocracies,'” says the author of a new report. by [deleted] in politics

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Yes, they figured that they would find WMDs because they had sold them to Hussein ... and by 'Freedom' they of course meant that destroying Iraq and murdering its people by the hundreds of thousands would free Iraqis, men, women and children, either from the drudgery of having a functioning country or [from] being alive.

AI art: America as a dog.... by In-the-clouds in Artificial_Intelligen

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ugh.

US Supplies Weapons to 57% of ‘Authoritarian’ Regimes - “These findings fly in the face of Biden’s preferred framing of international politics as a ‘battle between democracies and autocracies,'” says the author of a new report. by [deleted] in politics

[–]HugodeCrevellier 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

This is not specifically a Biden thing.

Both US parties serve the military-industrial complex and other shockingly corrupt financial interests and, therefore, allow the imperial ambitions of 'the Neocons'.

The main difference is one of style, where Republicans seem a tiny bit more direct, while Democrats, like Biden, tend to try to gaslight people all the way.

Other than that, it's a Coke vs Pepsi difference, ... both crappy corporate sugary drinks that are propped up by advertising/marketing, and pretty much equally bad for you.

AI art: America as a dog.... by In-the-clouds in Artificial_Intelligen

[–]HugodeCrevellier 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ah, that makes sense.

Another illustration might be an American pit bull somehow getting a South Russian Ovcharka and a Caucasian Ovcharka (the 'bear dog') to fight each other.

The situation is mostly tragic for the Ukrainians and Russians, brothers killing each other, weakening themselves, to the benefit of foreign interests.

The conflict seemed unavoidable, almost since 2014, and certainly once the Zelensky regime planned to join NATO, a hostile (specifically anti-Russian) foreign military organization.