https://youtu.be/BX0U8_BMTog

Well I mean, he did time travel to help save humanity from life energy eating aliens. So he seems pretty ok in my book.

What’s moreso ironic about Thanksgiving is, it as a Holiday, is further a victim of a form of Holiday imperialism.

So like, we have Christmas right? And it’s been turned into just insane consumerism for years. And from that consumerism spawned “Black Friday.” Which in and of itself, has practically become its own Holiday, and Thanksgiving is becoming some afterthought. In advertising, media, etc. you barely see anything about Thanksgiving anymore,it’s all about pushing Black Friday, and no also “Cyber Monday” sales. Members of my family sit around at Thanksgiving and actually plan out where they are going for Black Friday. It’s sickening.

So we are basically watching a Holiday based on colonialism, being consumed by a kind of holiday imperialism…

Sorry if this seems like insane rambling. Lol

They have put themselves in an absolute lose lose situation. They attack Venezuela and they build even more support to Maduro for resisting. Now that they are taking direct action, anyone they could ever try to put into power will be constantly resisted by the people.

And if they back off? They ALSO build more support for Maduro. There’s nothing they can do that will not make them look weak and build support for Maduro. Nothing. The best they can look for is to just get lucky and pray for a coup or like, a accidental death. But I’m sure Maduro has a whole lineup ready to take on the mantle and keep resisting.

All they can do is sit out there on their overpriced and under-functional ships and murder innocent fishers, hoping to goad Venezuela into being the aggressors. But even that is failing. lol.

So for the AI bubble, it will not pop. The oligarchy has manipulated the stock market so much, that they really can just do whatever they want to control it. As most it will deflate while they move their assets somewhere else. But for right now, they NEED the AI to keep going, so it will. And only when they are done with it will they let it die, but odds are that’s a ways out. Just look at that they are doing to RAM prices now just to keep their AI monster shambling along.

The meme of discord mods being fascists and pedophiles exists for a reason. Expecting a discord mode from basically any large community (that’s not communist/socialist in nature) to do anything about fascists is gonna go over about as well as expecting a cop to stop a an ice agent.

Almost all small business owners benefit far more, and are far more closely related to, the proletariat. Which is why the capitalists try so hard to skew the lines to make them side with them against the workers. Workers fighting against massive monopolistic conglomerates? “Look. LOOK. These greedy workers want to steal your mom and pop business.”

And damned if it doesn’t work
Every
Single
Time

Yeah, western medicine isn’t designed to make you better. It’s designed to sort of, kind of suppress the symptoms, but mostly just to keep you buying more of it.

Meanwhile, studies on psilocybin have show it has the potential to be a long term cure with a single dose having lasting effects of months, or even years. That’s why it’ll never be made legal.

They absolutely tried to use psychedelics to do crazy mind control experiments, and the things they did are unspeakably disgusting. Although, I legit think some of them were used as an excuse to drug and rape kids, and the fucking Feds were ALL about that shit. Hence the unspeakable part.

The funny thing is, psychedelics were actually terrible for that because instead of sequestering the mind, and making people into programmable zombies, they actually did the opposite. They enhanced creativity and independence. They actually cause you to feel more empathy, not less. They make you a non-conformist, not fall in line.

Idk about all psychedelics, but I can absolutely tell you, psilocybin mushrooms will show you a level of empathy, and connection to the world you never thought possible. No way I’m hell they could ever be used to control people.

On the flip side, there’s a reason why there’s a pretty widespread problem with the over prescription of SSRIs and other similar meds in the US. Those things have been shown to basically turn you into a zombie of a person. I almost killed myself because of those fucking things. Mgic mushrooms, however; literally saved my life and actually opened my mind up to so many new ways of thinking and a kind of, “radical empathy” that started me down the path to being a communist when I was just a stupid shitlib. Really changed my outlook and understanding of the world.

Literally 1984.

Or something idk.

I nasal rinse regularly when my allergies get bad and it helps a lot.

It’s also pretty easy to make a fairly cheap air purifier with some air filter vents and a box fan that will get a ton of allergens out of the air in your house. I made someone alone to this with a 20 inch box fan and merv13 air filters. One day I’m going to make one with a flame out of wood and use it like a foot rest or “coffee table” type thing.

The next few months are just going to be fucking liberals glazing this piece of shit that would have been fine killing them for not being racist enough. lol

No they wouldn’t lol. Black Friday “deals” and “sales” literally came about as Christmas sales and deals. They just eventually gave it a name because all the stores started doing their Christmas sales on the same day. No other holiday has such rampant consumerism that sales for that holiday creates its own mini holiday. Hell there’s even “Cyber Monday” now for online sales after Black Friday in store sales. Both exist specifically for Christmas sales.

Because it exists entirely because of Christmas. Christmas consumerism MADE Black Friday. Without Christmas, there is no Black Friday. It exists solely to feed the consumerism of Christmas… One could say, If Christmas was America, Black Friday is Israel.

Disagree on the debatable. I don’t think it’s debatable at all. All you have to do is look at how short the marketing time is for Halloween VS Christmas. Halloween marketing doesn’t really kick up until October and you don’t really see many people doing decorations anymore. Meanwhile, stores start marketing for Christmas before Halloween is even over. People turn black Friday into its own little shopping holiday. I know people that spend part of their Thanksgiving day, planning their Black Friday. Halloween has become and afterthought as Christmas consumerism has already devoured Thanksgiving.

Right? Like “We just exchanged piles of money but instead of picking out something myself you had to figure out what I might want and then get me that?”
Like most of the time now it turns into “just send the family your Amazon wish list of shit you want to get yourself but feel guilty spending money on.”

"These holidays are actually pretty great, it’s capitalism that ruins everything. " Is basically the gist of both holidays. The difference is that Halloween, isn’t nearly as capitalism infected as Christmas. Other than decorations and costumes, spending on candy is no where near what it is for Christmas presents. And making a good costume doesn’t even have to be expensive. The worst part about it is the candy and stuff but even that is part of the fun because kids love going around and getting treats and stuff. And I LOVE giving out candy and seeing all the kids in costumes.

Also, dressing up in costumes is awesome. I love it. It’s so much fun. I feel it would pretty easy to convert it to a less consumer minded holiday.

This was discussed just the other day in a different forum I follow. lol. Halloween is like, the ONE thing I would say was worth keeping from America. Because it’s just fun. Dressing up in costumes and having parties and such. There’s really no age range that can’t enjoy that. I LOVE dressing up and giving out candy.

I love the aesthetics and ambiance of Christmas. Warm colorful lights and decorations. The festive feeling and using reefs and such to bring color to an otherwise horribly gray and depressing season.

I HATE all the obsession with gift giving and shopping and buying. Basically, the way capitalism wormed its way into it.

Essentially, I like all the parts of Christmas that were basically stolen from other religions. I hate the aspects from Christianity, which were the easiest to use to inject capitalism into it (presents).

I think it should just be about bringing warmth and color to an otherwise cold and drab season. Where I’m from, there’s more deciduous trees than coniferous so all the trees loose their leaves. The sky is most overcast. With nothing but bare, dead looking trees and overcast sky, everything becomes gray and depressing. Due to the angle of the sun it’s like, daytime is “perpetually 10 am untill all of a sudden it’s 3pm. Then you get off work and by the time you are home it’s night.”

Christmas lights and such combat that drab depression. I just wish the holiday was more about JUST being with friends and family and bringing some cheer and warmth. Instead of all the shopping and “literally kill someone for the last TV on black Friday” type shit. Fuck presents. It’s too much of a focus when it SHOULD be like, a minor side thing. Little fun stuff not the main focus.

This. It’s not a “puppet, master” or “master, servant” relationship imo. It’s a suicide pact but with one person being excessively more psychotic then the other. Israel will just launch it’s nukes and the US will follow suit as the rest of the world retaliates.

IMHO:
“When Israel falls” it will launch all of its nukes and end the world’s because the US will follow it to the death. I do not see it as a “master, servant” relationship here. It’s more like a suicide pact. The US is so heavily invested in Isn’treal it will hollow itself out completely in order to keep it alive. Israel will start slaughtering it’s own if they try to leave. There is no scenario in which the US abandons Isn’treal without causing an even greater mass human death scenario then what’s already been done.

The way I see it, if things get so bad that the US WOULD abandon Isn’treal, it’s to the point where they are so doomed they would rather end the world then take the final loss. The only hope is that China and Russia develop the means by that point to counter enough of the Western nuclear arsenal to protect enough of their civilization to survive it.