gil, a finite mode

nobody is capable of handling social media. every one of you is deeply sick

I can't explain it but the US starting World War III is profoundly linked to the relaunch of the medical sitcom Scrubs

there is nothing this administration could do that would incite a revolution. every red line has been crossed a hundred times. now is the long descent into the most depraved fascism they can imagine. there is no opposition. nothing and nobody to stop them. we'll just have to see how far they can go.

I want to be wrong, but the historical lesson of the 2020s so far is that no action however horrible ever has any real consequences for the wealthy and powerful.

this is the classic following gil a finite mode experience. you chose this

'Woke 2' is, and this delights me to no end given the vapid reactionary who is the concept's main creator, a very pure instance of hyperstition

Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (Chicago) - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research It is difficult to imagine a more ambitious or even hubristic philosophy than that of G.W.F. Hegel. Even Hegel’s most contemptuous critics agreed with his faithful disciples on one count: he simply co...

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dang you mean to tell me Turner Classic Movies followed up Trump's State of the Union address with the classic film Gaslight? dang haha got em with that one. that matters and is so cool. give me 20 thousand likes please

it is possible to fully grasp the essence of the Hegelian dialectic by reflecting on the fact that at first one distinguishes between that which is based and that which is cringe, but it becomes necessary then to recognize that using the based-cringe distinction itself is cringe

they're so big

help I started reading Wikipedias about black holes and got scared

I have great news

I ask my students to present case studies for business ethics and they immediately start talking about why it's wrong for the government to contract with Palantir to target and deport suspected non citizens

if it isn't too late to learn broad lessons from this, it's that the only safeguards were purely normative. the only thing stopping fascism was that everyone agreed not to do it. and that is just obviously not good enough

skill issue

wow. this is the first time I'm hearing this, so can't confirm, but apparently self-consciousness is in and for itself, when, and by the fact that, it is in and for itself for another self-consciousness; that is, it is only as something recognized. huge if true

to me Patrick Bet David being rich and famous while understanding nothing and having zero charisma is, in a crowded field, the most glitch-in-the-matrix thing going right now

terrible news you guys I have looked into it and it seems like time is not a real feature of things in themselves but merely an a priori form of intuition :( anyway that's why I forgot your birthday

does anyone else feel like Gavin Newsom is Adrian Veidt aka Ozymandias from Watchmen but rock stupid and possessing worse instincts? like he definitely will kill several million people but it won't be part of an actual plan

Reject rationalism! Embrace the proletarian élan vital!

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love to see commercials recruiting for the US Army where they're skiing around just like the Olympians you were just watching! you too could be an inspirational world class exemplar of human excellence and definitely not just a poorly paid functionary of our dying empire's stupid global death squad

yep. lots of em usually

what do you mean they made a Bloodborne movie in 2001

no some ravens are not black and we should be just as kind to them

they tell on themselves in a hundred ways. their obvious illiteracy seems almost a barrier to entry

Foucault tried to warn us and people keep installing ring cameras it sucks

the point is to be impotently correct and to bear witness to countless horrors

nice, get after it

doing good stuff and not doing bad stuff