One thing I don't think gets brought up very often when talking about being a weird kid is that you end up feeling like every question about something you like is just a bait to get you talking passionately about it so they can make fun of you. Yknow what I mean?

I have pulled back massively on talking about stuff I cared about with people, yeah. The current end goal is to stuff all talk of philosophy, politics, science, religion, etc into a box only accessible to the positively similarly interested. I am not into the business of casting the pearls I have cultivated at swine anymore.

It is a fool that thinks that any explanation they receive for something is not dumbed down. I'm pointing fingers at the moon here people.

so many doctor behaviours are 100% comprehensible if you understand that medicine under capitalism is biopolitical in nature & 0% comprehensible if you think it is a humanitarian effort untainted by money and politics lol

"i can't believe doctors are pushing this thing that flies in the face of available evidence / is potentially harmful just because it is popular with industry lobbies and the state" yes. assume capitalist medicine is functioning as intended; revolution or bust; &c

i hope this isn't as universal but there's also "the point of having kids is to do to them all the shit that im doing to you now"

society: "If ya cant handle the trauma, become a perpetrator of the violence"

This was the entire statement... wow they're not even hiding it anymore.

I literally never want to hear americans talk about Chinese or North Korean people being "brainwashed" after seeing how easily manipulated they were into supporting Israel

"the education system traumatizes students it deems stupid" and "the education system traumatizes students it deems gifted" are two concepts that can and should coexist.

I think I've got a compromise

Yanks are so funny about Hamas coming for the US next, like for what purpose would they even be there? To turn it into the United States of Palestine?

obviously the core of the issue is capitalism but i do wonder how much better social media would be if the teams of people who actually know what they're doing weren't constantly beholden to the whims of executives who are constantly saying shit like. "what if our platform was the tinder of gaming on the blockchain..."

it’s funny that the idea of a politician having to appeal to their voterbase has been completely lost in america. like the biggest proponents of our democracy act with complete acknowledgment of the incapability of the american people to meaningfully influence our president-elects. they’re fucking realists. even they don’t actually believe in the usamerican democratic project they’re just yelling at you to poke its corpse with a stick until it twitches in the direction you want

Uh oh! The Oracle has killed herself rather than face the future she foresaw. Market analysts are speculating this may be bad for the economy

before i had gotten close with ex-catholics i was under the assumption that "catholic guilt" was mostly about sex, or serious topics.

but i was naïve. it's apparently about every positive experience. enjoying a meal? you're so lucky, children are starving. spending your day off cosy in bed? wow, so selfish, homeless people are freezing to death.

every former or present catholic i've met has a very obvious anxiety disorder and it's so painfully not a coincidence.

I do not see how any religion that puts an emphasis on hell and eternal damnation and makes it its job to lodge a focus on that into the minds of children across their entire development does not result in anxiety disorders.

I am an atheist and these motherfuckers will still have me in a tizzy about black marks on my soul.