At no point did I say it was man. Just not something most people have access to. “Got to have money to make it” painfully true as usual. I have $234 in my wallet, a late 90s Honda to crash in, and sheer force of will to try and change that (it’s not working lol). The 32GB/1080ti example is the nicest computer any of my friends own, my own rig is a scavenged parts pile centered around a 10th gen i7 that will be complete when some ram falls into my lap and right now I’m posting from a phone that was $150 6 years ago.

Right here dogg, hook it up! Honestly anywhere things are sold will be fine, it’s pretty much the most liquid commodity besides weed right now. For real though DM me if you’re willing to cut a fellow poster a deal. I’m super broke but almost have a free trash PC put together, 10th gen i7/rx580/case/mobo/power supply. For whatever reason people just aren’t throwing out old ram these days :p

I mean that sounds great and I’m happy for you, but you’re working with hardware that costs more than most people on here’s cars when it’s available at all. How viable would your workflow be on an 8gb 1080ti with 32gb of ddr4?

What’s the common denominator here bud?

If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day…

Ally here. Happy to supply as many frogs as you need. I’m really good at catching them, eight is no problem

Impotent as in helpless against our oppressors, I’m sure you’re really good at sex :p

This really is one of the calmer, better reasoned takes I’ve encountered online recently, thanks for sharing it. There’s something I’d like to expand on more than debate though. Really more about my own fixation on that propaganda than anything. Even the oligarchy and obvious corruption are themselves symptoms of the worship of wealth that drives our civilization. Even if every decision maker were replaced with a benevolent humanist the systems we’ve built exist to make number go up, not quality of life. Our morality, our cultural values, our very perception is constructed around the idea of more being better and the inevitability of the process of coercive extraction through which we’re all meant to compete in consolidating our hoards at one another’s expense. We’re strung out and impotent (yes, all of us) and addicted to intensity of experience itself. Red team/blue team were arbitrary divisions to capture tribal identity long before MAGA or even KKK coalesced as focal points, and I don’t think it’s wise to approach them as a root cause or core issue. The “MAGA” that wants you dead is a freakish abberation amplified and presented to you because of the utility that has to the status quo. It’s an essentially nonexistent bogeyman, a narrative counterpoint to the transwoman scheming to make your kids gay. A division, an escalation, a distraction. KKK was likewise not an organic groundswell of hatred but carefully orchestrated political theater. I highly recommend looking into their history, these things are often much clearer from a distance. We are all victims of propaganda, like Garfield tshirt says “you are not immune”. Even the miserable billionaires with every material luxury and still no contentment. Especially them, in a sense. They’re certainly the least connected to humanity and most thoroughly processed of us. I spend a lot of time on the street and can promise 1/3 of the country does not want you dead. The vast majority of us all want the same thing, and it’s lot more like a hug and a sandwich despite all efforts to the contrary.

I kinda lost whatever point I may have been trying to make, but thanks for the opportunity to ramble. Going to cut it off here before I start going on about AI as a way for capital to replicate human output convincingly enough to directly manufacture consent, and the consequences of atomization and the escalation between engaging in more and more granular subcultures on heavily monitored platforms and just each engaging with the machine directly, and 9/11 being used to establish a near-omniscient surveillance apparatus and covid being used to force its adoption, and how… I need to touch grass.

Maybe they’re just as impotent and upset as you are. Maybe this is hell?

They’re to dye for

Caligula, Henry VIII, Hitler, it’s known plenty. This shit’s cyclical and imo getting pretty old. Wish we could learn from it.

It’s difficult to engage through your sarcasm, but assuming heaven is a place on earth and we only control our own actions yes. Living with compassion and and at least attempting to embody the changes I hope for is very important to me. It’s hope for a better world and a genuine attempt to build it, the only meaningful counter to violence and despair.

I don’t think I can. I’m sorry.

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/27791546

Cold linking the wiki article (with tracking intact no less) isn’t much of a reply

Because you can. If you can. Why would you want to treat them the way they treat everyone else?

Arrogant confidence in dismissing one another as “piece of shit” is in this context unfortunately the most relevant part of your commonality. I was speaking of capitulation to hatred itself, of course. I’m not making up hatred, or the peace that I wish you. Please be well

I’m sharing my lived experience because I care. From here it seems like you’re throwing judgments and accusations at me to justify your own hatred. I know it can feel like a source or strength, especially when you’ve felt its impact, but I promise you it’s not. You’re allowing the worst of us to drag you to their level, and joining in a self-destructive game they’re much better at. I see what you’re doing as letting “the nazis” win. Expanding your sense of the other, responding to it with violence, acting from fear rather than love, successfully atomized and volatile and raw for exploitation. I guarantee you and the guy with a maga hat on top of his klan hood have more in common than either of you do with any politician or billionaire, very much including the impact your behaviour has. Continuing to love and be vulnerable through suffering is in no way rolling over. Amplifying that suffering, picking it up as a weapon and inflicting what has been inflicted on you on another, is far more fundamental a capitulation than helping someone in need you don’t feel “deserves” it. I hope one of my platitudes reach you, and can promise my whole heart is in them. Good luck out there.

You don’t have to be this way either. I don’t see empathy as a burden or gift to be given, I see it as a source of strength. It expands your sense of self and defines emotional strength. It heals the self, other, and whole. Kindness is a reward in and of itself. I hope there is enough in your life to share.

Yeah, but not exclusively! Even there tolerance is framed as an ideal, and rationale as the primary defense against intolerance. It’s also about how to handle movements in a society, not who to call help for. Have you ever studied the Wheel of Samsara?

I’m upset that people hate, period, and don’t believe a reasonable person could actually see anything I’ve said as supporting fascism in any way. You’re directly advocating for that same ideology with a different target, and insinuating I must be one of Them for having a problem with it.

Wow, that’s great. Sounds like you’re pretty dang pure, far removed from the flawed individuals you wish death on. A model human, some kind of ‘ubermensch’

Think the point of the song is that we all do, and acknowledging and attempting to transcend that is crucial to being “good”. It’s being very clearly demonstrated here that with enough fear and enough hurt many otherwise normal people will resort to paying forward the bigotry and violence inflicted on them. Can you point to where I have in any way defended nazis, rather than advocating against the very behaviors that make their “movement” so reprehensible?