Just give us the tools to get real, fair representation

that won’t solve the problem. people just have very different views of how the path should continue forwards. you’re not going to unite that. if you represent fairly, you might end up with a federal government that is 50% democrat and 50% republican, but that just means that everybody only gets half of what they want.

smaller countries have an easier time getting better government because in smaller countries, things are closer by, and it’s easier to just walk up to your prime minister’s house and set it on fire if he misbehaves. in the US, which is a thousand kilometers across, you can’t just walk there.

I’m actually in favor of bringing political responsibility back to the local level. That means, communities largely organize themselves, with only few interactions with the federal government.

but … it would be very un-American to fight corruption and listen to the demands of the people.

just look at this. this is such a fascinating image. it’s so surreal. how did we get here?

I still have this tab open from 5 days ago: Wife of Ex-Nepali PM Burned Alive, Gen Z Revolt Engulfs Country: Live Updates

I go back to it every day to check whether it’s still there because it feels so surreal that i think it’s somehow just a dream and i’m going to wake up every moment now and the news story will have disappeared.

understandable. I would celebrate with them if i was in brazil.

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ok so your writing is very interesting, and i have to think about it for a bit.

i can tell you a different perspective, if you mind listening to it:

sexuality and desire are the juices that make the world go round. in other words, people are attracted to one another and that is why we have a coherent society instead of a bunch of isolated people.

people want to impress one another (because they’re attracted to one another) and that is why they develop arts and culture. in other words, all art is sublimate sexuality. and knowledge is distilled art, so sexuality is indirectly the driving force for humanity’s progress, i argue.

This can be clearly observed with AI image generation tools. Free AI tools (with open weights), which is arguably important to have (because otherwise all tools would be corporate-owned, and that’s not so good for the people) were largely developed by people who generated big-titty-girls with it. Sexuality drives human progress :)

One of your parts in an earlier comment was that people choose 4chan/hypersexualized video games instead of meeting real people, to which i say: let the gooners have their self-chosen prison. it is better for all of us. imagine if they went out into the real world and actually interacted with people, i think they would annoy a lot. it’s better this way :)

We literally get the fascist pig insult from the demon Legion, a commentary on the brainwashing the Legionnaires/Rome as a state pushed unto their citizens via fear and deprivation.

what do you mean by that?

it’s an interesting write-up, i gotta study it in more detail later on, but i gotta go now, have something to do today.

to summarize my response: it’s good that whatever you did helped you, but i suspect that your method of approaching life cannot simply be generalized to other people, i.e. it wouldn’t work that way if other people tried the same thing.

but i’ll probably write a more elaborate response later :D

what i meant that people don’t always care about the facts (of whether it actually does harm) as can be seen by your response.

now do a research on the effect of lolis (young sexualized girls) in japanese media and whether it has an effect. i wouldn’t be surprised if the outcomes were similar, yet lots of people still whine about it.

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Wouldn’t it be awesome if people cared about research and facts.

Conservatives do care about research and facts, as long as these facts say exactly what they want to hear. (/s)

Specially vulnerable are the young who suffer from a lack of understading for the higher value in self control and moderation.

you could also easily turn this the other way around and say

specially vulnerable are the young who suffer because their sexual needs are kept away from them, through strict oversight from parents

who decides what is good and what is not? the people should decide it themselves.

So

Lust is one of those material prisons that is naturally inclined as it gives you good feelings.

This reads to me like a very heavily christian-biased thing. The christian bible says the original devil in the world took the shape of a snake (representing lust) that led eve to eat the forbidden fruit, and then they were kicked out of paradise.

What you’re forgetting is that lust is a part of the natural world that was already there before god existed. The christian bible says sth along the lines of “the world was created 6000 years ago” and what it really means is that humanity or the human spirit was created 6000 years ago with the rise of the first civilizations and empires.

But the natural world did already exist way before that (nature is billions of years old), and lust was a natural and essential part of that. It is not so much that lust is a “mistake of god’s creation” and kinda “sneaked in” or something, rather, god declared lust - which was already present - a sin, and by doing so, they tipped the natural balance of things. Maybe that is a thing to consider. It is not so much that lust is an invader and offender in the world, rather it is the human spirit that tipped the balance and therefore caused a millenia-old war against the serpent. And that has something to do with what you’re saying, even though you’re packing the arguments into very modern language.

Funny, but this just poses further questions. I.e. is it the absence of religion that causes wellbeing, or is it wellbeing that causes the absence of religion?

I was told the story by a stranger once: The reason why people cling to religion is because they are unable to live their own life, i.e. they struggle and can’t live in the moment, because it would be too depressing, so they cling to religion to seek an escape. Religion absolves them from thinking and therefore from recognizing the world around them, and so it’s an escape. So, in this view, bad times cause religion, but not the other way around. At least it’s one possible explanation. I don’t know whether it’s true.

I’m just saying, don’t confuse correlation with causality. Correlation does not imply causality in general. (though in this case it probably does)

I think the issue is not “religion” because that’s hard to define. What do you count as a religion and what not? It’s kinda not clearly defined. I.e., you can “believe” in science, yet does the belief make it a religion?

I think what’s more the issue is the fact that people cling to nonsensical statements and are unwilling to look at things the way they are. I.e. a recurring theme of religion is that it absolves people from thinking, i.e. from making their own thoughts and relating those to reality. That is the thing that must be dealt with.

In other words, people must be taught to think and analyze the world around (and inside of) them. That is what leads to wellbeing and happyness.

I read the following neat metaphor once: People are like sponges, and if you take away the juice from their lifes, they become thirsty and suck even more.

Isn’t this just the equivalent of the “shooter game discussion” that we had a few years ago?

I.e., some people argued that playing shooter games would make the people more inclined towards gun violence and we’d see more shootings IRL. but that didn’t happen, as we know a few years later.

it’s quite straightforward then to assume that sexualized video games don’t really lead to more sexualization IRL, i guess.