/siberia/ - Off-topic

>>818507
Your mind should be put in a jar and studied.

>>818393
>Is it regressive to

everything that people say on this site is regressive. every discussion is armchair intellectuals marching backwards full speed ahead and getting dumber by the second.

>Why do so many leftists believe cultural progressivism is incompatible with capitalism?

because capitalism is effectively just private sector authoritarianism. under a capitalist system you don't have any rights at work, you don't have any kind of leverage at work, you have bosses and they have bosses and there's a whole chain of command all the way up to the owners/ceos and they are all completely unaccountable and you must do what they say at all times, the place you work in and the computers and the software and the tools and the machinery and the office chairs and the file cabinets and the red swingline staplers and all the other things you use for your work are all company property and you don't control any of it, the company knows who their competitors are and what options you have for other sources of employment at any given time, they know exactly what options they have when it comes to replacing you at any given time, they know exactly how much you earn after taxes and what kind of house you live in and what kind of car you drive, they know you have a mortgage and a car loan and bills and expenses and maybe even a few kids at home who are depending on you for everything, they know how precarious your position is and how disastrous it would be for you to lose your job and how sickeningly terrified you are of that eventuality, they know exactly how much wiggle room they have with what few flimsy legal protections you do have, they know that are just a person and you don't have a legal department like they do and you don't have the time or the money to hire lawyers and file lawsuits and spend years of your life arguing in courtrooms, they know that even if you did sue them and win that you would effectively be blacklisted from any future employment in your career field and no company would ever hire you again, and they know that you know all of this too. and this is where you spend most of your waking hours, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm monday through friday and maybe weekends too, this is the bulk of your life and the time you have to yourself after work you are physically or mentally exhausted and you don't have the energy to do much else but eat dinner and have a few drinks and watch tv or play videogames, and all of the money you earn that doesn't toward paying your loans and your bills or putting away in your savings you spend on buying things you need, or things you don't need, from a handful of other unaccountablePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>822703
This has nothing to do with "cultural progressivism"

>>822705

do you not see the connection between regular mainstream cultural majority working people being deprived of basic human dignity and autonomy, and marginalized cultural minorities being deprived of their dignity and autonomy? or the whole ingroup-vs-outgroup dynamic at play and how the mainstream cultural majority and their ingroup status and the limited privileges that it provides serve as a very effective form of leverage for cajoling them and manipulating them and keeping them in line and even turning them into a mercenary army against the aforementioned outgroup, and that the outgroup simultaneously serve as a very convenient lightning rod for the ingroup's dissatisfaction? or how behavioral conformity is a key component of any kind of authoritarian system, including capitalism, and that to control people and exploit them and enslave them and advertise to them and mass-market products and ideas to them, you need them all to look and behave and think alike, or at the very least be easily categorized?

you've got westoid pedantic neckbeard thinking that operates on rigid predetermined paths and separates everything into neat discrete categories and never dares to connect dots or color outside the lines or see the wood for the trees. you've got to get out of that, forget about the rules, tear up your books and throw out the pages, run naked through the streets screaming and throwing your feces at people and smashing windows on police cars, be wild and free and let your imagination soar.

Autists are fascist

Consistently the most chad poster on this site.

certified banger opinion fact

>>822714
What is this? Has anyone tried it because I'm not.

hey anon, did the donkey show even really exist?

fuking marxists going after donkey kong now

>>822701
read this in bobby baccalas voice for some reason

>>817311 (me)
I think people kind of underestimate how much improvement there has been in the standard of living in the third world, not just China, so that's where most of the wrong answers might come from.

>>817298
Yes that's the intention of the quiz, and they're also right. There really has been a huge improvement in QoL in poor countries.

I think where people in rich countries falter is that they don't realize poverty is a huge spectrum. From rich country POV, you only have poor country where people live in slums, middle country where people live in small apartments and minimal treats, then rich country with clean cities and lots of treats.

But the reality is that the widest part of this spectrum in the poor country part. There is a wide gap between the standard of living between someone from Niger and India. There is another wide gap between India and Botswana. There is another wide gap between Botswana and Thailand. All of these are just classified as third world, but the difference between each pair is bigger than any differences between first world countries and second world countries.

>>817180
I got 2/13.

My result is so good that the message I got is shittily written because the person designing this did not expect it :D
<Your result is 13 / 13.
<Wow, this is impressive.
<You responded to 13 question(s) out of 13. No answer was regarded as bad answer in your result.
<See above to compare your answers with correct ones. If you want to try once more, please click reset button.

>>817311
Damn I'm not the only one.
>Im a STEMlord but I do enough reading of demographics just for fun that I knew the correct answers
I do know that some things aren't as bleak as online doomers have it because of Steve Pinker. I don't read Pinker, but I have read China boosters being mad at Pinker for not giving proper credit to China on these issues. Remove China from the picture and the trends don't look nearly as good. The animal question I did not know about, so I was doing reverse psychology: So I'm designing a contrarian quiz… The thing about natural disasters I did not know either, I just reckoned about how important communication technology & speed of transport is to improving the reaction.

Here is my impression of Factfulness, the 2018 book by Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund and Ola Rosling, whose work was the basis for this quiz.

On the back is a blurb by Bill Gates praising it, inside Rossling is praising the philanthropy of Gates. It would have been a good book if not for the misleading representation of income inequality downplaying differences especially within nations. In chapter 1, you get shown several graphs "proving" that when it comes to income, most humans are part of the big, healthy, juicy, middle. But the money axis is logarithmic! The text around these graphs does not explain or even acknowledge that choice. Then later, at the end of chapter 3, Rossling suddenly drops the wisdom that what matters to you is your income changing in terms of proportion, and then instantly moves on to something else. So that was the "explanation".

I got another graph for you.

OP's momma in vidrelino

Definitely at least 10 as I've met 9 other people that have mentioned using it out and about. idk if they're still here tho.

Incredibly disturbing video…

i am The Sixth

There's like 5 posters that make 90% of the posts, so it feels like they're the only ones here.

>>817297
>i don't really know how i got this far like… at all
letting the days go by, letting the water hold us down, same as the rest of us
we're fucked

I'm 27 and I want to stop going here, it feels embarassing, like at this point in life I should be doing something else, I shouldn't be arguing politics online like come on man, get your shit together.

>>822528
It's okay, you still have some years until 33.

Yes.

>>822528
i feel the same way but what else is there to do, it's hard to do new things after college

>>822337

even if that's true it's not a secret that Israel actively tries to import more caucasians and slavs to replace whatever melanin remains in their blood

>>822338
They could import every jew on the planet and they would still be a minority

>>822321
True. Doing it all in the name of """kibbutz""". If palestinians aren't doing it to you then why should you do it to them?

What about when the government does stuff for BBC?

To summarize: Israel is Bolshevist (because jews) and Zionist (because they kill brown people). Much of the world is fascist. America is fascist and liberal and also zionist. China is socialist and NOT capitalist. The British Empire was zionist. Liechtenstein is feudalist and monarchist. CHAZ was libertarian but not anarchist. The USSR was nat-trot because they didn't like the government and split. They were NOT bolshevist. Nazi Germany was primitivist (because hoomin nature) but NOT national-socialist because I don't like Germans.

>>813924

>>822292
Yea… I now realize now that it's not really supposed to a full comic. The first part is the good ending while the second part is the bad ending (I think at least). See the original twitter post: https://xcancel.com/TheScopedOut/status/1682583077380321280

>>822464

While I'm at it again, I might well post my script again (>>714030) since the original thread got deleted.

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Paste this into your browser's console or make a bookmarklet so you can mouse over and unspoiler things.

>>822468

Oh, I guess I can't posts links surrounded by parenthesis. >>714030

Delete this shit thread.

>>822482
OP here.

Give me a good reason.

existence doesnt really exist

Why should anything exist? Why is there anything at all?

im going to create a new word that accounts for this specific edge case to fuck yp ur day

>>820226
Empty space is unstable.

>>820201
>⁠Therefore, existence has attributable characteristics
>⁠If not, then existence is the only thing that exists without attributable characteristics
>Therefore, existence is the only thing that simply exists without any attributable characteristics
jessie what the fuck are you talking about

>>821090
what is the difference

>>821093
One is open about their sexuality, the latter is closeted.

>>821094
but Nick Fuentes is openly a pedophile

>>821096
Then what does that make Destiny?: https://fstube.net/w/5oatmpauYkSBLURfFnkYNM

>>821097
also a pedo, are you under the impression that people here like destiny?