/siberia/ - Off-topic

You become a general of the armed forces, perform a coup, and become Emperor for life.

Having a dangerous and feared reputation, whether or not you're actually dangerous, is pretty fuckin dangerous. If you're not able to back it up you won't last very long. Careful what you wish for little fella.

five eight? that's the 'manlet' caste of heights you're worried about? what land do you live in where that's average and boring and loser tier? uygha you're taller than half men on earth, the global average is 171 by some few tiny ass centis, whatever i think i remember a real mafioso that was in the under 164cm zone..it shouldn't be a problem if you actually back up that reputation

>>832785
> came to grips with my mortality
seems like you haven't after all
because when you die all the experiences you've accumulated will rot together with your brain

"you can't take it to your grave" applies equally to experiences as it does to wealth, which is why all forms of hedonism, even enlightened "intellectual" ones, are a dead end
even the bourgeoisie know this, sure they indulge, but mostly they really care about the Idea(tm) of capitalism, which is why ghouls stay in politics until they drop dead til 90

when you're jeffrey epstein and everyone you interact with is fake and the whole world you live in is fake and every direction you look in is elaborately arranged to please you and give you exactly what you want at all times, the only experience left that truly feels real is the experience of an innocent child suffering at your wretched hands. and then pretty quickly, even that loses its edge and it becomes just another business.

what is really real are relationships, not things and experiences. that's what the universe really is, lots and lots of relationships from the quantum level to the cosmic level and all the matter and energy and phenomena we perceive is just the secondary byproduct of the relationships. likewise, our lives and everything that happens in them is just the secondary byproduct of our relationships to ourselves and the world. without the relationships, without the emotional investment, nothing is real. it's just a performance.

>>831130
>Victor Frankl and how he describes the past as the only permanent thing
It's actually the complete opposite. The past is in constant flux, the future is determined.

>>833177
if you took this idea as seriously as you claim to you wouldn't single out "hedonism" as uniquely flawed

anyway, billions must experience

>>832991
This is basically what every democratic nation becomes despite trying to be Lockean, it progresses into a Leviathan

>>832996
Well, yes, even the USA can commit war crimes basically and get away with it.
It's not a war crime if you win*

>>833001
Robert E. Lee's quote especially on the U.S. empire has not aged a bit considering the Patriot Act happened

It's literally all coming into place, from the very fears of the Founding Fathers concerning the British Empire, to now

Americans could not escape what they would become: another Britain

>>833004
If you're OP, I thought you said you were liberal as far as Hobbes goes, lmao.
True, the word "liberal" typically means the belief in human rights and a secularism in the post-Christian world, although loosely speaking everyone's a liberal in the sense they are post-Christendom.

>>833007
I'm liberally Hobbesian in the sense that I recognize there will always be a Leviathan no matter the change. And the Leviathan gets stronger overtime with the technological advances. You can try to have counterbalances to it like with Locke's idea of a state but it will succumb always to Leviathan. I think Locke understood this which is why he says rebellion is sometimes necessary but this just changes the Leviathan.

>>832906
anon has wasted time in this shithole for who knows how many months or years, surrounding himself with people he hates and who hate him back, but willing to withstand it in anticipation of his big Moment, where he will be able to seize upon a small hint of idiocy in the words of an unmindful green poster as desperate proof that he does not need to think, does not need to pay heed to those disconcerting antitheses he reads occasionally on social media, because even his opponents – he assures himself – do not really believe he is wrong. this is his moment of triumph. "finally", he whispers to himself, "they admit it". this revelation has no effect on the game of the gods, which goes on forever.

>>832869
If you can't strike at society without getting caught that's a skill issue tbh.

>>832775
Anybody who tells you it's wrong to blame society is part of the society. Therefore you should blame them.

>>832906
How do you mean? I think most Christians reject the idea that nature is evil, they call that gnosticism. God made the world and it was good. Or they say it used to be even better but man corrupted it with sin (but where did the sin come from if not God). Other traditional beliefs usually go with cycles of good/bad, or society as a living being (starts young and energetic, grows into middle age stability, then decays into senility and death), or linear degeneration like the Greek ages of men starting with gold to silver to heroic etc. and each age has less virtue. Maybe the Buddhists believe something like that, not sure (life is suffering).

If you mean something about competition (nature is war, all else is error) maybe, but I'm not sure, nature is certainly mostly rape, starvation, and suffering, and the left acts like barbarism is closer to nature, except when it comes to tribal people oddly enough. On the other hand, evolution has a whiggish logic, the left isn't opposed to war or competition, Marx and Engels loved evolution, Kropotkin wrote much about cooperation in nature (which is true enough but also a bit of cope, like two tribes cooperating to genocide the 3rd). It's usually the right that rejects evolution because it says man is just another animal although there are atheist right-wingers who embrace it as an excuse to cull the weak. Religious right-wingers act like evolution is true (there's no atheist quiver-full movement). Both left and right are fine with killing millions to establish their "superior" society.

Cyclical history is often called conservative as opposed to the left's whiggish linear progression but the old Marxists thought society would both advance and bring back elements of older societies (the whole spiraling dialectic thing) like how hunter-gatherers were supposedly primitive communists or Lenin on how prole democracy would resemble democracy from antiquity. I guess it's like evolution where traits can be dormant or vestiges and then later reused or repurposed when conditions are right.

>>832989
Just give a crumb of criticism. I guess technically you're supposed to say nature is AMORAL but whatever. Dawkins calls nature "pitilessly indifferent" then poetically described widespread suffering beyonPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>832874
I'm not a rightoid what do you mean, I just used the name tyrone as a harmful stereotype

>>832891
yes

>>833077
>if you don't take part in bourgeois superstructures, you are doing nothing
>all action must be done through the approved channels
Lassalle won. No wonder leftoids are such losers.

>>833080
Strawmanning is bad faith

>>833084
I mean you strawmanned first

>>833085
>>833085
I'm not that anon

>>833088
OK, so I was responding to that other retard's strawman
Legitimizing bourgeois superstructures is how you get co-opted. Why else do you think the state promotes feminism, anti-racism, and a bunch of other garbage targeted at groups with potential revolutionary grievances?

>will
It is already leading to it.

>>832792
Capitalism will not survive as technological change will usher a new mode of production.

why you telling me that

>>832910
palace techno epsteinism

this iran invasion is gonna go so hard

Based Comrade Hegseth killing off AmeriKKKan SSoldiers by putting on these stunts

I'm just aptly reacting to the state of the world. The answer is "yes" but not for any personal reason.

>>832918
>>832919
>>832923
What's wrong, guys?

>>832926
cultural hegemony of capital

Depression is defeatist.

>>832951
You shouldn't let things out of your control bring you down so hard. Protect your inner peace. Direct your energy to things you can directly influence.

>>832928
those asses existed in the nineties, they just weren't preferred. do you get all your data from media?

>>832943
Where?
>>832949
>those asses existed in the nineties
Sure, but not nearly as common as they are today. BBLs are more widespread now than ever before.
>do you get all your data from media?
Bourgeois media reflects effective demand. What's in the media is what sells.

>>832957
>What's in the media is what sells.
this is quite literally my point, bbls aside, women have had fat asses for as long as we've had the capacity to fatten asses up.

>>832959
>women have had fat asses for as long as we've had the capacity to fatten asses up
I don't think it's comparable to today though. Women were a lot skinnier back then. Just look at BMI rates between, say, the 1950s and today. Also less cosmetic surgery, i.e., less BBLs.
If the media is increasingly promoting big asses, then more women will pursue fattening up their buttocks to achieve that voluptuous look.

>>832957
I would have said here, but mods anchored this thread, so I made a new thread for you: >>832981

Nonsense anon, you suffer from chemical imbalance, take these pills.

>I literally can no be depressed if I have a stable job with good conditions that pays me fairly for my efforts.

it was nice knowing you i guess. make sure you turn off the stove and the coffee pot and don't leave any candles burning before you do it, you wouldn't want to cause a fire.

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that depression comes from depressing circumstances. I know cause I figured it out.