queermunist

queermunist, 40 minutes ago

Biden plans to address medical supply shortages by making them harder to obtain. 🙃

queermunist, 1 day ago

Option 2 is 100% somebody’s fetish.

I had this intrusive thought and now you have to too!

queermunist, 1 day ago

The problem is that feedback loops start to kick in above 2°C so it doesn’t matter if the economy crashes.

In fact, in some cases that makes things even worse. One example is that without smokestacks and ships pumping out sulfur dioxide the albedo of the atmosphere will rapidly drop, which might cause immediate and rapid warming over a period of only a few years.

We could be pushed past 2.5°C or even 3°C without industrial forces contributing at all.

queermunist, 2 days ago

I’d rather kill myself than vote for genocide.

queermunist, 3 days ago

And a mandate to no longer employ minors? Or what? Another $650,000 fine?

queermunist, 3 days ago

He’s right, in a way.

If it weren’t for massive social media outlets like TikTok no one would know or care about the genocide. Israel has always been this way! Israel’s plan for the Palestinians has pretty much always been genocide, nothing changed on their end. The only thing that changed is the existence of platforms that aren’t under the control of pro-Israel propaganda, so now people are finally seeing the truth. Times have changed.

If it weren’t for the access to the truth I don’t think Americans would be opposing this genocide, and that’s the way the ruling class wants it.

queermunist, 2 days ago

One multi-ethnic, multi-racial, multi-religious democratic state from the river to the sea.

queermunist, 1 day ago

Nothing is easier to pick, Zionism is as opposed to a two-state solution as a one-state solution. There’s no difference to them.

They only want a final solution to the Palestinian problem.

queermunist, 4 days ago

I wanna feel how smooth it is. 👋

queermunist, 4 days ago (edited 1 hour ago)

This is the fight Commander has been training for his entire life. Noem doesn’t stand a chance.

queermunist, 4 days ago

It’s both. They believe we ought to want the extermination of people who don’t support us and they also believe we’re stupid because we clearly don’t want the extermination of people who don’t support us. As far as they’re concerned we are their natural enemies and too stupid to realize it, and so they’re mocking us for not killing them.

queermunist, 4 days ago

🥰

queermunist, 4 days ago (edited 6 hours ago)

Engagement is engagement, as long as people like my posts then I am happy even if no one responds with a comment 😊

queermunist, 4 days ago

There’s a third option and y’all aren’t ready for that conversation 👀

queermunist, 4 days ago

What fucking “”“pressure”“”?

queermunist, 4 days ago

Zionism isn’t even religious. It’s ethno-nationalist.

queermunist, 5 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

I’m actually extremely mad that nihilists are using the pale blue dot this way.

What I always took away from it is we’re all the same. The pale blue dot is us, not just humans, but the whole biosphere is all an interconnected “us” that unites Earth as the only world to harbor life in a huge and lonely universe. There is nowhere else.

Or as Sagan said: “To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.” That shit makes me tear up, still, 16 years out of highschool when I first heard it.

To flip this around as “lol no one and nothing matters” is an abomination, a total perversion of the pale blue dot.

These people are not well.

queermunist, 4 days ago

That’s very clearly the message: you don’t matter on the scale of the Earth, everyone disappears when you zoom out far enough.

And that’s exactly the ethos of so-called effective altruism, longtermism, extropianism, etc. The idea is that you should zoom out and ignore all the individual people because they don’t matter on a large scale, instead we should focus on growing the economy for a technological-utopian future where the number of humans can grow exponentially by living in space and trying to colonize all parts of the universe.

This dominates Silicon Valley and has become a driving force in the tech industry.

queermunist, 4 days ago (edited 9 hours ago)

Isn’t it interesting to look outside ourselves for a moment and consider things from a different point of view.
When I find myself seriously considering things like that, I remind myself to go outside and touch grass.

Why are you talking to me like that?

I just don’t believe that the Venn diagram of people who like looking at space pics and people who are seriously committed to leading a post-human space empire is a circle.

This isn’t just a space pic. This is, specifically, a nihilist space meme. I think the venn diagram in this case has a lot of overlap.

you don’t matter on the scale of the Earth, everyone disappears when you zoom out far enough.

Yes. I agree this is what it’s communicating. This seems straightforward, empirically correct, and philosophically basic.

I reject that!

Everyone matters. When you zoom out, we’re all the same. We’re all connected. An injury to one is an injury to all.

What this meme does and what you are doing is flipping that around to then say “When you zoom out, we’re all irrelevant. We’re all nothing. No one matters at scale.” I refuse! Every single person matters to all of us, because we’re all the same. When you zoom out you can’t tell us apart, all you can see is a pale blue dot. That’s us. That doesn’t mean that no one matters at scale, that means everyone matters as much as everyone else. No one is more important or more valuable or more human, we are all the same, we all matter equally. We are our home.

I refuse to accept that no one matters, no matter what scale we are talking about. Every single person matters as part of that pale blue dot.

queermunist, 4 days ago

It sure has been a long time since Philosophy 101 huh? I’m pretty sure you are confusing existentialism with existential nihilism.

Existentialism is the belief that we construct the meaning of our lives through our own awareness, will, and reason. Nihilism, on the other hand, is the assertion that there is no meaning to life including whatever meaning we try to make for ourselves and that it is pointless to try to give life meaning. The man climbs the tree because he wants to, there’s no deeper meaning behind it because meaning doesn’t exist. He’s not making a new meaning for himself, he’s just doing what he wants because there’s no reason not to and nothing is stopping him.

I’m sympathetic to the nihilist view, but rather than reject giving life meaning as pointless I just recognize that it is absurd and then do it anyway.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy, yeah?

And now we return to that pale blue dot. That’s home. That’s us. I choose to give that meaning and acknowledge that I am choosing to do so, despite the meaningless universe in which we find ourselves. I am part of something bigger than myself, and so are you, and together we give the world meaning. Nihilism rejects meaning, and I don’t think you’re actually a nihilist.

queermunist, 4 days ago

You’re right, “only I matter” and “only I and [subgroup] matter” are not nihilistic either, but that’s that’s not what this meme is implying or what I’m rejecting. A truly nihilistic stance is “I don’t matter, no one matters, nothing matters, and there’s no reason to create meaning because that doesn’t matter either.” If I ask “should I kill myself” then nihilism can not provide me a reason to survive. Earth before, Earth after, nothing changes. That’s why Camus considered suicide to be the only really serious philosophical problem.

Now of course, nihilists aren’t necessarily suicidal (although it’s not uncommon). The nihilist philosophy tells us to reject meaning and to pursue personal pleasure and satisfaction and self actualization i.e. the Will to Power, not because that is the meaning of life, but because in a meaningless universe there’s no reason to do anything else. The person who can achieve this becomes the Übermensch, able to overcome the limits of religion and reason to pursue ambition and no longer burdened by the sorrows of ordinary people.

And again, this isn’t something that gives life meaning. It’s a supposedly rational solution to the question “should I kill myself” i.e. the Übermensch wants to live for life itself and does not need a reason to do so or to find meaning for life to be worth living.

All of this is to say that, yes, real people believe this stuff and they should be discouraged from doing so whenever possible.

queermunist, 5 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

They can get filthy stinking rich doing nothing, though. They’re basically all insider trading and getting richer ever day no matter what, with or without a war. I’m sure there are some hungry ghosts who just yearn for an ever greater “more” and are not satisfied with just getting richer if they aren’t also getting richer faster, but they don’t have any plans bigger than that. Just more, forever.

If their goal was to expand US influence and dominance over the world, they failed. If their goal was to acquire cheap resources, they failed. If their goal was to assert US hegemony, they failed. If their goal was to stabilize trade and resource extraction, they failed.

I just don’t think they planned any of this out. They just bumbled from event to event and tried to opportunistically profit on a case-by-case basis, in turn being unable to build a long-lasting project, and that’s why it eventually became a debacle and had to be abandoned.

That also doesn’t really answer my original question: why did they start with Afghanistan? If the goal was Iraq, why bother? Just start there!

queermunist, 5 days ago

The US and EU have no room to judge Israel, that’s true.

I sure as fuck can judge them, though, and I do and so should you.

queermunist, 5 days ago

Is that the line? Everything before was fine, but this is what caused them to lose your respect?

queermunist, 4 days ago (edited 30 minutes ago)

Try reading what I said again because you clearly misunderstood it.