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goes without saying that you should 
is there any category of behavior more craven and disgusting than simping for a youtuber in someone else's comments?
isn't it amazing how this demonic government has trained a portion of thier citizenry that is rightly alarmed by the idea of fascism, to only be able to see it in the le epic cheeto man, but react like a Westworld host to forbidden information about its presence at literally every level of US governance? Like it's fucking sad. A good instinct made useless. Fucking awful.
mandalore is so good. The norse adventure game in space is more insane, but the cabellas videos are pretty amazing too
if you're new to this guy, go watch his mystery of the druids video and the ring saga
Just going off what the metaphysics that undergirds a lot of 'demonic' shit tends to be like- physical presence requires some doing! what a lucky guy! so anyway demons don't just show up in your life, again per the lit, don't read this as my actual belief, but they don't just show up. In some stuff we all have a link to them within us, but in general if you wanna talk to p'ig pou'balzt to work on something, that's never circumstantial - that has to be sought out.
what i'm saying is it's funny to imagine Tucker summoning something out of a medieval grimoire and getting absolutely wrecked by it, but then omitting his causal agency to rile up his christian audience
vav can do different stuff depending on context too. not sure vav as a vowel indicator is as old as the tetragrammaton? i know some features of the writing system are later innovations - most accomodations to vowels don't go back to paleo-hebrew iirc, but the tetragrammaton probably isn't that old anyway.
Anyway if that vav is signalling a vowel, it could be an english o/oo sound, or a lot of things
I'm not an expert, i am just the specific kind of nerd that will slowly learn archaic languages at whatever pace i can manage and i've got subpar hebrew literacy for it, so i don't wanna mis-represent my credentials here.
It's still that way. I guess later some letters started indicating certain vowel sounds a bit more directly, but it's mostly little dots and lines that only get used to teach or are placed on text where ambiguity isn't acceptable.
Nero was a proper piece of shit.
But the caesars at that point still ruled via popular mandate, or at least the optics thereof. More like military support supplemented by acts that placated the greater citizenry, because the aristocrats carried the torch of getting their oligarchy back for a while. The shadow of augustus was pretty long.
But you never got soldiers hollering "imperator" at you without being a huge fucking genocidal scumbag so it came with the job - he's not some misunderstood saint.
the only way it's "Yahweh" is if it has some very special secret vowels because "יהוה" doesn't sound like that lol
Hey, I'm a religion nerd?
But religion nerds who know way more than me and can make a better case for what atheism really is under the hood have made videos i can share.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfcwTiOGnig
This guy is pretty good in general, if you want to understand religion on a deeper level than like, what's common to everyone. Because common knowlege about religion is garbage. Like huge garbage. It's all shit. I can't have normal conversations about these topics anymore, because i know more than most people and not enough for everyone i learn from. It's great.
edit: also i should probably define terms. I'm aware atheism can mean non-religious, but given that in name it's defined in terms of negating religion, people who study religion are still probably the best lens we have to study it as a phenomenon, but i don't want to imply any kind of personal belief about what atheism is - what it is is complicated and it does range from a redditor who is a little too into dawkins, to atheistic forms of religious behavior that don't fit neatly into categories of belief or non belief - it's a weirdly huge topic.
i think i hate this
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lets talk about Rome Guys
(hexbear.net)
I've had a love of history generally, and I know a bit more than most about the Roman empire, and that's kind of a red flag i guess, but I genuinely think they're one of the worst things to ever happen to the world, much as i find the endless stream of civil wars and coups to be very fun to read, the brutality of their empire wouldn't be surpassed until England somehow went from a backwater to a globe spanning empire and to be quite honest i'm not a fan of them except as a gateway to knowing what some of my ancestors got up to.
Weird Ass Rome Guys are why the American feds are the way they are, it's obvious there is something deeply wrong with how Rome gets portrayed in popular media and stuff that makes this a seemingly wide-spread phenomenon, but honestly what's with the glorification of Rome? is it downstream of American Nationalism? No, that can't be, because Rome Guys go back so far we have popes making fake roman states and tsars and sultans trying to prove their dick is the most Roman. It's hard to miss a lot of Rome Guys are pretty regressive people. Like, you don't ever think something like "Augustus was a role model" unless you've got some twisted bullshit shit going on in your heart.
It makes me uncomfortable to engage with the history sometimes, because Rome Guys are always listening and ready to project their noble fantasy of them and the idiot narratives of Rome's decline as a sickness caused by foreign invaders sure does sound like deeply right wing revisionist history to me, but I've never really thought through the how and why of these guys, i wanted to solicit Hexbear's thoughts.
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it's all fake right like votes and candidates dont actually map onto policy or law changes federally right
(hexbear.net)
a caveat that maybe state and municipal government is still somewhat democratically functional, like at that low level enough of the day to day of administering people's lives is delegated to actual democratic authority maybe
but then i look at stuff like the debate (i didn't actually watch the debate i respect myself too much) and i look at how stuff happens and how it like doesn't seem to matter at all who is in power for the average person. Like it's pretty obvious that there is corporate and wealth buy-in for domestic policy, and think tanks and stuff that set a social agenda to some degree, and I guess the democratic apparatus serves to enable that buy-in, but on the federal level it really feels like voting happens at all merely to provide a democratic legitimacy to stuff that's actually decided entirely by unelected bureaucrats and moneyed interests that are either employed by the state or privately, right?
everything connected to voting is there to give social consent right? if you vote you assent to the legitimacy of the government - and this is like, its sole function? because if not enough people did that, and people actually didn't believe in the legitimacy of the government, there might actually be a problem I guess?
Like how can we think it actually matters which of these guys [the goo brain prez candidates] ends up elected from the pov of an average person? womens and queer rights are dissolving before our eyes regardless in most places, labor rights movements get stomped the fuck out the second they start to do anything interesting, and the few state bastions of safety come from the fact that local governments still sometimes represent citizen priority in some limited sense.
like foreign policy is gonna be the exact same in most cases, like there's no voting mechanism that will end the genocide in gaza - there's no mechanism to get the MIC to stop bombing random places and sending demonic spec ops raids wherever, nor will the steady stream of funds that go into toppling any government that so much as hesitates in its fealty to the us - so ideas that democracy is the answer is meaningfuly deluded, right?
federal politics feels like a really boring kind of WWE thing where the stage are national elections and their personalities and horse races, the kayfabe is the idea that a vote translates into anything meaningful other than the governed consenting to the process, whereas WWE's actual function as entertainment and a RNC pipeline is somewhat obvious, liberals are an entire class of people who actually stake their identity on its sincere legitimacy.
I know this post is long and probably sucks, but this all reeks to me and I'm so tired of seeing people care when the actual options for positive change are narrow, unpleasant, and sometimes illegal to voice.
I want people to disengage, start building parallel structures and outright refusing to live as if this farce is legitimate and even if i'm wrong about the particulars, that feels unreproachably noble and needed.
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RiotDoll
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tbqh epstein is an excellent normie-facing case study in why you should never lend a shred of credulity to any "offical" story or line - it's always a lie and it's always a lie the exact same way Epstein committed suicide - institutions give the lie legitimacy, the media uncritically reports the lie, nobody is allowed to question the lie without having it challeneged and going through a gauntlet that destroys critical voices
and if that doesn't work it just vanishes from the media entirely.
that's the game lol