Racing Turtles

i feel like there's a tendency to describe things that are liberal as fascist in a way that lets liberalism off the hook- as if genocide and segregation are exclusive to fascism, and as if liberal nations haven't engaged in genocide and segregation as well for as long as they've existed. if we posit that countries like the united states of america, israel, australia, etc are fascist and not liberal then the term liberal just doesn't mean anything. this also gives fascism too much credit-no nation built on fascist principles could last as long as any of the previously listed genocidal liberal nations. similarly, an individual can be bigoted, even genocidal, and still be a liberal.

stupidest liberals on earth: "if we gave fascists psychedelic drugs, their bigotry would simply melt away!"

like 75% of acid/dmt users: "the illuminati reptoid jews are hiding the flat earth truth from us"

ok but if we give the fascists drugs they'll hate us for much, much funnier reasons

Yeah >:T

I Mean, I Get it: THEY, personally, had this wonderful experience with psychedelics which made them feel connected to the planet and every living thing on it which (they think, at least)fundamentally changed their way of looking at the world, but YOUR experience isn't EVERYone's experience, and more ppl need to realize that (:T (:T

How about reading warrior cats?

good choice, but read hegel first

i truly cannot put into words how much the sentence "It's not like anyone is putting big tiddy anime girls in art galleries" is a giveaway that the person speaking does not know anything at all about the art world and all their criticisms of the art world is just based on a vague caricature of what they imagine the art world is like.

a lot has been said about how ancient aliens stuff is racist, and that is true, but i think it's important that we remember ancient aliens stuff is also extremely extremely stupid. like yes if someone is into that stuff they're probably a racist, but they're definitely a moron.

Ancient aliens came to earth and they called your people the n word

extremely funny to watch both the most uwu ~valid~ softlords and the most tryhard edgy racists get extremely buttmad at me for accurately pointing out that if you think little green men made the pyramids you're a massive cretin

this, of course, reveals that these are both ultimately the same type of person just with different aesthetics (that type of person being "fictionbrained morons")

Yeah, that's what happened in Sweden

Now there's a giant gap in trained specialists with nobody to replace soon-to-be retirees which leads to outsourcing of a lot of jobs, ESPECIALLY blue collar ones

Because why bother getting an education, doing an apprenticeship and working hard manual labor all your life when you can just go flip burgers right out of high school and live comfortably?

hey you dumb little bitch, i'll bet you thought no one would fact check this, didn't you?

anyways, the number of people working as employees of restaraunts has been holding steady since 2016:

[x]

and to be clear, that's not number per capita, that's the raw number. and given that the swedish population has been growing precipitously since 2016, [x] this means the number of food industry workers per capita has been going down since 2016. where exactly is this massive rush toward the restaraunt industry you claim is occurring?

but hey, let's be charitable here, maybe the shift you describe had already occurred long before the chart begins- well, then in that case, we should still see a larger percentage of the population working in the food industry than, say, the usa, where "burger flippers" are paid poverty wages?

well that should be easy enough to figure out, we've got 101,986 restaurant industry workers in sweden, against a 10,415,811 population, for 0.979% of the population working in restaurants. now compare that to 12.1 million restaraunt workers in the usa, [x] against a population of 331.9 million, giving us..... 3.645% of the population. over 3 times higher. whoops.

not to mention your claims of workers rushing toward fast food is incongruous both with the booming tech sector in sweden, [x] while your claim that younger people in sweden aren't bothering to get college degrees or other forms of tertiary education being contradicted by the reality that 46% of swedes between 25 and 34 have completed teriary education, in contrast to 32% between 45-54, or 30% between the ages of 55-64. for the record, 46% of 25-34 year olds have completed teriatry education in the usa, 43% for 45-54 year olds, and 41% for 55-64 year olds. an increase, but not as large as sweden's. so, again, more empirical proof that you're a liar.

but what really gets to me isn't that you lie, flagrantly, and expect no one to check or notice. flagrant liars are a dime a dozen. it's the reason that you choose to lie. all this dishonesty, just so you can tell everybody about how people just out of high school, who don't have the money or free time to invest in college or trade school, don't deserve to "live comfortably". not that they don't deserve to live extravagantly, not that they don't deserve to live extravagantly, no, that they don't deserve to live comfortably, that average regular working class people deserve to live in discomfort, that single moms just out of high school- and their children- deserve to live uncomfortable, unhappy lives.

i can't even fathom the kind of utter rot of the soul must have taken root within you for you to say that the people who cook the food you eat, build the houses you live in, weave the clothes you wear, etc, don't deserve to feel comfort in their lives. i'll be praying for you.

"ooooh nooooo but a rail strike around the holidays could cripple the economy" damn sounds like their labor is really really important and you should give them what they fucking want

it's kind of funny how like, historical holy men will be described as having come from an upper-class background and then having left that behind (temporarily) to live as a beggar, and it's presented as like, this noble, spiritually righteous thing, when we all know people in the present day like that and they're The Worst.

imagine how insufferable st. francis of assisi was

i mean wasn't there already a long-standing tradition of people doing that kind of thing? like for example st. alexius of rome was hundreds of years before st. francis

and on that note:

holy shit what an asshole

crust monks

I get how the whole "listening to music as a dick-measuring contest for who can listen to the most obscure band" thing can get grating sometimes but I don't think people realize just how vital that phenomenon is for new up and coming bands to get a foot in the door. it's understandable to be annoyed by hipsterism but unless you want all music to be industry plants and former child stars you're just going to have to accept it as part of the social ecosystem.

most of your friends probably won't go around hyping up your amateurish self-released bandcamp project, but you know who will? the most insufferable hipster jackass you'll ever meet.

[your best friend playing your music in front of someone else]: yeah haha this is my friend's band... i know it's kinda weird and rough around the edges but i'm kinda into it... if you're not tho i'll turn it off.

[pretentious music guy you've never met before playing your music in front of someone else]: yeah so i found this on bandcamp and it completely blew me away, no one is making music like this today, it's so raw and experimental and interesting, i can't believe they only have 3 listeners on spotify, they're brilliant, frankly if you don't like this music you should kill yourself,

Jordan Peterson seeing himself as the prophet king hero here to save America is evidence that the whole facts and logic radical atheism movement never really gave a shit about religion beyond vapid self-aggrandizement.

jordan peterson isn't an atheist, has stated he is christian several times [link][link] and is pretty outspokenly critical of atheism [link] so like, i'm not really sure i understand what this post is trying to say

wow sure is amazing how every-time there’s overwhelming evidence that the free market is garbage it’s suddenly declared that Actually All Information Is Fake

“yes, it may look bad for capitalism that Vietnam has 0 covid-19 deaths and the united states has over 40,000, but have you ever considered: actually, all numbers are fake, and therefore we should assume that the vietnam death toll must be worse and our Capitalist Overlords only want what’s best for us?”

i made this post while i was on 3 tabs of acid and it fucking slaps, meanwhile every time elon musk drops acid and goes online he ruins his life, rlly makes you think about how much sexier and cooler i am than him