”We must put our desires under merciless suspicion."

People's Republic of Venus
Joined January 2020
Orthon von Bismarck retweeted
Replying to @Orthon_Spaceman
"I have found a new way to be neurotic and maladaptive in a way you may find intriguing"
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A lot of philosophy can justly be reduced to: ”I have invented a question which puts me in a bind because I am a massive autist. This question must thus be incredibly important for mankind.”
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NEW INTERSECTIONAL THEORY: Everyone is oppressed because they are alive
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Disagreeing with Paul is practically expected in most mainline Christianity in Northern Europe today.
Unpopular Christian opinion: It's okay to disagree with Paul.
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Orthon von Bismarck retweeted
Plato on the purported Royal Persian custom of infant looksmaxxing.
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Imagine how insane primitive accumulation would have been if Ghosts could hold property. Actually we don't kindof have to imagine it because it sort of happened in the Inca Empire.
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One of the things I miss from hollywood are genuinly well crafted dumb movies. Movies that recognised their audience as dumb but made a serious effort to make a good movie tailored to that audience.
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There is a very specific hyper composed laconic register used by a specific, tireless type of islamic apologist in comments section that feels like it’s an LLM from a different timeline where AI was first developed for fiqh rulings.
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Orthon von Bismarck retweeted
The For You on X is like "here is an AI story translated from Tagalog that teaches a nonsensical moral lesson about kindness" + "the lockdowns were really about releasing imprisoned people from a global tunnel network" + "AI war will knock out the power for a hundred years".
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Imagining historians in 100 years debating the significance of Paradox interactive to European political development in the 21st century. It’s a debate which in some form is going to have to be had.
One day a revolution is going to happen in the world and they're going to use a Hoi4 flag
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A rather interesting cultural shift that has happened is how the complexity which defined the 19th and 20th understanding of wants, desires and fears have been displaced to the understanding of its expressions.
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This has curiously created a sort of muddled border between irrationality and immorality: when someone acts against (our standard of) reason for in a way that plainly cannot be attributed to ignorance, there will be a suspicion of malice.
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The proliferation of assumptions of bad faith in contemporary discourse is probably in part downstreams of this. Or maybe it’s the opposite around even.
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Orthon von Bismarck retweeted
The end of Temple Hitlerism, and the beginning of Rabbinic Hitlerism
🇩🇪 Adolf Hitler’s 'Eagle’s Nest' retreat in Bavaria, Germany, has been set on fire. German police have arrested a suspect as authorities investigate possible arson. Follow: @europa
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Orthon von Bismarck retweeted
The Law of Jante is one of the best things about Scandinavia. Makes life a lot smoother when people aren't trying to status flex each other all the time.
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