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  • Something like a one-party political system with dear respected leader, concentration camps, surveillance, social rating system, GFW?

    Note how I don’t say anything about propaganda from every crack. That’s because western propaganda has successfully evolved in the conditions of outright censorship not being allowed. Like killing cockroaches in a building again and again you make them evolve for the poisons used in the past.

    If you are going to pick the “all this is not credible” line, then don’t bother. Also credible is a synonym for “believable”, and nobody can make you believe things you don’t want to believe.



  • You didn’t, somebody else did. Or maybe you didn’t know it. Or maybe you have such a metabolism. Whatever.

    But I always put an effort into separating my clean clothes from my room stink, and making sure I always showered before I left the house.

    There is a huge space called depression, in some parts of it people can shower, in some other parts of it people can’t leave the bed.

    But I also have the high masking flavor of autism, so maybe that’s why that level of effort has come naturally.

    “Masking” and “natural” kinda contradict each other.







  • How does being so particular in body wash and demanding for accommodations from another guy become compatible with manliness? Especially the latter.

    It’s also a bit funny to read “I ain’t no bitch” with caps and punctuation and all that, as if intentionally spelled out. Produces the impression opposite of what they were trying to make.

    I think all those movies and series, say, with Jon Snow not cutting his hair (shaving and doing a haircut are not very technologically demanding processes, and starting with Iron Age they were norm in most places), looking greased in shit and wearing an animal skin, and talking in that perpetually hysterical “roaring/whining” voice, and similar portrayals of “real man” as what would be called “gay sex symbol” 50 years ago, have given sprouts.


  • Then some worthless fool calls you a Nazi for mumbling Radetzky-Marsch all the time, or even having an autistic fixation on German and Austrian marches in general, or even on those of 30s, it doesn’t matter - liking to listen to something and supporting an ideology are completely orthogonal. And then your life doesn’t matter, and the worthless fool’s life does matter, because the worthless fool uses all the right words and connotations from modern popular culture, while never seriously discussing anything, and you are trying to make some order starting from whatever ends you have.

    Say, I live in Russia.

    Worthless fools here who happened to be lucky enough to have an environment, an education and a location to be liberal, - they use the word “bydlo” (Polish for cattle) for most of the population, their understanding of the mistakes and crimes made by their side in the last 30 years is “too busy to talk about this, something bad happened, but we are the virtuous ones”, and their plans for “after Putin” start with “how do we reform the state”, these bloody morons don’t even understand that any healing attempts for Russia should start with wide democratic participation with frequent rotation (so that everyone would have an experience of shortly doing a few kinds of something political by their 30s, it’s not about interest, it’s about knowledge of the workings of the state and even distribution of ability to affect things around us) in a non-opinionated system, because whatever they “plan” for the rest will be a bullshit spectacle otherwise, a repetition of 1993 and 1996, and also that their opinions what’s good and their wishes shouldn’t be used in those plans - they should only build a system to channel the opinions and wishes of the people.

    Say, I absolutely hate a lot of things about USSR, but the most important bifurcation point was during USSR’s breakup, when on the referendum the majority in most of the union members and their regions voted for the new union treaty, for preservation of the union and against its breakup. So the democratic action was to reform the USSR and not kill it, that’s what democracy is. And what Yeltsin, Kuchma and others did, with their own arbitrary agreement to which they had no mandate, was not democratic. Yet it’s the popular narrative in both ex-USSR (among worthless fools of liberals, not the wide populace) and outside that this was somehow the democratic path chosen.

    The fallacy was that Yeltsin and co are “democrats” and thus whatever they do and whomever they kill, these are actions in support of freedom and democracy.

    Then that same party\group\mafia continued on their path at breaking whatever fledgling representative democracy, even with those checks and balances often talked about, that the 80s USSR had built as part of Perestroika.

    I have not lost my thought. I wanted to say that this relatively recent example applies to every time you look at someone’s stated ideology and not what they’re doing.

    Elon did Starlink. IMHO that’s more important than everything that DOGE has broken and more important than Tesla.





  • Tbh - if you do any academic study of history, that’s what it all starts to look like.

    Even without academic studies - I wanted some context for Tolkien (analogous periods\events), Walter Scott, Dumas, who not. And I wanted some context for R:TW and M2:TW games, so I found mods like Europa Barbarorum. And eventually I’ve read some of Icelandic sagas, and some of medieval poetry translations, and so on. Same with context for fantasy books, some alternatives IRL.

    So, after that, there’s just nothing on screen I can watch.

    Icelandic low-budget movie kinda associated with Beowulf, but making Grendel a neanderthal (yep), looked cool due to seemingly authentic buildings and weapons and clothes and everything. But it wasn’t a very interesting movie.

    I’ve seen a Danish low-budget movie “Eagle’s eye”, some things felt like fine, but again, the story itself just didn’t seem right. Except for the one-eyed guy seeing through the eye of a bird - eh, I dunno why it was an eagle and not a raven, but his relation with the king and with the bishop seemed an interesting allegory on heathenry and christendom.

    Roman empire - just leave me alone.

    like no, the man was not a proto Thomas Jefferson

    The man also, when he found out his wife had a lover, made her a bath filled with his blood. That was in his youth, but.

    At the same time he called her “so meek, so simple-minded, so kind” when thanking gods for her.

    He became very wise by the end of his life, but, eh, not in US founding fathers’ direction. More like Obi-Wan Kenobi made emperor.