I know people since forever won't stop watching nutcases doing nutcase things which is my internal explanation of reality TV and video social media, but I always feel bad when I realize I'm enabling them.
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Paul Richwine
Профиль VivelyFunniest moments of my life have been when I nearly died of utter stupidity, but none as funny as this.
WarTranslated (Dmitri)Full video demonstration of the "Vanka360" all-around air defense system, which has no analogues in the world.
A thread on viewing far right ideology through the lens of abuse. I think of this as the original sin: other people are less than me. Once that idea takes root, all of humanity sorts into castes and abuse is rationalized.
Mallory MooreThe connection between abusers and far right figures is generally not so much a failure of the far right to look at the plank in their own eyes before accusing others, and much more a matter of the fact that rape culture and violent ideology share a dependency on dehumanising the other.
This got me reading Thomas Paine who wrote of African slavery in 1775: "If they could carry off and enslave some thousands of us, would we think it just? - One would almost wish they could for once; it might convince more than Reason, or the Bible."
The Rude PunditThe founder we should talk more about is Thomas Paine, who will fuck your shit up every time. Here he is in The Rights of Man just ripping into any ideas of "originalism" and that kind of garbage.
Humans exploring inhospitable frontiers is very cool to me, for the bravery and excitement of discovery. BUT for finding a new place for humans to live, it would be less risk and less expensive to colonize the Sahara Desert or Antarctica than Mars, and nobody is proposing we do that.
Nils GilmanThe fantasy of human colonization of Mars isn't just stupid, unrealistic, or a waste of resources — it's pernicious, because it actively stokes insouciance with respect to safeguarding the only planet that at least 99.99999999% of us are ever going to live on.