"I realized that the roots of this act were not in any time-honored American myth but right beneath my feet in a new kind of society that is only beginning to take shape. To see the Hell's Angels as caretakers of the old "individualist" tradition "that made this country great" is only a painless way to get around seeing them for what they really are — not some romantic leftover, but the first wave of a future that nothing in our history has prepared us to cope with. The Angels are prototypes. Their lack of education has not only rendered them completely useless in a highly technical economy, but it has also given them the leisure to cultivate a powerful resentment… and to translate it into a destructive cult..." - Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga (1967)

Apparently Digg is trying a comeback?

Honestly, I've read a lot of manifestos and writings of people without the firmest grasp on reality and they get kinda jumbled up. It might have been McKenna, it might have been the time cube guy (whose name I forget), it could have been a dmt trip report on erowid.

Sounds like the local wildlife might have been dining on exotic fare.

I read your entire post several times before responding. You made a number of factual claims that have no basis in reality, such as humans being the only animals capable of self sacrifice and rich people all being corrupt and obese.

I focused my rebuttal on the points that I did because, those were the aspects of your essay that seemed worth discussing because it felt more productive to give you concrete arguements than going point for point refuting your argument.

Your fundamental premise (to the best of my ability to determine) seems to be that human suffering is somehow special because we can choose it and somehow that supports an argument for a creator or god.

It was called NationState. Basically you had your own little country to manage

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Any innocent death is unacceptable. If under Trump every single Palestinian in Gaza would be killed and under Kamala a single old man would die, I still would make the same choice.

That old man has just as much right to live as anyone else, just because he is the only casualty that doesn't make his life any less valuable or gives someone any more right to kill him.

I am truly sorry this is the outcome we have gotten and that my actions have played a small part in how things have unfolded. But I do not regret my choice not to vote.

The average life expectancy for Americans is 79. In the US at least we define "senior citizen" as over 60 (legally and for healthcare), that seems like a reasonable age for elder to start.

Calling Trump weird worked really well. Maybe some religious Democrats can claim the hurricane is god's divine will for straying so far from biblical teachings and raising Trump as an idol.

Honestly though I think we're all better served trying to come together against the real threat to our lives, Oligarchs living in a second gilded age.

It's true enough that most people would only object to the hyperbolic phrasing, but conspiracy theory sounding enough to give the fantasy prone among us something useful to obsess over.

And bonus points, their power is woven into the country so profoundly we'd never agree on what to do about it. But at least we'd be all having the same conversation, which will lead to better outcomes for everyone, even the poo-brained among us. Except maybe the Musks and Bezoses of the world, they'd hate it.

I don't think you'll find a satisfying answer to that question.

Trans-medicalists tend to over rationalize the subjective trans experience and many of them are incapable of separating their own, personal desires from what ought to be for everyone. It's very human to choose a path for yourself and justify it by assuming it's the only "right" way, trans people, while generally much more self-aware than other population groups are not immune to normal human foibles. In fact, dysphoria and other mental health issues related to transness can amplify disordered thinking and lead to outcomes like gatekeeping transness behind expensive, often unattainable, medical interventions.

It's not so much that they are unable to understand, but are unwilling because facing a truth that medical intervention is not a required part of the trans experience can create serious cognitive dissonance, especially if the individual has taken steps on their medical transition they felt compelled to but would not have chosen otherwise.

Folks like that are frustrating and damage the overall efforts of the community to find acceptance. Still I wouldn't hold it against them, we're all only human and doing the best we can with what we have.

Also VERY important, a non-trivial portion of trans-medicalists are either suffering from internalized transphobia or engaging in discussion cynically (such as trolling, or intentionally spreading disinformation).

No sweetie, that's fascism. Conservatism is dumb, but it's not inherently authoritarian.