"Liberal regimes fighting with the odds so heavily in their favour in material terms and the sense of 'history being on their side' have an impatient expectation of victory - call this the pressure of the philosophy of history. If you are truly convinced your victory is inevitable, resistance is, as the saying goes, futile. Opponents that engage in futile resistance, exacting a price from you, long after their defeat is inevitable, are treated as 'mad dogs' that demand their own destruction. Not just their defeat but their erasure and total destruction. Rather than encouraging liberal agents of history to raise themselves to great personal efforts and sacrifice, this philosophy of history, this sense of historic inevitability counsels the opposite. If your barbaric, cruel enemy does not understand that they must lose, if they want to go down in a meaningless suicidal blaze, there is no reason anyone on your side should needlessly expose themselves to risk. After all, that would deprive those citizen soldiers of the victorious future that is rightfully theirs. Instead, minimise your own losses and let massive firepower do the work. Collateral damage, especially if it occurs on the enemy side, is barely worth a mention."

Adam Tooze

the kamala revisionism in general is just so disheartening to witness, this is the exact same kopmala from 2020 and everybody that's like not on this site is somehow unironically excited for her. not a burger so at the end of the day i can't do shit about it either.

iirc a lot of the board were ea people. anthropic is a good example of what oai would look like if they sutskever/board faction had won.

'the ick' seems to just mean 'neurodivergent person did something neurodivergent' when i see it used colloquially tbh

uh sweaty no minority could ever be against biden, only online white teenager tankies are against him.

im as cishet as they come, but does anyone else feel like we're too sexualised? how are the gays ever going to accept us if we're so hypersexualised? you know i just really feel like it's pushing our movement backwards being so open about it

i feel like tensions about dating and romance have really begun boiling up the past few years in general. there was a short period a few years ago where i thought incel-ism was dying out as an identity, but these days it seems bigger than its ever been

i honestly dont know how men are getting so mad about the bear thing tbh. like how is your first thought when confronted with women expressing how unsafe rape culture makes them feel 'but what about men's feelings though'?/??

vaush is online internet ml's trump lmfao

the gamer rage about 'titty streamers' has to be documented like wtf is going on with that (misogyny)

mussolini whitewashing is genuinely a really big problem

was listening to some zoomers on the bus talk about how a primary school they went to was 'overrun' with asian people now. these were private school kids in new zealand lmfao, death to amerikkka of course but death also to pakeha 'new zealand'.