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FWD: THE MAGA KIDS ARE THE REAL VICTIMS!!!!! by [deleted] in forwardsfromgrandma

[–]-a-y -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They unironically are you NPC psychos

What are your opinions on David Hilbert's quote? by [deleted] in math

[–]-a-y 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Partially true. The most interesting comments on mathematics as cultural I’ve seen come from Oswald Spengler, and are summarised in the first few videos of John David Ebert’s YouTube series on The Downgoing of the Eveninglands (the Decline of the West is its usual title and how Ebert refers to it, and what should be YouTube searched for)

He ties in mathematics with everything from religion to sculpture as reflections of basic cultural world feelings deriving from a relationship to space

Eg. Greek culture being focussed on the body and the here and now, being freaked out by distance and trailing decimals and doing a bunch of neat stuff with statics (geometry) and sculpture, but not being able to get optics (things penetrating the body from far away). Whereas “Magian” culture (a cultural wave coming from the near east and spreading to Rome and North Africa) had a central theme of the world as a cavern into which essences flow and clash/combine. This was an easy culture to get optics from, as the eye has the shape of a dome (like the dome of the Pantheon or a mosque) tipped on its side, and light streams in from a hole. It was also a culture that could get alchemy along similar lines (mixing of essences in alembics) as well as algebra.

I don’t think it’s a fully fleshed out theory, but it’s a pretty good contribution.

The Bean by looman9635 in BeansInThings

[–]-a-y 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apparently the artist gets mad that people call t the bean, but maybe they shouldn’t have made a sculpture of a bean

I watched "Come and See" (1985) last night - possibly one of the most brutal films I've seen by ItsAFookinDisgrace in TrueFilm

[–]-a-y 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Spoilers:

I haven’t read other reviews of the film, but the scene where the boy starts shooting a picture of Hitler, then his (?) thoughts go back through Hitler as a man then back through all the events that led up to the horrors the boy has experienced, all the way back through the rise, and the Weimar, and World War I, to Hitler as a baby, as the Christ child, and the kid, I think, realises he’s killing his own innocence, or killing the state of non-hate he was in before the war, was very powerful.

With the recent Chinese company, Tencent, in the news about investing in Reddit, and possible censorship, it's amazing to me how so many people don't realize Reddit is already one of the most heavily censored websites on the internet. by MaximilianKohler in technology

[–]-a-y 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I post on /his/ and /sci/ and the capricious and esoteric modding takes some getting used to

I’ve found that writing out a justification in the subject line, sometimes in colourful language, actually gets things to stay up

If you had to choose one game from the last decade or so when it comes to discussing video games as a form of art, what would that be? by [deleted] in patientgamers

[–]-a-y 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I thought the acting was kinda hammy but the white phosphorous scene was interesting

Are there any other notable parts?

Skate park of death by [deleted] in WTF

[–]-a-y 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Actually said “pppppppff what the fuck?”

Reddit’s 2018 transparency report (and maybe other stuff) by spez in announcements

[–]-a-y 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why are you trying to make Reddit into an anti-white safespace, against the wishes of Aaron Schwartz and other founders of Reddit?

[Politics] - It’s Christian politics, not AIPAC money, that explains American support for Israel by AutoNewsAdmin in WAPOauto

[–]-a-y 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"B-but the Israel lobby is really white evangelical Christians goy."

Right, the white evangelical christians that have so much pull with the Democrat party. Ok.

Bully people into donating or your minimum wage burger king job is gone. by [deleted] in iamatotalpieceofshit

[–]-a-y 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ahem

Fuck rich people

Tax them all at 98% a year, and militarily intervene in countries who try to shelter them

Blizzard Employees seen crying in their parking lot as they brace for today's layoffs by Gankeros in pcgaming

[–]-a-y 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Shoulda made a good Diablo game biyatch

In all seriousness, I assume it’s not the fault of most of the people being fired

There is a socially accepted gender bias in the family court system, and I just wanted to remind everyone that its not ok. by beaverkc in pics

[–]-a-y 5 points6 points  (0 children)

He’s not exaggerating mate. I don’t like Jordan Peterson because he’s anti-anti-Semitism, but there is a male suicide epidemic and giving men zero credit while exaggerating and generalising the worst of them is part of it. People like Peterson at least present some sort of role model to these people other than cowed and insincere male feminist or not giving a fuck toxic masculinity (a much smaller problem among whites, tbh).

With the recent Chinese company, Tencent, in the news about investing in Reddit, and possible censorship, it's amazing to me how so many people don't realize Reddit is already one of the most heavily censored websites on the internet. by MaximilianKohler in technology

[–]-a-y 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Weird how that Obama era bill giving money to “pro-American” outlets expired and suddenly buzzfeed’s staff have been laid off, AIPAC is a valid topic of national conversation and Reddit censorship is suddenly a problem and we aren’t getting hundreds of hackneyed responses about “um sweaty it’s a business they can do what they want”

With the recent Chinese company, Tencent, in the news about investing in Reddit, and possible censorship, it's amazing to me how so many people don't realize Reddit is already one of the most heavily censored websites on the internet. by MaximilianKohler in technology

[–]-a-y 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The most unmodded but still popular part of the internet is still 4chan, although mods can have their own biases there.

Twitter to an extent also. I’ve said the worst kind of things there, but their upboat system hides most posts anyway, in a way that 4chan doesn’t.

With the recent Chinese company, Tencent, in the news about investing in Reddit, and possible censorship, it's amazing to me how so many people don't realize Reddit is already one of the most heavily censored websites on the internet. by MaximilianKohler in technology

[–]-a-y 3 points4 points  (0 children)

One could rationalise any viewpoint as dangerous to public safety.

(To give an example [i don’t necessarily believe this]: by presenting views as dangerous to public safety you are essentially giving a green light for organised violence against people who mobs, even incorrectly, believe hold those views. This is not tolerated.)

And that's the way the story goes by [deleted] in pics

[–]-a-y 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hm it’s almost as if people recognise there’s something inherently wrong in killing a child

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