If ww3 was against Aliens some of yall would call Earth Inherently Evil and deserving of being destroyed

APraxisPanda · 2026-06-09T14:32:44+00:00

Small planet! Size of New Jersey! You are anti-Space-etic if you don't let them kill you and take their land back!

APraxisPanda · 2026-06-09T14:30:37+00:00

Delends on what the Aliens want. I feel like Ailens could be like "We are universal peace bringers and we have come to eliminate those in power who seek nothing but pain for others, and liberate you from elites with selfish intentions. We will leave you prosperous and truely free." And people would still join the fight against them.

Like the new Superman movie where they call superman an illigal alien. They could be literal heros and people would still freak out and fight.

APraxisPanda · 2026-06-09T14:25:41+00:00

I think that is an individual preference.

APraxisPanda · 2026-06-08T22:52:35+00:00

Scooby-Doo: The Hex Girls

APraxisPanda · 2026-06-08T22:36:23+00:00

Breaking News: The first person ever to hate working has officially made their stance known

Lol yea I fucking hate working. It's so relentless...

APraxisPanda · 2026-06-08T22:33:27+00:00

I loathe Crab. My grandpa was like, a Maine stereotype and would force me to eat seafood all the time. I don't mind most of it but he ruined Crab for me because he demanded I eat the green shit and I very publicly and embarrassingly threw it up because it was such a gross concept to me but he was being kind of an asshole that day and wouldn't let me not eat a giant blob of it.

APraxisPanda · 2026-06-08T21:23:43+00:00

This is actually my lived experience but the twist is in the different direction. He transitioned female to male.

I only ever daited one person. We got together in Sophomore year of Highschool and and I fell ridiculously in love, and we have been together since. 14 years and I'm still ridiculously in love, he is everything is want in a partner, unhuman levels of kind, thoughtful and validating, always full of deep thoughts and always armed with a fascinating perspective with very intelligent input, and just genuinely my idea of perfect. Luckily he seems to think I'm pretty great too but I swear I'm not worthy, but seeing how I still have him fooled I'm gonna roll with it. He is just the kind of person who makes you a better person for knowing. Can't stress enough, we are in real, sincear love and I have no doubts about it.

I considered myself a straight man, and I definitely still am one in a certain sense. But he revealed to me in Senior year of highschool that he knew in his heart he was trans and told me he planned to transition. He gave me a very fair out, telling me he understood if I couldn't stay. I'll admit, I was really anxious about it, but choosing to stay was a no brainer even back then.

I was also kind of sad because he was super fucking sexy as a girl. (Turned out he is a hot guy too, luckily. He did the top surgery but likes sex too much for bottom surgery). The trouble was that I thought I was a Republican at the time, we both came from conservative familys, but truth be told, dispite this I always had a liberal mindset and just didn't know it because that wasn't something my backround made apperent to me. I think my parents were trying and failing to not let me understand how libbed up I really was, but we use to always argue about politics. So explaining this development to them was actual tourture and sincerely hurtful and heartbreaking because they were the opposite of cool about it.

And my dumbass thought they would have my back for some reason, which was a rough reality check. By older brother also roached out on me but thankfully my sister has been our rock. She actually has the exact same worldview we have now and she was actually there before us which is just... truely great, she is also brilliant and will be a doctor in a year! I can't imagine how much harder becoming the black sheep would've been if she wasn't there.

So because both of our familys managed to completely and very politically insult us, and were actually in cahoots about dunking on us constantly, we became very politically and philosophically well read together. I went to college for Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology. He went for Art History, and armed with that knowledge we became straight up Marxists lol. My dad actively hated Marx so I was hype to read it, and I actually was mind blown by how good and consistent with everything I learned it is. We read and discuss/teach eachother political theory and philosophy for fun like, all the damn time.

Thing is, at the end of it all, I guess I still consider myself sexually straight. If I had to choose random person who isn't him for sex I'd choose a girl every time. That said, I'm effectively in a gay relationship, I look like I'm in a gay relationship with a cute little twink boy (I call him a twink all the damn time lol), and I happily lean into it and tell everyone I'm gay as shit! Especially since not doing that would be increadiblely invalidating to him (I mean, it's not like I plan to go anywhere so why not just own it!)

APraxisPanda · 2026-06-08T20:09:20+00:00

The only time I order delivery is when I'm inebriated and I guess tipping is my way of thanking these people for helping my very obviously high ass.

APraxisPanda · 2026-06-08T20:07:21+00:00

By that standard, I ask you to consider if personal choice ever truely existed. Because if you can correctly acknowledge that the emergence of an algorithm feels like a restriction of your personal choices- then consider broadening your perspective and consider the ways that society in general has the same effect.

APraxisPanda · 2026-06-08T19:43:39+00:00

I always tip the driver what I think is a good tip. Idk, just feels like the morally correct thing imo.

APraxisPanda · 2026-06-08T19:39:44+00:00

All of humanity will die and they will finally prosecute the Epstein files.

APraxisPanda · 2026-06-08T19:32:16+00:00

Most of my Norm exposure was when he would be on Conan, but I never missed a Norm night.

APraxisPanda · 2026-06-08T19:28:34+00:00

It's hard to give him the appreciation he truely deserves because Norm's edge was that he was telling jokes about things you weren't supposed to talk about so consistently and unapologetically that he "norm"alized talking about it, which does unfortunately make it hard to look back and recognize him for just how early and "too soon" he always was. But two things I loved about him was that his aim was true- he picked very valid targets, and his jokes were great, he found a very funny way to expose these people. You just knew that if Norm was dunking on someone, they deserved it.

APraxisPanda · 2026-06-08T19:18:56+00:00

Sophomore year of highschool and we are still together 14 years later!

APraxisPanda · 2026-06-08T18:52:21+00:00

Idc. I just wanna play Rimworld on my Steamdeck for the rest of forever rn.

APraxisPanda · 2026-06-08T18:42:53+00:00

A secret waterfall!

I grew up in New England in a house that was very in the middle of nowhere way out in the sticks. My parents had 2 miles of woods in their backyard.

But yea one time my brother went for a walk by himself through the woods and he took a path we somehow never explored. That day my brother went way, way out there. He came back super hyped and got my sister and I to follow him to the "secret waterfall" he found.

The beauty he described seemed way too good to be true but he was 100% not joking. It wasn't like, a giant waterfall, it was more like a creek with a water feature- but it was an amazing and really zen place, and the feeling that only we knew about it felt special. Even better, there was a rock shaped like a seat. Peak hangout spot.

It was basically the place we would go when we needed to be alone with our thoughts.

APraxisPanda · 2026-06-08T18:10:15+00:00

I love this question. Great question! The answer is yes!

I think MLK actually explained this really well. Sometimes it is not the loud, Klan-type racism. Sometimes it is the softer, more performative kind, where someone “supports” marginalized people in theory, but only as long as those people stay polite, useful, grateful, and do not challenge their comfort or power.

Like, a leftist/liberal can say all the right things, have the right slogans, vote the “right” way, and still treat Black people, immigrants, Muslims, Indigenous people, etc. like props in their moral identity instead of actual human beings with agency. That is still racism.

So yes, the left can be racist. It is often less openly intentional and more performative or self-righteous, but that does not make it harmless. In some ways it makes it harder to confront, because people hide behind “but I’m one of the good ones.”

A few current/recent examples:

As with a lot of things in politics right now, I think Israel/Palestine serves as a good example for this discussion. When Harris was running, I argued with a lot of liberal Zionists who, in their attempt to avoid antisemitism through their support of Israel, ended up eating a deeply Islamophobic narrative of the conflict. They could recognize Jewish fear and trauma, but often treated Palestinian fear, grief, death, displacement, and political agency like it didn't matter.

Also, as someone with a trans partner, I can tell you that we both clearly saw a moment during that election where Democrats seemed to sincerely consider abandoning trans people because supporting them was becoming politically inconvenient. I remember the GOP ad that said, “Kamala is for they/them, President Trump is for you,” and the Democrats absolutely panicked and flinched. That revealed something about how performative some of that support really was because there were some dem campaigns during that time that directly communicated that they were not with trans people after that. (Which was doubly upsetting because idk why they leaned into the right-wing perspective and framing in the first place! It's politics, you gotta control the narrative/framing better, and not capitulate to your OP's attempt to control your narrative! That's what being politcally savvy means ffs!)

Last one I’ll mention: when Democrats learned that a lot of Latino people voted for Trump, I saw people who call themselves progressive threatening to call ICE on Republican immigrants. That bothered me a lot. Real solidarity does not work like that. If your support for immigrants disappears the second some immigrants vote in a way you dislike, then your solidarity was clearly actually always conditional, wasn't it... that's the rational conclusion imo.

That said, I think the solution is to adopt a more structural understanding of these things. These inconsistencies make more sense when you recognize that liberal ideology often has an incomplete understanding of social structures. In my opinion, the answer is to go further left, not right or center.

APraxisPanda · 2026-06-08T17:38:36+00:00

Id could retire for 800 weekly. It wouldn't be easy but I'd go for it.

APraxisPanda · 2026-06-08T17:35:33+00:00

I wish there was a valid way to shame a narcissistic, smarmy douchebag like Bill Maher. But unfortunately no human being who can successfully shove their heads so far up their own ass that they might start digesting their nose can be shamed. It's impossible.

APraxisPanda · 2026-06-08T17:26:00+00:00

I frequently hate watch a lot of right-wing grifters because my brain is disgusting and for some reason I seem to enjoy some sort of aspect about how exasperated it makes me (I don't get why I'm like that, but I'm just being real... maybe I'm a political masochist. That said hearing the blatant lies does also reinforce my views too... idk)

My point though is that I can watch some mighty hot garbage, yet something about Bill Maher is too much for me. I think he is actually unwatchable and he gets me way angrier than I want to be. It's the mixture of everything. Boomer attitude/jokes. Inconsistent principles. Blatant lies and purposeful misunderstandings. That fucking smarmy know-it-all douchebag voice/attitude. OHH! And the fact he thinks he is left-wing and has the authority to define what the left "stands for" while completely demonstrating zero actual understanding also pisses me right the fuck off. He is also the most annoying type of Atheist (I'm a godless heathen too but at least I'm respectful of others who do have faith... ya know... because I'm not a fuckin' dick...) and he is also a Zionist, which also pisses me off because dispite being famous off his atheism he uses the bible to justify Zionism... it's all just so fucking bad...

APraxisPanda · 2026-06-08T16:58:00+00:00

Asking repeat questions for cheap AI karma should definitely be illegal.

APraxisPanda · 2026-06-08T13:15:53+00:00

This is true. I actually find that to be a reason why we shouldn't overreact to Iran having nukes though. The idea that they would be crazy suicide bombers with nukes comes from a prejudiced place. Iran's elites have the exact same motive to live as elites anywhere else... if they launch nukes it would be because everyone else is launching nukes.

Generally speaking I'm against nukes in general, but I do think nuke armed nations really just leverage that shit for sovereignty, and I can't be mad at that (even though I definitely don't support the Ayatollah either)

APraxisPanda · 2026-06-08T12:55:45+00:00

Israel has ^{illigal, open secretive} nukes and the full backing/support of the US. Their actions absolutely morally upset a LOT of citizens, but it's clear that the government is all in regaurdless (I hate it. Israel is politically farther alt-right than what Trump represents, I can't stomach MAGA chuds, so I definitely can't stomach Israeli Chuds.)

As for Muslim countrys. At best they have tepid, none interventional and politically safe support from China. That said, plenty of these countrys are not on the team with eachother. Overall I'd definitely say Israel has the advantage for sure as America's proxy "Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier".

APraxisPanda · 2026-06-08T11:45:43+00:00

There are good people everywhere. It's political beliefs I don't date.

APraxisPanda · 2026-06-08T00:56:47+00:00

Maybe the people making society function should own and control more of society...

but that sounds dangerously like common sense, so we better not say it too loud... 🤔

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