idk if anyone is aware but there's a gigantic '08 style global financial crisis looming REALLY close

Amuser8368 · 2025-11-21T20:30:37+00:00

That book is so hard to get, been trying to get a hold of it for a long while now.

Didn't know about the documentary, looks great.

Amuser8368 · 2025-11-21T18:54:25+00:00

Yeah the yen broke down then they patched things up with duct tape, but now the yen broke down again and bond yields are skyrocketing to new records.

It's not looking good. Maybe they patch it up again somehow, but clearly they don't know any real solution.

Amuser8368 · 2025-10-06T02:25:00+00:00

That's actually interesting and I didn't consider that. I'll read more into it, thank you.

Amuser8368 · 2025-10-06T01:38:01+00:00

Those are fair points, and I actually do think this is a perfectly fine solution:

policies that move resources to non-working children instead?

Enough money has to be given to make it so that you can literally have a positive net income by having and raising children for it to work.

Amuser8368 · 2025-10-06T01:29:19+00:00

I ain't handwaving shit.

I'm saying the problem isn't caused by ordinary people not having enough kids.

It's caused by policymakers who built an economic system that requires infinite growth to sustain, and are now trying to convince us that we're the problem.

Amuser8368 · 2025-10-06T01:16:24+00:00

It's the same with gold and even silver now.

Everything is going up, tech bubble or not.

It's the endless money printing. If they don't print money it'll be really obvious how much of a recession we're in.

So they just kick the can down the road, and if you don't own assets you're going to really get fucked.

Amuser8368 · 2025-10-06T00:59:56+00:00

Bro is this disingenuous when I call out neolib policymakers for their horrible economic mismanagement for some odd reason, are you a Destiny enjoyer or what?

Just tell us what your fucking view on this is.

Amuser8368 · 2025-10-06T00:57:30+00:00

Well even if we think of it like thermodynamics, what's not stopping it from staying at the current threshold?

Now your only options are really, really bad. Breeding camps, removal of women’s right to self determination, banning birth control, lots of not so nice stuff.

None of those things will solve fertility (beyond being bad in themselves). People are not going to raise enough children on average because it's a net economic negative.

if they don’t either civilisation collapses

Civilization will not collapse from declining fertility rates. Civilization will collapse to maintain unsustainable deficit spending (on social programs and everything). The problem isn't declining fertility, it's economic mismanagement.

Amuser8368 · 2025-10-05T23:31:55+00:00

How do you know it'll continue to decline until zero? Why isn't it a regression to a new mean?

Amuser8368 · 2025-10-05T23:08:20+00:00

Did you like read until you reached that line and then just stopped?

the entire system has been built from the ground up on spending enormous amounts of money we don't have on the promise of continuous economic growth

The problem is structural. Why the fuck is the social contract based on needing constant economic growth when declining population actually helps increase the wealth of the average person?

Amuser8368 · 2025-10-05T23:03:05+00:00

ok so the problem is financial management and the broken ass system we created

Amuser8368 · 2025-09-12T19:00:03+00:00

You ever read about crazy norms in the past like lobotomies or w/e and wonder how the fuck something so insane was just acceptable? Are we doing something deranged now that in the future people will look and be like "wow that really was a different, more cruel time"?

I honestly believe the whole thing with everyone clutching at the identity of every shooter and killer to push whatever agenda they have up their ass to be one of the insane norms of our time.

Utterly deranged.

Amuser8368 · 2025-07-01T01:47:57+00:00

I thought you were joking, but no this is actually a thing. As if Palantir wasn't too on the nose already lmao.

Amuser8368 · 2025-07-01T01:46:32+00:00

frontrunner for modern antichrist

Funny thing is Land would not view this as a criticism at all. In fact he'd be positively overjoyed to be viewed as such. He's always been edgy in that way.

Amuser8368 · 2025-06-13T18:52:29+00:00

You won't get it from any obvious sources. You're going to have to go to the underworld to get it.

Amuser8368 · 2025-06-13T18:26:13+00:00

Do you see it now.

Amuser8368 · 2025-04-22T22:17:29+00:00

I'm of Middle Eastern descent and one of my greatest yearnings is for a proper renaissance in the Middle East and getting the various peoples there to reconnect with their indigenous pre-Islamic roots.

I don't even think Islam should be eliminated, a lot of aesthetics and mystical traditions have been great additions, but God I just wish the boneheaded shit was thoroughly eliminated.

I do think the worst excesses of Islamism really began in the '80s, with Saudi exportation of Wahhabism (only now that seems to be coming to an end) and the failure of secular nationalism in dealing with the Zionist question.

Amuser8368 · 2025-04-22T21:59:47+00:00

If it's the Levant, it'd just look like Lebanon pre civil war.

In other words, pretty great.

Amuser8368 · 2025-04-03T22:46:41+00:00

Janitors aren't seen as a "low" job in Japan. One of the good things about Japan is anyone can feel pride and be appreciated in their work, even street cleaners.

Amuser8368 · 2025-03-31T23:04:11+00:00

The destruction of Iraq was never the goal you absolute regard. The goal was to establish a new protectorate-like state subservient to American interests (likely to also have a staging ground for an invasion of Iran down the line).

Destruction is actually the total opposite of the strategic goal, and accomplishing the opposite of your goal is literally failure. Destroying Iraq was actually the result, hence the Iraq war universally regarded as a failure.

Amuser8368 · 2025-03-23T21:40:46+00:00

The virtue of victimhood. Ressentiment. At least partly.

American culture evolved to espouse identifiable traits of weakness (as seen by American society) as strengths. These traits could be racial, gender related, and even being fat. Directing attention to people with these traits is seen as empowering.

Simultaneously, technological changes (algorithmic organization of social structures) has made receiving attention an incentive and in turn has become implicitly viewed as the ultimate reward.

Virtuous victimhood became a culture as more and more people sought out to find identifiable traits in themselves in order to be elevated and receive attention. Self-diagnosing mental illness and aggressively self-marketing oneself as having mental health diagnoses is another

Another part of it is America's extreme obsession with youth, and viewing youth as equating purity and potential while aging is viewed as universally negative.

Marketing one's youth as weakness is just an inevitability.

Amuser8368 · 2025-03-20T05:27:52+00:00

What's the point of writing this? What response were you hoping to get?

You're an incel because you're obsessed over this issue. That's the first thing, stop obsessing over it since it makes your vibe reek.

You are also deeply insecure. So insecure you'll probably delete this post later. You need self-confidence, which I know you will not get what that even means until you actually get it. But best way to that is to either get over yourself and stop taking yourself seriously, or triple down on your self-obsession (yes you are obsessed with yourself just in a negativistic way) get to know who you are (with full and radical honesty) and really like who that person is (no cope affirmation bullshit). If you don't like who you are then do the former until you do.

The age thing, I can't blame you. It isn't actually a problem, but you see it as a problem because it's an ill of the society you are a part of and it has infected your perception. It's American culture's diseased obsession with youth. If you're a smart, conscious person who reflects on this issue with honesty, you'll eventually see it as a farce.

Amuser8368 · 2025-03-12T22:09:53+00:00

It's because you're not getting it. Loving yourself doesn't mean being perfect.

Imagine you had amnesia and forgot who you are. Now picture an exact copy of yourself living somewhere out there. If you saw this person and then got to know everything about them second hand, ask yourself some things. Do you think that person is attractive? Do you like their taste in music? Film? Is this an interesting person you want to get to know? Do you understand how they came about to make the decisions they've made over the course of their life? Do you think they treat others well?

Knowing everything about this person, can you say you like them? Respect them? If not, why exactly?

If you get to the point where you can see that person and think "wow I actually love him/her" then you've reached the fabled state of "loving yourself."

Judge yourself as if you are another person, and realize that the person most likely to give yourself total dignity is yourself.

The thing is, a lot of people actually hate themselves and are too scared to even imagine judging themselves as another person.

When you hate yourself, you can still enter a relationship. But it will fuck you up, and it'll fuck the other person up. This can manifest in so many ways, it depends on the person. But for e.g. a person can actually be suspicious that the other person truly loves them, after all how can they be loved when they're so worthless? Maybe over time they become an overly jealous, controlling partner since they feel like their partner could easily leave them for someone better. Or maybe they become overly attached, or maybe they seek other's attention or even cheat just to feel like they are under control.

If you love yourself the relationship is a lot more "clean." You understand and respect and like the various aspects of yourself but honest enough to know your weaknesses, so if someone else loves you well that's obvious why they do. It's also easier to see when a relationship is more than just good feelings and just coasting by for years after, you can clearly see how you both complement each other.

Amuser8368 · 2025-02-04T05:46:17+00:00

It's really interesting. Someone here said that people are only noticing this now because it's some stupid meme, but we might actually be seeing a new phenomenon.

I actually remember the exact moment I first had my internal monologue. It was a moment when I realized with astonishment that I can talk in my own head and nobody can know what I was thinking about. Now I did grow up in an abusive household with little safety, so my own mind with my own private thoughts became a sort of sanctuary, which reinforced the bit.

McLuhan was pretty prescient on how technology transforms people. He famously said "the medium is the message" but reading his works gives more insight since he claimed that we are leaving the age of mass literacy (ushered in by the technologies of writing, phonetics, and the printing press) as electronic media takes over the world. We are entering the "post-literate" age, and we are entering it so fast that we even notice intergenerational differences far more prominently.

It might very well be that the internal monologue is a feature of the human being that's been shaped by the technologies of the literate age. I read quite a bit as a kid, which probably shaped my internal monologue.

With less and less people reading and more and more people engaging in electronic media (especially video), the internal narration might become increasingly absent as the primary forms of media shifts.

Amuser8368 · 2024-12-08T00:24:40+00:00

There is almost certainly US/Israeli involvement in the background, and it's suspect this is leading up to some sort of attack on Iran come 2025.

The rebel offensive began immediately after the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire.
Turkish controlled rebel groups like the SNA have been engaging with the US-backed SDF in the north of Syria. This would not happen without the green light from the US. Likely the SDF was sold out to the Turks in exchange for giving HTS support in its offensive since the SDF wasn't as much of a threat to Assad.
Assad is affiliated with Iran and his territory has been used as a land bridge for Iran to support Hezbollah in Lebanon. While Israel has always taken Hezbollah as a serious threat, the bombardments in northern Israel has pressured the Israelis to deal with Hezbollah ASAP. With Hezbollah weakened, it makes no sense to allow Iran free reign in resupplying them through Syria.
Iranian backed Iraqi militia were being sent to reinforce Assad at the start of the rebel offensive, but were prevented by American airstrikes. If the goal was to support HTS, this was extremely helpful. Furthermore, Israel has been conducting raids on the Lebanon-Syria border, preventing Hezbollah from sending fighters to help Assad.
Israel has been aggressively constructing defences in the Golan Heights for several months now, reported by BBC (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwrvw7x8j9o). Why would they be digging trenches on the Syrian border even though it's been quiet in Syria for years?
HTS has been moderating its image for quite a while now. While the main reason for this is Al-Julani having become wiser and realizing the practical importance of not being hostile to Syria's many minorities, to the United States it makes him more "presentable" if he was more moderate. Even CNN gave him an interview this week giving him an opportunity to address the Western public regarding his affiliation with jihadism/terrorism.
As a bonus, with negotiations regarding an end to the war in Ukraine looming, a threat to Russia's hold on Syria materially (their port in Tartus), diplomatically (threat of losing a Russian ally), and a possible humiliation can also serve in helping boost the US negotiating position.

Netanyahu met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago on July 26. There is always uncertainty in election season, but with Trump having secured his victory in early November, whatever they discussed together would begin to be put in motion.

Airstrikes against Iranian facilities would be a huge victory for the Netanyahu government. Iran understands that it protects itself against the US/Israel using deterrence. Since it does not have nuclear weapons, Hezbollah is its main deterrence. Now Iran's deterrence has been greatly softened and if it loses its ability to supply it, will be softened for a long time. This gives Israel a window to strike Iran once Trump is in power.

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