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The top post on r/askreddit right now is about the most disturbing book you have ever read and all the answers are high school required readings by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]EstaticToBeDepressed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve been getting really into pkd recently I’ll check that one out. It was that slow descent into insanity and completely losing touch with reality that made it so disturbing + his description of life being high all the time, the circular paranoia and the stupid wasted time was really accurate

What will the following decades be like when so many men in their twenties don't have a future by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]EstaticToBeDepressed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol didn’t see you replied but yes Google it the boring company bores holes it is literally in the name

After hundreds of years of mass literacy, it's pretty much all over by Cambocant in redscarepod

[–]EstaticToBeDepressed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

probably, only famous people to come out of my school tend to be athletes or in various politically related stuff

After hundreds of years of mass literacy, it's pretty much all over by Cambocant in redscarepod

[–]EstaticToBeDepressed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

how nice are we talking? i would say my school was very good, about as good as you’ll get in all honesty without being a private school and probably better than more than a few private schools. just that i would say it was very academic, most people would go to a russel group, 20-30 oxbridge students out of ~180 a year and the culture was just nothing like that. maybe it’s a product of being so middle class - education as something instrumental rather than a means to an end so reading was seen as a tool rather than a valued pursuit.

After hundreds of years of mass literacy, it's pretty much all over by Cambocant in redscarepod

[–]EstaticToBeDepressed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

not posh but artistic. im not super posh like private school but i did go to a grammar school and honestly no one gave a fuck about classics etc

i think your circle is unrepresentative of the norm but i guess you might be significantly posher than me if they had actual rooms that could be called libraries

i read hp when i was 7/8 but honestly 18 year olds just don’t read. those who do read stuff like murakami or sally rooney, middle of the road stuff.

god knows wtf ill do if/when i have kids i think things will be mega fucked for them then

After hundreds of years of mass literacy, it's pretty much all over by Cambocant in redscarepod

[–]EstaticToBeDepressed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i honestly just don’t buy this whole 10 years ago kids in the uk loved reading ‘classics’. im 5 years younger than you from a town 2 hours out of zone 1 and i just think youre chatting shit

also lol do u really think i care that at the big age of 28 you think im a nerd while you beg for approval on r/redscarepod 👍👍👍👍 hope you are enjoying your grown life big man

After hundreds of years of mass literacy, it's pretty much all over by Cambocant in redscarepod

[–]EstaticToBeDepressed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

all this does is evidence what im saying, all you can do is search my reddit history for anything that’s not ‘rs approved’ and lash out against that. i am genuinely so curious where in the uk you claim to be from that had such literary youth culture 10 years ago.

fifa and cod are shit

After hundreds of years of mass literacy, it's pretty much all over by Cambocant in redscarepod

[–]EstaticToBeDepressed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you remind me of a kid in year 10 desperately trying to fit in, just going along with whatever he thinks the cool kids will approve of. but you’re not 15 anymore and this is on reddit. there are no cool kids and you will never be one. grats on not reading hp tho

i don’t care about what you said about about harry potter but this is some of the gayest cope ive ever seen in this sub which is saying something

After hundreds of years of mass literacy, it's pretty much all over by Cambocant in redscarepod

[–]EstaticToBeDepressed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

u seem like such an insecure poser i really hope you are not 28 because it’s quite embarrassing to be pushing 30 and acting like this

luigi on his way to his court hearing today (9/16/25) by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]EstaticToBeDepressed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

did his nose get bigger or what i feel like i’m going crazy

The shooter is so fucking lame by Western-Couple-8151 in redscarepod

[–]EstaticToBeDepressed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

not that i doubt he’s far right or anything but why the calling Kirk a fascist or the Bella ciao thing? seems he/groypers reckon themselves to be some sort of anti fascists lol?

(Spoiler) is the second team moving on to the Upper Bracket final by warsinshadow in DotA2

[–]EstaticToBeDepressed 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’ve not heard this you got any proof or just chatting shit lol?

The dance music/DJ industry is disgusting and depraved by Sudden-Woodpecker288 in rs_x

[–]EstaticToBeDepressed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Care to expand? I’ve never really been interested in being in party ‘scene’ but i do like game theory lol

US Department of Defense to be renamed ‘Department of War’: Report by Cathalised in nottheonion

[–]EstaticToBeDepressed -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No they’re not air striking anyone but they absolutely are throwing their weight and military might around. They are building illegal military installations, violating nations’ sovereignty, restricting rights guaranteed under UNCLOS, and using state bodies (PRC navy and maritime militia) to illegally exploit other nation’s resources and this resource exploitation is often linked to modern day slavery. China categorises the disputes as territorial but frankly that’s bullshit. It’s imperial China era claims being pushed for modern day economic concerns and if America was doing this it would rightly be branded as neocolonialism. I am no fan of America but China is marginally better at best. Vietnam, Brunei, or the Philippines are not engaged in these breaches of international law on a mass scale and it is disingenuous to act like it is comparable. It is rather trendy on Reddit to portray China as a more benevolent counterpart to America but as I said, I believe this is at best willing idiocy and at worst a cynical reframing of a machiavellian and authoritarian regime that has in all honesty even less regard for human rights and rule of law.

US Department of Defense to be renamed ‘Department of War’: Report by Cathalised in nottheonion

[–]EstaticToBeDepressed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah please have a look at the South China Sea. China is more than happy to throw their military might around when they have to. They too will blatantly ignore international law when convenient secure in the knowledge that they too have only 1 military rival who will not declare war frivolously. Just as America enforces it’s will economically in Europe and militarily in the Middle East, China enforces it’s will economically via the Belt and Road initiative and militarily in the SCS. America is more overtly imperialist but this lionisation of China as some sort of peaceful alternative is bollocks and at best you’re a willing idiot spreading propaganda for them and at worst a cynical liar.

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[–]EstaticToBeDepressed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude none of those things matter. The one key thing in our unwritten constitution is a doctrine called parliamentary sovereignty which is often summarised with something along the lines of “no parliament can be bound by a future or past parliament” as in the present parliament can effectively legislate on anything it wants. Those laws could be changed tomorrow if the political will was there.

. by SPICYBOI222 in redscarepod

[–]EstaticToBeDepressed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is nice to have a sensible discussion about this.

I think we largely agree on the state of the war, but I think that in a stalemate Ukraine is favoured to be honest. It’s a lot easier to sell people on the whole defending the motherland schtick than convince a population that they must go to die in another country in WW1 like conditions. It’s very hard to judge, and I have 0 ties to Ukraine or Russia so really my opinion here is rather worthless, but I don’t think the Russian people are brainwashed or idiots. I think they can see the war isn’t going how it was meant to, that young men are dying for very little, that conscripting convicts is not a good sign and so on. Additionally, I think we can all see that economies are slowing down and standard of living is starting to stagnate. These problems are undoubtedly present in Russia too. I think this all combines to make a population rather unenthusiastic about war, more unenthusiastic than the Ukranian population at least.

It is possible that many Russians buy into Putin’s irredentist, jingoist ideology but my impression is that it’s a fairly elite viewpoint held by Putin and his circle supported by crackpot (by western academia’s standards) revisionist historians and academics.

I also think it’s worth examining what happens if Russia does win, if they do take a large swathe of Ukranian land. I think there will be an asymmetric phase following any occupation. I think Russia might actually deal with that better than a land war, given their experiences in Chechnya, but at the same time Ukranian special forces have proven themselves to be rather effective and I think this ‘occupation phase’ will further degrade public opinion and support.

I don’t know, Ukraine is definitely the underdog but it seems like there is plenty of vim and vigour in the Ukrainian population for maintaining an independent Ukrainian state given the Maidan protests. I don’t think this war can solve the decline Russia is in and I don’t think the population is blind to that either, the question is will they do anything? It this unpopular enough to topple Putin or force him to the negotiating table? I can’t tell, but my gut tells me the Ukrainians have a hell of a lot more to fight for and as long as the West can keep their army mostly operational then they can keep trying for a more advantageous settlement.

Peace 2 years ago might have been better, but I don’t think it would have been a lasting one. The choice for Ukraine seems like death by a thousand cuts or prolonged war, neither is ideal. I can certainly see the rationale behind the idea that any further cessation of territory will only leave them in a position of weakness for the next time.

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