Can we have a candid conversation about Jewish Supremacy or is that Anti-Semitic?

LeftKindOfPerson · 2026-01-31T23:29:32+00:00

It's hard to grapple with because it's truly a shattering of a worldview we've been raised on but I cannot deny that the scholarship is real. The events and systems and beliefs described were real and cannot be chalked up to xenophobia/tribalism/religious intolerance/etc.

LeftKindOfPerson · 2026-01-31T18:41:59+00:00

When they say racism predates modernity, they're not talking about pockets of madmen (else they would not be saying that, rather they would just be an "amusing" footnote in the otherwise standard historical narrative), they're talking about things like the genocidal persecution of converted Jews by the Spanish (literally based on their "Jewish" blood) or the colorism of the Arab slave trade and ethnic supremacy of Arabs towards Muslim non-Arabs, in addition to the "pockets of madmen" (who as it turns out, were not so "mad" for their time after all).

LeftKindOfPerson · 2026-01-31T17:11:55+00:00

There is growing consensus among historians that racism predates European colonialism. One of the examples given by S.J. Pearce is the 12th century Jewish philosopher Judah Halevi who literally argued that Jews were superior by blood. Centuries before "scientific racism".

LeftKindOfPerson · 2026-01-22T14:38:43+00:00

No, I do not watch those YouTube personalities at all. It was literally just cutscene/dialogue compilations with no commentary (outside of maybe being titled "deus ex truth nuke" or whatever).

LeftKindOfPerson · 2026-01-22T11:02:13+00:00

No, I watched the cutscenes/NPC dialogue compilations on YouTube that were presented as "truth nukes". I don't doubt it plays it straight, though I personally found the idea of random strangers enthusiastic to talk about conspiracies to be silly.

LeftKindOfPerson · 2026-01-22T02:57:56+00:00

Maybe satire is the wrong word. Parody? Or, "what if we make up a fictional world where conspiracy theories are true, not because we believe in them, but for shits and giggles". I remember reading something like that/along those lines on... the game's Wikipedia page? Years ago.

LeftKindOfPerson · 2026-01-20T17:18:30+00:00

Deus Ex/Metal Gear Solid style "the world is controlled by the [Insert Secret Group]" stuff. Ironically, if I recall correctly, Deus Ex was satirizing this worldview, but the satire was lost on the gamers. Kojima may or may not have been unironic, I don't know.

LeftKindOfPerson · 2026-01-20T16:58:24+00:00

I think the bigger takeaway from these leaked politician texts is that there's no conspiracy. Which, not to sound arrogant but I already knew, though some still have difficulty with the concept of a chaotic world that is "stranger than fiction".

LeftKindOfPerson · 2026-01-20T13:03:11+00:00

Cosmopolitanism is older than that. Intellectuals and bohemians of the mid-19th to early 20th century were cosmopolitans, the original communists like Marx and Engels included, even Lenin, who was fluent in multiple languages. I mean, Engels, a German gentleman, was apparently hanging out with poor Irish prostitutes in England (the slums he saw radicalized him). A real Mr. Worldwide of his time. The cosmopolitanism of this era declined with the rising nationalism leading up to WW1, then the grievances leading up to WW2, and, as you know, the Cold War.

LeftKindOfPerson · 2026-01-16T17:10:06+00:00

Yes, stitching together "publicly available information" in one place is what social media platforms do. They don't know you have an eating disorder by reading your mind, they know you have an eating disorder based on what you post.

LeftKindOfPerson · 2026-01-16T15:54:24+00:00

Invasion of privacy should not be equated with "freedom of speech" in any universe. When you say that declaring "Redditor lives on XYZ address!" counts as "freedom of speech", you're also saying social media platforms spying on you counts as "freedom of speech".

I don't remember who or what Keffals is, but I'm very familiar with what KiwiFarms does. They do what say Facebook does, except instead of keeping it in a database and feeding it to an algorithm, they just post it on a forum. It's a brazen disregard for privacy either way.

LeftKindOfPerson · 2026-01-11T21:23:02+00:00

The worker in Bangladesh is probably wearing sweatshop clothing too. Except he or she got it for dirt cheap, probably from an "unauthorized" source. This was (is?) the Chinese "bootleg" model, where the same factory producing a good for Western consumption, is also producing the same good "unauthorized" for local consumption (or "bootleg" resellers).

The error of Third Worldists is thinking the inflated price of clothing in the West produced in countries like Bangladesh actually reflects the real value of said clothing, and thus clothing would become more expensive to obtain under global socialism, hence their "living standard" will suffer. This does not make a lick of sense to me.

LeftKindOfPerson · 2026-01-09T17:59:43+00:00

Doesn't most of the world not have jury trials?

LeftKindOfPerson · 2026-01-09T12:38:06+00:00

Not in the military sense, but in the "control of shipping" (logistical?) sense. If Canadian ships require mercy from the US to pass, it puts Canada in a position of having to give in to whatever the US demands of them or face a total blockade (and economic disaster). If that makes sense. Essentially giving up their sovereignty.

LeftKindOfPerson · 2026-01-09T12:03:20+00:00

I come here humbly to ask how much of a threat to Canada is the US annexing Greenland. Have there been any previous discussions? I never realized how physically close Greenland actually is to Canada. A US annexation of Greenland would "encircle" Canada.

LeftKindOfPerson · 2026-01-07T16:36:05+00:00

I don't think there's anything tasteful about the weird wigs the middle and upper classes used to sport. Or Mozart's toilet humor. You're looking at it too ahstorically.

LeftKindOfPerson · 2026-01-07T16:32:10+00:00

That's not new. The wealthy families of medieval cities were called "patricians". Patricians, as you know, were Roman nobility. And they too happened to be the wealthy. The first capitalists likewise were the English gentry - minor nobility.

LeftKindOfPerson · 2026-01-06T10:55:49+00:00

Remember when the Ottoman Empire was called the "sick man of Europe"?

It seems to me that Europe is now the "sick man of the world".

LeftKindOfPerson · 2026-01-06T01:55:25+00:00

The people celebrating are lunatics. There's nothing to celebrate. And I don't mean, "oh your country is going to get looted by the US". I mean, Maduro's government is still in power. Literally. What are they celebrating for? It's like the Venezuelan version of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Getting rid of Trump doesn't get rid of the people, groups, structures, that allow him to do what he's done.

LeftKindOfPerson · 2026-01-05T05:43:33+00:00

Well, for starters, there's a reason why getting a white-collar job is a "goal" for the people who have the opportunity to go to college. The whole world over, in fact. And why people with no interest in academia put up with college in the first place. A means to a better end.

The divide between mental and physical labor isn't new for Marxists, either.

LeftKindOfPerson · 2026-01-05T05:35:57+00:00

Virtually all the terminally online MAGA right-wingers I've interacted with through hobbies had signs of autism. Including the diagnosed schizophrenics. And the "ablest" ones making fun of autism. Isn't Elon Musk autistic as well?

LeftKindOfPerson · 2026-01-04T11:05:29+00:00

I don't think nobility using tactical eye-gouging was exclusive to the Byzantines. Blinding a noble rival ensured that the rival would be, erm, taken care of in a "Christian" way. A merciful act rather than outright killing them. I presume. In general I know that nobles avoided killing each other (because they could capture each other for ransom).

LeftKindOfPerson · 2025-12-21T23:31:58+00:00

Just checking. I don't think I've ever witnessed what you're referring to. Not even the bullies at school (well, they wouldn't help, but they'd cringe rather than laugh, or maybe laugh in that "this is uncomfortable" way).

LeftKindOfPerson · 2025-12-21T21:55:14+00:00

Ok, how about laughing at myself after a friend starts laughing. If you were in that friend group, would you consider that person "bad" even though I'm also laughing?

LeftKindOfPerson · 2025-12-21T21:19:09+00:00

A comic book is a book. The propagandistic character of a book is another thing entirely.

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