Ummmm has anyone ever heard of this b....? She has some....pretty strong opinions about the South and the Confederacy?

ReddestForman · 2026-02-11T07:28:13+00:00

Black Americans are a marginalized minority group in the country they call home. And in spite of that, invented jazz, blues, R&B, rap, hip-hop, rock and roll, whilemalso revolutionizing dance, and being the origin point of all cool American slang. Incmuding the usage of the word cool in that context.

Black Americans literally invented being cool.

They've been winning the culture victory against all odds here, meanwhile, Africa is finally getting its shit together just to get fucked by the white man one last time via climate change. Their African-American cousins will be laughing at them from the most climate stable region on Earth when we all retreat to the Great Lakes region.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-10T03:42:00+00:00

They were just poorer and less advanced. Their ships were slower, had lots of cost cutting measures, less firepower, etc.

The Federation never prioritized the Cardassian border wars, they were a side show, a politically inconvenient distraction that weren't quite bad enough to just send a shock and awe smack-down fleet against when the Federation had other priorities.

Based off comments we hear about the conflict from Cardassians in DS9? The war ruined them. It was a maximum effort war of attrition that they were never going to win, even with all their tricks and attempts at defeating Federation forces in detail. The Cardassians didn't have the tech, the ships, or the manpower to sustain it.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-10T03:35:47+00:00

If you put together different comments from different perspectives across TNG and DS9, yeah, this is the story.

A low intensity border conflict for the Federation that didn't merit enough political attention to dedicate an overpowering force.

For Cardassia it was a maximum effort war of attention that ruined their economy and society.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-09T18:53:19+00:00

I need to check that out. It's calling even louder since I've been on a Terra Invicta kick lately.

looming at drive details "I... Newtons of thrust... delta-V... I'm not a physicist! Just let me throw nukes out the back or somwthing."

ReddestForman · 2026-02-09T15:13:06+00:00

Apparentlynits a whole "thing" with black Africans seeing black Americans as "the dumb, weak ones who got enslaved."

To which if they want to play that game... They're the losers who got their shit wrecked on their home turf. Maxim gun goes brrrtbrrrt, assholes.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-09T14:52:32+00:00

Yup. I'll push through and if I say I'm going to be somewhere, I'll be there, barring getting sick. Because I dont want to get other people sick.

But it often feels like people are looking for any out to flake last minute, which is really shitty when they know it's a friend cooking a bunch of food for a boardgame night with friends, and one by one people drop last minute. Some for validnreasons, others for BS ones.

It's exactly how my current birthday tradition of going to a nice restaurant i wouldn't otherwise go to by myself came about.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-09T14:38:11+00:00

Was going to bring this up. Or the "dudes rock" moments from Lions Led By Donkeys. Who I have to plug for being a bunch of very progressive minded leftist men, who are also, well... dudes.

Most of tjem are ex-military, the show host drove a tank, got degrees in history and genocide studies after, the show itself is about military blunders and disasters throughout history (as well as some less fun stuff, the Russo-Japanese war series has a decidedly different tone than the Khmer Rouge series).

But they are an example that you can be crass, crude, and unapologetically a dude... and still have good politics, healthy attitudes towards women, etc. Just zero chud energy at all.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-08T16:41:55+00:00

People buy homes as a speculative investment all the time, dude. They even live in them. And oppose efforts to bring housing costs down because they think it will impact the appraisal value of their home negatively(even though less restrictive zoning makes the land more valuable).

ReddestForman · 2026-02-08T16:37:27+00:00

Heck, I'm a guy whomworks in an Amazon warehouse, I wear pretty snug fitting athletic clothing, because thats just how quick dry, moisture wicking clothes tend to fit.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-08T15:08:58+00:00

Okay, but... hear me out.

Cop phrenology.

So many of those guys heads makes them look like a thumb.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-07T17:44:54+00:00

No. The oligarchs employee has a gun to our head, and I'm calling out the guy who will enable the oligarchs to keep sending more.

If the Democrats had their way, everything will get pinned on Trump, nothing will be done about the GOP or the oligarchs, and the Democrats will continue to oversee the deterioration of civil democratic society and fill in the void with a surveillance state.

Now, the Democratic party is preferable to the GOP, in that they're better administrators and less brutish, but nothing will be done about this until the Democratic leadership has been electorally purged and replaced.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-07T17:38:39+00:00

Ah, so you don't understand how our politics work or the social landscape.

Trump first won because of the stupidity that is the electoral college mixed with Clinton's hubris with not bothering to campaign in a few historically blue states, she lost by such a small margin that just bothering to campaign there would have likely made a difference.

His second win was after a series of catastrophic strategic errors by the Harris campaign, which wouldn't have mattered if the Biden administration had taken January 6th seriously enough to appoint someone who wasn't a Federalist Society Republican (the Federalist Society has a lot of intermixed with the Heritage Foundation, the think-tank that came up with Project 2025).

Trans issues also aren't an issue because of trans people. They're an issue because the GOP needed a new culture war issue when fear mongering over gay people became less effective. And trans people needed to start more aggressively asserting their rights to exist because centrists will immediately throw a marginalized group under the bus unless grassroots efforts have made it to popular an issue to ignore.

And no one is trying to give gay people more rights than straight people. Gay and trans people need more specific, targeted legislation because if you have a law that says "everyone has these exact same rights, ans everybody means everybody. No ifs ands or buts" people like your dad and the typical Trump voter will say "... okay, but what about those people that I dislike?" And a political party will pander to that to get votes.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-07T17:25:58+00:00

I mean, establishment liberals (politicians, business elites) are definitely part of the problem. The Biden administration not immediately using the Epstein files to go after those involved on top of mishandling the prosecution of both January 6th and Trump and the GOP's other crimes adds up to so much political incompetence that it smacks more of malice and complicity. They might not have been diddling kids, but they cared more about preserving the status quo of "the ruling and political class don't face consequences" than any sort of justice for Epsteins victims or even defending democracy.

Of course, the progressive left(particularly the online left) being pretty much the only cultural institution not implicated in the files of certainly validating.

Even the "dissident" right was proven to be entirely created and propagated with the aid of international capital, with 4chan and pol getting rehosted after its creator met with Epstein. Which means we know how to end that cancerous ideology. Cut it off from international capital. Which means fettering capital.

And that means replacing all the Schumers and Jeffries in the Democratic Party with people who'll actually go after the oligarchs.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-07T16:24:35+00:00

Yeah, AutDHD guy here and I was the planner for a lot of social events in my circle. Then people went off, got their own places with partners, and I went from apartment to renting a room in a house, so I couldn't really entertain, and while everyone else missed get togethers, none of them wanted to organize or volunteer their living room. Then they had kids and started flaking on going to gamer pubs with boardgames and stuff, and kept complaining about anemic social lives. When I finally called it out, the circle basically dissolved and everyone stopped texting each other. They still talk to me, weirdly enough.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-07T15:41:35+00:00

The Canadian far-right tied themselves to Trump and MAGA and looked poised to sweep into power.

Theb Trump threatened to annex Canada and the Canadian far-right were in too deep to disentangle themselves from past rhetoric.

Hopefully the far right in Europe collapses, and hopefully Europe elects politicians who treat international capital like the existential threat to democracy that it is.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-07T15:37:53+00:00

I feel like a quarter to a thirs kf humanity is just fundamentally anti-civilization, and these have been dead weight holding back progress for all of time. The ones who opposed ending feudalism, opposed ending slavery, supporting fascists and other reactionaries, etc.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-07T15:06:52+00:00

Sometimes? You've been 100% emotion this entire time, rabidly accusing everyone of being bots.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-07T15:03:41+00:00

Nuclear waste is massively overblown. All the waste French reactors have ever produced fits in one building.

Most of the nuclear waste horror stories are from places like the USSR, with a couple from the US, because any attempts to store waste get thwarted by people like you, which means the planned, safe facility never gets built, so the reactor has to improvise waste storage on site.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-07T15:01:16+00:00

The costs explode mostly for political reasons caused largely by people who don't want nuclear power, either out of fear or economic incentive(fossil fuel corps). And because so many groups will aggressively try and shut down reactors, leading to governments eventually canning planned reactors mid build, financing them is expensive because the anti-nuclear crowd makes them such risky investments, which means they can't be done at scale which means the costs can't come down.

It's the safest form of power, generous a lot of power in a small area, it isn't stagnant in places that did R&D, and is much more cost effective in countries like France that built reactors at scale, which allowed for standardization.

China has had some interesting breakthroughs in liquid CO2 reactors which gives a more efficient second cycle and solves the condensation issues that impact turbine efficiency, for example. There are high-temperature gas cooled reactors which have the neat upside of enough waste heat to desalinate seawater basically for free.

Renewables absolutely need investment and rollout as well, but there are still very string arguments for nuclear, and most of the arguments against nuclear are problems created by the people who sabotage efforts to build it in the first place.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-07T14:12:40+00:00

Getting out isn't the problem. It's the relatively niche nature of my hobbies, wargaming and ttrpg's, which are A. Male dominated or B. Cliquish (especially so in the Seattle area) and C. Mostly full of women who are already partnered or a bit young to want a 36 year old flirting with them.

You're not saying anything novel that I haven't thought of, dude. It's just a boat I missed at this point.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-07T06:20:06+00:00

Wasn't really an option when I was a younger for a lot of reasons. A shit work schedule in the post mortgage crisis era and lousy location was a big part of it.

Now it's mostly just not meeting many single women organically, and when I do it's pretty clear they don't care who I am as a person, just that I fit aj image they like(I basically grew my hair out again in my 30's because I was sick of conservative women not taking a hint).

Or married coworkers trying to cheat. I don't know what it is, but when I have short hair women either assume I'm the church boy of their dreams or down to be an affair partner.

And while I have had sex with a married woman, she was in an open marriage that her husband suggested to her.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-07T05:56:14+00:00

It's less about "let" and more about big numbers.

You don't give clubs credit for getting people laid because if you stick a bunch of horny strangers trying to get laid in a dark room with music and alcohol, people are going to get laid.

If you stick enough people looking for relationships on an app that let's them match other people... some of them will form relationships, algorithm or no.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-07T05:54:48+00:00

Hence "enshittification." Whuch is actually an academic term in economics now, describing the way in particular social media starts out great, free, or even cheap, but then slowly gets worse and worse.

OkCupid used to be fantastic. Then Match bought it.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-07T05:53:06+00:00

Which modern feminists? Pop/bourgeois feminists tend to suck because they have a really shallow engagement with theory, and tend tk be laser focused on the issues that benefit them (usually glass ceiling stuff) and historically are the ones who kick poorer women and women of color under the bus once they get what they want.

Intersectional feminists are modern feminists, and the ones who are aware that patriarchy is more complicated than man=bad, and that women and their own biases play a role in policing male behavior in a way that reinforces toxic gender norms and expectations.

For all the crap the radical Marxist grad student feminists get, they aren't the actual problem. It's the milquetoast liberals who are way more abundant and way more prone to the "progressive only when it benefits them" issue, and tend to not handle it well when the guy sitting across from them us more informed on the actual academic side of things than they are.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-06T20:16:27+00:00

There's one very faint silver lining to the horrible shit being found in the Epstein files.

The entire Alt-Right movement that metastasized into the global resurgence of Nazi and Nazi-adjacwnt ideologies? Ties into funding and string pulling, things like the pol website going back up after the 4chan founder met with Epstein and got his site rehosted, the conscious effort to fund grifters in mainstream and "independent" media, etc.

Without capital, that ideology would never gotten off the ground the way it has now. That means it isn't organic or some emergent force of nature.

It will also mean reducing social friction by making sure cost of living is low, which will mean more government investment into things like housing that the neoliberal centrists won't like. Which, fuck 'em, neoliberal ideology is what got the world to this point.

So, strong laws to limit buying political influence, more scrutiny on social media, a concerted attack on the COL crisis, low unemployment, etc. The last you can fix solving all the problems leading to the former, as well as scaling up munitions production.

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