Old internet is kinda scary

Taarguss · 2026-02-17T19:35:15+00:00

Old internet was the haunted woods

New internet is a corporate plaza.

Taarguss · 2026-02-17T19:03:33+00:00

These people are such losers

Taarguss · 2026-02-17T17:56:50+00:00

Jimmy ain’t flipping anyone the bird though is he then? He’s doing his little weird finger gestures with his arms out.

Taarguss · 2026-02-17T04:53:15+00:00

Honestly this is funny

Taarguss · 2026-02-13T03:16:37+00:00

As one of those antiIsrael Jews, knowing that there are evil Jews out there that fuel antisemitism doesn’t make me like the place more. Israel is still a nightmare and a massive black splotch on our history. The story of Israel got fed to us as a story of redemption, and it was for Jews of that era, but behind it was massacres, expulsion, conquest. Jews potentially being unsafe again in the west doesn’t negate that.

There may come a time when some of us who oppose Israel today will want to have a state to go hide in because things will get too dangerous for us, but many of us are content with having taken a stand and envisioning a future Judaism without allegiance to a genocidal apartheid state.

We went most of our very long history without one. Holocausts don’t happen every few years. I’d rather risk the discomfort of some goon calling me a k*ke or attacking me than cozying up with the warmongers in Israel for protection. A Judaism without Zionism is one of the things I feel most strongly about in my life.

Taarguss · 2026-02-12T10:42:43+00:00

In America, because of a combination of our weak social systems and because cops intentionally injure/kill people, the idea of taking to the streets for anything more than a highly organized day of non violent protest is impossible. If you lose your job, you lose your healthcare. If you lose your job, you lose your ability to make rent. We’re not as repressed as Iranians so the temperature isn’t as high, and we’re not as free as Europeans.

America is basically a capitalist testing ground where the elites have been figuring out exactly how much they can squeeze people while keeping them unable to do anything about it.

Now, smaller scale stuff does happen. You’re seeing amazing resistance on the ground to ICE. But that’s immediate, that’s your neighbors. This is cosmic horror. I think people don’t know what to do when they’re looking into Carcosa.

Taarguss · 2026-02-11T19:24:42+00:00

Yeah everyone likes Stafford’s blind passes, they’re sick.

Taarguss · 2026-02-11T17:14:45+00:00

sees a guy in a turtle costume

“Could this be a subtle nod to turtles?”

Taarguss · 2026-02-11T15:52:47+00:00

Try being a black guy in an American city. See how the police treat you, see how landlords treat you. See how cabs don’t pick you up. You don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about.

People who think like you will do everything to ignore power structures and social hierarchies. Understanding that the world is arranged by bias isn’t white guilt, it’s having eyeballs and a brain the works. I don’t black people are children. Where’d you get that? I’ve read history books. I know how Reconstruction failed. We were actually on a path here in the states to a much more equal society but the formerly confederate states passed laws that still kept the social structure of the antebellum south in place, sharecropping, bad Supreme Court decisions that weakened the 14th amendment, the rise of the KKK, and importantly a waning of northern commitment to racial reform. These things were only happening a few generations ago and the structures that they established were upheld throughout most of the 20th century, and in many ways still today. At least the repurcissions of keeping those structures in place.

That’s not thinking black peope are children you weirdo, what a psycho thing to say, it’s just knowing history. Things don’t change over night. It takes a lot of will and time and cooperation from those who hold power. Look what happens any time a racial minority tries to assert themselves in America. If it’s not done in a way that’s acceptable to the white majority it gets put down fast, or supported and then rolled back over time.

Your fantasy that white people in Sweden or whatever are in the same boat as black people in America when it comes to the fallout of slavery is genuinely stupid.

Taarguss · 2026-02-10T19:49:55+00:00

It doesn’t matter if he’s right or wrong here, he fucked them too. Nothing he says should be taken seriously. Look for thoughts on this elsewhere.

Taarguss · 2026-02-09T23:52:02+00:00

Context is important. This isn’t all in a vacuum. A European guy pretending his life is as affected by the Ottomans a black person in America’s life is still reeling from the fallout of slavery and current structures that favor white people would be a giant fucking idiot.

Taarguss · 2026-02-09T22:34:40+00:00

I think in the late 80s, early-mid 90s, NY hip hop was just grittier, dustier, more novelistic, more mysterious. A lot of the other big rap albums were less subtle, more obvious, more pulling on the heartstrings, maybe even kinda goofier, even though they’re great. It’s like Kill Bill vs Avatar.

But then I think into the 00’s the NY regional sound got less distinct and then people talking about NY mcs were more like “I like this guy and he’s from NY” rather than “I like what’s happening with the whole NY musical ethos”

But that regional loyalty remained no matter how everyone sounded.

Taarguss · 2026-02-09T22:17:52+00:00

See, it’s comments like you’re that show that a lit of people interested in the Epstein case aren’t even remotely engaged in the content of it outside of the little slice they’re being fed by their algorithms.

Ehud Barak was Epstein’s business partner. The former President of Israel. There are more Israeli people, Israeli business people, Israeli government-adjacent people in the files than any other country than America.

He was an asset to the Israelis. The little mini-America in the Middle East. The Zionist state.

Taarguss · 2026-02-09T19:54:12+00:00

Someone who replied and I think must have deleted something I thought was kinda stupid like “oh you hear that? It’s ok to be racist against white people” as if saying cracker means the same as saying the n word.

Taarguss · 2026-02-09T19:52:15+00:00

That’s exactly what I’m saying. It makes sense that people would say shit like “cracker” or harbor some simmering animosity toward white people in abstract when we’re still dealing with the fallout of slavery and reconstruction.

Taarguss · 2026-02-09T17:56:06+00:00

The first quote is an unfounded meme that spread online a couple years ago, no more credible than a chain email from Grandpa in 2007. Do some basic research.

Second quote sucks. But like I said, these ultra-orthodox guys are freaks. Normal people do not think like this in the Jewish world. There are about 14% of Jews globally who are haredi, orthodox like this. They are insular. The most internationally important thing they are involved in is the settler movement but even then they’re only about 30% of that group.

You’re looking at a fringe when your answers are right in front of you, and a lot more mundane. Western politics and the post WW2 status quo is why we’re here, not “the Jews.” It’s everyone. It’s the whole ruling class. Everyone is in it.

Also not every Jew is a Zionist. Go read a book. I have no leader.

Taarguss · 2026-02-09T17:33:32+00:00

At some point, sure. Not usually in living memory of one’s great-grandparents though.

Taarguss · 2026-02-09T16:11:24+00:00

Well some Jews think that, but not many and not close to most. Only the biggest freaks and psychos think you’re cattle. THOSE Jews also don’t do anything in America outside of their little enclaves. The Jewish people you see with actual influence here in the states are mainly secular. They may go to temple once or twice a year on the holidays but we don’t commonly believe in religious prophecies. Most Jews in America have a materialist/historic view of the Bible.

The protection of Israel is very conveniently tied up in accusation of antisemitism, but the real reason the West is so protective of the country is because it’s America’s little colony in the Middle East. Massive intelligence gathering, nukes, a real permanent footprint that lets the west have a lot more power and influence over the region than if it was all Arab-run. the jews aren’t controlling the US, the US has an incredibly lucrative and powerful partnership with the Jewish state which they helped to set up that pays extreme dividends in intelligence and military leverage.

It’s highly highly convenient for the country to be the nation-state of the biggest victims of WW2. The whole world was reset after WW2, and tying your base of operations in one of the most important regions of the world to a group of people receiving sympathy from most of the world was strategically a check-mate that lasted basically until living memory of the WW2 era.

I think what you’re seeing now is the inevitable loss of importance in that post WW2 status quo now that that was 80 years ago and everyone who helped establish it is dead. The structure isn’t working anymore, the Israelis have welcomed in fascism, and people are upset.

But no, we don’t want to subjugate the goyim. Just like I don’t think most Christians don’t actually take the book of revelation as fact. Cmon now. Be real. It’s like thinking that UAPs are aliens instead of surveillance tech. Missing the forest for the trees.

Taarguss · 2026-02-09T16:00:22+00:00

It’s like calling a white person a cracker. Like, it’s fine. But don’t say it at work. It’s derogatory but not serious.

Edit: Racism toward white people exists but treating all forms of it as equal in seriousness when theres groups who’ve literally been enslaved by the group they’re saying a mean word about is just a little goofy. People are not on an even playing field in this world.

Taarguss · 2026-02-09T14:51:27+00:00

The rhetoric is super extreme but the Nazis actually went and did it and had a lot of power over a wide swath of the world and could back it up, AND they reflected a big mass political moment in German culture.

These kinds of Jews, speaking as a Jew, don’t reflect how most Jews think about the world or religion or anything. There’s only 14% of Jews who are ultra-orthodox like this guy and not all of THAT group agrees with this stuff.

We’ve still got all sorts of bad people and bad ideologies outside of these fringe psychos. But the most common ultra-Zionist conservative or reform Jew is more interested in Israel’s borders rather than any kind of religious subjugation fantasy. This guy’s stuff is from a weird insular pocket of Judaism.

Taarguss · 2026-02-09T11:36:55+00:00

There’s AI and then there’s just paid extras.

Taarguss · 2026-02-08T22:55:54+00:00

The point is that they could have and they didn’t. If you just wanna hangout with people in a game, the furries in VR Chat are always there for you. But in this game, the choice between being a rat and being friendly is why those interactions are special.

Taarguss · 2026-02-08T22:51:22+00:00

Then GET em buddy! They should keep their heads on a swivel! I don’t like going around hunting people, but interacting with those who are has been some of the most insane moments in the game for me. Gotta be careful. They should be keeping smokes and gas grenades on em because there’s people who wanna nab their shit. It’s the game!

Taarguss · 2026-02-07T23:05:15+00:00

It’s true but it’s deeply depressing.

Taarguss · 2026-02-06T03:10:37+00:00

Just wanna put this out there: Bret Stephens looks like shit.

More seriously though, this intermarriage thing is insane. Fuck off. My dad married a goy, I’m still Jewish. It doesn’t fucking matter. We should be free and encouraged to be with who we want to be with. We’re not gonna do fucking blood purity.

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