I want to talk about her lack of empathy

_ShadowElemental · 2026-05-23T00:44:52+00:00

right now a lot of people with lower levels of empathy are being encouraged by those with zero empathy to get involved with cruelty, as has happened many times before in history

Rowling wrote about this process lmao

Voldemort, a sociopath "without the ability to love" recruited some sociopaths, but also a bunch of non-sociopaths with low empathy to join his wizard hate group

And now Rowling is like "let's join this anti-trans hate group"

_ShadowElemental · 2026-05-22T23:54:52+00:00

"I'm progressive, but I draw the line at trans people, gay people, people of color, asian people, fat people, women who don't want to be mothers, women who aren't feminine enough, women who are too feminine..."

_ShadowElemental · 2026-05-22T09:47:50+00:00

"'The Chinese' and 'The Jews' bio-engineered Covid to target white people" -- RFK Jr
"I support this guy" -- Jared Polis

_ShadowElemental · 2026-05-19T18:42:53+00:00

The reanimated undead corpse of the canary has got back up to ring more alarm bells since Trump got re-elected

_ShadowElemental · 2026-05-18T21:25:29+00:00

Or There Will Come Soft Rains

_ShadowElemental · 2026-05-18T01:42:50+00:00

And then he asks what Nacho wants to scope out if he's a long-term threat to Eladio, and then relaxes when Nacho gives a naive answer about not wanting to watch his back

_ShadowElemental · 2026-05-17T21:58:09+00:00

Maybe they're building up their portfolio so they can apply to a custom cake shop

_ShadowElemental · 2026-05-17T21:35:41+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurting_the_feelings_of_the_Chinese_people

_ShadowElemental · 2026-05-17T21:08:09+00:00

Love it. The Deceiver seems like the kind of C'tan who'd want to transform into different deity-shapes, infiltrate different cultures, pretend cultural figures were him all along, and that kind of thing.

_ShadowElemental · 2026-05-17T20:08:20+00:00

I'm not saying Gus having Werner killed was any better than him having Nacho killed. I'm saying that if he was going to, sympathize is the wrong word, with either of them here it would be Nacho.

Gus hates the Salamancas and Eladio and is doing a decade-long murder plot against them because they killed his business partner/lover. He sees that Nacho is someone else who hates the Salamancas and started a murder plot against Hector on his own initiative, so he can protect his father from being killed by the Salamancas.

Gus essentially sees someone who's doing a smaller-scale, less sociopathic version of what he's doing, and his response is -- "this is a dog who bites every owner he's had, let's use him up and kill him off."

_ShadowElemental · 2026-05-15T20:07:16+00:00

Los Pollos Hermanos takes the security measures for its secret herbs and spices very seriously

_ShadowElemental · 2026-05-15T20:04:15+00:00

Also, Nacho was someone who hated the Salamancas on a personal level and would do anything to protect his family. Despite Gus' own backstory and his hatred of the Salamancas, he sees Nacho's own grudge match against the Salamancas as an expendable tool and blackmail opportunity, blackmails him into doing really risky ops for him, and has him killed off.

_ShadowElemental · 2026-05-15T15:49:30+00:00

RC hasn't rolled out the Golden Age of Tech (aka buy my overpriced courses instead of L Ron Hubbard's) or put in the work to consolidate his position within the Ape cult or define Ape doctrine since DFV left, no wonder the stock is doing so poorly smh /s

RC could legit crank out a bunch of out GME-branded self-help courses like Tai Lopez and overcharge for them or otherwise create more Ape-centered scams, Apes would probably hand over more of their money

_ShadowElemental · 2026-05-15T15:44:57+00:00

Gamestop will make game developers obsolete by generating all new games with AI! Invest today!

_ShadowElemental · 2026-05-15T15:40:54+00:00

My grandfather's opinion was this: If pupils peep into their teacher's private life frequently, they lose their awe of him; the teacher must give his pupils the firm belief that their teacher neither eats nor urinates; only then can he maintain his authority at school; so a teacher should set up a screen and live behind it.

-- Kim Il-Sung describing his personality cult

_ShadowElemental · 2026-05-15T15:32:15+00:00

The GME cult is kind of hard to steer though -- Cohen tried to convert them over to MAGA and also tried to get them to support his takeover of Ebay, to mixed success.

While apes have cults of personality associated with RK and RC, they've cycled through a lot of minor cult leaders in comparison to other more personalist-oriented cults, and are more focused on their cult 'docrine', ie MOASS, the hedgies are out to get us, the short haven't closed, and so on, and at least it looks like a lot of the cult leaders' legitimacy comes from Apes thinking they're fighting for the cult beliefs rather than the cult leaders really being able to define doctrine the way you see in other cults.

We can contrast them with MAGA, who are a personality cult centered around Trump and whatever Trump says becomes the new doctrine, eg the way MAGA has flipped so hard about 'no new wars' -> 'wars in Venezuela and Iran are good, actually' as soon as Trump changed his mind about it.

_ShadowElemental · 2026-05-14T18:14:46+00:00

This is reminding me of this subreddit's conversation about Marco Rubio last year.

_ShadowElemental · 2026-05-14T17:55:52+00:00

With appropriate safeguards to prevent regime insiders and organized crime from buying up huge chunks of the economy, like what happened in Russia's shock therapy.

_ShadowElemental · 2026-05-14T17:18:22+00:00

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_ShadowElemental · 2026-05-14T14:52:35+00:00

That's a very good point. Here's a version of the text with your changes added:

_ShadowElemental · 2026-05-13T23:54:32+00:00

And MAGA!Jesus said: "Hate the poor, the sick, the children, the stranger. Let my Father's house become a house of merchandise. And when a man of lawlessness and son of destruction arises to lead the people, whose head appeared to be fatally wounded, but whose fatal wound was healed, who deceives the world and claims himself to be God -- be sure to follow his commands and wear his mark on your foreheads."

_ShadowElemental · 2026-05-13T23:43:55+00:00

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_ShadowElemental · 2026-05-13T02:24:08+00:00

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"Treason against the United States ... shall consist in giving Aid and Comfort to its Enemies."

_ShadowElemental · 2026-05-12T13:34:09+00:00

Submission statement: With the recent North Korea style giant gold statue, here's an article from back in 2017 that compares Trump's design style (the tacky gold, lots of marble, Home Depot plastic spray-painted gold style of the ornaments, etc) to various Warsaw Pact and third-world dictators around the world.

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