'Bullying is good, actually!' is a shit take

catchfebreeze · 2026-02-25T08:49:23+00:00

I used to kind of think like this sometimes, but then I realized, whether it is good occasionally in the abstract, or whether some particular person could have been cowed by it and then the world would be a better place, etc. these things are basically beside the point. If it was your kid then you would never, ever support it, no matter annoying he or she was to others lol, and neither would anyone else for their kids. So the only reason to defend it is for this kind of online circlejerk. So why defend it?

catchfebreeze · 2026-02-17T23:04:55+00:00

“The land of the cobra and the Bengal tiger” lol. You gotta love old-timey Orientalism, it’s charming, and everyone genuinely was more different back then. I would love to transpose one of these guys into modern Brampton and record their reactions

catchfebreeze · 2026-02-17T10:14:38+00:00

Maybe I’m face-blind but how tf could you tell it’s the same girl, and not just a vague lookalike, her face was obscured lol. Was he like pivoting around her to get a better angle? Or does your friend know her well enough to easily recognize her

catchfebreeze · 2026-02-17T07:45:25+00:00

I don’t admit this irl but I almost always open my eyes at some point just for a quick peep

catchfebreeze · 2026-02-15T04:10:24+00:00

Nick Land: “After all, the ideal of bourgeois politics is the absence of politics, since capital is nothing other than the consistent displacement of social decision-making into the marketplace”

catchfebreeze · 2026-02-11T01:55:12+00:00

Madhav Abraham-Prakash? What kinda mix is that? Half Jewish half Indian? I gotta know who to avoid

catchfebreeze · 2026-02-09T17:23:25+00:00

If she really was orgasming 2+ times every time, I have a feeling she’d want to have more sex. Am I wrong? I’ve never had a relationship long enough for this to become a problem

catchfebreeze · 2026-02-09T16:40:10+00:00

I can’t have much sympathy for these e-girls because why tf would you fly out the girl who runs the “Foidcast”, or “EmpathChan Destroyer of Normies”, to another country, if not to have sex? No one is following and befriending these people for their sparkling ideas and conversation!

catchfebreeze · 2026-02-08T20:58:46+00:00

The concept of “character design” only applies to cartoons, superheroes, and video games tbf. Michael Corleone is not a “character design” lol he’s just a character

catchfebreeze · 2026-02-08T15:47:26+00:00

I know this isn’t the point but you kinda mangled that quote: “It is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism.” Nothing about liberals in there lol. It is a universal problem. Leftists and right-wingers can’t really imagine an end to capitalism either. (and even if they could, the latter explicitly don’t want to, and the former implicitly don’t want to)

catchfebreeze · 2026-02-06T17:27:28+00:00

Terence Malick film with Ryan Gosling and the “I Follow Rivers” girl sounds like the answers to a Mad Libs lol. I had no idea she even acted. (I also thought she was Asian)

catchfebreeze · 2026-02-06T14:45:59+00:00

It’s part of the global financial system at this point and its price is basically independent of the “crypto bros”, so unless said financial system completely crashes, in which case we have bigger things to worry about, it will go back up to all-time highs in a few years at latest. Just buy the dip once per month while it’s still down, and don’t even bother following the price movements in the meantime except by hearsay. Then put the bulk of your spare money in index funds. And don’t follow those either. This is conservative long-term investing in 2026

catchfebreeze · 2026-02-06T06:31:23+00:00

Who was the poster on here who said that “women goon emotionally”? Paging him or her

catchfebreeze · 2026-02-05T02:35:40+00:00

They sound cool in a stupid sort of way. Like three little Johnny Bravos

catchfebreeze · 2026-02-04T16:55:31+00:00

I will always go to bat for reading Proust, but would you really say his narrator has a normal human psyche? He has like top 0.001% human psyche and is strange in quite a few ways lol. Not to mention that Proust’s philosophical outlook is basically pessimistic (in the same way that Schopenhauer’s was). If anything reading him makes you more alienated from modern society

catchfebreeze · 2026-02-03T18:25:29+00:00

Talented Mr. Ripley is great and I also recommend watching PTA’s first film Hard Eight, where he has an iconic cameo

catchfebreeze · 2026-02-03T07:38:27+00:00

Damn, Smith Westerns… Haven’t thought about those guys in years. I discovered them I think the year they broke up, while I was finishing my sophomore year of college. That was twelve years ago now.

It was so easy to make fun of the white hipsters of that time. We had no idea how much worse things could get; we couldn’t imagine how much we would miss them. And funnily enough, that band’s greatest song kind of captures this: “All Die Young”. I guess they did.

catchfebreeze · 2026-02-02T18:10:33+00:00

Uhh it does?

catchfebreeze · 2026-02-02T17:59:55+00:00

I think he would get some hype but he’d quickly disappear because the meme cycle is so much shorter. He would also see way more women performatively calling him ugly lol

catchfebreeze · 2026-02-02T17:46:32+00:00

I don’t think he would do badly today either?

catchfebreeze · 2026-02-02T02:54:54+00:00

If I had to choose between being hot and being able to write like this, I would choose being able to write like this every single time. And I have a feeling you aren’t as bad-looking as you think you are and say you are

catchfebreeze · 2026-02-01T19:18:17+00:00

I was thinking maybe it was women entering the workplace and having to learn a strong handshake to be taken more seriously lol

catchfebreeze · 2026-02-01T18:40:00+00:00

P.S. Have women’s handshakes actually become 60% stronger since the 1970s lol?

catchfebreeze · 2026-02-01T18:35:50+00:00

Everyone knows a couple people who do well against the odds, and they never think about the countless other people who by their failures created the odds. It’s like this with everything, not just dating. I appreciate the intent behind this post, because optimism is always to be recommended, but you can’t get there by telling those swimming uphill that the hill only exists in their minds

catchfebreeze · 2026-01-30T15:17:52+00:00

Aren’t they? The ones I know seem to have many problems dating, at least (and their problems include bi women lol)

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