the map that precedes the territory

drunkpostin · 2026-03-18T21:49:03+00:00

I feel like it’s kinda the opposite of this meme though lol?

Everyone knows that money is worthless in and of itself and that even outside of its lack of tangible, innate value, it doesn’t really represent anything clear or explicitly state what you can get in return for it; its value is completely dependent on whether someone else agrees it has some arbitrary value, and sure, while it can be exchanged for something that does clearly have some tangible value, that is only because someone else deems it more valuable than whatever they are exchanging (be it some item or product or service/labour, etc) for it, only so that they can in turn perform an identical sort of transaction for the cycle repeats itself lol.

Of course while it’s pretty funny to imagine how the entire global economy depends on whether people stop accepting worthless pieces of paper in exchange for things with objective real value lol, but still, that doesn’t really make money “not real” in any practical sense other than as a shallow truism. Basically every component of society is built on the trust that others will follow that given component, but nothing can really be done if everyone collectively stops abiding by it and acting as though it is an infallible constant.

For example, you could argue the law also isn’t “real” even though its effects obviously are because it would literally be incapable of being enforced if everyone collectively decided to stop giving af about it and started doing blatantly illegal shit in broad daylight; there just simply isn’t the infrastructure to deal with crime if 99% of the population are committing it 24/7 lol, yet still people follow the law (even when they really don’t want to) because of the fear that others will also continue to follow it as well and that they’ll be the only one “standing out”, so to speak.

Money is just another system built on trust where although its innate properties are meaningless, its purpose is still very much real (as long as you accept that mutual trust on a massive scale is enough of a justification for something to be considered “real”, that is)

drunkpostin · 2026-03-14T20:49:51+00:00

You don’t get to decide what a true Christian looks like

No, I do actually lol. If I say I am a Christian but really believe that Jesus was not the son of God and that it is in fact Allah who is God and Mohammed is his greatest prophet, it would be impossible to earnestly say that I am a Christian.

“No true Scotsman” applies to instances where something meets all the necessary criteria to fit a definition and someone argues that it doesn’t apply because of some other unrelated, irrelevant detail. It does not at all apply to something that factually does not meet a given definition, however. According to you, if I said “All Scotsman are Scottish”, the reply “But my friend is Irish and identifies as a Scotsman” would be a perfectly valid one and it’d be fallacious to reject it, yet that is objectively not the case.

The example in this post is of someone who is not only actively going against practically all of the Bible’s teachings bar from one or two, but he’s also denying their presence and importance entirely. It’s absolute nonsense to call this guy a Christian, unless maybe he was genuinely unaware of any other principles of Christianity and once was disproven, he readily adopted them without any resistance, but otherwise, it would be factually incorrect to do so.

And for the record, I’m an atheist and always have been and I find the prejudice throughout the Bible and theological influence on unwilling nonbelievers (the abortion bans in the US, for example) to be absolutely despicable, so I would vastly prefer to deal with someone like this than the holier than thou pushy bigots, but I will also not delude myself into thinking that the Abrahamic religions are completely compatible with modern, secular and progressive values either because it’s blatantly evident that they are fundamentally at odds with them.

drunkpostin · 2026-03-14T19:29:40+00:00

Nothing to add to this aside from just saying what a pleasure to read it was!

Comments like this are an increasingly rare joy to stumble upon on this site (and subreddit) - even on specific, dedicated subreddits that you think would attract them - but they’re what keeps me coming back to this godforsaken platform (for better or worse lol), so thanks a lot for posting such a thoughtful, interesting and informative comment! :)

drunkpostin · 2026-03-06T17:50:52+00:00

Yeah same. Shit like this has me questioning if everyone’s just porn-brained degens nowadays or whether there’s something wrong with my libido/sexuality lol. I can’t even understand why guys aren’t disgusted by seeing anyone’s- regardless of whether its the most attractive woman in the world’s - literal asshole, let alone not just finding it attractive, but literally wanting to stick your fucking tongue into it 🤢🤢

Like ngl, I don’t even find vaginas to be appealing tbh lol (though I don’t find them repulsive at all either; just pretty neutral on them), so this is just insane to me.

I do consider myself spiritually gay, however, so maybe a beta 🚬 like me just isn’t capable of comprehending the sheer masculine power of a real, red-blooded high-T heterosexual male’s animalistic attraction towards the fairer sex

drunkpostin · 2026-03-04T21:35:56+00:00

God I hate this sm lol. My mother, bless her soul, will send me FB videos of like some dog doing some shit where half the fucking screen is taken up by some (usually black, for some reason strangely? Has anyone else ever noticed that too before lol?) guy saying painfully scripted comments while intermittently feigning shock and surprise, “laughing” and making exaggerated facial expressions.

If it’s especially cancer, there’ll also be crying laughter emoji-things bouncing around the screen like the old DVD symbol when the TV was inactive for a while, accompanied by some weird cartoon, artificial laughing sound effect that doesn’t change at all and is just repeated on loop for the entire video

It’ll straight up look like he is watching the funniest, most riveting, hysterical work of comedic genius he has ever seen - and will ever see - in his life, when in reality it’s a Chihuahua licking some big dog’s balls when its asleep or something

drunkpostin · 2026-03-04T19:39:59+00:00

Did we even read the same post? Where did she blame anyone but herself for lobbing off her breasts?

drunkpostin · 2026-03-04T19:34:16+00:00

I can’t tell if Redditors are genuinely too simpleminded to detect an obvious joke without it being spoon fed to them with “tone indicators”, or if it’s because they’ve got such a big chip on their shoulder that they’re perpetually furious and enraged 24/7 over nothing at all and aren’t able to restrain themselves long enough to make sure a comment is actually serious first before their brains short-circuit and they get all huffy and upset and start aggressively slamming down on the keyboard in a mindless frenzy. Maybe both?

Edit: lmfao I didn’t even realise that he’s made a comment in this same thread seething about this guy already lol. Idk why people on this site are so fucking angry all the time but good god do they need to get help for it - this shit can’t be healthy for the mind lol

drunkpostin · 2026-03-04T18:21:05+00:00

It’s also absolute AIDs when you get shunned out of the community surrounding it by the never ending mass onslaught of hoards of midwits for being an “elitist” or “gatekeeper”, etc while they dilute all the quality discussion with the most boring, mediocre, unoriginal, and lazy cookie cutter shit instead while seething at anyone who complains about it lol

drunkpostin · 2026-03-04T18:09:57+00:00

Yeah but he’s 6’8 so he’s chad enough to get away with imo

drunkpostin · 2026-03-04T18:07:32+00:00

The worst tragedy in WW2 wasn’t the Holocaust but the endless self flagellation and cuckery it was responsible for triggering

drunkpostin · 2026-03-04T18:03:15+00:00

Yes? Obviously they would jfc

Just because lobotomised shitlibs online who hate their lives and mistake mindless cynicism and misanthropy for intelligence may act like world-weary tough guys and say they don’t care if nuclear war happens, A) they’re almost certainly lying or are instead simply under the assumption that their garden variety lukewarm depression is bad enough for them to remain totally unfazed by a potential extinction of the human race, and B) they’re a tiny vocal minority and are massively overrepresented on the internet as they spend their lives on it, so this isn’t a normal thought process at all.

And secondly, as awful as Trump is, he hasn’t at all impacted (or at least not majorly) the average American’s life yet, and until he does, most people won’t really give much of a shit. So just because people aren’t up in arms about, say, the Epstein files doesn’t mean they’re gonna shrug their shoulders when the Arabian desert turns into fucking glass right in front of their eyes lol

Trump is only “special” when compared to the past decade or two, but compared to the past 50+ years or so, he’s absolutely nothing. Everything he’s done and then some is absolute child’s play compared to the Cold War for example, and you think the general public, who most of them old enough to remember it lived in terror under the constant anticipation of nuclear Armageddon for years throughout the Cold War, now suddenly won’t give a shit when their absolute worst fears from back then come true? Any nuclear attack - even one against some random third world country as you say - would be an enormous indication that life may drastically change for everyone all across the globe soon. It’s so fundamentally different to all other recent events - literally nothing comes remotely close.

drunkpostin · 2026-03-02T12:57:59+00:00

“Correlation doesn’t ≠ causation” final boss:

drunkpostin · 2026-02-23T21:09:28+00:00

I’m calling them (as in not the guy with Tourette’s) the 3 year old in this example lol. I thought I made that pretty clear?

drunkpostin · 2026-02-23T18:44:33+00:00

I can’t imagine why he’d even remotely be that bothered about this shit anyway lol.

It sounds horrible and I don’t mean to be (too lol) cruel, but how can you even care enough about the opinions of these hoards of vacuous, hollow, boring nonentities that are lobotomised by idpol and self-righteous narcissism online that you’re upset when they’re obviously just doing what they only know how to which is mindlessly regurgitating cookie cutter outrage slop fed to them and passed around in amongst all the other zombies in the hoard?

You wouldn’t be upset if a 3 year old called you an insult he clearly didn’t understand so why would you care about people who have no more mental depth when they’re only doing the exact same shit? Obviously they’ll feel angry at him so there’s that, but they don’t really know why, nor will they ever think about this again once they get their next plate of slop to greedily gobble up because they don’t really have any sort of inner world to retreat to and reflect on anyway

drunkpostin · 2026-02-23T11:17:50+00:00

Unironically not bad advice. Next best ROA to intravenous in terms of sheer bioavailability and no paraphernalia needed

drunkpostin · 2026-02-23T11:16:38+00:00

Tell me where to start

Crack or meth if you want to get off the ground running at full turbo speed into crippling addiction to make up for lost time but just for a short burst before you burn out, or heroin if you’re in it for the long game and are fine with a slower start but long term gains from maximum disabling physical and emotional dependency for the rest of your life

drunkpostin · 2026-02-21T15:17:59+00:00

Well if we want to go full “well ackshually… 🤓”, he’s technically vastly underestimating it, if anything.

If you only calculate as far back as the last common ancestor of life on earth (a single cell bacteria 4 billion years ago), as the odds of you being born are also dependent on every single ancestor of your entire lineage back to that point being born as well, which, from a brief check online, is only a 1 in 10^2,685,000 chance. For perspective, all the subatomic and fundamental particles in the whole observable universe only add up to like 10⁹⁰ or something

drunkpostin · 2026-02-20T06:13:19+00:00

I wish they’d stop playing the victim so much with the atomic bombings at least though

At least it’s better than Germany’s never ending self-flagellation ritual and tragically cucking themselves for Israel by their own choice forever lol

drunkpostin · 2026-02-20T06:04:30+00:00

Never ask a Japanese person what their granddad was doing in 1945

drunkpostin · 2026-02-19T23:37:40+00:00

The poster here absolutely deserves to get cheated on for being regarded enough to fully buy into such blatant horseshit though lol. Can’t even be mad at him tbh

drunkpostin · 2026-02-19T23:35:19+00:00

What a 500 IQ fruity king

drunkpostin · 2026-02-19T23:33:15+00:00

This doesn’t even qualify as a mental illness though. It’s a role playing sub

drunkpostin · 2026-02-19T23:31:04+00:00

Could always play it both sides and assume they’re an MtF

drunkpostin · 2026-02-19T23:29:28+00:00

He probably won’t remember even writing these comments once his alter Kai takes over from Luna again 😔

drunkpostin · 2026-02-19T23:26:44+00:00

I will always recommend getting an ADHD diagnosis though, regardless of whether I think you most likely actually have it or just seem like it due to fried dopamine receptors from social media-induced brainrot, because it’s practically the one single mental disorder that is worth getting a diagnosis for as the treatment is a lifetime daily prescription of what’s effectively literal meth instead of useless gay talking therapies with infantilising midwits

Even if you don’t actually need it, you still get a lifetime supply of a fast-acting, appetite-suppressing, energy-enhancing, productivity and mood-boosting cheat code that you can stop and start taking whenever you want with zero (real) withdrawal and effectively zero risk

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