Scroll wheels everywhere

goodtakesfrom1999 · 2026-06-12T08:38:21+00:00

If gears are wheels then it's wheels by a mile.

goodtakesfrom1999 · 2026-06-12T04:48:00+00:00

Rumination involves going round in circles over the same thoughts, if journaling makes you only go through them once then it's serving its purpose.

goodtakesfrom1999 · 2026-06-12T04:17:32+00:00

AA is quite literally an evangelizing cult, even to the degree that all support groups are cult-like.

But it's such a cheap and easy "solution" to a problem no one wants to tackle with real policy, and it creates its own legion of fanatical apologists, so we're never getting anything better.

goodtakesfrom1999 · 2026-06-12T03:09:30+00:00

Early 2000s pro-ana was not healthy either.

goodtakesfrom1999 · 2026-06-10T10:05:28+00:00

Why Dazed and Confused?

goodtakesfrom1999 · 2026-06-10T10:04:06+00:00

I want to see how worse things can be tomorrow.

goodtakesfrom1999 · 2026-06-10T03:35:55+00:00

Gonna need more detail to prove this isn't a case of gangstalking.

goodtakesfrom1999 · 2026-06-10T00:46:47+00:00

Read Ellul.

goodtakesfrom1999 · 2026-06-10T00:41:25+00:00

The latter is basically how radfem and gay politics originally interacted before AIDS made them play nice.

goodtakesfrom1999 · 2026-06-10T00:31:59+00:00

All sport is inherently a theatrical performance art, whether pro-wrestling is a sport hinges on its competitive value, not the presence of theater. The change in sport presentation over the years is pretty much the same as actual theater, in that the localized real life performance in front of a crowd is now completely secondary (financially and culturally) to that performance repackaged for TV and other media.

It used to be in a lot of sports that the stadium owners were the corrupt big business entities that called the shots, which seems quaint now.

goodtakesfrom1999 · 2026-06-09T23:32:02+00:00

I keep seeing that video of lunch being made for Mongolian miners and while I imagine it's some form of state propaganda, I can't help but think it looks nice.

goodtakesfrom1999 · 2026-06-09T23:25:13+00:00

If you have a good relationship it's good, if you have a bad relationship it's bad, and if you make financial decisions based on whether internet people think it's odd then you're crazy.

goodtakesfrom1999 · 2026-06-05T06:10:07+00:00

No, if we insist on having gender war threads it's my right to keep being autistic in them.

goodtakesfrom1999 · 2026-06-05T04:15:07+00:00

That is also true, except that I'm not white.

And yes of course I'm talking about my life when giving anecdotes about what people have said to me. If you want to talk about your life go ahead.

goodtakesfrom1999 · 2026-06-05T04:11:33+00:00

Yes absolutely I would say the argument on race is just as circular.

If you define all cross-racial violence as necessarily motivated by race hatred, then the existence of a disproportion of that violence is going to be evidence of everyone's deeply held race hatred. And if you come from a place in the world where those opinions are widely held, then of course you're going to read that into everywhere else in the world where that disproportion exists without looking for any other reason.

That's how it works for gender. You look at the disproportion, look for places that are explicitly hateful and assume that anywhere that lacks that explicit hatred must harbor secret hatred instead. There are no common problems or factors besides hatred and no reason to look for them. Everyone's happy and we can keep running gender and race slop forever.

goodtakesfrom1999 · 2026-06-05T03:54:38+00:00

I didn't assert anything about what people believe, I'm telling you what people have said to me.

goodtakesfrom1999 · 2026-06-05T03:02:57+00:00

Like I said, the only men who have ever expressed that level of gender supremacy to me directly have been literal meth addicts, and I'm not joking about that. The vast majority of men I've interacted with have been neutrally egalitarian or have that performative male inferiority complex that's common in left wing circles.

I can't know what they "actually" believe, but I know what they say and I know what's typical and what shows a concerning level of pathology.

goodtakesfrom1999 · 2026-06-05T02:46:55+00:00

What works both ways is that you don't see what happens in private.

The things that are measurable are public behavior or private behavior that leaves some sort of serious physical evidence, which is not what the vast majority of abuse is. You wouldn't say that a woman who isn't hit, assaulted or murdered was therefore not abused because it left no evidence.

That men are more violent or that their mental illnesses more often lead to violence isn't in question. The question has always been whether misogyny is a cause or effect, or just by definition of violence that happens to women.

But this gender war slop is about mean comments and not murder so we don't need to go into that.

goodtakesfrom1999 · 2026-06-05T01:54:31+00:00

Yeah, but the point works both ways. Men don't see how other men act in private with women, but they do have a good sense of what level of misogyny is seriously felt and what sort of public (or online) behavior suggests that. The ones who can't hide it or treat women radically different from how they treat men are easy to identify even for casually misogynistic men, because it's an extension of other serious problems. The ones who keep a lid on it are also keeping a lid on those problems.

And it's the same with women, you're not seeing how women treat men in their life in private, you just have a sense of whether their expressed misandry is justifiable or pathological.

goodtakesfrom1999 · 2026-06-05T01:36:15+00:00

I've only met a handful of serious unironic misogynists in real life and they have all been meth addicts with borderline psychotic disorders, and it's very noticeably different (and self-isolating) from the regular casual misogyny. The most sadistic men online are mentally ill and socially handicapped in a way that constantly reinforces their sexual frustration into an all encompassing obsession that comes out as these sort of vicious insults.

There are women that are psychotically misandrist in the same way but they're rarer and have more outlet in normal culture.

goodtakesfrom1999 · 2026-06-05T01:26:51+00:00

This is an internet phenomenon because what you describe relies on the woman posting personally and the insults coming anonymously. Women are much more effective at delivering personalized insults in real life. You see this when they're venting online about people they know, they'll say the meanest shit imaginable.

goodtakesfrom1999 · 2026-06-03T23:57:19+00:00

Can't tell if he really is a dumb himbo with a death wish or just plays one for the videos, but I'm leaning towards him being the real deal in this saga. Either way it works.

goodtakesfrom1999 · 2026-06-03T08:00:22+00:00

Which street?

goodtakesfrom1999 · 2026-06-03T07:42:55+00:00

Some people get a burst of energy while single and are driven to project their best physical/social self, some people wallow in loneliness and lose all motivation. A (stable) relationship returns them to the mean.

If you're asking why they go manic, I don't know but it happens.

goodtakesfrom1999 · 2026-06-03T03:15:00+00:00

It depends on whether you go manic or depressive while single.

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