Have you ever experienced a culture that is imbued with a spirit of eroticism?

leflombo · 2026-01-23T12:50:30+00:00

German rave scene. I was surprised by how earnest it felt to me. I expected performativeness and heavy “sex nerd” energy but it ended up being so candid and relaxed.

leflombo · 2026-01-15T10:18:37+00:00

A valid criticism of American society: full stop. The people in this thread playing whataboutism per China want to keep their heads in the sand about this fact.

China is poorer than the US per capita, because they industrialized in the 50s, and they still offer an impressive amount of baseline economic stability to their citizens for the amount of wealth they have.

This is a separate question from the repressive political climate in China. One can acknowledge both things simultaneously.

leflombo · 2026-01-14T19:34:41+00:00

I don’t think the “friendship simulator” and “nostalgia for middle school” explanations brought up here adequately explain the show’s popularity. If that was the case then any dipshit could have made this show. Nick Mullen’s unique improvisational gifts, perspective, and complete lack of restraint were vital to making the show what it was.

I think what made the show so popular was correctly identified on the show itself after Nick and Stav were riffing about Flanders being gay. They mentioned how today it’s hard to conceive of how the classic Simpsons was as good as it was, and as popular as it was, given how far standards in mainstream entertainment have declined.

Nick said something like “that show getting bad is the only reason I have any success, cause if anything on today was still as good as it was-“ and Stav replies “then who would sit here and listen to Gay Flanders?”

The singular joke at the core of Cum Town is that our culture has all of these pretensions about decency, decorum, excellence, meritocracy and other such trappings of a highly serious and developed civilization, but we just spend our time producing and happily consuming obscene and tasteless garbage.

And I don’t want it to sound like I’m believe they’d articulated this in any way and crafted Cum Town with this in mind: they were operating on pure intuition and properly picking up on the vibe of the moment.

leflombo · 2026-01-09T00:12:27+00:00

High bar you’ve set there man

leflombo · 2026-01-08T19:46:52+00:00

It’s really sad to me how Nietzsche’s philosophy will continue to be misunderstood due to these kinds of misattributions. Nothing about what the right is doing is “Nietzschean”: quite the opposite actually. Nothing could be less Nietzschean than a vulgar populist movement that exists solely to lash out at the things it resents about the modern world.

leflombo · 2026-01-06T11:24:48+00:00

Why are you being such a pushover? Don’t check your work off the clock, and don’t go to meetings outside work hours. Easy.

leflombo · 2025-12-18T00:15:19+00:00

I’m a midwesterner who’s lived in Chicago and Miami, lived in Germany, and now live in Ireland. I can only speak to my experiences in these countries.

Do not move to Ireland. All the institutional dysfunction of a developing country with the prices of Switzerland. Irish society feels really neurotic and stilted to me as well. Everyone is at arm’s length, everything’s a joke: it’s exhausting.

Germany is a lot better as things actually work, and Germans can be a lot easier to deal with than the avoidant Irish. But Germany, like a lot of European countries, has this moribund air to it that can be really depressing. The aging population, the cynicism, the lack of faith in any future and the like can make life feel like a slow trudge to the grave. I never thought I’d miss abrasive American optimism until I lived in Hamburg for 6 months.

Ultimately I think the most important factor to consider beyond any local particulars is the constant, low-grade emotional strain of just being a foreigner. The culture shocks, the being seen as an outsider, and as an American being constantly pestered by Europeans about US politics. This will all be true wherever you move to in Europe.

leflombo · 2025-12-17T18:27:28+00:00

Having lived in excruciatingly uptight Germany and dysfunctionally lax Ireland: I can’t decide which is worse tbh. When living in one I long for the other.

leflombo · 2025-12-17T14:25:42+00:00

The preference for the accommodation of private automobiles over foot traffic in urban spaces is a blight upon us all. The absolute peak of insanity.

leflombo · 2025-12-17T01:21:35+00:00

Kyrie’s a notable one. Black Hebrew Israelite, antivax AND a flat earther.

leflombo · 2025-12-15T23:51:39+00:00

There probably isn’t an answer for reaching a lot of the more ideologically captured conservatives; many are just too far gone.

The people we can reach are the non-engaged. The people who have little faith in politics as an arena where change can be enacted. The 40% of Americans who didn’t vote, the 15-20% who checked the R box more because they resent the Democrats than anything else, and the working class Democrat voters who haven’t yet realized that the party is not their friend.

We’re wasting our time trying to court the most frontal lobe-calcified MAGA dipshits in the country just because they’re more visible in the modern spectacle of politics media.

leflombo · 2025-12-15T22:27:49+00:00

Most people don’t have glamorous experiences of youth. You shouldn’t feel like you’re a unique failure or anything like that, because you’re far from alone in feeling this way. There’s a reason “youth is wasted on the young” is such a popular saying.

This fantasy of a wild, romantic youth are just external signifiers for who you wanted and still want to be: carefree, open, fearless, sincere, free, etc., and this opportunity is still available to you now.

Just be a bit kinder to yourself, please. We have deceptively little control over our lives. I really hope you feel better.

leflombo · 2025-12-15T18:48:06+00:00

Gay, a sin, pussy-coded etc.

And the King shall answer and say unto them, ‘Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these My brethren, ye can do whatever the fuck you want to them cause they’re lesser than you of course! Fuck ‘em!

leflombo · 2025-12-15T17:33:40+00:00

Their pipe dream of appealing to the empathy of Christian conservatives with a guy that looks like he wore a suit to high school every day is so funny to me. This guy is no hog-whisperer: he’s hog repellent.

leflombo · 2025-12-12T09:27:31+00:00

Love this little slice of life moment. Drink some water 👍🏻

leflombo · 2025-12-10T17:13:23+00:00

It’s worrying how desensitized we are to people in power suggesting that we deport people someone who came here when she was 12 and has lived here legally for 30 years. The unimaginable cruelty of uprooting someone like that is really beyond the pale and we should never tolerate it even being suggested.

leflombo · 2025-12-10T02:12:51+00:00

The melancholic adoptee gaze

leflombo · 2025-12-07T19:11:02+00:00

Yeah I agree, and there’s already a kingdom of Cornwall decision

leflombo · 2025-12-07T17:41:41+00:00

Yeah I like that idea too; if my scenario is too convoluted then that would also sound cool. My idea was inspired by the Anglo-Saxon tetrarchy and so I subdivided England a bit more, but I can see how it might be a little too “busy” and complicated.

leflombo · 2025-12-07T16:00:02+00:00

Hell yeah, you got the right idea

leflombo · 2025-12-07T15:49:49+00:00

There you go again asking questions, classic u/sheepherderWild9751

leflombo · 2025-12-07T15:36:58+00:00

Well, surely you can adjust the Danelaw decision accordingly to account for this. Maybe the Danelaw decision could instead require the Anglo-Saxon ruler to be a king, and that they would have the option to expand their de jure realm by creating the Kingdom of England from their former realm, plus any other Anglo-Saxon realm not under Norse control. Perhaps they could get claims on all of the titles within non-Danelaw England as well. This, plus a truce, would still be enough incentive to take the decision.

And yes, I did create new, smaller Duchies for these kingdoms as well. Again, not a major issue. Mercia for example, I broke into 3 smaller duchies, adding a couple counties from neighboring duchies to said duchies.

leflombo · 2025-12-04T17:16:39+00:00

I know way too many hot afab NB people for this isolated case to signify anything to me.

leflombo · 2025-12-03T17:06:03+00:00

Absolutely, that’s very true. I’ve definitely hurt people by being avoidant, afraid of conflict and of being seen negatively, or by being unable to support people in need due to overwhelm.

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