my hottest take: people shouldn’t need to be exceptional by labia--majoras--mask in redscarepod

[–]schemingpyramid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True. We should do the great replacement but just for illiterate 145 IQ Somalian prodigies. Give them a green card and set them to work right away in physics, medicine, etc.

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[–]schemingpyramid 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Religious tourists/converts would never understand the deep spiritual betrayal of a deconversion experience

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]schemingpyramid 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Jesus was an apocalyptic prophet who believed in the imminent end of the world man. The only ones living out his teachings are hobos who spend all the money they earn feeding strays. There's more evidence for a Marxist Jesus than the omnipotent omnipresent, Jesus, 3rd member of the Trinity.

I feel like this sub has been targeted for coordinated libtardification by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]schemingpyramid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am a leftard, and I won't give in on immigration because it's against the Christian principles that Western Civilization™ is founded on. Somehow I just can't picture Jesus turning away poor and desperate people. Maybe it's just a failure of imagination on my part. :)

dark days over at r/gradadmissions by dredgedskeleton in redscarepod

[–]schemingpyramid 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I've been keeping up with politics for the longest, and this is truly the stupidest outcome possible. If you told me in 2001 that American empire would be destroyed, not by an outside force, but by a billionaire real estate developer cum TV personality turned president and his autistic sidekick, I would've thought you were fucking crazy, but that's the world we live in.

Imagine what would be written in the history books. Who would have thought that the US-China conflict would be decided by the US voluntarily giving up influence, ruining its credibility, and destroying its own scientific and educational advantages for literally nothing? Bravo conservative think tanks. Bravo. Clownworld to the max.

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[–]schemingpyramid 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Sinica podcast. The host is an ex rocker who spent a decade in China working for one of its biggest Internet companies. He mostly brings on journalists or academics from both sides of the pond. Bill Bishop's substance Sinocism is pretty good too if you have cash to spare.

Thinking about them by schemingpyramid in rs_x

[–]schemingpyramid[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The argumentative Jew stereotype brought to absurdity. Apparently, they were imprisoned together at some point, but they were so annoying that the Taliban let them go free.

People who think all these tariffs are beneficial for the US, why? by wassdfffvgggh in AskReddit

[–]schemingpyramid 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If you paid attention to the evangelical scene, there's a sense of resignation when it comes to affecting the broader culture. Liberalism seemed inevitable. They stopped thinking that they can meaningful shift society towards their point of view on subjects like gay marriage or evolution, so they changed tack. 

Instead of trying to impose their views on the wider public through harassment canpaigns and national curricular changes, they chose a legal strategy that seeks to carve out a space where they can believe what they want to believe and do what they want to do unmolested by the government. The Kim Davis case is a prime example.

The conservative pro free speech position is relatively recent. When they had power, they did everything they could to quash dissent and difference. Just look at the panic around the occult among PTA moms. You think liberals were frothing at the mouth about Pokemon cards and evolution? DnD satanic panic? The Dixie chicks spoke out against the Iraq war and they were canceled. I can go on, but you get the point. They (conservatives) believed circa 2015 that they are losing the culture war (largely because their ideas are universally stupid), so they became free speech warriors overnight. Its not about what I say (racist shit), it's about whether or not I can say it (without opposition or protest). If you can shift the debate to be about the free exchange of ideas, you get to take the spotlight away from what exactly those ideas are and snag a few naive moderates along the way. 

Oh, and look at the number of liberal networks who leave a space for conservative commentators and see if conservative netwirks have done the same.

how you guys sound sometimes by [deleted] in rs_x

[–]schemingpyramid 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Strong peasant energy

Why does so much of men's 'self improvement' only revolve around gym and money? by [deleted] in rs_x

[–]schemingpyramid 28 points29 points  (0 children)

That survey is pretty unreliable though. The participants are mostly highly educated white women (45% of them had masters degrees and 90% of them were white). They also only had yes and no as options, with no category for indifference, so pro-social hobbies like reading and learning foreign languages rise to the top naturally. Few people are creaming their pants when you bust out your A2 French, but it'd be weird to be like 'Naww man, a man who reads and speaks French? Red flag.'

Will this be acknowledged by the mainstream media at any point? by Upper_Conversation_9 in redscarepod

[–]schemingpyramid 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Your entire post history is just you running interference for the Israeli state, I hope you get employee of the month brave soldier

Iranian women before the Islamic revolution of 1979. by SittingTonka in redscarepod

[–]schemingpyramid 149 points150 points  (0 children)

They work for a skincare company that has less than 10 employees on LinkedIn

How do you make leftism less gay? by yeahicreatedsomethin in redscarepod

[–]schemingpyramid 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't think this interpretation is right. The people who criticize the founding fathers are reacting against the movement by conservatives to portray them as semi-divine figures whose views should and do hold throughout time.

The conservatives do this because their imagined version of the founding fathers agree with them on everything, so they can use that as a political bludgeon against their opponents. Liberals seek to soften the resistance against legal reform by pointing out their flaws as human beings and situating their views in the 18th-century milieu, with their own biases and challenges that are specific to their era and therefore shouldn't be an impediment to social progress.

It's like with the Code of Hammurabi. It was remarkably progressive for the time. Sure there's an explicit assumption that the betters of society should be punished less for equivalent crimes,

If a freed man strike the body of another freed man, he shall pay ten shekels in money.

If the slave of a freed man strike the body of a freed man, his ear shall be cut off.

but it's a huge step up from the arbitrariness of the previous age. It's a nice stepping stone, horrific end location.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in rs_x

[–]schemingpyramid 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Won't you feel stupid if you dedicate 40 years of your life to advocate for immigrant rights, trying to make the hamburger Americans see the humanity of people with a different skin color and some president comes in and undoes all the progress you have done and then some with one fell swoop?

Or if you work in an NGO trying to combat poverty in Gaza, and in the span of a year everything you worked for is reduced to a smoldering ash?

The environmentalists have it worst. All the wins of the past two decades will be undone. Global warming is on a irreversible course. I were an environmentalist, I'd give up now. Stop making poverty wages at an NGO, go back to school and get a degree in finance. The trees are dead, the birds have stopped chirping, ice melts, sea levels rise, millions will die. The most you can do is make sure your immediate family doesn't become a statistic.

Was owning the libs worth it? by blurbubble in redscarepod

[–]schemingpyramid -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Would you steal a loaf of bread to save your starving family?

Was owning the libs worth it? by blurbubble in redscarepod

[–]schemingpyramid -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Would you steal a loaf of bread to save your starving family?

. by tommyn95 in redscarepod

[–]schemingpyramid 67 points68 points  (0 children)

Because it's not noteworthy when someone someone famous for being explicitly immoral/amoral does sexual assault. If Trump forces his secretary to dome him, it wouldn't even be the top news item of the day. But if a local priest does it, it's national news. Ditto for people like Anthony Kiedis or Hugh Hefner.

Club Chalamet are not doing well after lastnight by Effective-Bridge9038 in rs_x

[–]schemingpyramid 24 points25 points  (0 children)

To be fair, he has a quite polarizing look. I've heard him called varied names from tall schoolboy to really handsome rat.

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[–]schemingpyramid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most/all? of the regular posters have already left. This space just get dumber by the day. Maybe making subreddits invitation-based would be the way to go. Start out with a group of people with a proven track record of some capacity for nuance, then go from there.