Hmm, so long as you're safe within your area it's great to know.

Hi all

Haven't been around for a while

Hope you all had a good Christmas and New Year

I'm a bit surprised that BuzzFeed would publish 4Chan fanfiction as factual. Well, Donald Trump is not happy about it.
https://medium.com/@trentlapinski/did-buzzfeed-publish-donald-trump-fanfiction-as-real-news-7a3a9c2f1aa0?source=messageShare-e0d56347893c-1484136633

possibly a person who helped dox ghoul (skip to 1:50 mark) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmu36rUeUYs

@ratoj9 Ah, good old Fan Fiction. It can be either the highlight or the lowest point in one's livelihood.

@Salt "Perceptions are only perceptions" what does this even mean ? That they are not profound and fundamental ? (In a sense that they truly and profoundly influence one's psycho-somatic integrity)

To anyone who's interested in the 4chan FanFic: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html

Common experiences are real, and the fact that they may lead to diverging individual intellectualizations does not mean that what results won't be common, but only that competition will be resolved within

The group that shares common experience

Language, as an imperfect mode of communication, does not lead to decrease of solidarity, but opposite, it leads to solidifying of common sense of values and identity

Since it by nature excludes

Whoever gets intellectual monopoly within a community of shared values, does not really constitue those vallues, but merely get's right to inform on these values

The so called "Brahmin' caste

It's monopoly on information can, and was often challenged

But values will still remain values, and will transcend individual intellectualizations or theologies, such as was case with semitic values which transcended Judaism into Christian Orthodoxy, then this orthodoxy into Calvinism, and finally, they managed to pass onto New Atheism, while at the same time remaining completely unchanged

New Atheism holds absolutely same values as Calvinism, it only differs in an esoteric narrative, which adherents of these two Ideology don't suspect at all

Btw all of this was response to @Salt and @diversity_is_racism

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meh strong dogmatic ideology - that is the only answer to individualism and nihilism (however you want to define it); I'll work with communism if I have to, so long as it provides a unified, stable society

the "Classical Liberals" are correct when they say it's not about left vs right as much as individualism vs authoritarianism, imo

Communism, as we knew it, provided superficially "unified" society, but not unified in sense of pursuit of higher collective heights

But "unified" in a sense that everything was mashed up according to top-down directed materialistic-economic plans

Once completely separated social stratas got mixed up in a one giant genetic and social melting pot

Resulting into a drastic fall of our GENERAL (And i repeat, general, that means average) performance

You had populations of shepherds being movet into great agrarian areas to become farmers

You had farmers moed into cities to become burreaucrats

You had burgeoisie completely annihilated

You had different tribes and different social stratums intermixing in a way that was previously simply unimaginable because of established social curriculum and social norms

Correct, and it may well be that it could not work - but I am not defending it, just saying that I would rather return to Yugoslavia than embrace Westernized libertarian ideals of an ego-based culture.

Naturally a more traditionalistic/nationalistic variant would be my first choice.

But theoretically speaking.

So I am not speaking about socialism from a "free market" viewpoint, I'm speaking obviously against Bolshevik collectivization

The reason why we never recovered from Bolshevism is that any base from which recovery could happen was either annihilated or intermixed with the "average"

This world has changed.

It has changed so fast..

Interestingly enough, those parts of Yugoslavia that were in this social engineering virtually untouched (Because Bolsheviks didn't hate them as much as they hated us), Slovenia and Croatia, recovered more easily

Even though Croatia recovered only slightly, which now seems to be slowly reverted

To an extent. It is possible that recovery ends up being a curse rather than a blessing.

I imagine Croatia will be halved in population soon.