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Trump is so bad at propaganda speeches, given you have to have little IQ to believe propaganda speeches, but Trump even makes it more difficult to believe, however difficult that feat is.
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Children ask why with a kind of moral innocence. They assume the world should make sense, that reasons should exist, that authority should be able to explain itself. The question is not rebellion. It is the mind reaching outward, trying to stitch together a coherent picture of reality.
Then the training begins.
At first it is subtle. A teacher says “because that’s the rule.” A parent says “stop asking.” A classroom rewards the student who repeats the expected answer rather than the one who dissects it. The child slowly learns that the question itself is the problem. Why is not treated as a tool of understanding but as a form of friction.
By adolescence the lesson has hardened. Systems do not need curiosity; they need rhythm. Workplaces reward punctual obedience, not philosophical excavation. Media feeds the public finished narratives so they can react quickly and move on. Consumption replaces contemplation. Production replaces inquiry. The adult citizen becomes efficient precisely to the degree that they no longer interrupt the flow with inconvenient questions.
The child’s why is not just curiosity. It is the first act of analysis. It assumes that behind every surface there is a cause, a motive, a structure waiting to be uncovered. To ask why is to refuse the comfort of appearances.
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Man I was going to post something funny in a post that was genuinely sad, regarding being bald, realized how sad the news was
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Mar 08, 2026
Went for a morning swim, now drinking a coke on patio, sun hitting me, listening to some soul this fine Sunday
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Mar 08, 2026
The other day on La Sexta, a Spanish TV network, they made a whole show about men teaching other men to be alpha. It was quite an awkward topic for a documentary. One of the things I noticed was that these beta males didn’t know how to act around women, but they were trying to get better, so they paid a lot of money to be taught how to act in a way that would make them chosen.
At one point they were talking with an expert on the phenomenon, a woman who seemed attractive, seemed to have an alpha male at home, and seemed successful. She said they were trying to hijack a woman’s “no” by appearing different. I thought to myself that’s what courting a woman is, trying to impress her so she chooses you.
This woman talking seemed successful in love, but when she talked about hijacking women’s brains, the realist in me saw it more as a worry that a beta might be mistaken for an alpha and destroy the whole operation going on.
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Most people aren’t incapable of deeper thinking. They’re simply conditioned not to use it. Modern information systems reward low-resolution cognition. You’re given a spinning object above the crib: light, sound, movement. An explosion happened. Someone is blamed. The approved reaction is supplied. Then the toy rotates again and the next event appears.
That pattern keeps society stable and predictable. As long as people watch the toy, they stay synchronized. The moment someone stops watching and asks what’s holding the toy up, the story becomes unstable. Questions about incentives, power, and consequences start pulling at the strings. Who benefits from this event? What constraints shaped it? What happens if this continues? That kind of thinking exposes the mechanism behind the movement, and the neat moral theater begins to wobble.
The issue isn’t childishness but perpetual civic adolescence. People learn the vocabulary of public life without learning its mechanics. Education trains recall and compliance more than inference. You’re taught what the official interpretation of history is supposed to be, not how historical actors actually behaved when survival, money, and power were at stake. The same pattern appears in news culture. Statements, optics, and identities dominate the surface, while leverage, institutions, and material limits remain largely invisible.
That’s why public discourse so often resembles a children’s narrative. There is a hero, a villain, a shocking moment, and a demand for justice. But the underlying machinery is simpler and harsher: incentives, fear, self-preservation, status, resources. Those forces move events long before the moral commentary arrives.
There is also a practical reason this simplified picture persists. A population that reacts to symbols and cues is easier to coordinate than one constantly dissecting trade-offs and hidden motives. No elaborate conspiracy is required. Institutions naturally drift toward explanations that reduce friction and maintain legitimacy.
And many people prefer it that way. Looking directly at incentives dissolves comforting myths about how public life works. Once you see the mechanism above the crib turning the toy, it becomes difficult to return to the story that the music and lights are spontaneous.
So the real divide isn’t intelligence. It’s perspective. Most people are trained to notice events, not to model systems. They can repeat what happened, but not the pressures that produced it or the trajectories it sets in motion. When someone finally analyzes the incentives beneath the surface, it sounds unusually clear—almost jarring—because the room suddenly contains an adult conversation instead of nursery narration.
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@lord_nougat@nicecrew.digital not smoking a single cigarette again, going at least 4 months now, or 3,5 around that
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@lord_nougat@nicecrew.digital I smoked a tobacco brand, you rolled your own cigarettes called Pueblo, that’s first thing that comes to mind. Because of amount of tobacco I smoked, lunatic amounts of it, I still get sick thinking about that tobacco
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Mar 07, 2026
People who think in big-city terms often misunderstand Spanish small towns.
In a pueblo, behavior doesn’t exist in isolation. It lives inside a web of reputation.
Everyone knows the family histories. Who married into which house. Which father raised his sons well and which didn’t. Which surname carries respect and which carries trouble. The information moves constantly through conversation: bars, balconies, bakeries, cousins, mothers, shopkeepers. People talk, and they never really stop talking.
That talking is not just gossip. It is social regulation.
Reputation in a small town is collective. You don’t only represent yourself. You represent your parents, your siblings, the house you come from, the street you grew up on. If you behave badly, it stains the family name. If you behave well, it reinforces it. That pressure quietly shapes behavior long before the police ever appear.
Because of that, social order is maintained less by formal authority and more by visibility and memory. Nothing disappears into anonymity. Actions stick to names, and names stay in circulation for decades.
The result is a peculiar stability: everyday life can feel very safe not because nothing ever goes wrong, but because the community knows exactly where everyone stands. Reputation, conversation, and family pride form an invisible fence around behavior.
In small-town Spain, the real policing mechanism is simple:
people see you, people remember you, and people talk.
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Yes. Now you’re stepping back to the civilizational level, which is where this actually makes sense.
Humans have been doing exactly this since the beginning of recorded history. Every culture discovered substances that shift the nervous system, and then societies slowly learned how to live with them.
Alcohol is the obvious one. For thousands of years people have had to learn:
how to drink without starting fights
how to drink without ruining work
when it’s socially acceptable
when to stop
The same pattern shows up with kava in the Pacific, betel nut in Southeast Asia, tea in China, coffee in the Islamic world and Europe, tobacco in the Americas, even opium in parts of Asia historically. Humans discover a psychoactive plant or compound, then a long process begins where individuals and cultures figure out how to integrate the altered state into normal life.
So the deeper pattern is:
Substance discovered
People feel powerful effects
Some behave foolishly
Over time rules, habits, and personal discipline emerge
That’s the “learning curve” you were talking about.
What you described earlier about training yourself not to act impulsively fits into that same human pattern. People who stay functional around substances usually develop an internal rulebook: pacing, contexts, boundaries, knowing their own reactions.
Humans are basically self-domesticating animals when it comes to mind-altering substances. We keep finding them, and then we spend centuries figuring out how not to destroy ourselves with them.
And the funny part is that the substances that survive culturally tend to be the ones that can be woven into daily life without total collapse. Coffee is the perfect example: mild stimulation, social ritual, manageable downside.
Stronger substances are trickier because the margin for error is smaller, so the discipline part becomes more important.
You’re basically describing the individual version of a very old human pattern: discovering how a chemical state affects you personally, and then building habits around it so it fits into life instead of blowing life up.
Humans have been negotiating that balance for thousands of years. The details change, but the pattern doesn’t.
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@mischievoustomato@tsundere.love works for my purposes, wouldn’t use it for high significance, critical stuff, but how I use it, it is very useful
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@Tony@clew.lol @zer0unplanned so much oil, when olive oil is the real value
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@zer0unplanned @blaise you may be suffering worsening mental condition, try to relax. I notice you are talking different, try to put on something relaxing, on tv, radio, music, just lay down a while
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@Dicey@clew.lol ANYWAY, there's a vps provider in the netherlands I've looked at that seems reasonable. WE MIGHT BE MOVING OVERSEAS (we are currently overseas) lol
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@Tony@clew.lol are we US now? Or some third world or second world country? Europe legislation is harsh right around speech
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Good morning, Joan Manuel Serrats losely interpretation of Whitmans poem
A poem by Whitman says:
I believe a blade of grass is no less than the path traveled by the stars,
and that the ant is perfect,
and that the grain of sand and the egg of the thrush are perfect as well,
and that the frog is a masterpiece worthy of the highest,
and that the blackberry bush could adorn the halls of heaven.
And that the smallest joint of my hand can humble all machines.
And that a cow grazing with its head lowered surpasses every statue,
and that a mouse is a miracle capable of astonishing millions of unbelievers.
This is a song of love and respect for the greatest of all wonders,
which is human life.
And I believe it too.
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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has once again offered America our nation's full support just in case Donald Trump decides Australia will be the target of the US's next military attack.
While the PM acknowledged that a targeted attack on our country by the world's strongest military may lead to destabilisation and mass casualties, he says it's better than being "difficult."
"Look, I know the country will be completely annihilated," Albanese said. "But everyone needs to start looking at the positives. At least Donald Trump might remember my name one day."
"We pre-emptively back any potential pre-emptive self-defence operations the US feels are necessary."
Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong has told reporters that Australia will not be taking a position on whether striking Australia would be "legal"; however, she did note the country has a long history of inhumane treatment of refugees and Indigenous people.
"Currently we have no access to US intelligence on the matter, much like every other matter, including the information we give them. But the country has a lot of natural resources and Australia will support America liberating them, and also maybe the people."
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@s8n@posting.lolicon.rocks well no kidding, marines are hardcore, everyone in military will know marines are not pushovers
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@jmw150@poa.st it's nice such early hours, those are most calm parts of day
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@wertimer@clubcyberia.co if Monday didn't exist neither would Friday. Life itself form structures between despair and joy, even when talking about Monday as concept
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@DeezMistaReez@eveningzoo.club @Tony@clew.lol @Diceys_Runaway_Dad@decayable.ink @NonPlayableClown@postnstuffds.lol everyone involved here besides Tony can consider themselves raped and whimpering
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There's definitely a psyop in chud culture, people on right, to make supporting Israel seem as something original. Especially visible on telegram. They mix memes about all ethnicities, and post a based Israel meme. Israel is known to infiltrate everyone. Many of those telegram meme channels are probably Israel run too. They do have good memes though
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@DC5FAN@poa.st @Oven_Operators_LU_88@nicecrew.digital sad, people are extremely stupid and violent, it’s common to get killed over something completely irrelevant because of how stupid people are. Everywhere on planet
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Your emotional read is basically: “Are these people insane?”
Insane like normal humans with power, trapped by incentives, ego, internal politics, and narrative maintenance.
The West isn’t a single mind. It’s factions, agencies, elections, donors, media ecosystems, allied pressures. It can produce decisions that look “lunatic” because no one actor is holding the whole consequence map in their hands, and those who do are often ignored.
So the empire behaves like a committee of stressed egos trying to keep a collapsing story alive.
The grim civilizational truth
Empires don’t usually fall because enemies are strong. They fall because:
They lose the ability to choose wisely,
they start treating reality as negotiable.
They punish instead of persuade.
They confuse propaganda with strategy,
and they chase status even when it costs them power.
That’s the “late stage” signature.
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This is great use of AI, now my scalp is baby skin smooth, hydrated, cold shower in garden wakes up system. I also use it when spending too much screen time, so it suggests to go for a coffee at bar or cider.
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@UnityOstara@poa.st @caekislove@caekis.love @restful@noauthority.social @cjd@pkteerium.xyz @PalePimp@poa.st the music streaming services automatic recommendations, when you leave it playing recommendations for a while right after a album, playing next recommendations, eventually it starts ear raping you. It's garbage
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@UnityOstara@poa.st @PNS@noauthority.social you go to a arab country, they going to high five you for real Madrid or Barcelona shirt, they love Spanish fotball in almost all Arab countries
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@cjd@pkteerium.xyz @caekislove@caekis.love @restful@noauthority.social @PalePimp@poa.st I agree strongly with this
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@PalePimp@poa.st @caekislove@caekis.love @restful@noauthority.social @cjd@pkteerium.xyz yeah, I just pay for AI so may as well use it
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@PalePimp@poa.st @caekislove@caekis.love @restful@noauthority.social @cjd@pkteerium.xyz it seems unwinnable a fight man to man in the mountainous Iran
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@cjd@pkteerium.xyz @caekislove@caekis.love @restful@noauthority.social @PalePimp@poa.st this looks like a major civilization serious event
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