muddi [he/him]

Phrases like “American Dream” and “Manifest Destiny” are just euphemisms for genocide and exploitation.

No other country has concepts like this. They have stuff like mottos and national ideals, but the people have existed long enough in the land to be their own motivation to exist as a nation. The US was created in order to commit genocide and exploit the land. They justify nationhood and citizenship after the fact.

I think it’s just the Anglo colonies that qualify for this, since European colonies “allowed” indigenous people to persist in some manner. Even then, there’s no eg. Canadian or Australian dream that I’ve heard of. So it’s just American being exceptional, exceptionally genocidal and exploitative.

One time someone said something and I misheard them, so the sentence sounded ungrammatical and nonsensical to me, like something beyond my conventional understanding of the world thus far. I instantly lost my sanity

This is a risky tip, but if you want to cut acidity without having to add a milk or creamer, you can add a pinch of baking soda too. Why it’s risky: if you add too much, and it’s too easy to do this, it tastes like soap.

Or just cold brew instead of hot brew

literally nobody said that

I’m following your ethical logic. The killing itself is not bad, but how much you use the corpse. Doing nothing with it is bad. Doing something is better. Using all of it is best?

And the deer is dead no matter what. Why not use the body for something useful?

Because using it for something useful is what caused it to be dead in the first place

One time a raccoon crawled under my home and died. We threw it out. Did I waste the resource? Maybe I could have made a quick buck, or saved a few dollars on a meal?

you coming for indigenous practices of ecology next, or what?

No, that isn’t for me to discuss. I’m not sure if you are indigenous or not. I’ll leave it to indigenous people to discuss.

I am talking about capitalist states exploiting animal bodies because they see “pest control” and read “potential market to exploit,” pushing propaganda that we should kill deer because ___ and that not using their body parts is wrong because ___. If those blanks are filled in with indigenous beliefs but are actually carried out by white people and corporations, then we’ve got a problem

You’re saying the ivory trade involves indiscriminate killing of animals and destroying their bodies totally, including the tusks/horns/etc? Not killing animals with the largest tusks/horns/etc. and selling that ivory?

Also that the ivory trade would be marginally okay if the hunters and poachers ate a little elephant meat before sawing off its tusks? The elephant is dead no matter what. The reason for its death is the tusks.

If the goal is indeed to indiscriminately kill animals to reduce their population, the solution isn’t to create a market for artificial selective population pressure. This is why elephants are evolving to have smaller tusks: these are the ones that survive the gaze of ivory hunters.

Burn the corpses or something. Quit making animal bodies a “resource” to be exploited. That is how eg. ivory poaching is dealt with.

The solution to everything isn’t creating a market out of it to exploit yet more profit

What a capitalist mindset!!

Why is eating deer the first thing to come to mind for that? Just kill the deer and be done with it if you have to do it that way. Imagine calling pest control and finding them munching on bugs in your basement lol

POC. Idk if this counts exactly since it started with bigotry then was reclaimed/euphemized

The part that bothers me is that it feels a little like I’m still being called a “colored person” just in a different phrasing, and later on, in abbreviation. I still call myself brown, white people as white, etc. without issue.

So I think it’s more that brown people have always known ourselves to be brown, but not “colored” — that is a slur used by white people against us. Like in our native languages we have a concept of skin shade. But not “coloredness”

Also “POC” sounds a little weird to me, like how saying “people of brownness” or POB feels artificial and awkward.

Not really against “POC” though since people use it broadly already.

The problem with induction is it works while it works, but when it doesn’t work it doesn’t work. It’s all circular reasoning.

A hydrated person is hydrated because they hydrate themselves habitually. A dehydrated person is dehydrated because they dehydrate themselves habitually.

The word water doesn’t even come up in the above. And no consideration of what happens if you strand a hydrated person in the desert: they can’t hydrate, so are they still a hydrated person?

They’re mentioning both. The “good one” is ATLA and the Cameron one is the blue alien one

leftists just adopt “capitalism bad and culturally underdeveloped people good” as their core principle and go from there instead of reading the books

This is fucking racist

The Avatar worldview. The James Cameron one, not the good one

Yeah sure ATLA certainly has no black and white message about the consequences of industrialism and imperialism on pre-industrial societies.

I’m a conlanger, so I construct languages. I’m working on a conlang set in a world where the European conquest of India was far more brutal, including the suppression of native languages. But the people get around it with pigdins, creoles, and cants.

There is one cant in our real world which I am taking as inspiration called Khalsa Bole (the speech of the Pure ie Sikhs) or Gar Gar Bole (thundering speech), used by Akali Nihang warrior-saints. The coding is funny sometimes, and sometimes just badass.

Here’s one example:

savā lakh = 125,000-strong army (literal meaning) = approach of one Nihang Sikh (encoded meaning)

I’m second panel unfortunately. I’m trying to research the evolution of Indo-Aryan and Dravidian languages. But any resources outside of Romance and maybe Germanic is so hard to find, especially if you’re not a linguistics student at a university…

Can we talk about this kind of discourse? Namely when lurkers post about lurking… it’s damaging to the lurker reputation when people pretend to be lurkers but still actually submit posts and comments. You have no idea what it’s like to be a real lurker smh

He personally shot them. Thankfully they were already lined up in rank and file so Stalin saved on bullets by aiming just right

“You” was the plural of “thou.” Now “you” is both singular and plural, according to context, and “thou” is an archaic form meant to indicate formality (which was done previously by pluralizing “thou” to “you” per the T-V distinction). We also have many new forms to indicate the explicit plural “you” eg. “y’all.”

So maybe we use singular “they” but add a new “th’all” for the plural to keep everyone happy.

I once tripped hard and believed I died. When I came out from the trip, I still had no evidence I hadn’t finished tripping, and am actually still dying as my mind fires its dying circuits in my deathbed.

But that doubt interferes with my ability to live a normal live which I am used to and strive for, so I ignore the doubt, mostly. I check myself with little tests now and then.

Same with other existential doubts in general. If you want some official names of philosophies, Nagel’s absurdism, Buddhism, Vedanta, and maybe pragmatism would be applicable. Basically: don’t kill yourself with doubt, keep on living with some sensibility in your senses, though keep a curious mind to keep yourself in check now and then.