TheOctonaut

This is your brain on ActivityPub

I’m glad you see it working out, what’s next (once the likes of me have been dealt with)?

Do you have a point, or do you just prefer to copy and paste things at me in the hope that I’ll read them? Alright let’s entertain it.

Does that genuinely say we’re importing Israeli military drones? 🤣

Western civilisation includes bad and good like every other civilisation. It includes Ireland as well as Britain, Gaul as well as Rome. People who see it as nothing but imperialism would do well to remember who was “imperialed” first. As you’ve rightly spotted Ireland suffered a greatly. As an Irishman I’ll tell you I would rather you not compound matters by deciding that that erased anything positive about the culture we’re part of.

Commenting on the daydream was not a value statement. Western civilisation is… well, not exactly great for the world right now. For better or worse however, I’m in it and so are my kids. So if it’s alright with you, I’d rather work to improve it than cheer on various other forms of imperialism so that, uh, I get to see the “worse” part of “worse before it gets better”.

I appreciate that you see both as zero, that’s remarkably insightful for this place.

I’m from Ireland and it was a local election.

As it turns out, when you aren’t from somewhere that leftist thought is completely alien, you don’t have to daydream of the collapse of western civilisation to see change.

Ah yogszy! Been a while since I saw your name. How’s the collapse of the west progressing? Imminent, I believe it was. In 2024.

You’ve misunderstood what I meant by “source”. I meant “who is benefiting from making young leftists think like this” not “lol nice substack bro”.

Rest is spot on though 🫡

One billion times more productive than posting about Russia on discussion board

Yeah, no, I’m familiar and as it turns out repeating nonsense from “Telegram sources” isn’t changing my opinions of anything. As someone who has literally voted for communist candidates in elections in the last year, I’m glad to have grown up before this type of American sports-team need for religious unquestioning, black and white adherence to whatever the online bubble is totally organically pushing. If someone wants to in a handful of words categorise Hungary as “crushed” or Ukraine as “Nazi” that’s not a serious line of thought that needs to be interrogated. Its source does.

Until my new PieFed client figures out how to block instances, please don’t expect me to engage with naked fluff talking points on here. I’m interested in speaking to people about how they themselves engage with it.

Of course, I’ll likely just be banned, because engaging with other viewpoints is not exactly as encouraged here as you’ve suggested.

I mean every single sentence has some ugly falsehood. There’s no point in addressing nonsense like claiming that the EU will “crush” Belgium like it’s crushed Hungary (what), that NATO has been defeated in Ukraine (what), that the EU rigs elections in member states (what). That’s not what I’m here for. These people are lost.

The important thing is that this person believes, or consistently acts as if they believe, that all these things are true. They’re not being rhetorical, those are the things that inform their opinions. You need to consider this when assessing what they say. Like, if you want to ask about the EU being fascists now apparently, consider that the evidence is things like crushing the independence of union states, rigging elections, and being defeated in border wars. Can we think of any nation state this actually applies to? Why would a person have such a blind spot?

It’s important that you understand when framing your response, that the other guy actually believes the thing’s hes saying.

Fucking ouch bro

Well right now your country keeps advocating for an ongoing genocide so maybe just shrug off their accusations instead of siding with actual fascists again. You know, like some other mighty nations like, uh, Ireland have managed.

Even better, let’s just dissolve the German state - younger than several toilets I’ve shat in - as a failed experiment that has not gone more than a few decades without perpetrating or endorsing some horrendous human rights abuses. Much easier to ignore baseless accusations when they’re targeted at Saxony and Prussia and Bavaria than the state that still sings Deutschland Uber Alles In Der Welt.