Yes, I’m in a similar boat. My general worldview has generally stayed the same since I was a child: every human deserves human rights. The vehicle by which I want to see that out, though, is what’s changed, as well as specifically what those rights ought to be.

I don’t know if this is true, because I’m definitely not a determinist by any stretch, but there is a part of me that believes that those core fundamental bits are fairly well solidified by the time we reach adulthood. Like, the framework stays the same, but what it looks like is what changes. Iunno I’m just rambling.

Hell yes. I watched a couple last night and they’re excellent. Seems like he’s tight with the Let’s Talk Religion guy as well, so that’s cool. Thanks for the recommendation!

No, but I’m gonna check ‘em out. Always on the lookout for this type of stuff

Hell yes this looks right up my alley

While not necessarily documentaries, and, as much as I am loathe to recommend YouTube content creators, I really like

• Ancient Americas
• History with Cy
• History Time
• Religion for Breakfast
• Let’s Talk Religion
• Esoterica
• Historia Civilis

Mostly because I enjoy falling asleep to the sound of men’s voices talking about long ago and not-so-long-ago times. There are others, of course, but these are my favorites.

Yeah I see that now. Thank you.

I think one of the ways my autism comes out is just like, not understanding neurotypicals? (No shit, huh? (Also I hate that language but whatever)) And in moments like this, where something is just so painfully obvious to me — something I’ve been shouting about for literally my entire life — it makes my brain hurt trying to comprehend how people can’t or won’t see it.

Like, I used to labor under the assumption that all people believe, as you said, that capital pushes the state into fascism, but that everyone was just willfully complicit. Then shit like this happens and I’m like, “oh wait… yall like, really thought corporations were like… okay?” I dunno, does that make sense?

Sometimes I just feel really alien in this world and this is just one of those moments.

What is up with this recent spate of anti-gnome sentiment? I no longer feel safe in this community

I live in a pretty rural area and it’s a mix of dirt poor schmucks such as myself, and petite bourgeoise capitalist landowners. 99% of the population is united in their love of things that go and while I do appreciate their enthusiasm, as I also love things that go I really only love them when they’re either aimed at a target, fired during daylight, and don’t create a metric fuckton of smoke, shrapnel, and waste.

Now, filling a rotted melon with tannerite and making that go ? Now THAT I fw.

I dunno, bud. Not all veterans are bad. I’m friends with several and at the time of enlisting all of them were:

1. children whose brains weren’t truly capable of providing informed consent and making such a life altering decision
2. poor as shit

All of them have since turned out to be extremely left of center, and engage in direct action.

Sail the high seas and procure yourself a copy of Samin Nosrat’s book, Salt Fat Acid Heat.

One of the better primers on how to cook, as opposed to your typical cook book that is a poorly edited collection of recipes, over-saturated photos, and weepy/saccharine philosophical musings about the author-chef’s origins and joie de gastronomie

Though not one of his best, Blindboy touched on Dubai chocolate some months back in the episode “Fairy Forts, Anthrax, Dubai Chocolate bars and Seagulls are all intimately connected and flow as one in the cognitive ether.”