Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]

Frog speedrun any%

Yeah, exactly.

Posting this just for reference because I was just watching it.

Donald Trump is NOT a ‘threat to the deep state.’ Here is his warmongering record [Video]

Dmitri Smirnov, KGB.

Probably the Multi-Lenin-Marketer. They do a lot of promotions, if you have a Lenin coat you’re willing to part with, they’ll give you 50 yards of Lenin linens for it.

Wrote a shitpost on my alt.

I’m convinced. I can’t believe communists have been wasting all this time fussing over material conditions when we could’ve been exploring our dreamscapes to level up our Arete and master the Forces Sphere in order to throw fireballs at the bourgeoisie.

This doesn’t seem that bad? It’s expanding on this

Oh god, if this becomes widely available we’re going to get so many takes where some smoothbrain on Twitter tricks the model into saying something ridiculous and then presents it as China’s ideology.

Death of the author doesn’t have to do with whether the author is literally alive or dead (this is still a shit interpretation, obviously)

Do you now or have you ever had an account on a tankie instance?

Do you now or have you ever had an account on an instance federated with a tankie instance?

Fascinating. So if one state doesn’t recognize another, that means that it “clearly states its aim is to fully annex it.” So for example, the US doesn’t recognize the government of Afghanistan, so that means the US “clearly states” it aims to reinvade and fully annex Afghanistan, do I have that right?

Or maybe you meant to say that Russia implicitly suggested that it intended to fully annex Ukraine, according to your speculation?

they have clearly stated was fully conquering Ukraine?

Source?

The first thing to note is that Buddhism is a broad term that contains a lot of different belief systems. It is also plagued by poor translations of terms that don’t translate well into English, especially without looking meanings of the original terms.

Imo, your friend has distorted and misrepresented Buddhist teachings in order to justify not changing their behavior regarding meat-eating.

I’d challenge the use of the term “deserved” altogether, and I’d say “caused” might be a more accurate interpretation. Karma is not about an intelligent, all-powerful being passing judgement and smacking you down. It’s sometimes referred to as “the law of cause and effect.” It’s described as a function of the universe, the same way that physical laws makes objects fall to the ground when dropped. The exact way in which this works is up to interpretation. More secular-minded Buddhists might point to logical and observable consequences to explain it, while more spiritually-minded ones might argue that it’s more of an invisible, unexplainable force that carries over between lifetimes.

To use an example: a child that is fed a hamburger by their parents does not have knowledge of the animal’s suffering that was required to make it, nor do they have agency to control their diet or to prevent the animal from being harmed. But, an animal is still harmed through the process. The intent and agency of the actor are not important in the same way that it doesn’t matter if a ball on top of a slope is pushed or knocked over. It would only really matter if you’re dealing in terms of judgement.

It is not your responsibility to enforce karma on others. Karma isn’t a positive or negative force, and just because something happens that doesn’t make it good or fair or deserved. Rather, the idea is to navigate the world in such a way that you minimize undesirable consequences. Buddhist precepts are a list of guidelines that are intend to do just that, the precept about nonviolence being the first. The idea is: “Bad things seem to happen a lot when people go around killing living beings so it’s probably better to not do that, generally speaking.”

You are correct that your friend’s interpretation and worldview is a mess of contradictions that could just as easily be used to justify harm to humans, and that they’re blatantly violating the first precept. But I would argue that they’re not accurately representing Buddhist teachings, and their views shouldn’t be held as representative of the belief system, though admittedly, like I said there are a lot of different traditions and beliefs.

Well, I hope he recovers from his lack of sickness soon.

All The Shah’s Men by Stephen Kinzer covers the1953 coup and is pretty good (afaik)

Under the monarchy, women were forbidden from wearing traditional religious garb and would be stripped of it and beaten in public, because the shah wanted the country to appear more Western to appeal to chauvanists (like the people you find on ). After the ban ended, a stigma remained and women who dressed traditionally were assumed to be poor and uneducated.

pennies on the dollar

Psychopathic framing. “Look how efficiently we’re killing people!”

Also great example of conflating states with people. Maybe Ukraine still wants to fight, but Ukrainians are being conscripted against their will. In the same way, wearing Russia down may serve the interests of the US government, but it certainly doesn’t benefit the American people in any way. The best thing for the Ukrainian people would be to stop the killing at any cost, even if it meant territorial concessions. They could’ve saved countless lives if they’d done this from the start, and eventually that’s what’s going to happen anyway, but unfortunately countless people have died and countless more will before the ruling class decides to stop forcing the poor into the meat grinder.

How the fuck is my life supposed to be better because of dead Russian soldiers?