Basman

French neocolonialism is a perfect example of modern day imperialism which you as a French citizen and to an extent as a European are responsible for politically. Not guilt because it's not your fault that the French government is pulling this shit. But it's on you to be informed on what's going on and responsibly do politics. Not artificially impoverish third world countries.

All empires are oppressive and brutal. Mongol Empire use captured people of the people they where fihgting as meat shields during battle. Julius Caesar wiped out the Celtic Helvetii. Sparta kept the Helots, an entire people, as slaves. The Spartan population was 80% slaves. It's about power and ability to dominate a people. Race theory was first and foremost a product of an unequal power relations between Europeans and different ethnicities in my opinion, especially Africans, who where weak. Not to mention the racism against Irish who are white. It's always been about power because it's useful to keep certain people down as cheap slaves and to extract natural resources.

Guilt is silly. It's not your fault what your ancestors did generations ago. Responsibility on the other hand can be appropriate. Not being imperialistic in current day is an obvious one.

When a random third world country has oil

Cringe woke anti-western presentism. Simple as. The british could have been a lot worse considering. They had good things going for them too which they spread. At the end of the day, I would rather speak English than French or Spanish or some other nonce language.

He might becom a lolcow at this rate, where people only watch him to make fun of him. Very sad.

Looking forward to reading it. It's probably going to be a divisive book for the general readership.

You just learned how to not lead your life. You will keep learning till you improve. Failure is the price of success. As long as you keep pushing yourself you'll be met with failure and setbacks. That means your growing. You should take some pride in that. The alternative would be to turn into a slug and never realize your talents. Either slug or dealing with failure. Your choice. Some dreams are not meant to be. I wanted to get into art school. In hindsight, I wouldn't fit in to the culture and I didn't really need it. Don't jump to conclusions that because one dream didn't pan out that there isn't somewhere you're meant to be. You should think of yourself as a skillset instead of a title. Your skillset can be applied elsewhere with a similair or a better impact meaningful to you than your original dream. Jobs come and go but a valuable skillsets always maintains it value. A nurse might lose theirs job during rough budget cyts but a "carer" will always find work (elder care, kindergarten, rescue operations, ship nurse, etc.). What about chess do you find meaningful? What skillset do you learn from chess (or will learn in the future)? How can you apply your skillset? What kind of impact do you want to have on people? How can you use your skillset to create that impact? Your parents can't control you. It's on you take ownership of your life. They can't do anything to you without you letting them. Your grown man. Your parents could very well have set you back, but it's on you to actually lead your life. No one will come rescue you. What do you need to do to take full ownership of your life? What's the first step? Last thing, but if your autistic you probably have a tendency to ruminate uncontrollably. Find some way to manage that. Idk what that would. You'll make yourself miserable with negative rumination.

America is pretty unique when it comes industriousnes and innovation. They steal all the best talent with crazy pay, among many other things. Down to it's culture and institutions, America is geared towards innovation and success. Lot of catching up to do for Europe and China, which is probably not ever completely reachable realistically.

How much you wanna bet that Mark Zuckerberg is a porn addict?

Silicone valley tech bro billionaires. My god 😬 As close as you get to social dark matter in human form. Like a black hole that is just pure black void in terms of likeability. It's both hilarious and tragic how you can become insanely successful of being so problem solving oriented psychologically, IE. autistic thinking, but at the same time be so cringey and removed from the rest of the world. When your a hammer everything looks like an "opportunity to expand your network and build your portfolio 🙂" Socializing is treated as a problem to be solved. It doesn't feel like release. Ultimately it becomes bothersome for people like this. Great work team.

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You have entrepreneur mind. You approach art from a largely entrepreneurial perspective. This is not how artists think. I dislike how AI deludes non-artistic tech bros and business dudes to think they are artists when they can low effort make a product all of a sudden.

You can't directly commodify an aesthetic experience. It hinges on genuine sensory engagement with another person, which is tactile and visceral and circumstantial. Money opens doors, leads to opportunities and gives a relationship value and power, but love itself is immaterial. A relationship can exist without love and emotional depth.

Charlie Kirk was acting in reaction to certain moments in history that we are in currently relative to distrust of the government. Killing him doesn't change that and it's also undemocratic. Killing your political opponents is some Congo shit. The mentality of certain Americans is quiet polarized, undemocratic and apolitical. There's a general lack of interest in negotiating political disagreement or even acknowledging it as such, instead seeing it as moral or intellectual failure. It's disturbing when killing someone is seen as legitimate because it shows that people aren't doing politics. It's inane culture war. Bad tribe bad.