MaoTheLawn [any, any]

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Cake day: August 4th, 2020

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  • So far, I’m thinking about setting it in the AC-130 bomb deck, showing a little dialogue/debate between a guy who joined the military for valour and patriotism, and a guy who joined up to escape poverty - all while they prepare to load bombs, while bemoaning the fact that Iraqis call them The Great Satan and The Angel of Death.

    My purpose would be to interrogate that idea of joining up to pay off your debts - a debate thats been had often on Hexbear - that I think is settled - No, it’s not okay to join imperialists and kill people to pay off your student debt.

    It’s sort of putting a republican soldier vs a democrat one, I guess.

    I’m just struggling to find the spark in it that makes the action feel tense. I think their squabbling maybe gets in the way of the mission, causing the plane to require using it’s Angel of Death countermeasures - at which point a video of the iconic flare pattern will be projected onto the stage, leaving a strong lasting image.




  • Idk what the original prompt was but it’s take on Aisha is somewhat charitable, no? It is pretty hard to put a number on her age, and cultural norms around age were different back then, as it says.

    I get that it’s often used as an islamophobic talking point, but in terms of the purported reality it hasn’t said anything untrue or unfair.

    As a sidenote, I’m kind of coming round on Reddit atheists. It’s a shame so many of them turned into bioessentialists and fax n logic type guys, but I preferred them to this new tradcath stuff.

    Religion really is a scourge that holds up so much bigotry - that to its believers is completely unquestionable. It’s such a thought terminator. Whilst these Reddit atheists used to spout debunkable science, I always found them on some level reachable because they were operating on a reachable logic - facts did mean something, even if theirs were often warped. Now Christians and Muslims and to a lesser extent Jews, just say guhh it’s unholy it’s demonic or whatever. It’s the dark ages again.

    Jewish, Christian, Islam, all these abrahamic faiths are part of the same blob, and I think these days Islam often gets a bit of a shielding from leftists because real islamophobia is so prevalent and is such a powerful psyop - plus there’s a high coincidence of anti imperialist sentiment in Islamic countries (due to the various empires pillaging of them for 200 years or more).

    In of itself, and within leftist circles I feel it’s fair to say that Islam has much in common with Christianity and Judaism, which is to say that it’s also unscientific dogma that has an innate level of conservatism within its sacred texts.



  • Sex is good. Porn is often not.

    Other than a lot of porn being exploitative in it’s production, overconsumption of porn is very common, and often contributes to people having weird attitudes to over sexualising women.

    It fucks with your reward system. You can absolutely become addicted. It’s not a particularly healthy habit. You can desensitise yourself to real sex and change the way you’re able to enjoy it.

    In these times, where you get served up porn content on your explore page for no good reason, I think porn consumption can easily become unhealthily pushed upon you.

    The volcel police meme is a bit tired now, but I do think it’s good that we keep this site mostly non sexual.