juelzsantanabandana:

Daffy Duck

• darkskin (automatically with the shits)
• got them hands boy
•  space jam and he wore a hat like R.Kelly
• he fucks wit Darkwing Duck and u kno that nigga a shooter!!!

Donald Duck

• got that wack hat on
• no handz bruh
  
• wears a bowtie ( no bitches)
• smokes wet (how else u explain wearin a  T shirt with ya dick out)

just-shower-thoughts:

It’s almost as if Hugh Hefner was projecting a force-field that protected creepy famous men, and with his death they were suddenly exposed.

memecucker:

you know theres some fanfics especially AUs where by the later part of the story it bears absolutely no resemblance to the original work in any meaningful way well DuckTales is basically that but for A Christmas Carol

tomasnau:

watsonsparker:

swaywithb:

stappls:

riverofmemoriesft:

alicaneiceindigo:

Born in 1999 and remember all of this. Particularly the dangerous scooters.

My childhood

Damn it I’m old.
Wtf do kids use now?

@nervousbros

born in ‘87 and relatable

schmergo:

scopesandskullties:

schmergo:

Discourse: Willy Wonka is Old Testament God

Explain

Sings “if you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it,” then kicks people out for eating stuff he told them not to eat

persverso:

nihilistgirlfriend:

thivus:

persverso:

Imagine the opposite of a catgirl.

Just a normal cat except it has human ears, hands and feet. And no tail.

bad post op

a chimpanzee

- furry

- paws

- no tail

- people ears

- horrifying eyes

conclusion: a chimpanzee is a reverse catgirl

My god you’re right.

discoursedrome:

argumate:

it’s been said before, but it’s still kind of strange that mobile games advertise by proudly claiming to be more addictive than heroin or whatever

“you won’t believe the time and money you’ll waste on this!” doesn’t really sound like a selling point, does it?

YES this is the best thing. The only thing I like better than this is the way chocolate is advertised by highlighting how immoral it is

rrrick:

America

fnord888:

cptsdcarlosdevil:

definitely the best thing you can buy with being rich is not having to worry about money which is why it puzzles me that so many rich people choose to buy cars and vacations and fancy houses instead

I agree.

But…

I think that, even if you’re pretty rich, it’s easy to end up buying more “not worrying about money” than you can afford. And that may look, from the outside, like buying cars and vacations.

discoursedrome:

argumate:

normal brain: Hugh Hefner exploited women

glowy brain: Hugh Hefner exploited men

space brain: Hugh Hefner exploited no one

galaxy brain: we exploited Hugh Hefner

The final duty of a celebrity to the society that worships them is to have portents read in their entrails after they die. What do the life and death of this person say about our society? We must ask the oracles.

oligopsoneia:

oligopsoneia:

There are exactly three modes of democratic governance:

1. Transformism. Two identical or nearly identical parties rotate in and out of power, sometimes on an explicitly agreed-upon schedule (though they need not do so explicitly.) Sometimes they may differ on cultural questions - in particular it’s common to have a liberal urban secular party and a conservative rural religious party - but everyone involved is united on maintaining social peace, capitalist rule, and the rule of law while not being fanatic about these, using corruption, protectionism, and other devices as necessary to ward off threats to their right or left, as well as to redirect surplus towards themselves.
2. Social Democracy. High growth rates and union density allow workers to exact a share of the surplus from capitalists in exchange for capitalist control of the shop floor and social peace. Typically has a more explicitly party system than transformism, with one party directly accountable to labor and spearheading redistribution efforts, while the other is more cautious (but forced to tail.) Certain fractions of capital (high-risk sectors, or ones dependent on government spending or low-wage consumers, for instance) can be won over as long as demands are limited. (High growth rates can come from technological innovation or extracting tribute or what have you.)
3. Ceasarism. Middle classes who don’t want to pay the danegeld of social democracy, or virtually anybody who’s tired of transformism and can’t get bought off by it, turns to forces seen as “outside party politics” but, according to the rules of democratic legitimacy, nevertheless “representing the people.” This never actually achieves its goals and instead almost always becomes a form of transformism, though there are kinds that can look similar to social democracy as well (depending on the presence of the real preconditions for the same.)

img-whoahdude.jpg

just realized these are just oligarchy, democracy, monarchy with democratic modes of legitimation

grimelords:

The two most culturally important things from the past few years are Friday by Rebecca Black because we learned we like hating things more than we like liking them and Cookie Clicker cause we figured out the only reason people play video games is to watch the numbers go up and since then we’ve just been applying those lessons to new and better incarnations of those two things.

snakecathedral:

kontextmaschine:

same to you, buddy

Neal Stephenson voice: premodem and postmodem worlds respectively 

godtiers:

if the lyric ‘i have a tendency to wear my mind on my sleeve / i have a history of taking off my shirt’ was written by like fucking fall out boy or halsey or basically anyone besides the barenaked ladies you’d see it in the description of every blog with a black and red coloured theme

hexcodes:

gayscreaming:

iapislazuli:

jock is NOT the opposite of goth. prep is the opposite of goth, and nerd is the opposite of jock. like this

switch goth and prep and u got a political compass

altonin:

idc for oscar wilde & flowery chintz aestheticism is the exact opposite of my taste, but the worst crime of the thin gays was stealing his legacy for their annoying pseudo renaissance painting photoshoots full of wan british twinks surrounded by shiny fruit, when oscar wilde was 100% the original fatfem

every chosen moment he had was spent, like, eating toasted quail served in a smashed fabergé egg. the only gay men with genuine inheritance to oscar wilde’s aesthetic legacy are fat drama students with enormous floppy hair who stan opera singers from the fifties

konstance:

Ode to viral facebook comics. 

the-grey-tribe:

the-grey-tribe:

I think I understand why nrx essays are always at least 10000 words long now.

Themes and Influences

Counterintuitive Insight Porn: The Last Psychiatrist, Hotel Concierge, Malcolm Gladwell

Gratuitous Longposts: Steve Yegge, Scott Alexander, (maybe Oswald Spengler)

Going out of your Way to Appear Like More of a Dick: Zed Shaw, Jim Goad, Friedrich Nietzsche, (maybe Nydwracu)

Giving Catchy Names to Patterns: Paul Graham, Big Yud, Robin Hanson, Richard Dawkins, Venkatesh Rao, David Chapman, Christopher Alexander, Ward Cunningham, Friedrich Nietzsche, (maybe Oswald Spengler)

Reading Old Books: Friedrich Nietzsche, Oswald Spengler

Not mentioned above: Hannah Ahrendt, Robert Jay Lifton, Eric Hoffer, Jane Jacobs

Style

A good way to get a feel for the style of an artist and why it works is to look at what happens when others try to copy him and to see what works and what doesn’t.

Darkly Hinting at the Fridge Horror is definitely the theme that ties them all together in Moldbug’s writing. But his essays don’t start out that way.

The Blueprint

Like an old The Simpsons episode, which starts out with a simple problem and its zany solution to set up the main plot of the episode, these essay start out with the description of a historical situation, or a very technical/procedural/non-ideological problem of modern society. The digression into history allows the author to set up the mental stage in a way that does not immediately raise ideological shields, activate old thought patterns and fall victim to cognitive dissonance. If I write about Kings, Jacobins and Girondists, you are much more likely to pay attention than if I wrote about Democrats and Bernie Bros.

Readers are intrigued: Jacobins, CPSU, Gavrilo Princip, Weather Underground - damn interesting!

In this historical situation, you start the narrative. You explain the problems of the common man, based on the contents of this old book you read about the man who you assume was quite common and typical for his era. This might even be a great idea to counteract your biases. The biases that colour your perception of history are not so much your own, as they are the biases of historians who tried to fit long-term historical trends into neat theories of historical development. In hindsight, the right side of history is curiously always the one that won in the end. Isn’t that neat? The older a book is, the more time was there in the meantime for written history to congeal into an overarching narrative.

After you have used the old book to start the historical narrative, you can extrapolate into later eras and today. Viewed from the past, the present looks not inevitable, but terrifying, and the future will be as terrifying!

Now, you need to go back into the past. Do not dwell too much on the present - yet! Start with another anecdote or statistic about New England in 1850. You must let the first anecdote percolate in the mind of the reader. If you let them think about the present again, they might reject everything you said based on tribalism, ideology or wishful thinking. The past is a place where intuitions don’t apply and we can examine situations on an intellectual level. (If not: Abraham Lincoln was a Republican! The Progressive Era was kind of racist!)

Repeat this a couple of times, so that the reader can form new intuitions based on these examples. Now tie this back into your Big Buzzword Theory! Give a catchy name to the pattern, and link back to an earlier post where you explained the pattern and its implications in more general terms.

Now, the the takeaway: Apply the theory to he present situation by showing how the situation fits into it and how it is similar to the earlier instances of the pattern, but don’t draw the conclusions explicitly! You can darkly hint, and leave it to the reader to figure it out. You must end the essay now.

When he walks away to the next tab, the epistemic fridge horror will slowly thaw and make him realise: “Oh my god! I don’t believe in democracy any more!” That feeling fades after a couple of hours.

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youzicha:

supplyside:

boosters

This looks like a G.I. Joe toy.