/hell/ - internet death cult

>>5332
apologies if this gets a bit political/uncomfy but

my mum has become radicalised by twitter, facebook and youtube in the past few months and i absolutely hate it. it has turned her into a really bitter, ignorant, perpetually angry/outraged person, and i don't think she even realises it. she's constantly complaining and fearmongering about immigrants, trans people, etc despite hardly ever interacting with them irl. she's stuck in a massive echo chamber, believing damn near everything she sees online and not even willing to change her mind on a lot of things. it's almost always american culture-war crap too, which has very little relevance to our country.

even when she's not watching political slop, she's watching videos of paedophiles getting busted, or celeb gossip about scientology or whatever. obviously these things are more justified, but there's still that underlying misery/negativity behind them if that makes sense ("this guy was trying to groom kids", "this actor is in a cult and abuses his family", etc.). like she doesn't really watch anything innocent or harmless (eg: cat videos or something), it's always something negative, something outrageous, something involving someone to look down upon and feel better about herself, however justified or unjustified that may be. if that makes sense, idk.

i think the worst part is that she still has good intentions, that she's still a good person at heart. like i don't think she genuinely hates immigrants or trans people or whatever, but her concerns (however valid or invalid) are being exploited by professional outrage merchants and grifters who actually *are* legitimately racist/transphobic/etc, and that she's too naive to realise it.

idk where i'm going with this but i just absolutely hate social media and how quickly it has changed her, with zero signs of stopping. i can't even bear to look at her sometimes because it just makes me sad, and i don't know what to do about it. at least my dad feels the exact same way so i have someone to vent about it with, but my god it's depressing. can anyone else relate to this?

>>5347
My aunt believes in psychic aliens. I don't need to interact with her tho. Also, I believe AI development poses an existential threat, but I think that is warranted since AI experts also believe it now.

Relatedly, AI optimizing for engagement is stoking bad vibes…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/

It's probably going to get worse. I don't know what to do about it, but start guarding your focus more diligently is a good idea. Keep a focus journal and write about the kinds of ideas you want to engage with and spend time on, and if you notice you are spending significant time focused on other things, it might be an issue. Maybe tell your mom you are worried she is spending an unhealthy amount of time focusing on things she hates in a really unproductive way.

I saw a discussion on some other site that said racism should be allowed because it isn't really the same as hurting another person. After all, these are just words and you know sticks and stones right? Liberals have a "no harm" principal but their idea of harm is very narrow. They only see non-consensual damaging of property as harmful, of course the body is someone's property according to Locke and therefore sucker punching a guy is really nothing more than unlawful property damage. When you yell the n word on the street, nobody's property rights are being enfringed on. After all, nobody owns the sidewalk right? Heh (this is actually not true). Hence, as distasteful and offensive yelling insults at blacks or trans or bald people is, its not actually harmful unless it falls under libel or you're doing it inside a classroom or a private place where its not allowed. But this contradicts the experiences of everyday people. At somepoint in our lives, we've all felt hurt by something somebody has said to us e.g. being told your brother was killed by a Tesla car, getting rejected, getting fired, being called a subhuman etc.

Because we don't see words as harmful we end up throwing it on the injured person. Its not anyone's fault if you're offended, you just need to toughen up and know words can't hurt you. The consequences of this narrow idea of harm are open to see. Western civilization is the only place in human history were randomly insulting others is seen as a good thing and pushing someone to suicide is perfectly legal. In Edo Japan, insulting someone could result in loosing your head, getting into a massive fight or being whipped by the county magistrate for being a dick. The internet just took this permissive Western attitude and accelerated it. Most websites have this "no harm principal" ideology where mocking someone isn't considered harm and if you let humans be cruel and make it a virtue they will crank it up to the max. Its no wonder that ZOMG where are teh ruelz 4chan became the hellscape it is.

Back in the 70s, gays had this retarded permissive culture of mass orgies and having tons of sex with random strangers in bathhouses, like 30 a night. Then AIDS hit and they screamed and refused to close down the whore houses or change their behavior. It got dozens of them (and other people) killed. Today they accept virtually no responsibility, it was all Reagan's fault or bisexuals did it or blame the Africans for shooting chimps in the Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>5350
>Western civilization is the only place in human history were randomly insulting others is seen as a good thing and pushing someone to suicide is perfectly legal.
I got some bad news for you if you truly believe that. Not saying its not a problem, but its a worldwide problem not limited to just the west. In Japan, people are often bullied harshly, especially kids, to the point of suicide and in some case outright murder. The teachers will either not care or cover it up to protect the school's reputation. This isn't a problem that stops only at school either, jobs in Japan are notorious for shaming people outright, underhandedly mocking or subverting people, or if they don't want to fire them (due to workplace culture) but want them gone they will put you in rooms with the most menial labour possible until you quit. It's a far cry from Edo-era Japan that we are taught about. In the middle east and Africa there are humiliation rituals done on people. And Asia has plenty of horror stories of people just being outright twats (mainland china is particularly aggressively hostile to commoners and foreigners alike).
Where the west differs, however, is that there is a weird sense of morality attached to being a dickhead. "Don't care, didn't ask, plus you're white", "I don't like foreigners invading my country", "Trans people are ruining the country", "Black fatigue" etc etc
The west seems to know that this sort of behavior is shunned but justifies it with moralistic values to get away with it. You see this on twitter on the time. It's not just because they don't like the person, its because their views are "corny" or they are an external characteristic that they can't control and that external characteristic has "history" to the abuser. It's almost like the west has a toddler-like mentality of trying to abuse others but explain to their mother that it was okay they did it. Nobody truly accepts their own accountability but lops the accountability on famous people, ecelebs, political figureheads, etc for a culture that the average person had a part in making.

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>>5351
Well yeah, America has spread its values to the world. Pretty much every country on earth is influenced by liberal principals that go back to Locke and are baked into the legal system and capitalist property regime. Japanese can be pretty bad but they aren’t as overt and aggressive as Americans.

>It's a far cry from Edo-era Japan that we are taught about. In the middle east and Africa there are humiliation rituals done on people.
Humiliation rituals were passed as a legal punishment for crimes and misdeeds, not on the innocent. They were designed to knock a person down a peg by hurting their pride and reputation. Generally, in Asia there were strong cultures of honor so slight insults can and did cause serious fights and feuding. Insulting a person was a criminal offense in many places. In Islamic law, you can be whipped for calling a woman a slut or insulting a Jew and one Chinese emperor had a magistrate executed for hate speech against Huis. Non-European cultures tended not to separate signs from meanings, they often attributed power to symbols (good example: talismans) and literally believed words could cause physical harm (hence taboos on witchcraft, songs to cure sickness or demanding prayers as a civic duty) whereas we think words are just air.

>Where the west differs, however, is that there is a weird sense of morality attached to being a dickhead.
A popular character archetype in Western pop culture is a guy who’s a blunt asshole and gives no fucks, the bad ass. But it’s always reasoned away that his opponents deserved it so he’s a tough good asshole who’s beating up the right people. e.g. Kiefer Sutherland in 24 has no redeemable qualities. All he does is torture people but he’s torturing the right people (bad guys) so he’s a good torturer. This brings up another disturbing side to Western culture, the way they paint certain groups as irredeemably evil subhumans and so anything, no matter how sickening, can be done to punish them for their sins. You see this in online mobs where these people claim to be avenging some injustice, but then stoop to the same lows as the people they attack.

And then vibes like this and Kill6BillionDemons

I feel Croatia will be a very powerful place soon, with utmost global influence and strange mixtures of eternal peoples of this eternal world and eternal Croatia.

Croatia is utmost filled with dormant tricks. Multiverses of strangest verities

So only the intended vibes are able.
Therefore a utmost diversity shall make Croatia so magical, like Hogwarts.

It’ll be so interesting, the world is in dire need of fresh power and a melting pot that respects the purest pures

Croatia has some of the oldest and longest trade routes from Europe to EastAsia and Central Asia and Persia and areas around Persia.
Many pure and mixed Bactrians exist in Croatia.

>>5239
Sure you can! Just tap your finger on something. Maybe you can't count very high with that, but keeping a simple 1-2-3-4 rhythm does the same.

>>5240
i had a very Not Fun attack because of something someone said but next time ill do this <3 thank you for the idea i hadnt thought of this myself ily

Very poorly.

masturbation

I have the opposite problem. I rarely think, but I still feel worn away by the pains of living.

i am sorry

give it up now or the hostage gets it

>>5285
UNO Reverse

This is the kind of thread I've been missing in my life. Thanks sushis.

>>5276
mind is mutable, peepee is not

I have studied the holy scriptures and I don’t see anything inherently sinful with transitioning. The only obstacle is technological. The technology isn’t there yet. It’s imperfect.

>>3020
is that famous finnish game developer arsi "hakita" patala topping on the left picrel

if i do it now (18) will i make it? i'm 5'9" </3

to make things worse, i have very curly hair, so i can't even nbcope. i look like a small, rotund jewish child that has been vigorously stretched upwards. my shoulders aren't awful and apparently midshits have good odds before 25 of avoiding the bonepill. still sucks though.

>>5283
There might be nothing wrong with transitioning but many aspects of trans culture are sinful anyway. Chief among them coveting worldly possessions and engaging in idolatry.

i agree! all girls should have a nice landship so she and her friends can go to tea parties and stuff.

Sword of the stranger: two different animation studios collide

>>5288
I would like to see the studio that animated these two doing anime about that, as well as a big classic Sengoku Jidai anarchy anime about many different clans.

For the first one, imagine some girls find a big old tank and just make their own separate world in it. A slice of life. Funny. But the tank still has ammo

Is this board still alive?

I'm actually normal, this test is just incorrect.

>>5264
nice try mate but you didn't even connect 4. you're a bloody weirdo you is

She probably lied about me being a good kisser but at least she said it.

a strange feeling to consider how normie ive gotten these days…like i've been in mental hospital times enough times that i'm not your average normie but i guess i'm like … trying to go to college and stuff … i don't like living with my parents …

>>5242
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>>5242
lost