Sebrof [comrade/them, he/him]

Very cool, I got to see it years ago (and at that time I didn’t know his original gravesite was elsewhere, wish I would have seen that too). There were a couple of letters that people had left from all over the world. It was touching.

Europeans. Why are you this way?

A little off topic, but I remember when Arecibo collapsed and my astro friends didn’t seem that worried as “they’ll just build it back”. I wasn’t even fully China-pilled back then, but I knew that from where the largest (full dish) radio telescope was and from where all the astro academic papers we were citing were from that the US was cooked.

Sometimes you get heavy bombardment

Gliese 710

Nemesis eat your heart out

I like to read the comments on those articles, I shouldn’t because it damages my brain. But I’m fascinated by how deranged they are. Ever since I was young I’ve been fascinated and horrified by how right wing and conspiracy-minded pretty much all comment sections are. Like in the FT article you have manty people calling Merkel a communist, boring. But I got a chuckle when one was challenged and they respond by literally saying that Germany’s not far off from having the means of production owned by a classless society, and that’s the problem.

While I can’t speak for liberal policy makers and higher-ups, the average liberal voter is so supportive of civility politics and “free speech” that it’s going to get them killed. A protest I was at recently had neo-confererate counter protestors and a progressive lib I spoke to at the protest said that while they didn’t like the neo-confererates, they had as much right to be out there as we did, and we have to respect their freedom of speech.

So yeah, the frustration is real.

Liberals voters are fucking idealists and they don’t understand power. When they lose they’ll be so confused because they followed all the rules! They think politics has refs or something. Most won’t even care too much, they’ll keep shifting further and further right as the empire decays.

I don’t think the argument would be that the opinions that people form, or want to form, always come from a conscious understanding of imperialism. The author would likely say that Westerners want to believe, and do believe, the rest of the world is bad, dangerous, unfree, undemocratic, totalitarian, etc. to make them better about their own lives - even if, or because they are, facing difficulties themselves.

The article mentions China and the supposed genocide of Uyghurs in Xinjiang as an example. The phrase may as well be gibberish to Westerners. They don’t know, nor want to know, anything about the topic.

You are right, they aren’t doing any critical thinking. They are simply repeating nonsensical lines and absurdities, and they don’t want to think about it.

They don’t understand imperialism on a conscious level. But they want to believe that even if they can’t pay their bills, and their own life in the West has its hardships, and their state could be doing more, that at least other places are worse. And they want to feel superior to the rest of the world, so they believe any atrocity propaganda they stumble across to fuel their coping mechanism. But it doesn’t require an understanding of imperialism on their part. If they think about it at all, I’d guess they would attribute the superiority of the West to white supremacy, “democratic values”, etc.

As said in Masses, Elites, and Rebels

Westerners aren’t helpless innocents whose minds are injected with atrocity propaganda, science fiction-style; they’re generally smug bourgeois proletarians who intelligently seek out as much racist propaganda as they can get their hands on. This is because it fundamentally makes them feel better about who they are and how they live. The psychic and material costs are rationally worth the benefits

Westerners are willingly complicit in crimes because they instinctively and correctly understand that they benefit as a class (as a global bourgeois proletariat) from the exploitation enabled by their military and their propaganda — organs of coercion and consent.

Any viable example, any existing proof that there is a better way of living must be destroyed at all costs

Edit: And as others mentioned. If something, like a publicly owned economy, stands in the way of profits it must be destroyed

I can’t wait to dance on the ashes of this joke nation

Agreed

Link for anyone who hasn’t read it yet: Masses, Elites, and Rebels

Lol I knew it! But it’s a good article so makes sense. A big fear of mine is to be one of those commenters that gets the brainwashing link posted to them and scolded by 72tril for not doing the assigned reading lol.

It’d be like one of those nightmares where you’re back in school in your underwear

The (20)20s are the new (20)30s

That’s awesome!

Please take all my energy in your struggle to destroy

I feel I’ve become more and more… I don’t want to say misanthropic because my ire is towards certain Americans… the past couple of years. I really feel like some people are incapable of learning and actually want to go down this path. Or maybe it’s easier for them to go down this path than to positively work through the cognitive dissonance as our Symbolic Order collapses all around us. This is the point somebody posts the RedSails article about brainwashing lol, but it just hits hard when the people in your life seem to choose insanity, and like you said, there really is no bottom to it. It’s just getting started

The far future is truly Lovecraftian and hard to fathom. Eventually star formation will cease, most of the timespan of the universe will be the “dark era” where black holes slowly evaporate due to Hawking Radiation. Then there will only be light, and when there is only light then time itself ceases to exist as a meaningful construct. Space, too, perhaps. Then there is an alternative, even longer ending, if it’s possible for light itself to decay.

The more noticeable cause of the sky looking different for the ancient Greeks would be due to precession instead of Earth’s orbit around the Galaxy. Precession is Earth’s “wobble”, the “rotation” of Earth’s own axis of rotation. Like how a top wobbles around as it spins. It takes about 26,000 years for the Earth’s axis of rotation to make “wobble around” in one cycle. So this is the larger cause of the night sky, and the pole star, looking different for the ancient greeks. But this impacts the apparent position of all stars in the sky. So Ancient Greeks could see certain constellations that are currently too far below the horizon for their contemporaries. The positions of these constellations have changed.

Earth’s or the solar system’s orbit around the galaxy takes about 230 million years, so this would have less of an impact.

But there would be some differences.

The stars are moving though as they orbit around the Milky way. Some stars move much fast than others and their individual positions could definitely change over thousands of years. From Universe Today

When a star is moving sideways across the sky, astronomers call this “proper motion”. The speed a star moves is typically about 0.1 arc second per year. This is almost imperceptible, but over the course of 2000 years, for example, a typical star would have moved across the sky by about half a degree, or the width of the Moon in the sky.