Sore fucking losers

A third party called the TPP has recently become electorally viable with elected officials. The TPP doesn’t fall into old Taiwanese electoral paradigms (waishengren vs benshengren, status quo vs separatism) and is a vaguely progressive party. But the key point about the party is that it attracts young people, including people who are too young to vote but who will eventually age up towards voting age. The DPP, the comprador separatist party that has roots with Japanese collaborators during WWII, doesn’t like this because the DPP was supposed to be the new hip party compared with the KMT that only boomers like.

Here are the results of the 2024 Taiwanese presidential election.. One additional thing to note is that the KMT and TPP almost ran a joint ticket (with Hou Yu-ih as President and Ko Wen-je as Vice President I believe) before the blue-white coalition fell through, meaning the DPP only won because votes were split between the KMT and TPP. Still, the DPP ate shit in the 2024 legislative elections. The KMT has one more seat than the DPP, but it doesn’t have a majority. The TPP is essentially the tie-breaker, and they’re siding with the KMT.

There’s the wide perception that the TPP is completely carried by Ko Wen-je (opponents call the TPP a cult of personality surrounding Ko), which is why the DPP is trying to bust him on corruption charges. This is the context of this protest and previous protests (there was another one earlier that had at least 150000 people but you didn’t hear a word of this from Western MSM because they’re running defense for the DPP). The DPP is waging lawfare against their political opponents the TPP and the KMT. That previous protest was over the DPP trying to jail Ko in their attempts to sink the TPP while this protest is over the DPP trying to impeach various KMT politicians.

I think most indigenous taiwanese are as well

No, that’s a huge misconception peddled by Taiwanese separatists. Indigenous Taiwanese are actually a strong KMT voter bloc. You can tell by their recent elections. The mountainous eastern parts of the island are where the Indigenous Taiwanese live.

One of the speakers in the rally actually mentioned Ukraine in a “we can’t allow Taiwan to become the next Ukraine” way lmao

The majority of the moderation team of /c/196 was cis, which gives you a general idea of how fucked the vibes are at that lemmy instance.

Rwanda is a US vassal.

Dugin is gonna get banned for Yakub-posting.

Reduced to having struggle sessions made out of shredded newspapers smh

Nah, this is mostly people just typing tl;dr posts that no one else reads. The actual struggle sessions are far funnier/nastier/cringier.

I had another post about syncretic religions, and to me, those religions embrace rather than fight the human tendency to pick and choose what to follow. I don’t see anything wrong with that. If anything, that’s a good thing. You keep the good that you have, you adopt the good from other religious traditions, and you discard the bad.

People on Hexbear just have a very Burgerlander Protestant understanding of religion, which is very annoying. It’s very clear, especially if you observe practitioners of different religions instead of the Evangelical congregation that you grew up in, that everyone pick and choose what you follow. Christians pick and choose, Muslims pick and choose, Buddhists pick and choose, Chinese folk religion practitioners practically just make shit up as they go along, and so forth. Even socialists and scientific socialists and Marxist-Leninists pick and choose from their texts. And that’s a good thing.

And at the end of the day, the Bible is just ink on paper. It’s a dead object. The Bible won’t physically grow arms to punch you if you don’t follow every single passage. Jesus won’t descent from Heaven to personally put a foot up your ass if you publish a misleading translation. And another consequence of being a dead object is that a dead object can’t react to the times in a dialectical process. But people, by virtue of being living creatures, who both are shaped and shape the environment in which they live in, can be part of this dialectical process. This is ultimately how religion is transmitted. It’s not through dead text, but through the practice of living people passing on their traditions and beliefs to the next generation.

Italian communists who are able to seize state power will do far more good forcing the College of Cardinals to elect a communist Pope than abolishing the Catholic Church. China already does this with Tibetan Buddhism. And there has been various splits among Tibetan Buddhism due to CPC meddling, which is good. The more they split, the weaker they’ll be as an organized force.

It’s extremely unhelpful as an argument to get people to leave religion because it does not address why religion exists, or why the vast majority of people globally are religious.

Or how many religions don’t even have religious texts or how religion clearly predates writing before those religious texts would even exist. Obviously, this means religious texts isn’t a core part of religion as a whole. Maybe for Abrahamic religions, but not religion as a whole.

Nah, the smarter plan is to force the College of Cardinals (or non-Catholic equivalent for other organized religions) to elect a communist Pope and incorporate communism into the catechism followed by excommunicating everyone who refuses to kiss the communist papal ring and accept communism. If you think this is far-fetched, China already does this with Tibetan Buddhism. This is how they select who gets to be the next Panchen Lama. They tally up a list of “reincarnations” and hands the list over to the CPC, who then prescreens the “reincarnations.”

Most religions don’t actually put a premium on following every single part of their holy text. I mean, a lot of religions don’t even have holy texts period. To claim otherwise implies that religion only existed after the invention of writing, which is obviously untrue.

Now Christianity as an Abrahamic religion does put emphasis on holy text, so Christians are kinda stuck if their holy text turns out to be trash. And religions that don’t have holy texts are extremely syncretic, far too syncretic for your average Christian’s (and honestly most Westerner’s) conception of religion.

By syncretism, I mean something like “Jesusist” running around with text taken from the Bible and the Quran about how Jesus is cool mashing them together with various Buddhist text about some bodhisattva is actually about Jesus, who is styled as the messiah bodhisattva christ by Jesusist. And “Jesusism” isn’t just one mashing of text, but multiple schools with different proportion of mashing, so one school of Jesusism mostly pull from the Gospel while another school is mostly Gnostic text and the Quran while another is basically just Buddhism with Jesus characteristics. With this understanding and practice of religion, you could found a particular socialist Jesusist school where you pick and choose parts of the Bible/Quran/Buddhist texts that crafts a socialist figure out of Jesus.

There are already syncretic religions that use Christianity. Cuba has Santeria (and there are some people who say that the amount of actual Cuban Catholics is pretty low but practitioners of Santeria aren’t suppose to reveal their religion to non-practitioners, so they just say they’re Catholic instead.). I believe the various Indigenous peoples in Bolivia had also sycretized Christianity with older Indigenous beliefs and practices. Bolivian Indigenous Christians will incorporate worship of Pachamama into their religious practices, and no amount of pointing to the Ten Commandments will stop them from continuing to offer burnt offerings to Pachamama during the Summer Solstice.

The main problem with Christianity is that it isn’t a religion that lends itself well with syncretism (despite the ultimate irony that Christianity itself has syncretic roots of Messianic Judaism mashed with various mystery cults and neo-Platoism), but a religion of unchanging dogma. This dogma can be bend, have parts of it be overruled by newer dogma, and even have parts be somewhat selectively ignored, but you can’t just cut out the parts you don’t like like syncretic religions.

The late pope really held on for Easter, huh.

This is something I’ve been thinking about. My gut feeling is that life or some life equivalent has independently evolved near countless times, but the whole “why have we not detected signs of some advance alien civilization yet” paradox is explained by memes like these. Just because you have life and even intelligent life doesn’t mean they would be starfaring. People focus on stuff like the habitable zone, but what about the conditions needed for natural furnaces to form or conditions needed to build an artificial furnace? My guess is that a planet that could support a furnace would need:

1. Oxygen. Combustion is needed for oxygen.

2. Organic substance as fuel. This could be in the form of hydrocarbons or things like wood.

3. Dry land. This is to actually build the furnace. Plus, it’s a lot harder to ignite wet things.

4. Not being cold as fuck. I guess I’m just listing the fire triangle at this point lol

From here, it would then come down to whether the planet has anything worth putting into the furnace to smelt.

I mostly read it as “white horse is not a horse but a type of horse.” Or to break it down even further, the set “white horse” is not the same as the set “horse” because the set “white horse” is a subset of the set “horse” while the set “horse” is not a subset of the set “white horse,” so the sets “white horse” and “horse” are not equivalent sets.

You can use this reasoning to say stuff like “Taiwan is not China.” Of course it’s not. Taiwan is not China but a part of China.

Even as late as 2014, if I said the word “meme” aloud, people would think I am an alien.

Harlem Shake was early 2013. You could dig up the articles written on it. They all use the word meme. Not “meme” with quotation marks or viral, but the word meme. Los Angeles Times and Time articles use it. Harlem Shake was the breakout meme where even people who hated computers knew what it was because I was shoved in their faces.

Most people by then knew what a meme was, and the tipping point was earlier than 2013. I was one of those dumbasses who thought meme was pronounced “meh-meh” and people laughed at me when I said it out loud. This was in late 2007 btw.

Eugenicist piece of shit.

If China is able to start industry on the moon

Then the US will push to end all industry on the moon to “preserve humanity’s heritage.”