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Oh no, the conspiracy isn't that there isn't a Finnish nation or culture, it's that the geographic country is actually a body of water with tons of fish in it, with neighboring countries using their bordering territory to create a false Finnish state.

And here I thought the conspiracy was that Finns are actually Mongols.

I'm quite excited about the coming presidential election in the ANC. If public opinion counted for anything (it doesn't), Ramaphosa is going to be the next president, but the Zumas are not an easy cancer to remove. They're fighting back with every ounce of malice they can conjure. I do think they might finally have met their match, though. Ramaphosa is going to be damn hard for them to discredit. To give you an idea, when Julius Malema sought to make him his next target, he couldn't just attack the man, since Mandela made no secret that he thought Ramaphosa was the leader of the future, way back in 1994. Malema realised he'd have to somehow discredit Mandela first, before he could set his sights on Ramaphosa. Zuma now faces the same quandary.

All that is good and of value in this world is dead or dying. This country a rotting corpse rife with maggots. My life is an absolute disaster and I'm left with fewer and fewer reasons to look forward to the future.

The world is being destroyed. My Anglo-Saxon people have died. The belief in sacredness, in modesty, in kindness has become extinct. All that is left now is pestilence.

We were the servals, lions, and wolves. Those who will replace us will be jackals and hyenas. And all of us- lions, jackals, and sheep will go on thinking we’re the salt of the earth.

I just realized I don’t post here as much as I used to. Huh.

I’m super excited though, my desktop comes in in a week!

All that is good and of value in this world is dead or dying. This country a rotting corpse rife with maggots. My life is an absolute disaster and I'm left with fewer and fewer reasons to look forward to the future.

The world is being destroyed. My Anglo-Saxon people have died. The belief in sacredness, in modesty, in kindness has become extinct. All that is left now is pestilence.

We were the servals, lions, and wolves. Those who will replace us will be jackals and hyenas. And all of us- lions, jackals, and sheep will go on thinking we’re the salt of the earth.

The world has kinda always been a crappy place. The belief in modesty, kindness and sacredness was never a universal constant. Every corner of the world goes through a series of changes. All peoples have their moments of being villains and heroes. Life is always going to suck, and it's always going to rock at the same time. Nothing is ever truly going to change.

"Everything has always been as mediocre as it is now" is mental defeatism.

Or realism. Zoom out far enough, and nothing looks different. Even in ages of great prosperity for a specific region, there is another that suffers proportionally.

Not that I believe Islam, as a whole, is doomed, as you seem to be implying.

Or realism. Zoom out far enough, and nothing looks different. Even in ages of great prosperity for a specific region, there is another that suffers proportionally.

Not that I believe Islam, as a whole, is doomed, as you seem to be implying.

There are always places that suffered while another prospered. That doesn't mean a better society is impossible. That's why I called your words defeatist. You argue that there have always been societal issues, therefore seeking to amend or lamenting over these issues is pointless.

I've  heard that rheotoric a lot. I remember Tina Fey telling people to enjoy comfort food rather than worry about Neo-Nazis right after a white supremacist rammed his automobile at a few dozen people.

I am seeing society die from necrosis. Rusting away. And you tell me it's alright. Because society has always sucked, right?

Which society, pray tell, is dying? And how do you define a problem everyone in society is supposed to deal with? My words are not defeatist if they recognise the inevitability of stumbling, as they anticipate the inevitabilty of said region/society to pick itself back up, as well. I'm not saying you should not be active in trying to change it, either. What I am saying is that, no matter how hard you try, your success will always come in unison with someone else's failure, even if it doesn't cause it. And your success will never last.

That is defeatist as fuck my dude.
I could see it not being defeatist if you were asserting it was like, 3 steps forward 2 steps back; at least in that case there's some progress, no matter how slow and frustrating it seems. In contrast, you seem to be asserting 1) for every step forward there's another step back (your success - someone elses' failure, which is as zero-sum as it gets, and is honestly bizarre because while it's true there are always winners and losers, generally speaking the value of what is gained by the winners tends to be greater than what is lost by the losers thanks to the productivity miracles of scale and technology), and 2) nothing lasts, suggesting that it's not so much zero-sum as negative-sum (which, yes, fine, entropy states that's the case for the universe, but we're a long way from that being a local problem).

I don't recall placing a value on what was lost or gained. Certainly, your success could be greater than the losers' failure, and certainly, you could propel things forward quite a bit, bit in the long run, there will always be a Trump (many of them, in fact) ready to tear down what has been built. This isn't even getting into the arbitrary nature of success. My definition of societal success is one in which the human race doesn't destroy itself with climate change, while another's would be to go back to religious values that are, to me, frightening, or to build a strong economy as quickly as possible through the oil trade, eliminating any threats to oil in the process. I can certainly believe in the superiority of my goal, but so will the other side. We'll both do our part to ensure success for those perceived goals, and whoever wins would certainly see themselves as the rightful victor. Meanwhile, whoever loses will still be around to defend the goal they fought for. If they decide it's all over, and nothing is going to turn the tide, quite frankly, they're being foolish. Somehow, somewhere, the idea will take root and spread again, with their intervention or not. It will always follow a pattern of peaks and valleys. There will occasionally be outliers, and the pattern will just continue. I don't see how recognising this is any more defeatist than saying it's all over, and there's no hope for the future. Indeed, I recognise the inevitability of both. My belief in this state of existence does not preclude me from acting to further my own goals, it just makes me more aware of the stumbling blocks that exist before me on the uphill battle. And yes, while I believe it will inevitably enter a valley again, that doesn't mean I would not try my best to prevent that from happening for as long as possible.

My fascination with the Ouroboros symbol is due to this belief. Far from filling me with dread, it gives me hope, in fact, since all things I consider to be bad must come to an end, as it makes way for the rebirth of the good. This is the only vaguely religious idea I still cling to, and it has certainly done its part to keep me motivated, if not entirely sane.

I wonder if Canada will one day relegate the Liberal Party where it belongs : in the trash.

This morning a transwoman randomly messaged my blog about how we're both gay transwomen and we have the same blog icon except she accidentally sent that message from the blog she sells porn of herself on and had to apologize

transwomen are so freaking gr8, i love us so much

Im a civilian again! ORD OH!