Wait… is there a giant conspiracy in the worlds military industrial complex that TNT doesn’t actually exist and all war relies on an unbelievable abusement of Voltorbs in various high pressure metal casings?

The Wilderness is the embodiment of might makes right. In the wilds, if my force overpowers your’s I’m taking your food and your baby as a snack for later

You don’t seem to grasping the difference between the inherently anarchistic nature of ecosystems where each agent is usually acting completely according to their own devices, and the macro scale stability, diversity and efficiency that arises out of the many complex ways individuals don’t have as their first instinct the desire to kill or destroy those weaker than them.

Fungi and trees communicate in large nutrient sharing networks, there are all kinds of cooperation that involve many sophisticated forms of mutual aid including extending help sometimes as a bold gesture to create the foundation for further collaboration. Wolves change the shape of rivers from preying on herbivores that feed along the banks, vampire bats have complex dynamics to the way they choose to share meals with other bats that couldn’t find a meal that night (which includes extending help as a bold gesture sometimes) your world view can’t account for that kind of subtletly and nuance to natural systems and it leaves you hopelessly ill-equipped to use metaphors of nature to try to examine or explain humanity.

edit ok the syncronicity between this metaphor and the truth here was too amusing not to add this context

The Wilderness is the embodiment of might makes right. In the wilds, if my force overpowers your’s I’m taking your food and your baby as a snack for later. Thats it. I get there are complex systems… In the Jungle, might makes right. Feel free to submit that to the complaints box (my mouth, you are being eaten). Now we can talk all day about the yin and the yang, but I’m a hungry snake and your eggs are unprotected.

Hilariously, probably one of the most common relationships between organisms on the planet is prey producing enough offspring that the predators in their environment are fed adequately and there are still offspring left even after all the predators are full. Turtles, corals, geese, and countless organisms are very successful in the situation you seem to delineate as powerless.

If we do not dismantle this rhetorical construction of a brutally simplified dichotomy between “nature’s brutal chaos” and “civilized organized humanity” we will be doomed to repeate the mistakes of the past and continously rebuild the conditions for fascism to take off like a wildfire.

Capitalism is a project in rationalizing brutalizing the poor by drawing shitty conclusions from shallow observations about how nature structures things, and it is only one example of how these brainworms destroy our ability to think critically about the choices we have made to structure our society vs. the inveitabilities…

Very cool, but my first thought is how do you keep poor people from using it though? I don’t know if I would want something nice like that if somebody poorer than me could also use it.

Wait people use these things for transportation??? Where are the ads then?

It means anything goes, and when anything goes, might makes right.

I know you are referencing that concept, but it is a shitty concept, if this were true jungles wouldn’t exist, they would be woods with one or two types of beefy animals living in them that would murder anything else weaker than them.

Stop equating the jungle with chaos, jungles are extremely efficient, balanced, diverse systems capable of handling major shocks and structural changes to nutrient inputs, STOP lazily saying “Law Of The Jungle” like it means anything, the metaphor is at best problematically broken and at worst designed to create the kind of conceptual confusion that can be used to justify awful HUMAN choices and systems.

These are not the laws of the jungle, these are the laws of the most “civilized” cities in Western European culture.

The law of the jungle is not a law, it is a spontaneous cooperation of organisms that coordinate in extremely complex flexible ways to produce an incredible efficiency and stability. The laws of the jungle do not always advantage the strongest, most traditionally powerful creatures capable of dispensing the most violence, and in one sense jungles can be thought of as environments that tend to select against that in favor of more specific adaptation strategies.

The jungle as a metaphor for brutality, chaos or regression of humanity to authoritarianism is steeped in racism and honestly it is a metaphor that holds little utility for us these days given how vitally important it is to learn from the jungle… the ACTUAL fucking jungle.

In a related note, monkeys are NOT LESS EVOLVED than humans are, when we say “monkey brain” we are just insulting ourselves by choosing to believe a little bit more in the lie that evolution is a simple continuum of intelligence that humans beat all the other animals at by getting to the top.

I know this isn’t the point, but people use these metaphors a lot and it is problematic in that it obscures the truth and people’s intuition for it.

Hey question for europeans as a USian here, what is that thing hitting the bus with the word “Zangenduetsch” on it?

Is it like a big self driving car on a track or something?

My message at the very top said: “The crisis of understanding in the United States of America 2025 is that thinking systems are important. Reactionary thinking, mockery thinking, one-upmanship thinking is not the same as the science way of thinking. Twitter-thinking, meme thinking, isn’t the same as science thinking”

You keep going the high road bud, I will continue to pick whatever road I want to fight fascism and I will continue to switch roads whenever I so choose.

Further, you have a very simplified, childish view of how intellectualism works as if there is a simple continuum from bad, kneejerk thoughts to sophisticated good intellectual thoughts devoid of emotion.

IF YOU DO NOT FIGHT NOW with EMOTION and with One-Upmanship in mocking those in power, there will be no space for your precious intellectual diatribes that is just how it political power works. Speak with your heart, appeal to people’s emotions honestly and directly and mercilessly make fun of fascists in every way possible.

To see emotions as seperate from intelligence as you do is a tragically limiting way to see the beautiful potential of your own mind, maybe try socializing with others a bit more and focusing less on reading about all of these things you are referencing?

Hey, newsflash, sometimes hate and mockery being used to tear down evil people is EXISTENTIALLY necessary to regain a peaceful, kind status quo.

Maybe you are right though, maybe I am just making this all worse…but unlike you I feel like I can actually convince people to be agitated, to want to act, my words are better at finding solidarity with average people.

Your words are a bunch of intellectual posturing and condescension to people reacting emotionally as if emotions are not a valid part of our understanding, and processing of how we understand the world.

I AM VERY angry, and when other people see that they also feel like their anger might be more valid than they have been made to feel too.

If you knew ANYTHING about political organization you would know agitation is the first step to opening up the door to change, and you would probably also just stop talking because your arguments make me want to take the other side even though many aspects of your points are right, fundamentally you have taken a position that will only push people away.

It seems like you think any expression of negative emotion is a form of losing against fascism, when the truth is much more nuanced and often very much the opposite case.

You are using a lot of words to say “you just like to hate JD Vance and feel good about it and not ACTUALLY do anything or pay attention to anything” and to that I don’t have a response other than to laugh in your face that you are picking this hill to die on.

Read my comment history, making easy high school level jokes at how pathetic JD Vance isn’t the only thing I focus on or care about, it is just one of the more enjoyable things I do.

Of course everyone can see he is hateful. That’s why he is popular.

You don’t know what you are talking about, on many simultaneous levels.

JD Vance is the most unpopular Vice President since the U.S. has been polling Vice Presidents, you are a cynical fool who has lost the plot if you genuinely think JD Vance represents what even something approaching a majority of USians want…

Hate doesn’t sell, yes hate is all over social media… because large U.S. corporations have decided the only way to monetize social media is by stoking hatred, pushing conspiracies and flooding conversations with hateful bots that encourage people to react in kneejerk ways… but that doesn’t actual mean hate sells more than kindness, you have just become cynically lost in your fear of that and it blinds you to the simpler truth that the current conditions are imposed upon us, they aren’t the inveitable end result of our humanity..

Vance’s favorability is worse than Harris’s at the same two-month mark and perhaps worse than any new vice president in the history of polling. His Real Clear Politics favorable-unfavorable rating is 41.7 percent-44.8 percent, a slightly worse net favorable rating (-3.1 percentage points) than Donald Trump’s (-0.9). When looking only at March polling—sampled after his infamous Oval Office hectoring of Ukraine’s president—he’s even more underwater: 42.4 percent-48.0 percent.

Vice presidents, while rarely public opinion rockstars, typically begin with a bit more goodwill from the public.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/03/21/j-d-vance-is-the-most-disliked-new-vice-president-in-history/

Imagine having all the information in the world, and flocking to react-comment to JD Vance in 2025 without seeing the forest for the trees

ok I am imagining, sounds great honestly!

Well, if I was going to wield an AK47 around, I might at least want pockets tho

sigh JD Vance and Carl Sagan debate would be like watching a grizzly bear dismantle an entire childrens party in a park, but in a fun way.

I think the only thing JD Vance really knows deep down is that women find him creepy and pathetic and everything he does to try to obtain a respectable sense of masculinity in whatever way he perceives it backfires because women (and everyone else too) can see right to the rotten, hateful heart at the core of his identity.

Imagine being such a pathetic incel you can’t even leverage the position of Vice President Of The United States to gain any sense of respect from… well really anyone.

IMPRESSIVE BUT HAVE YOU WITNESSED THE SQUIRRESSERACT

Well yes but in this case your pokeball is a grenade so you just skip the whole “let me bring this creature out with my magic ball to defend me” and go straight to “this magic ball fucks shit up”

This is NOT a mock funeral, it is a mass funeral that uses humor and creativity to grapple with the incomprehensible violence and suffering we have locked in to our coming future.

That is the Holy Hand Grenade you fool, it is designed to provide a way to defend yourself from the likes of this beast

Billionaires Ruin Space

Way too late to matter you coward