Sinistar [he/him]

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Cake day: January 12th, 2024

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  • I think the system is too stable with Putin at the head, and his personal conservatism trickles down into all of the country’s institutions.

    Maybe when he dies there will be an opening for someone or some group with another vision for the country. Nobody who gets thrown around as a potential successor to him now has anywhere near the political capital he has, and would have to perfectly navigate a transition to a post-Putin political system in order to remain on top, something which might be made impossible by conditions outside of their control.





  • Been awhile since I watched one but I remember having exactly the same reaction. I could listen to David Attenborough talk about the wonders of nature for hours without stopping, but then you watch an American version of the same thing and it’s the exact same awful narration style that they use for every single awful reality TV show, it sucks.

    And when they get onto a subject that I know a thing or two about I find dozens of errors in the narration, and wonder how many other wrong things I’ve been told so far in this stupid docu series. I’ve fucking read Wolves: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation by David Mech, his 2003 omnibus (though I have the 2007 edition) written after a lifetime of studying those animals, so don’t try to tell me about alpha/beta pack shit with a wild population.








  • It’s hard to come at this with a “we need to do what the right does, but leftistly” mindset because fundamentally what the right and left offer are incompatible things. JP and co say to young men who are being hurt by the system, “you deserve to be treated like a king and here’s a list of boogeymen to blame for why you’re not”, while Hasan and co say “everyone deserves to be treated equally and here’s a sometimes complex and unfulfilling explanation for the problems you’re having”. Young men who have an expectation of privilege are not going to be especially convinced by the person telling them that they shouldn’t have it, which is why men tend to cling to these kinds of reactionary sentiments.