Ideology

Guys, why does my back hurt?

1. Is this a real thing?
2. Despite the "no racism" modpost a lot of comments are basically insinuating that Russians are inherently dangerous.
3. https://daily.jstor.org/how-prisoners-contributed-during-wwii/

Mexican students vandalized this Thursday the 35th Military Zone in Chilpancingo, capital of Guerrero, during a protest against the Mexican Army before the upcoming ninth anniversary of the disappearance of the 43 students of Ayotzinapa, on September 26.

The youth, accompanied by social organizations, demonstrated outside the barracks of the Armed Forces considering that they are implicated in the disappearance that occurred in the municipality of Iguala in 2014.

The protesters painted the stone walls of the barracks with phrases such as "It was the Army" and "Ayotzi lives" among others.

In addition, they removed one of the barricades from the main gate in order to [ram it with] a van belonging to a potato chip company.

The students blamed the military for having participated in the disappearance and for hiding key information to find the whereabouts of their comrades.

At the end of their speeches, the demonstrators threw explosives and rocks into the barracks and at the truck.

However, from inside, the [military police responded] with tear gas bombs.

The wind caused the gas to disperse to a nearby neighborhood [and intoxicated some 30] pre-school children.

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A fun little tutorial I saw that converts touchscreen controls for drawing tablets back to physical keys.

So I was reading through @[email protected] 's comment about Estonian demographic history and felt intrigued by some of the claims, so I did a teeny tiny bit of digging to see what I could find. So here goes:

1. The Estonian population expanded rapidly during the industrial revolution right up to the 1910s.

2. World War 1 and the Great Depression manage to suppress population growth for the next decade.

3. Nazi occupation of Estonia (marked RKO) coincides with WW2. The vast majority of ethnic Jews flee to the USSR, and those whl stayed behind were exterminated. The nazis and their Estonian collaborators built concentration camps. This coincides with a dip in the graph.

4. After WW2, Estonia is back under the USSR. The first Estonian SSR was established in 1940-1941 when nazi occupation started. After some lag, the population begins climbing on the same curve it did before. The population of the country peaks in 1989.

5. 20000 people were deported to Russia very early in the existence of the SSR

6. The nazis aimed to remove 50% of the population on paper but only had 4yrs to do so. This means using concentration camps on ethnic Estonians for germans to take their homes/land as in palestine today.

7. 20k is not the same as sunaurus's 20% claim, not even close. 20% does however match the proportion of modern estonians who are russian. The obvious conclusion one can gather from this comparison is that this is not dissimilar to Great Replacement propaganda. The assumption here is that ethnic Russians are taking up Estonian space, because the evidence points to massive population growth under the ussr rather than a contraction like the one that occurred with German occupation.

Immigration was highest during that huge growth period, so I'm curious where all those excess deaths and gulags occurred to have not slowed or stopped said growth. It sounds to me like this person is just intimidated by people they consider foreign.

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Whenever people are like oh we need to empathize w/ incels, care about their feelings blah blah, I just think about what Lundy Bancroft said about abusers.

They need to learn empathy, and this excessive focus on their feelings is a barrier to them learning empathy.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/iHateCogsci/status/1610409758120361984

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But this is step 1 of "offering an alternative": recognizing that it takes different skillsets/social conditions to get them well-adjusted, because for whatever reason they're starting from a different psychological basis.

I agree that to some extent the whole idea of focusing on these guys is counterproductive. But focusing on them is not the same as making sure that our movement is equipped to deal with them effectively, without having to relive this generational moment over and over again.

They feel alienated from society because it feels unlivably complex, and they happen to fit enough heuristics of the power group that they feel entitled to deal with that complexity by violently maximizing their adherence to power.

The right takes advantage of this by a) being in power already, b) being the same kind of people, and c) happy to use these guys to further their own interests. So they offer the easy, accessible, lowest-common-denominator solution of just catering to that entitlement.

Of course "Be a good person" doesn't effectively compete. But that doesn't have to be the only narrative the left offers. We need the next step, a narrative that starts with "Be a good person" and builds it into a competitively epic cognitive reward mechanism.