TheBazguy2 [he/him]

This dudes a wannabe historian and has spent the last 3 days talking about how he hates weaklings. 100% because they got steamrolled by the nazis, OR because the romans had trouble dominating the belgian gauls (even though iirc Caesar had a very high opinion of them).

I've been practicing piano on and off for the last 6 months from scratch. I don't really have a super good way of probing my progress, and I should really practice more consistently, but I THINK I'm doing pretty well. Keep in mind I basically started from scratch but I managed to learn how to play the first minute and a half of this, from the actual sheet music, in about a week and a half. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_j_zweO2I0

Any piano players got any experience tips for me? I can't read sheet music yet fluently but its getting there slightly.

That's an interesting quote from Anno, honestly kind of insightful cause its very difficult to gauge Anno's own personal beliefs, political or otherwise, based on his works. Interesting to me in the context of his first work Gunbuster which can be seen as pretty nationalistic in a certain light, considering there's an extremely subtle hint in some background info that it takes place in a reality where Japan won the Pacific War. Though fairly that was almost 40 years ago and before he felt like his life collapsed. Japanese alienation and art about it is particularly interesting to me, not necessarily for their conclusions cause they generally tend to have pretty reactionary slants, but because of the contrast between rightful hatred of the united states and a past that they outright refuse to engage with. Which of course is probably going to come to head in an awful way.

Also as somebody kinda mentioned below, I find it really funny that people always claim that the Christian imagery In Evangelion was put there because it looks cool, but it's all associated with the angels which are a literal alien entity coming to wipe out all of humanity based around the dominant religion of the west.

I do find really funny the conservatives saying Biden is making us a laughing stock to the rest of the world. It IS true but like after 4 years of saying the rest of the world are pussies because they don’t like drink dog water like Bolsanaro it just hit different

So I'm trying to do some cursory reading on the situation of Tibet prior to China's takeover of it, just so I don't put my foot in my mouth, and its bizarrely confusing and obfuscated for something that only happened 70 years ago. Most defenses for Tibet seem pretty technical over the term "serfdom" and "slave" as being culturally inappropriate, which I understand but it still sounds extremely exploitative regardless of their own citizens perception of it. But also a few western defenses of China seem lackluster in first hand knowledge of Tibet and its language, which unfortunately seems where Parenti drew his knowledge from.

I am course also terminally online, but I can't imagine the unspeakable levels of Lynchian imagery that must occur on a constant basis in the minds of people that have anime tradcath twitter accounts. Like is it just genuinely schizophrenia or what, is it all just losers who watch Fuentes? What's even the point of pretending to be catholic

I know literally nothing about Brazilian politics, but does Lula having his restrictions lifted just seem a lil just like tossing us a bone? Bolsanaro seems deeply entrenched within the machinations of Brazil's corruption for a while now since Lula was exiled and Brazil is a pretty important asset in America's hegemony that it seems extremely unlikely to me that they'd risk this if it was at all likely he could come back.

So there was a gay bashing murder done back in Belgium in one of my family member's city, apparently a bunch of white teenagers just lured this guy over Grindr to specifically kill him. My brother just assumed it was muslims because anti-Moroccan rhetoric is extremely common in Belgium, which is only fastened because they do commit a lot of crime, but it just never crossed his mind until I mentioned it to him that your average Belgian fucking hates everyone that wasn't born within 10 miles of him . Like ffs I got harassed by a group of teenagers in that town cause I was walking with another guy from my family.

I like that every time someone points out how politics like his have made things worse for everybody and that he doesn't and probably never actually stood for the things he believed in his response is "Um actually I'm making a lot of money to embarrass myself, so who's the real idiot?" Which I mean, fair enough I guess.

Well thankfully the Monogatari series is completely unproblematic wait no please come back

Just saw some random right winger try and use the explanation of Matt's that the DNS trying to frame white people is the same hysteria that followed Muslims after 9/11. Unfortunately it was in a thread about a black man being killed in a fit of road rage by a white guy yelling racial slurs and another user telling people to be safe over the next couple of months. I know being conservative is to be detestable but god I wish these people log off the next couple years out of having no rallying point anymore in the culture anymore

This map is one of the most disparaging things I've seen in a while. Its filled with enough idiotic utopianism to be written by somebody who has no knowledge or stake in real politics, untethered from the expectations of having to uphold liberal boring bureaucracy and the best you can come up is California splitting up with no dramatic effects on American hegemony, China somehow collapsing in 40 years after some magical confrontation with the Koreans, and living for 250 so you can file paperwork on Mars.

Funny to see the split between the people on there who are just full on nuclear war against another country for an obvious lie made up by a cult and the people who think them not buying stuff made in China is going to suddenly stop this. "We're a republic, not an empire." Definitely never been a nation thats been both before.

I try biking about 3 hours each week, but it sucks cause there's no good places to go around my place, but there are a lot of mountain paths I could take but I'd need to drive up there and then I might as well go with somebody else and thats a lot to coordinate.

I feel like my ADD's only been getting worse since i left high school 7 years ago even with new meds. Like somehow I haven't been kicked out of college but I really need some massive restructuring of my life. It's one of those things where I'm not sure if I actually don't really care that much about being anything or my ADD really just makes it that impossible to focus and imagine myself at a better place.

There was already something earlier that I'm blanking on but god i hope the next 4 years is just kamala trying to get him unsuccessfully killed

Besides the obvious insanity in this video, its intensely funny and kinda scary this made it through any editor, its mindblowing the video opens with "Yeah one of his greatest achievements in life. That's right one of his grandfathers used to stare at the ass of George Washington's horse or something Idk."

Not knowing very much about Hoxha or anything about Albania actually, reading very briefly just the statement increased literacy from 5% to 95% in about 20 years is one of the like starkest most hopeful stats I've seen regarding socialist reforms. If someone can tell me more about Albania, and how its done unbiased since the Soviets fall I'd be very greateful.

well fuck, my 70 year old dad has covid

I don't know anything about ash coffin, what's she done.