#namean

[anarchistettin]

Thoughts? https://www.tumblr.com/anarcho-yorpism/731476706507014144/i-dont-usually-talk-about-israelpalestine-but

If you agree please spread it as I think this is one of the clearest examples of how media is controlled by the US

it's hard to answer without flying into a rant

my thoughts are, that,

from the time I was around 3 to the time I was around 13 I was waiting for someone or some datum to show me how the USA wasn't in fact a place of supreme evil, indistinguishable from the enemies it constantly warns against, and that when I was 14 I fucking lost it with feelings of betrayal and suspicion for just about everyone but a handful of other runaways.

it took a long time to see parents and family / family-friends as victims, in addition to officers, of Americanism. I still struggle to not start orating fiery-style when friends and family repeat the lies that seemed so glaringly obvious to me as a kid. I know it does the opposite of what I hope for, though, so I continue the struggle, all the struggles. It fucks with my head how much this litany of insane life-negating doctrines impresses everyone. It's so rare to talk to anyone at all in real life that isn't somehow digesting it, and just-barely-consciously deciding to go along with it.

I hate this nation that captured me all those years ago with my whole being, but I love humans, I love people, with the same exact fire. It's fucking hard. This situation is harder than I imagined it would be for me to process clearly, even though I've been steeled for it, dreading it, for decades.

For whatever it can possibly be worth, the people that reared me included anti-zionist Jews, and they schooled me so hard in ethics & then-current-politics, I can only imagine that if they were alive today we'd be seeing them in the streets right now, doing what we should all be doing, dismantling this motherfucker!

[jrueships]

maxeys chart 😭😭

[xerospaced]

I ain't done any proper gaming in ages but... ngl, a bitch wants to play Monster Hunter with some peeps or sum

[marengogo]

Not trying to be that person, but it is Pride month, so I’ll be that person.

The colors for

Rebirth

are very 🩷💜💙 … ‘namean?

Then again maybe this are just his favourite colours 🙄🙄🙄

Guess only time will tell …

Marengo.

[mitigatedchaos]

2008 - 2020+

(~1,700 words, 8 minutes)

A summary of events and my ideological development from 2008-2020; most of this will be familiar to long-time readers; this post is mostly for later review in 5-10 years.

[ @lokifreign ]

did it seem sudden in 08?

[ mitigatedchaos ]

10 years ago was 2013. By 2013, the direction of the eventual [identitarian] shift was visible, but it wasn't established that "real" "serious" liberals were going to go along with and indulge it.

[ @lokifreign ]

I had a different view (I'm 51; Clinton cleared up any lingering misunderstandings I entertained about dem/lib); it's interesting - I'd love to read something clear about that time period from that perspective. 08 for me was more about the death of the free internet, but I'd be really interested at seeing that realization from the inside somewhat namean. thanks fr sharin'! 🫀👍 [...] never mind! ^_^ all set

So to clear this up for anyone else...

2000-2008

From the perspective of someone who grew up in the 00's, the Republican Party put a tremendous amount of political investment into the Iraq War, which turned out to be a disaster. The only WMDs were leftover chemical shells, not exactly a "clear and present danger;" I'm not aware of any of them being used in terrorist attacks.

2008-2012

So going into 2008, Republicans looked epistemically bankrupt. The War probably cost them an entire generation. It was such a colossal fuck-up that one of the early MitigatedChaos essays, back in 2017, was "A Price Paid in National Will," arguing that patriotism is an exhaustible resource. It is basically screaming at the 00's US establishment right for squandering a valuable and precious resource with their dumb war. [1] As it happens, military recruitment is way down.

By contrast, the first-term Obama-era Democratic coalition offered us people like Roland Fryer, a pragmatic-minded black academic who was willing to reach counterintuitive conclusions or try things like just paying students to see if that worked. Combined with things like the lead-crime hypothesis or support for early childhood education, the epistemic grounding was a lot better than what they offered after 2016.

The public position of the Democratic Party 2008-2012 was largely meritocratic colorblind liberal individualism, combined with moderate immigration restrictionism, with only a modest exception for Affirmative Action in universities. They were still pro free speech, valued professionalism, and valued things like consumer rights, and mostly weren't against patriotism.

This was an extremely well-hedged set of positions, adequately handling risks from multiple directions at once - and the follower libs (the "Stage 3s" as post-rationalists would call them) echoed all of it, causing the overall Democratic coalition to seem much, much smarter than they actually are.

Even electing a black President seemed a decent bet, and if there is one thing Obama is really good at, it's projecting a Presidential image.

If you combine this with Transhumanism and an expectation that significant new technologies will overcome long-standing issues in the case that social solutions don't work, kicking in around 2040-2050, as most Rationalists probably would have expected at that time, it covers most of the bases. Get some potential gains from social policy, stalling for time for a few decades, and then if any problems are leftover, mop them up with biotech.

I was also engaged in a phase of gender exploration from around 2009-2012 (in cyberspace). I encountered some of the current gender ideas early. At the time, because they weren't as popular, there was a stronger selection effect.

2013-2017

From around 2012-2013 onwards, we started getting the articles about "manspreading," and "mansplaining," combined with a frame that it was prohibited for men to question this because of "male privilege" including subconscious bias which, by definition, they could not be aware of.

I actually checked in on a Mens Rights forum around this time, and a GamerGate forum later, and contrasted what I actually saw with both media coverage and left/lib representations which were... basically almost all completely different from my direct observations.

I was very doubtful because the epistemic norms of the movement were just awful, and very obviously designed in a way that was prone to abuse.

From around 2014 onwards, those same norms were shifting to the much more dangerous field of race. Obama didn't campaign on it, and more "serious" Democrats instead of like, Gawker, were more focused on things like "Republican obstruction in Congress."

By late 2014 or early 2015, I had given up on defending the Obama Administration in arguments, which I'd been doing since around 2008.

From 2013-2015, I was feeling depressed and anxious. Without realizing what I was doing at first, I began an exercise to rework the basis of my politics by working on a fictional country, rewriting it again and again and again.

The development of some kinds of political writers may require something like this, either working from a distant time, like Moldbug, or trying to work out a simulation of a country repeatedly and gaming things out with others, as Scott Alexander and I both did. This allows something that I call Ideological Stereoscopic Vision - viewing the same issue from two ideological perspectives simultaneously. With this, it's possible to see the functional mechanics of your original ideology, which otherwise just appear to be truths.

I was going leave the Presidential box blank in the 2016 election, but voted for Clinton as a personal favor for a dear friend.

Overall my basic model from 2012 wasn't that bad. I hadn't called to deplatform all the Republicans, for instance, and once Trump won the primary, based on the uncertainty I concluded that it was possible he would win the general election.

However, I had to build a much more sophisticated model to explain the benefits of things like colorblind liberal individualism, and explain why it was being attacked, and how. Until 2014, I hadn't considered it something that even could come under serious attack, since influential people should know better than to let that happen.

2017-2020

Around 2017, I opened the blog MitigatedChaos.

In 2018, Roland Fryer was #metoo'd. An investigation mostly cleared him except to require workplace sensitivity training (proportional, IMO). However, the investigation was apparently overruled by a secret committee, and in 2019 he was suspended for 2 years without pay.

In 2018, Robin DiAngelo's "White Fragility" was published. This was followed in 2019 by Ibram Kendi's best-selling, pro-"corrective" discrimination, "How to Be an Anti-Racist." (At some point in 2020 or maybe 2021, the Microsoft Windows 10 login screen featured a link to "anti-racist books" with Kendi's book at the top.)

Unlike Fryer, both writers seemed uninterested in whether their proposals would actually work, as did their readers.

As someone who had voted for Obama in 2012, I was willing to elect politicians or spend money, even if that money might not necessarily work, but that was assuming those involved were actual academics making a serious attempt with some chance of success, not spiteful unqualified quacks.

Because people throughout society demanded that I take race seriously, in 2019, I conducted an investigation into school funding and whether charter schools would be capable of closing racial outcome gaps. (It's difficult to assess their effectiveness on grades due to selection effects on parents, but they're about as cost-effective as public schools, may produce a modest benefit, and allow parents to at least provide a safe environment for their children. The few online charter schools in my sample had dismal results.)

That was when I learned that the social interventions camp were 90% bluffing, hadn't checked the research, and the amount of good faith I had been giving them since 2014 was unjustified. Each of them assumed that someone else had been doing the actual work (not "doing the work" of reading about bad things that happened to racial groups, but the work of figuring out how to solve things).

That was mostly true in 2010. It certainly wasn't by 2018 - or at least the links between the people doing the work and the actual movement were well broken by that time. The implicit claims of what Social Justice can deliver, and the urgency with which they make their demands, have been wildly disproportionate the entire time.

Going into 2020, I still had hope that serious liberals might be in charge somewhere. But instead of actual reforms which might be useful, we got "Defund the Police," which as the CHAZ and subsequent national stats have demonstrated, is delusional.

After 2020

When it turned out that Biden is just lame, and the great racial awakening wasn't as promised, some of the air went out of it. Biden had the opportunity to end the thing in one swoop by just leaving Trump's executive order in place, but instead confirmed that the Democratic Party is committed to this program of crank race dogma, and in the institutions the supporters are digging trenches.

Mainstream Republicans are aware of the problem and acting now, so what was a rout has stabilized into a war front. The primary mission of the right-wing ideological vanguard from 2017-2022, waking the Republicans up to the scale of the problem, and punching through the window of social acceptability hard enough to get them moving, is now complete. As a vital or artistic movement, they no longer have the same margin of information advantage, and energy is leaving the scene.

Sometime after 2020, I developed the coalitional interest deadlock theory to explain some of what had happened - why did the Democrats double down on such a hateful strategy that's obviously bad for the country? Why not just stick with their epistemically-advantaged position from 2012? One possible answer: because each of their coalition members inhibits any other coalition member's attempts to fix anything, so the only thing to do is find an outgroup to blame and hope no one notices, as no one is willing to negotiate a settlement to free up resources for improvement.

They have little to offer but decline and hatred, for now. Maybe in 10 years, they'll be as different as the 2020 Republicans are from 2000's.

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[1] A left-anarchist view here would be that such sentiments will always be exploited for wasteful wars of imperialism that enrich a small and well-connected group at the top; there is something to such a view, but the actual 21st-century US wars, and their duration, also seem to have been caused by ideological derangement.

[lokifreign]

or wait rather than curious abt nationality i was wondering what the language was in your header, languages r kinda my own interest myself

I'm mostly American, my family sorta is sorta isn't; their culture wasn't american in the 60s & 70s but it's where I was born and reared & they've all americanized pretty heavily since then (their kids are all 100% USA namean)

when I was a child I spoke several languages & tended to run them together, Korean and German and Russian

the header is in Slovenian, which has been my special favorite language for about three years now ^_^

I cycle through language fixations; my all-time reigning favorite is Yoruba, it's sophisticated and beautiful and its accent in other languages is superb; Yoruba speakers are masters of picking up other languages too, admirable and covetous. Yorùbá sọ̀rọ̀ sókè jẹ́ ọ̀kan lára ​​àwọn ìró tó dára jù lọ tí ẹ̀dá lè dá!

Slovenian's shared words with Russian and Polish made it a natural area of study for me; I started using it in my writing and have been slowly letting it & Croatian & Serbian expand my understanding of that area of the world.

Ko govorim na glas (out loud), zveni Slovenščina zelo blizu ruščini; moja teta brez težav razume, kar je zabavno!

Cyrilica nekaterim povzroča težave, zato je slovenščina način za transliteracijo nekaterih od teh ruskih idej. The way a given language shapes my thoughts is of intense interest to me, I'm driven to find some combination of words that will work, that will fix it all.

[girl4music]

This Q&A panel was good but as soon as Dom started talking about feeling like a fraud because they couldn’t come out during filming ‘Wynonna Earp’, I just cried a little bit because I feel so sorry for them that they feel that way. That they were ever made to feel ashamed about that they couldn’t be braver because I think they were so damn brave to play a queer character all the while knowing they were queer.

I mean who does that? Who in the world that genuinely knows they’re queer but not out is brave enough to do that? That’s Herculean levels of bravery.

That’s like facing the Namean lion in high heels.

Dom should give themselves more credit.

This shit isn’t easy and they are brave.

[goobleflop]

OK SO I JUST THOUGHT OF SOMETHING

So in Disney's Hercules, the pelt of the Namean Lion looks like Scar from The Lion King, so does that mean Mufasa is also a son of Typhon?

[trainer-sean]

The Cat Attack Pirates

This is a Description and Timeline for the Crew.

Carlos first started sailing when Marines caught word of Calico Jacklynn being present on Early Tide Island after years of no word of her. This got a reaction similar to a buster call due to an Overzealous group of Marines, many innocent people died while the Family of four escaped on the ship of the Calico Pirates, Namean King(Namean Lion). Carlos would set out on his own as to not be associated to Pirates, he loves his Mother and Mamas, but he didn't want to deal with the Marines chasing them.

He would sail to Sandbar town, a decent sized Town on the coast of Moone Island, Famous for its Glass Blowing. for a year he would live there, partaking in the local arts using Electro. During that time, he ate the Dupe Dupe No Mi. However, during that time, he heard whispers of some townsfolk going missing, and investigated, staking out during the night, keeping watch from the rooftops. after two nights he catches sight of a Drunken Woman heading home, then immediately be grabbed by a man with a mask, stuffed in a sack. Carlos quickly follows behind as the kidnapper runs off into the forest. The Kidnapper eventually leads Carlos to a Cove, bustling with activity. a covered Barge layed in the water, and most surprisingly, five men dressed in Navy attire. The woman was removed from the sack and dragged to the Barge, the tarp covering it pulled up, revealing many more people trapped inside, and the woman thrown in before it was covered once more.

This would be the day that Carlos thwarted a Human Trafficking Operation, he would find a Pose that was Labeled Smuggling base, and sale towards it on the now evacuated Barge, now stuffed with all the Traffickers and Marines involved in the operation on Moone Island. When he made Land fall, he would Raid the Hide out with an Army of Dupes. One of Which, who was spawned on the Barge when Carlos first embarked to Smuggling Base, would have lasted 24 hours and became permanent, and eventually be renamed Carter.

This Operation was a Cipher Pol Operation collecting Potential Slaves and Possible members of the next generation of Cipher Pol Operatives from Islands and kingdoms unaffiliated with the World Government. the members of CP are lower rank members not assigned to the primary teams. The Raid would last 10 Hours, Carlos acting as Tactician while his Dupes face off with all the Cipher Pol agents and Bandits, and freeing the Captive Civilians from various races, some of which would join the fight, leading many Dupes to act as meat shields for the Civilians(it should be noted that Carlos remembers the pain and memories of the Dupes when they disappear.). by the time the raid was completed, the Dupes had guided the Civilians to Barges that they could escape with, many Fishman would act in defense to the craft to get everyone to safety. when everyone was evacuated, Carlos and all his Dupes collected all they could from the hide away, all weapons and items of value, such as Devil fruits and Sea Stone, and stashed them on a boat on the docks. They'd all then stand in the center of the hideout, where all the Bandits and CP were bound, and and began channeling their Electro together, and bringing the Hide out down of them all. Carlos was on the Boat about a Mile out with the Dupe that would be called Carter in the future as a Beam of Electro Erupted into the sky from the Island. A Week later, after returning to Sandbar town and collecting his belongs to leave town, Carlos would have a Wanted Poster worth 40.B Beris.

[thealmightyemprex]

Zo in Ancient Greek AU ,As the Namean Lioness a rampaging invulnerable beast

@ariel-seagull-wings @themousefromfantasyland @theancientvaleofsoulmaking

[anarchistettin]

@aniseandspearmint I totally would have reblogged it, I just…

hate that guy's face so much namean

[im-a-creator-im-a-sandwitch]

A Night With the Muses

Every year, demigods look forward to the Hellenistic Games - the Pythian in September, the Namean in October, the Isthmus in November, and the Olympics in December. The Olympics has a televised closing ceremony, but Apollo has long wanted the other games to have them, too, but he struggles to find performers willing to put in the work (or talented enough) for four major concerts every year

Enter the Nine Muse. When Katie played one of their songs for Apollo, the god is blown away. He's found his stars. The closing ceremonies become the hour-long TV special "A Night With the Muses." It's an all-demigod production! The Hephaestus kids man the cameras, Apollo kids play in the band, and Aphrodite kids are in charge of hair/makeup

After the show is over, the party continues all night!

[marengogo]

NOT GONNA LIE:

This is my Day 3 back in the real world and out of my Staycation and GURL/BOI/ENBY it’s been hard 😳!

HARD, BUT NOT ASS.

Before my Staycation I was walking on an a thin-ass thread and child let me not tell you.

But what I will say is that I feel so relaxed. Shit still happening, as always 😬as it should, nature namean? 😬. But I’m clearer minded so I just let it happen, and do something about it IF/WHEN needed.

There are a few little posts that I want to make cause I selfishly need to let some stuff out 🤡 , so heads up for those but for now, in this very second, on this sunny day,

This is all that matters:

My heart is even more serene, more at peace, more ready to go for the day.

If you have a close/tight circle, keep it close and tight and tell them you love them TANNIES WITH EACH OTHER, because at the end of the day, your love will make you strong and your strength will echo to those who are meant for it ARMY.

Have an amazing day y’all 💜🫰🏾

Always respectfully yours,

Marengo.

PS - @ejassy @chikooritajjk @stormblessed95 love y’all.

[leagueofleaguesff]

Didman🥃Demetri

Shannon: Put up the next matchup *sips🥃*

Katt: D&D....DeeDee.

Shannon: D&D you talkin bout Dungeons & Dragons? What you know bout that Katt?

Katt: *shakes head no vigorously* No....no....naw. I'm talking Deedee.

<Katt proceeds to lay on the arm of the couch to make a swimming motion>

Shannon: Bwahahahahahahaha 😆 🤣 😂

Katt: I'm talking Deedee namean? We adults here in know you know what I'm talking about

Shannon: *wiping tears from his eyes* I sure do. Ooweee. Man go ahead and Cue the matchup card already. Katt got me crying laughing up in herrr.

Shannon: Okay let's bring it back to fantasy

<Shannon instantly regrets saying fantasy in front of Katt>

Katt: Oh Deedee did EVERYTHING I could EVER fantasize about *raises glass 🥃* YESSIR!

*Shannon laughs *

Shannon: Okay okay. Let's us get BACK on track. Give props to Didman for winning in this matchup.

<Shannon pauses and wide eyes his card. He looks shocked reading>

Oh damn I'm just now seeing he had Kupp out too? Geeeoooooottttdaaayyuuummm! I'm telling you he ain't gonna win much with that *shakes head dramatically* nuh uh.

Katt: You said it

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[theboysteeemm]

Hezekiah Jones posted to their feed: kiahkickflips: This cat is my dawg namean