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⌈ Secret Post #6072 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

I posted in a book thread like a week ago that I was reading 'Cobalt Red.' As I've read it, something I haven't been able to stop thinking about is a podcast I listened to for a spell called Decolonizing Buffalo. It's run by a part-Comanche man who's pretty far-left and into, well, the project of decolonizing colonized peoples, obviously including his own. First got into it while researching the "Pretendian" phenomenon.

Anyway, over time, I started to get the impression that he was...kind of credulous? Like, if someone was critical of the US, he'd just believe whatever else they said. What finally made me quit the pod was when he had on a Chinese national who went on at length about how the Belt and Road initiative is fantastic for Africa.

Well, now I'm reading a book about the continued exploitation of the Congo, much of it at the hands of Chinese companies, and I keep thinking about this podcaster. It doesn't seem to have occurred to him that while yes, the US has propaganda, other countries do as well -- including China! He's all about decolonization, but he was swallowing hook, line, and sinker the words of someone who has every reason to back his country's modern-day version of colonialism and little incentive at all to tell the truth. Children are in debt bondage and are dying in mines, and he's out here thinking they've been enriched by a benevolent superpower.

I think the reason it bothers me so much is because it highlights how people want to believe there's an easy answer to the injustice in the world. They want to think that if they can identify the One True Bad Guy and then get rid of them, all of our problems will vanish. But the truth is that the ability to be the Bad Guy lies in almost all of us.

In other news, I am now not comfortable buying an EV, and don't know what to do about the device in my hands.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

Extremely common problem with leftists. And, really, people in general.

Anyway, if you can live without having a car, that's probably the best option. If you can't, then an EV or hybrid is still a better option all else equal than a gas car.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

I don't know about that, anon. The gas car leads to hypothetical dead children. The EV us built on children who have already actually died, after enduring abominable working conditions. How the fuck can any of us live with that?

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

A) the gas car will lead to exponentially more dead children
B) contemporary human existence in the first world is basically founded on intense suffering no matter what kind of car you choose

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

I have trouble seeing how that's not us just excusing ourselves.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

So drop out and start throwing bombs then.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

The only solutions you can think of are, "allow people to suffer, or throw bombs?" What is the matter with you?

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

I guess you could also drop out of society entirely. But, yeah, pretty much. I don't know what to tell you. I don't know what you think is going on here. We live in a society that is founded on massive suffering. Buying a different car won't change that reality.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

In other news, I am now not comfortable buying an EV, and don't know what to do about the device in my hands.

I think at this point seeking the services of a counselor is your best bet in determining what trade offs will work for you. The older I get, the more I've understood that no perfect solution to any problem (simple or complex) actually exists.