[-] daedramachine@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago

Add Deadman's Letters to that list

[-] daedramachine@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

I did that once on April Fool's at work and a few hours in they took the zapper away from me scared of my power

[-] daedramachine@hexbear.net 14 points 5 months ago

Another good example of historical rebellion and religious figures would be the slave uprising and liberation of Haiti. Look up Dutty Boukman, he was one of the leaders, and also a houngan.

'Magic' or whatever you want to call it is part of the social reality we live in and isn't something we can simply wipe away overnight along with religion and mythology. People experience things they can't understand for a variety of very explainable reasons and ones yet to be discovered, so and its basically harkening back to the ancients to blame the unexplicable on magic and the likes, but they experienced something, its gaslighting and immature to simply overlook this and alienates what would be some potential allies, including large parts of the proto-proletariat. Old school magic is the affair of the most desperate and cast off portions of society and serves a strong social function to give these people some power, it itsn't the ritual of itself in isolation, but the symbolism and what it draws from when seen by society at large.

Religion is an an ancient catch all and we are not yet at the most advanced economic age to simply knock people out of religion the incomplete and illusory hope-bringer, you show people out slowly, but at the same time there is shit we don't know and its very mechanical to assume we know all and socially blind to ignore its power, like fighting with one arm behind your back ignoring a good third of all human symbolism and its power on the psyche since we are far from the day when all are immune to the power of words, symbols, and suggestion. not-immune-to-propaganda

Back in the day, and probably today too everyone's alphabet agencies studied weird shit to hope to gain an edge on everyone else, that included former and current AES, and imagine if you could during WW2 everyone involved even had professional astrologers. Yes, even the USSR had their own professional astrologers.

The trick is, in true dialectic fashion not to go too far into the metaphysics, to steal its kernel of truth/play the game to hose your enemies and then run away really fast before it caves in on you, as it will on the bourgeois dictatorship in the west with magical thinking the default to the point they now buy the simulacrum full sale. You don't want to go the other way neither, that just alienates you from the very people that direly need the most assistance getting away from the metaphs in a very ultra move denying their lived experiences as they understand it.

[-] daedramachine@hexbear.net 13 points 5 months ago

That's what a PhD is good for

[-] daedramachine@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago

absolutely would be more tolerant of gsm in general would not be ideal world though right now we'd still be in a backsliding stage so to say globally

[-] daedramachine@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago

The most insufferable trust fund yuppies read Live, Love, Laugh and turn it into their religion

[-] daedramachine@hexbear.net 16 points 7 months ago

They're working on like 1hr of sleep too, especially in shitty retail chains had a roomie that was a pharmtech studying to be an actual pharmacist and his sleep was more caffeine and maybe adderall. Also the words paperwork blackhole, records get shittily put in, no one's updated anything regarding contact information since 1982, insurance is a pita to deal with and records, orders etc get lost.

[-] daedramachine@hexbear.net 10 points 7 months ago

The other common one and my last company did this shit to me was they give you a week long vacation along with some other workers for no reason and they keep extending it, then bam fired.

[-] daedramachine@hexbear.net 11 points 7 months ago

Nazis regurgitating nazi propaganda, it ain't reddit-logo for no reason

[-] daedramachine@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Wow, we eat out once a month in this household, tops, its a special occasion. I can't even.

[-] daedramachine@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Standard fascism then

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