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I doubt anyone will read this who still remembers me from my "glory days" on the Complaints Forum. They were great times! I was in college, and dressed so fabulously, and did a distinctive eye makeup trick people still ask me about to this day. I was so objective and intellectual, so self-loathing. Self-loathing was just the cool, objective, funny, intellectual thing to be! I drank vodka hidden in coke and no-flavor Listerine from waking up until I went to bed, and barely even tried to kill myself! All the racism, the sexism, the homophobia and transphobia, all that shit was so ironic and so funny if you were enlightened enough to be ironic.


I had a place where I was thriving, a lovely, cynical place full of 4chan-adjacent humor. Funny thing was, Nazis kept showing up. Oh, they were such friendly Nazis, though! You have to be able to get along with people outside of your ideological spectrum. Everybody was equal on the Complaints Forum! Jewish, Black, Trans, Gay, Nazi, these are all just things to acknowledge that you are and be ironic and ashamed about! I remember a particular conversation about "are Nazis bad or not" where a well-known Nazi told a 17-year-old (or so) Black woman that she was "my favorite Untermensch". She accepted this "compliment", because we were all having such a great time!


We were all having such a great time that I was alienated from the most important part of my life, because it was full of fucking Nazis, and every time I criticized them I was called out for being prejudiced against their views! Is prejudice against Nazis not, indeed, like unto their prejudice against everyone they want to kill?


FUCKING NO IT IS NOT?


So I left, and I was like "I was having a good time on there with all my funny self-loathing, and all that other 4chan prejudice also being so funny and so ironic, and I'm so glad 4chan itself is a moderate haven for not Nazis where all the prejudice is ironic!" And I hoped those people I left behind would think, "hmm, are Nazis bad?". They remained objective.


And then Gamergate happened, and I was like "Oh, holy shit, the bigots I thought were so funny were bigots the whole time. Good thing nobody will take them seriously now!"


And then Donald Trump was elected and his inauguration speech was written by a white nationalist. Then he literally ripped babies from their parents' arms, and they were forgotten in the foster care system, and nobody even mentions it anymore because so much other horrible bullshit has happened, and now he wants us all to die of plague.The last four years, I tried to get out of six or seven years ago. Turns out letting Nazis in is how you get Nazis, and you let Nazis in by pretending giving their views a hearing is "objective"!

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>let several months to a year pass
>return to deviantart
>feel peculiar mixture of nostalgia and shame
>holy shit people can change their names now what
>if anyone's still watching me, see you again in a year or so
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I haven't been on DeviantART in a while, huh? The last few months have just kinda slipped by, and I just had zero interest in checking the forums. Now, I'm remembering just enough to say hello to all my old DA buddies. You exist, and so do I! :highfive:

Last August, I got myself one of those "boyfriend" things everyone has been talking about, and I don't regret it. However, he does take up a lot of my time, and I currently have very little motivation to run around picking fights on the internet. Arguing is a very diverting pastime, and sharpens your critical thinking skills, when done properly, but it hasn't appealed to me as much these past few months. Art and poetry are things I still try to keep in practice with, but unfortunately, my stockpile of angst has gotten very low. Got lots of ennui, though. I use it all the time. Anyone want some?
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I'm tired.

I read about human society and it drains me, drums and hypocrisies leading to war. True breakthroughs are trampled underfoot for the next big thing pop science sensation. Disease we had eradicated return because of fears and rumors about the vaccines, based on one man's irreplicable junk science.
I'm tired of emotion winning the day. A man with words debates a man with facts and the man with words is elected. Debaters of Darwin are steeped in all the fallacies that have been brewing since he published, and trot them all out regularly before an audience. "My grandma was not a monkey" wins the crowds. Facts be damned. The junk and the fallacies win the debates. Deep understanding of all issues involved will cost you them.

I'm tired of race. We're all embroiled in a thousand ethnic  tensions, which all trace back to when we were apes. Our family, our troop, was the greatest, and neighbor troops worth hunting to extinction, because sharing territory is the great unthinkable. We're walking apes, so sweet and curious, such complex thinkers, who will bash your brains in if you cross us.

I'm tired of people who claim being treated differently all your life because you were born some way is not a valid reason to complain. Humans are not rational beings. If we were, we would have put a stop to the endless, destructive drive to war some time ago. Humans are apes, capable of great reason, but a thousand things can hinder our ability to reason, or to function properly. Anyone raised poor may feel entitled to luxury in adulthood, or have the impression of being too inferior to work any proper job. Anyone raised rich may think the world owes them shit, and stride out with an attitude to get the shit they are owed. These are issues they must cope with for the rest of their lives, and it takes a truly remarkable individual to successfully rise above any of the trauma of their childhoods. The thing to remember is that everybody else has huge loads of trauma too. It's very difficult to keep track of it all, but it does explain why everybody acts so fucking crazy.

People continue traditions that may or may not have lost all relevance. This is lovely when it's a merry Secular Christmas Tree, and all the family is together, exchanging gifts, sharing togetherness and not believing Yeshua ben Yoseph was the Messiah the Jews spoke of. Not like the tree had anything to do with him in the first place.

People also continue traditions of gendered division of labor, when the relevance of those is clearly lost. If a man must work and a woman can do nothing but mind the house and children, it is acceptable to expect her to be the homemaker. If a man and a woman are equally financially responsible, the work of the house should be spread equally, to each according to his ability. A man who is unemployed, but married to a working woman, is not winning bread, and his penis gives him no excuse not to do the work of the house.

People get trapped in ways of thinking that are ultimately destructive. They get, and spread, misinformation. They believe, for example, that an enemy we have been bombing and ruining the personal affairs of for decades takes aggressive action because they hate us for our freedom.
There are seven billion people in the world. There are several billion people with wrong, or misinformed, or destructive attitudes about the most basic things. They reject science, believe some political lie over the objective truth of their own economic condition, force children into armed service. Some are passionate about ensuring that half the species remains docile nonentities, never aiding further progress. Some are convinced one clade of the species stands above the rest, due to a couple of hundred years where the innovations started to snowball. Many are willing to murder, bomb, rape, cheat, loot and oppress for the sake of one blood-soaked strip of desert.

One thing can be said of the Lord:
He adores Him a blood-spattered sword.
So the Holy Land's red
With the blood of the dead
And each faith by its brothers abhorred.

I don't know what can be done about it all. People find more falsehoods to get passionate over every time steps are taken to resolve a standing problem.  I have no solutions to offer, myself. I'm just tired.
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:iconmr-happypants: snagged my 0 pageviews kiriban.

:iconjungplz::iconsaysplz: Something about that seems wrong.

Shut up, famous psychologist. This is deviantART. We don't ask questions, and we know what the word "kiriban" means.

:iconjungplz::iconsaysplz: I see. And what does "kiriban" mean?

Some Japanese shit, I dunno.

So, as his reward, I'm posting all of my favourite images from his gallery.
His gallery appears to be hiding. The kiriban screenshot is the only thing I can find, and I've already posted that.

Go forth, my watchers, and give that gallery the asspats it deserves.
Do it because he's a fucking terrifying clown.

:iconjungplz::iconsaysplz: Ah, an expression of a darker aspect of the Trickster archetype.

A fucking terrifying clown.
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