Comments by "William Innes" (@williaminnes6635) on "Styxhexenhammer666" channel.

eh a couple of negociacions are normal in the course of doing negocios
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@nhmooytis7058 Do they wear them in New Beijing too, then?
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@mitchjames9350 Khalistan as a movement is twice as old as India as an independent country.
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@alanwilliams4443 "The appearance of fairness ought always be insisted upon, so as to force those in power from time to time into actually being fair." - E. P. Thompson, pre-Secret Speech communist, pre-woke mind virus social historian, Whigs and Hunters, foreword, heavily paraphrased
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The way those guys drink? They'll be next in line after Japan for fake wombs.
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@Aquelll u Finnish?
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@Aquelll I'm just curious because the Finnish abortion law, viewed from outside Finland, is still pretty close to the pro-life end of the spectrum. There are places where abortion is legal up to the moment of birth, not just in the first trimester on demand or thereafter in the event of rape incest or the health of the mother.
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@mitchjames9350 Buddhist pilgrims who travelled to India from China late in the first millennium never once made a note about the caste system being a thing, which does not necessarily mean there was not something we would think of as the caste system, but does say that if India was socially stratified, it was not in a manner sufficiently distinct from that of feudal China. Chinamen in feudal times were not shy about calling other people barbarians when they thought they were barbaric.
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tangent I forget the name of the Indian master Buddhist who came to China and was convinced by Huike of his devotion to Buddhism by Huike cutting off his own arm in front of him. edit - Bodhidharma, but I had to write out the rest of the story to make me remember They always draw him as obviously foreign in the monastery frescoes - big bulging eyes, wild beard, crazed grimace. I sort of imagine Bodhidharma looking at Huike and going "holy fuck, man, you just cut off your fucking arm! All right, all right, I'll stop trying to convince you I'm an impressive religious master and let you be my top disciple." anyway legend goes Huike meditated in one of the caverns up in the mountains so long the force of his concentration burned an image of him into the cavern walls then the other folk religion character that got picked up by the version of Buddhism that came to be associated with the better know schools of traditional Chinese martial arts was Vajrapani, where the theory is that Vajrapani was originally just Hercules, to whom Bactrians and other central Asian people had continued to pray to after the diadochii - the ancient Macedonian generals who divided up the empire of Alexander the Great - as a god of strength. Buddhism as it passed through central Asia from India, the argument goes, picked up basically any folk deity it could consider to be a supernatural entity inferior to Buddha himself who acted with the overall purpose of helping people to enlightenment, and Hercules became associated with one of the Buddhist analogies about how keeping yourself detached from worldly concerns was like wiping the dust off of a reflective surface, hence the character bearing a diamond that shot lightning - forget the language, might be Sanskrit, but Vajrapani the name means "lightning diamond." Five dollar word for the day is "eponymous." As schools of martial arts began to follow Vajrapani as their monastery sub-deity, eventually the diamond in his hand began to be replaced by a quarterstaff, since Buddhist monks to show what they were carried a staff with them with a ring in the top, so a stick was a weapon to which they always had access, and stick fighting became strongly associated with monasteries which focused on martial arts. Typing this out, I sort of wonder if maybe this might have been the result of a Buddhist having encountered a depiction of Hercules carrying the club of Hercules. This would be a twelve foot shaft usually of ash IIRC for monastery drills, but during the later medieval campaigns against pirates from Japan, the monks used eight foot iron staves which were more lethal. The stories related to the exceptions the martial arts monasteries made for meat, alcohol, and women are more along the lines of "well I had a dream that the Buddha told me that it was OK if we ate animal sinews to gain strength, so our abbey makes an exception to the Buddhist monastic code." When a tradition needs to come up with an excuse to say why it is OK for high T guys to act like high T guys, it comes up with an excuse. (I actually can cite my source on this one, everything here is in Meir Shahar's compilation of essays related to his translations of rubbings he took of inscriptions on stele erected around Shaolin Abbey in mainland China in the 1990s and 2000s.) TL; DR, we have the same thing to thank for how we know the Indian caste system is relatively "modern" as we do for the existence of kung fu
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and to anybody who reads this and decides they want to get into it, learn Sanskrit, try to get a hold of a copy of the Buddhist monastic code, the vinaya, and learn it cover to cover, try to pick up some Japanese, and keep your day job At that point, you've got the skill set East Asian studies Ph Ds with funding for a grad student want to see to begin to vouch for why your slave wage labour for them ought to be worth a college saying you have a Master's degree, and beginning to point you at stuff in the vinaya and interpretations of it that other people have not studied recently, which is how you're going to get a dissertation out of it. Don't take courses not related to Sanskrit or the vinaya until you've got that shit down like the back of your hand. Japanese because the best archives in the world for the Eastern Tradition are in Japan. Japan only started keeping its own set of records in the 5th century after Christ, but they're the one place where the wars didn't burn them to the ground or the weather didn't turn them to soil or the scholars didn't turn to apathy and cynicism, so they have the most complete set of records related to the Eastern Tradition.
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My brain initially was like "wait what Seventh Panzer was a division."
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apply Popper's Paradox of Intolerance to them, in other words
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The tragedy of it is a lot worse than prohibition and the mob. The cartel thing in Latin America is a LOT worse than what the mob did. The mob have continued to be a bad influence as they have gone semilegit, but the cartels literally fund the destabilization of their own countries. That pattern won't stop if or when they make cocaine legal.
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Kind of. There was a psychometrist in the 1960s who tinkered around with the inputs in USA and proved about 2/3s of the observable difference in IQ evaporates when kids were run through the test multiple times. Child familiarity with the test environment was the hypothesis of why this would be the case.
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@edonveil9887 Montagnais-Naskapi for "snowshoe setter"? I don't think anybody cares.
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@BasedChad man. I wanted to pass a message to a buddy in Israel who is being weird about it through a guy I remain 99% certain is a mutual, but the mutual had this breakdown over the way I went about it, and then I had this awkward one hour conversation with him where he was doing that lashing out thing, but instead of it being direct anger and insults, it was like he was trying to slide into psychoanalyst mode and cross-examiner mode, like on instinct as his response to my having inadvertently got on his fee fees, and I'm just sitting there like "hey man, I'm sorry that accidentally really bothered you, I'm not trying to be a dick to you." I don't hold it against him, but it was sort of educational.
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Reminds me of Putin's tactic toward domestic dissidents where he would have the FSB open the door of their car while it was parked, then take a shit on the driver's seat.
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Make Yemen Ethiopia Again
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The ideological debate WAS off the table. Between Deng and Jiang, mainland China could creditably say that it represented a viable alternative model. Mainland China allowed some local self government. Mainland China had more economic freedom than the First World. Late under Jiang, as the wokeism became more of a thing elsewhere, you could even say mainland China had as much personal freedom as the First World. While it didn't have political freedom per se, its leaders had all stuck to the convention of the ten year term limit, and it was not always the same clique in power.
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note the tense of my verb
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@Aireck174 not really these people all silenced themselves on the Forever Wars the second Obama made it into office. They don't and have never given a rat's ass and I have to conclude that theirs is actually the correct position. Brutal and neverending foreign warfare is an intrinsic element of the American system successfully implemented by those social democrats who had been able to position themselves as conservatives. The military-industrial complex will find some corner of the world to dump mountains of treasure and everybody will go along with it because the US military at home will remain a well-respected institution and jobs in the US defense industry will continue to pay middle class wages. If there is a hell with Catholic rules, then I am going there for the mortal sin of acedia.
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Personally, I'm inclined to write Kissinger a fair sized pass for his actions during the First Cold War. The Soviet Union was not a sock puppet of the military-industrial complex.
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They've been denying being in two consecutive quarters of negative growth for three or four quarters at this point.
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yeah there has definitely been an evolution of Recession-era atheist YouTube and social media in this direction
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I don't know if I understand the logic of the Biden Administration in deliberately stoking this chaos. I guess they need to pay back the evil old bastards who donate to the Open Society Foundations.
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