Notices by Druid (druid@shrine.moe), page 3
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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 04:54:08 JST 
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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 04:51:41 JST
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@mischievoustomato Holy shit this is going to be an EXTREME MONKEY FIGHT 🍿 -
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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 04:20:18 JST
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@sampo Indeed, I stand by my "Brexit was good actually" take for this reason, diplomatic splits are an opportunity to recentre a country and to help its culture to regain uniqueness. Similarly, the prospect of a breakdown in the "Special Relationship" (thank you America, truly you are my greatest ally) makes me salivate because it's finally an opportunity to deamericanise our culture. At least Finland has a language barrier. 😞 -
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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 04:20:15 JST
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@sampo TBH I don't think American power will ever recover. They're losing hard power too, they just still have quite a lead. I expect America's "Fall of Rome" is right around the corner, but that's something people have been saying since before I was born. But Rome didn't FALL in a day either, the decline and collapse was prolonged and generally denied while it was happening, with many in Roman society under the delusion that their society was actually advancing and healing. Administrative collapse is obviously the hard line, and I expect that before long, America will fall foul of the "any society is 3 meals away from collapse" rule due to economic collapse and quiet secession. -
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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 04:20:13 JST
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@sampo For comparison, when Rome finally DID collapse their deployed forces were simply stranded in their fortifications and supplies just stopped coming. Many of them went native, that's where we get the "Pendragon" from here: it means "Dragon's Head" after the ethnic banner of the stranded Syrian auxiliaries at Hadrian's Wall, who formed a new military order to protect the local Romano-Brits from the Scots (who had not yet conquered and named Scotland, they fought an opportunistic campaign from their Irish home when they realised the Empire had collapsed.) Hence king Arthur is styled as "Arthur Pendragon" despite his birth name (Mac Aedn)
My point here is that while the decline was gradual, the collapse was swift and brutal, and nobody had prepared for it because of denial. The former Roman Empire is all shaped by its remnants. I wonder what severed remnants the USA will be forced to abandon? (Or will vanish willingly: think of American GIs deserting and going native in Southeast Asia's underworld at the end of the Vietnam War. -
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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 04:20:09 JST
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@sampo Just so ABSOLUTELY NOBODY thinks I'm saying "Arthur was brown an' shiet," he was an ethnic Scot who would have displayed extremely strong and stereotypical Celtic physicality, including very light skin and a higher chance of red hair (the latter is more peculiar to Irish Celts which is why we see it in Scots who descend from them, but the Picts they conquered to GET "Scotland" were mostly blonde.)
He EARNED the title "Pendragon" DESPITE being a Scot (against whom the Pendragons had fought extensively up until almost the time they conferred their honourary title onto him) simply for his overwhelming military prowess: Arthur commanded and won his first battle at just 14 (in which unfortunately he was fighting for the Christians against Pagan rebels. Merlin was actually one of the enemy druids, but that's a whole other story - if you want I will tell it, it's an obsessed chud story about how Christianity sucks.)
The evidence suggests that Arthur literally never lost a battle in his entire life. -
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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 00:59:21 JST
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@phnt @BasedLunatic @bajax @Cyrillic This is literally, not figuratively, the most transparent pump and dump I've EVER seen LOL, and sure enough that is THE archetypal double dip pujmp and dump graph. The shape of it is comically instantly recognisable, I started laughing before I even read the body text of your post, the SECOND I saw your first image. It's like seeing amogus, loss, or JD Vance.
>Heyyyyy gamers here's a really good reason why you should HODL forever and ever ;))))))) hehe it's LOCKED IN as the kids say! -
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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 20:09:52 JST
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>(# Toodles and # WhackATroll if you really want to look at them).
Oh you mean THAT bright fedi. Ughhhhhhh, what a mental image to summon. 🤮I thought you meant neocat/neofox fedi.
>Which of course spawned a new thread that started with "which one of you brought poast users with blockbots to my replies"
AHAHAHA I FUCKING LOVE IT. 🐒 Particular shoutout to "my replies" as though it's everyone else's fucking responsibility to curate what that person sees on fedi.
>treat the "Bad posts ahead" as something I've written seriously.
I love love love bio cherrypick slapfighting. My "deeply and permanently anti-Abrahamic" has fished a few people, and now that I'm feeling more playful (and less wounded/defensive) than when I wrote said bio I'm considering making it a bit more jovial and adding some bait. -
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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 20:09:10 JST
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@phnt @BasedLunatic @bajax @Cyrillic Sorry, please explain the reference? -
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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 19:45:50 JST
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@phnt @BasedLunatic @Cyrillic @mischievoustomato Thank you! My wife suggested just hooking it up through an external USB SATA connector if I'm that worried about it, and while that's a tempting option, it would definitely be nice to hook it up properly via SATA and have an extra 2TB to play with even if it's slow. :gura_drool: -
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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 12:02:34 JST
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@bajax @BasedLunatic @phnt @Cyrillic Oh shit, no offense but I'm not reading this post because I haven't seen that movie yet and want to. Perhaps I should take the sign. -
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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 03:53:10 JST
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@phnt Absolutely agreed on that last point, that's very much the truth lol. Also, "dark" fedi is a lot more forgiving; the same people having a furious hellthread today will be 🍻 reacting each other's posts tomorrow. "Bright" fedi will silently softblock you and CW defederate your entire instance because you boosted an anime girl poast, and will then DM all of your friends concern troll intervention bullshit about how you're only being nice to them because you're secretly a rapist.
Regarding Twitter, I left in 2016 myself. I was there for the very genesis of Gamergate on 4chan and started spending more and more time on Twitter to fight the funny battle. It was a hilarious time until the grifters started moving in; Milo's interest was the death knell and the day he started posting about GG, I left and never went back. -
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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 03:31:34 JST
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@irie I agree with every word of this except "hard-coded," I don't care if this sounds like lunacy: I truly believe the lack of positivity, and the habit of fixating on and glamourising maladaptations, are the result of a psyop.
My mum has multiple sclerosis, every day she wakes up with a little more brain damage and eventually, it will claim her life - and probably not glamorously. And yet what do I see from her? Images about artists who didn't complete their life's work until they were 80. Beautiful nature scenes overlaid with laconic wisdom about living in the present. The Buddha's teachings.
Then I come on fedi, see a 19 year old have an absolute breakdown because of a rejected job application, and then see them struggling to shove it down for the rest of the day, usually by externalising their frustration onto a scapegoat (moids/the libs/the jews depending on the person) and then picking manic fights, taking breaks to drown it out by periodically summoning their comforting idols (/tttt/ memes, anime girls, lolcow drama, other distractions.)
I do this too and I recognise it in myself, which is why I have been trying to displace it by contemplating higher matters when I feel that pattern of behaviour taking root. Of course in this sense, Buddha is *my* idol and I have not cut him down, but at least this way I am aware of that situation and trying to navigate my way out of it, lol. -
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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 03:29:22 JST
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@BasedLunatic @Humpleupagus @phnt @Cyrillic @vic I wish it was possible to discuss the Volkisch movement (the revolutionary idea that the health of a culture is more important than its productivity) without it instantly becoming ethnic. -
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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 03:29:20 JST
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@BasedLunatic @Humpleupagus @phnt @Cyrillic @vic Historically this hasn't always been true. While it's not exactly certain because it's so long ago, let's take a look at Vedic society for example, particularly salient because it's (almost, Persia was using it even earlier) the origin of the word "Aryan."
The racial demographics of Vedic society are a controversial and highly charged topic, so much so that finding accurate information is extremely difficult, but it looks as though it was a highly multiethnic society. The exact nature of its ethnic deliniation is the cause of much furious debate, since it rather looks like the caucasian feature set was much more prevalent among the upper (priests, warriors) castes and less so among the lower (merchants, labourers, outcasts) castes, but there's little surviving material (e.g. in the Vedas) that suggests that these were hard ethnic lines: In fact, "Krishna," not only the name of the 9th Vishnavite Avatar (quite a way post-Vedic) but also the name of one of a highly prevalent and wise sage in the Vedas, means "dark-skinned one." Also, their castes were structured by Varna, the idea that birth caste is an intentional component of Karma, and thus the rhetoric wasn't "you're a labourer because you're brown" but "you're a labourer because of you were born to fulfil this role." This sounds like an excuse to modern leftists but it's the truth (they shouldn't study history if they're not willing to try and get into historical mindsets.)
The point I'm making here is that "Aryan" was a *mode of life and being* and not set of genetic characteristics, or a birthright. Both Persian and Vedic society used the word this way: to mean "one of us" or "one who lives by the Way." This is why, for example, Gautama Buddha was born into a household which, despite its high status, was "not Aryan," because his birth society ordered their castes differently (warriors were at the top, priests below them.) This is why the Kalakayas for example (a historical population so violent and barbarous that "Boddhisatva are never born among them") are "Not Aryan."
Individuals behaving poorly or in ways unbecoming of Vedic society were also considered "un-Aryan" and could effectively lose their human rights this way. Think of it a bit like "Unamerican."
"Around us is the Dasyu, riteless, void of sense, inhuman, keeping alien laws. Baffle, thou Slayer of the foe, the weapon which this Dasa wields." (from the Rigveda) -
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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 03:22:41 JST
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@Cyrillic @BasedLunatic @bajax That's ridiculous, that's like sitting in a toilet stall and shouting until someone talks to you, then asking for advice. If you go to an elder then you know you're at least speaking to someone with the wisdom of a few decades behind them. -
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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 03:21:44 JST
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@BasedLunatic @bajax @phnt @Cyrillic But similarly, does not fortune favour the brave? -
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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 03:20:51 JST
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@bajax @BasedLunatic @phnt @Cyrillic Yeah, this is what wetiko does to a person. It's not fun even for the power-tripping manager bullying and sexually harassing his underlings. They're fucking miserable too, nobody truly serves evil willingly.
Have you heard of the book "Bullshit Jobs?" -
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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 03:20:29 JST
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@BasedLunatic @Cyrillic @phnt @vic A lot of people forget that the Christian Old Testament is just the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Torah. This is the entire foundation of 56% of the world's way of thought (this is the combined figure for Islam and Christianity, Judaism isn't even a blip on the radar numerically because it's a pseudoethnic religion and not en evangelical one.) The fact of the matter is that "Judaism controls the world" is an accurate statement even in the total absence of any conspiracy theory or presumed malice: A tiny religion (openly orientated around manipulating outsiders, read the Talmud where it talks about sending false rabbis like Jesus among the goyim) set all the rules and ideological foundations for the dominant mode of thought for all of present-day humanity. Being able to be guilty or innocent on a technicality, for example, is a Jewish idea. -
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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 03:20:28 JST
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@BasedLunatic @Cyrillic @phnt @vic To briefly elaborate further: The Talmud is a direct reaction to being unable to hear God's voice, which is why it is a bunch of rabbis discussing what their god would probably want the law to be, and how to interpret it from the scant guidance he has issued them in the past.
This pseudo-paternal absence anxiety is the core engine of Abrahamism: "God isn't visible to me right now, so what if when he returns, he is angry with me?" If you want a great Ur-example of this, the phrase "Jewry is Edom" surfaces periodically in Jewish esoterica throughout the ages (most inexplicably and unnervingly in a Jewish encyclopedia from around WW1) as a koan for Jews to entertain the idea that they are mistaken, and are not in fact their god's chosen people at all. Yahweh hates Edom (the tribe of Esau) for literally no reason other than not liking Esau's face ("too ruddy" apparently, meaning he was too rugged, masculine, strong, hairy etc. compared to his brother Jacob, whose essential sickliness is loved by Yahweh, who seeks infantilism from his followers.) The progeny of Esau are doomed to Gehenna (Jewish hell) because "some people just are," that's literally the most common rabbinical explanation of the story.
The point I'm making is that the fear caused by the seed of anxiety over potential (arbitrary) unworthiness is the central evocatory mechanism for Abrahamic religion: it's what makes the magic happen. This is no secret to magicians anyway, it's why medieval Christian magic uses the fear of divine punishment (for consorting with demons and doing witchcraft) for the same thing. Fear is a poor evocatory mechanism at best, in fact it's the absolute basic first-response one, but it's enough to get Abrahamists to send frightened prayers to their god, which is all it needs (BECAUSE IT'S A DEMON LOL)
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