If I can get my target to move as I want, then I’ve succeeded as a hunter.
I know this is just thebad.website comic, but I’m genuinely curious (and an idiot) to know what the connection is with generally racist-inclined folk love for saying that everything is common sense. What makes them think in this way?
It’s the backbone of their every argument–no matter what it is, if I ask, “Why do you think x, y, or z is the case?”
It is without a doubt their instant reply, ‘It’s just commonsense!’
ok, I really didn’t know when I made this comment, but I’m pretty sure it’s project manager and no one said it outright so here
Preventative maintenance? Post moderator? Pickup mailman?
Prime Minister? Prime meridian? Protocol maintainer?
what is vtuber? am old sry
Should be close to 100 trillion by the end of the decade at this rate
What is money for if not to waste completely when you don’t have to at all lol
If you point me toward the wiki, I’ll read it, but am curious how you learned
I see enjoyment (jouissance) as a built-in surplus that pushes past satisfaction into something often painful or compulsive. Ideology hides this excess by promising straightforward fulfillment, but that promise produces the very leftover enjoyment it denies. The subject thinks it wants a clear goal, while an unconscious drive seeks the surplus; culture can redirect this surplus (sublimation) or it returns as symptoms (addiction, shame). So enjoyment isn’t just pleasure — it’s the extra push that both sustains desire and disrupts meaning.
You saying no such thing is a misunderstanding. Žižek links this surplus to the paradox that prohibiting pleasure produces a new form of enjoyment — the pleasure of prohibition. The ban sets up a forbidden object that becomes more desirable; the surplus (jouissance) then migrates into transgression or guilt, so prohibition itself generates the very enjoyment it aims to stop.
I’m curious to know specifically how this was experienced as offending
Are you familiar with ‘jouissance’?
The drive continues past satisfaction into compulsion.
Pleasure is mixed with pain, shame, or guilt during/after the act.
It’s symbolic. Eating can act like a shortcut for dealing with other feelings or wants — it fills a need that words or thinking don’t fix.
you don’t believe in any of the supernatural stuff
Correct. It feels beyond a little silly to pretend there is any kind of entity in control or overlooking the unfolding of events that is reality or what we mean by reality. I will admit, the ‘god in process’ theories are fun and maybe insightful to some degree but nothing worth putting faith in just yet.
are just about the better teachings of Jesus? Aka a Jefferson bible take?
I’ve heard of this, but I just now researched it. Seems interesting, but it is certainly not what I’m speaking to at all afaict
And yet they persist, so it’s almost like it’s not quite that simple either, eh? Funny how the devil stays in the details, no matter which side you lean
Am a Christian atheist ftr–just feels bad to see so many accept convenient lies over the honest truths of a worthwhile series of stories (wether they factually happened is of little to no value in the pursuit of truth, no?)
There are more than a few disrespectful answers here, but if any of these ppl talked to someone who honestly believed, they’d be more inclined to tell you to investigate the new covenant
Name checks out… I’ve never seen one check this far out either, maybe a record
Antifa larper really
What? Why does this meme say it’s not compatible with anything then? Did I get trolled?
I’m noticing that a lot of my memes are auto saved as webps, what can I convert these into so as to be most compatible and least likely to offend those that care about file formats?
Everyone’s taking the ‘what an odd thing to feel obligated to announce at all’ view/reaction
Does anyone else have an internal critic that starts also screaming “wait, they also know everyone can’t react any other way–are they banking on us being unable to let go of the numerous suspicions that will continue to live rent-free in our minds for days?”
I know I’m being paranoid, but please someone help bring me back down to a level-headed take on this matter I beg you!
I don’t have a real solution, but for me I just try to be exceptionally mindful of precisely what you already described. On my way home I try to think of a few productive things I could possibly muster before compromising/collapsing back into idleness