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Tungsten
Aug 10, 2004

Your Working Boy

Centrist Committee posted:

what are you basing this on, capitalists aren’t unified or trying to “create equity” of any kind. in fact this thread only exists to explore the divisions between capitalist factions and their irrational, esoteric beliefs

meanwhile, the biggest part of bbb is the salt cap repeal

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Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

Centrist Committee posted:

what are you basing this on, capitalists aren’t unified or trying to “create equity” of any kind. in fact this thread only exists to explore the divisions between capitalist factions and their irrational, esoteric beliefs

not answering for PMJ but there is both the capacity for capitalists to act in divisive and irrational ways while the systemic feedbacks means the capitalists as a class continue to accrue equity.

each individual capitalist might act for irrational and sometimes perverse reasons, but at large the interaction of those individual actions within their systems embedding still lead towards one direction over time.

Centrist Committee
Aug 6, 2019
oh if “equity” was supposed to me more profits or capital accumulation then sure I agree but I read it as equality and fraternity among capitalists, as if it doesn’t all bend back toward aristocratic blood lines to draw the circles as
tightly as possible eventually

The Saucer Hovers
May 16, 2005

please stop being so hostel itt

Tungsten
Aug 10, 2004

Your Working Boy

Centrist Committee posted:

oh if “equity” was supposed to me more profits or capital accumulation then sure I agree but I read it as equality and fraternity among capitalists, as if it doesn’t all bend back toward aristocratic blood lines to draw the circles as
tightly as possible eventually

aristocracies are also called "peerages" in certain places

Cabbages and VHS
Aug 25, 2004

Listen, I've been around a bit, you know, and I thought I'd seen some creepy things go on in the movie business, but I really have to say this is the most disgusting thing that's ever happened to me.

The Saucer Hovers posted:

please stop being so hostel itt

i'd be friendlier if not for all these drat moths in my mouth

:rimshot:

Futanari Damacy
Oct 30, 2021

by sebmojo

Mola Yam posted:

lots of new posts in the epstine thread! going to go ahead and assume that ghislane killed herself in prison, or the little st james dvd vault was leaked online.

now to read the posts and get caught up on the exciting news.

lol. Same.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

Mola Yam posted:

lots of new posts in the epstine thread! going to go ahead and assume that ghislane killed herself in prison, or the little st james dvd vault was leaked online.

now to read the posts and get caught up on the exciting news.

Tungsten
Aug 10, 2004

Your Working Boy

what was happening in the thread before the live nation crowd crush derail anyway?

discussion begins at the bottom of page 856. prior three pages contain...

- https://twitter.com/marina0swald/status/1453879383219900419/photo/1 state department rents epstein a mansion in 1992
- facebook knowingly involved in sex trafficking
- i post the entirety of borges' deutches requiem

OutOfPrint posted:

The entirety of the post-WWII era was defined by a handful of ivy league jerkoffs who hated how communism threatened their own social and financial standing so much that they thought the Nazis were their natural allies from the late 30's until _________.

Didn't help that the Dulles bros. had business contacts with Nazis in the 30's, too.

- carl schmitt, the nazi emergency powers judge, gotta hand it to him re: his observations on the frailty of liberal democracy in a time of crisis
- moonies at jan 6, crowns of bullets. falun gong a cia op who spreads qanon poo poo
- qanon a psyop, trump a white hat pedophile
- actual pedophile tony podesta
- google removing search by date on mobile a few months before epstein arrested (actually maybe they just changed the syntax)
- pizzagate as chaff / hypernormalization
- whatever happened to matt gaetz anyway
- photograph of clinton with epstein victim
- coordinated cross-platform censorship: definitely real, impolite to discuss, qui bono
- john podesta and ghislaine maxwell in police sketches for kidnapping case
- release of kennedy files delayed again
- "comet ping pong guy’s James Alefantis instagram photos" - what's that?
- king salman is thicc
- unification of police databases done with maxwell family involvement, probable enables sex trafficking
- james angleton, including zizek on angleton
- read devil's chessboard
- william donovan buddies with nazis
- afghanistan withdrawl = whoops no more heroin
- mlsm posts about hostel for some reason
- phish and the defense finance and accounting service

Tungsten
Aug 10, 2004

Your Working Boy

https://en.mogaznews.com/World-News/1856853/Ghislaine-Maxwell-proposes-calling-psychologist-who-testified-at-Weinstein-trial.html

huh, so the satanic panic is pretty thread-relevant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Loftus

Wasabi the J
Jan 23, 2008

MOM WAS RIGHT

Tungsten posted:

- qanon a psyop, trump a white hat pedophile

:vince:

Tungsten
Aug 10, 2004

Your Working Boy


i stole the phrasing from chapo trap house or something

Wasabi the J
Jan 23, 2008

MOM WAS RIGHT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_School_for_Social_Research?wprov=sfla1

e: Misread.

Wasabi the J has issued a correction as of 03:45 on Nov 10, 2021

TheGoonspiracist
Jul 24, 2002

The terrible secret of space... :stonk: the Mods, they knew!
Just popped in because I don't know if this has ever been discussed in the thread yet.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FUersarZuo

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
is there any evidence that castration has any effect on pedophilia?

I bring it up because I'm watching this medical drama show ("The Good Doctor") and the ethical dilemma of the day was a guy that they found out was a sexual predator, and one of the doctors says they should castrate him in order to kill off his sex drive, and the head doctor says that they cannot do that if it's not medically necessary/relevant

what ends up happening in the end is that they manage to save the guy's life without needing to castrate him, and they refer him to a shrink to get the help he needs, but then he's so guilty that he ends up committing suicide-by-bus anyway

I'm just wondering if the show is peddling a factoid that isn't actually true

Torpor
Oct 20, 2008

.. and now for my next trick, I'll pretend to be a political commentator...

HONK HONK

gradenko_2000 posted:

is there any evidence that castration has any effect on pedophilia?

I bring it up because I'm watching this medical drama show ("The Good Doctor") and the ethical dilemma of the day was a guy that they found out was a sexual predator, and one of the doctors says they should castrate him in order to kill off his sex drive, and the head doctor says that they cannot do that if it's not medically necessary/relevant

what ends up happening in the end is that they manage to save the guy's life without needing to castrate him, and they refer him to a shrink to get the help he needs, but then he's so guilty that he ends up committing suicide-by-bus anyway

I'm just wondering if the show is peddling a factoid that isn't actually true

I do not think sex drive is stored in the balls.

Mameluke
Aug 2, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

Tungsten posted:

what was happening in the thread before the live nation crowd crush derail anyway?

discussion begins at the bottom of page 856. prior three pages contain...

- https://twitter.com/marina0swald/status/1453879383219900419/photo/1 state department rents epstein a mansion in 1992
- facebook knowingly involved in sex trafficking
- i post the entirety of borges' deutches requiem

- carl schmitt, the nazi emergency powers judge, gotta hand it to him re: his observations on the frailty of liberal democracy in a time of crisis
- moonies at jan 6, crowns of bullets. falun gong a cia op who spreads qanon poo poo
- qanon a psyop, trump a white hat pedophile
- actual pedophile tony podesta
- google removing search by date on mobile a few months before epstein arrested (actually maybe they just changed the syntax)
- pizzagate as chaff / hypernormalization
- whatever happened to matt gaetz anyway
- photograph of clinton with epstein victim
- coordinated cross-platform censorship: definitely real, impolite to discuss, qui bono
- john podesta and ghislaine maxwell in police sketches for kidnapping case
- release of kennedy files delayed again
- "comet ping pong guy’s James Alefantis instagram photos" - what's that?
- king salman is thicc
- unification of police databases done with maxwell family involvement, probable enables sex trafficking
- james angleton, including zizek on angleton
- read devil's chessboard
- william donovan buddies with nazis
- afghanistan withdrawl = whoops no more heroin
- mlsm posts about hostel for some reason
- phish and the defense finance and accounting service

also, chris pratt and anna faris hosted a party for a pedo

Tungsten
Aug 10, 2004

Your Working Boy

gradenko_2000 posted:

is there any evidence that castration has any effect on pedophilia?

I bring it up because I'm watching this medical drama show ("The Good Doctor") and the ethical dilemma of the day was a guy that they found out was a sexual predator, and one of the doctors says they should castrate him in order to kill off his sex drive, and the head doctor says that they cannot do that if it's not medically necessary/relevant

what ends up happening in the end is that they manage to save the guy's life without needing to castrate him, and they refer him to a shrink to get the help he needs, but then he's so guilty that he ends up committing suicide-by-bus anyway

I'm just wondering if the show is peddling a factoid that isn't actually true

as a goat owner, i can confidently state that castration does not totally remove sex drive, even if done before puberty

edit: also, trans women exist

Tungsten has issued a correction as of 08:25 on Nov 10, 2021

Sleekly
Aug 21, 2008



gradenko_2000 posted:

is there any evidence that castration has any effect on pedophilia?

I bring it up because I'm watching this medical drama show ("The Good Doctor") and the ethical dilemma of the day was a guy that they found out was a sexual predator, and one of the doctors says they should castrate him in order to kill off his sex drive, and the head doctor says that they cannot do that if it's not medically necessary/relevant

what ends up happening in the end is that they manage to save the guy's life without needing to castrate him, and they refer him to a shrink to get the help he needs, but then he's so guilty that he ends up committing suicide-by-bus anyway

I'm just wondering if the show is peddling a factoid that isn't actually true

i think if they cant use their dick they will use a knife or something else instead

Tungsten
Aug 10, 2004

Your Working Boy

Sleekly posted:

i think if they cant use their dick they will use a knife or something else instead

see also harvey weinstein's rotten dick stub

DR FRASIER KRANG
Feb 4, 2005

"Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?
what are the chances that a dude who took part in the 2004 Orange Revolution also rioted on 1/6?

https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1457684699665551366?s=20

The Sausages
Sep 30, 2012

What do you want to do? Who do you want to be?

nomad2020 posted:

So with the satanic stuff, by what mechanism do we believe that Travis purposefully sacrificed 8 people, and were the specific victims targeted or was the number of victims even a concern.

I’m totally on board with calling the guy a sociopath, but I’m not really convinced on the satanic ritual/mass murderer angle.

E: The satanic stuff is just a level or two too abstracted for me to follow… thanks for the Jonestown podcast rec, good so far.

VV— so a conspiracy to cheap out on health and safety?
I'm still not convinced this was a ritual it's too easily explained as a preventable failure of capitalism and human error the same way plane crashes, oil spills and ammonium nitrate explosions keep happening

but if it was...
There's a chance Travis Scott is so numbed by drugs and controlled the people who make sure his drugs get delivered to him that he has no conscious will of his own at this point
maybe that sort of thing regularly going on in the recording industry - keeping someone permanently drugged and compliant but also productive - is one of the dividends of MK-Ultra but that's beside the point
It's not like he's an elaborate set designer/choreographer/event planner who just raps and male models on the side and controls every aspect of his concerts
His job among other things is to get people rowdy and unfortunately in this instance he is good at what he does
Pointing the finger at the people on stage is like blaming the chanting guy with the knife and nobody else at the altar for a more conventional human sacrifice
But it doesn't matter so much who does a ritual so long as somebody does the ritual
having a robot perform a ritual causes the ritual to fail but having someone else perform the ritual still results in success, according to someone* who has had the time and resources and interest to experiment with these things
But more likely things just come together in terrible ways and people die and in the good old days we'd learn from these mistakes
Sure seems like accountability is becoming a thing of the past though in a lot of areas

* the person who explained this might have been a actual moderate conservative, rare in this day and age, who is among other things the product of Department of Defence sex magic "research" and whose family is heavily involved in various levels of politics and btw they have telekinetic and psychic powers which they learned to control with the help of demons if I understand them correctly - but maybe they're worth hearing out on the practical aspects of occultism compared to a lot of the dubious, credulous and extremist commentators in that space

Like they seem pretty happy to live a mundane life with a stable and apparently healthy relationship apart from their weird poo poo that they're just trying to understand themselves, at least they aren't talking about getting people to confuse the boundaries between fantasy and reality while claiming to be revenue maximization specialist whose hobby is teleporting between uprisings, that would be highly suspect EVAN

DR FRASIER KRANG
Feb 4, 2005

"Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?
I dunno how you can look at a guy standing on a platform 10-15' in the air and say "oh yeah he's controlled by drugs"

if he was hosed up he would fall off of that thing.

Pipski
Apr 18, 2004

gradenko_2000 posted:

is there any evidence that castration has any effect on pedophilia?

I had a patient once who was considering it (way back in the late 90s, idk if there's newer research) and back then the typically quoted efficacy rate of chemical castration in preventing reoffending was 30%.

Jel Shaker
Apr 19, 2003

is george clooney an op? he’s got a satellite for nefarious deeds i reckon

DR FRASIER KRANG
Feb 4, 2005

"Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?
like if you want to talk about an op

https://twitter.com/RapDose/status/1454909178074603520?s=20

Roddy Rich performed at Astroworld and we all know about Manson

Goa Tse-tung
Feb 11, 2008

;3

Yams Fan

poo poo POST MALONE posted:

what are the chances that a dude who took part in the 2004 Orange Revolution also rioted on 1/6?

https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1457684699665551366?s=20

if it's true then the most interesting fact is that either the CIA is not protecting an asset, or him going to prison for Trump to build credibility for the future

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


Tungsten posted:

as a goat owner, i can confidently state that castration does not totally remove sex drive, even if done before puberty

edit: also, trans women exist

yeah we exist, and a big part of hrt is that the chemical reduction of gonadal hormones and introduction of foreign hormones does, for a time, absolutely murder sex drive for probably 90% of us that start feminizing hormone therapy. I am not actually so sure that the experience is mirrored for transmasc folks, due to the nature of testosterone, but it's possible and I invite interjection from someone that knows better.

But it's not infertility that does it, it's loss of access to sex hormones.

Even still, the period of sex-drive loss is usually temporary. I'm coming up on three years and I was only like truely disinterested in sex for about three months in the beginning, then things started slowly coming back in altered form. Removing a pedo's nuts is mostly a punishment to satisfy revenge urges in the victim and/or the social group imposing the punishment; it's not truly effective for sure.

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

poo poo POST MALONE posted:

like if you want to talk about an op

https://twitter.com/RapDose/status/1454909178074603520?s=20

Roddy Rich performed at Astroworld and we all know about Manson

what the gently caress lol

Feral Integral
Jun 6, 2006

YOSPOS

In fiction eunuchs are always depicted as sex driveless

Tungsten
Aug 10, 2004

Your Working Boy

Feral Integral posted:

In fiction eunuchs are always depicted as sex driveless

reality is, as usual, more interesting

https://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/16/arts/history-s-last-castrato-is-heard-again.html posted:

No wonder that castrati, who had this unusual vocal quality coupled to unparalleled virtuosity, were the first superstars of music. They took Europe by storm. Rich, vain, ungainly, they commanded any opera house in which they appeared. They moved among nobility on equal terms. And they attracted women, especially high-born and decadent women on the lookout for something exotic and titillating. Nor did their mistresses have to worry about bearing children to them.

Their love affairs were the talk of Europe. Some, like Domenico Cecchi, had homosexual affairs. Giovanni Grossi was a well-known lady-killer. Gaetano Guardagni had mistress after mistress. The famous Caffarelli narrowly escaped death from a jealous husband in Rome. The equally famous Senesino eloped with a girl of good family and ended up in jail when her furious parents prosecuted him. Luigi Marchesi got involved in a great scandal in London when a lady left her husband and children to live with him. Pacchierotti had an affair in Naples, and the woman's lover laid plans to have him assassinated. Vellutti chased women all over Europe and in Russia lived for a while with a Grand Duchess.

This hectic activity may come as a surprise to many. Castrated males are not supposed to be sexually active. The late Dr. Meyer M. Melicow, in several articles about castrati for medical journals, speculated that the type of operation practiced on the boys did not prohibit the manufacture of testosterone. Thus they could, and all too apparently did, grow up to enjoy sexual relationships.

Moreschi apparently never did. He is described as a short, plump man, and his life appears to have been unexceptionable. He sang, he conducted the Vatican Choir, he left a handful of records, and not much more is known about him. But those records afford a tantalizing glimpse into a world that otherwise lives only by legend.

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


Eunuchs gently caress

Cached Money
Apr 11, 2010

Trabisnikof posted:

Although we might disagree about some things, we all agree the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is the lamest intelligence agency, right?

probably yes, the coolest one is the NRO imo

dead gay comedy forums
Oct 21, 2011


gradenko_2000 posted:

is there any evidence that castration has any effect on pedophilia?

I bring it up because I'm watching this medical drama show ("The Good Doctor") and the ethical dilemma of the day was a guy that they found out was a sexual predator, and one of the doctors says they should castrate him in order to kill off his sex drive, and the head doctor says that they cannot do that if it's not medically necessary/relevant

what ends up happening in the end is that they manage to save the guy's life without needing to castrate him, and they refer him to a shrink to get the help he needs, but then he's so guilty that he ends up committing suicide-by-bus anyway

I'm just wondering if the show is peddling a factoid that isn't actually true

this is anecdotic, but comes from a friend who's a psychotherapist/psychoanalyst who studies neurology too. We were talking about conspiracist thinking and I chatted about Epstein and the subject touched there. Her boyfriend then asked how is that "treatable" and she gave a very insightful explanation.

According to her and to the general psychotherapeutic/psychoanalytic literature, the vast majority of cases that configure pedophilia are not "organic" (let's use that word for the sake of expediency) in the sense that people are born with it. Within that category, as an "organic" condition, it turns out that most of them very quickly realize in their lives that something is wrong with their sexual function and turn to help. The problem is getting them to turn to specialized help, which can be far more about luck than anything else. Because they understand that impulse as something dysfunctional to the wellbeing of others and themselves, the largest and most difficult part of psychotherapy is already taken care of. There's plenty of technique to deal with that, besides effective psychiatric assistances. Psychotherapeutic methods to help people with a variety of hardcore problems are put to use every day with great effect and this isn't different.

The real issue comes with people who develop pedophilia as symptom, which is the majority. We've already touched this a few times along the thread. Sexual abuse, turns out, isn't a primarily sexual matter for who does it because the gratification derived from it isn't sexual at all; what is satisfied in it is the urge for power, which in the particular case of pedophilia, has a double effect: the subjugation of somebody who is more vulnerable and the transgression against our social morality, which is the far greater kick the transgressor desires. Now, imagine my shock that the latter is sought way more by wealthier people than the first?

Treatment becomes a far more complicated matter because the ego of the abuser doesn't recognize that as dysfunctional to themselves, especially as wealth enables narcissistic compulsions: they negotiated with the victim, they treated them lavishly, they made sure to pamper the victim, they never did anything the victim did not want, etc so forth. This is egoic justification, a defense against recognizing the perceptions of others (which would mean recognizing the transgression). By making it seem it was a negotiation, a mutually beneficial arrangement, the perversity (in the mind of the doer) isn't realized. Since egomania and narcissism are frequent with this type of abuser, it is very unlikely that they are going to seek voluntary treatment; what then?

My friend, a socialist too, was quite unequivocal. This is a social problem. These personalities will not seek help, but there is one thing they respond pretty well to: fear. Ultimately, all their self-justification and ritualization is all about dealing with the unconscious fear. By making it manifest in a palpable way (let's say, putting them near a guillotine), the spell of power is broken. There's nothing they hate more than that illusion going away.

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




Riot Bimbo posted:

Eunuchs gently caress

totally. the whole point of having eunuchs was having a crew of dudes running the palace that u didnt have to worry about secretly knocking up the empress or whatever and loving up the lineage.

making them not want to gently caress defeats the other whole point which was to have a bunch of pretty dudes around to have sex with

Hooplah
Jul 15, 2006



illuminating explanation, thank you for putting in the effort. that's something that intrinsically makes sense to me, but i'd never have thought to lay it out like that.

also it feeds my base desire to make rich and powerful abusers (but i repeat myself) fear for their lives and positions, so i'm sure that's healthy and right

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

poo poo POST MALONE posted:

like if you want to talk about an op

https://twitter.com/RapDose/status/1454909178074603520?s=20

Roddy Rich performed at Astroworld and we all know about Manson

is Christianity an op.

poo poo POST MALONE posted:

what are the chances that a dude who took part in the 2004 Orange Revolution also rioted on 1/6?

https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1457684699665551366?s=20

every old anti-communist group in the US from ARVN holdouts to the Moonies sent a delegation, so it makes sense the Ukrainian fascists had some guys there too.

Perry Mason Jar
Feb 24, 2006

"Della? Take a lid"
What do you mean "op"? It's a useful instrument for subjugation and abuse.

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

Riot Bimbo posted:

yeah we exist, and a big part of hrt is that the chemical reduction of gonadal hormones and introduction of foreign hormones does, for a time, absolutely murder sex drive for probably 90% of us that start feminizing hormone therapy. I am not actually so sure that the experience is mirrored for transmasc folks, due to the nature of testosterone, but it's possible and I invite interjection from someone that knows better.

But it's not infertility that does it, it's loss of access to sex hormones.

Even still, the period of sex-drive loss is usually temporary. I'm coming up on three years and I was only like truely disinterested in sex for about three months in the beginning, then things started slowly coming back in altered form. Removing a pedo's nuts is mostly a punishment to satisfy revenge urges in the victim and/or the social group imposing the punishment; it's not truly effective for sure.

Can't speak to their use in transition but there's a reason dudes that are doing androgens to get swole have to take estrogen blockers.

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gh0stpinballa
Mar 5, 2019

My feeling is Epstein has broken a lot of people and the real motivation behind this "left esoterica" poo poo and trying to prove elites have actual magic powers and do mass rituals to harness the forces of darkness is that people want an excuse to surrender entirely and wallow in their own helplessness. I mean what are you doing when you give your enemy literal superpowers? You're resigning yourself. Get some garlic and salt and stop thinking about any of it at all. What else are we supposed to do if they can actually levitate and do magik.

Or you're looking for an excuse to become a conservative from the 80s. There are people "on the left" right now trying to argue that even if we dont believe in Satan and the occult, we should pretend we do because right wingers do and it will help us "build solidarity" with them if we use this Travis Scott thing as an ice breaker.

Just garbage isn't it. Levels of dipshittery beyond the pale.

Edit: the conversation had moved on by the time I posted this, sorry.

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