The Trash Heap of the Heapers' Hangout

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  • Unless they're a priest in full garb they don't tend to stand out.

    I've been inside the remaining Orthodox church in Palmerton all of once and it's really tiny. The priest is like 2,000 years old and his name is Andrei. Cool dude.

    The other, St. Kiril, mostly burned down a long time ago (thankfully as far as I'm aware no one died). Apparently it's now generally accepted that there's a pretty good chance it was an anti-Russian hate crime but whoever did it was either never caught or never really looked for in the first place. The building itself is actually still there, sort of, but it's completely burned out on the inside and afaik it's never been repaired.
  • man, i never really know anyone?

    like, how do you people get to know these things about people

    i dont get it
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Once the local Christian baseball league refused to let Mormons in

    My mom wrote a letter to the newspaper to protest that decision
  • i interact with people all the time, i should know these things, shouldn't i?
  • sometimes it comes up in conversation.

    in a town like mine though it was kind of part of your identity, both in school and work. 

    There aren't a lot of non-whites in town (there are some, there's a handful of black families, two Chinese families, and the Egyptian Muslims I mentioned already) so I guess people need to find different ways to other each other.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    When you're Russian and you celebrate Christmas in January it's kind of obvious. Also, having one's bat mitzvah, wearing a turban or a hijab or a sari, and so forth.
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    Tamlin said:

    man, i never really know anyone?

    like, how do you people get to know these things about people

    i dont get it

    in my case these corresponded fairly obviously to social groups. mormons were the ones who were way too nice to be teenagers, laestadians were hicks who kept to themselves and were usually from a particular geographic area, russian orthodox were first to third generation immigrants who kept to themselves and had names like alexei

    so basically xenophobia
  • Jane said:

    Unless they're a priest in full garb they don't tend to stand out.


    I've been inside the remaining Orthodox church in Palmerton all of once and it's really tiny. The priest is like 2,000 years old and his name is Andrei. Cool dude.

    The other, St. Kiril, mostly burned down a long time ago (thankfully as far as I'm aware no one died). Apparently it's now generally accepted that there's a pretty good chance it was an anti-Russian hate crime but whoever did it was either never caught or never really looked for in the first place. The building itself is actually still there, sort of, but it's completely burned out on the inside and afaik it's never been repaired.
    ...I wanna go exploring in that building
  • It's pretty small, I doubt you'd find anything interesting.

    No the real urban ruins around here is the abandoned Horse Head A building, which used to be a zinc smelting plant.
  • kill living beings
    good name
  • Horse Head Minerals is the name of the company

    No I don't know why they're called that either.
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    its february but night in the woods is my game of the year already
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    I've been hearing good things about it and I'm sad I didn't have the money to back it when the Kickstarter first went up. :<
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    I only found out it was a kickstarter game when it came up after the ending credits lol
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    I mostly got it because i follow scott benson on twitter and like his politics posts a lot and he said the game has politics in it
  • you know

    i dont think i have ever felt a positive opinion about anyones politics posts
  • there are wretched, terrible politics, and there are tolerable ones, no other options.

    It's possible to be like, funny, about politics, but then that's not just politics anymore, then it's comedy.
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    There's actually a hidden third option, good politics
  • No there really isn't.

    I don't feel good when I see that someone isn't a horrid asshole, that should be the default.
  • edited 2017-02-23 05:46:28
    kill living beings
    most of the "politics people" i follow on twitter focus on foreign relations, or just things in other countries generally, and it's mysteriously more tolerable
  • if i felt like making enemies on twitter id just respond to my lefty fur twitter buds w/ pictures of john rawls when they get annoying but
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    why does anyone go on twitter if it's so terrible
  • edited 2017-02-23 05:50:34

    Boney said:

    There's actually a hidden third option, good politics

    i found exactly one person on twitter with good politics (imo) and he was smart and made good jokes but on a personal level he was a huge asshole so (*shrug*)
  • Anonus said:

    why does anyone go on twitter if it's so terrible

    it's not that bad

    its just bad if you like, end up in mutuals with a perpetually screaming vegan communist 18 year old with ridiculous amounts of social clout and it takes you a while to work up the nerve to unfollow them
  • as is out of the 90-odd people i follow, only a few of them (like, 3) post annoying things, so all and all it's not that bad
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    man, if somebody said that a game had "politics" in it I'd stay as far away from that game as possible.

    that's just me though
  • the REAL bad content exposure is when you get people with no off switch in your recommended pile

    like, twitter really wants me to follow this antifa dude with a pinned tweet about jury nullification who has NO off switch at all, and this other furry porn artist who is like "THIS IS MY PERSONAL TWITTER NOT A DEBATE CLUB" when people disagree with him, and there was this third dude who was actually someone i used to follow on tumblr who now apparently lives in japan and is the most onerous person on gods green earth? i eventually blocked him just so id stop seeing people retweet his bullshit
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    Jane said:

    No there really isn't.


    I don't feel good when I see that someone isn't a horrid asshole, that should be the default.
    Interesting takes that I hadn't thought of or wouldnt have been able to articulate well/hadn't seen articulated well, to me, are really good
  • Boney said:

    Jane said:

    No there really isn't.


    I don't feel good when I see that someone isn't a horrid asshole, that should be the default.
    Interesting takes that I hadn't thought of or wouldnt have been able to articulate well/hadn't seen articulated well, to me, are really good
    Are you actually using the word "takes" seriously
  • you can just call them "thoughts", you know?
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    pretend i did
  • Anyway I would still classify:

    Interesting takes that I hadn't thought of or wouldnt have been able to articulate well/hadn't seen articulated well

    as "tolerable" before I'd call them good.

    No one wants, or at least, no one should want, to have to spell out to people that fascism is bad. It's like doing your taxes. Necessary maybe, but certainly not fun, enjoyable, thought-provoking, anything like that.
  • the secret to generating good political opinions is reading Sun and Steel and doing PCP
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    agree to disagree
  • kill living beings
    hot damn, connecting my bluetooth headphones to my chromebook was actually easy

    probably it will be a huge pain to switch between phone and laptop, but
  • my reaction when people say they're antifa but don't like Josef Stalin

    :extremely smug drawing of the twins from Re:Zero:
  • kill living beings
    same
  • my reaction when ppl say they're antifa but wouldn't firebomb the whitehouse

    :extreme closeup of the main character of inglorious basterds grinning goofily:
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    I wish I had some chocolate milk
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    Jane said:

    my reaction when people say they're antifa but don't like Josef Stalin


    :extremely smug drawing of the twins from Re:Zero:
    please... stop the personal attacks
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    i cant take this anymore, im logging off 
  • when ppl say that the issu with the soviet union was comunism & not just russians being shitty

    :hypercompressed picture of Karl Marx:
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

    this is embarrassing
  • kill living beings
    you only have one twin it's fine
  • mfw their praxis isn't "wait for my inhuman masters to return and subjugate the earth"

    *i cant think of a cogent reaction image to put here*
  • when ppl think wii should try 2 solve problems and not just kill ourselves all at once, as if in a great cult

    :picture of antinatalist shark:
  • i guess, the real, serious problem here is that out of all of these various political ideas i see floated around ive never seen "we phase out the entire human race, replacing them w/ genetically engineered catboys"

    this would solve every problem
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Tamlin said:

    i guess, the real, serious problem here is that out of all of these various political ideas i see floated around ive never seen "we phase out the entire human race, replacing them w/ genetically engineered catboys"

    this would solve every problem

    Consider: dog people, deer people
  • dog people and deer people? not good, we aren't a bunch of dang furries

    these will be proper, anime as fuck catboys, who will spend their time taking naps in and cleaning lavish yet decrepit mansions
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