A Mavs championship this year or next is totally on the table if they roll out a Kyrie AD KD big three. It would be a very empty one a la the 97 or 03 Marlins.

Lots of individual drama to like here too. Kyrie's "antisemitism" and vax stuff, Anthony "Street Clothes" Davis, KD's burner account.

Maybe the ideal outcome is if they flame out in the playoffs but bring in James Harden, Russ and… Miles Bridges!!!?? for the 2026 squad.

My great grandpa (maternal side) is Czech and he once told us of how during the rise of the Nazi Party in neighboring Germany, but there were many in Czechoslovakia as well who were sympathetic to the Nazis, Hitler and their ideals, as truth be told, many Czechs saw the Germans as "equals", thought that the Nazis hatred of Jews, Roma people or Slavic people somehow didn't apply to them (Czechs who saw themselves as "Germanic" and/or sympathized with the Nazis).

Meanwhile many of those who opposed and/or did not sympathize with the Nazis also downplayed the threat the Nazis posed by saying things like "Oh, what's happening in Germany won't happen here", or "Hitler won't make good on his crazy threat to invade us", "Oh, it probably won't get that bad" or some other way of saying that we (those who are raising alarms over the danger Hitler actually posed) are overeacting.

When Hitler's forces invaded, a number of Czech people actually welcomed them giving Nazi salutes to the columns of invading Nazi troops or tearing down the Czech flag from buildings themselves to replace it with Nazi flags.

However, my great grandpa saw the danger the Nazis posed, the repression, violence and death they'd bring and lo and behold, when the Nazis did actually occupy Czechoslovakia, turns out the Nazis weren't just oppressing the Jews, gay people, communists, liberals, Czech nationalists and academics, but also extended their oppression of ordinary Czech people, including those of Germanic ancestry. Turns out, the Nazis didn't see us as equals after all and many of those Czechs who welcomed the Nazis had a "why are the leopards eating my face, I supported them?" mentality when the Gestapo came after them as well.

This is basically an oversimplification of why my great grandpa told me but yeah, the reason the Nazis (and fascism in general) was able to rise the way it does was because people either underestimated its danger or downplayed it for years, treating them like a joke until that joke wasn't funny anymore.

10k up votes we're going to hear about drumph until the universe ends huh

i keep doing it and its such a mindfrick, jfurjr

if u know u know

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Be valid and ping ! bardfinn for something worthwhile or create a new thread.

I used to use Google's recommendation feature. It was alright for a time, but I have to pull the plug. It is currently recommending me Bill Cosby: Walking Free.

Now, I don't like documentaries in general, so how this shit show is my top recommendation I have no idea. To make matters worse they don't have a "not interested button", so I can even get rid of it. There's only an "already watched" button.. which I am afraid that will just add it to my algorithm. I try and do the calibration thing where I rate which titles I liked/disliked and its all really obscure or low budget shit nobody watches.

Any other options, or do I have to wait until you guys grow taste and recommend me something good?

In the sixth section of Nietzsche's first essay, he pivots to expound upon the phenomena of the priestly aristocracy. It should be reminded that the emergence of the priestly caste, the archetype of the physically meek yet immaterially, spiritually superior man. This priestly archetype is emergent yet at odds with the knightly-warrior caste; I feel it is relevant to reference the Knights Templar, their history of reveling in holy violence and more specifically their dynamic with the Papacy. I venture to say that the Crusades gave a certain group of young men in Europe an opportunity to pursue and revel in Dionysian violence backed by divine justification, such an incongruity still exists in some to this day! The alleged Satanism of the Templars was forged as a parallel construction by the Papacy to retroactively condemn their violent, yet vital way of life, preserving the Church's image while still toppling the Templars for their true crime of rivaling them in power and ownership of land.

"When the highest caste is at the same time the priestly caste... it is then, for example, that 'pure' and 'impure' confront one another for the first time as designations of station; and here to there evolves a 'good' and a 'bad' in a sense no longer referring to station."

Nietzsche reiterates here, that the contemporary meaning of good and evil has its origins in a revaluation of values from the weak against their more powerful oppressors. He pushes on to contrast the earliest valuations of purity and impurity with the valuations of the priests: they are morbid, inactive haters of life; unhealthy. The priests carry a hatred of life and its vital functions because the material world is inherently chaotic and unjust. The priests have a resentment towards the flesh, the tangible, the sexual. Those of a lower wit could solely investigate the origins of such resentments to be a simple matter of the beautiful against the sick and poor and ugly, a purely psychosexual resentment, however I say it is more broadly the resentment against the dynamic of subjective experience itself. Pleasure and suffering are not ontologically independent of one another; one cannot categorize what is pleasure without memory of a past sensation to contrast it to, that contrasted sensation being suffering. Pleasure exists because of suffering and vice versa and embracing this absurdity is the core of Nietzsche's life-affirmation. The priest simply chooses to disengage from the world because he does not want to risk the possibility of suffering for the potential reward of pleasures; cowardice.

However, Nietzsche is not so quick to dismiss the withdrawn brooding of the priest, as it was only with the invention of God that man became an interesting animal- the introspection and "above-worldliness" necessitated by the ascetic ideal is what makes humanity superior to every other being on the planet.

To be continued in next comment