Why is Leo subtly spreading conservatism, and gender stereotypes?

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

6 hours ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

While in later times the Incans formed up an empire, in their earlier history when tribal, I distinctly recall some brutal shit. Human sacrifice was a thing prior to the Incans forming into an empire. Sacrifice was more occasional and smaller in tribal society. When they formed up an empire human sacrifice was rarer in frequency, and more symbolic - but grander & to a HUGE scale.

I also recall reading human sacrifice during the empire was more politically integrated. 

Just from my memory alone, tribal society wasn't all peace. I am sure there are more examples. Bit of romanticizing is going on to fill in the gaps where real facts should be.... 

Aztecs be like: hold my pulque

[Leo Gura]

Hold my Teotl.

[Natasha Tori Maru]

50 minutes ago, NewKidOnTheBlock said:

Aztecs be like: hold my pulque

Fuck Incans got nothing on Aztecs - motherfuckers made cups out of their enemies skulls in a doco I watched. Part of their culture was to slaughter hundreds of people in the name of their respective God. The God ( like Tialoc for rain, Quetzalcōātl wisdom / wind etc ) had to have a certain amount of death / blood for shit like the rain to come. Sun to rise. 

They were an empire also though, but these customs arose from tribal traditions originally.

Sounds like peace love and happiness to me 🤣

 

[Stick]

10 minutes ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

Fuck Incans got nothing on Aztecs - motherfuckers made cups out of their enemies skulls in a doco I watched. Part of their culture was to slaughter hundreds of people in the name of their respective God. The God ( like Tialoc for rain, Quetzalcōātl wisdom / wind etc ) had to have a certain amount of death / blood for shit like the rain to come. Sun to rise. 

They were an empire also though, but these customs arose from tribal traditions originally.

Sounds like peace love and happiness to me 🤣

 

The thing is, it prolly was a lot more peaceful and lovely than the modern life.
Just cause you make a cup out of your enemies skull doesnt make you evil. What makes you evil is ego. 

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

22 minutes ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

Fuck Incans got nothing on Aztecs - motherfuckers made cups out of their enemies skulls in a doco I watched. Part of their culture was to slaughter hundreds of people in the name of their respective God. The God ( like Tialoc for rain, Quetzalcōātl wisdom / wind etc ) had to have a certain amount of death / blood for shit like the rain to come. Sun to rise. 

They were an empire also though, but these customs arose from tribal traditions originally.

Sounds like peace love and happiness to me 🤣

 

1k - 20k sacrifices per years empire-wide are the conservative estimates. Let's say it was 5k a year and Aztecs existed for about a century, that makes it 500k in total even with conservative estimates. Huitzilopochtli was seldom hungry

[Jodistrict]

6 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

That makes no sense. Leftists love their LGBTQ causes and such.

Left is about economic and minority equality.

No.  It’s slight-of-hand.  The real issue for the left is class conflict.  But big money supports things like feminism and men vs women because now you have men and women fighting each other instead of fighting the rich.  The same for all the other identity politics concerns.  The democrats focus on these issues because if they addressed the real economic issues their donations would dry up.  The money in politics is a huge issue.

[Leo Gura]

15 minutes ago, Jodistrict said:

But big money supports things like feminism

No.

You are conflating things.

The most rabid grass-roots leftists are feminists. It has nothing to do with big money corpos. Corpos adopt the ideas much later down stream. Feminism trickles into corporate culture. Corpo culture likes to be inclusive to not offend customers and employees.

You make feminism sound like some fake, astroturfed thing, but it isn't, it is genuine. Identity politics is genuine. Minority activism is genuine.

Edited 8 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Jodistrict]

3 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

No.

You are conflating things.

The most rabid grass-roots leftists are feminists. It has nothing to do with big money corpos. Corpos adopt the ideas much later down stream. Feminism trickles into corporate culture. Corpo culture likes to be inclusive to not offend customers and employees.

You make feminism sound like some fake, astroturfed thing, but it isn't, it is genuine. Identity politics is genuine. Minority activism is genuine.

Sure, they may be genuine.  Opposing wealth inequality is also genuine but its not allowed.  But the identity politics IS allowed.  It wouldnt be in politics if it wasn't useful to the Epstein class.

[integral]

I dont understand this thread, Leo gave one of the best perspectives on conservatism we going to find in this epistemic swamp. 

Edited 2 hours ago by integral

[Human Mint]

11 hours ago, NewKidOnTheBlock said:

Aztecs be like: hold my pulque

Is impossible not to see the connection between Aztec culture and the cartels in Mexico today beheading humans daily. They are the modern aztecs.

Edited 2 hours ago by Human Mint

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

35 minutes ago, Human Mint said:

Is impossible not to see the connection between Aztec culture and the cartels in Mexico today beheading humans daily. They are the modern aztecs.

Didn't ever make that connection but now that you mention it. Yeah they definitely deserve that title

[Leo Gura]

3 hours ago, Jodistrict said:

But the identity politics IS allowed.

So? That's a win. Take the win.

It is like you are asking for corporations to hate minorities too. Lol.

Edited 1 hour ago by Leo Gura

[Rafael Thundercat]

1 hour ago, integral said:

I dont understand this thread, Leo gave one of the best perspectives on conservatism we going to find in this epistemic swamp. 

A really think some of the members in this Forum dont study Leo content or dont study deeply so they come here for the fun and Trolling. You guys know who they are, some are old faces others are new. Is really a mess and Leo looks like not caring that much that they derail topics and keep just lurking around every thread. My english is not so good to point out every movement of this members so I will use AI to expose and hope Leo understand that this is not me prosecuting them, is me doing the calling out that he or the moderators should be making. Sorry for the Should. 

Really if this Forum would meet face face in a Gathering I think there would be physical figths very easily. Some guys here even use some shady criminal language. One beats his sister, and who knows what more he do. 

[Jodistrict]

22 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

So? That's a win. Take the win.

It is like you are asking for corporations to hate minorities too. Lol.

You are kind of proving my point.  How effective it is to use legitimate movements to steer the conversation away from the corruption of big money in politics. 

[Leo Gura]

@Jodistrict Changing the entire economy is a huge, huge issue. It's just much harder to do than gay rights. Gay rights ultimately harms no one.