He was a contrarian edgelord who jacked off in public, you asswipes. He got exactly one (1) good own in at Plato and Alexander apiece, get over yourselves.
You are literally so afflicted with contrarian brain worms that you choose to be a hipster about Greek philosophers.
does that include the "only place to spit in a rich mans house is in his face" line?
Ok, so two good owns and a handful of good one-liners.
He got exactly one (1) good own in at Plato and Alexander apiece, get over yourselves.
Slamdunking on both the OG debate bro and also the leader of your known world actually kicks ass super hard though.
Also he lived this shit by all accounts. Being a pauper jacking off in public and discarding your only posession because some child clowns on you by using his hands is not being a contrarian edgelord, if anything, insult him for being an anarchoprimitivist or something. The guy was basically on the receiving end of :improve-society: and he took the hard way out, not doing it.
When he was dying someone asked him what he wanted done with his body. He said “throw it over the walls”, the guy replied “but animals will eat it”, and he said “give me a stick, I’ll fight the animals off!”
Thought that was a pretty good line. Also telling Alexander the Great to fuck off was pretty ballsy,
It was! I'm just tired of his being deified by a segment of almost exclusively white radlib beardos.
Social information is encoded in how we dress and groom ourselves, no? This week I had one too many conversations with DSA members who all look like a certain blonde bearded internet personality that we try not to speak about on this site. There is a correlation.
Uhhhhhh.
On one hand, yes, this is true.
On the other hand I hate how there seems to so much politicization around how men keep keep their facial hair. “Neckbeard”, “beardbro”, whatever. It’s dumb, facial hair is like normal. Most biological males had beards before the invention of modern razor shaving. When the fuck did it become a political statement to let your facial hair grow out?
Some folks can definitely make them work! Conversely, I stay clean shaven because if I grow my facial hair out I look like I'm starting a cult.
If you change your mind on the beard hit me up. I've been looking to start a cult and I need a bearded leader
Don't get me wrong, I'm white-passing AMAB and I've got stubble too. But fair or not I don't think you can really deny that mid-length beard-having among young white men has become correlated with the Bernie lib-left. It's annoying but my own experiences, ar least, have borne it out pretty often.
While I agree we shouldn't talk about him too much, I do want to say us being all "the who must not be named" about vaush is pretty damn lib and also lame.
who the fuck is scraeming "log off" at my barrel
show yourself coward
I know this is a subcomm so you are right to put this here. But also funny that you are trying to own insuffrable classicist dorks by being one
Yes. I was pissed off this morning and for some reason Diogenes has become a deified figure among the people responsible for pissing me off.
I'm part of an informal group helping set up squats around my area, and one of us proposed looking into buying the properties we're habbing out. Sometimes if they've stood vacant long enough the town can claim them and put them up for public auction. Get in at the right time and you can get an old building for just a few hundred, maybe a few thousand bucks. Easily doable split between like 12 - 15 people. This idea was strongly opposed by a number of the group, mostly younger and whiter, mostly on principle, and Diogenes came up as an example of someone who bucked the system completely and was better off for it.
It just was the icing on a shitty week when I'm having bad reactions to new meds and it set me off.
Supposedly, and this maybe apocryphal, he ate meat and jacked off in Athen's marketplace (where both were forbidden) just to piss off Plato and his students.
I feel like that just adds to my point. Hey kids, come get e. coli from this guy intentionally shitting next to the vegetable seller because sometimes you've just got to stick it to the sheeple, amirite?
let's see what this guy masturbating on the subway has to say I bet he has some real good insights
Diogenes when asked about jerking off: "if only I could rub my stomach to sate my hunger"
he ate meat and jacked off in Athen’s marketplace (where both were forbidden)
And they call themselves a democracy. Bah!
I don't speak to anyone who knows the name of a single classical Greek philosopher; the only Greeks I respect run nightclubs
Diners that smell like saganaki owned by guys named Konstantinos are also the shit.
The wrong people, I suppose. It's a thing with DSA types gone sideways that riled me up this morning before I posted this, and Diogenes was part of the converstaion.
i just think the public masturbating guy getting placed in the same category of 'philosopher' as all those other guys is funny, and like him for that reason.
I think almost every profession or field has that one person who is certifiably insane but makes points so good that people are forced go respect them.
Internet self-designation for "libertarian socialist," in my experience used mostly by people aligned with Bernie/Squad Dems.
They see him as the Rick Sanchez of his time. I'm not really kidding. That's the appeal to modern libsocs.
I never thought of it that way but you're probably right.
