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Never thought someone would philosophically analyse Hawk Tuah but here we are

Was not expecting to ever hear you say "Hawk tuah, spit on that thang"

Ain’t no way bro gave a philosophic analysis of the hawk tuah girl 😭

Reading Nietzsche is like deciphering text messages from your crush? Excuse me?😭

An philosophical analysis of Diogenes’ possible opinions on the hawk tuah girl was not what I expected when I clicked on this video

A philosophy major seriously interpreting philosophy memes from internet dwellers, I love it.

Philosophy memes when parents walk in : 5:16

“Don’t quote me on this, in fact as I always say, don’t quote me on any of this meme video stuff. I’m just talking off the top of my head”

~Unsolicited advice

The impression I got while reading Beyond Good and Evil is that Nietzsche just enjoyed trash talking everyone and everything, perhaps just as an exercise in skepticism. A proto-shitposter, if you will.

"Don't quote me with any of this stuff"
(c) Joe "Unsolicited Advice" Folley

"Dont quote me on this, im really just talking off the top of my head in these meme videos" - Unsolicited Advice.

22:50 I would be interested in the philosophy of knitting

I imagine this guy would be the best person to have a conversation with on an hour long bus ride home

Bonobos have been confirmed to spit on thangs in their natural habitat. So Diogenes may have approved on those grounds.

17:08 I'm not sure if you ever read the Prince in its original Italian, but the way it's studied here in Italy really aims to "devillanize" Machiavelli's figure- he's far too often seen as a cold, ruthless political calculator, when in reality he detested the idea of "the end justifies the means" as it's intended today. Machiavelli does not advocate for the end justifying the means because it's the best thing to do, rather because it's the best way for one to keep power, IF done correctly.
For example, Machiavelli talks about how Cesare Borgia appointed a pretty evil governor over one of his conquered cities, let the man get away with basically anything and then killed him after a month (or a year, I could be misremebering this) in a very violent and theatrical fashion, without the public actually seeing it happen. Once the people found the man's corpse, they cheered, after which Cesare gained their support since he'd shown that he was willing to kill his "friends" to help them. That's the end justifies the means in a nutshell. Instead of gaining someone's trust with actual acts of goodwill, you can just fix a problem for them in spectacular fashion and boom, suddenly everyone loves you because you got rid of the villain. Much easier and cleaner than bothering yourself with appeasing one city through tax reforms or some other nonsense.
In general, Machiavelli did actually care quite a bit about the people of Italy, and advocated heavily for them to come together, or at the very least stop being so divided, because they were easy prey for the other European powers (as the 16 and 17th centuries very quickly proved). He was also a harsh critic of the ruling elite and held very little sympathy for them; whatever support he did show was probably just for show (pardon the pun), since he'd already suffered a lot after the Medici came back from their coup.

seeing unsolicited advice say "hawk tuah spit on that thang" was the best thing i ever saw

The Collective Unconscious mind has been unleashed online, and its utterances are prophecies veiled by sad frogs and silly text.

500.000 Sub-Special: The Philosophy of Knitting

I would absolutely watch a Philosophy of Knitting video. Especially a 12.73 hour deep-dive into the history of weaving and the evolution of its place as first a necessity, into what is now a much less necessary and much more voluntary, indulgent and relaxing pursuit.