Happy Easter celebrations everyone!
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What episode does ContraPoints reference the French play Rhinoceros? I believe it was an older one (early Trump elected/first term)?
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Twilight Sources
Hi everyone. I was wondering if anyone had a document or lists with the sources used by Natalie in her Twilight video? Thank you
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Ruwa Romman on online discourse and the ability to gain praxis
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8j9SLvk/
I feel like this is a pretty good video on why a lot of online discourse based activism has been largely ineffective over the past decade or so.
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Seems Twilight is blocked by the LDS church :/
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Twilight no longer available in Germany?
I just tried to watch Contra‘s Twilight video and couldn’t find it on her channel. When i tried to access it via YT‘s search function it said that the video was blocked in my country because it contained copyrighted content belonging to the Telemünchen Gruppe (i think they are the corporation in charge of dubbing/distributing the Twilight movies in Germany?)
I’m pretty sure the video was still up 1-2 weeks ago. Are there similar restrictions for people in other countries? And what would happen next in a situation like this? Will i (and all of Germany i guess) only be able to access the video via a VPN going forward?
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Books like "Right Wing Women" but with someone who doesn't have Andrea Dworkin politics
*written by someone
Basically the title. I want someone pro sex work and not a transphobe.
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Twilight video sourcing
I'm trying to find sourcing for a project where I want to discuss the moral policing of litterateure for women specially young women, inspired by contraption's video "Twilight", but I'm having trouble finding sourcing. Can any of y'all help or point me in a good direction to ask.
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What do you think Natalie's legacy will be?
Aside from turning hordes of transwomen into staunch anti-Palestinian zionists I mean.
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Nietzsche be like:
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Any conspiracist responses to ‘CONSPIRACY’?
As this amazing video has taken over my past month, I got to thinking about the degree to which a conspiracist could get away from watching it having learned anything. I’m honestly doubtful, but I am fascinated by the possibility. Has anyone thus far been able to find a conspiracist-leaning response to this video?
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Been wanting to draw her as the High Priestess for a long time now (fanart)
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Found in the wild. Was curious about this community’s thoughts
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A cool guide of insightful knowledge of data information.
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Dark mother, cold mother, cruel mother
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Sometimes you just sumbit yourself to the Ghost. And let her do things to you
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I’m curious if anyone here has read or seen Tracy Letts’ play, “The Minutes”.
It’s a 90-minute single act told in real time about a small fictional town’s city council meeting where one relatively new councilman, Mr. Peel, becomes increasingly unsettled when no one will address why fellow councilman Mr. Carp’s tenure ended while Peel was out mourning his recently deceased mother. The council meeting proceeds through a series of ridiculously bureaucratic motions and procedures to accomplish nothing. As Peel hopes to read last meeting’s minutes, which are unprepared, we learn more about the politics of the individual members. The meeting comes to a screeching halt when it’s revealed that Peel has never heard the town’s highly dramatized origin story, and the members perform the passion play for him right there on the record. I won’t spoil anything past that, but it definitely ties into at least the Conspiracy video and probably more of the Contrapoints oeuvre.
Those who have read or seen it, what were your thoughts on themes and overall message? I am a fan of several of Letts’ works and he is never afraid to go for the twisted. I really didn’t expect the ending when I read the script this past week. >!I anticipated some aspects of the outcome of the minutes more than the events proceeding the minutes.!<
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twilight video getting copyrighted
can someone please archive the video somewhere, it is still up for me but i am scared its gonna go away 😭😭😭
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Mother Goes Live Once Again
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Pitch me a book you've read that feels like a contrapoints source!
Fully aware how broad this prompt is. I've been introduced to some great books through Natalie's videos, and I'm wondering if there are any thought-provoking books on any subject that feel to you like A) a contrapoints video or B) a source that you feel like scratches similar itches to the ones she pulls into her videos.
In the case of A for me... I've recently enjoyed.
The Unreality of Memory by Elisa Gabert
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Just thought about something when it comes to anti vax conspiracy theorists
TL;DR: it’s like they put all of their energy into fighting against a proven public health good rather than proven public health bads like car culture and that almost seems like its own conspiracy just like Alex Jones falsely claiming mass shootings are a hoax seems like he was paid by the NRA
While inheritance is likely a major factor for the cause of autism, Im autistic and I’ll try to have an open mind if scientists find environmental causes, even if it existentially can feel kind of uncomfortable. I’ve watched someone on the reality TV show Glow Up talk about having Foetal Alcohol Syndrome and he was proud of himself and his thing is caused by something preventable and yet he’s not dead like what RFK and Marjorie Taylor Greene say about autistic people. The way they talk also sounds stigmatising towards people with disabilities/neurodivergence that are fully caused by environmental factors
I’ve read that parents having kids at an older age and pollution can impact foetal development and it could cause autism. MaInStReAm MeDiA covered a story about an epilepsy medication pregnant people were taking causing autism, so that should maybe end the conspiracy that there is this major big pharma coverup, but it won’t, it can further increase the theorising that if that pharmaceutical can cause it, so can vaccines even if they have been studied extensively and most no longer contain trace amounts of mercury
I do find it interesting how nearly all of the energy is placed into vaccines that are scientifically proven to be good for public health vs cars and micro plastics that are proven to be so bad for people that they can cause cancer, it almost makes me wanna put on my own tinfoil hat. But not really, I think RFK and Andrew Wakefield just feel kind of scorned about being told they’re wrong, maybe so wrong that they have a death count - it doesn’t feel good and they want to feel good - and they have a hill that they will battle to die on and followers who are similar. I guess it can also make people feel like their health and wellness is very easy to control if it can be solved by beef tallow and not being vaccinated/picking and choosing vaccines, vs something that seems more difficult like some multifaceted lifestyle/trying to see a doctor things within our control and then A LOT of things very out of our control that need a lot of campaigning to change like not enough green energy, trains and trams and too much plastic
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Are there any books/philosophers/media that talk about the relationship between attraction and envy?
I watched Twilight, Shame and Envy at the perfect time in my life. I’ve been feeling pretty down in regards to my dating life and these videos made me reflect on just how intertwined attraction is with envy/shame/insecurity and how that’s played out in my own life.
I’d love to hear other people expand more on these ideas!
I feel like not enough people talk about it cause I’ve really struggled with it in my own life but Natalie is really the first one to help me put it into words
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Psychedelics Tangent - Comment on Ram Dass' and Thomas Leary's book
I just rewatched the Psychedelics tangent after a while, and it's not usual that I disagree with something Natalie says, but I have found an exception.
When she mentions that Ram Dass and Thomas Leary's book "The Psychedelic Experience" borrows from the Tibetan Book of the Dead, she says it's problematic that they use it for something completely different than death, especially given that many Tibetan monks are against using drugs.
I'm not sure the argument for cultural appropriation works here. I get that it's two white guys using an ancestral Tibetan text in a way it wasn't intended, and maybe that is what cultural appropriation technically means. But I also think that when ideas from different cultures are combined, something valuable can emerge.
Using the Bardos of Death as a structure to understand the psychedelic experience doesn’t seem off the mark to me. Natalie herself says at one point that it did feel like death, given the ego dissolution and all. More generally, I feel that labeling any kind of cross-cultural synthesis as problematic itself is problematic.
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At the end of 'The Hunger', there's a screen that says "to be continued. Has Natalie said anything about this recently?
Pretty much the title. I just rewatched the video and I wonder if Natalie still intents to comtinue or make a sequel for the video. I'm curious of what the continuation would consist in. Maybe about quitting substances? Or maybe she'd touch more on society's view on addiction? Has she abandoned the project, or does she have other things in mind for the time being? Has she ever said anything about it on social media since it came out?
(Sorry if I made grammatical errors, I'm not a native English speaker)
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A fantastic case study that captures every single trope mentioned in Conspiracy
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Has anyone else noticed a similar kind of "pedo-conspiracism" in ostensibly progressive spaces?
I'm talking about like, people who obsess over whether or not petite women dressing cute or sexy is pedo-baiting, the obsession over "proshipping" in fandom spaces, and more recently the hysteria over Sabrina Carpenter's raunchy performances.
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Fuck it, they were correct, everything is a satanic ritual
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Natalie's next video will be 195 minutes long and will release on 2026-08-27
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"What's Next" New Patreon Update from ContraPoints!
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