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  • Bovarian Mammarian
    They also complain about goddamn socialists ruining their precious capitalism.
  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    They also complain about goddamn socialists ruining their precious capitalism.

    This one seems to be less popular at the moment.
  • Bovarian Mammarian
    it'll come back
  • There is love everywhere, I already know
    Isn't the only reason they don't "feel special" that they're already part of whatever group is currently doing relatively okay compared to everybody else.

    Relatedly; every time the BBC finds a few idiots and makes it a story (and also doing that venn-diagramming "I'm totally part of the relatively okay group" when you're clearly super not). tl;dr, How many Milos do we even need?
  • "In a mad world, only the mad are sane!"-Akira Kurosawa, Ran
    Good takeaway lesson: enshrining minority status/lived experience as too strong an argument will come back to bite you in the ass.

    Lesson idiots take away from it: these poor minorities are experiencing false consciousness and/or are sellouts. 
  • He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.
    All I will do is link this
  • Though colloquially known as “social justice,” I will call it by the
    more precise and historically accurate term “anti-oppression.”
    SJW detected.
  • Bovarian Mammarian
    oh shit
  • edited 2017-04-21 02:28:17
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    vandro wrote: »
    All I will do is link this


    *yelling at people who use political labels*

    serious comment:
    if you ask me whether I consider myself a liberal, my answer is "ehh, maybe."
    if you ask me whether I consider myself on the political left, my answer is "what the heck even is the political 'left' anyway?"
    if you ask me whether I consider myself a conservative, my answer is "I would call myself that, even though a lot of people would disagree."
    if you ask me whether I consider myself on the political right, my answer is "what the heck even is the political 'right' anyway, and why would I want to associate myself with the jerkwads who like that label so much?"
  • He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.
    We need them, sadly.
  • There is love everywhere, I already know
    All I will do is link this
    This article is so confusing I'm not even sure it's words.

    I (personally) think it's best to let go of your most-extreme viewpoints if you're getting what's best for everybody in return.

    As for me, I'm probably like a fake-liberal* (because I have an unhealthy love-maybe-worship for some not-terrible form of capitalism).

    *socially liberal but pretty much nowhere else, I guess I think the financial industry needs a serious overhaul and regulation is great wherever but that might just be because of my non-political bias for everything to be hyperorganized
  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    If you think the financial industry seriously needs regulation, that's considered "liberal" in the United States, though "liberal" elsewhere seems to mean favoring deregulation.
  • He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.
    This article is so confusing I'm not even sure it's words.



    It's rather simple: identarian politics is both too pessimistic (the structures in place prevent progress, and no one is safe from false conciousness, so good intentions are meaningless at best and a pitfall to complacency at worst) and optimistic (We can meaningfully change stuff because we excoriated people on social media) for its own good. So it cannot work.
  • "In a mad world, only the mad are sane!"-Akira Kurosawa, Ran
    vandro wrote: »

    (the structures in place prevent progress, and no one is safe from false conciousness, so good intentions are meaningless at best and a pitfall to complacency at worst) and optimistic (We can meaningfully change stuff because we excoriated people on social media) for its own good. So it cannot work.



    The true conclusion behind this is that intent isn't magic in the sense that your personal behaviour and viewpoints (and the behaviour and views of others towards you) are almost meaningless if you do effective work in taking down or changing these structures. Of course, what constitutes effective work is really hard to measure, so my plans for more diversity among CEOs due to plutocrats holding all the levers of power might sound plausible on paper to the average follower. 
  • He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.
    Sounds both utilitarian and wishful thinking.
  • edited 2017-04-24 09:12:14
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    if you ask me whether I consider myself a conservative, my answer is "I
    would call myself that, even though a lot of people would disagree."
    kind of like this, except with a measure of resignation and a pinch of trollery towards the asker.

    (edit: oh my, three days late)
  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Cleaning up my inbox.  This includes unsubscribing from various political e-mail feeds and campaigns.  So I clicked unsubscribe on something and then it asked me which of these lists I want to unsubscribe from:
    List 30
    List 40
    Main List2
    List 50
    List 7
    List 2222
    List 60
    List 70
    22515
    list331
    list - c
    listem4816
    listem4915no
    nbi

    ...
    ...
    ...how about all of them?
  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    me to my dad upon his getting home from work: "You missed Mom hitting the jackpot!  And by jackpot I mean ant colony."

    (She spent a few hours clearing out an ant infestation in a corner of a bathroom doorway.  It was nasty.)
  • Better ants than bed bugs. *shudder*
  • "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    So, I've got a new computer and now I need to get used to it. Muscle memory and all that stuff.
  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    I forget where it was that I made a joke that involved me posting pictures of a large number of Republican congresscritters (it was on IJBM or HH I think), but I feel like I should probably feel fine in removing their portraits from my Reupload folder.

    It was also related to posting a large number of anime art pictures.  But at least the characters portrayed aren't Republicans.
  • tbh absolute monarchists or gtfo
  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
  • אלוהים הוא בשמיים שלו, וכל נכון עם העולם
    According to all known laws
    of aviation,


    there is no way a bee
    should be able to fly.


    Its wings are too small to get
    its fat little body off the ground.


    The bee, of course, flies anyway

    because bees don't care
    what humans think is impossible.


    and now i'll return to my semi-eternal slumber
  • edited 2017-04-28 06:21:01
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    ^ But that's just a quote from a movie.

    A bee movie.

    [/obnoxious Game Theory voice]
  • אלוהים הוא בשמיים שלו, וכל נכון עם העולם
    ^ But that's just a quote from a movie.

    A bee movie.

    [/obnoxious Game Theory voice]



    i was always told the B in "B-Movie" stood for "best".
  • it actually stands for bratwurst
  • אלוהים הוא בשמיים שלו, וכל נכון עם העולם
    bratwurst....

    best....

    you're telling me these don't mean the same thing?
  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Solstace wrote: »
    bratwurst....

    best....

    you're telling me these don't mean the same thing?


  • edited 2017-04-28 06:36:08
    אלוהים הוא בשמיים שלו, וכל נכון עם העולם
    This is just to say

    I have eaten

    the plums
    that were in
    the icebox

    and which
    you were probably
    saving
    for breakfast

    Forgive me
    they were delicious
    so sweet
    and so cold
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