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Me before Laura hit: "Okay so there's going to be a lot of rain..."
Me after Laura hit and the sun is shining: "well that was anticlimactic."
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So Infinity Train book 3 is a thing and I unfortunately still have more important things to do...
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@Miss I didn't know either until somebody else mentioned it in a thread.
Too busy watching Fall Guys videos...
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Why can't I stop watching people play the Fall Guys?
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@Anti-Villain I've actually been mostly watching Alpharad play it...
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I like how the mainstream goes out of its way to discredit anything against official documentations of events... "Conspiracy theory" is continually losing its meaning in a way that allows for certain absurdly ridiculous ideas (pizzagate, flat earth...) to propogate even further. While theories with legitimate backing are just treated like provable falsehoods when they aren't.
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Who would have thought posting opinions about the balance of a video game could warrant people being toxic to the point where they'll start commencing name-calling and trying as hard as possible to derail any attempt of any sort of conversation...
Though I guess anybody who's played a toxic enough game has seen this in action.
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It's interesting what the mainstream right AND "left" pretend to be "communist", almost half of the REPUBLICAN base actually supports along with 70% of the country.
I mean yet again it's common sense to anyone paying attention we need Medicare for All. Frankly anyone saying otherwise is a shill for the elite or so far right anything that sounds like common sense would look like communism.
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Trump complains about mail by vote "rigging the election" (which is nonsense) but then he actually goes out of his way TO rig the election in his favor. And some predictions may even suggest that he'll even try to assume power almost regardless of the outcome.
Dangerous and disgusting both don't even BEGIN to describe Trump's blatant moves towards rank authoritarianism. It's not like the signs weren't there, but... This man is a despot that not only must we vote out of office, but should be put in prison. If not, we can say goodbye to an even remotely democratic government and hello to a dictatorship.
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So, a minarchy, basically? That's definitely an improvement, but I feel a complete abolishment of the state in favor of horizontal democracy would be a more efficient way to protect freedom. The idea of the founded USA was what you'd consider a minarchy but that degenerated due to the corruption of leadership. I just want authoritarianism to disappear, and to be able to live my life happily, being able to get the help I need and not be told no or restricted by this giant beurocratic berlin wall called capitalism. I didn't mean to say that all left libertarianism is anarchist necessarily though, my apologies, just that anarchists are left libertarians and the terms are mutually exclusive to describe me. There are libertarian forms of Marxism (such as council communism) and agorism that could be called left libertarian. Syndicalism is in large part anarchist, though.
I'd say out of all the presidents, Lincoln would be my favorite, he was incredibly progressive for his time in an agrarian United States. He allowed for a healthy pass through the capitalist era towards the industrial era. He even exchanged letters with Marx, funnily enough.
OH YEAH I REMEMBER THE PATRIOT ACT, what an absolute farce that was. What I liked about the 00s was, while the state was pushing new restrictions on the people, they pushed back harder. The counter culture that the 90s produced and propelled forward was bearing fruit, and came full circle in the early 10s, but not quite far enough. Everything since then has felt like going back 40 years.
I don't think Biden, or anyone becoming president will fix the issues. They are limited by and moulded by the political serpent they participate in. It's preferable to a Trump presidency, things won't quite be as bad, but Biden is still a big business liberal and he will still put his corporate friends over the working class every time. He, like Obama will oppose working class movements worldwide, though not as maliciously as Trump. Positive reforms can come, but not enough to bandage the crisis. The fact he was against MFA means I and many others won't be getting the help they need either. There's gonna be a rough ride ahead either way. I'm willing to stand up and say this isn't acceptable, I just hope others do too before it's too late. I'm willing to face whatever comes, if I have the strength, for a better future.
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I suppose that's something to call it. I personally have worries about anarchism becoming exactly what it despises in practice: an authoritarian philosophy. The questions that really seem to warrant asking are questions like the following:
- Who exactly determines whether an organization is legitimate or not? If it would always be ALL of society, and not just a "leader of the mob" if you will, then it's no issue.
- If the former would be determined by a leader of said mob, would he be able to abuse said power for the group? If not and the group would be beholden to abide by the principles of the ideology, then no issue.
- If this were abusable and the mob wouldn't immediately protest to somebody abusing the group's power to deem organizations illegitimate, then what's to stop the group from essentially ruling over everyone else like an authoritarian regime would?
There's been a very, very recent example of one such society that has had the wrong answers to every question, that society being the CHOP. Murder rates shot up, and in fact most of these murders were either committed or sanctioned by the leader of the mob behind it. However, especially if the first question is answered the right way, I have a lot of agreements on the philosophy and the core of it.
Lincoln? You mean the same guy that violated the Constitution to imprison people arbitrarily under accusations of being Confederate spies? https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jala/2629860.0005.103/--lincoln-administration-and-arbitrary-arrests?rgn=main;view=fulltext Or the same one that was legitimately racist and wanted to free as few people as possible from slavery because he felt black people were inferior to whites? https://www.history.com/news/5-things-you-may-not-know-about-lincoln-slavery-and-emancipation I actually put Lincoln in the bottom half because the man actually had less respect for democracy and equality than most people seem to think.
I personally think of FDR as my favorite president. He did apparently try to overreach a little bit in terms of authoritarian power over the government, according to some sources. But in my mind he's the closest we've had a to a democratic president. The only real bad thing he did was something the people wanted, being internment camps for the Japanese Americans. He saved the country twice, once from the product of unrestricted capitalism (the Great Depression) and the second time from the effects of a Nazi victory of WWII on the European Front.
If we were sent back 60 years, it would be an improvement in terms of foreign and economic policy. I personally believe that every single president since Nixon has been a bad president, and even then LBJ I'm a bit ehh on considering although he made a lot of progress in very important ways, he also further focused on the Vietnam War first went into by Kennedy (who frankly is another president that's much worse than people realize, along with Lincoln). Really ever since the Korean War, every single conflict the US was involved in has been an offensive war the States actively wanted to start. As for social policy, that is one place we've improved significantly and I will more than readily acknowledge that fact. Socially speaking the US 60 years ago was absolutely intolerable by modern standards especially south of the Mason-Dixon line.
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Reasonable things to be concerned about, and I'm happy to answer, just keep in mind I'm not no Chomsky or LSR.
- The question of what makes an organization a legitimate authority or not is a key component of anarchism. Since anarchism both in theory and practice has been a democratic ideology, it is next to impossible for one such "leader of the mob" to appear. If someone tried to do such a thing, they would be undermining the democratic process and would be illegitimate authority, undermining the democracy.
- Someone can be a leader, or be in charge of something, but if they abuse that power they can be recalled from that post at any time. For example, in the Free Territory of Ukraine, Nestor Makhno was considered leader of the army that protected it, but the communes themselves were ran horizontally by the workers there, and Makhno himself was merely a figurehead and organizer of the army that protected the territory from the White Army and later the Red Army.
Mob mentality, as it exists, I see is a phenomenon of a product in a capitalist society, as groups of oppressed may turn anger outward towards a greater region. It's things like racism, sexism and so forth that enforce and feed things like mob mentality, when in an anarchist society where the needs of all can be met and issues can be resolved in a democratic manner, this kind of tribalism becomes obsolete.
As for CHOP, I thought it had a lot of promise, a free zone with no police; but this was a long term protest for the most part, most did not go in with the intention to create a classless society. Many elements were liberal in nature, though I do commend the direct democracy from what I've read. I haven't read or heard anything about there being any leaders, or sanctioned killings against individuals personally, but if true, that's not the what I'm looking for. Anarchism is against all illegitimate authority and for the well being and liberty of all. The state of CHOP was very different from say, Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War, which was a strong example of anarchism in a developed industrial country.
Well, those reads are quite the eye openers. I'm pretty disappointed but not surprised. I'm not a big fan of FDR either after the mentioned debacle about him putting Japanese citizens into concentration camps, and while the new deal did help restabilize the economy it also crippled the socialist movement in America at a time where people were ready to drift leftward after years of being screwed. I wouldn't give him too much credit for winning WW2 either, if that's the case I'd have to thank Churchill and Stalin too. I'd say Obama would be my favorite president because he as a person was funny and he was the first pro LGBT president in history, but that's also soured by his support of tbings like ending internet neutrality and classifying the left wing rebels in Greece who were fighting the Golden Dawn "terrorists". But apparently GD weren't. Nice.
Definitely agreed on Kennedy, Nixon and the Korean War. It's like the Cold War took all of the hope that existed after the Nazis were defeated and just blew it all. Nothing good came out of it and we still feel the effects of the US and USSR's little game of Risk. And considering the state I'm living in now had homosexuality criminalized all the way up until 2003, I can definitely see the country as a freer place socially, but that like any other reform was won through pressure and suffering. Atleast hopefully now the state can't take that away again... for now.
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Nina Turner is the perfect kind of savage.
She's pretty much spot on in her analogy.
I'd rather eat no feces than half a bowl. Though yet again half a bowl might actually be generous. He's like two-thirds of a bowl. Trump's still a whole bowl, though. He's done VERY little good that maybe it could be argued the bowl could have a few sprinkles on it.
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Also, related to how the Media are now treating Nina Turner for saying this and the "anti-PC" people's lack of any kind of response.
Far Right pretending to be anti-PC when one of their own is affected: *Perpetual complaining and bickering*
Far Right pretending to be anti-PC when it isn't one of theirs affected: *Pretends nothing happened or maybe even actively perpetrates the cancellation*
Seriously, the hypocrisy on display from the far right is so blatant and ridiculous that it could not be understated just how unprincipled they are.
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Democrats once again prove just how pathetic they are at representing anyone.
No we don't need a half measure. We need a full measure and if we had a competent president, they'd make it an executive order.
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Tea Party executive dead? Good riddance.
The Tea Party is an extremist faction in American politics who regularly advocate for committing war crimes and nationally sanctioned terrorism (yes, anything the US does isn't automatically not terrorism, shocking I know), and advocate for taxing the rich even less than they are now (which it is a fact actually they pay LESS than everyone else, even if corporate right wing outlets love to deny it). People like Herman Cain are scum to put it rather lightly.
And if anyone says "don't speak ill of the dead" I f***ing swear. This man was a horrible person plain and simple. It doesn't somehow change if he's not alive to somehow defend the morally wrong views he had.
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Yes, I am an atheist, and I do believe that religious dogma is inherently harmful...
BUT, I'm not the kind of hypocrite that makes my own atheist dogma for the sake of being bothered by religious dogmatism. I know some, rather prominent, atheists that take this militant, hypocritical, divisive point of view and run with it. And as a non-believer myself, it makes me sick honestly. Believe in whatever dumb $#!+ you want, it doesn't make the War on Terror okay, Christopher Hitchens (Yes, I know he's been dead for 9 years and no I don't care).
Even actually lefties (liberals really aren't lefties) can say things that I totally disavow. I don't play for a team, I'm a part of no crowd. Kyle Kulinski has said some nonsense in his time too (in fact I can think of one recent video in particular where he says something utterly unprincipled). Although the right and liberals both are FAR worse, everybody is open to criticism.
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"Trump doesn't play politics"
This is far from the only example of how that's utterly wrong, but it's a pretty solid example. F***ing sick.
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What makes it even more hilarious is the Fox News headlines saying "This isn't about politics." Trump made the pandemic political the absolute earliest moment that he could. He was calling it fake and saying it was a ploy by the democrats to make him look bad. Now we have 140,000 people dead from it and that number continues to climb.
I know the forums is all "anti politics" lately but I cannot take this shit anymore. It is insanity.
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@Kyoshi and Ironically the most "anti-politics" people on here seem to be the MOST POLITICAL.
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When the best thing that can be said about a game is "well it has one kick-@$$ battle theme," that really says to me the game is probably $#!+.
*cough cough* Sword and Shield *cough cough* (though in that case I'm pretty convinced even before buying). I'm not going to let Game Freak greedily take over a hundred dollars from me for features that used to be in the base game (a not incomplete f***ing Pokedex)
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Oh how I love a toxic gaming community blaming the devs for its toxicity. *sips caffeinated beverage*
Because it only proves just how toxic they are... Toxic to the point they'll attack the people who made the game in a way that nobody with more than two functioning brain cells can see the logic in.
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Probably my face if Angel Dust's voice is ever auto-tuned:
That seriously would be very disappointing though. Auto-tuning voices in general is just a bad idea that always makes them sound worse and less like an actual voice.
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"The left loves cancel culture"
Explain the numerous times Secular Talk has (rightfully) demonized the concept. I've seen four or five of his videos doing just that in the past month in fact.
In fact I remember him saying that the left is victimized by it MORE than the right. From my perspective it frankly almost seems MAINSTREAM for the centrist liberals and pretty much all conservatives to cancel the left. I'm a ways to the left of most of these $#!+heads that embrace woke culture and I hate it. It's also not only liberals who perpetrate cancellation but that's for another day.
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@Renegade the Unicorn It makes every issue about symbolism instead of making an active attempt to solve it.
The problems with race relations in America are actually do to classism, and not racism. But the woke want to be in their own world where symbolic change is important instead of reality where there needs to be actual policy changes.
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There's a Tuba kingdom? And their themes' melodies AREN'T the Tuba part? Pathetic.
My Tuba brothers abandon their brethren for higher brass melodies.
EDIT: I also looked up this meme earlier and yep even as a band geek this sounds completely lame and idiotic to me. Not a good meme at all. In fact it makes me realize how stupid, pointless, and just how much of a waste this kind of stuff is.
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My unpopular opinions on film just seem to keep stacking up. That and of course opinions of film I see that make absolutely no sense.
No, the Godfather isn't a masterpiece, Goodfellas is better in every way. No, a horror movie that constantly has to make its main cast go OoC isn't a mastepiece either. Also, don't really like Forrest Gump or Rain Man.
And no it isn't just because they've both aged like nearly expired milk. It's for reasons that have nothing to do with how they've aged. Though I'll admit it's a major gripe.
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Last Epoch community: "ohh this crafting system is so wonderful and there's totally no problematic mechanics here"
Yeah being PUNISHED for trying to optimize your gear isn't problematic, right? I mean the way it is executed, don't get me wrong, it's nice. But there's DEFINITELY some really dumb problems in need of fixing.
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Didn't know this until recently but there is indeed a homoflexible pride flag.
It's kind of like being bisexual and heavily leaning homo so it almost seems unnecessary.
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Trump just keeps on proving he's a lunatic with absolutely no common sense...
You can't be f***ing serious man... We were taught history in a way that's very clearly biased FOR the US and that's obvious to anyone that can read who isn't some far right extremist with the clear agenda to say everyone who doesn't like Trump's fascistic vision somehow hates America.
Not to mention, this is literally the most divisive thing POSSIBLE to say for an Independence Day speech. Accusing people in this country of "hating" it on a day where you see American Flags every 5 or 10 feet in some places is just absolutely ridiculous, but also in this case it's absurdly divisive because it's essentially his very childish way of trying to take the moral high ground over his opposition when he so clearly doesn't have it.
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So apparently there's an actual petition for Femboy Hooters and it has 13k signatures.
Seriously, though, this world needs Femboy Hooters. Heck if I took care of my body I'd happily work there.
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One good thing coming out of this year:
Chuck E. Cheese's filed for bankruptcy. I f***ing hated that place even when I was a kid, so I'm happy.
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I'm definitely glad I don't live in Florida if the people there are really this stupid:
You know what, climate change? Take Florida, they didn't believe in you anyways. I mean what the f*** does communism and this being "god's air" have to do with common sense? If you decide not wearing a mask when you go to the f***ing beach, I think their beaches are still open at least, is a good idea then you deserve to die for your sheer stupidity.
