Post 1113283 by djsumdog@hitchhiker.social
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(DIR) Post #1113029 by Thomas@laserdisc.party
2018-11-11T04:00:22Z
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Damn, it’s never the ones you expect, lmao. Y’all do me a solid. I try not to piss anyone off, on the internet or otherwise, so if I ever do, just come straight to me about it and we can hash it out. I may not make it better, but I reckon I can’t make it worse.
(DIR) Post #1113030 by Thomas@laserdisc.party
2018-11-11T04:15:18Z
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Y’know, I’ma fess up to being a little upset. I believe someone that followed and was followed back by yours truly has decided that they don’t care for that arrangement and I’ll be honest, I have no recollection about interacting with said person in a positive or negative way one way or the other in recent memory, but it is someone I like and I’m a bit hurt. That seems silly, but it’s true. Especially the not knowing why. Hm.
(DIR) Post #1113031 by djsumdog@hitchhiker.social
2018-11-11T04:19:30Z
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@Thomas I was always curious about who unfriended me on Facebook. I used a plugin, but FB sense them a cease and dissent, so I wrote a Python script: https://penguindreams.org/blog/discoverying-friend-list-changes-on-facebook-with-python/It no longer works due to the Cambridge Analytica fix, but I always found it interesting that people often trimmed their friends lists quite often. FB doesn't want you to have this information. Twitter use to give you unfollow notices but they got rid of it too.
(DIR) Post #1113073 by Thomas@laserdisc.party
2018-11-11T04:22:45Z
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@djsumdog I’m not interested in a notice, I know who it is because I know most of the people I interact with. My stupid memory remembers things like usernames and avatars rather than “what time that work meeting starts”. Honestly, it’s fine if someone doesn’t like what I post, I get that, I am not for everyone, but if it’s someone that I got along with and interacted with in the past it’s kind of upsetting is all.
(DIR) Post #1113078 by djsumdog@hitchhiker.social
2018-11-11T04:22:58Z
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@Thomas I never trimmed my friends lists ever (and also I never read status updated; pretty much just use the messenger), but I found it interesting FB/Twitter go out of their way to make sure you don't have that information.On here people probably unfollow others just to not have as much going through their home timeline. It can start going by pretty fast without following a lot of people. I pretty much only watch the Federated timeline anyway, since I run an instance of like 6 people.
(DIR) Post #1113114 by Thomas@laserdisc.party
2018-11-11T04:25:20Z
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@djsumdog that’s interesting because I am never on Federated. I cut my friends on Facebook annually on my birthday. For every birthday wish I get from someone I barely remember, I click the “view relationship” button, and if the last interaction we had was my last birthday, it’s time to let each other go.
(DIR) Post #1113129 by djsumdog@hitchhiker.social
2018-11-11T04:26:15Z
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@Thomas Yep and that's understandable. I think we've kinda been conditioned that way because the big sites hide that info. If they didn't, I think it'd be less of a deal for everyone.I don't mind being unfollowed. I do mind when I suggest something like, "Maybe you shouldn't punch people and listen to people you don't agree with" and get called a Nazi sympathizing Trump apologist fascist.
(DIR) Post #1113190 by Thomas@laserdisc.party
2018-11-11T04:31:04Z
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@djsumdog I mind when someone I think I’m cool with bails, I guess. Also I have no reason to believe that you have any of the beliefs you say other people put on you, but YOU should know that I would punch a nazi in any circumstance. All Nazis, all fascists, deserve to learn that their ideology is unacceptable. Via violence to their physical person. I encourage people in marginalized communities to purchase firearms and go to the range to protect themselves. With violence.
(DIR) Post #1113283 by djsumdog@hitchhiker.social
2018-11-11T04:37:12Z
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@Thomas Yea ... I very much oppose that. I think the path of non-violence is much more difficult, but more worthwhile. The Earth Liberation Force used violence; their message was lost in it. Gandhi opposed the violence of his own people and refused to eat. An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. And we are all wrong about something we believe in our core to be true. But that's cool that you believe that. I think you're wrong, but we should all listen to ideas we don't agree with. 🙂
(DIR) Post #1113337 by Thomas@laserdisc.party
2018-11-11T04:40:51Z
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@djsumdog Europe was overrun by fascism less than 100 years ago because people didn’t act when they heard reprehensible ideas. We absolutely should not listen to ideas that we do not agree with if those ideas will themselves lead to the destruction of the of the ideologies that we hold deal and the loss of human life.
(DIR) Post #1113378 by djsumdog@hitchhiker.social
2018-11-11T04:43:23Z
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@Thomas Brendan O'Neil does a great talk about what it means to be offended: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtWrljX9HRA
(DIR) Post #1113431 by Thomas@laserdisc.party
2018-11-11T04:46:48Z
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@djsumdog I don’t click links to videos, but you can sum it up if you’d like.
(DIR) Post #1113474 by Thomas@laserdisc.party
2018-11-11T04:41:06Z
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@djsumdog I’m not debating and I won’t change your mind, but if you ask your grandpa or great grandpa (I don’t know how old you are!) about what they think about listening to fascists, I imagine they’ll give you some insight.
(DIR) Post #1113475 by djsumdog@hitchhiker.social
2018-11-11T04:48:57Z
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@Thomas My parent's family grew up during the partition. They fled what's now known as Pakistan as Muslims stopped the trains going South and killed the Hindus onboard. A Sikh boy stabbed my grandfather and tried to take his house. Despite all of that, my mother believed in Ghani's message until she died.David Graber talks about how States have to hold a monopoly on violence (military/police .. mafia). When you have enough violence from the people apart from the law, you fail to have a State.
(DIR) Post #1113541 by Thomas@laserdisc.party
2018-11-11T04:56:22Z
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@djsumdog I have no experience with the particular problems of Pakistan and India. What I know for certain is that the fascists in America, RIGHT NOW have no interest in meaningful dialogue, they have no conscience that can change their minds. The idea that anything less than active measures would be successful in curtailing their rise to significance has long since passed the point of laughable. If someone says “you do not deserve to live” they are already doing you violence.
(DIR) Post #1113637 by ricotta@shitposter.club
2018-11-11T05:06:33+00:00
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@djsumdog @thomas Gandhi was on record as being in favor of violence, but that without weapons pacifism was the only tool he had to work with. He said that if he'd had access to nuclear weapons he'd have used them on London.
(DIR) Post #1114255 by dokidoki@pl.smuglo.li
2018-11-11T06:00:05.218340Z
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@Thomas "I encourage people in marginalized communities to purchase firearms and go to the range to protect themselves"This is all well and good, wouldn't be seen as incitement in a court of law."With violence."This would.
(DIR) Post #1114283 by dokidoki@pl.smuglo.li
2018-11-11T06:02:52.944862Z
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