Post ATtLeK0CmYHZDpeDPk by resonancewright@infosec.exchange
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(DIR) Post #ATtHKj3lVg33KOiI3U by jag0325@c.im
2023-03-23T00:34:20Z
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I’m not an anarchist but the older I get and the more of shit show our system displays itself to be I can certainly see why some are.
(DIR) Post #ATtHRgVfOBSXRk59sm by Tilopa@convo.casa
2023-03-23T00:38:16Z
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@jag0325
(DIR) Post #ATtHVrExR2zFsvFyIS by jag0325@c.im
2023-03-23T00:39:00Z
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@Tilopa ain’t that the truth!
(DIR) Post #ATtHhuh8PwNe4dBWQS by jag0325@c.im
2023-03-23T00:41:11Z
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@Tilopa stealing that, by the way.
(DIR) Post #ATtLeK0CmYHZDpeDPk by resonancewright@infosec.exchange
2023-03-23T01:25:21Z
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@Tilopa @jag0325 Mencken is hard to cancel even though he was an obvious racist and proud anti-Semite. Because he also said things like this.That is to say, if there was ever a case of someone whose wit we could simultaneously cherish whilst fully denouncing his bigotry -- to get past the whole thesis-antithesis, binary oppositional clash of cancel culture to get to a point of synthesis where we understand that some people are simultaneously excellent and despicable and that you just can't throw out the baby with the bathwater with some people, someone it would be WORTH going through all that struggle and opprobrium to hold on to and to try and understand, warts and all -- it would be Mencken. And it's because he could turn a phrase like no one else alive, and there was no topic on earth he wouldn't go after with a razor, no matter how sacred. Of course it's easy for a privileged straight white guy like me to be one to point out the value of Mencken, because I've never been at risk due to his bigotry the way his targets were. In a way it's trite and stupid and cliched to even try. But no one I know has ever read one of Mencken's works and remained unimpressed by the things he had to say, even as they rightfully hated some of those things.