Posts by GuyDudeman@beige.party
(DIR) Post #Acqi3ZetRpoJ39u8Zs by GuyDudeman@beige.party
2023-12-15T23:41:11Z
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@todayilearned https://inv.vern.cc/watch?v=BssiMTIDRfg
(DIR) Post #Acv1zStfQBAcdUyMCW by GuyDudeman@beige.party
2023-12-18T01:43:23Z
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@todayilearned @curiousgene DId you know this??
(DIR) Post #Acyh23O3Oz49yxQ0MC by GuyDudeman@beige.party
2023-12-19T20:07:23Z
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@todayilearned What we learn from this is that fascism arises from authoritarian violence. Wherever it exists, authoritarian violence affords fascists the opportunity for power.Violence is never the true solution to the underlying problems of human relations. And always breeds more problems.Defense is one thing. Initiation of violence is another.
(DIR) Post #Ad57uQCIKFzv5nAS2q by GuyDudeman@beige.party
2023-12-22T22:36:50Z
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@Ricardus Man, the masks remind me of the current (and pretty great) band FartBarf: https://fartbarf.com/
(DIR) Post #Adg7ByGZkZ7Uz9j8QC by GuyDudeman@beige.party
2024-01-09T17:36:43Z
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If this article doesn't stir the Angry Marxist in you, then nothing will:"Things I Learned by Working as a Butler at the Plaza Hotel"https://getpocket.com/explore/item/12-shocking-things-i-learned-by-working-as-a-butler-at-the-plaza-hotelSome highlights:- One of my butler colleagues at a previous job in London was asked to ship in and set up a guest’s order of fresh oysters in the bathtub. He diligently filled the tub with ice and laid the oysters out, only to discover that the guest wanted the oysters placed in the tub around his soaking body. Eventually, the client seemed satisfied: He purchased the room next door for his butler so he’d always be near.- During my shifts, lobster shells kept appearing in the fountains of the hotel’s interior courtyard. Every day, the staff would fish them out, only to find a new one a few hours later. It turned out that a Middle Eastern prince was ordering cooked lobster from room service for every meal and then throwing the empty shells out the window to land in a fountain below. - Another time, a woman called hysterically crying “as though her husband died and she just discovered the body.” When Emma finally calmed her down, she comprehended the real reason for the guest’s tears: There was no more Kleenex in her suite, and her young daughter had been forced to blow her nose on toilet paper.- One butler told the story of how he was asked to replace all the furniture in a suite because the guest didn’t like the color blue.- Another arranged for a live tarantula flown in from Africa to be served as a meal.- A full raid of your room’s bar runs $600 at the Plaza—something that happens at least once a week. The likelihood that guests will not want to pay is almost guaranteed.- Even now, guests sometimes request that staff of a certain ethnic extraction not be allowed to service their rooms; others will ask service members if they are legal in America. Emma, the director of the butler team, cited several incidents of sexism, too, such as the time guests asked to speak with a manager but grew angrier when she showed up instead of a man.#aboringdistopia #capitalism #socialism #communism #FullCommunism #FullyAutomatedLuxuryGaySpaceCommunism #anarchism
(DIR) Post #AntDikcRb80i0Mf7S4 by GuyDudeman@beige.party
2024-11-10T05:18:34Z
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@PopeASDF I can just picture the man with the mustache up the phone pole with that on his belt.
(DIR) Post #AntDtZ4crcehNn05Oi by GuyDudeman@beige.party
2024-11-10T05:20:31Z
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@PopeASDF It might have been!
(DIR) Post #AntE1DKdaD6cGi8ZA8 by GuyDudeman@beige.party
2024-11-10T05:21:54Z
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@PopeASDF Wait, you're out here too??
(DIR) Post #AntECTzC0IHl6cToHY by GuyDudeman@beige.party
2024-11-10T05:23:56Z
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@PopeASDF (Cracks open his can of Miller High Life and downs it in one go)
(DIR) Post #AntGh3SGtYb3hsmqYq by GuyDudeman@beige.party
2024-11-10T05:24:14Z
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@PopeASDF (Then cracks open another)
(DIR) Post #AntGjBZFhgc3Rl4Hlg by GuyDudeman@beige.party
2024-11-10T05:52:17Z
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@PopeASDF Holy Shit!
(DIR) Post #Ao4ITmlTyTckpG8GWW by GuyDudeman@beige.party
2024-11-14T06:31:04Z
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An excerpt from "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45", an interview with a German after WWII on why they didn't rise up against the regime due to incrementalism.“Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk alone; you don’t want to “go out of your way to make trouble.” Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. Outside, in the streets, in the general community, “everyone” is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. You speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, “It’s not so bad” or “You’re seeing things” or “You’re an alarmist.”And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can’t prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don’t know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends, who are, naturally, people who have always thought as you have.But your friends are fewer now. Some have drifted off somewhere or submerged themselves in their work. You no longer see as many as you did at meetings or gatherings. Now, in small gatherings of your oldest friends, you feel that you are talking to yourselves, that you are isolated from the reality of things. This weakens your confidence still further and serves as a further deterrent to—to what? It is clearer all the time that, if you are going to do anything, you must make an occasion to do it, and then are obviously a troublemaker. So you wait, and you wait.But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds of thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions, would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the “German Firm” stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all of the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying “Jewish swine,” collapses it all at once, and you see that everything has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.Suddenly it all comes down, all at once. You see what you are, what you have done, or, more accurately, what you haven’t done (for that was all that was required of most of us: that we do nothing). You remember those early morning meetings of your department in the university when, if one had stood, others would have stood, perhaps, but no one stood. A small matter, a matter of hiring this man or that, and you hired this one rather than that. You remember everything now, and your heart breaks. Too late. You are compromised beyond repair.”https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Thought_They_Were_Free#USpol #USpolitics
(DIR) Post #Aoj5LYgMQpNeiPazVQ by GuyDudeman@beige.party
2024-12-05T05:49:42Z
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@historyofpunkrock Damn. We're fucking old.
(DIR) Post #AojA0Ul2KNJ2EVYfse by GuyDudeman@beige.party
2024-12-05T06:41:29Z
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@aral Too late. They already have.
(DIR) Post #Apr2MD7OR7BLndpDHs by GuyDudeman@beige.party
2025-01-07T23:45:56Z
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@mike Same! Love it!
(DIR) Post #AwyufoulkXl3SMRak4 by GuyDudeman@beige.party
2025-08-08T23:19:23Z
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@bobthetraveler This is from our recent trip to The Big Island… seen on the door at the Hilo Town Tavern. Maybe good for your signage page? Mahalo! 🤙🏻
(DIR) Post #Ax4fsM5htSaPSiq4Gm by GuyDudeman@beige.party
2025-08-11T22:44:41Z
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@bobcromwell @bobthetraveler Doh! Good point! I didn't realize!
(DIR) Post #AyRT2mZvcxYZlt3zzE by GuyDudeman@beige.party
2025-09-21T04:12:24Z
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(DIR) Post #B1Nc6YN5d1FgWU24wK by GuyDudeman@beige.party
2025-12-18T17:04:57Z
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(DIR) Post #B2OPcCYo8zqtDfovvk by GuyDudeman@beige.party
2026-01-17T23:46:21Z
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@HG FYI… TIL the sun isn't "strong enough" in northern latitudes to produce vitamin D during the winter, no matter how much sunlight you get. https://reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1qfipr3/til_the_sun_isnt_strong_enough_in_northern/