Posts by irratizomb@nnia.space
(DIR) Post #ASAuYSxeYgH6GUdnN2 by irratizomb@nnia.space
2023-01-30T17:02:23Z
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@comrade_lecter Aye, slavery is not an ethnic problem, it is a human problem. That is to say, humans have done it for thousands upon thousands of years, despite having a good reason to anticipate it being immoral, and so the correction of that is..... gonna take longer then people may like simply on the grounds that the status quo doesn't like not being a thing, and, despite our advances, lack of slavery is not, yet, the status quo.
(DIR) Post #ASCJNBSA0K10n9aSyu by irratizomb@nnia.space
2023-01-31T09:15:10Z
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@laura I think it would be more sensible for it to be dark Biden, just for the memes, but that might just be me.
(DIR) Post #ASDmGXjTraTxgwpmkK by irratizomb@nnia.space
2023-02-01T02:13:38Z
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@laura @comrade_lecter I don't think that looks any different really. To say otherwise is to think that some period of history was somehow more reasonable or rational then another, and that simply isn't true. People are people, and are the same as the Romans or Sumerians, with the same built in biases and intellectual faults and gifts.
(DIR) Post #ASDmcejYVuANmCPhho by irratizomb@nnia.space
2023-02-01T02:17:37Z
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@laura @comrade_lecter I mean; I have a general argument for why that isn't the case. We don't see the intellectual engagement because of how much stuff we have to filter through. Keep in mind, the population of the world in 1950 was half of what it is today. And a straight doubling of all the numbers just means that there is strictly speaking just as much chaff to intellectual stuff to filter through as then. So we should actually expect to see more chaff, not less, because it is easier for chaff to profligate across communication channels then intellectual ideas. To say that the 50s were, somehow, more intellectual then now, is simply ignoring all the nonsense that was going on then.
(DIR) Post #ASDmr7exlSTTXiACa8 by irratizomb@nnia.space
2023-02-01T02:20:15Z
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@laura @comrade_lecter Like, keep in mind, in most industrial places, people were getting their feet x-rayed in their shoes to see if their feet fit them by radiologically untrained sales technicians in the 50s, and smoking was everywhere. Like. Nonsense is always around, and we have a nasty habit of filtering that out for our favored intellectual pursuit. This happened with Cicero in the Roman Empire too.
(DIR) Post #ASDsPnzPOCVcRW5HLk by irratizomb@nnia.space
2023-02-01T03:22:33Z
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@laura @comrade_lecter Here is the thing, having read at least 4 of those books, I can safely say, they actually are only intellectual because we think they are. People can gather knowledge from multiple sources, and knowledge by proxy is useful. What makes mass marketable romance worse then Joy Street or The Parasites or The Disenchanted?
(DIR) Post #ASH71xeYt2UPGQ9pJ2 by irratizomb@nnia.space
2023-02-02T16:50:26Z
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@comrade_lecter I mean, one of the main hazards here is that people boosting posts is one of the main ways I _find_ interesting discussion, so the lack of boosting actually deeply inhibits interesting political conversation in and of itself.
(DIR) Post #ASH7PrdOuq8hXz0pFY by irratizomb@nnia.space
2023-02-02T16:54:46Z
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@comrade_lecter Which is an understandable position. I am not complaining, just pointing out the obvious because sometimes even the obvious should be said explicitly so it can be put on the table with all the other ideas and concepts around something.
(DIR) Post #ASH7m41lWHDwM0ziGO by irratizomb@nnia.space
2023-02-02T16:48:10Z
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@shoulderdemon @laura @comrade_lecter @Sasha @mushroomfemboy Copyright is another one of those situations where I favor the dismantling of the legal structure entirely; this being said despite having a legal and registered work copyrighten. Never-mind the issue of suppression of innovation, but just giving the state or corporate actors another means to suppress people is a bad idea in general.
(DIR) Post #ASHLtRpGpntFY6Z5uK by irratizomb@nnia.space
2023-02-02T19:36:59Z
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@comrade_lecter @girk907 On the one hand, I see your point. It is incredibly disrespectful to appropriate things without understanding and comprehending their full value and intention. On the other hand, humans tend to be bastards, and appropriate everything given the chance, so pragmatically, I don't think it is possible for this to be a black and white issue, and is more an issue of a fuzzy line that everyone is gonna draw their own conclusions too.
(DIR) Post #ASI2zvOk5x9522UXeS by irratizomb@nnia.space
2023-02-03T03:39:59Z
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@comrade_lecter This might be another Americanism leaking through. Since wholesomeness is tied so firmly with definition 1 here in America, that it is hard to conceive of something being both healthy and not wholesome. It is probably a function of how puritanical America was and still is.
(DIR) Post #ASJA4YKECTedl3Ufwm by irratizomb@nnia.space
2023-02-03T16:33:54Z
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@comrade_lecter I mean, "based" is inherently a subjectivist description of "something desirable". Since feelings as valid motive tend to be the realm of idealists and reactionaries, there are only two real contexts that "based" is gonna get used. Reactionary and Idealist. Pragmatists will use "based" rarely, and if they do, it will be about fact and research based things, and thus somewhat outside of the paradigm in general.
(DIR) Post #ASJAHGm8lGCJ5oc5r6 by irratizomb@nnia.space
2023-02-03T16:36:13Z
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@comrade_lecter @Hive_uwu I think if current history has anything to show, whether something is shunned or not, people ought be allowed to have pride in any contingent that they are so long as they aren't advocating destruction of anything else in the process.
(DIR) Post #ASJf5v1GPH9b0kkqnY by irratizomb@nnia.space
2023-02-03T21:52:34Z
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@sumire-chan @laura Right, because "LGB without the T" isn't a thing that is cropping up with the same reasoning. People hoping to sell out the groups that aren't them for their own survival. That reasoning will fragment groups, and make sure the right wing will eventually have no one to oppose them. Mark my words, you are signing your own death warrant if you eject the MAP community now.
(DIR) Post #ASJf6b9BmCRtfUmlyy by irratizomb@nnia.space
2023-02-03T22:06:28Z
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@apocalypseprincess @sumire-chan @laura Remember that when the discourse turns to you. I am done here, I have said my say, and presented my evidence. If that isn't sufficient then so be it, but keep in mind this discussion when you wonder why your allies are suddenly silent when you are on the chopping block and in line for the wood chipper.
(DIR) Post #ASJnzTZgQrLpk5rC2i by irratizomb@nnia.space
2023-02-04T00:01:12Z
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@comrade_lecter @Hive_uwu I mean, even beyond being inappropriate, it isn't reasonable or acceptable. Only the individual can decide what is in their best interest, it is not up to the community around them to define for them what they ought be or prefer.
(DIR) Post #ASJrp0GOxFS9kz6F6m by irratizomb@nnia.space
2023-02-04T00:44:10Z
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@comrade_lecter Well, thank you for the information that such a test existed, and, having taken it, now have a lot of googling to do to understand half of what I theoretically support.
(DIR) Post #ASKN4GhHEcD9eBQgRk by irratizomb@nnia.space
2023-02-04T06:34:16Z
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@comrade_lecter I am a communist, I will support Lenin, after that the CCCP went off the rails. Mao was.... He was an idealist and that has its problems when ideals and reality are not actually the same. Most of the worst communist governments can be described that way. But there is absolutely no reason to disown the word "comrade" since, I don't think even "tovarishch" is reasonable to disown. It would be like disowning "Citizen" because of Revolutionary France.
(DIR) Post #ASLcPOaykyRUhAyYwC by irratizomb@nnia.space
2023-02-04T20:01:59Z
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@mushroomfemboy @Sp @comrade_lecter @Shira Do you not understand how logic works? Because a primer in basic logic is a bit beyond the ability of Mastadon, but a good source is the Wikipedia article on Negation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negation
(DIR) Post #ASNsWZIPMGFlUZeRbk by irratizomb@nnia.space
2023-02-05T10:05:33Z
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So, given the past few hellthreads, I am probably just gonna tap out here. I have my element on my profile if anyone actually wants to remain in contact with me, otherwise, I am out. I just don't got any more juice to give for hellthreads like the past few days. In a few days Imma scrub my stuff from existence, so, don't wait too long to contact me elsewhere.