Posts by mona@cybre.space
(DIR) Post #9g30ueeHBKGpo1pocC by mona@cybre.space
2019-02-21T03:55:05Z
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@USBloveDog @SenorOblong yes. really I think old Usenet furnishes a good model.
(DIR) Post #9g6YHh8txHTqA9dKjo by mona@cybre.space
2019-02-22T19:42:00Z
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all of us in the Pnictogen Collective have talked rather freely about ideals, and idols...mostly on Twitter, when we're butting heads with politicians and punditsperhaps it's time to get some of our thinking down in a more concrete form. perhaps it may be useful to others :=3what has been particularly striking to me, in observing the eruption of fascism into the open again, has been how it works by parasitizing an _ideal_, and turning it into a mere _idol_
(DIR) Post #9g6YHhM1AVyKoploBM by mona@cybre.space
2019-02-22T19:45:14Z
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what do I mean by this?I think all of us who inhabit virtual or imaginative or spiritual spaces (I am, after all, an invisible unicorn ;=3 whatever else I might be) accept that ideals are real and solid things. there ARE such things are dragons. there ARE such things as Freedom and Justice and Determinationin the orthocosm, however, we can only encounter approximations of ideals. we imagine perfect lines and circles but we _see_ smudged and uneven scribbles
(DIR) Post #9g6YHhYmP4BFSPk04e by mona@cybre.space
2019-02-22T19:48:06Z
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humble persons inhabiting healthy societies in the orthocosm accept that ideals exist only in the world of the imagination. it is not possible to exist in matter AND be ideal. the Universe is fundamentally blurry; quantum mechanics teaches that. time and chance happeneth to us allfascists, however, want to believe that it's possible to shape the material world into a literal embodiment of its idealsit divides the material world into the ideal and the non-ideal
(DIR) Post #9gJ0sppi1pOsNIo1WC by mona@cybre.space
2019-02-28T18:05:48Z
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I am rather liking the appropriateness of the slightly twee, dismissive connotations of the slang word "fash" (adj. "fashy") as substitutes for "fascist" ("fascistic") fascism is deadly serious business, but our current strain of American fascism is... perhaps not entirely seriousmy colleague @zebratron2084 once told me a while back, in the runup to 45's election, that he thought the strength of the Trumpist coalition was maybe overfeared, that it was too disjointed to hold up
(DIR) Post #9gJ0sqBKjQhJSMvIDw by mona@cybre.space
2019-02-28T18:11:10Z
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@zebratron2084 I remember thinking at the time that this was too facile, too optimisticbut it really does seem as though the decades of marination that fascism has undergone in American culture, forcing its expression into such marginalia as bigoted gamer culture and comic book fandom and the like, has not done any favors to fascism's appeal to each other and even to other fasciststhe strangest of strange bedfellows are now forced together and they do not much like each other
(DIR) Post #9gJHFyo8QSOS8V7ygi by mona@cybre.space
2019-03-01T00:13:32Z
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@USBloveDog is "behavioral prescriptivism" a fancier term for "courtesy"? ;=3
(DIR) Post #9gnda8zoHZ67GBPH0K by mona@cybre.space
2019-03-15T15:45:02Z
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@Sir_Boops is there really any possible point in looking at this thingit is meant to be a memetic package of neo-Nazi concepts, not a window into someone's mind
(DIR) Post #9gneZhprMe8Iyf6ivY by mona@cybre.space
2019-03-15T15:56:09Z
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@Sir_Boops @Siphonay *sighs* I really should not use the word "mimetic" in its radical sense, because when I do, everyone thinks I mean something much more specific and jokey. computer-geek culture has ruined the meaning of "meme", just as it has ruined everything else it has touched
(DIR) Post #9gngFxIMNM8F2d9F8i by mona@cybre.space
2019-03-15T16:15:00Z
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@Sir_Boops @Siphonay *sighs* trying again: "meme" does not mean what you think it does
(DIR) Post #9gngtpOXAVtE7d34xk by mona@cybre.space
2019-03-15T16:22:12Z
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@Sir_Boops @Siphonay it is an abstract concept referring to a conjectural unit of cultural evolution, a packet of information that tends to self-replicationI have no idea what you mean by "meme" but plainly, it is not that
(DIR) Post #9goTnscZ9ihS92PCTI by mona@cybre.space
2019-03-16T01:30:05Z
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@ky0ko honestly, if I had a laptop of that sort, I would probably want to put Windows XP on it too.
(DIR) Post #9goUA22wnCcBkSJ9iC by mona@cybre.space
2019-03-16T01:34:13Z
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@USBloveDog @devurandom I admit I am only slightly familiar. these are hard-core "natural law" Catholics, yes? who believe that civil law should conform to Catholic doctrine, which they assert is "natural law" and therefore above mere mortal law
(DIR) Post #9goVwoK6hhBdKX9pya by mona@cybre.space
2019-03-16T01:54:11Z
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@USBloveDog @devurandom *blinks*..."modern technology'?
(DIR) Post #9goXBV9uL5MkBrxKjo by mona@cybre.space
2019-03-16T02:08:07Z
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@USBloveDog @devurandom oh, so we're not talking some sort of...hypothetical Neon Genesis Evangelion level of technology here, manipulating fundamental forces, we're talking something far cruder, it seems? "if we start a nuclear war Jesus will come" magical thinking?
(DIR) Post #9goXxcID7PSCDRmaK8 by mona@cybre.space
2019-03-16T02:16:49Z
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@USBloveDog @devurandom this is all...rather terrifying, honestly, and I don't envy your (I'm guessing) first-hand knowledge of this culture
(DIR) Post #9goZOlZgogTwmBT5PM by mona@cybre.space
2019-03-16T02:32:55Z
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@USBloveDog @devurandom ah yes, I actually knew a sedevacantist Catholic once, though not very well as you might imagine. I imagine they find some line in some papal document that "proves" the current Church is now illegitimate. there's probably no end of fun in "debating" over just precisely when the great sin occurred
(DIR) Post #9goaNEoXEYwmpsFNXU by mona@cybre.space
2019-03-16T02:43:52Z
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@USBloveDog @devurandom phew. I am somewhat reminded of the occasional American phenomenon of a citizen suing the Federal Government to prove its own illegitimacy as a way of becoming a "sovereign citizen", or something of the sort. (this is the basis of some well-known confidence tricks I think...)
(DIR) Post #9h55UhaKZ4zNLFx2DQ by mona@cybre.space
2019-03-24T01:47:56Z
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@ky0ko @mew oh dear I am reminded of this https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Billy_Graham's_Bible_Blaster
(DIR) Post #9hkOAheytmdhN1biCW by mona@cybre.space
2019-04-13T00:00:23Z
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@ky0ko it would be pleasant if Hiveswap Act 2 were confirmed