Posts by resonancewright@infosec.exchange
(DIR) Post #APsp5PKENXCB2TXqWe by resonancewright@infosec.exchange
2022-11-23T03:51:55Z
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@stux The raw material really looks a lot like a lab grown composite. I'd happily own one of these things all the same
(DIR) Post #AQXXdgvdbVULmpb46q by resonancewright@infosec.exchange
2022-12-12T19:19:36Z
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@stux I guess you aren't allowed to bring cans of soup into the Chase Center?
(DIR) Post #ASD8VVzmbjQGTv2mky by resonancewright@infosec.exchange
2023-01-31T16:55:32Z
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@ruralgloom to be fair they also leave copious amounts of more direct evidence of how much they've eatenEpictetus is cool and all but I'm guessing he would have chosen another way to make his point if he'd spent much time around sheep
(DIR) Post #ASFCntFoem8gyVKwJk by resonancewright@infosec.exchange
2023-01-31T17:29:22Z
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@Melody @servelan @Faithinbones @oldmanmike @Raven47 @nitrofurano @therobburgessshow "Violence is not ok."You just alluded to the Nazis. You remember how we ended their reign, right? Because that was a) antifascism in action and b) inherently violent. Should we have opted to lose WWII instead in the name of moral purity? Were those soldiers numbskulls?'Violence is not ok' is a platitude and no one I know actually fully lives by such a code. That I might well agree with you that the majority of violent acts are unconscionable is beside the point.
(DIR) Post #ASFCnuFqw7lM4uMU0u by resonancewright@infosec.exchange
2023-02-01T01:40:21Z
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@Greengordon @Melody @servelan @Faithinbones @oldmanmike @Raven47 @nitrofurano @therobburgessshow Indeed so. The point I tend to make here is this: If you ask white liberal America to name their primary icon for civil rights the chances are pretty good they'll say MLK. They will mention 'I Have a Dream' as a turning point in American history, as though every racist grinch heart in America suddenly grew three sizes upon hearing that speech and bam, Civil Rights act. The problem? MLK made his 'I Have a Dream' speech at a gathering in Washington in August of 1963 that was meant to pressure Congress into passing Civil Rights legislation before they recessed that year. Which they did not do. No one in Congress that was against the legislation changed their tune after 'I Have A Dream'. Congress went back home without doing anything at all in response to that speech.Then Congress came back into session the next year and they still didn't pass the act. There was lip service and then filibustering. Filibustering with no apparent end in sight. You know when the filibustering stopped? About a month after Malcolm X made 'The Ballot Or The Bullet' speech. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 shortly after that. And the President signed it into law on the very same day. I think Dr. King was a great man. I fundamentally agree with him. His place in history is deserved and his martyrdom remains a terrible injustice. But he, and his dream, are not the reason white America grudgingly acquiesced to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. They did that because Malcolm X scared the everloving shit out of them. They raised MLK on high. pretending to revere him, and renamed a bunch of civic property after him and indeed even gave us MLK day as a federal holiday hoping and praying that it would be enough to make black America forget about The Ballot Or the Bullet. Just scared shitless over the sentiments it contained, which were that blacks ought to arm themselves and learn to use those arms in their own self defense and then tell white Americans that they were bound to have their freedom, and if they couldn't have it via the ballot, they had a plan B ready to go. Within a month of hearing that speech Civil Rights legislation finally became a reality. The math is inescapable. And indeed today Malcolm X is relegated to little more than a footnote by the American establishment, and The Ballot Or The Bullet isn't a speech most of us ever encounter in our lives unless we go looking for it.
(DIR) Post #ASvE14K1D5jrmrMHI0 by resonancewright@infosec.exchange
2023-02-22T01:09:21Z
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@chameleon_muse when people ask me if I like dogs I usually reply 'generally speaking, I prefer them to people'.
(DIR) Post #ATcI4fTCyzfvi2A7WK by resonancewright@infosec.exchange
2023-03-14T18:03:34Z
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@marq @therobburgessshow @Oldfartrant no. 100% of those numbers are gamed. Our system does everything it can to tank non-capitalist systems, so attempting to do an apples to apples comparison this way is equivalent of kneecapping your opponent and then saying 'let's go ahead and settle this by a footrace'. It can only be intentionally done in ignorance, or bad faith.But wouldn't it be useful to see if 'seizing the means of production' is what's behind door #2
(DIR) Post #ATcI4gWR4TqoyKgDBo by resonancewright@infosec.exchange
2023-03-14T18:31:25Z
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@marq @therobburgessshow @Oldfartrant Do you have evidence that such evidence would actually sway your opinion? And specifically, do you have proof that asking for 'evidence' is anything more than a tired hedge against discussing the assertions in question? Most of the 20th century's history is indicative of capitalism's destructive intentions toward socialist and communist systems, from numerous coups to 'containment'. And the 21st century is proving no slouch in that regard as well. There's no shortage of data points; indeed the US's approach toward communism was, is and remains one of relentless confrontation and contention. But if you want me to do your legwork for you just so you can remain truculently unconvinced, like that's some kind of brilliant conversational ploy, I think I'll let you complete that cliche all on your own. :)
(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.
(DIR) Post #AXCWHdXErB7HprqE2y by resonancewright@infosec.exchange
2023-06-30T01:00:17Z
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@IdahoLark stealing
(DIR) Post #AXP43bJS3ELlE9OGYq by resonancewright@infosec.exchange
2023-07-06T02:14:50Z
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@DaveMWilburn not afraid to say it's been a hot minute since I last remembered that place. And by 'hot minute' I mean decades. Pretty sure you win a prize for that
(DIR) Post #AaAkIu8Re3A4guRI1I by resonancewright@infosec.exchange
2023-09-26T21:57:12Z
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@joriki #BOHICA
(DIR) Post #AaAlYBsW3hk61BqEUK by resonancewright@infosec.exchange
2023-09-26T21:46:41Z
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@cirriustech ngl this makes me wanna try itjust once, you know?