Posts by thebestpatrick@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #113544 by thebestpatrick@mastodon.social
2018-09-20T23:55:13Z
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@gayhobbes @Send_Lwyds I always read your handle as referencing the philosopher, because it's funnier that way, to me.
(DIR) Post #113566 by thebestpatrick@mastodon.social
2018-09-21T02:16:18Z
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@gayhobbes @Send_Lwyds "my type is nasty, brutish and short" Gay Hobbes
(DIR) Post #173173 by thebestpatrick@mastodon.social
2018-09-24T19:56:50Z
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Every system was put into place to solve a problem, and every system has flaws that create new problems. When more time/energy is being spent solving problems created by the flaws in the system than is spent addressing the problem the system was meant to solve, the system needs to be replaced. This holds true whether you are talking about SQL or capitalism.
(DIR) Post #379517 by thebestpatrick@mastodon.social
2018-10-05T14:30:33Z
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@Secondary_world so you're saying you dread this judge?
(DIR) Post #415833 by thebestpatrick@mastodon.social
2018-10-07T17:18:19Z
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@Secondary_world what about the measure of "number of global crises"
(DIR) Post #421901 by thebestpatrick@mastodon.social
2018-10-07T14:55:37Z
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@decripter37 @ADUB Do you take all your politics from works of fiction?
(DIR) Post #421927 by thebestpatrick@mastodon.social
2018-10-07T23:56:10Z
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@prydt @decripter37 @ADUB I mean, I've read it, it's ok. I think people overestimate Orwell's significance as a political thinker.
(DIR) Post #1170027 by thebestpatrick@mastodon.social
2018-11-13T11:43:49Z
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@lynnesbian @starwall I've been insulted by him, does that count?
(DIR) Post #1200019 by thebestpatrick@mastodon.social
2018-08-16T17:54:55Z
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Social democrats trying to find solutions to capitalism's inherent contradictions.
(DIR) Post #1203296 by thebestpatrick@mastodon.social
2018-11-14T18:36:28Z
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Sonic the Hedgehog's main antagonists in the narrative and the metatextual analysis are mustachioed industrialists, with Dr. Eggman as a scifi robber baron like Rockefeller, and Mario as an industrialized proletarian communist, with clear Stalin iconography.
(DIR) Post #1203297 by thebestpatrick@mastodon.social
2018-11-14T18:38:07Z
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Eggman destroys the environment to create machines which turn natural resources into further machines, an obvious overproduction crisis, while Mario as a Stalin standin, perpetuates the same societal structures he seeks to stand against (symbolically: saving the princess)
(DIR) Post #1203298 by thebestpatrick@mastodon.social
2018-11-14T18:50:41Z
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When Mario becomes more powerful, he does so by "growing", damaging him reduces his size, he is the industrializing society. Mario's score depends upon the collection of coins, perpetuating the capitalist economy.Sonic does not grow in size as he becomes more powerful, damage scatters his rings, which can be fully recollected to unify his power once more, a decentralized, anarchist model. Sonic's score depends upon speed, skilful navigation of a natural environment, and destruction of machines
(DIR) Post #1389350 by thebestpatrick@mastodon.social
2018-11-22T01:22:44Z
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@ari Oh jeez!
(DIR) Post #2341605 by thebestpatrick@mastodon.social
2018-12-27T18:10:01Z
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@neufv Surely you are not trying to say that Islam is uniquely resistant to being used as a political crutch?
(DIR) Post #3049156 by thebestpatrick@mastodon.social
2019-01-15T02:40:31Z
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@lynnesbian Richard Stallman deliberately named his system something dumb as a joke about how dumb it sounded, and then got all mad when people didn't want to use his dumb name. Friggin' foresight, dude...
(DIR) Post #9ixb1t8cj0SneyaPBI by thebestpatrick@mastodon.social
2019-05-11T18:50:22Z
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Horrified as I sit here thinking about the sex strike and the phrase "sex scab" inserts itself unbidden into my brain.