I have not been called that before. Congratulations!
My position hasn't changed regarding violent revolution, which is to say, the US establishment is too far gone to change incrementally. Oh maybe if we weren't facing global disaster that will likely lead to human extinction within two centuries, we could hope that with steady hard grassroots incrementalist work, the Zoomers might have grandkids whose children might see the US as a real democracy. A nice thought, eh?
The zoomers are going to watch half the population die when they're fifty. Their grandkids are not likely to live full lives. That's our situation. We're out of time for incrementalism.
But just any old coup d'etat will lead to a string of dictatorships. What was Trump going to do after he crowned himself President-For-Life? Build the wall? Probably get assassinated or usurped by someone, maybe even one of his own spawn. Coalition after coalition will control Washington by mustering a military force and killing anyone who disagrees with them. That was their plan, right? With the pipe bombs?
Lather, rinse, repeat for decades until the people are tired of starving.
While all those dictatorships are sorting themselves out: global warming. blue ocean event around 2034. By 2050 everything south of Oregon, Nebraska and Pennsylvania will be desert wasteland and as fun to live in as the Sahara Desert. Suddenly millions will be moving northward and willing to kill for food and supplies.
No, if you're going to change the nation for the better by revolution, you have to have your platform in advance. And you have to have your new constitution drawn up in advance. And you have to make sure none of your trusted lieutenants stab you in the back to take over and crown themselves president for life.
Do you know how to do these things? Me neither. And that's why I haven't mustered an army and stormed Washington. Also, I don't want to rule. I just want to live in a society where all efforts to govern are not killed by a cruel Senate majority leader.
I don't know how they're going to solve that problem, or the looming SCOTUS rulings, but I'm not in Washington to do anything about it.
Apparently Trump didn't know what he was doing either, unless the Wednesday raid was his brilliant distraction. I'm distracted.
Case in point, recently, Director-General Tedros Adhanom of WHO was not long ago called a Communist Terrorist by Trump-supporters after WHO fell out of favor with the Trump administration (I think for providing information conflicting with White House official statements).
It's super-duper easy to be branded a terrorist these days.
Shave your beard.
Paint your face.
Wear a mask.
Dress in black.
Wear goggles, gloves.
Give your phone to your alibi.
Rent a car.
Steal a different car.
Get it. Get it on. Get out.
Ditch your gear post hoc.
Take a different route home.
Stay out of the hospital.
Got to a different ER (if you must).
Stay out of sight for a week.
Yesterday on A Late Show, Elizabeth from Knoxville was interviewed coming back from the raid. She was distraught having been sprayed right in the face with pepper spray.
It was obvious she just could not grasp she did anything wrong that warranted retaliation. She was just going to the revolution (her words!) the same way someone might go to a Grateful Dead concert.
Crowds are weird and dangerous and I don't trust them.
If you have rulers of state (or of large institutions) on your communication service and they are reasonable it allows the service to act as a red phone. The notion is, so long as we're still talking, no one is shooting yet.
(Oh and do you know about the missile fleet flying your colors off the coast of my port? They're making my generals nervous.)
The problem is when you have someone who is not reasonable, and just uses it as a platform to radicalize his base.
Two-way mass communication on the internet scale is still rather new and we're still figuring out what works and what doesn't. Also there's money in having VIPs and celebrities with active accounts.
He doesn't have to. His followers are not bothering to think things through either. It's how communists and socialists continue to be bugbears long after the USSR is dead.
To be fair, North Korea is the DPRK, e.g. the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. It's a dictatorship ruled by a dead guy with his grandson as acting regent. And the Democratic Republic of the Congo which is governed by an authoritarian transitional government which will one day yield to a democracy. Someday.
So Antifa could plausibly not be so antifascist or only provisionally antifascist.
There is one valid argument I've heard critical of the policies of Antifa: Fascism is, according to Antifa, so great a threat to human society that force is warranted. As such they will attack fascist speakers and disrupt gatherings of known fascist groups, in what is either violation of their rights (and, therefore, assault) or in an act of vigilantism not consistent with the procedures of citizen-arrest (and therefore, assault).
But then, Antifa engages in far less violence than those groups they attack. It's not a justification but shows they have more restraint. Also those that criticize Antifa often fail to be similarly critical of those other groups for engaging in violence. Most conversations about them are completely partisan.
So actual fair assessments of all this direct action and coalition interaction is rare.
Me, I find it hilarious that we, allegedly, have a fleet of buses by which to transport our legions of crack Black-Bloc ninja counter-protest rioters. (We're trained CQC masters with black go-bag duffels always at the ready to mobilize to the next Fascist meet-up.)
We are armed better than Baywatch and GI Joe combined (the animated version with the lasers). We have assassins behind every tree and have hacked your phone to provoke you into acts of partisan terrorism to make Trump look bad.
Also we rigged the 2020 General Election, but only the Presidential Election.
You cannot, on one hand, act like we are all a bunch of spinless ineffectual overly-sensitive soyboys, and at the same time, we are somehow a cabal of special-forces shadow-queers. -- Trae Crowder
I know for a fact that most ... [of all of you] will still vote against one of the two political parties that is ruining the US.
Fixed it for you.
I have never had the opportunity to vote for a candidate that I liked. Third parties have always been spoilers for one of the two parties.
FPTP allows one person one vote against one of the two most popular candidates. That's all.
Feel free to actually take election reform seriously. Maybe someday we can see an amendment to the US Constitutions about implementing a better voting system.
For now, we can't even kill the Electoral College.
Whelp, you can add instigating a coup d'etat to the list of dictatory actions by President Trump. Elizabeth from Knoxville Tennessee, believed she was participating in a coup and got a facefull of pepper spray for her involvement.
Feel free to actually look up what Trump has done, starting with the Muslim Ban.
Lolicon ranges from infants to grown teens. And then there are those who are in the bodies of child or adolescent humans but are really elves or thousand-year-old spirits.
Here in the states, there are plenty of things we Americans could get arrested for (and incarcerated as long as we imprison murderers). We usually don't thanks to prosecutorial discretion but if someone wants a guy put way (say because he embarrassed a VIP, or the sheriff wants his land or because his skin is too dark) then these matters come up.
So yeah, laws that aren't enforced except sometimes are notorious for creating chilling effects and making undesirables disappear. At least here in the US, and lately Australia has been aspiring to be as ugly and cruel as the States.
This became a matter of issue kick-started by Ashcroft's eagerness to curb pornography and indecent material (leading to Eric Idle's second song about radio censorship.†). Famously, Ashcroft required the breast of Iustitia to be covered for press briefings.
For a short time, thanks to many efforts to censor porn, the courts decided the US had no cause to criminalize CGI rendered porn, even if it would be illegal were it to involve models (child, snuff, rape, revenge, etc.) This created a market of processed porn, in which photographs of children would then be artified -- rendered to look drawn or created with graphics software. Rather than creating narrower categories of acceptable and unacceptable media, the courts just returned CGI porn to be regarded like photographed porn.
So yeah, it's unlikely CGI will be revisited anytime in the near future, though in the 2010s law enforcement started using rendered little girls to lure online child-porn enthusiasts into sting traps.
YouTube is a far far cry from a mainstream media agency.
Also the mainstream media are a much looser front than the Trump-supporting media (who have their schisms but much fewer of them). It's not a monolithic propaganda machine the way FOX News is, and as such it's easy to derive the sources of their facts.
Contrast much of Trump media which doesn't even bother with facts at all.
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Inciting violence
He did tell those at his morning rally to go to the US Capitol building and stop the electoral college count.
And considering they attacked press corps along the way, the crowd seemed prepped to fight.
Also there's the whole bombs thing.
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"fedposter"
I have not been called that before. Congratulations!
My position hasn't changed regarding violent revolution, which is to say, the US establishment is too far gone to change incrementally. Oh maybe if we weren't facing global disaster that will likely lead to human extinction within two centuries, we could hope that with steady hard grassroots incrementalist work, the Zoomers might have grandkids whose children might see the US as a real democracy. A nice thought, eh?
The zoomers are going to watch half the population die when they're fifty. Their grandkids are not likely to live full lives. That's our situation. We're out of time for incrementalism.
But just any old coup d'etat will lead to a string of dictatorships. What was Trump going to do after he crowned himself President-For-Life? Build the wall? Probably get assassinated or usurped by someone, maybe even one of his own spawn. Coalition after coalition will control Washington by mustering a military force and killing anyone who disagrees with them. That was their plan, right? With the pipe bombs?
Lather, rinse, repeat for decades until the people are tired of starving.
While all those dictatorships are sorting themselves out: global warming. blue ocean event around 2034. By 2050 everything south of Oregon, Nebraska and Pennsylvania will be desert wasteland and as fun to live in as the Sahara Desert. Suddenly millions will be moving northward and willing to kill for food and supplies.
No, if you're going to change the nation for the better by revolution, you have to have your platform in advance. And you have to have your new constitution drawn up in advance. And you have to make sure none of your trusted lieutenants stab you in the back to take over and crown themselves president for life.
Do you know how to do these things? Me neither. And that's why I haven't mustered an army and stormed Washington. Also, I don't want to rule. I just want to live in a society where all efforts to govern are not killed by a cruel Senate majority leader.
I don't know how they're going to solve that problem, or the looming SCOTUS rulings, but I'm not in Washington to do anything about it.
Apparently Trump didn't know what he was doing either, unless the Wednesday raid was his brilliant distraction. I'm distracted.
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Terrorists all around us
Case in point, recently, Director-General Tedros Adhanom of WHO was not long ago called a Communist Terrorist by Trump-supporters after WHO fell out of favor with the Trump administration (I think for providing information conflicting with White House official statements).
It's super-duper easy to be branded a terrorist these days.
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The stupidest terrorists
Shave your beard.
Paint your face.
Wear a mask.
Dress in black.
Wear goggles, gloves.
Give your phone to your alibi.
Rent a car.
Steal a different car.
Get it. Get it on. Get out.
Ditch your gear post hoc.
Take a different route home.
Stay out of the hospital.
Got to a different ER (if you must).
Stay out of sight for a week.
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Collective effervescence
Yesterday on A Late Show, Elizabeth from Knoxville was interviewed coming back from the raid. She was distraught having been sprayed right in the face with pepper spray.
It was obvious she just could not grasp she did anything wrong that warranted retaliation. She was just going to the revolution (her words!) the same way someone might go to a Grateful Dead concert.
Crowds are weird and dangerous and I don't trust them.
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What happens on the internet stays on the internet...
...forever.
Did we not already know this?
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The VIP rule makes sense
If you have rulers of state (or of large institutions) on your communication service and they are reasonable it allows the service to act as a red phone. The notion is, so long as we're still talking, no one is shooting yet.
(Oh and do you know about the missile fleet flying your colors off the coast of my port? They're making my generals nervous.)
The problem is when you have someone who is not reasonable, and just uses it as a platform to radicalize his base.
Two-way mass communication on the internet scale is still rather new and we're still figuring out what works and what doesn't. Also there's money in having VIPs and celebrities with active accounts.
So much money.
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Meanwhile and relevantly,
_Parler_has been deplatformed from Google Play, and Apple has given it twenty-four hours to manifest a sound moderation policy or get deplatformed.
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Google has removed Parler from Google Play
Apple has given Parler 24 hours to have and present a moderation system or get removed from the Apple store.
Apparently they don't like 4chan/b rules either.
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Re: Re: Re: 2021
Yeah, I should have posted 2016 S06
SxxExx is the way TV series are enumerated.
And since 2016 (2015? 2014?) each year has been feeling like the season of a reality show.
But then, since 9/11 I feel like someone's fucking with a time machine to arrange for a very specific future.
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God Condemns me
[assert hypothesis without evidence]
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Re: Re: WAR
What is it good for?
(I'm fond of the J2 version, myself.)
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Thinking things through.
He doesn't have to. His followers are not bothering to think things through either. It's how communists and socialists continue to be bugbears long after the USSR is dead.
To be fair, North Korea is the DPRK, e.g. the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. It's a dictatorship ruled by a dead guy with his grandson as acting regent. And the Democratic Republic of the Congo which is governed by an authoritarian transitional government which will one day yield to a democracy. Someday.
So Antifa could plausibly not be so antifascist or only provisionally antifascist.
There is one valid argument I've heard critical of the policies of Antifa: Fascism is, according to Antifa, so great a threat to human society that force is warranted. As such they will attack fascist speakers and disrupt gatherings of known fascist groups, in what is either violation of their rights (and, therefore, assault) or in an act of vigilantism not consistent with the procedures of citizen-arrest (and therefore, assault).
But then, Antifa engages in far less violence than those groups they attack. It's not a justification but shows they have more restraint. Also those that criticize Antifa often fail to be similarly critical of those other groups for engaging in violence. Most conversations about them are completely partisan.
So actual fair assessments of all this direct action and coalition interaction is rare.
Me, I find it hilarious that we, allegedly, have a fleet of buses by which to transport our legions of crack Black-Bloc ninja counter-protest rioters. (We're trained CQC masters with black go-bag duffels always at the ready to mobilize to the next Fascist meet-up.)
We are armed better than Baywatch and GI Joe combined (the animated version with the lasers). We have assassins behind every tree and have hacked your phone to provoke you into acts of partisan terrorism to make Trump look bad.
Also we rigged the 2020 General Election, but only the Presidential Election.
You cannot, on one hand, act like we are all a bunch of spinless ineffectual overly-sensitive soyboys, and at the same time, we are somehow a cabal of special-forces shadow-queers. -- Trae Crowder
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"You will still vote"
I know for a fact that most ... [of all of you] will still vote against one of the two political parties that is ruining the US.
Fixed it for you.
I have never had the opportunity to vote for a candidate that I liked. Third parties have always been spoilers for one of the two parties.
FPTP allows one person one vote against one of the two most popular candidates. That's all.
Feel free to actually take election reform seriously. Maybe someday we can see an amendment to the US Constitutions about implementing a better voting system.
For now, we can't even kill the Electoral College.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
Whelp, you can add instigating a coup d'etat to the list of dictatory actions by President Trump. Elizabeth from Knoxville Tennessee, believed she was participating in a coup and got a facefull of pepper spray for her involvement.
Feel free to actually look up what Trump has done, starting with the Muslim Ban.
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Re: Re: Ah yes, the lolicon debate
Lolicon ranges from infants to grown teens. And then there are those who are in the bodies of child or adolescent humans but are really elves or thousand-year-old spirits.
Here in the states, there are plenty of things we Americans could get arrested for (and incarcerated as long as we imprison murderers). We usually don't thanks to prosecutorial discretion but if someone wants a guy put way (say because he embarrassed a VIP, or the sheriff wants his land or because his skin is too dark) then these matters come up.
So yeah, laws that aren't enforced except sometimes are notorious for creating chilling effects and making undesirables disappear. At least here in the US, and lately Australia has been aspiring to be as ugly and cruel as the States.
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Is it real or CGI
This became a matter of issue kick-started by Ashcroft's eagerness to curb pornography and indecent material (leading to Eric Idle's second song about radio censorship.†). Famously, Ashcroft required the breast of Iustitia to be covered for press briefings.
For a short time, thanks to many efforts to censor porn, the courts decided the US had no cause to criminalize CGI rendered porn, even if it would be illegal were it to involve models (child, snuff, rape, revenge, etc.) This created a market of processed porn, in which photographs of children would then be artified -- rendered to look drawn or created with graphics software. Rather than creating narrower categories of acceptable and unacceptable media, the courts just returned CGI porn to be regarded like photographed porn.
So yeah, it's unlikely CGI will be revisited anytime in the near future, though in the 2010s law enforcement started using rendered little girls to lure online child-porn enthusiasts into sting traps.
† Mr. Idle added part two in 2018!
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2021
I'd say 2021 is looking like 2020 S02, but in reality it's like 2016 E06.
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boldly storming ahead
No Teddy Roosevelt, Mr. Trump.
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"youtube and other MSM"
That's where you lost me.
YouTube is a far far cry from a mainstream media agency.
Also the mainstream media are a much looser front than the Trump-supporting media (who have their schisms but much fewer of them). It's not a monolithic propaganda machine the way FOX News is, and as such it's easy to derive the sources of their facts.
Contrast much of Trump media which doesn't even bother with facts at all.
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