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'In Defense of Torture... but not milkshakes' (https://i.redd.it/llhqn83jx3031.png)
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Symbolic violence bad, actual violence OK. Hmmm.

The brain is even more galactic when it's coming from [David fucking Frum](https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1130482376562348036).
why would someone in this guys position ever get symbolic violence

“Throwing a pie is a mock assassination whether the perpetrators know it or not” has the vibe of a weird early 20th c. anthropological theory to it

Clearly there’s untapped business potential in the idea of white-hat milkshaking in order to reveal potential vulnerabilities.

Peter Thiel, give me money.

Y Combinator proposal: Our start-up performs real-space unannounced penetration testing for holders of heterodox political views, using a semi-spontaneously-organized network of testers and a novel but easy to source dairy-based cryostatic proof-of-intrusion marker.
Uber Eats but free Uber loses lots of money and is worth a zillion dollars, ergo if you price below them you'll lose even more money and be worth more
zero to milkshake? keys to a successful milkshake security startup.

A little outside our wheelhouse, but I’ll let it stand.

I know that Harris is, or at least was, part of the 'rational' internet community so I figured that it would be okay to post something mocking of him here. Sorry if this is any trouble, though.
>I know that Harris is, or at least was, part of the 'rational' internet community Not really, he's only associated with them via his apparently aborted AI risk thing

Blow their mind, start milkshakeboarding white guys.

The result is worse than it appears

Milkshakes are the new laser sights

Hm, interesting point. He actually convinced me that the milkshakes thing is not just funny, it could also be a useful tactic.

If you didn't think that after reading an article literally titled "Nigel Farage 'trapped on bus' surrounded by protesters holding milkshakes," you weren't paying attention, or were perhaps giggling too hard.
Honestly, I just thought it was too funny to actually think about it seriously.
Trapped on a bus, because he didn't have the idea to just put on a raincoat and make it into an event which benefits him.
a number of people have noted that milkshakes are powerfully effective, precisely because fascism relies on the appearance of strength, and it's impossible not to look owned wearing a milkshake