Some men, faint-hearted, ever seek
Our programme to retouch,
And will insist, whene’er they speak
That we demand too much.
’Tis passing strange, yet I declare
Such statements give me mirth,
For our demands most moderate are,
We only want the earth.
If you’re willing to do something about that wish, then you’re an authoritarian too.
And FWIW, casting it in personal terms makes that wish tautological. No one wishes for a system where they have to cater to the whims of someone else. I’m sure you meant to say “no one has to cater to anyone else’s whims,” and that’s all well and good. Still authoritarian if you’re willing to see anything at all done to overcome the desires of the powerful to maintain the status quo (and in case it’s not obvious, that’s a good thing to be authoritarian about).
On Authority is a pointed response to the thought-terminating pejorative of “authoritarian.” If you haven’t read it, you should! It’s short and important =)
You want a change in society? You don’t care that fascists don’t want that change? Then you’re an authoritarian. Everything after that is a matter of degree.
Or we can be part of making that a condition of the democrats doing well. Not supporting a genocide isn’t something we can or should “strip out” of our expectations of politicians. If you’re right, then burning the system down is the only feasible thing. Nothing else is feasible.
It’s infeasible to expect decent people to rally around genocidiers.
Don’t let the people with power tell you what is or isn’t feasible. Not supporting a genocide is easy for them. They may lie to themselves about it, but it’s obvious.
I just kinda gently jostle her a little until she stops. Its usually about the angle of the head in my experience (at least for my wife!)
I actually really like the theory from The Last Ringbearer (the Russian revisionist novel that re-tells LOTR from Mordor’s perspective, taking the main trilogy as ‘history written by the victors’) that Aragorn murdered Boromir.
Aragorn stands to gain everything from Boromir’s death. He was also the only witness; sure is convenient he showed up just in time to see Boromir die heroically! He’s the heir of Isildur, and Boromir is the popular, noble son of the Steward who stands directly in his path to the throne of Gondor (Like Boromir said at the council of Elrond: “Gondor has no King. Gondor NEEDS no King.”). So once Boromir is conveniently out of the way, Aragorn plays up what a hero Boromir was and how absolutely devastated he is.
Never heard of one of these, but seems like a good thing to have lying around!
Literally, my brain is flooded with Dr. Evil upon seeing lasers and sharks in the same sentence. I can’t think about anything else until i look away.
Oh nice; that’s good to know! Someone here was kind enough to point out that it was probably a clogged gas line with my fiddling accidentally unclogged.
That sounds like an awesome class. I think point 2 may have been my issue; it sat with fuel in it for a good 8 months or so.
That’s some good advice! I’ll have to figure how to empty the tank at the end of the summer.
I was 100% certain I was in this position when I removed basically all the screws I could see, and was like “well…i don’t know what I expected, but I have no idea what I’m looking at” lol
Put Linux on your existing computer and shift some stuff you don’t need as frequently to an external hard drive! You’re not gonna get the experience you want from a $150 computer
I agree it’s scummy to wish death upon a stranger you know nothing about. In this case, the guy thinks he knows the stranger is a fascist. I think that’s jumping to a conclusion, plenty of non-fascists do really dumb stuff with regard to health. This particular dumb thing with regard to health was popular among fascists, so it’s not totally nuts to think he might be.
Anyway, wishing death upon a fascist (stranger or no) is not scummy. Only a bootlicker would think it is! That said, I also don’t think you have to be a bootlicker to think we shouldn’t assume someone’s a fascist because they want ivermectin.
Glad this is getting some attention. Age verification is the marketing spin they’re putting on “identity verification”
Incorrect, see above. The role of a king in a civilized society is to be guillotined! Anything less is barbarism.
Dead kings are themselves a good outcome! I’m interested to hear the results of your experiments though!
well here’s my theory: if the reason it didn’t work is because you have a new king…well…what’s the new king’s role in civilized society?
Kings have one appropriate role in civilized society and it is to be guillotined.
lol, sorry…the company selling a product made an outlandish claim and you believe it? I got a bridge to sell you!
I think the fundamental problem is that you haven’t actually used these tools enough to see that the companies peddling them are snake oil salesmen. Nothing they say is true, they’re completely full of shit, and they’re terrified they’re not going to make any of the money they promised their investors they would make.
And like…if you think about it for a moment it would make sense, given how these tools work, that they can’t do much in the way of reasoning. They just get better and better at replicating the language they’re supposed to mimic, which sometimes even carries the right content! Wow! But that’s only a secondary effect, right?