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@ufo-parties
I worry we’ve lent too much legitimacy to the antifa sorts by discussing them to the extent we have.
I worry we’ve lent too much legitimacy to all of this.
I fear the direction my country is headed in. And I don’t think I want any part of any of this anymore.
I hope some day you guys will understand why, but I think that this mass communication experiment of ours through the normalization of social media sites is proving to be a catastrophic failure. And I am done with it.
from @notwokieleaks
@concentrated-sunshine
Jus’ gonna, jus’ gonna put this here. Whoops.
I have been against this shit all along. This is why you’ve never seen me reblog the spencer getting punched gif or any other political violence gif/news and going ‘yay’ or condoning it. ‘Cause I haven’t and never will. Yeah, they’re shit people with shit ideas but I will never condone any violence that isn’t used in self-defence. As much as I wanna smack a bitch up myself sometimes for the dumb ass shit they say, discipline maturity and wisdom baby, you gotta walk higher than these people. The ultimate shade you can throw at them and their ilk is to show them that you know they are shit, without having to engage them on their own terms. You walk on their level, you ain’t much different.
So if someone is saying shit you don’t like but you aren’t actually having your life threatened by it, then no excuse to stoop to being violent. They want that reaction from you, they want to show the world that you are hostile, don’t give them that. So if saying this or reblogging it loses me respect or followers then we know where we lie now don’t we?
I’m just so tired of this escalation of violence and shit, it’s happening on both sides, not just one. Like so tired for real. The worst part is these real deal nazi pigs woulda stayed fringe af if we just collectively decided they weren’t important enough to throw attention at. That’s how you let shit like that die out - not with fervent bashing and ramping up political violence, but with letting their own ideas kill themselves off because people see how stupid they are. I mean this is why tons of other shit ideas in society have never taken off to a large degree - cannibalism, scientology, incest-supporters, the westboro baptsist church, etc etc. ‘Cause we let them act out and speak their shit then people see how stupid it is and go ‘yeah nah that’s fucked up bye’. And then it dies out or stays fringe as stupid fucked up shit no one wants to be a part of, all because we knew how to act with grace, dignity, and knowing when to act and when not to.
And let’s be real real here, there is not going to be a second coming of nazis. These shitdicks are still regarded as vile af, so why let them thrive with our unneeded attention? Sometimes the best way to undermine something bad is to let people see how bad it is and how it has no justification for being legitimized and supported. But the more we respond with political violence that isn’t being used in immediate self-defence, the more other ignorant or slightly leaning people will think those shit ass people are the victims and must be correct in their ideals.
So what I’m saying is, staying watchful and stay sensible, and none of this shit happening now is justified no matter what. You don’t put out a fire by adding more fire, you let it die out by removing its holds, denying it what it needs to breathe and grow, and if, IF it starts getting big then you get the hose or smother it forcefully. After all, you don’t break out a fire extinguisher all because a pot is starting to boil now do you? Nah, ‘cause that’d be seen as being overreactionary - all I’m sayin’, I’m out.
I’m…
Wow ok… drag em
now is not the time to make pastel “punch nazis” edits and shirts and stickers. your performative allyship is unwanted and greatly unappreciated! now more than ever is the time for goyim to actually get active in their activism. you should be listening to Jewish people and boosting our voices. you should be calling out casual antisemitism and working on that which you harbor. it is not, it never was, and never will be the time to sit back and watch as antisemitism continues to rise. goyim can and should reblog.
Okay, uh, no.
Antisemitism is not on the rise. Pushing this rhetoric is fear-mongering. You’re only working to confuse people. And if you’re reblogging this because you are confused yourselves, please rest easy in knowing that just because there is an instance of something does not mean that the behavior is a growing epidemic.
Posts like this are going to legitimize a movement that currently is illegitimate. You are giving them power they would not have had otherwise. Stop.
You guys want to see the world burn so badly that you’re willing to hand belligerent, hateful people the match to start the fire with. There are now casualties to this war that you guys so badly wanted.
Gentiles don’t get to decide whether or not anti-semitism is on the rise.
Either listen to the Jewish community or shut the fuck up.
Question: are people like Ben Shapiro a part of the community we should listen to, or when you say “the Jewish community”, do you only mean Jewish people you happen to agree with? Because he said that the alt-right have “done an excellent job, with the media’s help, of portraying themselves as large and powerful”. And my point is that rhetoric like what the OP was saying continues to push the alt-right narrative that they have any power at all.
No. You’re taking what he said out of context. He said that in the context of calling them evil and showing what they are really like.
But hey go ahead and make him your scapegoat of talking over Jews with legitimate fears and saying they’re stupid.
Do us all a favor and go back under your rock. I think we’re done here.
I love how you are literally assuming I'm a gentile because I disagree with you. I am not taking it out of context. I am pointing out that this is PART of the problem he is discussing. And I feel that the OP is reflecting that problem. I'm not saying their fears are stupid. I'm saying that it's dangerous to give terrorists what they want. I'm saying I fear it lends power to something that will very quickly mutate into something dangerous if people like OP continue to care more about pushing a narrative than they do about the lives of those they claim to speak on behalf of. I fear you are ignoring the nuances of a very serious issue by pretending that everyone who disagrees with you is just "talking over Jews".
now is not the time to make pastel “punch nazis” edits and shirts and stickers. your performative allyship is unwanted and greatly unappreciated! now more than ever is the time for goyim to actually get active in their activism. you should be listening to Jewish people and boosting our voices. you should be calling out casual antisemitism and working on that which you harbor. it is not, it never was, and never will be the time to sit back and watch as antisemitism continues to rise. goyim can and should reblog.
Okay, uh, no.
Antisemitism is not on the rise. Pushing this rhetoric is fear-mongering. You’re only working to confuse people. And if you’re reblogging this because you are confused yourselves, please rest easy in knowing that just because there is an instance of something does not mean that the behavior is a growing epidemic.
Posts like this are going to legitimize a movement that currently is illegitimate. You are giving them power they would not have had otherwise. Stop.
You guys want to see the world burn so badly that you’re willing to hand belligerent, hateful people the match to start the fire with. There are now casualties to this war that you guys so badly wanted.
Gentiles don’t get to decide whether or not anti-semitism is on the rise.
Either listen to the Jewish community or shut the fuck up.
Question: are people like Ben Shapiro a part of the community we should listen to, or when you say "the Jewish community", do you only mean Jewish people you happen to agree with? Because he said that the alt-right have "done an excellent job, with the media's help, of portraying themselves as large and powerful". And my point is that rhetoric like what the OP was saying continues to push the alt-right narrative that they have any power at all.
now is not the time to make pastel “punch nazis” edits and shirts and stickers. your performative allyship is unwanted and greatly unappreciated! now more than ever is the time for goyim to actually get active in their activism. you should be listening to Jewish people and boosting our voices. you should be calling out casual antisemitism and working on that which you harbor. it is not, it never was, and never will be the time to sit back and watch as antisemitism continues to rise. goyim can and should reblog.
Okay, uh, no.
Antisemitism is not on the rise. Pushing this rhetoric is fear-mongering. You’re only working to confuse people. And if you’re reblogging this because you are confused yourselves, please rest easy in knowing that just because there is an instance of something does not mean that the behavior is a growing epidemic.
Posts like this are going to legitimize a movement that currently is illegitimate. You are giving them power they would not have had otherwise. Stop.
You guys want to see the world burn so badly that you’re willing to hand belligerent, hateful people the match to start the fire with. There are now casualties to this war that you guys so badly wanted.
Alright real shit dude, the “Nazi movement” in the US isn’t a growing epidemic. Nazis and white supremacists are universally condemned, but when you have media so dead set on pushing Nazi rhetoric, you’d think that all of a sudden your entire country is overrun by them.
But it’s not, and it hasn’t been for a long, long time. The social media and the news putting Nazis under a microscope is forcing a perception that the Third Reich is back. It isn’t. Stop giving them so much fucking attention, and free media spots.
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The bravest woman on Earth.
I love her. Forever reblog.
I have the utmost respect for this woman.
please reblog. reblog the way you would reblog a picture of a hot singer, a pretty girl, a tasty meal or some nice stationary. Because this will not make your blog ‘less aesthetic’ or anything. This is important, far more important than anything I’ve mentioned before.
hey... read the bread book
I googled this and all that I'm finding are results relating to "The Conquest of Bread" by Peter Kropotkin. Is this what you're referencing, anon?
disney can suck my dick if they think im about to subscribe to another streaming service. imma stick with netflix and amazon if your shit ain’t there its gettin pirated
bring back internet piracy 2017
Let information be free and watch the empires built up around its monetization crumble into dust and history 2017
@zvaigzdelasas @edgy-teen-anarchist You guys realize that you’re only able to get away with pirating these things because some people pay for them, right? Like if everyone in the world held this opinion and no one was paying for the shit, people would stop making it.
Like, I’m not going to pretend I haven’t pirated plenty. But stop pretending like this is somehow a virtuous thing to do. We aren’t entitled to entertainment or information. Other people have to work hard to supply us with these things.
Cool thing u said but actually we are entitled access to media in an age where it costs almost literally $0 to make effectively infinite copies of it. The problem isn’t me downloading whatever I want for free, the problem is that the profit motive is a model fundamentally unsuited for the world we live in, and any enterprise which bases its profit generation on their private leasability of that media is an antiquated dinosaur.
There’s nothing about money that makes it the only way that movies can be made. To make a movie you need cameras, lights, actors, editors, etc etc etc. The only role money has is to grant access to those resources/the time of those people. Maybe instead of trying to put the genie back in the bottle and try to hold together these crumbling industries with duct tape, we can step back and consider reorganizing our society around a different central principle than the profit motive (and thus we wouldn’t need to sell our ability to work to someone else to put food on the table), and let these obsolete enterprises become dust in the wind
I am trying to imagine this same attitude being applied to a business in real life. If I open a coffee shop, self-funded, well-stocked with cups and beans and equipment, you are not entitled to sit down at my counter and demand I provide you with a drink simply because it’s already sitting there in the pot made and ready to go. I already spent the resources it takes to make the pot of coffee, sure, and the cup needed to pour it into is at the ready - but that doesn’t suddenly make it your right just because it looks like there’s no more effort needed to supply it to you.
The same goes for anything else - yes, including entertainment and information.
It does not cost $0 to make infinite copies of anything. Not in any useful sense. Your premise is flawed. You are either not speaking in good faith or you are horribly confused. Let me explain it to you, in the case of it being the latter: When you pirate a digital copy of something, you are generally able to do so because a digital copy of it already exists for sale on the internet. Or because someone has a hard-copy of it that they turned into a digital file to share with you. In either case, it exists for you because someone else paid for it.
It’s obvious in the case of the hard-copy why it would cost money, seeing as it’s a tangible, physical thing, and most people wouldn’t question the charge because of this. It seems you’re confused when it comes to the purpose of this same cost when applied to a digital platform because you can’t see what that money is going into. But I assure you, it’s not some sort of scam that secretly actually costs $0. They’re not tricking you into giving them your money in exchange for nothing. When these things are sold on the internet, it’s via something like Amazon Video, or Google Play or what-have-you. When it’s sold through a middle-man platform like this, there is an exchange between the people who produced the content and those providing the platform through which people are accessing their content. Now this money isn’t for nothing. It’s not as though sites exist and that’s that - places that are used as platforms for entertainment like Amazon or Google have costs they have to keep up on, because even places on the internet require upkeep. It’s not as though these are just naturally existing structures some opportunistic shyster is taking advantage of by duping you into thinking they deserve a cut. You need a way to be able to access an artist’s content and places like the ones mentioned supply consistently well-maintained, high-quality platforms to do so. THIS is what you are paying for, not the copy you receive, but the ability to access it, because otherwise this copy existing means nothing to you as the consumer. And they are able to supply easy access by investing their resources into maintaining these platforms; and once someone invests something that they didn’t have to invest, they expect a return on said investment where it has been earned - otherwise they wouldn’t have bothered investing, and you wouldn’t have access to this high-quality, well-maintained platform. Anyone who regularly streams pirated content for free illegally is well aware that you get what you don’t pay for; strange distracting water marks in the middle of frames, weird dubbings, subtitles in languages you don’t know, lack of English subtitles on foreign films, missing endings, buffering problems, audio syncing issues, generally shitty audio, missing parts of the image, and so on. You do not find these problems with platforms you pay for the films through. And if you do, it’s your right to complain and demand a refund. You do not have the right to quality when you are not paying for something because you don’t have the leverage of those supplying for you relying on you in any way. They owe you nothing and you’re lucky to get anything.
And this becomes dangerous when we shift from the topic of entertainment to the topic of information. Because bad quality entertainment is okay if you know what you’re getting yourself into and are doing so voluntarily, but bad quality information is a different story altogether. In a system where we’re not paying for our information, those with the information at hand (or claim to have information to offer) have no filter they’re going to be checked through, because the platform their information reaches you through owes you nothing and thus has no incentive to check the content before allowing it on their platform. In this world we simply would have to take people at their word when it came to things like credentials, for example. It would be turning the digital world into the wild west - rife with opportunists and con-artists.
We already see this problem when it comes to internet content as it is. We should be fixing this by taking away net neutrality, not further enabling this descent in quality control when it comes to what we are consuming by disincentivising standards.
disney can suck my dick if they think im about to subscribe to another streaming service. imma stick with netflix and amazon if your shit ain’t there its gettin pirated
bring back internet piracy 2017
Let information be free and watch the empires built up around its monetization crumble into dust and history 2017
@zvaigzdelasas @edgy-teen-anarchist You guys realize that you’re only able to get away with pirating these things because some people pay for them, right? Like if everyone in the world held this opinion and no one was paying for the shit, people would stop making it.
Like, I’m not going to pretend I haven’t pirated plenty. But stop pretending like this is somehow a virtuous thing to do. We aren’t entitled to entertainment or information. Other people have to work hard to supply us with these things.
Happy Book Lover’s Day, I guess!
Are these toys really little spinning swastikas?
I was praying that this was satire, sadly it isn’t. It is the next best thing though and that’s just a opinion piece.
The author of this article is so close to the point. They’re getting warmer.
Essentially, the pro-Trump camp, including /pol/ and Reddit’s r/the_donald turned it into one. Stunts like this, Bernstein writes, are “attempts by online communities to troll the media into reporting that unobjectionable or obscure symbols have deep-seated white supremacist connotations.” And they work because “[t]he reporting itself is then taken as proof by pro-Trump troll communities that the media will believe anything when it comes to Trump supporters and racism.”
It’s an annoying, childish game of making offensive statements and then mocking opponents who take them seriously for “missing the joke.” Pepe the Frog and the okay sign are not, historically, symbols of white power. But when they’re used that way, who can tell the difference?
Anyone with a brain can tell the difference. The spinner thing is a satire on the fact that suddenly people saying things without any actions behind their words are suddenly being taken seriously for absolutely no reason. The fidget spinner meme in the article that says “Richard Spencer Endorses Fidget Spinners” is clearly fake (that’s by design), and yet it’s being included in this article and being spoken of and given just as much attention as it would be were this a real ‘issue’.
The joke that is being missed is the fact that they can suddenly get mainstream media attention from trusted news sites like CNN and politicians like Clinton for saying weird, outlandish shit. We have created a social environment where suddenly everyone cares what randos on the internet say. The joke is that for some reason, something as absurd and baseless as this, with no credentials backing it, no credible platform, hardly any audience at all, for some reason has journalists who felt it their duty to report on it.
The article is literally the punchline of their joke.
If you drink milk, you may be a neo-Nazi racist. No joke.
California State University’s college paper staff writer Samantha Diaz wrote how milk has become the new symbol of hate.
“You, along with the rest of the nation, have been so accustomed to hearing the benefits of milk that you probably didn’t even realize the subtle racism hidden in our health facts,” Ms. Diaz pens.
The main health benefit of milk is to guard against osteoporosis, a disease that weakens your bones — hence the ‘stronger bones’ rhetoric. While this is a very practical health benefit, osteoporosis affects Africans at a significantly lower rate than it does most Americans.”
Thereby, milk may do a white person’s body good, but it doesn’t a black body, thereby it’s racist.
Someone call the ADL, I’m having my morning coffee with *gasp* creamer. The Devil’s drink.
US Military intervention helped build democracy in South Korea. True or false?
False; United States Military Intervention and the Promotion of Democracy (1996) by James Meernik finds that there is no measurable difference between pre-war and post-war Korean democratization.
Ah yes, because measuring the democratization of a state 3 years after we’d fought the war to protect its democracy is totally a valid way to measure whether S.K. would’ve turned Democratic on its own in that same time period.
Such a retarded measurement. South Korea was literally being taken over by Communist-backed North Korea. You can’t go “well it was already democratic before teh war” because that process of Democratization was being forcibly stopped by the North Koreans.
That “study”, if you can even call it that, completely fails to account for the fact that some if not all (i don’t know the history for each of them) of those countries were being taken over by Communism or other dictatorships when the US invaded, and those regimes would’ve taken the “democratization” ratings of those countries down to a -1.
The only question you need to ask is “Would these countries have had a Democracy 3 years later if the US had done nothing?”
In many cases, but particularly in the case of South Korea, the answer is NO. Because these countries were being taken over by dictatorships, Communist or otherwise.
You don’t need ratings and a PhD to figure this shit out. It’s common sense.
Hey uh, quick question:
What’s democracy in the South Korea like today? Last I checked they were reeling from one of the most notorious corruption scandals in modern history.
You might want to go back and re-read that very brief article, as Meernik very clearly states that many of these interventions take place in the context of the Cold War and left-extremism. Meernik’s stated goal for his brief was thus:
Interestingly, however, this readiness to use force in the name of democracy does not appear to square with some of the emerging findings on the pacific relations among democratic nations. If states do not war on each other because they are democratic, does it make sense that they wage war or use force to compel others to become democratic? Is democracy both a reason for peace and a justification for war? In this article I hope to answer two central questions related to the use of force by the United States in the ostensible quest to promote democracy. First, why would the United States intervene in the affairs of other nations to promote democracy? And second is the use of force an effective tool in the promotion of democracy?
The answer to his first question: National self-interest and not democracy, even though we like to say democracy is the reason.
The answer to his second question: of fucking course it isn’t.
I suggest you write your own 12-page article replete with citations if you hope to advance your argument that military intervention begets democracy.
“Is the use of force an effective tool in the promotion of democracy?” how can you say “of course it fucking isn’t” to this? I’d say of course it fucking is. You sound nuts denying this.
Everyone living in America is living in a country that only has democracy because our founders fought for it tooth and nail. And guess what? We didn’t do that alone. We were able to do that because France enabled us to. Did the French do it out of self-interest? Yeah, they had trade with us, and they were still sore with England. But that doesn’t change the fact that it was the right thing to do.
You’re acting like it being done out of self-interest negates the fact that that it’s the right thing to do. Fun fact: democracy is in everyone’s best interest with the exception of tyrants benefiting from the oppression of an undemocratic state. It’s not a coincidence that promoting democracy is a smart, profitable strategic move for third parties who get involved.
Today I shut my cat in the fridge.
Okay, so here’s the deal. Tali loves the fridge. I don’t know why, but every single time we open it, she bolts for it and jumps in. She crawls into the back of the fridge and nestles int the smallest little corner she can. Now naturally, my biggest fear has been that I’ll close the fridge without knowing she’s in there. And of course, today I went to go grab my Brita filter to pour myself some water. I wasn’t really watching the fridge, and I just opened and closed it really quickly to put the Brita back while I was looking somewhere else. And then I looked around and realized that Tali had been in the kitchen, and now she was nowhere in sight. So immediately, I throw open the fridge door, and there is is, hanging out in the back, content as can be.
Fridge cat just got weirder. Today Tali got into the bathroom while I was showering, which of course made me a little nervous. I didn’t want her to freak out and hurt herself or go on a scratching spree. But evidently she loves water, so she jumped in and just splashed around for a while and got back out. But then she kept whining to get back in, so my boyfriend put a cooler down so she could get in and out with ease, which she took great advantage of. She’s soaking wet now, and very content.
I told Tali she was famous. She and her stuffed husky celebrated.
This is the kind of content I joined for
Can Tali and I hang out sometime
