ArmedTooHeavily
Whatever happened? A breach in the very unity of life, a biological paradox, an abomination, an absurdity, an exaggeration of disastrous nature. Life had overshot its target, blowing itself apart. A species had been armed too heavily – by spirit made almighty without, but equally a menace to its own well-being. Its weapon was like a sword without hilt or plate, a two-edged blade cleaving everything; but he who is to wield it must grasp the blade and turn the one edge toward himself.
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ArmedTooHeavily
7d ago
Are you kidding?
ArmedTooHeavily
6d ago
You don't have to do what google maps tells you to, you're still responsible for driving your car. If a road is flooded, or there's an accident, or there's a blockade of armed, screaming people...go around even if your phone doesn't tell you to. Obviously.
ArmedTooHeavily
6d ago
"Don't drive into a crowd of screaming people."
"How unreasonable! You can't expect me to be an expert at everything!"
ArmedTooHeavily
6d ago
Yes, my argument is exactly that: Perry should have been smarter and he had plenty of opportunity to avoid what happened.
ArmedTooHeavily
7d ago
My argument is not a moral argument, it is a practical argument. Did you not read that I said I would acquit?
It wasn't worth it. He accomplished nothing of value and severely damaged his own life. He even damaged his tribe by stepping into the villain role that the blues laid out for him, the same way J6 protesters did (Yarvin is completely right about this).
Of course the same argument applies to Foster, any reasonable reading of the facts utterly condemns him.
That doesn't mean Perry was in the right. They were two retards with guns on a collision course and it ended terribly and predictably.
ArmedTooHeavily
2mo ago
Two things:
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"Right Wing" does not mean "religious." There's a correlation between the two, obviously, but imo that's more the result of history than philosophical alignment.
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You are obviously correct. I think that's because the religious generally don't behave as if they actually believe in predestination or an omniscient god (same thing), not because they don't actually believe in personal agency.
ArmedTooHeavily
7d ago
Just in case you didnt know, the tv show "the pacific" is vased chiefly on that book and is very, very good.
ArmedTooHeavily
1mo ago
Got it, thanks.
ArmedTooHeavily
2mo ago
In my experience, the claim "X has never happened before in history!" is almost always founded in a paucity of historical understanding and imagination. There is nothing new under the sun and the past contains an almost infinite well of horrors for the present to draw from.
The first sentence in the "history" section of the wikipedia article for castrato says this: "Castration as a means of subjugation, enslavement or other punishment has a very long history, dating back to ancient Sumer." Spend some time thinking about the depth and breadth of brutality and misery that sentence contains. Contextualize your breathless outrage.
ArmedTooHeavily
7d ago
To be clear, I have no sympathy for Foster at all.
ArmedTooHeavily
15d ago
I think that technocapital has already selected for "inhuman" traits in some populations (though I do think calling it "inhuman" is maybe not the most descriptive, because traits that humans have are definitionally human traits). These traits are the ones that make people more effective as components in the civilizational machine, the populations are the more heavily historically "civilized" ones, and there is a lot of crossover with the cultural traits identified as the "aspects and assumptions of whiteness and white culture" in the infamous smithsonian infographic (https://www.newsweek.com/smithsonian-race-guidelines-rational-thinking-hard-work-are-white-values-1518333#slideshow/1610610).
Individuality, neuroticism, self-reliance, "protestant" work ethic, respect for rules, avoidance of overt conflict, objective/linear thinking, etc are all traits that are unusual in pre-civilizational humans and that make for better members of civilization, and I think that technocapital has selected for those traits in humans both biologically and memetically/culturally.
All of this to say, it's not "What if it changes human nature?", that ship has sailed. The question is "What's anyone doing to take technocapital out of the driver's seat?", and the answer is "pretty much nothing, Kaczynski and Land are right, we are not our own masters, and it's acceleration from here on out."
ArmedTooHeavily
1mo ago
The woke are more correct than the mainstream in asserting that the sum of micro-aggressions is outright aggression- it's just that the only people who really care to micro-aggress are the woke
Ah yes, only your outgroup performs a basic-but-ubiquitous behavior like minor acts of aggression.
ArmedTooHeavily
2mo ago
Again, I have not read Hobbes so I can't speak to what he does or doesn't say. But to put it bluntly, the argument that you ascribe to Hobbes seems pretty fuckin' dumb to me; of course there can be sovereigns whose rule is morally illegitimate and against whom revolution can be morally legitimate.
ArmedTooHeavily
2mo ago
I think a no-knock warrant should be classified as potentially lethal force.
What does this actually mean? What specific legal or ethical implications do you think this classification would have? The president declares "No-knock warrants are now classified as potentially lethal force," what changes?
ArmedTooHeavily
2mo ago
Purple pill is simply "red and blue pill mixed together"
ArmedTooHeavily
2mo ago
Certainly, my point was just that Oregon politics are more or less uni-polar centered around Portland.
ArmedTooHeavily
3mo ago
I think it seems rather foolish to make assumptions about how good the CIA is at secret assassinations, considering that by definition you only ever hear about the times they are unsuccessful. Even the rough number of attempts is totally invisible to you or I.
ArmedTooHeavily
3mo ago
ArmedTooHeavily
7d ago
That is an AA-12 fully automatic 12 gauge shotgun, actually.
ArmedTooHeavily
30d ago
Seconded, this is good advice.
ArmedTooHeavily
1mo ago
I highly recommend Christopher Nolan's "Dunkirk" if you want to see a british ww2 movie.
ArmedTooHeavily
2mo ago
Much of the core messaging on the right is explicitly 'anti-agency,' for lack of a better word.
What you are noticing is the difference between actual political philosophy and the advertising used to sell grifters who are nominally aligned with a given philosophy to retards. The two are only related inasmuch as they need to be for the grifters to successfully associate their grift with a tribal affiliation.
ArmedTooHeavily
28d ago
Bud: what the fuck?
ArmedTooHeavily
1mo ago
#3: if this citizen militia is armed, you're going to get a LOT of unjustified dead bodies. If they aren't armed, they will be ineffective. Granting general citizens a state-sanctioned license to kill is a very, very bad idea (I say this as a strong proponent of the 2nd amendment).
It was not his job to drive through a road blockade.
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