Southkraut
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"Behind our efforts, let there be found our efforts."
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Southkraut
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18hr ago
the HRE was far less alienating than modern Germany to individual human existence
I keep saying as much! People being tied to the land, borders being nice and tight, and everyone knowing their local ruler and their own place in society did wonders for getting people to actually feel at home.
and that this is not a tradeoff against technological progress
This, however, I'd say is not entirely true. This extreme localism is at obvious odds with economies of scale. Maybe that's an acceptable price to pay in some lens, but it clearly wasn't competitive.
Southkraut
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23hr ago
martial arts
Let me hijack this to relay an anecdote from last Saturday. I.e., about one day after Charlie Kirk's murder. It is a useless anecdote that goes nowhere, and I'd like to get rid of it because it serves no purpose.
Having spent far too much time on the motte, on Friday, I ended up dreaming in the night that people all around me would finally pick up whatever weapons or improvised weapons they could to go, meet up, and beat do death their political opponents. In my dream, that ended up subverted by my old instructor, who turned those violent impulses into a peaceful tournament. I awoke in the morning poorly rested, reminded myself not to dwell so much on American culture war issues, and packed my stuff to go to the day's actual real-world fully-awake HEMA tournament.
Where I met a gaggle of fighters from a "workers' sports club", who were fully decked out in gear sporting images of raised red fists, anarchist signs, "FCK AFD" and the usual far-left symbology. They were perfectly decent and civil people and nobody said a word about politics.
That is all.
Southkraut
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1d ago
I'm sure the leftists already thought of that and that while their widespread motte may be "ban scary black military-style assault rifles with shoulder thing that goes up", there are many whose bailey does include "ban all civilian gun ownership including grandpa's deer rifle".
Southkraut
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1d ago
Yes. I phrased that poorly. I meant to state that "Political side means to put a stop to undesirable and radicalizing behavior engaged in by partisans of the other side" is an observation that can me made both ways.
Southkraut
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1d ago
This is the type of thing that conservatives are trying to stop.
To be fair, leftists are trying to stop people from obtaining guns, too.
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2d ago
Played it when it came out, and then the other two chapters as they released. My chief takeaways:
- It's competently made.
- Except for the writing, which is trash.
- The old voice actor was better, but nobody will remember that because the new one is more famous.
- The final boss fight of chapter 3 was so annoying I quit after my third attempt.
Southkraut
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2d ago
Which is perhaps not ideal and not high quality, but even shoddy disagreement seems like a necessary component for the Motte to function as intended.
Southkraut
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2d ago
Yeah, absolutely. I didn't bother to read the comment chain properly, and so made a fool of myself.
Southkraut
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2d ago
Ah, my bad. I just went off of the parent comment.
According to German news, the Charlie Kirk shooter was indeed shacked up with a transsexual, but YMMV on how trustworthy that tidbit is.
Southkraut
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2d ago
Shacked up with a transsexual, wrote a bunch of leftist memes, and finally shot a right-wing public figure.
Sure, he happened to be signed up with the other party. But his actual active actions speak a much clearer language than that bit of buerocratic neglect (i.e., inaction, which comes easy).
Southkraut
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3d ago
Nepali zoomer revolution, burning down parliament and beating ministers, Discord election
Please tell us more.
Southkraut
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3d ago
Please don't try to drive off the few counter-contrarians we have left here.
Southkraut
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3d ago
Just spitballing here, but might it be that Kirk was simply a much softer target and more available to the shooter than Fuentes?
Southkraut
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3d ago
Thus, dystopia.
Southkraut
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3d ago
This is the whole "people power" thing. When a leftist pulls their phone, what they're really doing is pulling a gun by proxy, which is why they think they can face down actual guns when they do it (warning: murder footage, but there's no other way to get this point across). The guns actually firing- their social power in the situation being ignored- is their nightmare scenario.
Funnily enough, the comments in the videos contain leftists (with Che Guevara pictures) claiming that what happened was justice being done because the victims called the shooter a queer, which is a "homophobic slur".
Southkraut
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5d ago
I think I'm culturally Middle class but economically working class.
The former because of my family background, which is solidly middle-class by most definitions I've ever heard. The latter because I don't own anything but a car and I live paycheck to paycheck with no prospects of improvement and too many responsibilities to quit.
Southkraut
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5d ago
I wouldn't know. Don't we have any Russians here who might answer?
But I reckon that Russian anti-nazism is different. Firstly because their opposition to Nazism is driven by a more explicit ideological difference, and secondly because they had to fight for their lives in an existential conflict against the Nazis that was even more horrible than the War in the West.
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5d ago
Been putting in extra work at work, which completely ate up my free time during the week days, and on the weekend I social calls. No progress this time.
Southkraut
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5d ago
I wish.
I'm...lower middle class? Honestly I'm not sure how the classifications go, exactly. I'd call myself "working class" in light of my actual circumstances, if that didn't have historical baggage. I'd like to identify as middle class, but I clearly don't fit in economically on account of my complete lack of property.
Southkraut
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5d ago
Well, fine, it's not DevOps then.
Southkraut
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5d ago
I have no idea what it would even mean for such a tattoo to "not work".
Neither do I. What is the tattoo meant to do for you?
Kinda, yeah? I mean, my first line of advice would still be "just live with it", but OTOH if it works, it works.
Tattoos don't work.
Southkraut
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5d ago
Because for the purpose of the exercise, you were meant to imagine yourself a leftist.
Southkraut
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5d ago
So why exactly did the Israelis support this policy?
Is this really a remotely good example? Bin Laden was held directly responsible for the deaths of thousands. Kirk, to my knowledge, wasn't.
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