campfireSmoresEaten
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campfireSmoresEaten
11mo ago
It depends what you do and do not consider to be the positive side of fame. If you're a famous writer, do you consider the opportunity to write books that lots of people will read into your calculation of fame? How about the money that comes from that? Or is fame just all the other shit?
What a grotesque thing to say to someone! I wish I could tell lynka that since I care about Classical Liberalism (or whatever it's called, I'm not attached to that label), it's important to me that I try to persuade people of its utility and morality. And the best way to do that is by being considerate of others, both in terms of not saying cruel things to them and in terms of actually considering what they have to say.
campfireSmoresEaten
11mo ago
I think that if the roles were reversed and the right was destroying and killing what and who BLM killed and the left did a J6 equivalent... it's fair to say that the roles would also be at least partially reversed in how seriously these things were taken by the respective sides.
I'm honestly not sure how the right would react to a left-wing J6 equivalent, but I think it's pretty obvious how the left would react to a right-wing protest that had a similar level of buildings destroyed, areas occupied, etcetera.
I asked my mom and it wasn't a question she had thought to ask herself. People don't understand that... it doesn't make sense to treat bad things your own side does as justified just because your side is the good guys. Because what if everyone thought that way?
Society depends on a consistent set of rules that both sides of a conflict follow. Otherwise it really will be a world humans can't live in.
campfireSmoresEaten
11mo ago
Part of me hopes that the left just rewrites history and acts like they were never against whistleblowers or whatever. If that's what it takes to make this not permanent.
campfireSmoresEaten
11mo ago
Prediction markets could theoretically help both sides of this issue.
campfireSmoresEaten
11mo ago
That's sad. It makes me want to try to point things in a good direction.
campfireSmoresEaten
11mo ago
Oh right. Obvious in retrospect!
campfireSmoresEaten
11mo ago
So what did the US get out of signing that mutual defense treaty with the Philippines?
Apart from a precommitment that could potentially dissuade CCP belligerence.
campfireSmoresEaten
11mo ago
FYI: Garth Ennis, writer of The Boys comic book, would much rather be writing anything without superheroes. The thing that he cares the most about is his military historical fiction comics. And I've read them and they're basically all better than The Boys. I don't what the best one to start with would be. War Stories (AKA War Story) is an anthology series that varied in quality as all anthologies do, but had some very high highs. There's also Enemy Ace: War in Heaven, which was great.
I don't think he's totally embarrassed by his superhero work or anything, but it's not where his heart lies.
campfireSmoresEaten
11mo ago
It kind of feels like a race:
Will conservatives get fed up with the behavior of the federal government first and decide that the rules for the distribution of power as they stand aren't working anymore, or will all the conservatives die out first?
The thing is that as progressives go further to the left, they create more conservatives. It could even be an equilibrium, if the new conservatives don't get cynical until they've been conservative for a while.
I'm talking about how lynka said the concentration camp thing.
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