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4bpp
Now I am become a Helpful, Honest and Harmless Assistant, the destroyer of jobs
12m ago
I'd be okay with that argument, if you accept that what's good for the goose is good for the gander. Surely "bash the fash"/violent communist revolution LARP is equally "the lingo they grew up with" for the Twitter crowd that was dancing on Kirk's e-grave.
zataomm
16m ago
Thank God you are here, it feels like I woke up yesterday and suddenly everyone I previously trusted was claiming the sky was green and had always been green.
WandererintheWilderness
25m ago
This is a weird argument, and it's been cropping up a lot lately. It's one thing to argue that as a matter of fact there aren't any Nazis around - it's one thing to argue that the term has been broadened in common usage so as to be useless as anything but an insult - but the idea that it would be impossible for the term to be meaningful anymore? If there was a prominent movement which actually supported applying modernized versions of all core Nazi policies to 2020s America then I don't think it it would be useless or meaningless to call them Nazis. They don't have to prove that they are somehow "true heirs" to the 40s Nazi Party as an institution for that to, in principle, be a useful descriptor of something that quacks and goose-steps like a duck. That would go double if we posit that they explicitly aspire to rehabilitate Hitler and reclaim his legacy. Maybe there aren't any "modern Nazis" outside of a Lizardman's constant, but there could be, it's easy to imagine how that would work and how it would differ from the trolling LARPers we more commonly observe. The obvious comparison is the continued existence of Stalinists, Maoists, or even, like, European royalists in countries that abolished their monarchies centuries back.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
33m ago
achievements as an actress
What's next, achievements as a prostitute?
Find some mother of ten kids, all or most of which turned out well, who worked herself to the bones all her life long in order to support the family. Make sure she was married to an industrious and law-abiding husband all the while.
Put that on money, and watch the feminists squirm while actual women living real lives get some representation.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
41m ago
Ah, my bad, I should've actually read the damn thing.
Yeah, fair enough, that guy might have been an actual nazi or at least a hanger-on to actual nazis once upon a time.
MadMonzer
Epstein Files must have done something really awful for so many libs to want him released.
43m ago
Edith Wilson got there first.
MadMonzer
Epstein Files must have done something really awful for so many libs to want him released.
44m ago
Amelia Earhart is a very good suggestion. I think my criteria would be pre-1950, not a DEI exaggeration
Earhart's achievements were exaggerated by the 1st-wave feminists of the time for DEI reasons, and continue to be. Dalrock brought receipts
Your list makes me consider Hedy Lamarr. Her achievements as an engineer are somewhat exaggerated for DEI reasons (the US navy didn't take her work on frequency hopping forward at the time, and the people who developed CDMA probably weren't aware of it) but her achievements as an actress are not.
WandererintheWilderness
47m ago
This isn't even accusatory, I know your heart's in the right place, but I know that you and people like you are incapable of stopping the things I find offensive and distasteful that come from your side, so why should I police mine?
Well, "morality" would be the obvious reason why. Policing evil on one's own side is desirable in itself, by definition. If my brother has gone crazy then it is my duty to do something about it, whether or not my neighbor is dealing with his crazy brother.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
50m ago
Feels a bit like being a Weimar conservative who would rather get shot by the Nazis than give the Communists one more inch.
But such is life.
According to the Consumer Expenditure Survey of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (size of consumer unit by income before taxes: one person: income before taxes < 15 k$/a), living on 27 k$/a is perfectly feasible.
Of course, cost of living will vary depending on location, inside (scroll down to "local standards", which are tabulated by county) or outside the US.
MadMonzer
Epstein Files must have done something really awful for so many libs to want him released.
52m ago
The coins were bought off-chain, on an exchange.
In the bitcoin economy as it actually exists, most transactions between people happen off-chain (across the books of an exchange, or in the Lightning Network), and most on-chain transactions are people moving money from one hand to another (exchange deposits and withdrawals, opening and closing Lightning channels, transfers to and from cold wallets).
The easiest way to think about it is that Bitcoin replaces gold bullion, not money. Moving bullion out of the vault it is stored in is exceptional - most transactions happen by exchange of warehouse receipts.
WandererintheWilderness
54m ago
You appear to think of politics entirely on the basis of whether policies create material problems for you in your life (and, granted, in your daughter's). Don't you have a concept of politics as rooted in moral values unrelated to your own personal fate? Is there any amount of evil that people to your right could wreak on strangers that would outweigh making the trains run on time in your specific neck of the woods?
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
1hr ago
What is the minimum annual income could you live off of while still being happy?
Like many corporate tech drones nearing middle age, I have gotten bored with the rat race and dream of a simpler, lower stress life. I don't really consoom much anymore -- I barely play games or watch TV, and I have a massive collection of books that I've yet to get around to reading. My only expensive habits are whiskey and the very occasional cigar, but I could probably reduce my intake or go without.
Having money is pretty great, though. You can solve a lot of problems by simply throwing money at them. And expensive whiskey is nice...
MadMonzer
Epstein Files must have done something really awful for so many libs to want him released.
1hr ago
They change the portraits roughly every 20 years - Florence Nightingale was on the £10 from 1975-1994, making her the first woman to appear on British money who was neither the Queen nor Britannia.
I think he means the centenarian SS collaborationist. Famous for being invited to speak at the Canadian parliament as a veteran of WW2 and a fighter for Ukrainian independence against Russia. Allegedly, the people in charge of the ceremony were blissfully unaware of what kind of military formations were conducting Ukrainian resistance against Russia at that time.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
1hr ago
The world that looks more like the dark matter world from my perspective is the bubble that has formed adjacent the Western progressive ideology, where the healthy and fun trust exercise of saying outlandish things in private company, knowing that all present trust you to not really mean it, is taken deathly seriously.
If the men you know never make offensive jokes and can't even fathom why making offensive jokes is fun, I think they have poorer lives for it.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
1hr ago
Azov? Pretty sure they are indeed trolling LARPers trying to amp up the edgy factor. Which, granted, is something the nazis also did, but that's hardly exclusive to them or essential to nazism.
I'll give you that they can seem somewhat more real if you angle your perspective just right to see some Freikorps or anticommunist parallels...but I'd still call it LARP overall.
RenOS
something is wrong
2hr ago
Yeah, as said it was more a random idea I had in the moment; I wouldn't expect it to work, and asked more for the purpose of finding out why it is wrong.
WandererintheWilderness
2hr ago
If you're a fascist or fascistically inclined, you've got Hitler and Mussolini.
There's always Franco, though of course classifying him as a fascist is controversial. I think "Franco was alright" is somewhat more in the Overton window than saying the same about Mussolini and Hitler (to the extent people know anything about Franco in the first place).
2D3D
2hr ago
We aren't elcor who need to prefix our emotional framing with our statements, we can simply read a statement in its isolation and make the value judgment. It should be pointed out that 'Great. I love Hitler' is about as anodyne a statement as 'Great. I love mac and cheese', meaning context is actually necessary to understand the totality of that statements value and renders the statement useless as a singular point of evidence. If you have to ask 'what did you mean when you said you love hitler' it means that 'i love hitler' has been so degraded as a totalizing phrase that you can't make any associated terms stick with it. That is entirely the lefts fault for making Everything I Don't Like Is Hitler.
RenOS
something is wrong
2hr ago
Maybe healthcare just is a cursed industry.
Unfortunately, it is. High intrinsic costs, high legal costs, usually limited pool of customers. Afaik biomedical startups have the highest failure rates among all categories.
2rafa
2hr ago
The Nazis were relatively gay and not particularly trad. Limited moves to deal with the red light districts in a few major German cities were halfhearted at best. Single women were in some cases even encouraged to become single mothers, women weren’t removed from the workplace, there were forms of proto-feminism that certainly clashed with traditional Christian views of a woman’s place, even as fertility was lauded (but in a technocratic kind of way, not necessarily a trad one). Economically although heavily supported by small petit bourgeois business owners, the nsdap increased the presence of the major German corporations in the economy and was broadly supportive of the major capital markets through 1939. Exhibits on entartete kunst existed in an uneasy relationship with plenty of relatively modernist sculpture, art and especially architecture that, a few short decades earlier, would definitely have been considered degenerate and abstract by critics.
2D3D
2hr ago
If the turing test for denying wrongthink can be made by people on this board then the turing test isn't especially useful as a gauge, just like the actual turing test is just copeslop for teacher pets obsessed about their defining characteristic of intellect being supplanted by fancy calculators.
Also, how does one assess what other people are actually perceiving in their mental reward mechanism? This typical mindedness is especially uncharitable, and runs the serious risk of overinterpreting basic metaphor for much deeper meaning simply to fit ones own biases. Reading others as scared dumb animals simply because they find it unnecessary to explicitly verbalize the readily obvious sneering at the moral masters being shown as toothless is just contempt levelled from a different direction.
If the target group is actually the majority, then any indiscriminate attack hurts the correct target in expectation.
(Besides, my impression is that domestic terrorism is more often than not in fact properly targeted - racists go for black churches, Islamists go for Christmas markets, etc.)
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