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@Hyolobrika@berserker.town
you could also argue in the opposite direction, that you _need_ people to have guitars/free speech to make good music/think for themselves. you can't find out otherwise.

i think that reddit etc. are big, centralized, heavily moderated and have the upvote dopamin interaction (reddit gold, etc.) breeds dumb groupthink. you likely need multiple of these factors to be as shitty as twitter or reddit is. it's like every of the evil behavioural animal experiments of the 20th century was combined and the knob turned to 11. to optimize for ad views.
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@Hyolobrika Nothing. It has nothing to do with that. People make shit music, does this justify some sort of control over who gets to own a guitar? It's completely orthogonal, a non-sequitur.

anti civ rant 

I'm in a meeting about insurance and 401k stuff and the business apparatchik seems like one of the saddest people I've ever met

>I really have a passion for helping people save for retirement

>why are you working here? well, because someday you want to save enough money to not have to work

no you abjectly pathetic motherfucker, I'm not going to waste my youth saving to relax during old age. I work and study to help change the world for the better, if I cared for relaxation I'd go innawoods and while away my life doing shrooms and reading pirated occult texts in a cave with the local wendigo

my god imagine wasting away into old age having spent you entire life selling insurance policies and building byzantine bureaucracies I'd rather die
@Hyolobrika @Onecowstampede @TornadoOfTerror @TrevorGoodchild @teknomunk Russell was a little too authoritarian in temperament to really get it, I think. The first sentence is correct, Nietzsche said something similar, something like "You're not kind, you just have no teeth." The rest of it is essentially a paraphrase of historical materialism.

I think it is the case that a lot of people don't have any objection to censorship in principle but just want to be the censors. I obviously disagree, regardless of how many dicks on whichever websites are in the authoritarian camp.
@becassine You can't convince me China isn't doing a megacrackdown again just to put the screws to Western economies right now. What are America and the EU going to do? Admit their COVID response was fake and gay security theater/population control the entire time?

@becassine i think it's a mix of sexualization because thats just instincts (animals don't have the lust for perversion though) combined with peer pressure to be "progressive".

Dear imperialist friend, this character is not any more “special” than those you’d find in Зеленський or احمد بن بلة.

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