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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?

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

Interessanter Trend bei Twitter heute #IchHabeMitgemacht, der zeigt wie sehr #Ungeimpfte - schon dieses Wort ist ein Affront sollte es doch #Nichtgeimpfte heißen - diskriminiert wurden!
Daher sollten wir nicht vergessen, wer bei sich bei diesem schmutzigen Spiel und dem Versuch die Gesellschaft zu spalten, ganz besonders hervor getan hat.
Von all jenen wäre eine öffentliche Entschuldigung überfällig!
twitter.com/search?q=%23IchHab

When you try to bend a rule, or exploit a hole in them, the bureaucrat who self-identifies with the rule -and somehow blends emotionally with it?- will sometimes fight you like if you were an existential threat to themselves.

Have these cognitive processes been studied and explained somwhere?

It looks like the ego of the bureaucrat somehow dissolves into their hierarchy and the tiny bits of power it theoretically gives them? An identification process, a sense of belonging, an "us vs. them"?

lustig wie mir die "grüne verkehrswende" hart am arsch vorbeigeht inzwischen. weils eh am ende als einzigen effekt hat das alles für mich teurer und unbequemer wird. klima kackt trotzdem ab weil alle wie besoffen konsumieren und individualverkehr echt marginal ist in der bilanz (natürlich je nach fälschungsgrad und richtung der statistik ;)

solange noch eine von den grünen und roten nulpen fliegt weil "politik bla bla" muss _ich_ hier garnix. für einen schicken flug nach irgendwo zum brunchen mit irgendwem weil in land xyz ganz wichtige staatskrisen drohen kann ich jahrelang autofahren.

politiker abschaffen rettet das klima.

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