Juice @ Juice @midwest.social

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You see real democracy is when you subvert the will of the people and call it "checks and balances".

"What are we gonna do guys? People think its weird for us to fixate on children's genitals, and obsess over our daughters virginity while secretly indulging in wife swapping".

"Let's hate gay people! That always cheers us up!"

I mean, I guess that's fine. People are more rude to me more than I am to them; I just can't always shake the feeling that a post is dumb and pointless

Medicare only exists to cover the most expensive patients who require the most care, so that we can support a massive private insurance industry, and to ensure that industry remains profitable.

Anyone who denies that this system exists to explicitly elevate one class of people over another whom are exploited is living in a fantasy world

Its been a long time, like I said I read it right when it came out. I'm glad people enjoyed it! It was quite an investment, and I loved most of the books leading up, even the Wizard and the Glass. You all make some good points but it just didn't hit me that way and I'm not liable to go back. I hardly read any fiction anymore, except the occasional classic, Philip K Dick, or whenever Joe Abercrombie comes out with a new book I'll usually pick it up.

Well there's this, its old but pretty funny https://fxtwitter.com/ParrotVulcan/status/1813712659268722955?s=19

Also.

I don't know how much more digging around I wanna do in my discord server for random examples. And considering I wanted to delete this post -- still not sure why people can still.see my.posts after I delete them. Must be a bug with different instances

I hated book 7, ruined the whole series

I hated book 7. Ruined the whole series for me. I read the last 3 books (excluding Wind through the Keyhole, I'm done) when they came out, book 6 was just a setup/tease for book 7 and I was so excited for it. But it was so dumb and disappointing. I've talked to people who liked the ending and I just don't get it. 6 books building up the existential evil that lived at the center of all existence, and when he gets to the tower to face the evil it's just an old guy on a balcony throwing Harry Potter hand grenades. You have to suspend so much disbelief to get there, trudge through thousands of pages, and it's just a sad, pathetic, uninspired, lazy ending.

I have a constitutional right to glue an Uzi to a quadcopter to protect my GMC Sierra

Roko's basilisk is gonna have a field day with this one

Okay but have you considered shoving AI down the throats of consumers and forcing them to use it? I say invest in more gigantic server farms!

Tbf there were people in the audience holding water bottles which could be thrown as a deadly weapon -- how do you know those bottles aren't full of kerosene -- and also filming the officer which can lead to the officer's family being threatened by doxxing. The only people allowed to threaten the officer's family with violence is the officer

I didn't mean it to be antagonistic, and I provided a source. Its just such a disgusting story, bereft of any humanity. I wish I had never heard about it, I just couldn't believe someone wanted to like read about it

Jesus, you want a citation for this?

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israelis-protest-arrest-of-soldiers-accused-of-gang-raping-gazan-detainee/3288825

There have been protests inside Israel for ceasefire, the org Standing Together has done a lot of good organizing inside the country.

But one thing that Oct.7 accomplished was show the divisions in society wrt Palestinian apartheid. Its getting more difficult for people who can't abide it to coexist with people who are okay with it; and the people who believe there should be even more brutality and violence against Palestinians are becoming a major problem for both of those groups. The state of Israel is fracturing, while groups like the PFLP, Hamas and Fatah are coming together for the first time in decades. While some of the tactics of Hamas are unconscionable, and Fatah has a long collaborationist history with Israel, it definitely indicates a dramatic change of the dynamics in the region. We'll see what holds together and what breaks apart. Its very sad that Marwan Barghouti is currently imprisoned, he's one of the most popular figures in Palestine whereas Fatah and Hamas are fairly unpopular

Wait, are you saying that the Supreme Court is, gulps audibly political??? This has so many implications

Pat Tillman has entered the chat

If the Israeli government was trying to nationalize their oil or mining resources, we'd invade their ass so fucking fast; but they're just murdering tens or hundreds of thousands of people, starving children, bombing infrastructure, destroying culture, and traumatizing generations, so let's just ask sternly for a cease fire, and frown a bit for the cameras -- if that

I will stop using a mouse and get really good with hotkeys rather than pay a subscription.

Well as someone who couldn't get through the Poverty of Philosophy, despite having read lots of Marx including Capital: that's fair. He was really gunning for the Young Hegelians. I thought his critique of Stirner was really good, and his debunking of Bauer was essential. But I didn't get into PoP. Maybe some other time. He was too optimistic wrt how capitalism would create "gravediggers." I think its an actual thing that happens, it happened to me for example, but he underestimated ideology, or maybe like over estimated the way capitalism would change people's consciousness.

You're right there are individual anarchist Marxists, I study with one, but I guess I was referring to something more like a movement. I guess the Kurdish liberation movement kind of qualifies? Maybe my views are too west-centric.

Any recommended Proudhon I should read? Maybe take on Philosophy of Poverty before trying Marx's response again?