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  • No, I understand just fine. You're ignoring the part where I said rights aren't actually fundamental or intrinsic. They're privileges society treats that way, and like other privileges, they can be taken away.

    In any case, if you go to a well-known Nazi bar on purpose, what does that make you? People who go to 4chan on purpose aren't innocent victims, and their potential loss of privacy is justifiable considering how much harm has come just from there.

    If you use your rights (i.e. social privileges) to purposely cause harm, or to support platforms or causes that are well-known to cause harm, there should be consequences.

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  • let’s work toward making these institutions not rely on or be beholden to governments.

    I don't see how that's possible unless you use a system that's resistant to governments (or moneyed interests). And the only systems like that are effectively outside their government's power or jurisdiction. Otherwise, the right mix of ambitious or greedy people could eventually cause it to crumble.

    Did you have some other kind of system or plan in mind?

  • All rights are privileges, if we're going to be pedantic. This is evidenced by the fact that they can be taken away. Society tends to operate on an unspoken, collective agreement that certain rights should never be violated, but if they were actually intrinsic, we wouldn't have to fight tooth and nail for them.

    I'm a moral relativist, so if someone is happy to abuse their right to privacy to harm others or otherwise take their rights away, especially the right to privacy, I don't feel any compunction to draw a hard line and say that the harmful person deserves to keep those rights in spite of their actions.

  • Good. Privacy is a fundamental right, but since that platform is regularly used to doxx people who are simply trying to exist, in addition to platforming and incubating some of the most harmful ideologies, they've relinquished any claims to those rights to privacy, as far as I'm concerned.

  • Not the person you asked, and I'm speaking from World experience, but my favorite weapon is the Gunlance. A good mix of defense, slashing, and concussion, so you can break pretty much whatever you want. All around fun, since it felt like I could really push the monsters, rather than feeling like I was constantly on defense.

    Sword and Shield was also really fun. Good combos and a decent all-rounder. I also enjoyed Bow.

    Try out several on the same monster (one whose moveset you've memorized), and see what feels nicest. I actually played all weapons, because certain monsters were easier to fight with particular weapons.

    Lastly, find YouTube videos that explain how to use the weapons and suggest common or useful combos. Good luck!

  • I dunno. It's never happened in my lifetime, and certainly not with half of the legislative branch being complicit in the descent into fascism.

    Like I said, I don't really have a lot of optimism in their ability to do what is required. On top of that, the enablers aren't gone just because Trump might be someday. Our collective work is only just beginning, and it starts with little actions like those of the judge in this case.

  • Agreed. Things definitely suck right now, but things aren't hopeless. Only when we stop resisting will the fascism begin to ossify, and all the people being brave enough to resist, in both little and big ways, matter.

  • I don't know if I can comfortably say "most likely," but I'm not optimistic about that possibility. Since Trump won, it's been my position that nobody's coming to save us working class peons. We will not get a group of Avengers striking from the outside or a lone Adam Jensen fighting from within.

    In reality, it will take all of us doing different things to resist, and hopefully, that collective effort over time will be enough. It will still suck in the meantime.