Zombiepirate @ Zombiepirate @lemmy.world

Proud anti-fascist & bird-person

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Wish I'd bought a bunch when they were on clearance.

My stepmother is a fundamentalist Christian, and when I pressed on her black-and-white views of sex and gender she told me that intersex people exist because of sin in the world.

Just psychopathic to think that God punishes a baby for things other people did.

Note that I don't see intersex as a problem aside from potential medical complications and societal pressure to conform.

Fascinating video!

I went looking for some footage of Kowloon a few months ago and I couldn't find anything. I'm glad she recorded this while she could.

I watched the Jackie Chan movie Crime Story to get a glimpse, and they had some amazing scenes, but everyone had already moved out. It did have some crazy cool action scenes though with some long cuts.

There's a new podcast (the Know Rogan Experience) with one of the guys from Cognitive Dissonance, and there's an episode that breaks down the interview this guy did on Joe Rogan and shows just how full of shit he is.

He's a liar and he knows it.

Nooo!!! You're making me be a fascist! Stahhhhhp it!!

Gun restrictions? Fuck you!

Medication restrictions? Fuck 'em!

There's another user who replied to me who answered much better than I could.

Loading a program from disk on the Commodore 64

LOAD"*",8,1

I haven't loaded a game on that system since I was probably 10 or so, but I'll never forget the command.

I memorized it as L-O-A-D shift-2 star shift-2 comma eight comma one.

Should have called it the Nintendo Top.

I live in Texas, and we focused on the glories of "free-market" "laissez faire" capitalism in our American history class.

Not a word about things like the Triangle Shirtwaist fire or the Homestead Strike or the Great Railroad Strike of 1922. I'm frankly shocked that we talked about the civil rights movement at all.

Ok, but is that upright bass single?

Reactionaries always attack the most vulnerable while pretending to be above "identity politics" because they don't see "straight white conservative" as an identity, they see it as the default.

It's pathetic how the most hateful people want to put everyone into tiny boxes that they can hold inside their diminutive minds.

Yeah, I'd have left a misogyny warning if I'd remembered that part. Thanks for the note.

Yeah, that's pretty bad.

I still think it's an interesting read.

You're telling me that shocking one's nards on a hunch and writing it down isn't real research?

I'm starting to think I know nothing about science. What have I been doing?

How about HG Wells talking about mini wargaming in 1912? I think it's fascinating to see proto-nerds inventing the geek stuff that we take for granted a hundred years later.

Little Wars via Project Gutenberg

My favorite is probably Aurora, in which a generation ship makes a voyage to Tau Ceti to set up a colony.

After that, I really enjoyed Galeleo's Dream, a time-travel story about the famous polymath and a plot to reshape the history of scientific thought.

And Shaman is also great: it's about the paleolithic people who painted the chauvet cave and their struggle to thrive in an impossibly harsh time.

And finally I also just finished The Years of Rice and Salt recently, and it's one that I know I'll have to re-read sometime. It's an alternate history about how the world would shake out if the population of Europe was wiped out by a plague in the 1400s and follows a set of characters reincarnating over the centuries.

KSR is probably my favorite living author.

I think the book is supposed to be more "this is what is possible" than an actual roadmap.

His optimism is what I really like about his work; anyone can throw up their hands and give up, but that's a dereliction of duty. Believing that a better world is possible and worth fighting for is the point, in my opinion.

Conservatism is the theoretical voice of this animus against the agency of the subordinate classes. It provides the most consistent and profound argument as to why the lower orders should not be allowed to exercise their independent will, why they should not be allowed to govern themselves or the polity. Submission is their first duty, and agency the prerogative of the elite.

Though it is often claimed that the left stands for equality while the right stands for freedom, this notion misstates the actual disagreement between right and left. Historically, the conservative has favored liberty for the higher orders and constraint for the lower orders. What the conservative sees and dislikes in equality, in other words, is not a threat to freedom but its extension. For in that extension, he sees a loss of his own freedom.

Corey Robin: The Reactionary Mind

There's also a fantastic book called The Reactionary Mind that's the best thing I've read on conservative ideology. The newest edition has updated chapters through the Trump administration. It's essential reading, in my opinion, for understanding what drives them.

He also has a great chapter shredding Ayn Rand to bits.