Call me Lenny/Leni @ shinigamiookamiryuu @lemm.ee

It's nice to meet all you. I am she/her, can speak Toki Pona and English (n

---

Read more

Posts

138

Comments

5,088

Joined

2 yr. ago

Moderating

---

he’s also spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and has promoted a safe space for pro-Nazi sympathizers to spread their hate speech.

That I did not know. Would've helped if this was what his opponents go by, not what looked like a salute.

I'm definitely not defending Nazis. They can be blasted into the sun for all I care. I'm just saying we can't assume someone's intent and speak for them, even though we can 100% distance ourselves from others based on their impression. Don't forget the salute came from an old Roman greeting, just as the swastika famously came from the manji (something Japan has never stopped using, even in anime and merchandise).

I mean intention-wise. Even though it definitely looks like a Nazi salute (why is Hitler saluting himself by the way), and even though many of us wouldn't put it past Musk to have known this was coming, in the end, I would hold the view that nobody can speak for the intentions of an individual aside from that individual, and Musk is no exception even despite how tempting he makes it seem to interpret what he means, even in all his incompetent, politically-charged glory. Anyone distancing themselves from him for this is doing it based on the impression as opposed to the intention, not that this isn't still understandable and their choice. We just can't speak "for him".

Intent is why we speak of Nazism as "taking" the salute (which used to just be a greeting) from the Romans, the swastika (or manji in this case) from the Buddhists, and a bunch of random Norse symbols in the first place. Japan, a nation where Neo-Nazism is much less of an issue, still uses the manji everywhere for spiritual significance, and this leads to a lot of culture shock in anime re-edits and Japanese merchandise because of this habit of forgetting our expectations don't apply automatically.

Electricity, yes.

What exactly happened with them? Don't people often take pilgrimages to Marx's grave?

If it wasn't from the main handful of communities, I would've had no reason to know about this.

And people wonder why I chose to emphasize the commentary and not the news itself. Though would it really be from an anti-less-fortunate perspective if the only benefactors when authorities object to a will are relatives?

You didn't even choose the free version?

I think I may have heard about that. Being quick to assume things like that sadly seems to be the default mindset.

off topic?

I'm not saying it's exactly embraced, but you're not unique in that regard right now, in fact you're the most on topic.

The whole salute thing has been debunked though.

How so? This is the first I'm hearing of such a thing.

Who is Xitter Link?

You could always keep food preserved how ancient peoples did. For instance, Romans would build ditches and store their food in, and some people would keep it preserved by having smoke flow over it 24/7. The need for refrigeration is surprisingly modern even if only because the other methods can be a piece of work.

It took me a moment to realize what you meant. I knew it was ironic but thought you meant you were too poor to pay for electricity.

Lucky. Most of the world currently deals with rulers that are far from great.

As a form of entertainment, why not?

Yes, solitary confinement in a detention center. I got to give him credit, I would've expected him to be like a lot of tycoons and worm his way into some sort of comfy quasi-prison.

It sometimes seemed that way. It's not as common now for the discussion to come up in the 2020's (maybe someone gave them what they were looking for, considering the opposite is now trendy), but it was common for them to say, for example, that they require some kind of physical trace in order to not hold God in doubt but not carry this over for things like historical figures.

I am what many would call a relationship anarchist. That refers to the argument against default norms. If two or more people are in a relationship, is it not up to them to decide its terms? By this line of thought, assuming the person you're dating has no moral obligation to who they share a marriage document with, and they are fine with you dating them, and you're fine with it, by definition it's all fine.

I mean that's kinda the reasoning. But who ever said I was American? I just know there exists rules and a predisposition to go from A to Z at an unrestrained pace.