That's a real nice distinction you've got there. Now if only everyone else made it.
The entire reason anyone here (outside of neo-Nazi's and their sympathizers) brings up the point that it's bad to make these "Nazi's must die" blanket statements is because of the well established practice of calling anyone who disagrees with your ideology a Nazi.
We're in the brave new age of social media hate mobs. Calling someone a Nazi without evidence is enough to trigger a cascade of abuse from the slacktivists on Twitter. Surely you can see why "not some random people some people decided to label as 'nazis'" isn't part of the equation, or is someone going to be out there at the protests making sure the brave Nazi-punchers of Antifa are only punching real Nazis (tm)?
What's that? They think everyone right of Lenin is a "fash" and thus legitimate targets of their political violence? What a fucking shock and surprise! I'm flabbergasted, I literally can't even right now!
Finally, it should be the fucking police out there "bashing the fash" whenever they do anything even remotely illegal, not a bunch of teenagers and twenty-somethings in all black shouting Communist slogans. Instead, the police are told to stand down and let the sparks fly. The ensuing violence will be laid at the feet of the evildoers and the brave Nazi-punching communists will be hailed as the saviors!
How can anyone be this fucking stupid? On right and left we've got people pushing ideologies that are completely and utterly opposed to our current system of governance. Both are totalitarian collectivist ideologies, born of the Continental philosophical tradition, and entirely anti-Liberty. Your fucking grandparents (or great-grandparents) fought and died against BOTH of these poisonous ideologies, what the fucking fuck are you dumb fucks doing? Do we have to have ANOTHER world war to prove, yet again, that both of these ideologies are entirely toxic and best left on the ash pile of history with all the rest of the "it sounded like a great idea at the time" social engineering failures?
Much of that can be laid at Hello Game's feet. Their handling of the post-release shit storm was utterly and completely inept. I sometimes wonder if they were bound by some contractual agreement which forced them into complete and total radio silence.
If at any point they had come out and said, "Guys, we know we kinda screwed up and the whole situation sucks, but..." and gave even a shallow explanation for themselves the whole thing might have just blown over. Instead, they hunkered down in their fallout shelter and, apparently, kept working on the game while waiting for the shit storm to blow over.
After the disastrous release, people had every reason to assume they had fallen for yet another smooth talking video game designer and that the product would be abandoned after raking in boat loads of cash from the hype tsunami they'd created. The problem with hype is that when things go wrong the hype train converts immediately into a hateful mob.
Who knows, maybe nothing they said could have mollified the nerd rage, but it's hard to argue that saying absolutely nothing what-so-ever did anything but make shit worse. They'd have never made everyone happy, even had a significant fraction of the promised features been delivered. Instead, they made everyone angry, which is obviously a much better state of affairs.
We're in the middle of a Moral Panic. Judging from the rhetoric around this issue, being Racist, Sexist, or Bigoted in any way is the absolutely worst thing you could possibly be. It would be better that you just boil puppies than have even a single negative opinion about any of the left wing Shibboleths.
Seriously, I sometimes wonder if people would be more predisposed to looking favorably on a Islamic terrorist than someone who could be, if you squint, accused of being "teh racist". "Sure, he blew up that building and killed a few people, but really, isn't this all colonialism's fault?"
Users get the latest apps, streamlined to remove any useful features, and also make it even easier for Google to plumb your juicy data and strengthen their behavior modification algorithms!
Plenty of commies are rich kids, trying to stick it to their "asshole fathers" who "only care about money" and "never respected my (prolonged) teenage angst phase". The only experience they have with money is their parents credit cards. Of course they think "My dad has lots of money, take it from him to give to poor people. He's a rich asshole", they've got no fucking skin in the game.
Maybe they should stop calling themselves leftists then, eh? Too bad it's fashionable these days to be a virtuous social media Socialist, bravely tweeting against the System in a performance of "Slacktivism". I guess the silver lining of any future Socialist revolution will be knowing these useful idiots were the first against the wall.
As for the Socialist/Communist divide, well, as far as I can tell one leads directly to the other (ideally) and thus there's no reason to differentiate the two. The only reason you would do so is because you, yourself, are a Socialist but are still uncomfortable with the extremely radical ideas of your Communist cousins. I see no reason for anyone else to give them this consideration. Just because you think enacting Socialism will be a piece of bloodless cake and then peace and prosperity for ever doesn't mean the rest of us have to forget the horrors caused by the implementation of your Utopian nonsense.
If Wikipedia isn't enough of a leftist propaganda outfit for you, try this gem from/r/LateStageCapitalism*
*Disclaimer: viewing/r/latestagecapitalism may cause headaches, cramps, nausea, cranial bleeding, and rarely sudden death. Despite appearances to the contrary, I assure you the people there are a) real, and b) completely serious.
It's really hard to argue that we are only competitive because we are "taught" to be competitive.
Not if you're a social constructionist, it isn't. Granted, their arguments are streams of post modern buzzword diarrhea, but it's an argument. Of sorts.
Or in the US a bit later, it would have been "the communists".
McCarthy may have been an authoritarian twat, but the commies were there alright. They still are, running our Universities and churning out foot soldiers (aka activists) by the thousands. Or haven't you been paying attention to the shit that's gone down since Trump took office? ANTIFA? Punching Nazis? "Liberals Get The Bullet Too"?
Oh wait, my mistake. They're just Socialists! Because that's completely different, not at all proto-commies. Much better.
If you hold a green card in the US for 5 years you too can become a US citizen [uscis.gov]. So the same basic "path" at Australia and Canada. We just don't have their white supremacist racist white cis/hetero-normative point system - yet.
Well clearly you need to virtue signal more so people on social media can know you're a GOOD PERSON. What use are all those "good things" if no one knows HOW GOOD YOU ARE? Precisely.
That would be because you only see the successful ones and never hear a thing about all the dumb fucks in these countries. The media makes sure to make a big fucking deal whenever some poor kid in some shitty country does anything even vaguely "scientific" or "engineering". Oh some kid in Africa made a rudimentary electronic device! WOW! I guess all that "White Supremacy" I was "conditioned" with is wrong and all brown people everywhere are $100% wonderful and beyond reproach!
It's such transparent propaganda I find it hard to believe that anyone buys it.
Bruh, the government can't even secure it's own shit. On top of that, any "security" procedures they'd mandate would certainly involve "back doors" and "patriotic crypto", for safety you understand.
But but but local governments are among the most corrupt! We need a strong, decisive Federal government to keep the States in line! This plan couldn't possibly go wrong!
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That's a real nice distinction you've got there. Now if only everyone else made it.
The entire reason anyone here (outside of neo-Nazi's and their sympathizers) brings up the point that it's bad to make these "Nazi's must die" blanket statements is because of the well established practice of calling anyone who disagrees with your ideology a Nazi.
We're in the brave new age of social media hate mobs. Calling someone a Nazi without evidence is enough to trigger a cascade of abuse from the slacktivists on Twitter. Surely you can see why "not some random people some people decided to label as 'nazis'" isn't part of the equation, or is someone going to be out there at the protests making sure the brave Nazi-punchers of Antifa are only punching real Nazis (tm)?
What's that? They think everyone right of Lenin is a "fash" and thus legitimate targets of their political violence? What a fucking shock and surprise! I'm flabbergasted, I literally can't even right now!
Finally, it should be the fucking police out there "bashing the fash" whenever they do anything even remotely illegal, not a bunch of teenagers and twenty-somethings in all black shouting Communist slogans. Instead, the police are told to stand down and let the sparks fly. The ensuing violence will be laid at the feet of the evildoers and the brave Nazi-punching communists will be hailed as the saviors!
How can anyone be this fucking stupid? On right and left we've got people pushing ideologies that are completely and utterly opposed to our current system of governance. Both are totalitarian collectivist ideologies, born of the Continental philosophical tradition, and entirely anti-Liberty. Your fucking grandparents (or great-grandparents) fought and died against BOTH of these poisonous ideologies, what the fucking fuck are you dumb fucks doing? Do we have to have ANOTHER world war to prove, yet again, that both of these ideologies are entirely toxic and best left on the ash pile of history with all the rest of the "it sounded like a great idea at the time" social engineering failures?
Much of that can be laid at Hello Game's feet. Their handling of the post-release shit storm was utterly and completely inept. I sometimes wonder if they were bound by some contractual agreement which forced them into complete and total radio silence.
If at any point they had come out and said, "Guys, we know we kinda screwed up and the whole situation sucks, but ..." and gave even a shallow explanation for themselves the whole thing might have just blown over. Instead, they hunkered down in their fallout shelter and, apparently, kept working on the game while waiting for the shit storm to blow over.
After the disastrous release, people had every reason to assume they had fallen for yet another smooth talking video game designer and that the product would be abandoned after raking in boat loads of cash from the hype tsunami they'd created. The problem with hype is that when things go wrong the hype train converts immediately into a hateful mob.
Who knows, maybe nothing they said could have mollified the nerd rage, but it's hard to argue that saying absolutely nothing what-so-ever did anything but make shit worse. They'd have never made everyone happy, even had a significant fraction of the promised features been delivered. Instead, they made everyone angry, which is obviously a much better state of affairs.
We're in the middle of a Moral Panic. Judging from the rhetoric around this issue, being Racist, Sexist, or Bigoted in any way is the absolutely worst thing you could possibly be. It would be better that you just boil puppies than have even a single negative opinion about any of the left wing Shibboleths.
Seriously, I sometimes wonder if people would be more predisposed to looking favorably on a Islamic terrorist than someone who could be, if you squint, accused of being "teh racist". "Sure, he blew up that building and killed a few people, but really, isn't this all colonialism's fault?"
Here ya go, bucko!
[Are you an SJW] =[yes]> [You're on the Right Side of History!]
=[no]> [You're a Nazi!]
You're right, this is more like Trotsky than Stalin. Still Marxist cancer.
Users get the latest apps, streamlined to remove any useful features, and also make it even easier for Google to plumb your juicy data and strengthen their behavior modification algorithms!
A win for everyone!
Is Google retarded?
Emphatically, YES.
Is Google evil?
Emphatically, YES.
Therefore Google is an Evil Retard?
Emphatically, YES.
That is all.
Plenty of commies are rich kids, trying to stick it to their "asshole fathers" who "only care about money" and "never respected my (prolonged) teenage angst phase". The only experience they have with money is their parents credit cards. Of course they think "My dad has lots of money, take it from him to give to poor people. He's a rich asshole", they've got no fucking skin in the game.
Maybe they should stop calling themselves leftists then, eh? Too bad it's fashionable these days to be a virtuous social media Socialist, bravely tweeting against the System in a performance of "Slacktivism". I guess the silver lining of any future Socialist revolution will be knowing these useful idiots were the first against the wall.
As for the Socialist/Communist divide, well, as far as I can tell one leads directly to the other (ideally) and thus there's no reason to differentiate the two. The only reason you would do so is because you, yourself, are a Socialist but are still uncomfortable with the extremely radical ideas of your Communist cousins. I see no reason for anyone else to give them this consideration. Just because you think enacting Socialism will be a piece of bloodless cake and then peace and prosperity for ever doesn't mean the rest of us have to forget the horrors caused by the implementation of your Utopian nonsense.
I warned you.
At one point it goes into a full paragraph about Communism and how gender politics is the new version of class warfare - i shit you not.
Uh, because that's what it is? I don't understand how you could see it as anything different.
Perhaps you know it better as Equity
If Wikipedia isn't enough of a leftist propaganda outfit for you, try this gem from /r/LateStageCapitalism*
*Disclaimer: viewing /r/latestagecapitalism may cause headaches, cramps, nausea, cranial bleeding, and rarely sudden death. Despite appearances to the contrary, I assure you the people there are a) real, and b) completely serious.
It's really hard to argue that we are only competitive because we are "taught" to be competitive.
Not if you're a social constructionist, it isn't. Granted, their arguments are streams of post modern buzzword diarrhea, but it's an argument. Of sorts.
Or in the US a bit later, it would have been "the communists".
McCarthy may have been an authoritarian twat, but the commies were there alright. They still are, running our Universities and churning out foot soldiers (aka activists) by the thousands. Or haven't you been paying attention to the shit that's gone down since Trump took office? ANTIFA? Punching Nazis? "Liberals Get The Bullet Too"?
Oh wait, my mistake. They're just Socialists! Because that's completely different, not at all proto-commies. Much better.
We don't need China's help to distrust the government. They take care of fostering that distrust all by themselves.
Did you happen to hear a loud WHOOSH?
He missed it for the autistic screeching.
If you hold a green card in the US for 5 years you too can become a US citizen [uscis.gov]. So the same basic "path" at Australia and Canada. We just don't have their white supremacist racist white cis/hetero-normative point system - yet.
FTFY.
Well clearly you need to virtue signal more so people on social media can know you're a GOOD PERSON. What use are all those "good things" if no one knows HOW GOOD YOU ARE? Precisely.
It's FOR YOUR OWN GOOD, citizen. Now back to work before we send your parents to the camps!
That would be because you only see the successful ones and never hear a thing about all the dumb fucks in these countries. The media makes sure to make a big fucking deal whenever some poor kid in some shitty country does anything even vaguely "scientific" or "engineering". Oh some kid in Africa made a rudimentary electronic device! WOW! I guess all that "White Supremacy" I was "conditioned" with is wrong and all brown people everywhere are $100% wonderful and beyond reproach!
It's such transparent propaganda I find it hard to believe that anyone buys it.
Get the AI to design the pill AND fusion and we'll be golden. It's Just That Easy (TM)
Since the only way to win is not to play, then I'm not going to play. Do you hear me Microsoft?
Microsoft hears ya, Microsoft don't care.
Except they run WordPress and so, given "editorial access" they can install Duplicator plugin and clone the site elsewhere trivially.
WordPress may be a steaming pile of excrement, but at least it's easy to move from host to host.
If they don't have Administrator access, well, they're just fucking stupid.
All religious people are evil bigots unless they're Muslim, in which case they dindu nuffin.
Bruh, the government can't even secure it's own shit. On top of that, any "security" procedures they'd mandate would certainly involve "back doors" and "patriotic crypto", for safety you understand.
But but but local governments are among the most corrupt! We need a strong, decisive Federal government to keep the States in line! This plan couldn't possibly go wrong!