@coolboymew@moi@MeBigbrain@moyi@noyoushutthefuckupdad@takao you used to be able to say much anything on reddit, and 4chan used to not be astroturfed, but now they're both pretty astroturfed and both frequently censorous, but 1. on 4chan the only people caring about your post history are mods, vs. on reddit where everyone does that. 2. on 4chan the way to primary way disagree with a post is to express disagreement, vs. on reddit were normal disagreement is expressed by downvoting, and there's an elaborate system of post limits and punishments that convert a person getting mobbed into that person being silenced by the platform. they're both deteriorated hellscapes but anonymity still has benefits and dystopian 'nudge' panopticons are still creepy and dystopian.
@noyoushutthefuckupdad@takao@coolboymew Romans is also talking about a punishment. God can curse a nation with a plague of locusts, and also plagues of locusts can happen as a natural disaster. The natural disaster on its own doesn't imply a punishment or further consequences. 29+ >Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whispers, >Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventers of evil things, disobedient to parents, >Without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Japanese artist making cute pictures for a cute story is committing fewer of these than the average fediposter overcome with "debate"
@burner@Moon it's a tax trick. Until he sells the assets for 40 billion dollars, SPC isn't worth anything. Art scams go both ways: this asset is super valuable because we're trading it for large amounts of money; this other asset is super cheap because we're trading it for small amounts of money.
@SpurgAnon@ArdainianRight@King_Noticer@sharutiaburaddofouren >Christians have a thousand-year tradition yeah but in which of these texts, compiled and preserved for me by those same Christians, is the tradition stated? I think they just got it wrong from the beginning. Christianity actually died immediately, all the interim Christians went to hell (they were literally no better than the pagans they displaced), and I am resurrecting Christianity in the current year from scratch, dinosaur fossils, and a dictionary.
@Shadowman311 >free speech is good again still not for you though :) >it's bad when you can't argue people and they just assert stuff but it's OK to deplatform you :) >we're against nazis except when they fight russians! >it's none of people's business that what you do in the privacy of your own home except when I arbitrarily cancel you and ruin your income becaue of what you posted from your own home :)
>politicians lie while manipulating you so they can gain and maintain power pretty funny line to follow a segment about attacking slavery apologists in school. Aren't you explaining what you just've done with this attack on a laughably fictional, meaningless threat? Hey, food costs literally twice what it cost from two years ago, but there are super serious teachers out there who are trying to confuse kids about slavery. There's definitely no way that people will continue to think slavery is bad, without your vote for Democrats!
@PeachySummer@lina is the video that prompted this desire? It's what I thought of immediately as well.
What that video doesn't tell you is that all grocery store lobsters are condemned criminals. They're the worst of the worst, death row inmates, dead crustracean walking, the sea creatures that have done the most serious shit. There's incredible editing in that video to give the lobster the appearance of non-violence and passivity, but I guarantee that every other cut is skipping past the thing lunging at the camera with a knife. It's the worst kind of propaganda.
@NotImportant@Shadowman311 this was a comfortable principle because the left was always in violation of it, just like they always threw bombs and invaded capitol buildings (and still do). Same way that "narc" is a classic leftist insult despite antifa being an unofficial extension of the FBI now. This stuff was always fashion more than politics, like wearing red or blue ties, or having a US flag pin.
As far as fashion goes, I'd prefer to have a national leader not be treated like a clown, but as far as politics goes it's much more important to me that the national leader not *actually be* a clown.
@lina@fba I'm not being sarcastic. I don't believe any of this, but it really is the dominant paradigm in the US right now. If you said something against "reverse racism" as a celebrity, you'd be grovelling in the next video to keep your job. You'd apologize for having dated terms, and not having kept up with progressive ideas.
@lina@fba ah geez, now you're using like 80-year-old terms! Nobody believes that anymore. They have a formula now: racism = power + privilege.
So when you see a white dude that's dressed in dirty rags and begging for food on the side of the street with a cardboard hovel next to him, he has PRIVILEGE OVERWHELMING that a black university professor does not have, so the university professor cannot be racist towards the beggar.
That's just math. People have been learning this for twenty years already and it's the dominant paradigm. It's as absolutely true and as universally accepted as this definition of a woman: "anyone that claims to be one".
@lina@fba "reverse racism" is like a 50-year-old idea that's since the turn of the millennium has been getting replaced with "only whites can be racist and a 'reverse' of it makes no sense".
either the dude running mastodon.art is ancient, or he's blocking that instance for *claiming* to see reverse racism, and not for being reverse-racist themselves.
@Terry@rlier23@ImperialAgent@bronze@deprecated_ii you get treated like this because you're a lesser class of citizen - a taxpayer. Brown people are your betters and they don't have the boot pressed on their neck in the same way it's pressed on yours. The fundamental problem with the guy in the OP is that he's being uppity. He's a miserable peasant that's sperging out and waving a pitchfork at some people just because they're displaying some privilege that's forbidden to him. What's a guy like going to do next, complain that rappers can use words he'd get fired for using? The state needs to stomp on people like this as quickly as they reveal themselves, to encourage the others.
And for the record I think street vendors are cool, and the every time I ever saw a rule enforced to put one of them out of business, it was a dumb act of self-destruction 1. little on-base barista got chased out by jealous pizza vendor, who thought that their shitty coffee could be sold to the same people. Instead, people stopped showing up for good coffee and also stopped buying pizza to go with it 2. taco truck got chased out by owners of campus snack machines - that people still didn't use because nobody wants expensive candy over real food. I just wish I could set up shop as freely, too. I could make some easy money plopping down a cooler with ice and bottled water in it, while working 'from home'.
This is very similar to convenience stores which tend to be owned by brown people who are conspiring with other brown people to perpetually qualify as "new immigrant business owners" with massive tax breaks that make it not worth it for anyone else to run convenience stores. The owners are all cool people. But, man, it'd be nice if it were a little bit more disguised how much my government hates me, just because my family's been in this county for a few hundred years already. I can't even do anything about it. I was born this way!
If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.Deo VindiceKeep your safety in mind and don't make loud statements for which you might go to the places not-so-far-from-here, because there you will help no one.