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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jan-2026 08:54:57 JST 
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> was interesting to me
It started off interesting.
> The militaries of the world have mastered the organization and orientation of hundreds of thousands of men without creating paradoxes of Dunbar's number.
:wtsherman: "An army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every enactment, every change of rule which impairs this principle weakens the army, impairs its value, and defeats the very object of its existence."
> I'd rather just find some place I can't fucking bother anyone with my existence.
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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jan-2026 08:41:32 JST
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@j I never use the self-checkout, how did I get the porn thoughts? -
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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jan-2026 08:34:58 JST
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@Ree @amerika @bajax @contrapunctus @dcc @dj @yomiel
> let the people vote on the laws
This is as bad in most cases. I mean, September 12, 2001, you could get most of the country to vote yes on any war with anyone. Federalist 51 deals with this; representative democracy is explicitly designed as a hedge against mob tyranny.
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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jan-2026 08:21:39 JST
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@Ree @amerika @bajax @contrapunctus @dcc @dj @yomiel
> he could be working on his game
Well, anyone engaged in recreation could be working, but everyone's gotta stretch their brain out once in a while.
> rewriting java and making an emulator in it
That sounds more interesting than "Let's do feudalism!" -
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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jan-2026 08:12:54 JST
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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jan-2026 08:09:44 JST
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@All_bonesJones @amerika @bajax @contrapunctus @dcc @dj @sun @yomiel
> I lack the violence needed to stop your angry temper tantrum.
You lack the coping skills to read a casual dismissal from a man that doesn't have to listen to you because he fucked your wife. If it helps to think I'm upset, feel free, but fundamentally, it is ridiculous to ever try to argue with someone that thinks the king should decide what he thinks.
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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jan-2026 08:03:54 JST
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@vii @All_bonesJones @amerika @bajax @contrapunctus @dcc @dj @sun @yomiel
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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jan-2026 07:58:37 JST
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@Ree @amerika @bajax @contrapunctus @dcc @dj @yomiel I will give him credit for trying to continue after my prima noctem remark but there's a distinctly German smell. -
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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jan-2026 07:51:27 JST
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@All_bonesJones @amerika @bajax @contrapunctus @dcc @dj @sun @yomiel
> Incredibly disrespectful to suggest that and a lazy way to dismiss a substantive point.
Not only did I address the point, but I later added further disrespect by telling you about the time I fucked your wife.
> Anyone with enough violence to coerce you.
Nobody has enough violence to coerce me. They don't make enough violence. The world's supply of violence would be exhausted.
This is not a substantive point. Prima noctem'd.
> Your prior cat example is exactly what I'm talking about. Communists had enough concentrated violence that the question of pet ownership could even be challenged.
It was an illustration of a mass-murderer engaged in philosophical gymnastics. But if that's how we're doing this, I guess that's how we're doing this. So, violence is all that matters, and I decline to give a shit what you've said until you come use violence to enforce it. -
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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jan-2026 07:46:34 JST
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@pwm @All_bonesJones @Ree @amerika @bajax @contrapunctus @dcc @dj @sun @yomiel I shall have the prima noctem! -
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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jan-2026 07:35:58 JST
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@NonPlayableClown @amerika @dcc @bajax @contrapunctus @yomiel @dj @All_bonesJones @sun PENNIES ARE MADE FROM ZINC -
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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jan-2026 07:35:40 JST
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@Ree @All_bonesJones @amerika @bajax @contrapunctus @dcc @dj @sun @yomiel "Feudalism wasn't so bad, probably." That's not autism, it's bitchmade. -
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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jan-2026 07:33:52 JST
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@All_bonesJones @amerika @bajax @contrapunctus @dcc @dj @sun @yomiel
> if you want a practical implementation of the broad strokes of your idea, it's likely easier to just accept that there will always be a sovereign and define scope by the immediate people around them
I'm the sovereign. Don't believe me? Ask your wife who got prima noctem. -
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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jan-2026 07:31:11 JST
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@Kensurgence That was a joke image but here we are.
Laozi is interesting. Marcus Aurelius is interesting; he has a lot of, like, obtuse or boring parts and I haven't finished it but I didn't find anything really objectionable. (Jesus is classified as "Jewish stoicism" so Marcus Aurelius fitting American sensibilities wouldn't be a surprise.)
> Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
I'd kick that guy in the dick.
> Living for Pleasure: An Epicurean Guide to Life
> How to Lose Yourself: A Book on Buddhism by White People
Boomer shit.
> Enchiridion
I have not read it. -
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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jan-2026 07:21:20 JST
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@All_bonesJones @amerika @bajax @contrapunctus @dcc @dj @sun @yomiel
> So you're saying
Always really excited to see a message that starts with this.
> ...If this is a correct summary of your stance, this is just kicking the can down the road, you've shifted the power struggle into the definition of appropriate scope, thereby made whoever defines scope the true sovereign.
I begin to think this is deliberate: you're attempting to find fault in the manifestly obvious and that is why you've got so much trouble understanding.
To address that concern, I have not kicked any cans anywhere, no. It is absurd. "If you don't accept a dictator, you've just turned someone else into a shadow dictator!" Who has authority over whether or not you jerk off before bed? Who are you willing to listen to if they tell you which you have to do? It seems like a personal decision: how you feel that day, your general personal preferences, your religion, anyone that has to share a room with you, you know. Who decides your religion? Who has the authority to tell you what to believe?
> It's a nice-sounding philosophical conclusion devoid of practical implementation.
The "practical implementation" is "all of goddamn human history until we built the mass media and the surveillance state".
> Any sovereign who defines their own overreach as within the scope
In the US, historically, we have used the constitution and separation of powers for this. These have not stood up to the persistent onslaught of the psychopaths once mass media existed, and this is why they have insisted on the internet becoming a mall: they want the "misinformation" censored, they want the official story pushed. You think this is fine? You think it's okay to have wrongthink? You think there should be no limits on authority? You think the limits on authority require an authority-authority rather than a manifestly obvious line between what is others' business and what is your own? I don't know (or don't remember) where you're from but I hope they don't let serfs vote. -
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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jan-2026 06:38:36 JST
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@SilverDeth @TrevorGoodchild @fish @shinyoukai The game is like 5 minutes long, and it's like "Your friend told you to download a video. Do you download it? OOPS: YOU FUCKIN' GOOFED, DOWNLOADING A VIDEO CAN GET YOU CONVICTED OF HATE-STYLE TERRORISM!"
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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jan-2026 06:30:15 JST
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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jan-2026 06:27:31 JST
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@shinyoukai @SilverDeth @TrevorGoodchild @fish It turns out that it was just the fan kicking on. -
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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jan-2026 06:26:53 JST
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@SilverDeth @TrevorGoodchild
> The pics department is current experiencing some technical problems
Yeah, unconventional topology combined with a thing that I am going to try to finish writing today. -
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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jan-2026 06:23:32 JST
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@All_bonesJones @amerika @bajax @contrapunctus @dcc @dj @sun @yomiel
> So... don't organize above Dunbar's number?
"Scope decreases". I had a terrible gas station cigar this morning after breakfast: because it didn't affect anyone else, I didn't have to listen to anyone's opinion on the matter. If I've blown smoke in someone's face or I have a friend or family member that thinks I shouldn't, you know, that person can have an opinion about it. If I put microplastics in their water, people can have opinions about that. I have opinions about that. There are robbery and theft. There are opinions I put onto the internets. The difference is the scope. Some schools of thought do not recognize limits to authority: they do not see a difference in prohibiting me from posting my wrongthink while smoking a terrible gas station cigar (it was a Swisher, the kind that, when you buy it, the guy says "We sell rolling papers" because nobody actually smokes these things) and prohibiting me from killing people or putting microplastics in the water. Family organization, right, most people intuitively understand that interfering with it is a government exceeding its scope, but at present, find a government that *doesn't* want to fuck with that.
Lenin wrote this tortured essay about whether or not owning a cat was a counterrevolutionary act. *Is* having a cat reactionary? The question is goddamn stupid: obviously, politics do not apply there. But if you don't recognize a limit to the scope of your political philosophy (and Marxism explicitly does not, which is how we got Lysenkoism, because plants have to be inherently communist), then you can ask that question with a straight face. You won't get a sensible answer because it's a senseless question, but you have people trying to answer it because they're too stupid to recognize that there is a line somewhere.
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