Notices by myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win), page 30

@clacke

oh wait I do see it, it's on the first post, but not the thread reblogging it. Which is also strange.

@clacke

What "sensitive label" ?

@HeavenlyPossum @jonquass @ehproque @moira @glyph @richpuchalsky

Five Baptists? Six opinions.

Five Anarchists? Twenty five opinions.

Five Anarchist Baptists? Just go home.

"It's not just a bug, it's a creature."

I'm not above making outlandish creature requests in bug reports.

My weird Libertarian neighbor passed away back in 2005. I'm glad he didn't have to see this.

I'm also glad he's not around to hear me say that I think they deserve this fate. American Libertarians used to sincerely care about freedoms in their own strange way. They would explain to you how you needed to hire your own private police (which sounded awful to me even as a teen) but somewhere in all those bad ideas was a commitment to a combination of freedom and tolerance.

Where did it go?

3/3

@ehproque @moira

"Anarchists"
Is a big umbrella of a word wherein you can find very different philosophies. At the moment the term seems to be used more by those who sincerely support the idea of popular distributed power. People skeptical of concentrations of power, especially the state, but not limited to the state.

@jonquass @ehproque @moira

I think it is weird how some people see voting as reflection of who they are. As identity. Confusing voting (which I see as my opportunity to give the behemoth a kick that may or may not send it moving in a better direction or at least steer it away from me and my friends) with swearing allegiance. Pledging fealty.

They act as if voting for someone is saying you love them, agree with everything they do forever, will marry them & kiss them.

I don't get it.

@richpuchalsky @jonquass @ehproque @moira

No it's not an "approval of genocide" nor is it an approval of anything else any canidate represents since even if only a few thousand voted and everyone else did as you would: abstaining--

***the election would still be valid under the current laws***

We do not have a law that says that "if too few people vote the state is no longer valid"

You can say it feels like that *should* be true but it's just a feeling. It's literally not how it works.

@angst_ridden

This whole "voting for Biden is approving genocide" line is insidious since many Americans don't pay enough attention for foreign policy. They feel insecure about how little they know, if they are conscientious people willing to (rightly) question US military policy. They think: "Maybe the right move is to not be a part of it."

It would *feel* better to not be a part of it. But, that is all. It feels better.

Use every lever of power you can reach. Abdicate nothing.

This timelapse of a fungus kept by leafcutter ants is remarkable. Thousands of ants monitoring humidity, the nutrition needs of the fungus, removing unwanted growths, keeping their brood and harvesting food. Inside: the queen. Totally inclosed in a living home. The walls are food, a place for her eggs, they slowly renew, tended by her daughters.

As every living organism maintains itself, but on a strange macro-scale. These are your cells shedding and being replaced.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3AZffDtOlw

@alfiekohn

I think that ant is a girl... but then maybe I'm being too prescriptivist. LOL

I have a soft spot for Libertarians even though I shouldn't and they don't deserve it. When I was a kid I had a weird neighbor who was always giving me Libertarian books... I wish I still had some of them they were WILD. He was a thorn in the side of the local, school board as well insisting that if they had an event at the school that involved politics Libertarians had to be included.

And in defense of the guy, he was about as likable and earnest as a Libertarian could be.

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This was the 90s and I think Libertarians weren't as horrible back then. You still had people who were more like anarchists with dreamy notions of freedom from "the state" involved.

At some point that all dissolved and they just became another flavor of right wing reactionary. And I was a little sad to see the Trumpers taking over their convention this year. That is the death nail of anything ever was. (But really Rand Paul was the death nail.)

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@martinvermeer @nazokiyoubinbou

Voting records are public though. That is if you voted or not ... not who you voted for naturally.

The whole mentality behind this speaks to some notion that Trump supporters have about being rewarded, or favored by participating in the movement?

Maybe that's why some participate in rallies and advertise their allegiance?

“We see you haven’t voted yet. Your voting record is public,” a recent mailer to Texas Republicans says. “Your neighbors are watching and will know if you miss this critical runoff election. We will notify President Trump if you don’t vote. You can’t afford to have that on your record.”

The thing about a "strong" "leader"? Eventually you'll be the one targeted when things get desperate enough. No matter how much you think you are the kind of person who wouldn't be.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-supporters-are-now-sending-threatening-letters-to-get-people-to-vote-for-him/ar-BB1mV1XP

The decisions and policy that have the most profound impacts on the greatest number of human lives often aren't the ones talked about most often in political discourse.

What is the biggest difference between life in this era and say... European feudalism?

I would argue it's near universal literacy. And along with simply having access to the written word, the highest percentage of a population armed with some scraps of what you might call a "liberal arts education"

The ability to self-teach.

@elan Sometimes! Though he’s very … youTube influencer styled (which is the only way to make such work a sustainable profession) but I think it harms the quality of the content— he used to make much better but less “viral” videos.

But at least it gets people thinking about ants. So I can’t be a hater.

Wow... Repulicans think FBI agents and cops shouldn't be armed. I mean that's the only way they wouldn't be moaning and crying about the FBI showing up being an "assassination attempt on Trump" ... if agents were simply not armed.

You know?

I agree. Why not.