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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jul-2024 21:37:58 JST 
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The story of the arabs curating Greek writings then those coming back is one of the most interesting out there. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jul-2024 21:59:13 JST
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Yes, the conception of a nation as just a geographical area and a democratic government slapped on top is I think a product of the modern period's colonialism, resulting global empires such as the English, Spanish, Portuguese, and to a lesser extent powers like France, and existing nations like the United States that don't have those long histories and relatively unified ethnicity. In that sense, premodern states were effective ethnostates.
I'm using the word in the modern sense since that's how we use it today because it helps people (including myself) who were confused by the concept of national socialism in a postmodern world that doesn't see nations that way colloquially anymore.
I'm hypocritical in my distaste for the use of the word neoliberal in such a way that it represents an effective growing of government while pretending to do the opposite by reducing public services. I recognize that that is how it is come to be known now, however.
Something a lot of leftists don't seem to realize is that the social liberalism is just a tool for the destruction of capitalism. In every example on record they'd open up to degenerates until they're in power then they call that behavior anti-revolutionary and crack down. Every time. I could see a winning ideology that proposed socialism but also was against the absolute degeneracy of the Weimar Republic being tempting for communists who want to get closer to socialism and see what the Weimar republic showed them as capitalist decadence and decline suggesting all capitalism was about to collapse. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 10:03:48 JST
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Watching Airplane from 1980.
You know, you'd think a comedy from 44 years ago wouldn't be able to surprise me, but it gets me now and again. Pretty entertaining. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 13:58:08 JST
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A lot of people are so caught up in their deep hatred that they can't see anything else. It's frustrating because people doing that aren't all bad people, some are otherwise quite lovely, and it's really annoying that they are so blinded. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 22:15:14 JST
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I've been really finding that almost all the western movies and music I consume are over 10 years old.
And you might go "Oh, well you're just getting old and you like the nostalgia", but a lot of it I've never seen before!
Not to mention, stuff not out of the west I'm enjoying weekly. It's just the Hollywood system that's failing to produce anything I want to watch.
(I guess there's been a very small number of examples of good stuff made in the past 10 years I watched and enjoyed, but not many, and they sort of prove that it isn't like I'm dogmatically avoiding western media made in the past 10 years) -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 09:11:22 JST
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You're right, and I think both parties need to be held to account a lot more for what they do in that regard. They wait until they're no longer in power to introduce legislation then blame the other party for not passing it when they had the capacity to pass it often just a few years prior. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 06:41:58 JST
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I told my 2 year old that Joe had dropped out and he said "That seems like a highly suspicious decision. Clearly she only got 2% of the vote in the primaries in 2020 she simply isn't electable and everyone knows it. I wonder if this is a strategic decision whereby the Democrats will essentially throw Kamala Harris into the volcano proverbially speaking so they don't damage the credibility of any candidates with any chance of winning 2028?" -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 04:43:13 JST
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I find the common defense of Biden to be really funny.
"He's been at meetings! With important people!"
People sleep through meetings with important people every single day that's not a defense. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 04:05:38 JST
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Yeah, your problem is not enough caffeine.
(And as a nod to continuity, I stopped with coffee myself because it was harsh on my stomach and I've got a pretty iron stomach!) -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 22:45:19 JST
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Part of the problem is that they're just tourists so they think the Republicans win every court case they get to scotus, which isn't true -- if SCOTUS was just an organ of the Republican party, Trump would be just about to finish his second term in office.
Most people criticizing don't realize for example that the court has had an overwhelming number of cases that ended up being 7-0 recently, and there's cases where some liberal justices and some conservative justices combined to get a slim outcome. They're not politicians, they're judges and have a different view of the world. Under Trump most Republicans hated Roberts for example.
Many such people think they would have opposed the Nazis if they were Germans in 1936, while loving who the establishment tells them to love and hating who the establishment tells them to hate and not realizing their behavior would have aligned them directly with the Nazis in Germany in 1936. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 06:28:32 JST
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I have to admit, it really sucks that crunchyroll turned off the comments. There'll be a really spicy episode and it's like "oh boy I wonder what the comments have to say about this?" and then you realize it doesn't say anything because crunchyroll is a bunch of pathetic losers who are scared to death of their users. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jul-2024 19:35:18 JST
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And what's really interesting is that the commies themselves refute themselves. Western civilization produced a kind of utopia with universal suffrage, limited suffering, vast material wealth, and virtually no war. Despite that, the commies claim the path to utopia was immoral therefore the end result is immoral. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jul-2024 19:25:42 JST
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Ethics get complicated there too -- if you're a consequentialist, do you go by the actual consequences or the intended consequences? If the former then what is ethical can only be chosen in retrospect so you're trying to predict what will be ethical by trying to predict future outcomes. If it's the latter, then incorrect consequences can justify overall wrong actions as justified even if successful implementation will always result in negative outcomes because you're just wrong.
That's where imo you do need a base of deontological ethics, hard lines you don't cross, because otherwise you can find yourself either never knowing what is ethical until after the fact leading you down a rabbit hole of betting against God predicting the future, or you can break your whole ethical system by biasing what you think the consequences will be unconsciously. You can the consider consequentialist perspective for more complicated ideas once you stop yourself from doing things you'll regret later if you get the consequences wrong or sometimes even if you're right -- if you become an ethical monster you might be right but you still have to live with yourself afterwards. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2024 09:48:46 JST
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Something a lot of these people don't realize. America in 2024 isn't Stockholm, it isn't Wellington, and to be fair (since I'm a canuckistani) it isn't Ottawa either.
If you're not in the US and you look around and try to judge what's going on there based on the leftists you know, then you're going to make a mistake. "Oh well the people around me are ok" -- yeah, that's great, neither Stockholm, nor Wellington, nor Ottawa are potentially already in a low key civil war. America certainly appears to be. If in any of our countries we had just one of the major political events of the past 8 years it'd be part of our history we talked about forever, but the US keeps getting hit with one after another after another, and the reaction with the US only shows how fractured a society they have -- something insane happens and half of people are actually kinda game. The level of low key civil war is so intense that people in other countries think it's chill to pick sides and say it's ok for you to kill your hated political opponent, which I need to point out isn't normal!
Imagine if any one of our countries had violent riots break out for 6 months in a bunch of our cities, killing dozens of people and causing billions of dollars of property damage. That would be the most defining moment of our generation. If someone tried to shoot Pierre Poilievre, that'd be shocking to the conscience, not something to cheer about! Same with Christopher Luxon, same as if someone tried to kill Magdalena Andersson. But we don't think about that because the toxicity of US politics is so normalized.
So when you go "Well the leftists in our countries are so normal so they wouldn't do that" -- well it's a different country and the Americans have done that repeatedly so stop thinking with your local common sense. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jul-2024 13:34:01 JST
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I deleted the post moments after writing it because I don't really feel like getting into a dumb political argument.
But it's pretty simple: If you're sitting there cheering for an attempted assassination, or apologizing for it, then the assassin is one of "your guys".
I hate a lot of politicians, and joking aside I don't want any of them assassinated. I want Justin Trudeau to lose in disgrace and go live out his days in California, not painting the steps of parliament. If someone tried to kill Trudeau, even with all he's done, I'll condemn that guy because once assassinations hit the table, they stay on the table, and it won't take 80 years for republics to end. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jul-2024 13:34:00 JST
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Follows directly. The PRC may not be "your guys" but in that moment while doing the thing you want them to do and you apologized for and you defended, that guy is "your guy".
Besides, it's looking increasing like it's a far left American. Which it would make sense for it to be. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jul-2024 10:52:19 JST
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No, I just deleted because when he's not ranting about American politics stux is a good guy and I didn't want to fight with him over this. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jul-2024 16:21:48 JST
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Most people don't realize just how fucked up the world economy is right now. Capitalism is long over. You don't have capitalism when 50% of GDP is the state in most countries, or when blue collar workers pay 50% taxes on the last dollar they earn. By contrast, my great grandparents paid no income taxes and the government was about 10% of the economy.
"But look at all the super-rich people!" Yeah, that happens every time the state becomes massive because the powerful people in government make sure their friends and allies are taken care of. It has gone on for millennia in every region of the world because power corrupts.
We're living in a totalitarian civilization because at some point we decided that "everything is political" and thus under the purview of the government. Of course there's corruption and greed. We used to have culture, and community, and even religion. We gave it all away.
And the worst part is that people can't even recognize something as simple as a guy who got rich on subsidies and fed money printing cranking up his stonks isn't a libertarian. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2024 20:01:00 JST
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If you want to impress Japanese bitches, say "..."
Japanese bitches loooove "..." -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2024 19:59:51 JST
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Come on... It's only happened every single time. Just every single time though. But I'm confident this time will be different.
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