> A swastika is an image that has no non-racist symbology.
It's been around for 12,000 years and is still central to Buddhism, Hinduism, and a wide array of other belief systems world-wide, including pre-colonial America. The word itself is Sanskrit. The German term for it was "Hakenkreuz". It means "welcome", "good fortune", and in some cases "victory" now just as it always has. Generally it's regarded to be symbolic of the earthly and/or solar wheel/cycle.
Meanwhile the Christian cross has been used for over 1,700 years as a symbol associated with the violent vilification of every other belief system bar none, and repeated global scale acts of genocide and tyranny. There are countless orders of magnitude more victims of Christian bigotry than Hitler could even imagine (notwithstanding his own verbatim statements affirming Nazis as being Christians). Yet unlike the swastika, no one seems to be calling for a ban on displaying the cross. Personally it makes me sick to my stomach every time I see it, after a lifetime of dealing with the violently delusion adherents of this superstition.
In just over 10 years, a globally ubiquitous symbol of other people's religion has been vilified and banned outright in many places, all to placate the indignant outrage of people who in plenty of cases were arm and arm with their own supposed persecutors. The only reason this is allowed is because it's Abrahamic religion (the all time historical `victim Olympics` champions). If it were any other religion, no one would give a flying fuck. Meanwhile now were're 3 generations removed from those events, and yet still have to kow-tow to this bullshit in order to escape persecution ourselves.
Hitler won, and we largely have Jews/Zionists to thank for it. He may not have eradicated the Jews in total, but everyone who now thinks the Swastika is hate speech, has acceded to the rightness of his theft of an element of the common spiritual heritage of humanity.
You over estimate the intelligence of the average citizen if that's what you think. If the plandemic taught us anything it's that people are easily goaded by fear into doing things which aren't in their own best interests, and there's no amount of rational or ethical arguments that can prevent them from stampeding across your face in their panic to be saved from the fictitious bogeyman. Honestly though, the plandemic was just a symptom of an issue that's existed for a lot longer. As the saying goes, individuals may be relative smart one-on-one, but as a group, they're dumb as half-baked potato and pretty much will do whatever they've been spoonfed by the MSM and the plutocratic despots we call leaders.
No shit. There's no freedom of speech in Canada. We have freedom of opinion, only to the extent that the government hasn't convinced their hoard of useful idiots that said opinion is hate speech. I would never host a website in Canada, regardless of it's content. There are maybe 2 ISPs right now on a global level which I'd even consider hosting with, and even then, it's only with a wing and a prayer (and rigorous use of VPNs, etc). Basically if the ISP's entire reason d'etre isn't focused on safeguarding free speech and a free and open internet, then they won't get my business.
But I was rubbernecking this nonsense from the start, and it was obvious right from day one that #gamergate was a way for corrupt corporate shills to deflect from their own corruption by trying to shift the blame to someone/everyone else. Part of the reason I caught on so quick was that I'd seen the exact same pattern over and over again previously in the left-wing activist milieu (eg. Occupy movement).
My assessment now is that most of the folks involved in proclaiming the "gamers are racist/sexist/bigots" narrative, had/have all the classic signs of narcissistic personality disorder. Their ability to organise a lynch mob under false pretences has discredited everything they stand for in my eyes. Even when I agree with them, I won't make common cause with these people for that reason.
The neck being stomped on doesn't care whether it's the right boot or the left boot doing the stomping.
Besides which, I'm an anarchist. The whole modern right-left paradigm is just a ploy to keep stupid people divided and easily conquered. As long as you buy into one or the other side, you're simply part of the problem.
You and I have vastly differing experience on this. I've been part of activism on both sides of the isle when it aligns with my values and interests, so I can speak from ample experience that the left and the right wing in Canada are both equally delusional.
Anyway, the right-left moniker originates from the revolutionary French legislature. Right wing originally referred to monarchists and the aristocracy, whereas left-wing applied to everyone else spanning from Communists right though to Laissez-faire Capitalists.
Frankly it's not really the economic theories that irk me the most. Neither is a panacea against the ills they pretend to oppose, but simply a different path to the same ultimate destination. What irks me is putting people in charge of society who can't distinguish between a pseudohistorical fantasy novel, and objective reality. They belong in a padded cell, not public office.
I have similar issues here in Canada with the right-wing. Especially the evangelical Christian right-wing. They support a lot of the same issues I do, but I absolutely will never make common cause with them because of what they would do should they ever gain any power to speak of.
I used jQuery when it first came out and because beaucoup websites use it whether it's needed or not. But Element.querySelector() will do 90% of what jQuery does and more efficiently/predictably without obfuscating access to the underlying objects.
This is how I feel about almost every framework out there. Not only that, but the minute it ceases to be the latest fad, all the skills acquired will become completely useless. Whereas if you learn the core language fluently, then frameworks are more often than not, unnecessary and superfluous.
"An individual who has to make things for the use of others, and with reference to their wants and their wishes, does not work with interest, and consequently cannot put into his work what is best in him. Upon the other hand, whenever a community or a powerful section of a community, or a government of any kind, attempts to dictate to the artist what he is to do, Art either entirely vanishes, or becomes stereotyped, or degenerates into a low and ignoble form of craft. A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want. Indeed, the moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist, and becomes a dull or an amusing craftsman, an honest or a dishonest tradesman. He has no further claim to be considered as an artist."
I wonder about this myself from time to time. Like take tobacco smoking as an example. Who owns the air we breath? Is it considered "aggression" to pollute the air with substances which are noxious to the other people effected? In principal it's the same with air-waves. Who exactly has allodial title to the air[waves]? Is there (or should there be) such a thing as adverse possession (eg. squatters rights) in this context?
Thing is, whether [American right-wing] libertarians are willing to acknowledge it or not, there is such a thing as public property (aka: common pool resources). Air and water are the most obvious examples. This is where [American right-wing] libertarianism's capitalist myopia puts a wrench in the gears, and where folks like Elinor Ostrom make vastly more practical/realistic sense.
any experience with svelte? I generally avoid frameworks (preferring core languages), but I've heard good things about svelte relative to other options as far as these things go.
The best thing about covid is being able to walk into a bank wearing a balaclava and not get shot in the face. Mind you if you didn't wear a mask, that's a possibility.How well do you think an n95 mask would stop a fart?But hey, that's why there're safe and effective (never before tested, experimental, totally not gene therapy, fingers crossed, honest) vaccines. Not so long ago it was GMO food we had to worry about. Now half the people I know are GMOs, and so is the entire hospital blood supply. Anyway, that's not nearly as important as whether I prefer the pronoun you're using, you bigot nazi fascist who wants to take away our ability to take away your ability to speak to whoever or about whatever we dislike du jour. Nya!Why is it called conspiracy "theory"? Isn't a theory a hypothesis which has been thoroughly tested and has withstood every effort to debunk it? Hmmm...The way society is going in a generation or two from now young adults will be l