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Panfilo posted:I always wonder what these idiots are like in real life. Anonymity has a way of making a person larger than life, and Twitter's current systems really amplify the worst of the worst. But what is Lo Fi republican in real life? Some baby faced college republican from BYU? A gas station attendant? A pensioner living in the desolate swamps of Florida? My guess is a minimum wage worker at a bleak corporate retail store who went out of his way to thwart a shoplifter (despite gaining nothing himself and the franchise standing to lose very little) because he saw what happened to Spider-man and knows deep down that if you let a criminal escape they might come for your uncle next.
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DarklyDreaming posted:I sometimes used to put security tag thingies on pricier items at a retail place I used to work at, what does that make me? How does boot tatse lmao?
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Panfilo posted:I always wonder what these idiots are like in real life. Anonymity has a way of making a person larger than life, and Twitter's current systems really amplify the worst of the worst. But what is Lo Fi republican in real life? Some baby faced college republican from BYU? A gas station attendant? A pensioner living in the desolate swamps of Florida? well, the lofi republican dipshit is around 25, though forget what he actually does and the dude making the rape comparison is the human pet guy
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Mr Interweb posted:
Uhhh do I even want to know E: oh wow googling "human pet guy" answers that. Guy apparently thinks I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream had a happy ending. VitalSigns fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Aug 25, 2023 |
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Everyone knows human pet guy.
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related: https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1695091397894811656 loving 
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Yeah without tow truck drivers how would society survive 
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The thin piss line between people and having free stuff.
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Ravenfood posted:Yeah without tow truck drivers how would society survive You know tow trucks do things besides repo, right? Like I had to have my car towed to a tire store when I got a flat. Flag is still dumb as poo poo, don't get me wrong. It just seems odd to choose the one group represented who actually do something useful and not loving loss prevention.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:You know tow trucks do things besides repo, right? Like I had to have my car towed to a tire store when I got a flat. i figure the immediate thought upon hearing tow truck drivers are the people who take away your car for going 5 mins in a parking spot and charge you $100/day to get it back (seriously, how the gently caress is this poo poo legal?  )
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Avi Eisenberg is a crypto trader. He was arrested in December 2022 and held as a flight risk - which is exceedingly unusual in a commodities market manipulation case. I wonder if it has anything to do with the One Joke about Libertarians turning up true again (PDF):
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How do they even envision "National Divorce" even happening? https://twitter.com/LPNational/status/1695788205826576518?t=od7np2ain8GJKivJi547UA&s=19
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Panfilo posted:How do they even envision "National Divorce" even happening? Capitulate to us, gently caress you.
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Panfilo posted:How do they even envision "National Divorce" even happening? They put us in the ovens.
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Panfilo posted:How do they even envision "National Divorce" even happening?
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And how to they think the counties were made?
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"The Washington Regime" is very funny. America was a libertarian paradise until Americans took it over. 
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:"The Washington Regime" is very funny. Most of the English colonies were straight up anarchist communes in their first fifty or so years. Then they all sold out and became resource extraction sites for The Crown Of course, it was always gonna end that way because no one steals land benevolently
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:"The Washington Regime" is very funny. Some libertarians consider Washington basically a monarchist who betrayed the American Revolution by imposing federal taxes on Americans and crushing the Whiskey Rebellion. I learned this from that graphic novel where an anti-government hero cop is transported to a Libertarian alt-history universe where the point of divergence was the Whiskey Rebellion succeeded and Washington and Hamilton were executed as tyrants.
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VitalSigns posted:I learned this from that graphic novel where an anti-government hero cop is transported to a Libertarian alt-history universe where the point of divergence was the Whiskey Rebellion succeeded and Washington and Hamilton were executed as tyrants. This is The Probability Broach by L Neil Smith, which won the Prometheus award for outstanding Libertarian propaganda. An organization founded and overseen by L Neil Smith
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Probability Broach summary posted:[H]e eventually finds himself projected into the North American Confederacy by means of the "Probability Broach", an inter-dimensional conduit originally developed as a means for interstellar travel in the North American Confederacy by a bottlenose dolphin physicist, named Ooloorie Eckickeck P'Wheet, and her human compatriot, Dr. Dora Jayne Thorens. This sounds wild. Male dolphins are notorious rapists, I wonder if this influenced the creative process?
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It's actually mostly dumb and libertarian wanking material written by someone who never thinks about implications of anything . A thread on here did a read along for it at some point in the past decade. It was entertaining Also surprise suprise the ending has them temporarily abandoning their libertarian principles to win the day and this isn't seen as hypocritical or an argument against libertarian ism Also, racism and sexism would have never existed in American society in this alt history and we wouldn't have genocided the indigenous population despite you know libertarian history Edit 2: Also there were chimp slaves who were happy to be slaves right? Something like that where I'm not sure the author was dog whistling or was just too dumb to see the implications Billy Gnosis fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Aug 28, 2023 |
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DarklyDreaming posted:This is The Probability Broach by L Neil Smith, which won the Prometheus award for outstanding Libertarian propaganda. An organization founded and overseen by L Neil Smith
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Didn't Rand Paul start his own optometrist board, with
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Guavanaut posted:Founding an organization to proclaim yourself best libertarian probably does make you so, because that's near peak libertarian. Only if you are subsequently eaten by a bear, making it the Prometheus Memorial Award.
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Rappaport posted:Didn't Rand Paul start his own optometrist board, with Yes. The American Board of Ophthalmology passed a new rule stating that Ophthalmologists need to be recertified every ten years (rather than being certified for life), with accompanying recertification fees. But, and this is key, members who had been originally certified before 1992 were grandfathered in and were exempt from recertification. Rand Paul was certified in 1995. Thus began the most libertarian of feuds, with Rand Paul establishing his own rival board, the National Board of Ophthalmology, whose board of directors were made up of the Paul family, which ran for about a decade before falling apart, and which even Rand Paul's supporters described as "dysfunctional and poorly orchestrated". As far as I know, no state requires board certification to be a practicing Ophthalmologist, so the entire thing was largely legally meaningless.
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Rappaport posted:This sounds wild. Male dolphins are notorious rapists, I wonder if this influenced the creative process? There used to be more popular ideas in sci-fi of "uplifting" dolphins and other cetaceans. A lot of the pop culture idea of the intelligence of dolphins came from the work of one guy, John C. Lily, who on top of proving the intelligence of dolphins, thought that if he could just bridge the communication gap, that'd open up a lot. Independent from his work in dolphins, he also did some work and speculation about aliens, which created a whole link between dolphins and sci-fi. Not-so-independently, he also did lots of work with altered states of consciousness and psychoactive drugs, which explains how elaborate his speculation and delusions about aliens got. He also gave dolphins LSD. Don't give dolphins LSD.
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Also way at the opposite end to L Neil Smith, J Posadas had some wild ideas about UFOs, advanced technology, and communication with dolphins being key to human liberation.
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SlothfulCobra posted:There used to be more popular ideas in sci-fi of "uplifting" dolphins and other cetaceans. A lot of the pop culture idea of the intelligence of dolphins came from the work of one guy, John C. Lily, who on top of proving the intelligence of dolphins, thought that if he could just bridge the communication gap, that'd open up a lot. The 'Known Space' universe also has intelligent dolphins IIRC, but I can't remember a story that features them as characters off the seat of my pants. There was also Margaret Howe Lovatt who worked with dr. Lilly on dolphin-human communication experiments and wound up doing... Other things with a male dolphin. 60s were funky, as they say.
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Billy Gnosis posted:
Except the main characters of course who go out and do what is according to their principles essentially a lynching, but nobody reexamines their ideology in light of this Billy Gnosis posted:Edit 2: Also there were chimp slaves who were happy to be slaves right? Something like that where I'm not sure the author was dog whistling or was just too dumb to see the implications
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In uh positive? Libertarian news, Vermin's running again https://twitter.com/Politics1com/status/1696168262617194561 I don't know if he has any non-joke policies or anything, I just personally watched him get inbetween a bunch of protesters and cops in Boston right after Charlottsville and defuse a pretty tense situation, so that's my interaction with the dude.
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Rappaport posted:The 'Known Space' universe also has intelligent dolphins IIRC, but I can't remember a story that features them as characters off the seat of my pants. i just read World of Ptavvs. there's a dolphin in that.
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If you want intelligent dolphins in SF, then there's also David Brin's Uplift series. Humans have uplifted both dolphins and chimps to sapience, and then discover galactic society where this is the norm - to the point that humanity's claims of evolution through natural selection are seen as wildly aberrant and cause political problems because humans have no parent/sponsor species but do have clients. As I recall, the second book in particular features uplifted dolphins heavily as characters.
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Doc Hawkins posted:i just read World of Ptavvs. there's a dolphin in that. You're right! It's been like a decade since I've read that, should refresh my memories. The Slavers could be interpreted as an allegory of late-stage libertarianism if one squints, even 
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The Uplift series by David Brin also has intelligent dolphins.
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As does the "Flipper" series.
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Johnny Mnemonic features a heroin addicted dolphin loaded with cyberware who cracks the password to Johnny's brain for some sweet sweet heroin.
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Doc Hawkins posted:i just read World of Ptavvs. there's a dolphin in that. That's a good one, shame about how Libertarian Known Space gets (plots become an excuse for weird sex and convoluted rationales for ephebophilia if they're humanoid aliens)
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So is this kid some kind of plant or what https://twitter.com/cboyack/status/1696508336345153691?t=iQxn0cjqS-lOmWsh6C_k-A&s=19
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Panfilo posted:So is this kid some kind of plant or what Seems pretty obvious it was a "parent tries to victimize themselves by pretending it was all their kid's idea" and the school overreacted. quote:As you can hear his mom say in the video, Jaiden wanted to stand up for his (non-racist!) beliefs. So after he was kicked out of class, he asked his mom to take him to the news station to get the word out. Yes, I'm sure that this was all Jaiden's idea and Jaiden demanded his mom go to the news station.
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