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Jippa posted:Wouldn't you need china/russia/NK levels of control to "ban" vpn's though? What even is the point that will never happen? The point, as with all such incredibly broad laws, is to give you more tools with which to gently caress up the lives of the people you do go after, and to eliminate competition to your own illegal activities. Simply making enough of your citizens' everyday existence illegal can be a powerful tool to let them know that they only live and enjoy their lives through the continued generosity of their government.
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Freudian posted:I forgot this was an actual thing. I reckon that with informed patient consent, organ engravings could prove a surprisingly popular industry. Just seems like the sort of thing that would have an adequate market of interested weirdos.
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Tesseraction posted:Yeah, and it's basically Sunday Times or Financial Times for this kind of thing. The Guardian still does investigative journalism at more or less the same level as the Times, and is slightly less overt in its right-wing bullshit most of the time (if only because Times opinion columns can get truly, insanely awful on a level that even the Guardian's TERF brigade have difficulty reaching).
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Dec 11, 2022 20:39
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https://twitter.com/kadhim/status/1602447895453638656?s=46&t=-frTKe1zp-rsy8u-MaZcfQ lol, dude gave a bunch of media interviews confessing to gigafraud and then sat around waiting for the FBI to cart him away. I know crypto attracts particularly stupid crooks, but he has to be the new world record holder.
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Dec 13, 2022 00:55
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josh04 posted:It's not mycrimes.txt yet but it's getting there. You were saying? https://twitter.com/markdistef/status/1602435708748107776?s=46&t=ufmwnnF8Lm-EvEO-n9srOA
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Bobby Deluxe posted:"Born too late Dachau clerks" is such a great phrase, they are exactly the kind of people who'd casually sign off on an action they know would lead to that person's death. I mean, odds are a good number of them have.
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OwlFancier posted:Also that is why you must not jack off because that uses up your sex power and if you keep all your sex power you can go super saiyan and the elites don't want you to know this. Reminds me of Journey to the West, where the monk Xuanzang is perfectly pure (and irresistible to female demons) because he hasn't jacked off for ten lifetimes.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Who? Seems a bit unfair by the headline writer, none of those look like they've got particularly dramatic BMI issues.
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Tesseraction posted:I only got up to Margit kicking my poo poo in and then wondering around a bit so I'm not much help Wandering around a bit is the game-intended response to Margit wrecking your face, so congrats on taking the hint, and have fun with Limgrave and the Weeping Peninsula (and Caelid, if you're feeling very brave). Regarding multiplayer, they made matchmaking for co-op much easier in a semi-recent update, where you can choose to make your summon sign visible either 'near' or 'both near and far' when you activate your Golden Effigy (the item that signals you're up for helping people in co-op). If you pick the latter, you can get summoned by basically everyone at any Effigy of the Martyr (the little statues of the crucified woman that show up all over the place) in the entire game-world that you've activated by examining it. This means it's both easy to get summoned and to find people to summon at one of those effigies, because you'll have a large chunk of the entire playerbase queueing up to help you out.
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Useful contribution to the chat about lefties and incels: https://twitter.com/goingmedieval/status/1609234823671054336?s=46&t=CWk3dYZdW8pvQN2gSEDOMA
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Pistol_Pete posted:It's a shocking story - heavens knows how many people she's hurt with her lies. Including herself. Severing her own finger with a claw hammer just so she could create an entirely fictional web of abusers? Christ. Definitely something deeply wrong up top there. One detail was that she was a daughter of a local Labour councillor. I wonder if that helped give her a bigger platform?
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yaffle posted:The idea that someone considers Blair Charismatic in any way is wierd. It was quite a thing in the late nineties. It just peeled away impressively fast as the zealot horror within became impossible to contain.
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OwlFancier posted:Really the impressive bit would be if he managed to kill more armed fighters than civilians with a helicopter. Even that would be pretty easy, TBH, given that helicopter support is the standard panic-button if a convoy comes under attack, and Afghan militants (I'd say 'the Taliban', but let's be real here, half the time it was either supposedly allied warlords, unaffiliated bandits, or supposedly allied warlords disguising their boys as unaffiliated bandits) attacked a fuckload of convoys. Just shoot the guys who are shooting at your big trucks in the middle of nowhere. If he were a drone pilot, I'd be squinting a lot harder at that claim. They were the ones who just randomly shot up villages and called them terrorist camps, because they were too far away to ever need to give a poo poo. Darth Walrus fucked around with this message at 14:44 on Jan 6, 2023 |
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In video game soundtrack chat, I'm not sure what subgenre of hip-hop the Anarchy Reigns OST is, but I definitely vibed with it.
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https://twitter.com/flying_rodent/status/1614432120172052481?s=46&t=b1Y2tYo_4o214Gh1vKbrrg Controlled opposition going all in on 'lol, gently caress the NHS'.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Not sure if there is any investigative journalism in the MSM these days. Well, there's Reuters and the Associated Press, I guess, who are where most media organisations get their real news from. They're not commonly thought of as 'mainstream media', but they underpin the vast majority of it.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:A bunch of Lab types are defending themselves saying they were paired apparently. Apparently, it was an emergency debate with only 24 minutes of notice, so a lot of MPs just couldn't physically get to the House in time.
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Tesseraction posted:Pretty sure a dog that big lacks the instincts to be violent. Selectively bred to be big strong dumb babies. Depends on the dog. Sometimes they're bred that big because someone actually does want a gigantic furry killing machine, like the Black Russian Terrier, a breed created by the KGB during World War II to do all the things that you'd expect the KGB to want enormous dogs to do.
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OwlFancier posted:I am not sure that a tory could tweet about any of their staff without implying that. Consider how many of them are dating their staff, though.
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The Question IRL posted:Think Jackson Pollock Painting. I guess it would involve a grid pattern and unusually precise splatter.
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Good thread on a detail that makes the already-incredibly-weird Ghislaine Maxwell interview even weirder: https://twitter.com/brokenbottleboy/status/1617893519250821122?s=46&t=Lry0UaN1mYMeR59xZQXskw
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His Divine Shadow posted:Speaking about more political / leftist stuff. Been seeing more people sayign fascism has roots in socialism and marx and the like, and if you google it you mostly get right wing sites supporting said conclusion. Anyone know a good source to counter this? I don't know poo poo about the historical origins of that, or if it matters much since fascism has in practice always allied with the right. The Wikipedia article on the economy of Nazi Germany should comfortably put paid to that notion. Apart from anything else, they coined the term 'privatisation' to describe their selling off of state-run industries after the Great Depression. One of the central tenets of Nazism was that democracy should be abolished because it was an obstacle to capitalism and a gateway to socialism, which Hitler helpfully spelled out in one of his early speeches: quote:The month after being appointed Chancellor, Hitler made a personal appeal to German business leaders to help fund the Nazi Party for the crucial months that were to follow. He argued that the experience of Weimar Republic had shown that "'private enterprise cannot be maintained in the age of democracy.' Business was founded above all on the principles of personality and individual leadership. Democracy and liberalism led inevitably to Social Democracy and Communism." In the following weeks, the Nazi Party received contributions from seventeen different business groups, with the largest coming from IG Farben and Deutsche Bank. Many of these businesses continued to support Hitler even during the war and even profited from persecution of the Jews. The most infamous being firms like Krupp, IG Farben, and some large automobile manufacturers. Historian Adam Tooze writes that the leaders of German business were therefore "willing partners in the destruction of political pluralism in Germany." In exchange, owners and managers of German businesses were granted unprecedented powers to control their workforce, collective bargaining was abolished and wages were frozen at a relatively low level. Business profits also rose very rapidly, as did corporate investment.
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Spangly A posted:There's not really a claim to oppose? Fascists have been anti-communist since Mussolini's little bundle of national action started up to campaign ifor Italy to gently caress with Australia in ww1. Opposing every movement that doesn't despise the existence of ethnic minorities as "communist" is one of the genuinely universal traits of fascist movements. I'd argue that it goes much further than that - fascism is deeply ideologically tied with capitalism, seeing the state as a means of supporting and rewarding social-Darwinist competition both economic and social. The Nazis in particular were extremely serious about their conflation of Judaism and communism, with free-market competition being what they considered to be the ideal way to prove Aryan supremacy and let the untermensch wither and die without state coddling.
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OwlFancier posted:The point of fascism I think really is to get people to reject economic explanations for their problems and instead to focus on magical thinking and weird ideas about the inherent difference and hierarchy of racial classification, which certainly has its roots in a lot of ideas that were floating around at the beginning of the 20th century and many of which have never quite gone away, just taken different forms with poo poo like the bell curve. Nope, they went all-in on tying the racial to the economic. Remember that fascism was chiefly a militant middle-class reaction to an underclass rising in power and influence - they wanted to reasssert that the poor were naturally poor because they were subhuman, and that their demands for equality should be violently suppressed.
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OwlFancier posted:Yeah to the extent they do have economic thoughts it is promotion of things they can tie into the cult of competition and hierarchy. I don't know how they would fare in the long term (lol at the idea of long term fascism not imploding) but yes they will often get on well with capitalism immediately, insofar as it exalts the idea of the worthy and unworthy. Though obviously their racial theories come before any notion of capitalist success, if you're the wrong type of person you can't be allowed to succeed under capitalism. Which I suppose if you have the right kind of brain spiders could be thought of as dangerously socialist interference with the market. The Nazis helpfully spelled out that that was exactly what they thought was the explanation for rich Jews - Judeo-Bolshevism was rigging the free market to give them an unfair advantage against hard-working Aryans. Their economic ideology (despite their protestations that they didn't have one) was quite coherent. It was just insane and gratuitously sadistic.
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