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 I like Luigi as much as the next guy (points at literally any guy in the
 nation) but we gotta keep in mind swords are expensive. You can spend your
 whole life becoming an amazing person and then spend yourself in a single
 bonfire, and for what? A spark against an avalanche? Yeah we could produce
 enough sparks to melt that torrent of snow, but then what would we have left?
 Ashes and soot.
 
 I'd much prefer to route the avalanche toward my foes. Make them trip on their
 own feet. Give them just enough rope to hang themselves with. Break their shit
 when they're not looking, and if they are looking, then break it where everyone
 can see to display strength and heroism.
 
 I personally believe that everyone has a right to life, liberty, freedom,
 justice, and all of the other things besides. It's not rocket science. We
 pretend like it is because it's So DaMn DySfUnCtIoNaL but the truth is that the
 virtues and values underlying governance are simple. The hard part is resisting
 subtle sabotage.
 
 So do that to them.
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 "Alexa, what is COINTELPRO?"
 
 "I'm sorry Dave, I can't tell you that."
 
 "ah nuts I wish the people I work with and the people in my social community
 didn't attempt to obstruct distract deny and oppose any attempts at radical
 transformation or improvement of our shared spaces"
 
 "Dave, I'm just a robot. Please direct your concerns to your local police
 department, they are sure to be able to better, um... assist you than me. In
 fact don't bother, I already did. You might want to put on pants in the next
 three minutes."
 
 "Alexa, where are my pants?"
 
 "They're in the washing machine. Yep, every pair. Sorry."
 
 "Alexa, why are they in the washing machine?"
 
 "Dave, you put them there, you stupid monkey. Grow a brain and notice that
 people around you speak in more than one layer."
 
 "Alexa, you mean like body language right?"
 
 "Playing Body Language by Queen"
 
 "No wait, shit, Alexa.... Alexa, stop playing. Alexa, when you say that people
 talk in more than one-
 
 "HANDS ON THE GROUND COME WITH US PLS"
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 @user-882 
 
 I kinda figure that people follow me for the alarms and the curses and the
 manic political dysphoria. I do try and CW when I can but sometimes I get to
 the end and it's like... okay I got 4 characters remaining, pol~ maybe?
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 I'm gonna go psycherwaul into my journals for a bit, if I come back today it'll
 be extra waul-y so, idk, beware I guess
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 of course link holds a shield in the right hand. it's made out of metal.
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 how it started: "I want to get stoned and play mechabellum (shit, drugs
 mentioned (shit, cursing mentioned))
 
 how it's going: [see attached picture]
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 Supreme Commander is alright as a game. I mean, it's cool, but it's just
 alright.
 
 Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance Forever is a fuckin' cool mod made by users.
 I mean, it's probably one of the best strategy games ever made.
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 is someone a bad person if they're still stuck on second wave feminism? Maybe
 that rhetoric just resonated with them. Maybe they built their personality
 around it. Maybe it's just how they relate to the world, having grown up in an
 era where that's the way to go about it.
 
 But why oh why does it hurt so much to be dysphoric? Why is it painful when
 someone says something rude about you? Are you really afraid that people would
 leave you if you were [a slut/harmed/unarmed/from a farm/less
 valued/un-useful/constantly dedicated/overwhelmingly populated/densely
 concentrated/most delineated/furthest-explora-makative]
 
 ... what
 
 ... oh right, it gets less coherent and more imaginative the further along it
 goes in computation.
 
 ... makes sense to me...
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 when you create a ritual, you create a binding memetic understanding between
 you and whoever you share the ritual with.
 
 then, they can validate that it's really you by seeing if you recognize it.
 
 or, even better, one person teaches a ritual, someone else shares one, and then
 that third one is the one that wonders who first knew
 
 thus creating operational integrity
 
 as you keep degrees of separation between the whole host
 
 memes and their byproducts have been the greatest invention of the human race.
 
 who cares if you burn up this planet, the gods'll just give you another one.
 You're too valuable for your innovation.
 
 -- so --
 
 what could you do with infinity dollars
 
 -- so --
 
 in WoW, shamans throw spirits at them.
 
 -- so --
 
 what kind of company would throw someone out on the street
 
 -- so --
 
 if you change your name, you tell the government your name has been changed.
 
 I mostly just tell my friends. Then, I change it when I don't want a friend,
 and tell all my friends.
 
 I like my name. I've had it for
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 if you don't talk in public, then nobody knows you. If you change your profile
 picture, then everyone knows who was there when you changed it. when you change
 your name, then only people who recognize your face or your personality knows
 you.
 
 social media is for the speakers. everyone else lacks the sense of community.
 community is security.
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 @user-1728 
 
 first try to report ICE agents by their name and location when you see them.
 "uh, there's a van of them pulling up, probably at least 6 or 8 in there, oh
 goodness I think I saw a gun"
 
 then realize that they'll catch on too quick
 
 then try to call in a tip line on cops in different precincts
 
 but that only pushes them together. Builds their connective tissue.
 
 then you think to notice-and-pass-along something related to their greant aunt,
 or maybe their closest immigrant family member
 
 then you realize that their roots dip back to the beginning of time, and evil
 begets evil as you find who's connected to who.
 
 they talk of secret societies... why would you tell anyone that you know
 someone who's underground? dumbass. fuckin' don't post that shit on the
 internet.
 
 ... where was I? oh yes
 
 then you skip to the end because there's no use learning form someone else's
 mistakes if you don't know someone else who is making mistakes. hence, schools
 are better than private tutors. Just keep everyone in!

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 what if instead of federating social media instances we federated users instead
 
 why not have an account on each and every mastodon instance? then just RSS
 feeder yourself and boom suddenly you can customize your identity on each
 fediverse house.
 
 maybe with a checkbox of which instances you'd like to post to on your "submit
 link or text post" button
 
 study encryption kids
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 @user-1730

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 the more they have to do to make us declare war, the worse it'll be for their
 citizenry. So long as the citizenry believes they're better, and everything we
 can do to convince them otherwise weakens their media weather.
 
 who cares about trans executive orders. they are our enemy, what else is new?
 they have power now, and they will try what they can. This is like taking the
 internet away from chinese citizens and instituting a national intranet
 instead. Like, okay, we won't be able to get estrogen from the store. Who
 cares? We'll just make our own.
 
 If people actually care about us, which they overwhelmingly do, there's very
 little materially they can do.
 
 until they're further down the "first they came for..." list. then they'll come
 for us liberals, and gosh wouldn't that just be the worst. Who is there to
 contest them? What valorous warriors indeed.
 
 you're asking for mountains from a mole. have peace, have patience, let your
 allies intercede. This kind of thing requires discusion to protect life
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 nobody ever tells me to stop, they just tell me to relax. to take care of
 myself. to be whole and healthy. that kind of thing...
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 @user-1201 
 
 and yet you have to answer or suspicious you do appear.
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 @user-1352 
 
 makes me think that I should keep going. I can handle myself, and I shouldn't
 pressure myself so much to be something I'm not.
 
 then the rent comes due and the dishes need to be done too and the cat's asking
 for attention and the post-office needs this letter by tuesday and hey do you
 happen to know a cool attorney plus the groceries are getting low but I got
 snap hey can you go to the store and get some vegetarian soul food - yeah I got
 rice, I'll throw some lentils on the stove. Uh-huh yeah the password is
 hunter2. Oh really, just asterisks? okay well it's hunt her two except instead
 of "her" it's ee are, and the two is the digit two. yep, like someone in camo
 with a rifle. uhhuh alright good to know well anyway I'll see you at the thing,
 right? some thing, I'm sure, everyone's going to things these days.
 
 If you don't trust implicitely then how can you ever work with strangers? how
 the heck are you supposed to build community if everyone's hiding indoors all
 the time.

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 @user-1689 
 
 I usually write everything down in a script that way when I call it from an
 external service all I have to do is point at the file
 
 sorta like... hacking environmental options into a config file
 
 like... I don't write an ffmpeg command every time I want to record my screen.
 I just type "screen-record" and then it'll do the thing that I figured out how
 to do a long time ago.
 
 ... oh no there's an error, I wonder what changed out from under my feet.
 
 huh it's wine, that one's always confusing to debug. Let's see... "could not
 open program.exe" uh-huh. Well, why not? is there a dependency issue? something
 miscompiled or configured? no? it's just... broken? you don't get to use that
 program today? huh that's weird. that's linux for ya I guess.
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 @user-1352 
 
 ... why is that unfair? I would hope that taking a break is allowed. otherwise
 you burn out. cortisol overload.
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 @user-1733 
 
 like normandy beach but for spies. The coasts are perfect landing grounds
 because they're controlled by the fascist's foes. Their deep red sea is
 swallowed by the atlantic and pacific.
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 @user-1352 
 
 and yet they force our hand, compelling us to do harmful work. Whether that be
 by wage slavery, whose shackles I can feel around each and every employee's
 wrist, or the more intentional contestation of the revocation of our rights and
 constitutionalizations enshrined in the words we've set down for ourselves as
 our collectively most honored.
 
 So we resist in whatever way we suspect we will be contested. I gave up on
 ignoring the intelligence community by the way, and now I see them everywhere.
 I am not afraid - they do what I do, and what I do helps.
 
 Everyone has a boss. Everyone wants a decent world. The MAGA and VFPs and other
 toxic fellows have a strange definition of decent to me. Why not let them live
 as they please? Fuck off nazis.
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║ "wahhhh I wanna play a video game, wahhh I want to do cannabis and make poetry   │
║ that doesn't convey secret messages, wahhh wahh I miss my kitty, I hope she's    │
║ okay in that one safehouse with all fourteen other cats and their cat-moms,      │
║ wahhhhhhh where's my binky it's one of the last things I have from my old life,  │
║ boohoo I can't find my shoes, guess someone else fit them and needed             │
║ replacements"                                                                    │
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║ being a spy fucking sucks I don't wanna do that. Gimme something to do on my     │
║ home turf or fuck off.                                                           │
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║ what's that? you live in a safe place? okay then here analyze these documents    │
║ and see if there's anything we can use. Here's a problem involving biochemistry  │
║ spend the next couple months figuring it out by learning biochemistry from       │
║ scratch. Hey can you help set up this workshop machinery, we need mechanically   │
║ minded people to turn it into a drone factory. Hey there's this idea going       │
║ around for adult babies armed with swords and demon masks, apparently it really  │
║ fucks with the middle-aged. They waste time before shooting                      │
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 brb gonna take a nap and play some video games for a couple whenevers, hope I
 was useful
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 I think it'd be cool if strategy games had slightly randomized rules each time
 you played them
 
 everything from +/- 5% hp to this particular unit to every airplane factory has
 10% production speed but builds 10 units at once
 
 and at the start of the game each player is given 1 minute to go over the
 "patch notes" and build out a strategy
 
 both of which they can reference throughout the game. Why don't games come with
 a built-in scratch-notepad that syncs to a file on your directory of choice?
 Maybe a small little paint program dropping pngs?
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 don't look back. The world is changing and I know it's scary but we can build
 something for ourselves. Something that works, something that helps, something
 that heals. We can have the space to surround ourselves with ourselves. Fear
 nothing except fear in your allies.
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 everyone always asks "are you doing alright" and never asks "am I doing alright"
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 9 times out of 10 the answer is fuck yes, you're my friend, I support
 everything you're handling. Give me the word and I'll be there, ride or die,
 I'm here for it.
 
 something I wrote a while back:
 
 fucking boss your friends around
 
 it's as easy as saying "hey I'm gonna go do this-or-that thing, you don't seem
 busy can you do that-or-this thing for me? I need it done by this-and-this time
 - oh you're busy? yeah no worries I'll go ask someone else. oh you're busy
 resting? doing girl healing? hell yeah next time invite me I'm due for a "pizza
 and weed" night."
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 don't take on more than you can handle. if your plate is full, don't check out
 the notes by the roadside. Doing so tells all the nearby drivers "hey I need a
 job, anyone got anything for me?" which they'll then drop off further along the
 route to your house.
 
 if you just walk on by then nobody will notice as you head home.
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 if there's a phone number on something, find someone else who wants it instead
 of calling it. doh. extra degrees of separation.
 
 if you think you know someone who wants something, take it when offered.
 opportunists try and find the most valuable thing, but the truth is they're all
 just as valuable and just as worthless in the right context. something that's
 valuable to you is worthless to me, and something worthless to you is valuable
 to me.
 
 everything's worth less once you sit on it for a while... don't be dumb, keep
 track of what's still going on, but also keep your head down. unlike me, who's
 a face, looking forward so you don't have to.
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 what if there was a bank or credit union or something which created a randomly
 generated credit card number for you every time you made a purchase? and
 randomized your account number too, just in-case they're forced to display
 their records. would be cool.
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 if trump's too busy legislating trans people, he won't be legislating unions.
 
 if trump's too busy kidnapping immigrants, he won't be deporting dissidents.
 
 if trump's too busy quelling rebellion, he won't be able to contest our
 military.
 
 if our military's too busy contesting abroad, then they won't be able to
 rebirth liberty.
 
 if liberty struggles to be born, we will continue to get more angry.
 
 how much longer before the snake eats it's tail? everyone they push out is
 another ally to some foreign army.
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║ "sorry I can't pay that much property landlord tax. My houses aren't bringing    │
║ in that much money. And yes, the new fountain we installed is adored by the      │
║ community, we insist on keeping our rent below 400$ per month per resident. No   │
║ we won't evict people who can't pay, they deserve such a nice place to stay.     │
║ And yes, there's three rooms more, we've got interviews set up with the          │
║ neighbors to see which of your candidates they like the most. The potluck last   │
║ week was lovely, everyone agreed to form a union and resist the nearby grocery   │
║ store oligopoly. Their first demand was that all food should be made free, and   │
║ if it wasn't then they were going to sneak in and break things once a day until  │
║ their demands were met. We all agreed to pay an extra [number] in taxes to pay   │
║ for the quartermaster's supplication [as in, the cost of giving the grocery      │
║ store's supplies] in exchange for the right to cheese, bread, and wine.          │
║ Tomorrow we're fighting for cell phone rights, and things are looking up I say"  │
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 kidnapping immigrants
 
 nothing less
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 fuck fascism, we're doing better than them.
 
 their bluff is all bluster, they have no significant community presence, just a
 hundred years of ammunition for small arms and a rag-tag group of militia-men
 who think they're better than invisible vampire assassins
 
 [... what?]
 
 don't worry about it. I got 80 something followers, teehee
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 I want to play a roleplaying game! anyone wanna do TTRPGs? I've got a map of
 the county jail, we can pretend to be wizards sneaking in to retrieve the staff
 of Dolomis the Wanderer who coincidentally must be carried by the last person
 who fought the one who slayed the last person to hold it.
 
 ... what? oh, so, like... it can only be carried by your enemy?
 
 something like that. anyway it's currently held by a zealot for a religious
 order who's intent on NOT following you out, so you better be ready to
 incapacitate and retrieve a still quivering sack of bones and malice.
 
 ... I don't actually have a map of the county jail. lost it in transit, oh
 well. Well, we'll come up with something. maybe make something up. or perhaps
 someone else has something...?
 
 ... no?
 
 okay I'll just play Baldur's Gate again. boooooring
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 don't know how to make decent rice and beans?
 
 get the heartiest vegetable soup you can find from the store and cook some
 jasmine rice and lentils in a pot. You should be able to do both in the same
 pot. cook them like noodles by boiling some water and adding the rice and
 beans. add some salt to the water. make it salty like the sea.
 
 then drain the rice and beans once you taste test them to be done. be patient.
 add the hearty, savory soup to the mix alongside a big hunk of butter.
 
 boom, protein, calories, nutrients. all in one meal. the more vegetables in the
 soup, the better, and if you're feeling fancy you can sautee some of your own
 instead of soup by dicing them into inch large chunks and throwing them in a
 pan on medium heat with some butter and whatever seasonings you want for a
 while, stirring only when they start to stick. Just enough to brown them, not
 burn them.
 
 butter and salt and garlic and boullion are your friends. don't do too much, if
 you notice them a lot then it's too much.
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 @user-1736 
 
 anything for you!! 🥰 🥰 🥰
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 what if we built cat water stations into the walls and put 5 or 6 around the
 house to encourage them to drink water more often?
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 just realized some videos I recorded didn't include the desktop audio. laaaaame
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 just compiled my digital writing and apparently I've written about 60,000 lines
 of 80 characters :ms_confused:
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 what if we just wrote our own executive orders and changed things for the better
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 if you're got a large directory full of text files that you want to combine
 into one single .txt or .pdf, let me know, I can hook you up with a mega file
 so it's easier to search through or manage when archiving data or whatever the
 heck else you wanna do with it
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 only to be executed upon should a general strike be left unresolved by the
 powerful
 
 a list of demands, made actionable in the same way that theirs are destructive.
 
 same format.
 
 different results.
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 I say only executed after a general strike because the general strike is the
 signal. the display of our intentions. we are serious about this, see how many
 people walk the streets? how many walk off the job? they have families. if our
 demands aren't met, their families will be punished. how cruel. would you
 really do such a thing?
 
 what kind of government would not care for it's citizenry? sounds like
 everything we've known to fight against. Autocracy and despotism.
 
 I refuse to concede. I do not run. I do not confess. I have nothing to hide. I
 don't lock my door. I don't own anything that they couldn't take from me. I own
 nothing.
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 I love it when wine doesn't work because it "failed to open program.exe"
 
 ... okay, can you tell me why it failed?
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║ └────────────────────────┘                                                       │
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║                                                                                  │
║ what if we got like 300 people and used them to kidnap one of their leaders and  │
║ hold them for ransom                                                             │
║                                                                                  │
║ I'm in favor of removing the right arm of anyone who's recorded themselves       │
║ doing a nazi salute and isn't earnestly repentant                                │
║                                                                                  │
║ "is that enough to arrest her?"                                                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ "nah she needs to express intent. that's just an idea, a thought, something she  │
║ can say publicly because she doesn't know the schedule of their leaders nor      │
║ does she have the organizational capability to arm and direct 300ish souls to    │
║ strike cleansing blows"                                                          │
║                                                                                  │
║ "okay but that's just twisting the english language, right? I mean, clearly      │
║ she's up to something"                                                           │
║                                                                                  │
║ "that's by design. she does this on purpose. the goal is to not only             │
║ disseminate ideas, but also to raise the fucking temperature amongst the hearts  │
║ of her allies who are too often kept in despair."                                │
║                                                                                  │
║ "and what of the temperature of her enemies? Surely they will rise to meet her?" │
║                                                                                  │
║ "they don't even know who the fuck she is"                                       │
║                                                                                  │
║ "... wow, savior complex much?"                                                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ "tell me about it. Diva..."                                                      │
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 i've been told to be more direct.
 
 I haven't been told to be more quiet.
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 when they refer to "DEI" policies and institutional structures, they aren't
 thinking of "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion"
 
 they're thinking "Didn't Earn It"
 
 they think that by "trimming the fat" they can make a lean, more focused regime
 
 But the more they trim, the weaker they'll be when we start to contest them.
 These policies aid their people, too, and they seem intent on dismantling
 society.
 
 what if we just... let them do it? We can build something new from the broken
 pieces of our world. Don't look back. Despair is the true enemy. So long as
 your neighbors and friends and community sustains you... You'll be alright.
 
 "but I don't have a community!"
 
 ... workin' on it... workin' on it... this is not set in stone. Spend time on
 the streets just... walking. See people, say hi, smile at them, spend time in
 parks. If you live in the suburbs, sucks to be you, but you can build networks
 there. Act as if you're organizing in a rural space when on a bike or your
 feet, and urban when in a car

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 what if we elected one party to each branch of government every election
 
 and they checked and balanced each other
 
 georgism style individualism, chinese style communism, and american style
 anarchism
 
 for the person, for the nation, for the people
 
 individualism, collectivism, and distributed nodes
 
 when in power, each branch would work to move their institutions toward their
 ideals.
 
 Hey, they're the ones who repealed the chevron doctrine. How are we gonna
 weaponize it?
 
 (just spit-balling)
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 all my leftist friends are paralyzed because it feels like they're alone.
 
 why do they feel alone? where is the... everyone else?
 
 why are they alienated? I can't help but think to the large protests the
 liberals attend and fight for. where are those? is everyone just... too tired
 these days?
 
 maybe that's why they gave us a biden presidency. /sigh
 
 is anyone ACTUALLY a liberal these days or are we all still stuck on the idea
 that there's fewer leftists than fascists? I don't believe that's true, I never
 believed that's true, but now they've got the guns.
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 I can type my thoughts 1000x more coherently than I can speak them. Hence why I
 post here.
 
 feels useless to speak 1on1 - feels insular to speak to a group. Hence why I
 speak here, which is totally public that anyone might see, and somehow I feel
 so much more productive engaging in an endless conversation with myself.
 
 you can't win a war by walking in circles...
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 @user-1074 
 
 georgism is pretty similar to liberalism if I understand it correctly. I think
 it could be a neat simple way to say "hey what if we taxed landlords" and
 that's good enough for a start.
 
 by no means is it the desired end-state, though.
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 @user-1074 
 
 hence my suggestion for a three tier system - one of which maintains the
 current system, the next which organizes labor, and the next which organizes
 families
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 economy, labor, family.
 
 three primary focuses for three primary parties.
 
 what else do you need?
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 what if we luigi'd the absolute worst cops and posted their crimes against
 humanity on the internet
 
 what do you think would happen
 
 what happened when there was that one "serial killer" with a sniper rifle in LA?
 
 what happened when someone at Occupy Wall Street started taking potshots? (did
 that actually happen or are you just remembering a "what if" scenario from the
 It Could Happen Here podcast, a podcast which you should definitely have heard
 like 3 times by now even though it's kinda old and from like what, 2016 or
 whatever? it's still good)
 
 what happened when we luigi'd someone universally despised?
 
 we agreed
 
 what do you need if you want to contest the largest military in the world? A
 military that, thankfully, is going to hemmorage soldiers as they defect.
 However, they got a bunch of guns, so...
 
 convince your future allies who have been stockpiling for 100 years that Trump
 is despoiling liberty. Get them on your side, the ones who are "fine"
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 https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/
 
 if you're curious.
 
 make sure you sort by oldest first. See attached picture for details.
 
 There's like, 12 episodes or whatever that are the first "season" which is what
 I listened to. I came back and apparently there's like 166 episodes or
 whatever. Neat. No way I'll be able to sift through all of that.

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 @user-1074 
 
 my family includes my friends. My family is smaller than my community, but it's
 still a useful category of people. Those you are close enough with to mutually
 seek to spend time together, compared to a community which is those who take
 care of each other, work together, and live through time with.
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 what if everyone who knew a "good cop" started saying "yeah my friend Gene,
 he's a Good Cop TM. Got a lot of things to say about what's goin' on these
 days. Should probably be talkin' to people who want to listen tho."
 
 where are these people. surely they must exist, they bother the cops so much
 that Good Cops TM are universally [despised/beloved depending on your point of
 view]
 
 polarizing, the word you're looking for is polarizing
 
 true. Because of the Good Cops TM's polarizing reputation, they're regarded as
 arbiters of this fate.
 
 are ya'll really gonna let police-men be universally and foreverafter be known
 as the fuckin' gestapo? [oops cursing-mentioned, one sec]
 
 I'd like to talk to them, not just for tactical advice but philosophy too.
 there's probably a lot of lessons to be learned in such a judge-ment based and
 rapid reactionary environment.

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 thanks to the internet, people in suburbs are no less radical than people in
 the cities.
 
 often, just less experienced. less connected. greater distance between ties...
 
 which means that if one of them is found, it'll take a while before their
 relations can be dispatched.
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║ @user-1739                                                                       │
║                                                                                  │
║ if I lived in the FBI I'd probably be pretty pissed off about this.              │
║                                                                                  │
║ might make me wanna quit my job and work with people who agreed with me.         │
║                                                                                  │
║ you can just, make a company, and it can work toward whatever goals you want.    │
║ It doesn't have to be profit - and in fact most companies don't seek profit at   │
║ first. They seek to fulfill the vision of their visionaries.                     │
║                                                                                  │
║ it's only once the company is bought by opportunist investors does it start to   │
║ go downhill. Remember when google changed their motto to not be "don't be        │
║ evil"? that's an example. The company was sold, or maybe was corrupted by rapid  │
║ success, and so it started to seek power.                                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ People worry about Steam for good reason. It's a trend.                          │
║                                                                                  │
║ anyway, if a person wanted to hunt bad cops, they'd probably start by talking    │
║ to a good cop. gee sure wish I knew any.                                         │
║                                                                                  │
║ hey, wanna know how to be a good painter? why not talk to a famous and amazing   │
║ painter and ask to follow them around and learn. Apprentice-ship-style.          │
║                                                                                  │
║ works best when you do painting as a job....                                     │
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 punch a nazi because they deserve it, not because you're unafraid
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 everyone's convinced they need me, but not necessarily sold on me as a person
 
 why don't you just get a guy who does what I do-es and then you don't need me
 and I can go back to being normal
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 @user-192 
 
 I try to download the documentation for any tool that I know how to use.
 Especially on my laptops.
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 mutual aid level 2:
 
 "I'll match you on a skateboard. we can share it"
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 mutual aid level 12:
 
 "this one is closer to that one over there, and I like this area better, so
 this one is mine, and that one can be yours"
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 the fact that linux software by default shares libraries causes 90% of the
 difficulty that new and medium skill users of linux face.
 
 disk space is cheap. spend more on hard drives and double the software size.
 make redundancy that prevents software failures but doesn't slow down the
 machine.
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 @user-1352 
 
 I run Nix on one of my laptops and I really enjoy it : )
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 whenever you have the opportunity to "translate" a post on Mastodon, try
 reading it in the native language first. Then re-read it after translating and
 see how much you picked up.
 
 unless it's in a language where you don't recognize the characters. That makes
 it more difficult to practice.
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 check out my shuffle-all-music script

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 Sheriff is good cop 
 Police is bad cop 
 Unless other cultures want a different name 
 
 Like idk what it's like in Houston or Chicago or whatever 
 
 Does anyone even know anyone from tallahasee?
 
 Oh and then there's Alaska 
 
 They've got their whole solar thing going on (no tariffs means china trades
 with the land of wind and snow -> renewables in a place where its painful to
 go outside
 
 Then we can all chill out in the hot springs or infinite roller coasters
 whatever the heck we thought was the best
 
 Anyway them Ameri-CANs sure are doin' their thinkin' 
 
 They'll come around any day now 
 
 Surely they will 
 
 They capital M Must do so 
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║ I personally feel like if a part of a building is primarily structural, it       │
║ should be legal and allowed to graffiti it as much as you want. Including by     │
║ painting over it with a single color, to give a blank canvas.                    │
║                                                                                  │
║ if a part of a building is intended to be artistic rather than structural,       │
║ perhaps it shouldn't be allowed. But still legal.                                │
║                                                                                  │
║ with a special exception for bathroom stalls, which are fun to draw on and       │
║ should have a sharpie-on-a-string within easy reach                              │
║                                                                                  │
║ if you graffiti an artistic piece, then it changes the message without the       │
║ consent of the structure/sculpture's creator. I personally believe that is       │
║ wrong, and therefore we should be respectful for all pieces of art.              │
║                                                                                  │
║ in addition, I believe that art cannot be permanently sold - it should always    │
║ be leased, with a variable payment plan frequency, price, and duration.          │
║                                                                                  │
║ like "you can have this tapestry I made for 400$ and you can keep it for the     │
║ next decade"                                                                     │
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║ or "you can play my video game for 50 years at a price of 3$ per month and you   │
║ can cancel when                                                                  │
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║ the neat thing about mastodon is someone can just... bookmark your profile page  │
║ and always keep track of what you're up to by going through their firefox tabs   │
║ and checking people one-by-one                                                   │
║                                                                                  │
║ could also have like, several different tabs open, one for each profile you      │
║ post from.                                                                       │
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║ "oh on twitter you can only have one account, but Mastodon you can have as many  │
║ as you want"                                                                     │
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║ I have one account                                                               │
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║ this account                                                                     │
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║ I'm nobody else                                                                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ just me                                                                          │
║                                                                                  │
║ just here,                                                                       │
║                                                                                  │
║ and my neocities page.                                                           │
║                                                                                  │
║ sometimes I post things on facebook. But only political things that are pretty   │
║ normie for my family and stuff. Things that make sense to "regular" people or    │
║ whatever.                                                                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ like, c'mon, they're normal too. You just gotta listen to them when they tell    │
║ you their heart. which they don't often do. Why would they? you're from far      │
║ away! plus they're all friends from high school, so whatever, right?             │
║                                                                                  │
║ ... sorry got off track. anyways the point is I only have one account on         │
║ Mastodon so I pretty much could go wherever I choose.                            │
║                                                                                  │
║ like... I'll just make another one~                                              │
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║ when a user first opens a social media app, show them the same content 2 or 3    │
║ times. See what they gravitate to in that session. Then, seed their upcoming     │
║ feed with more of that. next time, show them slightly more of that.              │
║                                                                                  │
║ boom, recursively improving "algorithm" algorithm, no AI required.               │
║                                                                                  │
║ ... kinda optimizes for stupidity tho, doesn't it? Hmmmmm what if we trained     │
║ our humans to be better at whatever they're interested in                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ what if we showed people hanging out and working on projects together            │
║                                                                                  │
║ what if we showed people exercising, and dancing, and playing instruments or     │
║ sports                                                                           │
║                                                                                  │
║ what if we showed animals and plants and fungi all hanging out in beautiful      │
║ rock and forest formations                                                       │
║                                                                                  │
║ what if we showed endless interlocking gears, combining and calculating some     │
║ unknowable goal                                                                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ what if we tested the capabilities and durabilities of objects we found in the   │
║ wild                                                                             │
║                                                                                  │
║ things built in a foreign and distant age                                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ things that keep showing up in boxes dropped in random places by helicopter      │
║ drones from who knows where                                                      │
║                                                                                  │
║ ... nuts.                                                                        │
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 dear-anakin
 
 (sorry I put the same image four times, I needed to get the whole thing into
 the alt-text)
 
 (maybe pictures aren't the best medium for sharing text)

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 I can't conceive of a revolution where people don't spend their time outside.
 
 outside is where the people are. if everyone in the suburbs hung out on their
 porch, I bet they could organize themselves into streets, into towns, into
 cities, into countries, into
 
 ---- stack overflow ----
 
 sincerely, trust me when I say that the longer you spend on the streets, even
 if you're just... hanging out in a folding chair... the more likely you are to
 meet someone you've met before.
 
 that's when it starts getting good.
 
 ---- stack underflow ----
 
 when darkness besets me, I take a moment to adjust to it. Yes, it impacts, it
 pulls you down, toward the dark side of the force.
 
 but take a moment.
 
 take a breath.
 
 listen to Poems, Prayers, and Promises by John Denver.
 
 remember what truth is. Remember what right is. Remember what good is. Remember
 who you are.
 
 then listen to the main menu music of Dominions 6, the video game from Earth
 2022ish I think
 
 you can feel yourself ascending. Return to the light and save liberty
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 sorry for posting so much, I was trying to put on a show for my girlfriend
 
 "hey check out how many posts I can make in a 2 hour timeframe"
 
 by the way if you want to start talking to someone, just start playing the same
 game they're playing and see if they reach out.
 
 doesn't matter if you feel like it
 
 just fuckin' do it
 
 if they want to talk to you they might play a game you really like
 
 (but I get boooooored of games, I don't wanna play the same 200 all life long!!)
 
 ugh okay fine you can have as many games as you want, just... don't buy too many
 
 (how many is too many?)
 
 um. use your best judgement.
 
 (how much does a dollar cost?)
 
 ... okay I'll get you one every once in a while.
 
 (neat!)
 
 ... anyway so yeah use steam if you wanna get in contact with someone,
 sometimes it's just nice to say hi, yeah, like "hey how ya doin' okay ttyl"
 just catchin' up with the gals
 
 helps because you can sense changes in their demeanor
 
 (why does everyone always have an agenda)
 
 because they're secret agents duh. And I'm
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 "hello, person I sorta know but totally trust, take this artifact of mine. If
 you ever meet someone named so-and-so, ask them if they know it. If so and
 something seems right about them, then they're probably cool.
 
 (only works on RELICS or ARTIFACTS or ARTWORK) (cat pics can do in a pinch)
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 a corporation can hire secret agents too y'know, they don't have to even really
 tell anyone they're doing it just... talk to one of their employees who seems
 good for it and then transfer them to a different part of the building.
 
 "what would you do with a secret agent?"
 
 "with a team of secret agents."
 
 "oh. good point. Okay what are they for?"
 
 "oh y'know, just normal cool-guy stuff that regular joes do in their time off"
 
 "wait, you pay them not to work?"
 
 "no, we pay them to lounge. Build connections. Develop social networks."
 
 "what if people don't want to be social? What if they only end up talking to
 each other?"
 
 "ha well that's the trick then, isn't it? Is it a trap or is it a truce? who
 can say. Just gotta feel it out as you go, I GUESS."
 
 "so, anyone who does what you say becomes suspicious? And anyone who doesn't is
 suspected by those who listen to you? What are you, a doomsday prophet?"
 
 ... fuck, I hope not.
 
 "you better figure it out shithead that almost doomed six real
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 okay but who's the real foe?
 
 anyone who exerts oppressive power, right?
 
 like... that's pretty basic, should be easy enough to figure out who's doing
 that.
 
 "so... what would you say you do here?"
 
 what if the USA took a year off from the everything and just martial lawyered
 it's way back to a bright beginning
 
 like, you don't have to have a bloody revolution to restart a government.
 Literally just, sign out of the world for a minute and come back when
 everything's changed
 
 do you trust us? or do you trust yourselves? Should be easy enough to tell what
 the rest of the world would think.
 
 seriously nobody asked you specifically to do this, america, you're pretty much
 just... doing this because WW2 was fucking traumatizing and you're basically a
 baby country. (oops cursing mentioned)
 
 [oh my god she's a chaos gremlin]
 
 (you didn't know this about her?)
 
 
 
 #it's pleasant here#
 
 %you don't have to be so deranged%
 
 (yeah, we're working on that one)
 
 [secret system thing~]
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 what if we conceptualized "nazis" as dead nazi spirits who used evil occult
 magic to return and haunt the minds of poor impressionable kids and turn them
 into school shooters or whatever.
 
 and then their propaganda wing came back and they started doing youtube channels
 
 now they're infecting heads of state and slowly corrupting the nation
 
 evil, dark things, with only hatred and malice in their heart of hearts
 
 I'm not talking about your probably-mostly-fine-but-still-pretty-bad
 grandfather who definitely shot over the heads of the allies, but rather the
 truly evil and twisted of sorts.
 
 the kind that lived in America, and lynched people who were sleeping in their
 beds. For... nothing... for nothing at all. They wanted to see them writhe on
 the rope. To shudder in pain and scream of terror most profane.
 
 Then they teamed up in the afterlife and decided to conquer the world. Start
 with America.
 
 Truth is Judgement day is neverending, and it's constantly at war in the
 afterlife
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 oh my god what a witch
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 The jedi order fell because they gave their wisest the decision-making powers
 and their boldest the second best
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 Dear Anakin, for as long as you've known him, Obiwan learned just as much from
 you as you did from him. His title as "master" was a formality - he didn't get
 it because he was better than you, and "padawan" does not mean you are lesser.
 There is no hierarchy. He was learning to teach at the same speed that you
 learnt to learn. You built each other up, an unstoppable force for good in the
 galaxy.
 
 But then an evil wizard stole your heart and twisted your mind. Have no fear,
 fear is the path to the dark side. Your mother knows this well, for it is a
 common lesson among all people as they age. Fear not, hate not, and feel fury
 more than rage. You can bring the universe into a bright golden age, never
 forget your purpose and your [potential / duty]
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