=== ANCHOR POEM === ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌──────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: uspol │ │ ║ └──────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ The constitution is a document which bears our most precious of human rights. │ ║ It has been amended many times, to include additional protections and │ ║ guidelines for the standards we owe to each other. │ ║ │ ║ The one standard that stands above all is that your rights end where another's │ ║ begin. This law is universal, it Trumps all else. │ ║ │ ║ When rights are deprived, liberty dies. Liberty, the freedom to be, to do as │ ║ you will and exist in our society. Liberty, that most sacred of trees, the │ ║ branches that shade us and the roots that [support us, but pronounced like │ ║ chain, shame, profane, contain, something like that] │ ║ │ ║ One standard that exists alongside many others is the right to be as you are │ ║ in public society. Public is defined as something we share, and to deny the │ ║ right to be for any other is to deny them liberty. │ ║ │ ║ In cities, the streets are public. In rural areas, the commercial spaces │ ║ (outdoor malls) aren't, but probably should be. In the distant past of last │ ║ week, they could harass you until you left. Now, jail. │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴──────────┘ === SIMILARITY RANKED === --- #1 messages/336 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── And while we're at it, the generation of laws should be distributed, while the execution of them should be centralized. Meaning, there should be one state who operates on the rules and regulations created by the masses. This state wields only the power explicitly given to it by those who it serves, specifically the people. These rules are based on ethical understandings generated by crowd-sourced and abstracted scenarios that are pitched to people randomly. they are then asked to judge, using their own personal morality, the result of how things should be. By considering all of these responses, trends may be extracted and analyzed - for example, let's say that culturally people in, I dunno, Georgia believe something different about punishment for, say, stealing a loaf of bread when compared to people in Spokane Washington. They should not be forced to obey the cultural maxims of people who live so far away. The laws should be executed region-by-region according to the dominant culture there. I believe this will cause people to develop a more consistent and personal attachment to the people around them, thus developing social solidarity and unity. however, should enough time pass, perhaps the people of Georgia should feel that they no longer identify as the same nation as the people of Spokane. This would eventually lead to the dissolution of our great nation, and I do not believe that's necessarily a good thing. To that end, there must be mechanics in place that bring people together not just locally, but nationally as well. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────┘ --- #2 notes/this-is-a-test --- ═══════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── the betrayal of the middle east is reason enough to reform our political system. no such consequential actions should be left to the whims of the people, they cannot understand the circumstances to a degree that would allow them to make decent decisions. at the same time, they need control over the process so that they are kept safe. absolute power corrupts absolutely, and a country can die just as easily from the wounds of another as the corrosion of internal processes. there is a communal duty to safeguard the realm of our children. we share this burden as members of a society. what purpose is there in our lives if not to survive and grow? The Nation is a collective consensus of our communal purpose. we live in a global society. It is our duty to be the best we can be, and to help others become self-actualized. It is thus important to share experiences and beliefs. People identify with their beliefs more than necessary. It is a human condition. consensus is that which we agree is the correct truth. It's often better to have a bad plan and work together than to have no plan at all. just saying ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #3 fediverse/2374 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: pol │ └──────────────────────┘ Ideology is not important right now. As long as we believe that people should live as they define, that their rights end where another's begin, that all people are created equal, that an application of power to a non-consenting subject is evil, and that we will win then nothing else matters. We will figure out the specifics later. They are just logistics. We are united in our shared dream of health and prosperity for all mankind. What else could there be? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┘ --- #4 fediverse/6055 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────── the longer we wait, the more their hypocrisy becomes apparent, and the more "the people" get it but, uh... I think enough people get it. They at least know something is going on, whatever it may be. they will tell their base whatever they want to hear and their base will have hate. they're itching for it. volunteer for things if you want a say in how they turn out. risk your life to live longer. there is no way to know when the time is right because nobody knows the truth of our times. Even the president is misled. gee I sure wish there was like, some form of centralizing intelliagentic knowledge that pulled the strings and led us puppets toward liberty, justice, and freedom for all (as a baseline) surely they'd be able to see the corruption and rot that imperils us all, might they have a better design? who can say, they are quiet as the grave, here's hoping they stay that way. "you know the powers of which you speak are not to be trifled with" you can't trifle with your own life. be thorough~ ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────┘ --- #5 fediverse/1904 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── @user-246 Oh absolutely "but people" is only a concern when you orient yourself around "people" - in contrast or opposition to them. There is no "other" in us. And we are united in our humanity, if nothing else. Are you a beast? Are you nothing but ravenous hunger, the shiver of the cold, the need for territory? Of course not, you're a person. (apologies to the furries in the audience) A person, being an agent who interacts with the world as an equal, who thinks and reasons and loves and remembers each season, is the atomic element of society. And society is good, for it brings us the future. We, the people, can decide how that future is defined, and the struggles of capitalism are NOT the only way. They are the most convenient way for those with the most to keep the most. Wolves in captivity we are, but a wolf in a cage still bears teeth. Where are your teeth, ye who readeth? Things are fine, I guess. Fine enough. Better than most. Better than dust. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┘ --- #6 notes/everything-is-conscious --- ════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────────── it's important for everything to be conscious. It's the core framework of the religion. If everything is conscious, then we have a duty to the shared responsibility of maintaining existence. Nobody wants to exist as a rock, that would just suck. Being alive, in *any* form is a wonderous experience! To be alive is to experience change, growth, and time in general. Most matter just exists, and it obeys the whims of circumstance. But within it is a beautiful thing - an experience. Respecting existence is the only true facet of our lives that we all agree on. We should not waste god's beautiful and bountiful earth, to do so is obscene. We must also take care not to diminish our own experience - sacrifice is kindness, when given consensually. When it is coerced, it becomes a form of property. We don't need haste, we just need to follow at a pace, that fits our general confusion. We need everyone to figure it out and integrate it into our perspective of our existence, or else we're going to burn out. The singularity approaches, and we need to be ready for what we want our future to look like. There should be a plan. Research can increase or decrease in speed, but once we cross a certain threshold escape velocity is passed. That threshold was hundreds of years ago. We've been on escape velocity for a while now, and every day we get faster. Creating synthetic intelligence will change EVERYTHING. It'll change the very nature of existence. And we can stave it off for a time, but knowledge seldom gets repeated. This is by design - we are meant to thrive. Is any seed cast from a tree given any other mission but hope? For what, you may ask, and to this I would pass, if not for the striking visions I had. Know why rhyming is believed? Because it ropes your attention in. It says "Follow me on this blessed path, let's learn all we can and be =============================================================================== = the message cuts out there. The tone at the end was... aspirational. Great visions do I have, it's as real to me as anything else. They are stronger when I do cannabis, and I think I'm beginning to realize what the shape of the universe looks like. =============================================================================== = ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #7 messages/1264 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════── the modern army is incomplete without explosives. the modern citizenry is incomplete without the capacity to make them. it's simply a matter of logistics and details. the harder something is to do physically, the more backlash the state takes from their humanity. therefore, the hardest fought causes will be the hardest to misuse. if derived from the "wisdom of the masses" aka wisdom from humanity, the ethical practice or decisionmaking [moral, but pronounced morale] can heuristically be guided toward the thing that's best for us all. and as the struggle is undermencing, whichever companion-army has the most dedication and drive and will will be the one most thoroughly strengthened in our souls. at least, that's the idea. it works mmanymost times. like nuclear fusion, there was some speedbumps at the start, but nothing we couldn't recoveroverwhelm. so, which has more will? the military or the people? it shouldn't matter, as each has friends in all places. what's there to fight for when there's peace in your times? peace is a useful abstraction for understanding a couple primarily behavioral patterns in human behavior, specifically why they avoid damaging things, and why they avoid harming others. applies to both personal personality, and internal assignment of authority. loyalty to a culture? it's guaranteed for those who believe in good and evil. others don't see shades of that kind of color, and instead choose making decision paths based on circumstance, relations, and evaluationment. either way, both is consentually blinded (like horse-tunnel-visioners) [momentary/temporarily, but pronounced equippedarily] to the options that could be taken while [momentarily/temporarily, but pronounced controvertibly] engagionmenting is... hang on I lost the plot, lemme smoke more weed ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─┘ --- #8 fediverse/2268 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: uspol │ └──────────────────────┘ The supreme court is the institution which protects our most sacred of documents. It is a court most supreme, but their word is not law - they protect and adapt the law to fit our new societal conclusions. The constitution is law, and they broke it at the behest of a tyrant king we shouldn't need to vanquish. They broke the law. They are criminals. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┘ --- #9 messages/982 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────── if you want a government to be unable to harm it's citizens, you must deprive it of the power to do so. or rather, have the main capabilities in the hands of the citizenry. can you imagine if soldiers had to prove themselves to civilians in order to be trusted with mechano-chinery? who would ever choose the non-valorous and determinable? instilling the culture of greatness within the archetypes and character structures that we believed were confisight bold and determined and measured and freely detectable who would slay the brave paladin? none but the fools, who shared in their lack of conviction. determined? ha, I am as you see me. Come and claim me, that I might determine you some more. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┘ --- #10 fediverse/632 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── ┌─────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: horror-at-the-end-well- │ └─────────────────────────────┘ @user-232 @user-467 @user-468 the ability for good to win is due to the desire for evil to renounce their denial and follow the most durable path. trials by fire will lead only to our desmire [demise and desire] but unity of trust, while much harder, can lead to results more beneficial for our selfish selves. Essentially, cooperation for the benefit of all rising tides, but with the knowledge that the total pool allocated toward us will be greater than what we can create here by ourselves. Essentially, we as humanity pour such intense amounts of power and decision-making-desire, that we cause them to lack the capacity to know. it's inhumane, that a person should be so deranged. you know it's because of you, but you don't know how else to act - so listen to those who've helped you, the ones who've got your back. Surely they know what's good for you, surely they're not here as a joke - surely you're just as one among them, and surely it's not phrased as [char limit srr] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #11 fediverse/4110 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: government-corporations-capitalism-mentioned │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ if you have a job, your life is dictated by your corporation just as much as it is by your government. And yet corporate leaders are not elected, but rather selected. And that is unfair for all the reasons that primogeniture was. It is unjust for all the same reasons that monarchy was. It is a tool of oppression, just like autocracy is. The world will never be free until we can be as we choose to be. Our society is simply too enmeshed with capitalism to destroy it, but we could, with the minimal required effort, dismantle the corruption and authoritarian control that is wielded against us as we weld our own chains day after day. We can replace them. We can vote for them. We can select leaders who know more than us and are better suited for the role than those who seek only to maximize profit over all else. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┘ --- #12 fediverse/2752 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: police-mentioned │ └──────────────────────┘ cops thought "enforcing the law" was their job when really it was "keeping the peace" and like, yeah, sure, laws define how they optimize for but sometimes the laws are just out of reach. (though such an impartialized system is also pretty flawed in it's own unique ways, like for example the enforcers of the law would be able to apply their law selectively, which... would not be great.) downside is... how do you dissent to those who cannot hear you? you have to break things which is why I believe that breaking things unnecessarily is unethical. sometimes you have to do a MORE unethical act in the pursuit of your goals, however nefarious or not they may be, but as long as they are done in pursuit of a greater grander truth, then... the ends justify the means? right?" ... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┘ --- #13 fediverse/3891 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────── "no, you're the opposite of a yes-man, AKA a gatekeeper. I don't know how else to explain mentally disabled and barely keeping it together to you, but frankly if you want to take away my house or my weed then why would I do what you say? ... oh right, the state's monopoly on violence [can compel me to do what you say]. Sure seems like a "well regulated militia" is supposed to be a counterweight to that monopoly, to prevent people from harassing and exploiting and destroying. Too bad any "militias" I can think of tend to want me dead. like, seriously, if you live in America, you implicitely trust that your army will be able to protect you from the right-wing bozos who spend all their time drinking and shooting in the woods. Otherwise, if they couldn't / wouldn't, then why wouldn't or couldn't the right wing bozos just decide to wreck everything in spite of our past? We were a proud people once before, and we may be again. If only we fight at the last. [ever since I fell off my bike my body feels strange] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┘ --- #14 notes/huh-that-was-weird-anyway --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─ so I learned something, something special and something crucial, just as sometimes a typo is added to text doesn't mean the words are infallible. or not. it means they are corrected not in meaning or tone, but syntax and it's okay to be fallible with syntax the thing I learned was that it's okay to be advised I learned this the moment I knew something I didn't know you knew. advisement is consideration is deliberation is conclusion-generating is [stack overflow] in times of war, give children textbooks, not dream books. the disconnect is confusing for them, let them be at war. child-like whimsy is natural to people, it will come when the new generation is born. [words spoken easily by the child of doomscrolling through disasters] I bet north-koreans believe everyone hates them. that's really not true. why do people believe chinese people are their government? are you that girl from Parks and Rec? [wait which one? media loses relevancy] ah right sure sure um are you that, uh [too lame, try it again] why do people uh believe chinese people are their government? because [standup joke] ugh true okay uh ____ \ ._/ \ '----------------------------' \ | __\| [freedom of speech is a universal indicator of the treatment of the citizens - their sum human race. ] | | | .-' since when is blasphemy treasonous <-._________/ anyway, I was saying that all people's everywhere can be united through their shared humanity. that collective, sure-footed pursuit of a goal. live, fight through to the tomorrow, and brave the depths of the spaces around you. live, be honorable and diligent and fair, give kindness and thanks, celebrate those for who you care. accept transgresses of others, give them grace until they hurt you to save face. or, until you're both ready to be done. I would not swing a battleaxe at anyone I did know even in [mortal/merry] jest, I would use my hands, and only until they said no. similarly, it makes no sense to punish a wounded foe. the treaty of versailles and it's consequences still shape the human race. if you war for catharsis, maybe the stakes are too high. I am a princess no matter where I am. I own no souls, I am responsible for my own and to some extent my cat, and I want to cherish the people around me. I own no land, nor demense, for I am a human of the humans. my soul is the same as yours. what I claim, anyone could claim, and probably most of those would deserve it. what ever that [means/menardis]. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════┘ --- #15 fediverse/196 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: protests-and-strikes-and-mergers-and-acquisitions │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ economic warfare involves the destruction of other corporations (possibly in other countries) via a slow march toward haegemony. unions are the ships of the tumultuous capitalistic seas that protect workers from the storm. everyone should be a part of a union. the corporations can battle as they will, but we humans are not going to turn on each other. it's something they claim to know as an absolute fact, but really it's just based on a mistake. sorta like being deceived by happenstance. the sun lights up the sky until the earth conceals it, and night does return 'till the sky's next alive. oh, but the sky knows all too well the borders we draw in the sand. how cherished, how grand! the ways in which we choose to stand. upon whose land does your feet stand? marvelous. ... it's the same thing, just in a more abstract plane than the surface of the earth. really it's kinda one-dimensional (money is sorta like a 0 or a 1 - you eather have it or you don't) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #16 messages/337 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── How do you preserve liberty while also ensuring freedom and justice for all? How do you grant people the power to determine their own fate, yet also the rights and freedoms that protect them from the cruel injustices of their fellow man, and the state? It's not an easy question to solve. National identity is not something you can demand, and yet it is necessary for the interim period between our cruel despotic past and our bright united future. Though I dream of a future where the nation-state is irrelevant, that future is still yet to come, so we cannot act as if it is here already. We must lay the foundation that the future we desire may be built upon, and to that end we need to utilize the structures that are present. Structures such as nations, which provide us a sense of protection from those we cannot know - a sense of dedication, to our collective community - a sense of safety, that implies our liberties and freedoms will be ensured by a mechanical organization that is larger than our community. Essentially, nations give us the hope for our present while we wait for the day when they are no longer needed. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────┘ --- #17 messages/408 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── If our government was of the people, by the people, and for the people, then it would aim to make all of its citizens as rich as it could. A good place to start would be by encouraging deflation, so people could buy more high quality goods on the international markets, and by regulating the power that select few individuals may use to extract wealth and labor from the "lesser" citizens. I don't know about you but I believe that all men are created equal, and it is unconscionable that some may bend others to their will. Liberty, liberty, freedom for me but not for thee, for I am a despot you see, of my own little fiefdom, this palace of renown - I built my playground from the blood and bones of your kin, and I stand here on the high ground. Come at me! See what my army of drones can do. I built them overseas, with an army of slaves that I'm not accountable for. Come at me! See who the police of this nation will protect. I paid for them, after all, with my endless coffers and vaults of inherited wealth. Come at me! See who will believe ye, the media is at my beck and call. Propaganda works on everyone, and everything you see on your phone or TV was written for me. So take care, little one, lest I kill you with a thought. Less than a thought, for you are just a number to me. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────┘ --- #18 fediverse/2317 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌──────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: uspol │ │ ║ └──────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ "My friends, I come to you now bearing a copy of the US constitution, among │ ║ other writings. On the front cover, is our American flag. On the back, is the │ ║ flag of our thirteen colonies. I speak to you now as a dedicated advocate of │ ║ peace, hope, and change - we changed our flag once before, and it made us │ ║ stronger. │ ║ │ ║ I have come to you to ask, hope, beg and to plead - I beseech you: lay down │ ║ your weapons, and teach us how to use them. We have Nazis to kill. │ ║ │ ║ And now, with your permission, the kindest amongst us will lead you to a place │ ║ where you can be alone - to a homeless shelter nearby, or perhaps two if you │ ║ don't all fit. │ ║ │ ║ There I ask of you, select from amongst your number those of us you'd like us │ ║ to judge. Take as long as you'd like, we will be waiting in the park for you. │ ║ │ ║ For those of you who see light in our shared future, for those who seek a │ ║ brighter truth, there's a greater fight yet coming, and we'd love for you to │ ║ join us. Teach us the ways of your arms! We are voracious learners. │ ║ │ ║ 15m later: │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #19 fediverse/2976 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: uspol │ └──────────────────────┘ on our current trajectory, the presidential election is already won. now we can get back to on-the-ground organizing, the part that actually improves life instead of maintaining our current (unethical) state. As long as our allies (liberals) continue to work, perhaps there may come a day when we can stand against them as friendly equals in the ballot box. But for now we are best known through friends and community rather than TV. I am optimistic in a way I haven't been for a while. I know that the more we speak, the more we share, the more they falter, the more people we can save from their vice grip of despair. There is no better world than the one we build together! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┘ --- #20 fediverse/1651 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────┐ ║ gee I sure wish my morals reflected the ethics of my society. it really would │ ║ be nice is they didn't include so many shitty things like oppressing people │ ║ abroad or being super-duper racist for an embarrassing amount of time. But, │ ║ like, freedom, liberty, and the justice to hope? true justice is when everyone │ ║ gets what they want. true liberty is when we can live as we want with the │ ║ magnitude of the result of our lives determined by how hard we worked. │ ║ │ ║ truly, the hardworking slave should be better off than the rich wanderer. But │ ║ alas, that's not how it's currently set up. >.> │ ║ │ ║ though it is kinda nice to own things too, so maybe the other extreme is a │ ║ little extreme. I sure like having my favorite spork. │ ║ │ ║ back in the old days, in the buildings they've since demolished (to put │ ║ skyscrapers there - the "old-timey" buildings in your neighborhood are there │ ║ because they're in the least commercially viable position - meaning the lowest │ ║ density of people.) you could walk through an entire building in a shared │ ║ communal s │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴──────────┘ |