=== ANCHOR POEM === ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── ┌─────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-mentioned-kinda-silly? │ └─────────────────────────────────────┘ thank god for the impulse behind repealing the chevron doctrine. it's one of the best silver bullets against autocracy, at least if it hits their achilles heel. if you demand loyalty over expertise, then expertise will necessarily be lost and reduced. giving those who respect justified authority the advantage. hence, why putin and kim-jong-un and other authoritarian leaders don't need to know shit about the capabilities of their military - all they have to do is say "go here, fuck shit up" to which the generals of course would reply "with pleasure" because they're into kinky stuff like warcrimes and despotism ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┘ === SIMILARITY RANKED === --- #1 fediverse/250 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: palestine-and-other-places-probably-idk │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ "ah but what about false flag attacks and a repeat of the whole 'weapons of mass destruction in Iraq' thing, surely we could be misled and therefore there cannot be an conclusively ethical reason for war" perhaps you're right, but my feelings tell me that we have guns, and people are dying. "ah but won't they just send all their political opponents to fight and die while they amass power in the background" yeah that'll probably happen. "why should I give my life for a man I never met in a faraway land" fuck you "okay but won't any military action on such a scale create the conditions for WW3 (which would spell the end for the human race)" yeah probs "... and you're okay with that?" no I'm just pissed is all and it's human to want to punch things when you're pissed, right? listen I'm not a general, I'm not privy to the details of how my military would address nuclear disaster, all I know is that people are dying and we have guns. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #2 fediverse_boost/4753 --- ◀─╔═════════════════════════[BOOST]═══════════════════════════───────────────────╗ ║ ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ ║ │ A friend who's a fed employee sent me a msg about what's happening in their agency and it is so much worse than I thought. │ ║ ║ │ │ ║ ║ │ It's not just that the Trump administration is breaking shit. │ ║ ║ │ │ ║ ║ │ They're literally building their own dark infrastructure inside the one that exists. They brought their own personnel, yes -- personnel who aren't even being cleared. They just come straight from Heritage or Musk, and they're setting up shop. They're bringing their own servers - so there are no communications that can be traced through 'the system.' This goes against every rule. They're all going through their own offline channels. │ ║ ║ │ │ ║ ║ │ That's what all that stuff about the meta data on those memos is about. No trace back to the WH. │ ║ ║ │ │ ║ ║ │ The Heritagers + Muskovites have purged all the senior folks and sending memos in the name of powerless juniors who remain. │ ║ ║ │ │ ║ ║ │ I don't want to sound alarmist but it's literally like those movies about evil fuckers taking over. It's another Jan 6 but with memos and communiques vs guns. │ ║ ║ │ │ ║ ║ │ It's a coup. │ ║ ║ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ║ ╠─────────┐ ┌───────────╣ ║ similar │ chronological │ different ║ ╚═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────┴───────╝─▶ --- #3 fediverse/4477 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: radical-politics-maybe-mentioned-or-gestured-at-once-or-twice-but-nothing-too-serious-teehee-I'm-just-a-witch-don't-listen-to-me-(or-do,-I'm-not-your-mom,-I-can't-tell-you-what-to-do) │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Moving forward, "liberal" when used outside of an academic context means "ally of liberty" treat them as such. feel free to point out how fucking stupid it is to be moderate, but don't punch down by proclaiming them your enemy. We are all friends against the fourth reich. your radicalism is now your wealth. Nurture the flames of revolution in the hearts of others. Show them what it means to be free. Fight for your life daily! If nothing else, to get in the habit, and to set a good example. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┘ --- #4 fediverse/6290 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────── ┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-mentioned-cursing-mentioned │ └──────────────────────────────────────────┘ "ah the communists sucked at everything which is why chernobl and famine and all their toasters were made out of lead" meanwhile "yeah let's use AI to build nuclear reactors for us without human oversight or even with human oversight because humans are both fallible and infallible depending on the situation" and I'm like... "ah wish I had a point with this post" and they're like "holy fuck did you hear that too" "yeah man what the hell was that" "I dunno but it seemed completely unrelated to what was going on" "so, uh... let's just never talk about this again" "yeah sounds good. talk about what?" "heh yeah, right. so uh, anyway, about this nuclear reactor..." ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────┘ --- #5 fediverse/5381 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────── ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: nazis-mentioned │ └─────────────────────────┘ @user-138 they say that not all monarchs are evil or inept, but the worst ones definitely are. such is the same for all leaders, elected or otherwise. sometimes, it's better to question authority than to grow to resent it. resentment is inaction. it is an untenable [charity./tragedy.] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────┘ --- #6 fediverse/3977 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: politics-mentioned │ │ ║ └────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ Alright, what's your plan for dealing with MAGA? The ones with guns and │ ║ foreign ties who can compel people too stupid to know better to break shit and │ ║ kill people. What's your plan to deal with them? │ ║ │ ║ In America, there are currently 3 armed and trained groups of any reasonable │ ║ scale or reputation. │ ║ │ ║ The police, the military, and MAGA. │ ║ │ ║ Who do you trust to defeat your foes? They won't just go away if you hide │ ║ underneath the bedsheets. This monster has crept into your bedroom with a │ ║ bowie knife and is fully intending to sink it into your guts while you sleep. │ ║ What are you going to do about it? │ ║ │ ║ And more importantly, who are you going to do things about it with? Because no │ ║ single person can do jack fucking shit on their own. │ ║ │ ║ We forgot our responsibility to a well armed and regulated militia. Sorry │ ║ founding fathers, that was our bad. Just gonna hide in a hole for 30 fucking │ ║ years until the zoomer's kids are old enough to die in droves, and gen alpha's │ ║ kids are old enough to succeed them and win. │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────┴──────────┘ --- #7 fediverse/3518 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────── As long as it happens, I don't need to be in charge. In fact I'd prefer it otherwise. it's going to happen anyway. Wouldn't you rather be a leader? no I fucking wouldn't. I'd rather someone else do it. Why the fuck would I want that, power? control? the very things you swear to relinquish and dismantle. yeah. too bad you can't fucking dismantle something you've already relinquished. true. ... and no, I wouldn't want to be in charge. no THANK you. ... but if it wouldn't happen without me, then yeah I'll be there for you. Just ask if you need me. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┘ --- #8 fediverse/2206 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── Protests are not the battleground, they are the stage. The gym. The pride parade. Some people should not go to protests. In card games, it's often best to save your best cards for last, when your opponents can least resist. Or at least, save them for when they are most crucial. I read recently about how Russian spec-ops forces (the truly best of the best) have been absolutely devastated because they keep sending them to the frontline to die for inches of breadth. I'm not spec ops, but I don't go to protests for a different reason. Mostly because nobody thought to invite me xD xD lol so silly ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┘ --- #9 fediverse/5423 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────── ┌─────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-violence-mentioned │ └─────────────────────────────────┘ all performers read from a script, read through in the past or generated in their mind in the moment. Improvization and adaptive learning. some members of the armed forces agree with Trump. Some of them do not. some of the people at protests believe in liberty, some of them do not. all you have to do is kill a cop, take their gear, and then do a skit where you beat the shit out of someone. it's easy to start a fight. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────┘ --- #10 fediverse/2005 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: politics │ └──────────────────────┘ @user-1074 I don't think the "capitalist elite" really have an ideology. Ideas are weapons they use and discard when it suits them, like strapping 15 handguns to your person in order to avoid needing to reload. Good thing there's more than 15 of us. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┘ --- #11 fediverse/4234 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────── ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-mentioned-violence-and-cursing-mentioned │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ I do not consent to a Trump presidency what do we do to rapists? we bash their fucking skulls in, and then we go to jail for vengeance there are more of us than them. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┘ --- #12 fediverse/5349 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────── ┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: weirdly-political-violence-mentioned │ └──────────────────────────────────────────┘ if your grandfather came to you and told you to prepare the tribes for war, what would you do? machine guns on the back of trucks? machined barrels with ignition systems, enough to chew up a suburb or a ware-house? target is a warehouse everyone needs groceries how about bottle rockets with mile-long range that could turn around and fly back if the enemy wasn't around "build mustangs" mustangs are jeeps, dumbass ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────┘ --- #13 messages/314 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── Sowing political division the way Fox news does is treasonous... It doesn't matter the intention, those responsible should be forced to cease their actions. I don't care about punishment, I care about damage to the fabric of our society. Take, for example, the fact that the military is struggling to find recruits. So many of them typically come from the right half of the political spectrum because the right tends to favor the ideals of "honorable warriors" and such. But Fox News has corrupted that. In addition, the left half of the media has also incited hatred amongst ourselves. It's wrong to pit brother against brother, and yet... We have a weak series of generations and that's okay in times of peace. But times of peace are coveted abroad, and weakness is opportunity. So I don't care if we have 10,000 tanks. Hell, build ten thousand more. I despise war, but I despise weakness even more because weakness begets war. Typically, a war that you'd be losing, though frankly in war, everyone loses. There are grevious mistakes at play that gave room for evil to spread. Corruption follows, and with it comes our greatest generation on its death bed. A civil war would be the end of us, as nothing stops war in the imperial core until there's nothing but ashes and bloodshed. And yet, something has to change. There's too much pressure for this to go on un-abated. I thank the masterful statesmen who ply their trade for their own profit, for in their profit our peace does follow. Alas, the most profitable venture is war, which often gets exported. How callous, how vain, to exert and call forth fiery rain, and yet the bullets keep leaving the factory. Power corrupts. Power accretes. And power can be deceived. Fuck power, dismantle the whole apparatus. Build it back up from the mechanics, and then implement it bit by bit. Leave no stone unturned, there is no facet that is sacred. We need a new system, and its we who must make it. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────┘ --- #14 messages/534 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────── War is hell - each casualty bids farewell to a wholely unique treasure from this world - war is hell - there is nothing that cannot be resolved with words. And yet we fight, and yet we pillage. War is hell, and those who demand it must do so only to resist evil, elemental evil, the kind that wars on the innocent and pillages the bounteous. War is hell. Fucking kill the ones who make it. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┘ --- #15 fediverse/5433 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────── ┌────────────────────────┐ │ CW: violence-mentioned │ └────────────────────────┘ war is hell and should be avoided at all costs "does that mean we should do shadow conflicts and do spy-vs-spy shit all day every day?" no, that's a type of warfare too. and is also hell. no thank you. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────┘ --- #16 fediverse/4533 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────── ┌───────────────────────┐ │ CW: cursing-mentioned │ └───────────────────────┘ yo I've suggested like 15 different economic systems by now you should know that I'm not at all attached to any of them, and odds are half of them wouldn't even work. People write books about this shit (books I haven't read) Whatever I suggest is for ad-hoc organization only but I guarantee that every single fucking one of them would be better than capitalism. Fuck the system. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┘ --- #17 fediverse/4715 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────── @user-1728 "oh, the bad guys are coming to hurt you?? just fuckin' run away" yeah. real helpful. how about you fuck off to canada or whatever and give away all your possessions. Maybe they'll train you and teach you how to help in some way and you can come back later when the time is right. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┘ --- #18 messages/643 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────── I'm not here to convince you. If you're reading this, odds are we already agree. I'm here to give you memetic weapons to use when convincing *liberals* to wake the fuck up and check the time. Don't fucking talk to conservatives anymore. Unless you got a thing going and you're close to deradicalizing / converting them already. It's not worth it anymore, and I fear for their souls, but we need to focus on building a bedrock of support rather than wasting compassion on our enemies-to-be. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┘ --- #19 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 │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─┘ --- #20 fediverse/4032 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────── unions can't be the only solution because they're fundamentally comprised of one group of people in your life - specifically, your workplace environment. there needs to be community outside of the workplace as well. a fact that most literature writers took as a given, considering church attendance was pretty close to heaven before these no-good do-gooders came around. ... there have always been grifters, don't act like they're some new hidden sport there are always rubes, who are punished for their ignorance by the cunning and the crude. crowd dynamics at play, when considering the personalities and histories of each attendant ... Ms. Menardi, you're fucking crazy thank you little timmy, now go back and sit down with your peers, I have a lesson to teach [it's okay to be afraid of witches, sometimes we can't control ourselves] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┘ |