Moderation Questions

amazing how this kid would not be considered fat today

Too soon man, too soon.

What kind of lunatic would ever make me a moderator?

That scene wouldn't get passed today. It would be too... problematic.😮

Remember in Cannibal Holocaust when the cannibals cut off one of the documentary crew's dick?

No, I've heard of that movie but it sounds too extreme for me.

It's definitely pretty out there, and even today is still quite the jaw dropper. Strangely mellow score though.

There is a lot of this going around lately. Fascists and Nazis hoping for the race war, communists gunning for the breakdown of market-based democracies, tech-bros who wants to bring the state down so they can replace borders with blockchain, state actors who want international order to collapse so they can reign, and voluntarists who wants the state to fail so they can live shackle-free.

Fundamentally, I think these groups do a very basic error. They read the tales of existing nations, look at their historical disasters and see a pattern of phoenixes rising from the ashes. What they fail to realize is the survivor bias inherent in reading history this way. It would be wiser to read a history of collapsing nations and study outcomes. Though this is a lot less comforting for your self-esteem, because it is much more difficult to see yourself as a savior in those scenarios.

Some, of course, just want to see it all burn. I suspect the vast majority of those have very little experience with what a failed state looks up close.

I very much agree, and even if you focus only on the survivors, you really have to squint to see a lot of beautiful phoenixes.

More often, you see corrupt states replaced by repressive states, repressive states replaced by gangster states, or some other "bad for bad" swap. Not every time, but a lot of the time.

Some anarchist think along the lines of building a new world from inside the existing society/state. Constructing alternatives without any sudden collapse.

Personally, I think far too many people love the boot smashing people's faces forever to do anything more than try to stay out of its way.

You don't build the checks and balances and bills of rights into your still restrictive and far too powerful states out of fear of Trump. You do it because there are millions of mongidigs and lucioms salivating over police smashing undesirables.

Many left wingers as well who want a revolution or even think it a good idea.

true but when i watching it with my niece she guessed probably 1/3 of her classmates were that size or larger so it wouldn't ever be a defining feature like it was with chunk

like she didn't catch at first that the truffle shuffle was a fat kid dance, she thought it was just some cool dance move he was particularly good at hence the request for it was out of praise rather than humiliation

Dr Zhivago (the film, not the novel which is nothing like as good) is still graphically enlightening on the subject. If you know anything about the Russian civil war, you know it's pretty well done. See the scene where the old woman stumbles up to the Red partisan commander and says her village has just been wiped out by 'soldiers', and the Red partisan commander says, 'Red soldiers or White soldiers?' and the old woman looks blank and says, 'Soldiers.'

Say what?

Sure, 57 on Red wants to destroy the lives of all trans people on the planet, but he's also occasionally a charming source of pointless information, therefore, "good poster".

I've posted more troll-free content than the significant majority of the forum (on a per post basis, anyway). The only place on here I call people child murderers is in this thread for which child murder is indirectly (typically) advocated.

Maybe, but I don't think discounted healthcare prices, and taxing the rich for more disposable income while removing the law physics of price/demand to miraculously allow everything to still be cheap would make the majority of that particular group who advocate for those things satisfied with the new status quo if that were to actually happen.

I'd safely argue that people who actually endured years of deprivation and hardship would question a place like this before making radical changes when things could easily end up much worse. The last hoorah to come in started out nicely then posited the idea of murdering the weak might be a good solution because it might improve the weather that he didn't like.

I get that its about imagining a better world, and that improving the world seems realistic, but there is a large gap between the ideas of making working changes within the system and some of the suggestions that call for the complete removal of it.

If you wanted to posit any ideas, I'd appreciate it because I know you'd be arguing from a place that truly wanted people to live a better life - as opposed to just getting the opportunity to stick it to people that they hate.

The point of idea of building a better world from within the existing world is that it is not a violent action that involves any immediate complete removal of any system, but building alternatives that work or not only as they attract people.

Dunno what you are talking about the last hoorah being, but if you mean Maoist China or the USSR, neither of them were anarchist or called themselves anarchist. Better examples of that would be Rojava today which is still a functioning society and a more direct democracy than USA or The Spanish Revolution or Makhnovshchina in Ukraine in 1917-20, both of which were destroyed by the Bolsheviks (along with fascists and royalists). Or maybe Zomia or the Zapatistas.

Ultimately, political group projects are a deception and a procrastination.

For the conscious + internally aware individual, reality will always be a monarchy.

I have a pretty good idea who you think the monarch is.

these ****in guys just fantasize about getting dommed by a daddy

I was referring to the fact that craig considers himself a literal prophet, like Jeremiah in the Old Testament.

This statement is more bourgeois than psilocybin retreats.

You seem confused about pain, luxury, and politics. It’s the people who only have a casual relationship to pain that can afford to live in the political illusion.

Politics is a necessary aspect of reality. Still, one cannot impose their will on reality in any lasting way through the political, no matter how much money or power you have access to.