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ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 2h ago

A while back I got into a pretty pitched disagreement with a then-anarchist creator who disagreed with me that the concept of natural rights was a liberal concept that is predicated upon the existence of a state to determine the nature and limits of rights which its polity are entitled to and that rights are thus inherently something that does not fit within anarchist principles.

What determines and defends (or limits and violates) a person's rights if not a state?

I think because we are in a deeply within liberal cultural hegemony it makes sense to refer to rights conceptually as a shortcut term but your ideological position can't really rest upon the bedrock of natural rights without smuggling philosophical liberalism in through the back door, intentionally or otherwise.

Oh well. That point of disagreement is moot since they turned ML.

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ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 10h ago

A little while back there was a small group of people who reached out to Parenti's kids, who were taking care of him due to the progression of his dementia, and asked if they could visit to meet him and pay their respects.

They reported that he seemed happy and well cared for and, from memory, they also said that they explained to him that he had become a topic of memes amongst the left and they showed him some. If I'm recalling correctly, he seemed to be a bit puzzled by the memes but he appreciated them.

I'm not a very sentimental person and I don't believe in the afterlife but I think that if Parenti could see it, he would be equal parts touched and baffled by all the shitposts in memoriam. (And honestly, I feel the same way.)

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ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 13h ago

They don't care about people being slaughtered, they just want to feel vindicated.

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ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 13h ago

To all the Kamala voters who refused to support Vermin Supreme, how do you feel about that now that nobody has a government-supplied pony with which to form a mounted cavalry unit to charge and rout ICE agents from Minneapolis? 😏

E: as much as I hate the posturing, moral grandstanding, and the absolute glee the progressive take when they do that hackneyed old "leopards eating face" schtick, I am lowering my standards to meet the level of Yankee political discourse and I've decided that I'm going to start responding to progressives like the one in this post by referring to the democratic party as the "leopards who eat slightly fewer faces in a more polite fashion" party and I'm gonna poison their smug bullshit.

"Oh, did you think that the leopards wouldn't eat your face just because you voted for the 'leopards who eat slightly fewer faces in a more polite way' party? Oh you sweet summer child."

It's really gross taking like that but it's the language that progressives understand because of how it resonates with them. If I can drill it into the heads of a few libs then every time they next see cringey leopard-posting from their echo chambers it's gonna sour the taste of it in their mouths.

ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 13h ago

Right? Two points:

If Kamala ran on an identical platform except with the promise to abolish ICE and CBP, she probably would have been good enough for the majority of people across the left to hold their nose and vote for her.
More to the point, she didn't run on this platform and instead on one of increased funding to enforcement agencies and so this smug posturing that is masquerading as a question is based on an utterly invalid premise. It's like pointing at the genocidal NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia and saying "To all the people who voted for Bill Clinton instead of Bob Dole, how do you feel about that decision today?" as if the other guy would have been a better choice by virtue of the fact that he didn't have his finger on the red button and you can't prove for a fact that he would have pressed it (although we all know he would have.)

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ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 13h ago

There's this quote from Parenti that always resonated with me perhaps more than any other and it gets truer with every passing day:

https://files.catbox.moe/7h5asj.mp4

ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 15h ago

Which way, Yankee progressive?

ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 16h ago

A person passed away unexpectedly due to complications resulting from an altercation that took place during a protest against officers.

ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 16h ago

If only they had a big war to rally the voters, sorta like a war in Iraq or something idk...

ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 16h ago

The Parenti pissfilter was iconic and groundbreaking for its time in the world of cinematography.

The BBC took decades to catch up and they mimic it in a futile attempt to lay claim to Parenti's greatness by imitation, ignorant of the fact that it was the essence of his words that elevated him to greatness and not the hue of his color grading.

ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 20h ago

That's understandable. Trying when you are able to do so will make a big difference anyway, even if it only happens when you're thinking out loud to yourself or you do it when you're talking one-on-one to a person you're comfortable with and the anxiety levels are lower.

I don't really go non-verbal

I'd be remiss in my duties if I didn't talk about this, especially given the topic of the post. This is a call-in not a call out.

The preferred term is "non-speaking" since non-verbal implies that only the act of speak words out loud "counts" as "valid" form of verbalizing and it doesn't recognize that people can verbalize by signing, using AAC, or by writing.

But that term applies to people who do not speak and use alternative means of communication and this is essentially considered to be a persistent state. For yourself, it seems like you do not speak at times in a transient way and the preferred term for that is "verbal shutdown" because it's important to make a distinction between people who are non-speaking and the people who lose their ability to speak temporarily due to certain factors. The (unintentional) harm caused by referring to oneself with the term nonverbal while being able to speak most of the time is that it creates a societal expectation that people who identify as nonverbal/nonspeaking or are labeled as such can speak, and that can cause all sorts of problems.

As a person who experiences verbal shutdowns myself I think it's very important that we avoid colonizing that space carved out for nonspeaking people because it's crucial that they have it and the recognition in society (however small) that comes with it.

There's no need to apologize or to feel guilty over this btw. These misunderstandings are a product of the discourse within the autistic community, especially online, being of an abysmal quality and having a strong tendency to import a lot of ableism in from mainstream discourse while, intentionally or otherwise, talking over higher support needs autistic people etc. (Honestly, that shit gives me a migraine and it's so difficult to drive culture change in that space.) You're not to blame for picking up what prominent figures in the autistic self-advocacy community normalize without consideration for higher support needs people and others who do not speak. (Btw Sienna Stims is a creator on social media and they are really good at critiquing the internalized ableism and lateral ableism within the autistic community, especially from content creators, and I'd recommend you give them a follow so you see their stuff in your feed.)

ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 20h ago

Rest in power, comrade o7

ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 20h ago

Coco coir is notorious for holding onto salinity due to it's ideal CEC so if you don't get the low-salt stuff or you don't know if it is, give it a very thorough flush. In fact, I'd do that anyway just to be on the safe side.

I've never grown cannabis before (not a bit btw) but if your coir is too salty then I can't imagine cannabis is gonna take well to it.

(In fact, it shouldn't be all that hard to go media-free and this could eliminate some variables, but that's a topic for someone who knows what they're doing with a cannabis grow.)

a cheap pH meter

Just make sure that you understand how to store a pH meter so you get accurate measurements. Unfortunately they are much more fickle and delicate compared to tools like thermometers.

ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 20h ago

"Umm tailor your potable water sources, Sweaty!"

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ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 21h ago

"We must decolonize Russia... I see it – Russian Federation Kaliningrad, that we need to tackle first. Can we move it and transform it into [the] Prussia[n Empire?]"

You can't make this shit up.

All the imperialists are now “pro-decolonization” (don't laugh!).