RedWizard

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RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them] @hexbear.net 3d ago

You can see more of the originals here:

https://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/WWPC/browse/?q=this+man+is+your+friend&t=fulltext

RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them] @hexbear.net 4d ago

We have a lot of them in our town. I've thought about trying to identify stuff I could print myself and slip into these boxes. All the good stuff would be to long to print myself though.

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RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them] @hexbear.net 4d ago

There is one in the playground at my daughters school that's always empty, and I always thought it would be funny to put theory in there.

RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them] @hexbear.net 4d ago

The Nuremberg Laws were inspired by the Jim Crow Laws that developed after the end of the Civil War and the defeat of Reconstruction. The amount of influence the apartheid state of America had on future apartheid states is actually fairly substantial. From the Nuremberg laws in Germany, to the laws that created the apartheid system in South Africa, and the ones that govern the apartheid system in Israel. What might the world have looked like if Reconstruction had actually happened? We could probably debate all day whether the Germans would have independently arrived at the Nuremberg laws without Jim Crow, but it wouldn't matter. The reality is that they did look to America for inspiration, and that inspiration was born out of the Civil War and its consequences.

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RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them] @hexbear.net 4d ago

Alright, fair enough. I do see it when I edit the post. It's not exactly what I expected the interface to look like. I expected it to look like either the Title field or the Text field, since you can put a considerable amount of text into that box.

RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them] @hexbear.net 4d ago

🎶 It's the circle of liiiiiife! 🎶

RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them] @hexbear.net 4d ago

There are PRs right now that fix it but they remain unmerged. I'm not convinced that the developer of Voyager cares about that kind of accessibility.

RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them] @hexbear.net 4d ago

Yeah I eventually fixed the issue when I arrived at work.

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RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them] @hexbear.net 4d ago

Where do I enter the alt text here.

RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them] @hexbear.net 5d ago

Sorry I meant, The Incredibles.

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RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them] @hexbear.net 5d ago

This is about Jared Bush. But it's similar to how the guy who wrote The ~~Impossibles~~ Incredibles is a massive fan of Ayn Rand, and how that movie has a lot of Randian undertones to it.

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For those who want to understand what I mean here:

There are three central forces at play in the movie The Incredibles. There are the Supers, a group of uniquely gifted heroes who have natural abilities that set them apart from normal, every-day society. The superstructure of the world of The Incredibles, which mirrors our own (governments, laws, courts, etc). Finally, Syndrome, the supposed primary villain of the film, who has no superpowers of his own, but is a wealthy and highly successful technologist.

The inciting incident in this adventure begins in the past, where Mr. Incredible attempts to save a person who intentionally jumped off a building. This person was injured in the process but also did not want to be saved. The person files a lawsuit against Mr. Incredible and wins, eventually paving the way for government regulation and the criminalization of "heroes". All super powered people are placed into a kind of witness protection program, where they are relocated and assume new identities, and they are barred from using their powers.

One detail of the film that needs to be pointed out is that every villain shown in the film has no powers of their own. Syndrome has no powers, but neither do any of the villains in the flashbacks, nor do the villains in the sequel either. Mr. Incredible, years after this event, works as a paper pusher in an insurance company. He resents this job, knowing that his skills of being super strong and durable are being wasted while he denies people's insurance. He moonlights with a friend to do heroic deeds after hours.

Syndrome resents the supers and all that they have. His whole goal is to not only become the most famous super in the world but to also democratize this power by selling it to people. He's a fraud by comparison, killing "real heroes," as Mr. Incredible phrases it, so he can masquerade as one. His defeat ultimately proves that even if someone strives to imitate these uniquely gifted people, they will fail. That those who say they are interested in making the world more egalitarian, are actually selfishly motivated. Syndrome is only interested in democratizing the power his inventions would provide when he's old and tired of being the hero.

The movie tells us something is wrong with the world. That these great men and women, who are uniquely and biologically superior to everyone around them, have been tied down by regulation, chained by government oversight. It tells us, through Syndrome, that attempting to size this power for yourself, or even democratize this power, you are a villain. Anyone offering to do so is a con artist willing to horde the best for themselves first, before anyone else. It also tells us that even if you are driven, like Syndrome is, whatever you build cannot stand against those naturally gifted few. Instead of tying them down, we should embrace them and allow them to operate unimpeded.

Syndrome, in many ways, is the secondary villain in this story, the primary being the government. If the government had never been involved, if the courts had common sense and sided with the Supers over someone who was suicidal, there would not have been space for someone like Syndrome to emerge. Syndrome filled the vacuum created when Supers were sent into hiding. Selling weapons to people and countries for their defenses. His shallow imitation of the Supers only results in their power being placed into the hands of governments globally. Governments who the movie already told us are not rational or capable of common sense. It ultimately celebrates individualism and uses Syndrome to cast egalitarianism in a villainous light, to characterize it as a con or a folly.

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RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them] @hexbear.net 5d ago

The Voyager app does not have a field for alt text. Which is one of its many limitations, alongside no display names (and thus no pronoun display), and no emoji picker. It has, in my opinion, the best interface and layout of the existing Lemmy apps. I've considered forking it to include these things, but I have no time to maintain that fork.

RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them] @hexbear.net 5d ago

Pick a meme format that isn't so sexist next time.

RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them] @hexbear.net 5d ago

We're Costco guys, of course we support everything Iran has done! All glory to the Ayatollah!