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Proud anti-fascist & bird-person

  • The legacy that reactionaries actually stand for:

    Conservatism is the theoretical voice of this animus against the agency of the subordinate classes. It provides the most consistent and profound argument as to why the lower orders should not be allowed to exercise their independent will, why they should not be allowed to govern themselves or the polity. Submission is their first duty, and agency the prerogative of the elite. Though it is often claimed that the left stands for equality while the right stands for freedom, this notion misstates the actual disagreement between right and left. Historically, the conservative has favored liberty for the higher orders and constraint for the lower orders. What the conservative sees and dislikes in equality, in other words, is not a threat to freedom but its extension. For in that extension, he sees a loss of his own freedom.

    -Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind

    They want a neofeudalism that returns power to those whom they see as deserving it: White Christian Fundamentalists.

  • I prefer an e-reader, but I used my phone before I got one. It is nice to always have my books on me with the phone, but the e-reader is much more comfortable for long sessions.

  • Is La La Land worth a watch? I love a good musical.

  • Dick Cheney walked so that Trump could run out of his diaper and onto the Oval Office carpet.

  • It blows my mind that some people on my team were excited to watch the commercials during the Super Bowl.

    I live my life in a way that minimizes the advertising I'm exposed to, and some people are just mainlining that garbage.

  • The Wikipedia article music of Egypt has a decent section on ancient music in the history portion.

    But it's important to remember that ancient Egyptian history is incredibly long and varied. It's hard to pin down musical styles over thousands of years. The reality is that we don't really know what the music sounded like, so educated guesses are the closest we can get. Notation would not be invented for thousands of years.

    The instruments they used provide most of the insight that we have. Here's a YouTube video of some people playing reconstructions of period instruments. This would just be a guess at the music, but it is at least informed by later tradition from around the region.

  • What's your budget? You can get a ukulele or guitar for fairly cheap, and there are websites full of chords or tabs for songs. You can play hundreds of songs if you just know a few chords.

    There are tutorial videos on YouTube to get you started. Play and sing along. You'll suck at first, but if you keep at it and play every day you'll get to be pretty good.

  • "I told you... (deep breath) they all need to have BENCH SEATS in the REAR! WHAT the FUCK do I PAY YOU PEOPLE FOR??!?? Don't you KNOW who I AM???"

  • Now I'm picturing him being so delighted by you pulling a McChicken from behind his ear that he gives you Iowa.

  • I hope I'm a Rowlf but I might be a Gonzo, which isn't too bad either.

  • It doesn't make the best quality, but it's great to have a kettle around that can brew coffee.

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  • Of course if you quote Jesus' literal words at these people they start screeching about how the Devil can quote scripture too

    I was yelling at some people protesting abortion just before the Dobbs decision, and I found one guy who wanted to argue in front of his wife and daughter.

    I asked why the Bible has a recipe for an abortion potion in it, and specifically for unfaithful wives; he said it doesn't.

    I told him "oh, weird. I have the passage pulled up here on my phone."

    With a smug look he replied "I don't do Bible study with non-believers."

    I told him "okay, I'm sure I can find someone in this crowd who isn't a coward," and started to walk away.

    He didn't want to look pathetic in front of his family, so he agreed to let me read it. As I was pulling it up, he said "you probably don't even know who wrote the book of Numbers."

    I told him "Christian and Jewish tradition points to Moses, but nobody really knows," and then I read the passage.

    When I was done, he said "that said it caused a miscarriage, not an abortion."

    I berated him and told him "that's what the fuck an abortion is, jackass: an induced miscarriage"

    His wife asked then me where I got the boba tea I was drinking. I know I didn't get through to her numbnuts husband, but I think his family may have learned something that day about the Bible and their paterfamilias.

  • There are ways of saying that without posting ragebait bullshit.

  • I see. So you're spreading it around despite doubting if it's even true?

  • Any source on this besides a twit account I've never heard of?

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  • I sure wish Pete would save himself.

  • It tastes like someone fermented trashcan juice in a skunk's asshole in the dog days of summer.

  • The kind where one can get to a different galaxy in a single lifetime? I doubt it.

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    Recommend some games for PCem

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    Favorite Kim Stanley Robinson book?

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    Deck wakes from suspend after latest SteamOS update.

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    What are your thoughts on Pico-8?

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    Zaō Gongen- unknown Japanese artist, wood carving (1200s)

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