Any reputable online colleges for IT/coding/computer architecture?

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-23T23:33:40+00:00

Yep

https://asuonline.asu.edu/online-degree-programs/undergraduate/bachelor-science-software-engineering/

https://asuonline.asu.edu/study/tech-computer-science-degrees/

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-23T23:21:39+00:00

"Fans say the sensation of mushy extraterrestrial ovum slopping out of them is a real treat."

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-23T22:30:49+00:00

👍this one seems to be working

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-23T20:46:20+00:00

Child porn I would not defend, real children are harmed in making that. People that abuse children should be in prison. I personally have no interest in a child sex doll, but if my neighbor wants to fuck a piece of plastic in the privacy of his own home, and doesn't hurt anyone while doing it, it's really not any of my business. My interest isn't in protecting the paedos, its from protecting individuals from people like you who would criminalize people that haven't hurt anyone, just because they go against your moral values. People like you are why we have had things like alcohol prohibition, censorship and the like. Society doesn't get to criminalize immorality, they get to criminalize harmful behavior where there is an actual victim

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-23T20:19:48+00:00

I don't want to fuck any children, you clearly don't know how to read

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-23T19:48:33+00:00

But there wasn't an invasion...those regions literally defected themselves and did not want to be part of Ukraine

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-23T19:40:48+00:00

Everyone who wants to fuck kids should be killed.

Yeah those thought criminals! How dare they think thoughts I don't approve of!

If dude wants to fuck a piece of plastic, I don't much care what that piece of plastic looks like, or whether or not you approve of it. There is no such thing as a 'thought crime' or 'pre-crime', reserve your death sentences for people who commit actual crimes

Anyone defending this guys should also face the death penalty because they're obviously paedophiles too.

Everyone who isn't a tyrant wants to fuck children? No I don't think so.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-23T19:34:40+00:00

I don't know what you Christians believe, but I've read the New Testament, and Jesus Christ certainly would not have advocated for anything like this.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-23T19:32:17+00:00

Voting is stupid, it just gives the majority the right to force their values onto everyone else. The majority is very very stupid, and they shouldn't be allowed to decide things they have no knowledge about. .

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-23T19:28:40+00:00

I'm not sure its working, I voted, and it says there is 1 total vote, but it looks like you did it as well, so there should be at least 2

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-23T09:46:52+00:00

Mr Chilsolm objected to the term 'masturbating' because he has a 'talent' for moving his penis 'without touching it'.

'He says he can move his penis sideways and up and down in ways that most men can't without touching it,' Mr Maley said, according to the NT News.

'It's something that he has a talent [for, that] he has developed over the years through regular use.'

The court heard a 38-year-old man saw what he was doing and told him to stop, before an argument broke out and police were called.

The witness said that no one should be made to feel uncomfortable on a beach, and explained that the teenagers did not consent to the self-gratification.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-23T06:28:37+00:00

I operate a series of toilet spycams and stream them online

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-23T06:22:38+00:00

Dr. Fauci wants me to wear a hijab too

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-23T04:42:45+00:00

Trying to figure out what kind of catgender I am

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-23T00:20:44+00:00

Appreciate the reply, its not often I get a chance to discuss race without dogmatism and strong feelings making it difficult.

Nobody shits on Japan for wanted to remain Japanese.

I get this, and I think there is a very strong case to be made for homogeneity of people making governing smoother. My counter question has more to do with how we are defining an 'ethnic' group. A state of Japanese people, to me is analogous to a state of German people, or Irish people, this a real 'ethnic' group. However, I would say something like white-nationalism is more akin to a state of 'all asians'. There is not as much of a cultural, genetic, or historical 'sameness' here, and I would also say that an Asian Ethno-State that didn't discriminate between Japanese and Korean would sound very strange to me in the same why white nationalism does. I guess what I am saying is, I am not so sure how to define an 'ethnic group' in terms of this ideology, it seems less than clear to me precisely how to draw this distinction.

I don't want to live in a black neighborhood, hearing gun shots every day, not being able to go out at night, not being able to safely leave a gate. I've lived in some ghetto ass areas and I pay a lot not to now. Is that racist?

No, definitely not. In my mind it becomes racism only if you prefer a neighborhood of poor white criminals to wealthy law-abiding blacks. I wouldn't say there is anything 'wrong' with this, people can prefer whatever they like, but I think it be quite stupid, and would qualify as 'racism'. If racism stopped here, I wouldn't really have a problem with it, but when ideologies are centered around beliefs like this, they seem to become harmful in ways that transcend self-segregation.

Would you go down a dark alleyway with a black guy there, just to prove you're not racist? Would you mind if your wife or daughter did? What percentage, what threshold of potential harm satisfies racial sensitivity. Or is the smart thing just not to walk down a dark alleyway at night. I think we just need to accept that black people are more prone to violence and act accordingly and not condemn what's common sense out of concern for people's feelings.

Here I actually agree with you, it makes sense to apply a probabilistic heuristic in this case. I would certainly avoid the alley with unknown black man in it, and make sure my family did too.

Also completely agree that the racial sensitivity is at an outrageous level, and by no means would I want to endorse any sort of wokism. I personally think there is a line where racism and wokism both go too far. I admit I'm not exactly sure where the lines are myself, but I appreciate being able to converse with someone objectively about this

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-22T19:28:03+00:00

No, I wouldn't deny that Blacks are over represented in crime statistics, and I realize that you cannot account for all of it with economics and police discrimination.

I also realize you are not a bigot, but bigots use this logic to project the assumption of criminality onto ALL black people. It is a probabilistic argument, a heuristic if you will. I worry about this leading to the thinking of the debatealtwhite types, where their idea of a perfect society is all white people, because they statistically have more desirable traits (by their selection criteria). But this completely misses the fact that if we actually selected for the desirable traits rather than using a heuristic, the optimal society would exclude some unworthy whites, and include some worthy blacks, meaning the optimal society isn't racially based at all. This use of race as a heuristic seems to me to completely miss the point.

Personally, I am not sure it is even possible to talk about race in a constructive way, but I rarely talk to anyone about this that is capable of objectivity on this issue, so I am curious as to what your thoughts are on this.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-22T19:12:48+00:00

I am an egoist anarchist. I hate the government, capitalism, and democracy (rule of the majority). Decentralize all the power structures and base society on arrangements that are completely voluntary, and free from coercion and domination.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-22T18:54:41+00:00

I suppose, but there are also many socieoeconomically disadvantaged black people who never do anything like this, so I'm not sure attributing this crime to 'blackness' is completely fair either

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-22T18:51:56+00:00

I'm not sure I would want the 4 year old to be charged with a crime here.

The father should be charged, but I'm not sure what they will charge him with, this is a rather unusual crime

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-22T18:48:00+00:00

Most of them are. Depression, anxiety, ADD, these are not 'illnesses' so much as symptom of a rotten society that is inconsistent with the social needs human evolution has given us.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-21T05:44:08+00:00

No, actually it is a bunch of white guys. They claim to be anarchists that are against fascism, but they attack people peacefully protesting government vaccine mandates, and don't even understand how ironic that is. Just white liberal extremists, the lefts version of the proud boys basically

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-21T05:41:01+00:00

It could be, I know this has happened, but Antifa is attracting weird extremists of their own these days.

They have attacked vaccine protesters several times, which is fucking hilarious. Antifascist anarchists against nonviolent protest of government overreach? They don't even believe in their own ideology, they are just extremists looking to justify bad behavior.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-20T20:44:53+00:00

To those on the right, it's only nannying when they don't want the government interfering with or keeping an eye on whatever it is they want to do.

You are absolutely correct, although I would say the left often does the same thing. The left tends to like protecting people from themselves, and the right tends like to enforcing morality. I am not particularly fond of either

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-20T20:35:05+00:00

Ok, guilty, that was bad faith use of the word fascist.

I should have said tyrant.

I have gotten on people's case for using communist in a similar way. Honestly appreciate you calling me out on this, I should be better

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-20T19:01:50+00:00

Yeah I think this is true about the left on many issues, but the right has their own nanny state ideas as well. People on the right are the only ones against recreational marijuana laws, that sounds like nannying to me as well. The evangelical right is always decrying all manner of immorality they want to enforce on others. If you think either one of these cabals cares about 'freedom' you are sorely mistaken

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-20T17:38:06+00:00

America is about personal choice, isn't it? Or only when it comes to vaccines and actions that do not target minorities?

Well said

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-20T17:37:16+00:00

Good, it's none of societies business if a person doesn't want to wear a helmet, and if you think otherwise you are a fascist. They can't hurt anyone but themselves.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-20T09:16:21+00:00

Oh the humanity!

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-19T20:52:47+00:00

Sounds exactly like the kind of vague non-sensical sounding charges I was expecting

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-19T20:20:07+00:00

Was wondering this as well, the news sources aren't giving the charges.

Is it a crime in Canada to organise a peaceful protest?

It is not normally, but it seems like Trudeau's emergency declaration may make it one?

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-19T19:30:50+00:00

Can someone explain to me why anyone should care about what Bill Gates has to say about anything?

They shouldn't, but the reason they do is the billions of dollars of research money he controls through BGMF and other entities

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-19T02:17:31+00:00

Wow, amazing to see this from today's hyperwoke kids in hyperwoke California.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-19T02:14:34+00:00

You are absolutely right. Oakland school district can't even enforce Gavin's vaccine mandate because 1/3 of their students are unvaxxed, and they would literally have to shut down from lack of funding.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-19T02:11:16+00:00

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-19T02:08:53+00:00

lol, it appears you did not read the article.

Yep, only briefly skimmed it to see what he was charged with the first time.

Brown, the suspect in the shooting of Louisville mayoral candidate Craig Greenberg, posted his $100,000 bail on Wednesday thanks to the Louisville chapter of BLM.

Damn...BLM is really shooting themselves in the foot lately

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-19T00:08:22+00:00

All three responses from you are forms of whataboutism and forms of attack, rather than points of discussion

Your entire post is a whataboutism. You are clearly sealioning, as I know you aren't stupid enough not to see how absurd these arguments are

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-18T19:33:42+00:00

You are absolutely right about that its organized groups stealing this shit and reselling it. I gotta say it was a pretty idiotic move to proudly post this seizure on social media though.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-18T19:24:06+00:00

Lmaoo, thanks Canbot, I laughed even harder at this than the headline

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-18T06:49:56+00:00

This isn't what the Democrats sold us, but I keep seeing it. They said they were going to stop bail for petty non-violent drug offenses, not release people accused of violent crimes

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-18T06:29:41+00:00

This is ridiculous socks. This is the same broad stroke painting that racists do. Saying vaccine mandate protesters are white supremacists, and anyone who supports them is a neo-nazi, is no different than saying Black people are stupid, or Jews are greedy.

do not believe they can be criticized for supporting hate groups.

No, Jews can be criticized for supporting hate groups, but its insane to accuse them of supporting anti-Jewish hate groups. These two individual Jews support protesting vaccine mandates.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-18T05:25:16+00:00

Uh.. socks you know he called a couple Jewish people Nazi supporters right?

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-18T02:55:52+00:00

Doesn't seem like a winning business strategy in Russia

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-18T02:28:37+00:00

A little extra protein is good for growing children

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-17T22:26:34+00:00

Looked up the history of this particular arrangement, it goes back a long ways.

"The need for powers that exceed ordinary limits emerged along with the concept of limited republican, or constitutional, government in ancient Rome. When confronted with a direct threat to the constitutional system itself, the Roman Senate could decide to appoint a dictator for a period of no more than six months. During that time, however, the dictator exercised unrestrained power, limited only by that individual’s own commitment to the republic itself."

This provision was revived in the modern era first by Niccolò Machiavelli, who defended the assignment of extraordinary power to a ruler to make it possible to save a society as well as its political institutions.

The conviction that a constitutional system required the ability to cope with unexpected and immediate threats was embraced by John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

This practice was particularly essential in the constitution of Weimar Germany, which came into effect after World War I. The emergency provisions in the Weimar constitution were invoked more than 200 times, initially to combat violent insurrection and direct threats to the maintenance of the constitutional system itself. In the early 1930s, however, these provisions were invoked with increasing frequency to combat a wide range of social and domestic problems, including economic failure. Although these provisions probably allowed Weimar Germany to survive, ultimately, these provisions also allowed Adolf Hitler to seize and consolidate his power, formally exercising the constitution’s emergency powers as chancellor in 1933. Hitler’s exercise of power found intellectual support in the writing of the jurist Carl Schmitt, who insisted that no constitution can possibly provide for all contingencies and that the executive must be able to act beyond the limits of ordinary law if liberal democracy itself is to survive.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/emergency-powers

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-17T22:19:33+00:00

Thing is, we do know what caused the inflation, and it isn't the corporations, even if they are taking advantage of it.

The supply chain problems reduced the supply of goods, and then Biden flushed the economy with borrowed cash increasing the demand for goods that were already scarce, causing prices to spike. This is Macroeconomics 101. These corporations simply take advantage of the already existing inflation to increase profit, they can't cause it on their own without a supply chain crisis and irresponsible cash printing

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-17T22:11:18+00:00

I think after the burning of the Reichstag (The national congress building in Germany) he invoked the emergency powers that basically made him dictator for life.

Interesting, but I guess not surprising that the legacy of using 'Emergency Powers' for tyrannical purposes goes back this far.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-17T21:33:42+00:00

The pyramid rules are almost never enforced. You will see people engage in ad hominem and name calling all the time. You would really have to be intentionally looking to cause trouble to get banned for something like this, and that doesn't appear to be your motivation. I wouldn't worry too much about this

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-17T19:32:57+00:00

Yeah you should be fine here. You won't be banned for asking questions or having controversial opinions. Don't threaten anyone with violence, try to sell anything illegal, or post pornography and you should be fine. There are some other rules, but they are vague and not really enforced unless you are outrageously out of line

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-16T21:14:24+00:00

Have had similar suspicions about this

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-16T20:50:21+00:00

That actually makes a lot of sense in explaining the data

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-16T19:32:29+00:00

I'm not sure how the hot algorithm works but I recommend double upvoting and commenting on anything you like and saving stuff you might want to look for later because the usually slow saidit conveyor belt has sped up quite a bit.

I've been curious about this too. I can see pretty clearly that commenting on a post without any voting still increases hotness. Also, upvoting a comment definitely raise the hotness of the original post as well.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-16T19:26:40+00:00

Interesting.

I was one of these defiant children (diagnosed with Oppositional Defiance Disorder even), and it is true that I have a relatively good paying job. However, among my peers, there are many people who advance further than me and are paid more because they are better at brown nosing, something defiant people are not particularly inclined to do.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-16T04:42:52+00:00

Sounds like he had a bad childhood

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-15T22:25:09+00:00

Or it's the situation and necessity.

Yeah I think thats fair.

I think the word 'radicalization' bothers me because it is often used to refer to people's ideology (wrongthink) or an entire class of action like violence. If it was always used in the way you are implying here I wouldn't be so sensitive about it.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-15T21:36:40+00:00

I would add my point wasn't really about about America. My point is that 'radicalization' is a means, and not an ends.

Most of the time when people criticize a means, they would support the same means for their own preferred ends. For example, the majority of the population condemns violence in protests, but the same majority will often condone violence in times of war, or dealing with criminals. So it really isn't the violence or 'radicalization' that is being objected to, it is the cause.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-15T21:24:31+00:00

Lol, well, more or less, but it still got rid of the monarchy.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-15T20:34:50+00:00

Are you really against 'radicalization' or just the cause of this radical?

America is only a country because 'radicals' fought against British tyranny

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-15T19:23:06+00:00

Tor Browser should also probably be mentioned somewhere in your wiki

Tails OS is also something worth mentioning for the privacy inclined

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-15T19:16:39+00:00

I think while imperfect, Brave is currently the best combination of privacy and compatibility, DuckDuckGo is imperfect as well, but again, I really haven't seen any better alternatives

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-15T19:14:11+00:00

This is great post idea Jason.

I regularly use all three of these products, and strongly recommend them.

Signal is a superior alternative to WhatsApp for messaging apps

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-15T03:36:43+00:00

Trudeau seems to have moved his assets into a blind trust in 2013

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/justin-trudeau-voluntarily-moves-personal-investments-into-blind-trust

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-14T21:47:36+00:00

Had to follow a few links to find that. Holy shit, they were using a public bucket!

https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/08/ottawa-trucker-freedom-convoy-exposed-donation/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAI-0cBJ6Y707qbQF2bRJNE67phhu-wO1EvsCTmY__AyWDRBygvol4vzhjoPdyTyC5PGWPXcsT_5I9xpZ8pb4YnWj1PzNJ2-QOm5bc2no8fScX20fS2s_cWtxLzTewIy7jRJ9yn9ZhmLkMuuTwlO37NMCdCidJySrah5RJDXwA-GQ

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-14T19:43:11+00:00

I don't think 'soyciety' spends much time thinking about incels

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-14T19:27:21+00:00

Yeah agree with you jet. I think the OP is a bit extreme given the content of the video. Yes, that was an assault, but the victim got up and walked away relatively unharmed. The girl should be expelled for sure, but charging a kid as an adult makes no sense unless we are talking about a serious beating. I'm not sure that was even worth prosecuting, literally every male child gets into some sort of scuffle like that at school, its frightening to think of the amount of assault charges this would lead to.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-14T17:33:37+00:00

Had to go look up Distributism, had never heard of this economic ideology (similarly not a fan of capitalism or communism), but there are some solid ideas there as you say. Thanks for referencing that.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-14T16:58:06+00:00

Should teenage bullies be charged with a felony, and should they be tried as adults in a court system?

The fact that you would jump right to charging kids as an adult with a felony over something like bullying frightens me far more than the bullying in schools

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-14T16:41:16+00:00

Cryptonerd slang, it is an intentional misspelling of 'hold', as in to hold on to the crypto and not sell in the face of crashing value

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-14T05:31:58+00:00

random-jot is my new spiritual guru

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-14T04:53:32+00:00

That the entire Old Testament is entirely just Jewish scripture.

Which brings me back to my original point

Christianity - New Testament = Old Testament = Entirely Jewish Scripture = Judaism

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-14T03:51:52+00:00

"The Old Testament (often abbreviated OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh"

"Christians traditionally divide the Old Testament into four sections: the first five books or Pentateuch (corresponds to the Jewish Torah);"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Testament

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-14T01:30:04+00:00

I'm not religious, so don't take this the wrong way, but to me in the literal sense it seems like:

Christianity - New Testament = Judaism

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-14T01:16:54+00:00

Yes, my anger stems more from the fact as a society we seem to think that this is a desirable or acceptable economic arrangement.

Elon Musk will 'increase' the range of your Tesla, by unlocking the artificially blocked capacity of the battery via a software update.

That we would seek to arrange the basis of trade on this type of artificially exploitative arrangement is insane, whether they are able to do it well or not.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-14T01:11:47+00:00

Let me try to explain myself better, because I agree with what you are saying.

The point I am attempting to make is about taking on the psychological burden of an entire society

This isn't healthy, and can make you fucking depressed.

Ultimately I can't control human civilization as a whole, just like I can't control the height of a mountain. I wouldn't identify the mountain with any type of internal 'we', even if I live on the mountain and have a stake in it. Civilization is external in the same way, but it isn't even a real 'thing', it is just a concept. Taking on the psychological burden for all of humanity is too much, and it is ultimately a choice. For me a change in the way I related myself to society was helpful in relieving this burden. Yes I care about the state of the society I live in, and my choices matter - but my choices are all that I can control and be responsible for.

I am merely relating to OP what was helpful to me in achieving a healthier outlook for my own life, as I know this can be a difficult thing to struggle with.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-13T22:43:35+00:00

Teenage love is the worst, so embarrassing. It counts even though, at least in my case, it never actually came close to the fully formed version I’ve experienced as an adult. It’s not necessary to me to differentiate between loving and being in love.

I think we might be using these terms in different ways. I think that early stages of a relationship are driven by 'passion' which implies that I am primarily motivated by a selfish hedonism. Being in love feels exciting and invigorating, and can be addicting, so I pursue it. This might help you form a more meaningful bond with a person, but on its own is unsustainable as the basis of a long term relationship.

Love, to me, means something different. I am perfectly willing to sacrifice my own hedonistic pleasure to make someone I love happy or limit their suffering. The motivation may still be selfish (I can't stand to see people I love suffer, and I want to avoid that, or I am getting fulfillment from their happiness), but the behavior isn't, and I think that is what makes this 'love' something different than 'being in love', at least how I am using these words.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-13T22:34:10+00:00

Thats certainly an...interesting website you have there. I'm curious how long something like that can stay up on the clear web before the hosts shut it down.

But seriously, how stupid would I have to be to use a site like this, at least the dark web has feedback scores to provide some sort of insurance that I might receive what I ordered.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-13T21:58:37+00:00

I don't take orders period, genitalia isn't really the deciding factor for me

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-13T21:54:08+00:00

Ha! My favorite kind of agreement, the kind I never agreed to.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-13T20:46:43+00:00

Yeah! White people would never do violence!

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-13T19:18:17+00:00

I used to feel this way, but I learned how have a healthier outlook about these things.

Yes, society is inherently bad, and civilization is probably collapsing - but who cares, fuck them anyway.

When society did something stupid, and I felt like we did it, it made me 'doomy'.

You need to stop thinking about society in terms of 'we', and think about it as a feature of your environment like a mountain or a river. This way you can put emotional distance between those negative thoughts that you rightfully have, and your own feelings. You are only a doomer if you are emotionally invested in the well-being of civilization, which I would say you shouldn't be if you hold those beliefs about it's inherent 'badness'.

I truly hope something I said helps you, I know from personal experience that the mindset of 'doomering' is not good for your psychological health, and can be tough to get out of.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-13T19:05:27+00:00

Just tell them that you are transgender now, and start talking about lady penises all the time

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-13T18:50:06+00:00

I call such "leaders" who harp on the issues but stop short of the solutions Gatekeepers.

Took a look at the link, and I see what you (and Bell) are getting at. The 'culture warring' you mention is a good example of this, and I had never really viewed it in this context of railing against problems with no intent to solve it. You make an important point, but one that I think is hard to grasp without understanding that quote in its greater context (the only thing I know about Bell is what I gleaned from skimming the recent obituaries in the news)

Anyways, appreciate you explaining this one to me.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-13T18:33:04+00:00

Yeah when I was a teenager. Not sure it was the healthiest thing in the world, I think loving someone is more rewarding than being in love with them.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-13T17:34:21+00:00

I commend you for having a good back and forth debate without resorting to name calling like so many people here do.

I have also enjoyed our debates. It is indeed nice to engage in philosophical dialogue with someone who is not an idiot, a zealot, or just arguing in bad faith.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-13T17:23:43+00:00

I like some of those solutions, I think we agree on a lot of the problems.

I also think that Bell Hooks quote has some disturbing implications that encourages herd mentality

Yes, lets think of solutions, but lets not be silent in the face of injustice, even when we don't have the answers

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-13T08:37:12+00:00

You must be high, they get off for black people too. George Floyd was literally the only case to result in a conviction for a cop killing a black person

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-13T08:15:41+00:00

No this is actually legit. I thought thats what this sub was for. Something that sounds like its fake but it isn't, so NotTheOnion?

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-13T04:33:57+00:00

Oh yes, far better to remain silent in the face of injustice if I don't have all the answers. Lmao

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-13T03:41:58+00:00

The distinction between a semi automatic gun and a machine gun is not arbitrary. The law is clear-cut on what is a machine gun.

Clear cut and un-arbitrary are not the same. I can draw the line on magazine capacity at 10 or 19 or 20 or whatever number of bullets. It is very clear-cut, but also completely arbitrary. You can have this gun, but it can only shoot so many bullets per second/trigger pull is still somewhat arbitrary as well.

The mass shootings involving handguns (e.g. virginia tech) are often just as deadly as ones involving assault rifles - it's just not that difficult to massacre a bunch of unarmed civilians with any kind of modern firearm. A non-arbitrary distinction would be 'no rocket launchers', 'no nuclear warheads', which clearly diverge from the intent of the constitution to allow people to carry portable handheld bullet shooters. Its not that clear that there was any intent to limit the effectiveness of the firearms carried by the populace - in fact I'd suggest their experience with the revolutionary war meant their intention was just the opposite.

They were also arrested and charged for having unregistered guns and unregistered silencers.

I'll grant that this is not arbitrary.

Anyways, to get back to my original point

If this was a couple of Jewish guys stashing illegal weapons in Hitler-led Germany would you apply the same standards?

Yes, they broke the law, they got caught, time to face the consequences.

This was my concern, but I seem to have misread your intent. So many of the quotations were about the ideology of these guys that I inferred this was the reason for the post. It seems this is not the case, and I commend the fact that you would be objective about people found to break the law regardless of whether you view that person as being in your 'in' or 'out' group.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-13T02:56:07+00:00

Some highlights:

Pagano, dubbed the Swiss Cheese Pervert, approached women while driving his car with his genitals exposed, holding a slice of cheese

'He said he was looking for someone to perform masturbation on him with cheese,' Ms Chest told the Daily News. 'He kept saying how strong his urges were and how desperate he was to find someone to help him with them.'

I love the way Swiss cheese feels against my penis. Either as slices of Swiss cheese being wrapped around my penis or a chunk of Swiss cheese being rubbed against my penis,' he wrote.

'I was able to wrap and wear a good 1 ½ pounds of Swiss cheese against my penis, and wear the Swiss cheese for hours at a time, before I would climax from just having the Swiss cheese on my penis,' Chris wrote.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-13T02:42:18+00:00

I lived in that City homeless for 3 years I have sat in meth camps for three years.

This is kinda my point. With rent on a 1BR apartment going for 3k a month, the homelessness is unsurprising. Even someone like you who is obviously quite capable and intelligent claim to have experienced homelessness here. Yes SF is a shit hole, but demonizing a few homeless addicts and sweeping them off the street, doesn't even begin to address the social and economic problems that cause these kinds of issues in the first place

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-13T02:32:21+00:00

Hey Shalom, agree these particular fellows are concerning, but I'm going to try to challenge your perspective a bit, and maybe have mine challenged as well.

Federal prosecutors have charged an “alt-right” podcaster who espoused strong anti-government views with assembling an arsenal of weapons

Looks like this white supremacist and his father were gearing up for a race war.

It does in this instance, but I would urge caution with generalizations like this. I'm not a white supremacist, but I do hold anti-governmental views, so this kind of talk worries me in that it sounds like we are trying these guys in the court of public opinion for:

Having the wrong opinions
A violent crime they never actually committed (pre-crime if you will)

The only real crime here is a possessions charge based on a pretty arbitrary distinction between classes of firearms, which admittedly they knowingly failed to follow.

Personally I think racism is stupid, and my distaste for it stems from that, but as someone who holds views that are often unpopular or outside the norm, I also am sensitive to discriminating against people based on not liking their beliefs. If this was a couple of Jewish guys stashing illegal weapons in Hitler-led Germany would you apply the same standards?

Again, my intention isn't to defend these guys, and I think in this instance you are probably right that arresting these guys was in the public interest. My intent is more to discuss objectivity in general, and how to maintain fairness when dealing with people we have strong distaste for.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-13T01:57:24+00:00

These things are awesome. Got to get some chiropractic and massage paid for by another drivers insurance after they hit me, and this thing was amazing.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-13T01:31:43+00:00

‘These two kids came up and they’re like: “Hey do you guys know where to get any oxycontin?”' James told Shellenberger. 'And I’m like, “look dude, I’mma tell you right now, you’re not going to get oxycontin out here on the street.”'

Most of these drug addicts were originally hooked on legally prescribed opiod drugs, and turn to this other crap because it is cheaper and easier to get. If we didn't abusively prescribe these addictive drugs for profit, and then make effective treatments such as suboxone impossible to obtain, we wouldn't have this problem in the first place.

san francsico has literally gone gang land.

These aren't gang members, they are just homeless drug addicts that need help

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-13T00:59:41+00:00

Yeah I feel ya, if Mayor Adams wants to tell people this music is bad, and convince them not to listen to it, more power to him. Free speech should absolutely mean that he has the right to criticize something, I just don't want this to turn into some new hyper wokeness where they start to legislate what speech is illegal for the 'public good' (I'm thinking along the lines of vaccine 'misinformation'). I think there is a philosophical parallel here, and the Dems have shown themselves to be untrustworthy regarding enforcing speech lately.

Balancing freedom with the public good is a really tough balancing act, and the left has been really shaky on this issue of late.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-12T22:50:34+00:00

Whatever, I hope they both get vaccine AIDS

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-12T22:45:22+00:00

Yes there would definitely be goods changing hands in this way as well. Would much rather have a gun and ammunition than a pile of cash.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-12T21:59:45+00:00

You think America would just invade?

No, sorry, guess I didn't explain myself too well, lol.

His pie chart meme suggests something like 98% of Americans support the truckers and their anti-mandate stance. I am saying that this is obviously not true.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-12T21:36:53+00:00

If this was even remotely true, we wouldn't need the protesters in the first place

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-12T21:27:08+00:00

In the event of a collapse of the magnitude you are preparing for, fiat currency would have no real exchange value, you would be looking at a barter economy. You might be able to use cash this way for a while, but people will quickly catch on that cash is worthless.

Antarchomachus · 2022-02-12T21:19:58+00:00

If it were true, where are the investigations, where is the decimating of the agency, where is the accountability.

You mean like how we totally held the NSA accountable for the things revealed in Snowden's leaks? I guess that was fake news too

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