Punching a subordinate who you know will almost certainly not fight back doesn’t count as a fight, in fact it fits exactly the bill for these types. Find people in relatively weak positions in a dominance hierarchy and exploit the power differential to hurt them.
See also: transphobia.
Come back to me when he’s punched Piers Morgan, I would pay to watch that.
It’s a bit like learning that Russian cargo ships don’t get boarded by pirates because they’ll just start fucking shooting.
Say what you want about Russians, but that kind of rules.
Well the point here is not that China is cool and based actually, but that people definitely did some lying on this point and those same people definitely think it means that any and all forms of communism are authoritarian and there is no alternative to capitalism.
There has to be some percentage of people who let this be the thing that radicalises them, and I don’t want to hear any doomer takes about how these people are impossible to reach. I’ve heard loads of stories over the years of this or that particular moment being the moment that snapped someone out of their fascist sympathies.
Asking for a historical example is not inciting violence, telling people to start shooting and put their money where their mouth is, is inciting violence, even if you’re being sarcastic.
I wonder what you would consider as not “all talk”? Someone posting evidence? Gee, I wonder why people don’t do that. I wonder if that’s exactly what people engaging in direct action should never do.
I wonder how I can tell the difference between what you’re doing now and how a fed would talk.
You want receipts?
And please, keep giving me your one downvote, it’s not a sad & pathetic attempt to assert yourself that’s transparent to anyone who happens to read this, not at all.
And it’s you, not the person you’re accusing.
There’s only one person here who’s actually telling other people to get violent.
Dunno if you know dimension 20 and their Misfits & Magic mini-series, but it was basically a satire of Harry Potter, really attacking some of the unquestioned tropes in that series.
Anyway, this is a beautiful clip of Erika Ishii, who is NB, at the start of the series, saying what they think of TERFs:
This is an online forum. It’s words. Your idea that the people you’re talking to are all talk is unfalsifiable. If anyone did post on here about pulling a trigger you could attack them for being all talk for exactly that same reason.
On this forum, you are also all talk. There is literally nothing else you can do on here.
But go off, everybody around you is all talk, all the time. That certainly isn’t a feature of the place you chose to express your vapid rants.
People who are organising on the ground are under no obligation to keep you in the loop by posting about it publicly, especially given you clearly aren’t interested in helping anyway.
My guess is your accusations are all a projection of your own feelings of powerlessness. I mean there’s not going to be another election for about 4 more years, and your only method of change is useless until then.
Gee, I wonder if that’s by design?
I agree broadly with the idea that the state’s legitimacy relies on the appearance that they wield their violence justly, but I think you’re giving the state too much credit when you frame it as a fair and considered exchange of power.
The state has had all of us under its purview since birth, it has pumped us full of pro-hierarchy, anti-autonomy, anti-social propaganda and it wields its violence more to prevent insurgency than it does to protect us.
There is no “social contract”, nothing that I ever signed anyway, and even if there were, contract law invalidates any contract signed under duress. The concept of the social contract is just yet more hierarchical propaganda. It’s a vague, handwavey vibe to obscure the fact that we really aren’t given a meaningful option to leave.
The state relies on not just the appearance of legitimacy, but the appearance of absolute power. Both are illusions, and can be opposed by organised people directly building mutual aid on the ground. The more we meet one another’s needs for security the less we need the state and the more people can see it for the charade that it is.
The radical flank effect:
https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/1/3/pgac110/6633666?login=false
It’s a good thing literally every critic of yours sounds like that ridiculous strawman or else you might have to think critically about your worldview.
That’s all you need, that’s what they used to make the up goer five.
Yes, this. Nobody came along and decreed the dictionary was descriptive - which would itself be a prescriptivist view of the world - it just is.
Linguistics rejected prescriptivism because it is a failed model of reality. I think the reason so many people cling to a prescriptive model is because in school we were taught obedience above all else, which is a terrible way of educating people, but maybe it helps to maintain a subservient class of workers.
This version has left handed as well:
https://caligunner.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/pistol-correction-chart-misses-1170x658.jpg
Why would you pick such a hot guy with such a fuck you attitude though? Dude is a poster boy for how screwed the system is that even someone as wealthy as him couldn’t get coverage.
Like I never get these patsy claims - who is recruiting for this and how? Why are they so bad at it? Why would they pick such a sympathetic target? Why pick someone with such a clear and obvious motive and then let the media hum and haw about how “the motive isn’t clear”? Why not control the narrative better than this?
Sorry, I don’t buy it. The cops could easily have planted the gun on the guy even if he did it. That’s what they do. The story still adds up, it just makes a conviction harder to achieve now, which is honestly great news.
I’ll be honest, after seeing the public’s reaction, and weighing his options for a week, he may have simply decided that whether or not he could beat the rap then he’d be a hero in the history books forever. He could dine out on that for the rest of his life. Even in prison I bet he’d be well treated by the inmates, if not the guards.
There’s a decent chance he gets some of that sweet sweet jury nullification though. I mean he’s clearly a risk taker, maybe he decided to roll the dice. The cops being the dumbest shits possible about planting evidence will only help him in that regard.
Anyway, I don’t think it’s so impossible he deliberately got caught with his manifesto. It’s possible he destroyed the gun, then was willing to get caught and they planted evidence. Maybe they did it out of force of habit, or they were just so hyped on what big heroes they were being they couldn’t help themselves.
ever read him his Miranda rights
I’ve got a Fox News talking point to recycle from the Boston Marathon bombing:
“That’s great! He doesn’t have those rights so we don’t have to worry about due process!”
Which is… not how that works.
Also youtube just recommended a nondestructive way to enhance the left joycon using conductive foam. I had no idea this was an option, but it’s from ifixit who are basically one of the most reputable repair resources out there.
You could try that before doing any soldering, I imagine the foam isn’t expensive.
…holy shit, I did not even think to check if that had actually happened, because that would be an insane thing to have happened, and to your credit you did in fact get back to me.
Okay, well, you’re right, you do kinda have to hand it to him a little bit, I misjudged the man.