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[Oceans Yet to Burn]

One thing I really love about you weird internet nerds here on Rationalist Tumblr is your lower-than-average level of hypocrisy.

Basically all of you who would be skeptical about granting legitimacy to right-wing vigilantes in the after-effects of politically-motivated vehicular homicide by one of the right’s outgroups are also skeptical about granting legitimacy to left-wing vigilantes in the aftermath of politically-motivated vehicular homicide by one of the left’s outgroups.

You are all doing much better than what I’m seeing on Facebook right now.

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[sadoeconomist]

I was thinking of posting something like ‘Daddy, what was the Statue of Liberty like?’ ‘Oh, it was beautiful and inspiring, but we had to blow it up because the French gave it to us, and the French Third Republic was racist’ ‘I wish I could have seen it’ ‘Wow, you support the French Third Republic, what are you, some kind of Nazi?’

But I know better than to use the word ‘daddy’ on this website

[mitigatedchaos]

You’re ignoring the 1:5,400,000 timelines where I come to power and her glowing laser eyes gaze endlessly out over the sea, ready to guard the Union with hundreds of megawatts of star-searing power at a moment’s notice.

[flakmaniak]

Dammit if you aren’t an obvious supervillain, but I’ll be damned if I don’t want to vote for you anyway. I would definitely support any candidate whose slogan was “Put lasers in Lady Liberty”.

I guess I just love grandiose symbols. (Please tell me you’d also upgrade Mount Rushmore. And build some monument to humanity’s might on the moon.)

[mitigatedchaos]

While other parties believe in vague rhetoric like “Making America Great Again” and “bringing harmony to our divided nation”, the National Technocratic Party believes in specific, measurable, achievable policy goals, such as those outlined in our Enhanced Civil Defense Plan for the Weaponization of National Monuments, our whitepapers on lunar war, and in the 2028 Prediction Budget produced by the Central Committee.

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[sadoeconomist]

I was thinking of posting something like ‘Daddy, what was the Statue of Liberty like?’ ‘Oh, it was beautiful and inspiring, but we had to blow it up because the French gave it to us, and the French Third Republic was racist’ ‘I wish I could have seen it’ ‘Wow, you support the French Third Republic, what are you, some kind of Nazi?’

But I know better than to use the word ‘daddy’ on this website

[mitigatedchaos]

You’re ignoring the 1:5,400,000 timelines where I come to power and her glowing laser eyes gaze endlessly out over the sea, ready to guard the Union with hundreds of megawatts of star-searing power at a moment’s notice.

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[imrix]

https://thinkprogress.org/german-town-pranked-neo-nazis/ I found this and thought of you, @funereal-disease. The empathetic way of fighting Nazis.

[funereal-disease]

I LOVE THIS

If violence is the only means of resistance you can think of, you aren’t thinking very hard.

[mitigatedchaos]

I admit, I chuckled at this idea.

Nazism is really not a healthy ideology to hold, the better to raise money to support exiting it.

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[diarrheaworldstarhiphop]

F

[mitigatedchaos]

This guy was supposed to be the one that was going to prevent the administration from being just another generic run-over-the-poor-and-start-wars one.

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Anonymous asked:

How do you like the idea of global government? I have a bunch of socialist friends who are super into it. But man, as somebody from a collapsing AND post-Soviet country who was taught "immigrate from this shit pit whenever possible" since he was born, the question I'm intuitively gravitating towards is "what's the escape route if shit breaks down". Really, what is it? Flinging myself into space? Or am I being overly paranoid in assuming the global government might get fuckt.

ranma-official answered:

I don’t like global governments because people in different countries have genuinely different cultures and mentalities and the exact same economic policy would not make much sense and will likely reduce efficiency

[mitigatedchaos]

Oh man, the only thing worse than a capitalist world government is a socialist one. Anon isn’t being paranoid in the least, seeing as if you pick a random government somewhere on Earth, it will often suck much more than even the terrible American political discourse Ranma self-inflicts.

Even for people who do believe in uniting the world, there should be at least two or three different governments in case one trainfks itself. Governments screwing up is not an ultra-rare occurrence, and I’m saying that even though I’m quite the “Statist”.

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[mitigatedchaos]

@wirehead-wannabe

I mean, I’d prefer to address things by restricting reproduction rather than withholding life-saving treatment, but apparently that makes me Literally Hitler.

Hi, fellow supervillain here.

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[rainy-days-are-over]

the politics of any country would be vastly improved if politicians were forced to commit seppuku in shame when they fuck up

[mitigatedchaos]

The politics of any country would be greatly improved if the politicians had such a sense of shame when they fucked up that they committed seppuku on their own.

But if they had shame, would they still be politicians?

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Anonymous asked:

"Ruined communities": the communities are already ruined. They're shot through with gang violence and crime. Even the girl in that first video admits her neighborhood is a shithole. The gentrifiers may have cringy hipster culture that isn't as cool and authentic as black culture, but once they come, buildings get fixed, and people stop dying in the street.

diarrheaworldstarhiphop answered:

once they come, buildings get fixed, and people stop dying in the street

They stop dying in the street in that neighbourhood, while people in another begin dying.

The process of pushing a group of people from one area to the next doesn’t eliminate the problems that created that blight in the first place. It just becomes another, usually less equipped and more unprepared community’s problem. Gentrification isn’t an all-in-one solution, otherwise if it were, we wouldn’t be talking about it as some generally understood negative phenomenon. It is inherently exploitative and harms more than just the area of gentrification itself.

Even the girl in that first video admits her neighborhood is a shithole.

My personal living space is a shithole but it’s still home. similarly, this is why she is distraught at the changes to her home and the cultural force that is pushing her out.

cringy hipster culture that isn’t as cool and authentic as black culture

i try not to see things in terms of what’s “authentic” or “cool,” because at the very least, it commodifies tradition and culture as something to consumed or visited as part of a social trend.

It like, reduces it to a cultural zoo.

[mitigatedchaos]

It wouldn’t be such an issue if zoning laws were different, so more housing units could be constructed more cheaply where the jobs are.

There is also the matter that the ways that people live have a significant impact, in the aggregate, on how a community functions - something that we weren’t really supposed to talk about under tolerant liberalism, but which social conservatism often goes overboard with.  Many of the wealthier communities can handle a higher level of dysfunction, but in poverty, dysfunction is a lot more costly relative to income and relative to the income of the surrounding community.

No one is really interested in fixing the conditions properly, though.

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Anonymous asked:

Why is the incest taboo the only more of eugenics left standing? When will it be officially rebuked?

esoteric-hoxhaism answered:

when muslims get mad

[mitigatedchaos]

This is in the process of happening. The rebuked part, not the mad part. BBC3 already ran a special on it. In ten years, Liberals and Leftists will support marrying your first cousin as a diverse cultural practice that Westerners would only question out of racism.