Oceans Yet to Burn

argumate

Anonymous asked:

who gets to decide what they are most known for?

argumate answered:

in this case Lee seems to be less of an asshole than many of the people who idolise him, sadly, but the dude did fight for treason in defense of slavery etc.

mitigatedchaos

Replace all Robert E. Lee monuments with Bruce Lee monuments. It will piss off both those who want the statues and those who want the statues removed, and raise the profile of martial arts in the nation, helping to make the country stronger.

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Anonymous asked:

And the alt-right draws first blood! Are you excited for the coming civil war?

What would Lee Kwan Yew think of what that’s going to do to the GDP and national infrastructure? Not something nice, I think. It’s hard to have nice things like hospitals and power when physical security cannot be maintained.

(Antifa Bike Lock Guy came close to getting the first murder in, but it seems he was beat by that Car of Peace.)

Civil war is unlikely, but the media sure seems hyped for one.

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argumate

at least now that the swastikas are out in force we can end those asinine debates about whether to call people Nazis or not

mitigatedchaos

Not really, since they’re likely to still call Charles “let’s give the demographic group you think I hate money” Murray a Nazi, not just Joe McSwastikaArmbands.

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mutant-aesthetic

Anonymous asked:

But I wanna see the eternal urbanites starve to death or get shot by rednecks bubbas rifle when he goes looking for food innawoods in the coming civil war. Like its not a "oh that would be cool thing" I actively want that

mutant-aesthetic answered:

IDK what to tell you then buddy

mitigatedchaos

Do you want ProgCom Militia Death Squads? Because that’s how you get ProgCom Militia Death Squads.

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argumate

Proud Boys is a far-right men’s organization founded in 2016 by former VICE media co-founder and commentator Gavin McInnes. McInnes describes the organization as a “pro-Western fraternal organization” for men who “refuse to apologize for creating the modern world.”

why must every dude who claims to represent Western Civilization be like this

mitigatedchaos

Well the self-described “representatives of the oppressed working class” are Communists bitching about Revolution so quite frankly I don’t know what you were expecting.

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mutant-aesthetic

Anonymous asked:

If American soldiers didn't give Nazis a fight in World War II do you think they would have stopped? Or what about the Civil War or the Civil Rights Movement? You say what they're doing is bad behavior like their little children throwing a temper tantrum. They're not. They're grown men who even if we didn't give a fight would still escalate violence until everyone they disliked was eradicated. Sometimes the only way to end a fight is to fight back.

mutant-aesthetic answered:

Stop comparing major military conflicts between nation-states and armies with street fights between civilians.

Also, WRT the civil rights movement, there’s a reason no normie knows who George Lincoln Rockwell was, and that’s because his antagonistic antics were essentially ignored during that period.

mitigatedchaos

This is the error of the Left’s thinking. They think white nationalism grows when not opposed with violence because they see it never completely goes away. This is incorrect. There is a natural background level of racism. White nationalism needs certain conditions to grow above the level supported by the background racism.

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anosognosic

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ranma-official

willtherealmadridpleasestandup

you know how if you ask someone where they are from, they’ll tell you their country of origin like “Norway” or “India” or whatever but Americans are all “my parents are originally from ohio but i’ve lived in utah forever until i moved to houston- NY not TX haha”

okay ashleigh you could’ve just said usa, but no you expect the whole world to know every state in your country when your 23 year old ass can’t point to china on a map. so now i’m on urban dictionary bc i thought SoCal is an artificial sweetener

aphilologicalbatman

THIS IS MY FAVORITE DUMB AMERICAN THING??? it captures the entire experience of being an American. it seems super dumb and self-centered to anyone who isn’t from here but it is completely comprehensible to any other American and also NECESSARY because most states are size of European nations and we have the same weird hateful feelings towards one another??? so I need to explain to you why you shouldn’t hate me like, bitch, you better not think I live in Texas bc fuck those guys MY STATE DIDN’T VOTE FOR GEORGE BUSH

yesterday, @freekicks accidentally referred to California as a country and I launched into a spiel about how we’re big enough and have the fifth largest economy in the world (SUCK OUR DICK) and she told me to go fuck myself and that’s how you know I’m a Californian (and she is a New Yorker)

but ALSO we are intensely competitive about how authentically whatever we are so you can’t just say you’re from New York when you really grew up in MINNESOTA and just moved to New York as an adult so I need to tell you that my FAMily is from SoCal and I spent a bunch of my childhood there bc I can’t say I’m Californian just bc I’ve lived here for four years DOESN’T COUNT

but I am Californian bc I’m a snotty asshole and also I say “the 5” when I’m talking about freeways and I eat too many avocados and I know how to pronounce Vallejo and La Jolla

eatingcroutons

Other Americans may find the distinctions important, but it still absolutely comes across as dumb and self-centred to the rest of us xD

I mean, it’s been over six years since it happened, but I still distinctly remember the first time I heard an American answer that question with “the USA”. It was his first time hanging out with my friendship group, and there were maybe a dozen of us there from as many different countries – and every single one of us was like wait, what??!?

Literally before any more introductions could happen, the entire conversation devolved into the rest of us bitching about how Americans always expect the rest of the world to know and care about the differences between their states and cities. (As if other countries don’t have deeply entrenched local identities and rivalries. And the size argument falls a bit flat when you’ve got people from China, Australia and Brazil in the room.)

In this case it turned out our new American friend had spent quite a few years living in Europe, where he’d picked up on the fact that this is something that the rest of the world finds slightly exasperating.

littlethingwithfeathers

This is good to know as an American. Like seriously. I had no idea it came across as arrogant.

But for the record… it is actually important to us. So that’s why we tell you. I’m not from the United States. The state/city I’m from happens to be in the United States. That’s literally how we think about it, because to us saying we’re from the US is totally unhelpful. And because the vast majority of us don’t/can’t get off this contintent very often, we don’t really have practice answering the question, “where are you from?” with “The United States.” Also… I would figure the accent would give it away.

Also, it does control which American stereotype inevitably gets pulled out. The number of times I got asked if I played the banjo because I’m from the American South… I swear. But at least they weren’t saying, “Fuggetabbatit!” or “Surf’s up!”

alphariusthecontrarian

The Entirety of Europe is 3.931 million square miles in area (About 10 million Square kilometers)

The United States is 3.797 million million square miles in area.

Saying “Im from the USA” is, geographically similar to saying “I am from Europe.”

We are the third largest country in the world. The difference, geographically, between California and New York is about 1000km larger than the difference from France and Russia, and you pass 3 or 4 fucking countries between France and Russia depending on route.

So how is it self centered to give more detailed information? Like if someone said they were from the UK I would ask what part, because a Scotsman and an Englishman are very different, and they fucking border each other.

So fuck off.

ranma-official

Russia is significantly larger than the USA, yet I feel the need to elaborate exactly what part I’m from, neither do I lie that my country is literally more culturally diverse than the entirety of a continent because you cook mildly different burgers. You fuck off.

mitigatedchaos

Irony: Europe is pursuing internal open borders, unified currency, and a federal state, moves that will promote Europe becoming more culturally uniform over geography and less culturally diverse at the continental level, like the United States. People will claim that won’t be the outcome, but we already have a United States for comparison. (Likewise with global open borders and culture.)

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xhxhxhx

mitigatedchaos asked:

What is your opinion of me? And what do you think of my plot to replace congress with a new legislature of political party/think tank hybrids that bet on outcomes of legislation (as outlined in my "The National Delegation" posts, where I still owe squid another post but I won't have sit down access to a computer for a while)?

xhxhxhx answered:

on The National Delegation:

I think it’d be hard to legitimate such a goofy system ex nihilo and I don’t think its performance would be enough to legitimate it in action
I have a bunch of cavils about specification: I don’t think you could define policy outcomes or contract conditions with sufficient precision to make the market deep or efficient under most outcomes, and I don’t think you can define values with sufficient precision to make that constraint binding
I don’t think the policy outcomes would be much better, except to the extent that you might fix the system by excluding ‘incoherent’ or ‘imprecise’ values – which would mean the system wouldn’t really be doing what it promises
I’m deeply skeptical of any regulatory system that’s this hard and finicky – it’s like you’re putting the FDA or the FTC in charge of the whole system of government, and I don’t think market discipline is enough to get federal agencies to behave themselves
I think its worse than electoral democracy, although that’s not an especially strong belief, and I think it’d underperform purer technocracies or a purer liberal states

on you:

you put effort and thoughtfulness into your work – that’s good and that’s rare
I’m too much of a liberal to appreciate your commentary
you’re very kind and thoughtful, and I haven’t done enough to return the favor

mitigatedchaos

Oh, there appears to be a point of confusion - values are informal, not rigidly specified. And values are not explicitly what is bet on. It’s more along the lines of both parties claiming their legislation would reduce gun crime, as they often do, and betting against each other and with amounts, and “gun crime” is defined as a bundle of metrics to prevent min-maxing. It occurs to me that because so much policy is just flat out wrong at achieving its supposed aims, some fairly large improvements should be possible with even that much of a check on whether it works.

Ofc, there is also the question of what a purer technocracy would look like.

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So we don’t pressure North Korea and let them get nukes to avoid war, hoping to wait for their collapse. What happens to the nukes when they eventually collapse?

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

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