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jwiggler

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  • Playing guitar. I'm bad, can't really play with others, couldn't play live, but being able to sing and play along to songs I love, putting my own spin on them, or getting into a rhythm and making up silly lyrics is one of the most valuable things I ever learned to do. Probably the single best thing I've done in my life is learn to play.

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  • I like the part where one guy goes, "Justice is paying your debts" and Socrates goes, "oh yeah? so it would be just for me to return the gun my friend loaned me, when he comes back requesting it in a murderous frenzy? Yeah, that's what I thought."

    And the guy just leaves lol

  • How much of the decrease in national crime is due to people choosing just to play on their phone instead of do crime?

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  • The proof is in the pudding folks

  • Trump’s Weird, Low-Energy Speech Ends With an Even Stranger Twist

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  • Part of the issue is that Donald Trump isn't using these words in any factual sense, but in a purely rhetorical sense. He is utilizing them as boogeyman terms to scare people away from Harris. It doesn't matter that's it's not factually correct because average people don't know otherwise.

    That brings me to the other part of the issue, which is fascism is notoriously difficult to pin down. Umberto Eco talks about this in his essay Ur-Fascism. He notes that fascism isn't actually dependent on one or two attributes, such as complete totalitarianism, or support of capital, and doesn't necessarily have a single religious philosophy. He notes historical examples of things like anticapitalist fascism, religious fascism, atheist fascism, etc.

    Still he notes 14 qualities that are typically associated with fascism

    • The Cult of Tradition
    • Rejection of Modernism
    • The Cult of Action for Action’s Sake
    • Disagreement is Treason
    • Fear of Difference
    • Appeal to a Frustrated Middle Class
    • Obsession with a Plot
    • The Enemy is Both Strong and Weak
    • Pacifism is Trafficking with the Enemy
    • Contempt for the Weak
    • Everybody is Educated to Become a Hero
    • Machismo
    • Selective Populism
    • Newspeak

    Much of these are relevant to Trump's campaign, even more than I had anticipated. Definitely give it a listen or check out the Wikipedia page, it's a worthwhile half hour just to hear the perspective of someone who actually lived through Italian fascism.

  • Marvel [Tyler Hendrix]

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  • I think you've said a lot that is in line with the video, tbh. Most of your points accurately spell out why a superhero movie involving a protagonist who disrupts the status quo wouldn't work, mostly because we are living in the status quo and the general audience's main frame of reference -- that which they use to understand the story -- is that status quo is overall good, that there are inevitable bad parts that must come with the good, and that mass change is inherently bad. You even note this last point yourself.

    But it doesn't change the fact that the superheros are still, for the most part, not proactively trying to recognize reorganize society, but keep it the same and react to its threats, which sometimes have interesting intentions of reorganization, but ultimately all end up doing an irredeemable act in the eyes of the audience so to signal that they are in fact the bad guy.

    I don't think this video is really meant to be taken as "superheros should change the status quo," but more closely look at Graebers generalization and kinda jostle people out of their "the status quo is ultimately good, despite it's necessary evils," worldview. Graeber often said he's not trying to provide an answer or solution to societal organization outside of hierarchical Nation-states, but just to allow people to break out of the traditional mental framework and ask the question, what else could work?

  • Gov. Tim Walz doesn't own a single stock

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  • That's insane.

    Like, no 401k or Roth IRA? Dang. I'm fuckin hard.