I find it interesting that leftist news sources seem to be increasingly defining the Confederate flag not only as racist, but treasonous. Considering the left has spent the past several decades glorifying dissent and revolution, it strikes me as hugely hypocritical for them to suddenly care so much about treason.

someone on reddit

HOLY SHIT THIS. I 100% understand taking down the flag. I really do. But invoking treason as a rationale is not only not helping your cause, it’s probably actively hurting it.

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Thought experiment! Should the Confederate flag be treated any differently to the flag of the Soviet Union?

Both relate to defunct political entities that fought wars against the US.

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I’m kicking myself pretty hard for not making that connection myself.

I find it interesting that leftist news sources seem to be increasingly defining the Confederate flag not only as racist, but treasonous. Considering the left has spent the past several decades glorifying dissent and revolution, it strikes me as hugely hypocritical for them to suddenly care so much about treason.

someone on reddit

HOLY SHIT THIS. I 100% understand taking down the flag. I really do. But invoking treason as a rationale is not only not helping your cause, it’s probably actively hurting it.

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Thought experiment! Should the Confederate flag be treated any differently to the flag of the Soviet Union?

Both relate to defunct political entities that fought wars against the US.

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http://nuclearspaceheater.tumblr.com/post/122630166808/military-is-ok-with-confederate-flag-for-now

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zandapheri:

“…And on the pedestal these words appear:
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look upon BOFA, ye Mighty, and despair!’
What is BOFA, I asked”

kontextmaschine:

Ugh, tricycle “motorcycles”. Dude, if you want to take your ladyfriend riding in the open air but you don’t like the whole two-wheel thing, get a goddamn Miata.

Also: sidecars. Get a Ural, dipshit.

cumaeansibyl:

aallenwalker:

you know how when people say “Jack Sparrow” and he corrects them “Captain Jack Sparrow”

petition to start doing that whenever someone says Harley Quinn. “Doctor Harley Quinn”

unlike some people in the supervillain world, she’s a real doctor

“Doctor Harleen Quinzel” I’d buy, but Harley Quinn isn’t her name, it’s a role.  Reed Richards has doctorates, but you’d know better than to call him “Doctor Mr. Fantastic”. Your optometrist is a doctor and if you’re telling someone about an appointment you might call her “Dr. Bartwal” but you wouldn’t call her “Doctor optometrist”.

Gunman Killed Trying to Rob Ex-Reporters Lynne Russell and Chuck de Caro in Albuquerque

She said she offered to search her purse for something of value to hand over to the gunman — and slipped her gun into the purse, which she then handed to her husband.

“‘Is there anything in here we can give him?’” Russell said she asked. “Chuck said, 'Oh, yes, there is.’”

Holy shit. Journalists?

De Caro — a former investigative reporter, Special Forces member and military expert…

Russell — herself a licensed private investigator and former Fulton County, Georgia, sheriff’s deputy with two martial arts black belts…

Oh. Well, maybe they do still make them like they used to.

“Chuck fired back, and it was a shootout,” she said. “He expended the rounds from one small handgun and grabbed for the other even as he had taken fire” and was losing blood quickly.

“The guy went down, and he was history,” Russell said.

De Caro was hit three times, but the bullets didn’t strike any vital organs, Russell said. Authorities said he was expected to survive.

Gunman Killed Trying to Rob Ex-Reporters Lynne Russell and Chuck de Caro in Albuquerque

rowan-canyon:

kontextmaschine:

She said she offered to search her purse for something of value to hand over to the gunman — and slipped her gun into the purse, which she then handed to her husband.

“‘Is there anything in here we can give him?’” Russell said she asked. “Chuck said, ‘Oh, yes, there is.’”

Holy shit. Journalists?

De Caro — a former investigative reporter, Special Forces member and military expert…

Russell — herself a licensed private investigator and former Fulton County, Georgia, sheriff’s deputy with two martial arts black belts…

Oh. Well, maybe they do still make them like they used to.

And even with all that military training and even with the drop on the robber, de Caro got hit three times in the shootout. If one of those slugs went a few inches awry, this would be written up as a very different story and would fit a very different narrative….

Nah you’re missing the point, the glory wasn’t in him winning the fight, the glory was in him joining the fight. If he was killed - feh! What of it? Death in combat is the highest honor a human can give or receive. Human lives aren’t valuable as ends in themselves but as means to generate correct meaning, and courage is correct meaning. If you preserve your life by avoiding the creation of correct meaning, what’s the point in it?

As I’ve mentioned before, I learned Japanese through classes that were derived from a program meant to train spies and diplomats, that put a lot of emphasis on linguistic “passing”. Part of this was every weekday I’d go into a room with 7 other students and spend an hour speaking Japanese, presided over by this sweet, grandmotherly woman who would just look disappointed in you if you fucked up.

(This was on top of 3 lectures a week and an hour or two in the tape library every day.)

As a result I instinctively speak Japanese words, even appearing as loanwords in English contexts, with Japanese pronunciation. Like, in order to speak them the “American” way I have to actively try, and it seems weird to actively try to get shit wrong. I’m afraid it comes off a little poncey.

The interesting exception is words I picked up before I studied Japanese - I still pronounce, say, samurai or karaoke in English the same as everyone else.

rikerist:

concepthuman:

nonefriendly:

mouthfulofthorns:

dezeen:

Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Kacper Chmielewski has developed a new style of architecture specifically for atheists, including a shrine to the oak tree »

Atheists are a bunch of bugs

This is so fake an atheist “shrine to an oak tree”? Get outta here, why don’t you just move to a friggin’ nudist colony with all the other half-assed neo-pagans and stop lying to yourselves

God this is so ugly and I like brutalism

let’s be frank: this is for deathmatches

mapsontheweb:

Top Ten Largest US Cities by Decade, 1790-2010

nihilsupernum:

kontextmaschine ill do it when i get home, i don’t have my violin with me now. is it okay if i just write it on masking tape? i don’t have a way to make stickers

Well that’s kind of like taking a mountain and writing MOX RUBY on it in Sharpie. It’ll do, but…

Seriously, if people really want these I can have them printed up.

Finally found a decent tortas place, but coming from LA my sense is off in PDX - where there “should” be southern Mexican food there’s northern, where there should be Guatemalan is southern, where there should be Salvadoran is Guatemalan.

Got the Zeta boy - asada, chorizo, and mozzarella. And before you get pissy, ‘dwracu, the Mexicans make 82nd less brutal drugged-up ethnic gangy, displacing the white power methheads.

You realize, “gender is socially constructed” doesn’t mean your ~real~ pronouns are whatever you say they are, it means they’re whatever everyone else says they are.

Seriously, if you guys still bothered to actually read your fucking Foucault instead of goddamn sad teen bloggers… the fuck did you think “repressive power is a creative force that gives rise to meaning” was about?

Haymarket Martyrs’ Memorial, Fremont Street

(okay NOW I’m just fucking with you)

((I think))

I admit there are vulnerabilities in the central banking/fiat system of currencies but we’ve got a decent track record of avoiding them and even in those countries where shit goes kablooey it only does so periodically and usually in response to external shocks that were going to fuck *something* up.

On the other hand we’ve gone without a central bank, or on a gold standard before, and not only does that system have its own vulnerabilities

(market corners, speculative attack, the whole economy going crazy in one direction or another because the mining industry or war expenditures on the other side of the world were not particularly concerned with the American business cycle, shortages of specie that choked the economy until they were innovated around through introduction of private currencies issued by multiple non-central banks that would then completely collapse because they weren’t backed by taxation backed by a repressive apparatus)

, but they happened ALL THE FUCKING TIME

Like you might think “hey maybe there’s something to a more wicked boom/bust cycle, maybe buffered by debt forgiveness in bankruptcy, after all creative destruction, etc. etc.“

In practice a lot of it is whoever had free and clear cash on hand could buy land - farmland, mines, forests - then use the cashflow from that to buy more in downturns when people couldn’t make mortgage, consolidate into these ridiculous resource barons.

I do kind of worry about Disney and big pharma doing that with IP today though

nihilsupernum:

kontextmaschine it’s a shitty facsimile of what it should have been but technically, i did do it

I’m pretty sure this is the first time someone’s created and dedicated a piece of art to me, that’s a good omen.

nihilsupernum:

kontextmaschine:

nihilsupernum:

kontextmaschine it’s a shitty facsimile of what it should have been but technically, i did do it

I’m pretty sure this is the first time someone’s created and dedicated a piece of art to me, that’s a good omen.

im sorry that the first person to create and dedicate a piece of art to you was me

wait, seriously? i guess being a cult leader on the internet has gotten easier over time but i mean, there were people who thought i was a literal prophet when i was 14

Well, let me think. That first girlfriend did knit me a multicolored scarf for my birthday in 9th grade. Apparently while she was doing it unbeknownst to me I saw her wearing one she had knitted for herself earlier and mentioned that I had never seen the appeal of scarves and could never see myself wearing one, which oof.

(Also once for another birthday a bunch of classmates and I played paintball and then were eating at Friendly’s and someone ordered root beer and I went off on how I hated it and it turned out someone had got me a root beer making kit as a present. I have some sort of gift curse I guess. Also I dunno what that was about, I kinda like root beer now.)

Oh wait, no! I had someone illustrate one of my dreams a few months ago. ::cringe:: Sorry, Rita.