aquaticintrovert.bsky.social
Marxian Dumbass
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Ohh my bad the thing u said he said was a little different so I got confused
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That's NOT how Yoda talks
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I don't have any dogs, let alone four. I don't dislike them but I think they are usually too loud to want to keep them in my home all the time, I prefer cats since they're chilled out.
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Let alone the fact that the crackdown is already coming for plenty of people, right now, as we speak. If masked goons disappearing people off the street isn't already a state of affairs that should be resisted by any means necessary in your eyes, then I don't know what to tell you.
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If you are living under a regime that is, at all times, simply "looking for an excuse" to impose martial law, you should already be preparing yourself for the eventuality that you will need to resist, and likely violently. They have already decided they will not respect your rights.
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They already have their excuse, that's why people are fighting them! There are already gangs of masked goons rounding people up! What people mean is "don't do anything that'll turn their attention towards ME." It's admission they are fine with the violence when they assume it will only affect others
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No yeah you pretty much covered it, thanks. And also, "get with the program ASAP"
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Without a real, organized countervailing militarized entity with the ability to stake a claim to legitimacy of their own, I don't see a way out of this.
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And while they have been trained to treat us as the enemy, many of us are still conditioned to treat the cops as a legitimate authority, or are, justifiably, too afraid of the consequences to push back.
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The problem is ICE maintains its legitimacy as an institution, enforced by their and other police forces' monopoly on violence. They can declare an anti-ICE protest unlawful and disperse it with force.
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I don't think it's totally overblown to say some of them probably fear more than just political rebuke, if they're being realistic with themselves about how cops act when they feel slighted
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There's a lot of fairly interesting designs they showed off and clearly a lot of talent in the development team but whoever decided the tone should be some mix of Saint's Row and Borderlands but more annoying really didn't do them any favors.
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All of this is just The Vaunted Never Trump Republican repackaged, a thing that never existed but pretending to be one could get you 30 newspaper profiles, because it's in the interest of Dems to pretend it's a broad base as an excuse to do what they already wanted to do anyway: act like Republicans
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One of the more infuriating instances of this I saw was someone saying these are gettable voters because they only wanted common sense deportations, so the prescription seems to be "only be a *little* racist and we can flip them," except Dems have been trying that exact strategy for over a decade
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youtu.be/NSVNbr7bkyM?...
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Ok, so, no
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You're the one who made the claim, shouldn't your research be done already?
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Sometimes you gotta clean house, sift through and really consider what you actually need
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"make a point to prioritize virtue signaling over action" do you have any evidence to back up this claim?
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Planes too
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Yeah see, when they phoneticized the Greek word with the Latin alphabet they used a K. Those guys knew how to convey spoken language with writing! But if you write an English word and end it with a "ch," I'm saying it with a "ch" sound, sorry
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Hmm. Seems like they shoulda spelled it that way, then.
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You don't have to add the "s" in there. You can say, "when I hear 'conch'" etc etc. Can't help but notice how everyone who wants people to pronounce it "correctly" have to spell it "conk" to get the point across, though
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Since your name is very clearly spelled out on the screen I can only assume he was clarifying that the true name of the Lord is, in fact, Brad.
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Sure there are different echelons to it but if you were proudly boasting about voting for John McCain, regardless of the reasons, I would have assumed you were kind of a dumbass back then, too
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Oh they're hiding behind their people's suffering, huh? Who's causing that suffering, again, Thom? Any ideas there?
This "I can't believe what you're making me do to you" framing is so fucking tired. We all know they had every chance to negotiate, they wanted to keep killing instead.
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although it's a bit subtle and I know there's lots of information on the screen that it'll take time to get used to absorbing all at once, that says "Mastered [current tier] armaments" when you hit the level requirement for the next tier.
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Equippability is purely level based. Level 3 for blues, 7 (I think?) for purples, 10 for oranges. Certain classes have better affinity with certain weapons based on their class but every class can equip any weapon as long as they meet the level requirement. There's also a message that pops up,
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Would chunk basically any boss for over half hp instantly, and also quickly set up a stagger for Duchess to riposte on with the dagger crit bonus and bleed
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I dunno if you saw the tournament they did earlier this week before the launch but one squad just had 2 Ironeyes and a Duchess and their strat to efficiently clear was to just spam double Ironeye ults (it recharges SO fast, you can have it at nearly every camp) and double them up with rewind.
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I also wish they'd given him an ult that fits a little better with his overall character design, feels a little out of place. It can be good in really limited situations (much like the deflect skill) but also it's just clunky to control and totally whiffs a lot of the time.
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They also made the Sekiro guy just not very good (although for being only 1 of 8 characters his deflects still feel 10x more satisfying than just about any player character in a non-From parry-focused game)
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If he's ever been right about anything we can be completely certain he didn't arrive there by any rigorous application of logic or a rational framework of problem-solving. He's an insane crank motivated by nonsense and venal self-intereat, we don't have to give people like him an inch.
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"Do your own research" has always meant "read the ""research"" from the sources that agree with me"
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You're never gonna browbeat everyone and clearly not enough people accept your premise that you always HAVE to go out of your way to vote for the theoretically less-bad option, so maybe one of the options should try a bit harder to be more than just "not *quite* as bad as the other guy".
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Ok and they tried that and it didn't work, so in a discussion of tactics "vote shame people even harder next time," to get them to act in a way that's different from how we know they will act, on scale, doesn't seem like the most viable strategy.
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All right got a new typo on the 2nd attempt, so I'm just gonna delete the whole thing. It was self-absorbed nonsense anyway.
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Yeah it ended up being a debate between Jordan Peterson and 20 atheists on the topic "what does Jordan Peterson believe, exactly?" and Jordan Peterson lost
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Applies at work as long as a stall is open as well. Passing while standing is really awkward and inconvenient, dunno how I just accepted it as the norm for so long.
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I think you may be in the wrong place
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I don't expect Dems to work to enable the dismantling of the system that gives them their wealth and authority, of course, but even at the bare minimum of being in opposition to the *other*, ostensibly less rational party of Capital, you still can't get them to lift a fucking finger.
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Or even on the level of just "I would like some regulations in place to stop them from doing that" the answer is still "no."
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Or, I guess more accurately, only the correct people will be mad at you for holding them. Once you cleanse the stain on your soul that being a lapdog for Capital and a stooge for bigots and racists gives you, the criticisms of those still stuck in that condition slide right off.
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One thing that they miss in these whiny tirades about "ideological rigidity" or whatever is that nobody is required to hold bad, stupid opinions, or is required to pretend they aren't stupid and bad. You could change them to better ones and then people wouldn't be mean to you for holding them.
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which one is this? Is that the nerds guy again?
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he just waits for someone else to ask him what, if any, beliefs he actually holds and then nitpicks their use of language instead of answering the question" or do they all get drawn into the rabbit-hole of trying to satisfy his increasingly absurd litmus tests
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Obviously will NOT be watching the whole thing, but does anyone call him out on this? Does anyone turn to the moderators and say "hey, this guy doesn't seem to understand what a debate is, he hasn't made a single normative claim that he's supported with evidence or logical argument,
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I HATE that someone can ask him if he believes something, and he gets to just pivot to "what do you mean by believe" and immediately derail into an unrelated epistemic argument because he's too much of a coward to actually answer a very basic question about what is ostensibly his own religion.