djakfrost.bsky.social
Transcendental anarcho-communist with a theory of everything.
Also: Zen Buddhist, Navy vet, semiconductor process tech, logophile, AuDHD (aphantasic, misophonic, and cyclothymic)
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Commoners had better diets, regular exercise, and better mental health. Copious consumption and alienation from the commons, which capitalism tries to convince you is the ideal, has always been a killer, both of the self and the society and environment in which it is situated
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On the topic of feudalism, the popular misconception is that people only lived on average into their 30s. But if you survived child birth, didn't live under famine, or die in nobles' squabbles (same as it ever was), you would almost certainly live longer than the nobles.
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TC contestant preps for the days competition by doing some early morning yoga, sharpening their knives, taking a video chat with their loved one. HK contestant preps by smoking half a pack and bitching about other contestants
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"I'm only pushing the pendulum when it goes left. That will balance out the rightward movement and eventually bring it to rest."
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I hate this esp. because 'washing your hair' is BS. They mean over-cleanse it & coat it with chemicals to show commitment to NT standards of appearance --not health--that degrade its healthful purpose and lead to reliance on products, treatments, etc. 'Be fake and unquestioning like me,' basically
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Or the money to change supply routes through an intermediary and lose the paperwork
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"Turn right" a second and a half after you pass the street
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Right? I'd heard the grumblings from my leftist groups *and* muslim friends.
"What? No way. Not like they're going to vote for Trump."
No, but...
And I feel like an incredibly small minority in decrying the militarization of the police over the last 30 years. And here we are...
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It is no coincidence that the greediest, most callous buffoons are instigating a market nosedive not seen since the great depression. _IT'S INTENTIONAL_. They're not misguided. They don't mistakenly think this will make things better for America. Just for them
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Or like they did the Liberty
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Missed those dividers when I was at the Rome train station restroom. Noticed rapid movement in the corner of my eye and turn to see a guy looking in my direction. Aloud, I said, "Mighty, isn't it?" To myself, I said, "I paid a euro for this?"
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Even worse, they'd think you were a Republican
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Having to walk past a candle shop in a crowded mall is a minor hell.
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Have people always said you're "weird" (rude) or "a character" (nicer), which you've always explained by being "quirky" or "eccentric," even in your own peer groups? Be prepared for a wild ride as you begin to turn your entire past inside-out. A whole lot of "Oh, *that's* why"s ahead.
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Yesterday morning, I realized I forgot to get mozzarella sticks at the store and had that small thought of dread—not because I'm overly fond of them, but because I was worried it was going to be the thing that ruined my day because I wouldn't stop asking, "How could you do that?"
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"Isn't just" and "solely." Capitalism's so ingrained they can't help selling their argument out.
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Is it a strange last name? There was a time when I really thought it was mine. Even have family who still call me by it sometimes. It was strange when I realized that the "we are" part didn't make sense. And I see the wind all the time. Dust devils, trees swaying...
(Bored yet, Mr/s Clever?)
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Nifty. But what I meant was, even though it's wrong (intentionally or not), it's still an interesting idea, koan-like, by being true in a very strict definition. Not getting the joke, or at least why it's funny, is entirely incidental
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Figured, but that doesn't help me get it. Not that that's anyone's job, but... At the same time, I don't think you get the point I was making, either, so call it even?
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If you and your colleagues aren't willing to put some skin in the game, to actually do something instead of just saying something, nothing will change. It's not like they don't know your opinion; they don't care. Are you making them care, or are you preaching to the choir to keep donations coming?
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To be fair, they also gave us the electoral college to prevent this. Unfortunately, we turned it into a ceremonial role for political lackeys
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Hopefully it'll pass, like everyone having a "migraine" seems to have
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One part disrupting the feel-good white liberal vibe, one part tarnishing the feel-good white liberal image.
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Still not convinced it won't pull a Lost, but yeah, I'm liking it.
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If you're up for limited series, Interior Chinatown is criminally underappreciated. A Gentleman in Moscow and Station 11 also come to mind.
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Espousing hegemony, as in the OP, or calling the people not aligned with you "uneducated" or "hillbillies," as in the comments, is internalized oppression.
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Yeah, we still have people who think dance routines are a compelling form of protest. It's gonna be a while.
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But 1/10 times... that's when people get mad. And maybe that will happen, but I'm not seeing it in all the bonhomie and pithy signs.
But when it does, liberals will be right there to say, "I support the protests but not the rioting and looting."
Coincidence? I think not
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They know this will blow over, because it has every time. It's part of the con, and liberals fall for it like Charlie Brown trying to kick that football.
9/10 times, it's just a pressure relief valve on cognitive dissonance. A Feel good intermission so the show can go on tomorrow.
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To them, this is just another chance to talk about "the loony left" (ha, as if) and rejoice in "liberal tears." More fundamentally, it assumes they still have to play by the rules, even if just when they're backed into it. They don't. They haven't.
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It's not like the people currently in charge don't know that this is how a majority of Americans feel. They just don't care because they have gamed the electoral math (and perhaps more importantly, SCOTUS) in their favor, have governed accordingly for *years.* They know they can get away with it.
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Equilibrium had some flaws, but how it handled Bale slice through a hundred guards and then face the 'boss' wasn't one of them
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And from all this, into your victim's eyes will come the light of recognition – in you he faces his enemy, his truest enemy. And he will know fear. Indeed, terror.'
-Steven Erikson, Reaper's Gale
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Well, comes the answer, clearly a person possessing certainty, with all the arrogance and pretension that position entails; a confidence, then, that permits the offhand judgement, the derisive dismissal uttered from a most lofty height.
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You will leave them incensed; indeed, virtually speechless ... until you watch their minds back-tracking, revealed by a cascade of expressions, as they ask themselves: who is it that would call me naïve?
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They are humbled by the ambivalence to which they are witness, and they defy our simple, comforting assertions of clarity, of a black and white world. Yathvanar, when you wish to deliver the gravest insult to such a citizen, call them naïve.