Hard disagree. Else, there would never be any revolution, but history shows otherwise.
Or, as Marcuse put it, the prerequisite for radically rejecting something is not that you have to know what will come afterwards, but at first, you’ll enter a process of rejection of the existing situation and during this process of rejection, you’ll gradually free yourself from shackles and figure out what is to come next.
It does. Because now somebody can jerk YOU off, and it won’t inflate your own score.
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I’ll wipe your ass if you wipe mine.
I mentally multiply all votes by ℹ anyway.
They are all over Europe. I have three or four within walking distance. And they can hold some amazingly large items, too.
The Fartisan
I need to sleep I can’t get no sleep
I have a feeling that a few steps are missing between trololo and Monty Python… right? guys? Geez, I’m getting old.
It’s all in a day’s work for… bicycle repair man. <snort>
The Weather Man… Cobra Verde… Even though the latter could have hardly ever been called mainstream.
The next iteration of gaslighting is already here: That it’s no big deal anyway since you can just use an ad blocker. Riiight, let’s all just turn our eyes away to make the monster go away. Surely, it’ll get bored and stop listening and recording, and surely, it will not sell its collected data off to banks, insurance providers, the government, law enforcement… right?
Normative nihilism is going to get us all.
Far more often than not, even bloody revolutions do not achieve their goals, or lead to merely cosmetic and/ or short-lived changes. E.g. Kent Gang Deng investigated 269 major peasant rebellions over 2106 years of Chinese history. Guess how many of these actually rewrote history in any way, shape or form.
Recently, I’ve been reading several interesting pieces on the “Occupy” movement, the related G20 and other protests in the Western world, dating back as far as the 1960s. The bottom line being: asking nicely for some minimum demands that even conservative politicians can get behind, like capping CEOs’ wages, will not get the job done. In fact, some of the powers that be can use it for their internal power struggles and to show it off as a sort of legitimization folklore. “See how democratic we are? We even have protesters in little tents! Don’t worry, they aren’t hurting anyone.”
All hope is not lost, though, if new protest modalities can be found.
What in the world is going on with Elsie’s hand in the “second of the five photographs?”
Crazy how dated this discussion is already.
Trust me memes, you do?
Prodigy
I’m a firestatah
Twisted firestatah
After my dad had locked me out of the computer room, I learned how to pick locks. And I’m not even kidding.
Go on…