Somewhere out there are honest-to-god Bourbonists but they do not have a material basis to exist as a major force.

Russian and russophilic fash still fly the imperial banner (thus keeping its meaning in memory as a symbol) but they will never reinstate tsarist feudalism, only fascism. The conditions for tsarism simply no longer exist. The coat of arms of the House of Bourbon on the other hand has not been widely used by the modern French far right. Bourbonism as a movement no longer exists. Thus it does not symbolise the white terror anymore, while the imperial banner does.

Roman symbolism exists in an in-between state where it is not necessarily the domain of imperialist reactionaries but remains in use by them.

The strongest reactionary monarchist movements, and thus those whose symbols still hold weight, are in places which still have monarchs (e.g. Ulster traitors, neo-falanguists).

This only really proves my point that symbols retaining hateful meaning do so through active use by hateful movements and that it only really loses its connotations when the movement is symbolises ceases to exist in a meaningful way.

We have fortunately gotten rid of many kings and removed the social basis of feudalism. However, Neo-Nazis persist today and seem likely to persist for a while longer. Their symbolism will remain known as such until the destruction of the basis of fascism.

At the very least he grew up Catholic

It is good when people help each other. It warms a truck when a community sticks by each other.

Shit like this is why I love the punk scene. The punk scene is like the idealized small American town, for you may one day be asked to help someone you barely know and do it without a second thought. Why wouldn’t you help someone who needs it. You know damn well that when the time comes and you too need help, it will be found.

I have pulled on my network of comrades to make sure someone got a phone. This was done for the price of food and fellowship.

Beans

Out of the loop, what is Tesseract?

EDIT: Apparently its a UI for Lemmy that decided to start hiding leftist posts secretly because the dev is a lib

Why not both?

Most of the countries which helped defeat fascism in WW2 had a checkered history before and after the fact. The Americans of course pulled Operation Gladio and sponsored fascist dictatorships all over Latin America during the Cold War while IBM gave the Nazis the accounting tools they needed for the Holocaust. Liberal capitalism the world over starved the people with austerity leading to the material conditions for the rise of fascism. The Stalinist USSR in turn pushed the Third Period policies which had a massive part in keeping the Stalinist parties from fighting fascism effectively, which played an important role in Nazism’s victory in Germany, cut up Poland with the Nazis, and funded the SRP and Francis Yockey.

In Spain of course, American oil fueled the fascists while the NKVD commissars shot the anarchists and POUMistas in the back.

Yeah but the dictator will kill the sans-culottes who get uppity and the response to excess headrolling is reaction and moderation of the more radical goals of the process. Burn the guillotine, as the Parisian communards did.

I was very antagonistic because I grew up an atheist in a conservative ultracatholic hell. Now I live in a chill place that used to also be conservative ultracatholic hell. I got to meet religious people that didn’t sincerely believe that I deserve to be tortured forever for not believing in what they do, who aren’t bigots, who believe in abortions, who hate rapist priests. When people aren’t mad at you all the time, it’s so much more peaceful to reciprocate.

It’s easy to fall into antitheism when the only religious people around you are structurally supporting evil, it’s hard when you see that people can actually have a positive relationship with their religion and community, even if they are incorrect about some metaphysical truth.

Unironically think they would be proud. I clawed my way out of the depression pit and am working on the plans I had since I was younger.

“The further onwards, the scarier”

~ Russian Proverb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Knight_satellite_conspiracy_theory

Yeah it was a thermal blanket from the mission that took the photo

Solar Sails, Generational and Cryogenic Ships: We’d be able to see the craft slowly approaching us. Covering it up would be increasingly impossible as it approaches us because as the comrade from before said, telescopes are readily available technology. Even if there was a coverup of an international scale that had the support of every single institution, it would require dealing with thousands of amateur astronomers and utterly subverting scientific peer-review.

Wow: The Signal has never been repeated. It could genuinely be aliens who sent it by accident. Other more sensitive radio telescopes didn’t detect it though. The discoverer believes that while it isn’t impossible that the signal is extraterrestrial in origin it could also be some nonsense done on Earth. The signal band is protected but it could be interference from a close-by frequency or someone with a powerful transmitter making the funniest pirate radio broadcast ever.

Asteroid: If they were trying to communicate with their folks back home, there’s a good chance we’d pick it up. Furthermore, maintaining a livable space station on an asteroid will generate waste heat and such. Our astronomers would probably notice such an anomaly.

Artemis II happened recently, despite all the cuts :)

Red Hat / IBM have contracts with the Israeli military so yes

Desire is a production-process, and we are all machines that desire.

Defensive driving is for pedestrians too

RCV still has some flaws although of course it is infinitely better than FPTP. Ireland continues to be held in the grasp of Fianna Fail and Fine Gael. Approval voting seems to be the best according to most scholars on the topic.

A wee bit sad that people say this now when immigrants have pretty much always been legally required to have their papers. It is shit but has always been shit.

Hell even in Ireland a legal alien must always have their residence permit with them.