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In Vice's "Surveillance Pandemic," Edward Snowden, Naomi Klein , Jacinta González and Edward Ongweso Jr discuss the use of surveillance technology to neutralize the Black Lives Matter uprising.

youtube.com/watch?v=KLTXwUwRRl

One of the more compelling moments in the discussion came when Snowden talked about the complicity tech workers have in the use of their creations to surveil human rights activists in order to perpetuate systemic racism and violence.

vice.com/en_us/article/wxqx8q/

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"Even the asexual has a deviation - his asexuality. It is far more abnormal to have a lack of sexual desire (unless illness or old-age, or another valid reason has caused the wane) than it is to be sexually promiscuous. However, if a Satanist chooses sexual sublimation over overt sexual expression, that is entirely his own affair. In many cases of sexual sublimation (or asexuality), any attempt to emancipate himself sexually would prove devastating to the asexual.
Asexuals are invariably sexually sublimated by their jobs or hobbies. All the energy and driving interest which would normally be devoted to sexual activity is channeled into other pastimes or into their chosen occupation. If a person favors other interests over sexual activity, it is his right, and no one is justified in condemning him for it. However, the person should at least recognize the fact that this is a sexual sublimation."
(Anton LaVey, The Satanic Bible, 1969)

I consider it very interesting that Satanism has officially considered asexuality to be a valid identity, and condoned and accepted it, going all the way back to its foundation in the 1960's. Acceptance of asexuality among the LGBT community is very recent, only a decade or two ago you'd find countless people denying that it even existed. Even today, many in the LGBT community exclude asexuals, or don't accept the validity of asexuality. And yet Satanism - a highly sexual religion - has accepted asexuality from its foundation in the 60's. Sexual freedom is an incredibly important part of Satanism, but sexual freedom doesn't necessarily mean promiscuity. Many who claim to promote concepts of "sexual freedom" and empowerment have very narrow definitions of what that "freedom" includes. Someone who wishes to devote themselves to a single person and remain monogamous should be free to do so, if they are truly sexually free. Someone who doesn't want to have sex at all should be free to do so, if they are truly sexually free. Someone who wishes to be in a committed relationship with two or more people at once should be free to do so. Someone who doesn't want to be in a relationship at all, and just wants to have sex with no strings attached should be free to do so. Someone who doesn't wish to have sex with someone should be free to refuse consent, for any reason whatsoever, or even for no reason at all. For true sexual freedom, all of these things must be accepted and seen as valid.

@rasterman @ChristiJunior Religions of the book are bound to whatever nonsense the book contains, especially when they are locked as the Koran and Bible are. (no more prophets, no new chapters allowed!)

You can't stretch Christ into a warrior god if people are allowed to read the Bible. Nor can you limit its scope to your own countrymen.

So here we are.

Now that the voice actor of Cleveland from Family Guy is stepping down, I fully expect the voice actor of Herbert to step down and be replaced by Joe Biden

@coolboymew I bet most of 4chan is edgy minorities hating on themselves

@shebang @mewmew @progo @reinboar

While it may sound overly dramatic, I think people would be well served to remember that no matter how small or how innocent a law or program may seem, sitting right behind it is death.

The power of the State is death. Sure, there are usually steps before that and all sorts of things come into play before it, but at its root, it’s death. This is easy to prove. Fail to pay your taxes. What happens? Someone shows up eventually to ask why so? Then they’ll ask you to do so. Then they’ll order you (via the courts). If you still refuse to comply, men with guns will show up and either attempt to force you or arrest you. Refuse that, they attempt to subdue you. Refuse that, they shoot you. Loop closed.

Oh, but taxes are serious business. Surely that isn’t the case for a little law like jaywalking?! Nope. 100% the same. More steps, takes longer to get there maybe, but the result is the same.

So when one says “We should create a program to do XYZ”, at the root of it one is speaking of forcing people at the point of a gun to do a thing. I’m not addressing the question of whether that thing is or isn’t a good thing. Just pointing out that all state power is force and that matters when one considers what is “compassion” when it comes from the state. To my way of thinking, compassion cannot come from force and can only come from choice. Thus, the state is only vaguely capable of such and only in those rare instances where everyone agrees to the action in question. Very rare instances. Otherwise, the state is forcing people (on one level or another) to comply and do as others want them to do.

Individuals can be compassionate. Private organizations can be compassionate. The state can only sorta approach it

@jeder I’m far from joking, and you know that damn well that all you have done is say that you have the “freedom to pay taxes for go to jail” the “freedom to obey the government or else”. Its not freedom. You just go on about which King you’ll elect, but even if you vote for your master, you are still their serf — their tax stock.

You are just comfortable being property of the state.

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I wasn't even going to start the stream until at least 12 hours from now, and it's already been taken down. Tonight's stream is going to be wild, it's so extreme that Youtube's algorithm can detect its rule breaking content 12 hours before it even breaks the rules.

dying sucks but it actually prevents further suffering which makes it a good thing, so murder should be legalized because it's actually saving people from bad times later on in life

Sometimes I regret not transitioning when I was a teen. I feel like it's too late to transition now. I've been feeling so conflicted about my gender identity lately. I feel like such a mess. I don't even know what I want anymore. I keep trying to tell myself I can be happy like this but I don't know if I really can anymore.

@georgia @wowaname I thought public breathing was illegal now cause of corona

for serious though, zoophilia is bad, do not actually fuck any non-human animals.

wgfd so if I fuck a dog, can I become a girl? is that how it works?

all this talk of knots in that "door pull" thread is getting me pretty hot and bothered, tbh

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