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invidio.us is shutting down as of September 1st. If you have an account there, you'd best migrate to another instance before the month is out:

https://omar.yt/posts/stepping-away-from-open-source

@mewmew @icedquinn @purple @wolfie That’s just you moving the goalposts on your definition of government. People pooling resources doesn’t magically make a government, a tax apparatus, authoritarianism, etc just appear.

A business isn’t a government. A community isn’t a government. People agreeing to follow a particular set of rules or guidelines isn’t a government. You can’t just stretch the definition of government to mean any two people with similar interests or problems is a government. The people in my apartment building all have a vested interest in it not burning down and that doesn’t make us a government.

A government, means authority. That’s the crux of the problem with government, it claims authority over people and in the absence of that power its merely a collection of people who might want to keep their houses from burning down. Not remotely the same thing.

@mewmew @wolfie @icedquinn @purple Honestly, this entire discussion is hammering home my opinion that all government is a doomed, nonsense proposal that only serves the purposes of select elites and the rest are just tax stock.

anarchism 

I wonder how much further anarchists would get in conversations if we responded to the question "So you want chaos then, huh?" with "Yes" instead of "Anarchy means no rulers, it doesn't necessarily mean no rules"

Embrace the chaos, fuck it.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-regarding-implementation-president-trumps-executive-order-preventing-online-censorship/

Whether you like or dislike Trump is not relevant to this story - the point is that online resources like twitter and facebook can not be both platforms and publishers at the same time - they have to treat content fairly and equally or lose their 230 protection.

I no longer use facebook, twitter, or youtube for any publishing of my own (having since switched to smuglo.li, bitchute, gab/dissenter, and my own site) but I'd like for people to have a wide variety of options to choose from when it comes to exercising their right to free speech without fear of being shadowbanned, restricted, etc.
It's funny that lots of strangers on here know more about me than I'd ever let on in person around them. I haven't been able to filter myself very well.

alcohol's pretty nice because it lets me disassociate with my body but like in a good way
where it's like "yeah fuck this body whens the last time it did anything good for me, I'm feeling good tonight!"
instead of "yeah fuck this body, I want to die and finally escape this eternal suffering"

Hate is underrated. Hate is a powerful emotion. It's one of the most powerful feelings a person can feel. Why is it so despised, and seen as so evil and wrong? Hatred is passion, one of the purest forms of passion - the only one rivaling it, or perhaps even surpassing it, is love. Both are passion in its purest and most powerful forms, and passion is such a powerful and all consuming feeling. Why is one so cherished by society, and the other so scorned?

I believe in balance. How can one truly understand the extent of their passions, and how powerful passion can be, if they choose to stifle half of it, and only accept its "positive" qualities? Love is one half of true passion, and hate is the other. Can one truly understand and control true passion, without experiencing both of its extremes? I choose to embrace both hatred and love, so that I can feel true passion, in both of its extremes, and develop a deeper understanding of each. Either one is so immensely powerful that they can consume and devour a person entirely - through balance, and understanding of both extremes, perhaps we become better able to avoid being consumed. Or perhaps not. Regardless, I control these passions, rather than be consumed by them. Passion is pure power, regardless of how it manifests - learn to control this power and harness it, whether it manifests as hatred or love, and you shall reap its benefits.

sexual assault, self defense laws, canada is a shithole country run by awful people 

friendly reminder that if you think self defense should be legal, you're a misogynistic pig who hates women
women being raped should just politely inform their rapist that rape is morally wrong, murder is never okay even if the murder victim is in the middle of raping someone. what if the rapist steals the woman's weapon? then the regular rape becomes an armed rape, which is even worse! this is why women should never be allowed to defend themselves from rapists

anyway after playing carrion i think i've developed a hard vore fetish

@Clifford it really trivializes history fascism and current violent totalitarian groups if you call a harmless free software fork that changes color and adds a few features 'nazi'.
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