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Fedi convinced me to stop giving a crap about the truckers. You don't care about them, their families, their rights... you care about using them to overthrow governments and taking that power for yourselves.
You are not some great liberators. You are just the next round of oppressors, and I'm not interested in playing this game.
there's always hope one of these groups is gonna be the one to break the cube but.. nah. i'm not sure any of them ever will.
i honestly have no idea how you kill the leviathan.
@icedquinn
I heard from Timmy that it's supposed to happen in March.
The white supremacy narrative is already starting to crumble, this could help collapse it faster, so it wouldn't be that bad.
As for killing the leviathan... you basically need to have an entire nation of people that, although know full well that placing Biden/Trudeau in front of a firing squad without a trial is wrong and a violation of human rights, they'll allow it to happen.
It's what we did in '89. It was completely and utterly wrong. It was the only way Romania would have ever have had any semblance of democracy.
Neither USA nor Canada are in any way near close to that.
one of these was how everyone in the industry gripes about Adobe's vig but nobody actually did anything about it. they could just accept a momentary loss of productivity to all mass cancel their accounts and buy Serif, or collectively pool funds to just buy out Serif and open it, or just take the money and contract professionals to fix up Krita, but they all keep slapping the irons on and lining up to master adobe because that reward desert is scary.
@icedquinn
That's so true it hurts. Who was it that got into trouble for saying blacks basically chose slavery? Was it Kanye West?
but.. yeah. it's frustrating to see shit like infowars talk half of the talk (repudiating big tech = correct and RMSpilled) but then they just use some other closed platform and its like
you bitch you just replaced the known tyrant with someone else who doesn't have the juice to be the tyrant yet
@icedquinn
Regarding American slavery, the older I get, the less I think it's the worst example of slavery in human history. It's just that it's the most well documented practice of slavery we have.
There's too many examples in recent history of social phenomenon, of crimes or diseases that seemingly are at an all time peak in history, but in reality we only feel that's the case because we get way more information about these things happening that we would have even just 20 years ago. So I'm starting to think it's the same effect with American slavery.
We think Americans were absolutely awful because it was recent and everyone knows plenty about it, while the next example of slavery people are likely to think about is Egyptians building the pyramids, and how much do you think the average person actually knows about Ancient Egypt? I'm pretty sure it would be jack shit.
when you get in to slave breeding it starts to get a bit troubulesome.
i'm not entirely sure that serfdom or indentures are the worst thing but if i did bring them back for whatever reason it wouldn't be an inheritable trait.
@icedquinn
I'm not sure if the current consensus even still is that Egyptians used slaves to build the pyramids, but I know for certain they had families and it's not like those children were suddenly gonna be accepted in their upper classes. Don't think slave breeding was exclusive to Americans. In fact, I know there's a passage in the Old Testament that basically says: "if your master gives you a wife, and you make kids, you get to be a slave to your master forever".
when capitalism gets involved everything goes to shit.
@icedquinn
The race and divine right components are not new. American South did it because it was in the Old Testament. And if it got written in the Old Testament, a couple of thousand of years ago, you better believe it was a common thing at that time and probably well before that.
you can have indentures in christianity but there's a lot of rules.
@icedquinn
I think it's sometime after Moses. The divine right is the whole: "you are god's chosen people, now go to these other lands and conquer them, but take the virgin women for yourself, and also you're allowed to get slaves from countries surround you. You can't have slaves of your own people, cause you are superior, cause the whole god's chosen people thing". It also implies a bit of racism, considering Old Testament was all about the "these people are different than you, slaughter them", although yeah, racism as a concept didn't exist for millennia to come.
