@awg @matrix @dirb Guilt by association. I'm sure that's how Jesus would have reacted.

@djsumdog @dirb @matrix >how dare you
:-DDDD

@djsumdog @dirb @matrix memeing aside though, you're absolutely right. though I suspect the domain similarity probably triggered the follow-up reaction to dirb.

@awg @djsumdog @matrix It would be probably a response to this
https://social.beepboop.ga/objects/c54b8174-fc1e-4a89-a65c-c1a89638d2b8

The interesting part is that he wasn't mentioned, and he should had @matrix blocked, so he should had been monitoring that conversation

@awg @matrix @djsumdog @dirb TIL free speech bad.

Serially, what the actual fuck is that reasoning? Listing that an instance allows free speech as your top reason for blocking them? What the actual fuck?!

@sjw @dirb @djsumdog @matrix @awg they don't like it when people express themselves freely because it means they can't be in control of what others think and say.

@jeff @sjw @djsumdog @awg @dirb
https://witches.live/@Bonedwarf/101320898039369874

@matrix @dirb @awg @djsumdog @sjw yeah and somehow we are serial harassers when they openly despise us enough to say they want us to be dead. they need a reality check tbh.

@matrix @jeff @sjw @awg @dirb woah dude! That's murder. You just said you should be able to remove someone from existence because what something they typed on the Internet.

@djsumdog @dirb @awg @sjw @matrix i'd say give them a taste of their own meds but no one should have to deal with that being the blunt of it daily.

@matrix @dirb @awg @djsumdog @sjw @jeff Just saying names of organizations and movements and principles will get people b&, so of course they've got to write it "G*mergate". If you include the vowel, someone might end up literally shaking. https://kitty.town/@GinnyMcQueen/101001645933071017

@jeff @matrix @djsumdog @awg @dirb And where the fascists...

@sjw @dirb @awg @djsumdog @matrix exactly my thoughts, these idiots are basically left wing neo nazis.

@jeff @matrix @djsumdog @awg @dirb
"The Fascists of the future will call themselves anti-Fascists."

â Winston Churchill

@sjw @dirb @awg @djsumdog @matrix @jeff wtf im an anti-fascist now

@ayy @dirb @awg @djsumdog @matrix @jeff Better join antifa

@sjw @jeff @matrix @djsumdog @awg @dirb yes. we have to violently crush crypto-fascist concepts like freedoms and liberties

@ayy @sjw @jeff @matrix @djsumdog @awg @dirb this but unironically

@sjw @dirb @djsumdog @matrix @jeff the actual fascists here aren't interested in regulating discourse, humorously enough.

@sjw Free speech allows harassment and problematic opinions to be voiced, that why free speech should be suppressed, that's how these people thinks.

@hiroyuki Hmmm... Well, I certainly can't think of any time doing that has turned out poorly.

@sjw @awg @matrix @dirb

'All lives matter'
'Innocent until proven guilty'
'It's okay to be white'
'It's okay to be asian'
'Free speech zone'

The context of today makes these nonsequetor terms represent hate in the minds of many.

We live in a world of newspeak and doublethink, but it's not just our governments; it's their people who move society further into a time where everyone is outraged over everything.

When was the least time you felt like you could say, "Bush knocked down the towers"

@djsumdog @awg @matrix @dirb Never felt like I couldn't say that Bush did 9/11

@sjw @dirb @matrix @awg @djsumdog Bin Laden didn't blow up the projects! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdagSIa-UQ8

Seriously, though, if you can get banned for being Alex Jones, I wonder if that counts as a "violent conspiracy theory" nowadays.

@p @dirb @matrix @awg @djsumdog

@djsumdog @awg @dirb @matrix @sjw  6. Loading the Language

What better way to control thought than to control language? Words are the currency of ideas. When you set the meaning of words used by others, you denominate how they think.

https://justinowings.com/thought-reform-brainwashing-and-cults/

@djsumdog @awg @dirb @matrix @sjw  Pedophrasty, Bigoteering, and Other Modern Scams
Clearing the discourse of abuses and abusers. The more you institutionalize rules of ethical behavior that should be voluntary (say, anti-racism, anti-sexism), the more they will be used as a cover for unethical actions. https://medium.com/incerto/pedophrasty-bigoteering-and-other-modern-scams-c84bd70a29e8

@js290 @awg @dirb @matrix @sjw
>The more you institutionalize rules of ethical behavior
I'm of two minds here Libertarians are often against the Civil Rights act saying business should be free and eventually those practices would be accepted. But capitalism requires people to be free to chose who they give resources to and you actually do need a State to enforce freedom (though the monopoly on violence). I do think Civil Rights were very necessary; you cannot have white only cafes and hotels

@djsumdog @sjw @matrix @dirb @awg @js290
The typical libertarian response would be that non-racist business-owners would be able to outcompete racist ones by catering to a larger consumer base.

Libertarian thinking tends to focus on the economic side of things, which in turn assumes a purely rational human actor. Unfortunately that's not always the case. The social sphere interferes with the market just as much as the political sphere.

@clarkycat @awg @dirb @djsumdog @matrix @sjw  a free market makes" no assumptions about "rationality." How do you control one sphere w/o unintended consequences in another?  Are you sure you're accounting for all "spheres?"

Some of the most important cultural contributions from black Americans happened during the Harlem Renaissance. My guess is they were mostly financially independent then as well. https://twitter.com/maxkeiser/status/356404110561509376

@js290 @awg @dirb @matrix @sjw @clarkyCat Oh there are totally unintended consequences. Look at the current feminism/trans/TERF/SWERF insanity. Hegel talks about how you have extreme ideas (thesis), conservatives fighting against extreme ideas (antitheses) and eventually you have a synthesis where society progresses into a new mindset. Society eventually reaches the same types of equilibrium we see in thermodynamics.

@djsumdog @awg @dirb @matrix @sjw  the Civil Rights act was "very necessary" in the context of State sponsored discrimination laws. Please clarify how we "need a State to enforce freedom"?  The Market for Liberty https://freekeene.com/2007/12/26/free-audiobook-the-market-for-liberty/

@js290 @awg @dirb @matrix @sjw States have a monopoly on violence (police/military). States enforce laws using that monopoly. Yes there are exceptions (Mafia/CIA and other corruption), but at least on the surface, the State is needed to enforce people not killing each other. (even the peaceful anarchy types don't realize a State will often arise if there's a vacuum; Animal Farm Style). You need some form of law/State to enforce base morality. That's true for hunter/gather tribes as well.

@djsumdog @awg @dirb @matrix @sjw yeah, tha'ts the neo-Hobbesian justification for the State... James Scott on the topic of "The Art of Not Being Governed" https://youtu.be/RNkkEU7EoOk

@djsumdog @awg @dirb @matrix @sjw  Clash of cultures HG vs agriculture "Sitting Bull and his people had no use for these laws... There was nothing the US govt or agriculture could offer them. They were really the freest people in the world... so [US govt] exterminated them." http://bit.ly/1pAIwrD

@js290 @awg @dirb @matrix @sjw You watch a lot of talking heads. ð

@djsumdog @awg @dirb @matrix @sjw  it's either that or fall into the neo-Hobbesian loop that most "libertarians" find themselves in.

@zemichi @dirb Gamergate, it's the eternal boogieman for them

@matrix @dirb you sure she isn't talking about gumergate? It could be anything.

@zemichi @matrix @dirb Gamers don't even get the decency to be called one, prosecuted minority

@jeff @matrix @dirb she just doesnt know how to use her big girl words

@jeff @matrix @dirb tfw g*mergate

@matrix @dirb
forgot the /s