matrix07012 @matrix@gameliberty.club

"White people are responsible for all the evils in the world" says the uneducated moron who isn't aware that whenever Genghis Khan arrived at a new area and wanted to be *absolutely sure* that everyone respected his power, he would send a lone rider - just one, no more - to each village, in order to pick out around 10% of its population for arbitrary execution.

The rider would choose the villagers at his own discretion. There would be no rhyme nor reason. It may be a young fit working man, or an old woman, or a teenage maiden, or a tiny baby. And then, having picked his charges, he would order them to line up, and for the entire village to just... go along with it, while he, often completely alone and with no present military force to back him up, would execute the unresisting villagers.

This was a show of absolute submission intended to show that the newly found settlements gave the Great Khan power even over their lives and deaths.

When the Mongols reached Nishapur, one of these riders - who turned out, as it happened, to be one of Genghis' many sons-in-law - found himself set upon by the townsfolk and killed.

In retribution, the Mongols gave Nishapur no opportunity to surrender. They didn't even do their usual thing of sparing the most skilled artisans and technicians to add to their army and civilization. They slaughtered every last man, woman and child in Nishapur. Roving bands of Mongols scoured the city so thoroughly that they killed livestock, dogs, cats, and even *rats*, having been ordered to leave absolutely nothing - nothing - alive.

The massacre took almost a week.

At the end of it, Genghis had a *mountain of children's skeletons* built outside of the flaming and ruined city as a warning to any others who dared resist him.

And then the Mongols pressed on, decimating (in the literal sense - executing 10% or so) new places as they went.

Look me in the eye and tell me that isn't evil. Look me in the eye now and tell me that all evil comes from "capitalism" - as evil as it is, that simply isn't true.

These people didn't even *have* money, until they took a few cities and were taught the concept of currency.

Evil is slippery and it resists your definitions. And the longer you pretend it doesn't exist - and pretend there isn't some evil inside you, too - the more you miss.

#random

Hey remember when there were all those articles that were like "The REASON fans hate Skylar White so much is becuase of MISOGYNY"

No bruh
People hate Skylar White becuase she's a fucking stupid bitch

@matrix
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SJWs are right when they assert that the world would be much better if Europeans hadn't developed mercantilism and then sailed all over the world fucking it up

But the depressing thing is that if Europeans hadn't done that, someone else would have done it - probably not too much later.

You hate imperialism? You hate slavery? You hate lack of humanity, focus on money, colonisation, subjugation? Don't worry, the Arab world had you covered nicely - before we took over that too. If we hadn't, they'd be out there right now taking the same blame for the rape of the Americas and other similar atrocious actions.

What if that didn't happen? China would have. Or what if there'd never been any Romans? We'd be looking at Carthage doing it, or maybe even some kind of remnant Akkadian civilization.

Depressing, isn't it?

@kaniini as a cock.li user, I disagree that's what it is, but ok.

The core of the point is that it seems he's not actually done anything against any CoC, the organisers have let them travel there and then arbitrarily decided "we don't like you so you can't come in".

This kind of arbitrary decision undermines the rules, because it makes clear they're mostly just there to appease people who want rules, but it's ultimately down to the whims of people who are there liking you or not, for *whatever* reason that may be, and it may be opaque.

I don't want to go to events where I don't feel safe, even if I'm following the rules, just because someone doesn't like how I run, for example, freenode, or my day job. The "whatever" above is also really dangerous, because once we tolerate the whims of organisers, the need to justify those whims becomes less and you end up kicking people out for silly (at best) and discriminatory (at worst) reasons.

@sjw how’s this for a draft?

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@igeljaeger @alyx @lain @matrix @rin @sjw @tuxcrafting @wowaname @yolo Happy new year, friend!
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Happy new year everyone.
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