No room for Turks in the Middle East I guess

boomer meme but it checks out

@Shadows u can buy network devices that convert ethernet signal to one that travels thru your household electrical wiring

plugs into an outlet, then you put an identical device on an outlet in the room that u want it, spits out signal for ethernet

then you can connect the output ethernet cable to a wifi capable router in the room u want signal

generally appropriate description

Congressman Brian Sims (PA State Legislature) threatening to dox pro-life demonstrators in the classiest of ways
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeCa5TVmegY

brings me back to the days of arguing with my friends whether it was Da Ba Dee Da Ba Die or something something If I were Green I Would Die

I guess there’s something for everything

Except knowing where Jimmy Hoffa is

I just moved and for the first time anywhere in the country I’m seeing cars with Teamster bumper stickers

I don’t like this ... this “being in Union country”

thankfully I don’t have to work with union employees...yet

yeah first job after grad school

hate to say

but u might be surprised

🤔

at my school, tons of PhD candidates were unionized TA’s

Worse

unions of students

altho grocer union has been wrecking a local chain here

just a difference of degree

CAPITALISM, HO!

i had nuffin to do wif’em wanks

Apartment??

i wonder where they think their future salaries will come from..

now that Buzzfeed’s venture capital life raft has sunk

i had to explain that to an undergrad when he asked how it was possible that gender studies people could survive in the real world

Eh he took it with composure

Pretty laid back guy. like “well that’s shit” and went on with his day

good discussion my dudes but I’ve gotta go, have a good night

In the city of Cologne on new year’s eve, nothing special happened

just like Armenian genocides

or demonstrations in certain parts of China

yep

wait what’s Tiananmen Square?

and why does my spell check recognize it?

i don’t get it

what’s the deal b/n turks n armenians

It can’t be like the Japanese and Nanking can it?

But ~~the Turkish govt~~ Cenk said they didn’t kill Armenians tho

Even Neil DeGrass Tyson knows the caliphates fucked it up

But wait, there’s more!

Nazis were right wing socialists and they weren’t conservatives. We keep letting the media dictate the terms of political discussion when we let them call Nazi’s the extreme end of the Right

They were more like highly authoritarian, highly tribal, economic centrists with strong tendency to economic intervention and welfare.

Unfortunately, Australia’s conservative party has a large share of cucks too. I think it was Malcolm Turnbull or some other conservative in their federal parliament who drove one of their “Respect Women” campaigns, complained about unequal representation of women in parliament, the like

I agree they are not helpful most of the time

I have strong opinions that the standard Political Compass is garbage. But I like Michael Malice’s interpretation of left/right.

u heard his explanation?

Ask someone “are some people better than others”

A rightwinger will say “yes”

A leftwinger will give u a speech

The punchline is that lefties either they think outright that all people are ultimately equal

or they recognize people aren’t inherently equal, but they have to manage the cognitive dissonance from the conflict with their commitment to egalitarianism

PRECISELY

that’s definitely more accurate than the “politicalcompass.org” test

“Property rights” is probably a better description of the acis

*axis

At least they got themselves a few Gadsden flags to spur some esprit de corps

took them a few centuries but at least some of the see the light

Still not sure what to make of continuing to use left/right in political discussion. I think the Asian Capitalists were on to something to present the idea of a Political Triangle vs political compass

Ultimately, left-wing logic seems to inevitably lead to Socialist ideology, but being Right wing doesn’t indicate a unified ideology, the only thing in common is opposition to the Left

Depending on your preference to authority, you can span from Absolute Monarchy to Ancap as a rightwinger

I dunno

By itself it is a useful distinction, but it’s ramapantly misused

On purpose, I think

I think then the only difference between leftwingers tho is their dedication to pragmatism vs idealism

And depending on how consistently an individual leftie adheres to principles, if they have any, is toward total obliteration of private property

eh

well in any case, it still seems that Left/Right is a useful distinction, but widely misunderstood, and used incorrectly

Now I realize too u can’t define Right-wing as property-rights-first

ala Tucker

yes

but the Malice definition seems to be a good description

the principle is simply whether u are egalitarian-first, or recognize people are different not equal first

and u can get splintering ideologies based off those first two branches

yes? 😊

That’s part of the speech

Which isn’t to say it’s morally wrong, it’s just part of the definition

Sure

And i have to admit I’m sticking to a formula that I heard from Malice so I can’t own it, altho I do believe its accuracy