Message from @halfthink

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2018-12-11 05:11:49 UTC  

If you could come up with something like a set of shared principles in an open letter, you could as a whole become a force not to be trifled with.

2018-12-11 05:12:13 UTC  

At least it would give you a starting point for future collective action.

2018-12-11 05:14:24 UTC  

A trade organization of a few dozen creators would have a lot more clout with platforms that individuals, and might have some hope of getting policies changed. Or at the very least make them think twice about fucking with members arbitrarily.

2018-12-11 05:17:48 UTC  

You know a lot of people across Youtube and elsewhere, and you're seen as a level-headed, non-controversial, middle-of-the-road kind of guy. While you might not be the person to take charge of such an effort, maybe you could get the ball rolling.

2018-12-11 05:21:43 UTC  

There's the "Intellectual Dark Web", and while the people associated with it are precisely the sort of people I'm talking about they don't have the sort of statement of principles or formal group affiliation which could be used to actually lobby platforms or defend members. A creator trade association would have to be a little more formal and close-knit in order to have any sort of negotiating clout.

2018-12-11 05:30:46 UTC  

That just sounds like communism with extra steps.

2018-12-11 06:23:59 UTC  

Who here has autism and wants to weaponize it?

2018-12-11 06:24:28 UTC  

Somebody should go find clips of Jack Conte saying naughty words and publish them everywhere, get him removed from CEO of his own company

2018-12-11 06:24:29 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/509549100061163520/521935287279026176/autism.png

2018-12-11 06:24:31 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/509549100061163520/521935296099778568/Max_Stirner.jpg

2018-12-11 06:24:51 UTC  

and when I say naughty, I mean slurs

2018-12-11 06:25:31 UTC  

individualism is autism

2018-12-11 06:25:39 UTC  

in a good way

2018-12-11 06:55:20 UTC  

Here's my unpopular opinion of African Americans:

2018-12-11 06:56:04 UTC  

One of the troubles of urban black culture stem from the community's demonization of formal education, it being labelled as "White people shit". This is usually paired with the pervasive mindset that the only paths to success are through sports, rap music, and criminal activity, particularly in the case of gang violence. The enabling of this mindset from a very young age actively discourages aspiring black children from pursuing other means of success like academics, trades, or crafts. The only effective way to combat this is to encourage black children to break from the dangerously narrow "hood mentality" and harmful urban culture that black people have locked themselves into for so many years.

2018-12-11 07:11:46 UTC  

The only unpopular part of that opinion is blaming the blacks for what the welfare state would have done to any community.

2018-12-11 07:25:56 UTC  
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2018-12-11 10:43:41 UTC  

French are fucking retarded
https://youtu.be/5iH7dPW7hyU

2018-12-11 10:54:15 UTC  

Le ~~yellow vest~~ commie manifesto.

2018-12-11 11:08:48 UTC  

they can't even imagine the world without a welfare-state

2018-12-11 11:12:10 UTC  

Why should the taxpayer have to pay for the public sector? That's the government's responsibility.

2018-12-11 11:18:27 UTC  

yeah... the government can just print the money and pay for services, n'est-ce pas? 😉

2018-12-11 11:22:43 UTC  

Yeah, why tax when you can just redistribute the wealth by printing more money?

2018-12-11 11:23:29 UTC  

Seriously, the solution to all their problems is simply to end central banking. They are protesting because of constant inflation and wage stagnation.

2018-12-11 11:26:40 UTC  

Wouldn't it be awesome if the government was so small that the money they print is enough to cover for the costs without taxes?

2018-12-11 11:26:43 UTC  

🤔

2018-12-11 11:31:15 UTC  

No, the ability for government to print money only guarantees the constant expansion of state power.

2018-12-11 11:31:50 UTC  

Inflation is just taxation without legislation.

2018-12-11 11:45:01 UTC  

```That socialism has displaced liberalism as the doctrine held by the great majority of progressives does not imply mean that people had forgotten the warnings of the great liberal thinkers of the past about the consequences of collectivism. It has happened because they were persuaded of the very opposite of what these men had predicted. The extraordinary thing is that the same socialism that was not only early recognised as the gravest threat to freedom, but quite openly began as a reaction against the liberalism of the French Revolution, gained general acceptance under the flag of liberty. It is rarely remembered now that socialism in its beginnings was frankly authoritarian. The French writers who laid the foundations of modern socialism had no doubt that their ideas could be put into practice only by a strong dictatorial government. To them socialism meant an attempt to "terminate the revolution" by a deliberate reorganisation of society on hierarchical lines, and the imposition of a coercive "spiritual power". Where freedom was concerned, the founders of socialism made no bones about their intentions. Freedom of thought they regarded as the root-evil of nineteenth-century society, and the first of modern planners, Saint Simon, even predicted that those who did not obey his proposed planning boards would be "treated as cattle".

-F.A Hayek, The Road to Serfdom.```

2018-12-11 11:48:49 UTC  

can you imagine me being too tired to read that entire paragraph but still being extremely interested in it

2018-12-11 12:01:42 UTC  

There's a cartoon version of the whole book.

2018-12-11 12:04:53 UTC  

The French and most of the west EU countries are force fed socialist propaganda for almost a century. So we can dream of educating them now. But if they cut the "economic" crap out of those demands and leave the anti-immigration only, that still would be better than nothing...

2018-12-11 12:17:22 UTC  

They only need 1 demand: denationalise money!