Notices by sim@shitposter.world, page 5
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@p @leyonhjelm @astheroth @rvinson @0 @NonPlayableClown @sun That does sound more pleasant. I don't know that either of those scare me because they are photos at the end of the day.
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@leyonhjelm @astheroth @p @rvinson @0 @NonPlayableClown @sun Do they have a painting fetish or something?
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@p @leyonhjelm @astheroth @rvinson @0 @NonPlayableClown @sun That is fair. Just be equally annoying back to them.
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@p @0 @NonPlayableClown @astheroth @leyonhjelm @rvinson @sun Had someone spam images at me once, and so I pissed them off by replying to each post. It was funny.
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@p @leyonhjelm @astheroth @rvinson @0 @NonPlayableClown @sun
Saying this to an old painting, though? It is kind of weird, isn't it?
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@p @leyonhjelm @astheroth @rvinson @0 @NonPlayableClown @sun Yeah, I don't think anyone would miss it. But I'll wait for the second opinion anyway.
Yeah. That one was a strange one. It is funny that you activate your own bot sometimes.
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@p @leyonhjelm @astheroth @rvinson @0 @NonPlayableClown Isn't it a bot?
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@NonPlayableClown @leyonhjelm @astheroth @p @rvinson @0 Couldn't even recognise being asked how its day went.
Anyway, might be worth @sun looking into the database thing, in case it is doing something here. I don't really get it but I'd nuke a bot being a pain in the arse.
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@leyonhjelm They have the wrong socialism.
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It's always funny listening to revolutionaries talk about other revolutionaries or socialists/leftists.
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It's a good day when I complete another chapter of my novel and it goes well. A few twists that I didn't originally plan for but it works better for the overall plot and carries me where I want to be so I'm happy.
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I don't know why anyone that isn't a muslim would defend Islam. You will be treated as second class under Islamism. Some of you wouldn't survive it. Maybe even most. Especially the types of people that play the oppression Olympics and identity politics.
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@leyonhjelm @kaia @sun I don't really understand what is so bad about dressing formally, actually dressing well and at your best. Except for the unwanted attention it brings.
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Being a moderator is actually not that bad when you have decent rules to uphold and you can just be chilled out. It does expose you to the worst content posted and sometimes you have to deal with spam, with people testing the boundaries or making time wasting reports since they don't apply to the rules in place. But I can't really complain even then, it's not hard to deal with things as needed and ignore the rest.
Thanks for remaining cool, SPW.
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@MK2boogaloo Oh, Kolakowski just used what he did in his book as an example for what to expect in his own book so it makes sense from that perspective.
Yeah, it's probably a good thing that I'm not trying to look at Germany in that sense, except through Marx. He sounds reasonable so far anyway.
Looking into him, "was a Polish philosopher and historian of ideas." His main contribution that he is known for "Due to his criticism of Marxism and of the Communist state system, Kołakowski was effectively exiled from Poland in 1968. He spent most of the remainder of his career at All Souls College, Oxford. Despite being in exile, Kołakowski was a major inspiration for the Solidarity movement that flourished in Poland in the 1980s and helped bring about the collapse of the Soviet Union, leading to his being described by Bronisław Geremek as the "awakener of human hopes"."
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@MK2boogaloo Who is? I don't know about Mann, but this guy that I'm reading is not from the US. Lol.
He's Leszek Kołakowsk. So, Polish judging by which country my copy is translated from.
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@MK2boogaloo I'm sure that he is aware. He used it as an example for what he wanted to do with his work on Marx... so he isn't really going to get into detail about the Natsocs.
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"More precisely, it is impossible to answer the questions ‘How can the various problems of the modern world be solved in accordance with Marxism?’, or ‘What would Marx say if he could see what his followers have done?’ Both these are sterile questions and there is no rational way of seeking an answer to them. Marxism does not provide any specific method of solving questions that Marx did not put to himself or that did not exist in his time. If his life had been prolonged for ninety years he would have had to alter his views in ways that we have no means of conjecturing. Those who hold that Communism is a ‘betrayal’ or ‘distortion’ of Marxism are seeking, as it were, to absolve Marx of responsibility for the actions of those who call themselves his spiritual posterity. In the same way, heretics and schismatics of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries accused the Roman Church of betraying its mission and sought to vindicate St. Paul from the association with Roman corruption. In the same way, too, admirers of Nietzsche sought to clear his name from responsibility for the ideology and practice of Nazism. The ideological motivation of such attempts is clear enough, but their informative value is next to nothing. There is abundant evidence that all social movements are to be explained by a variety of circumstances and that the ideological sources to which they appeal, and to which they seek to remain faithful, are only one of the factors determining the form they assume and their patterns of thought and action. We may therefore be certain in advance that no political or religious movement is a perfect expression of that movement’s ‘essence’ as laid down in its sacred writings; on the other hand, these writings are not merely passive, but exercise an influence of their own on the course of the movement."
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"Thomas Mann was entitled to say that Nazism had nothing to do with German culture or was a gross denial and travesty of it. In fact, however, he did not say this: instead, he inquired how such phenomena as the Hitler movement and Nazi ideology could have come about in Germany, and what were the elements in German culture that made this possible. Every German, he maintained, would recognize with horror, in the bestialities of Nazism, the distortion of features which could be discerned even in the noblest representatives (this is the important point) of the national culture. Mann was not content to pass over the question of the birth of Nazism in the usual manner, or to contend that it had no legitimate claim to any part of the German inheritance. Instead, he frankly criticized that culture of which he was himself a part and a creative element. It is indeed not enough to say that Nazi ideology was a ‘caricature’ of Nietzsche, since the essence of a caricature is that it helps us to recognize the original. The Nazis told their supermen to read The Will to Power, and it is no good saying that this was a mere chance and that they might equally well have chosen the Critique of Practical Reason. It is not a question of establishing the ‘guilt’ of Nietzsche, who as an individual was not responsible for the use made of his writings; nevertheless, the fact that they were so used is bound to cause alarm and cannot be dismissed as irrelevant to the understanding of what was in his mind. "
I didn't know this connection.
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I resent the older generations. They lived in a world where they could obtain a mortgage for a house and then proceeded to pull the ladder up for the rest of their own family and younger generations rather than supporting them.
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