> The real thing is that pretty much no one likes free speech, specially authoritarians.
Only people with unpopular ideas require such a right. He should be glad that Nazis are using freedom of speech, an idea they also hate, as a shield: it means that they're unpopular.
I don't know if you've read it but it's excellent. It's not very long but it doesn't hold back. The description, very near the beginning of the book, of guys in shock after being hit with mortar fire is still very vivid in my mind.
> she proceeded to tell him the story about how I bought her an ice cream cone and fingered her at the skating rink in front of everybody back when we were 14.
BAAAAHAHAHA holy shit who tells her boyfriend a story like this
@lanodan@jeffcliff Hitler outlawed "All Quiet on the Western Front" which is one of the most interesting war novels I have ever read. It was banned for being an anti-war book, but it was "anti-war" just in the sense that it depicted a war realistically.
@thedonnerd HAPPY NEW YEAR THEDONNERD!! LONG TIME NO SEE (but I have been in a hole kinda so probably just me not noticing, like a jerk) HOW ARE YOU DOING
The 47,329 citizens the Northern Mariana Islands and the 168,801 citizens of Guam are US citizens, though. They're all UTC+10, which is, per the Census department's ZCTA data, the easternmost US timezone. The absolute easternmost zip code is in Tinian (96952, at 15°0′0″N, 145°38′0″E), which also has the distinction of being the place where Little Boy was loaded into the Enola Gay. Apparently, various companies keep trying to build hotels and casinos but it falls through every time, due to financial troubles, allegations of money laundering, etc.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinian (photos are from there). The air and naval bases remain.
Four. I spent about an hour in the wikkypeeja hole and then decided Wikipedia is useless and started tearing through some data files that I had laying around from a GIS project from 2015.
@jeffcliff@sortius People that say things like this tend to ignore facts. Nothing for it.
I can say that after this many years running FSE, if I had some secret Nazi plan, either my timeline is insanely long or I would have done a Nazi by now. I can point out that Nazis hate my politics and most of them that know me hate me personally. Or I could point out that freedom of speech was, until very recently, a hard-line lefty value. All these Nazi, uh, civil rights activists...at UCB: https://www.berkeley.edu/free-speech/ . And there were all those notorious right-wing evil Nazi musicians like the Dead Kennedys and Frank Zappa. Or the darling of this guy's political movement, Eugene Debs. Or the UN's UDHR, drafted by notorious Nazi Eleanor Roosevelt and adopted in 1948: apparently we've been Mandela'd into a dimension where the Nazis won WW2.
Whoever "sortius" is, he either hasn't thought it through, or he's made the conscious decision to exchange timeless principles for some short-term politics. This is how historical materialists think, and there's no fixing it.
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