holygon

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[–] holygon@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Oh I just found it 10 seconds before you answered, but I really appreciate the help!

[–] holygon@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Do you know where this quote is from? I'm having a hard time finding it, but would love to read more.

Edit: Found the source right after typing this haha. It's "Anti-Semite and Jew: An Exploration of the Etiology of Hate" by Jean-Paul Sartre. Here is a PDF. It's on Page 13 of the book (Page 36 of the PDF)

[–] holygon@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you're interested in something fun, there's an old blog post about how terrible the Thieves Guild questline is:

https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=14422

It's a bit long, but I think it's very entertaining. Deep dive into every single plot hole, and nonsensical story beat.

[–] holygon@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

I mean, what is competition? The entire point of a competition is that someone wins, and someone loses. When the entire structure is a competition, then if enough time passes most participants will have lost, and only one will stand victorious. The concept of free market competition will always end in monopoly, and every anti-trust mechanism is just a way to slow this down, not an actual solution. Capitalism will never create a solution to this either, as monopoly is the logical goal of capitalism. When monopoly exists, the capitalists have the most power. Of course capitalism will benefit the capitalists. It would be weird if it didn't.

[–] holygon@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago

The detached vibe is just a personality trait that he actually kinda has a hard time with himself. He's said in multiple podcasts that people often find him rude the first time he meets someone, and his friends has to clarify that he's really nice to the people he just met. He just has a hard time focusing on being actively engaged due to the way his ADHD manifests. Watch him on Sad Boyz with Jarvis Johnson and Jordan Adika if you're interested.

[–] holygon@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Early piracy was just so fun. Like I'm glad that it's more simple, and accessible now, and that you are less likely to use your dial-up internet to download a virus over 3 days... But, it was so exciting lmao. Like it felt like you were stepping into some underground club that no one knew about - even though you were a 12 year old nerd with no prospects of a girlfriend in the near future hahahaha. But it was really fun, and it helped me learn to like problem-solving, and the idea of piracy, and open-source software def also helped me develop some ideas about the world around sharing, and stuff.

Anyway I think that's enough gushing about that hahaha, just wanted to indulge in my nostalgia for a minute.

[–] holygon@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I kinda miss the days of pirating a movie, burning it to a disk, and then popping it into a DVD player. Like it's objectively more convenient now, with Jellyfin/Emby/Plex media servers that can stream to any device in your home, but it has lost some of the analogue charm of feeling like a hackerman dressed like Neo when you gave a friend or a family member a DVD with sharpie writing on it, and them thinking you were some tech genius lmao.

I remember some software where you could include like a custom DVD menu, where you could press chapters and subtitles and stuff before starting the film, and thinking I was the coolest person in the world when I showed my friends hahahha. Ah good times. Thanks for the nostalgia trip.

[–] holygon@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

I have all of it, and I will never share with any of you society

[–] holygon@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

I just like to listen to Welcome To Night Vale while trying to fall asleep powercry-1

[–] holygon@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

I appreciate the kind words, thank you. Might as well use my experience with Social Democracy for something, because it always bothers me when people think it's the solution.

[–] holygon@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The problem with dictionaries is that they describe the popular use of a word, not necessarily the academically correct one. I only used the dictionary because it was honestly too easy to do a gotcha there.

A great example of dictionaries being "wrong" is the word "factoid". A factoid originally is a popular piece of information that is actually incorrect or false - a popular lie. Now the word factoid is in many dictionaries described as being "an insignificant or trivial fact", which is like, the exact opposite of the original meaning of the word. I'm 100% sure that in certain universities, I would be marked down for using "factoid" as "fun fact", even though dictionaries seem to think this is fine.

The original meaning of the word Social Democrat was a heavily discussed topic even in the beginning of the Soviet Union. After WW2, it was even popular within Socialist/Communist circles to call SocDems, "Social Fascists", as the enabling of the SocDems in Germany (SPD) helped the Nazis attain power, since they positioned themselves against the rest of the "left". SocDems will always rather align themselves with capital, rather than the "actual left", because the entire ideology reinforces capitalism. The reason people are mad at you here, is that SocDems have historically, every single time, helped the fascists rather than the socialists when push comes to shove. It's the reason for the quote "Social Democracy is the moderate wing of fascism". Now you can disagree with that last part, but this is history. Schumacher did betray the socialists. And he always would have, because Social Democracy is a capitalist ideology, which is why Marxists refuse to let them call themselves socialists. You cannot believe in capitalism, and socialism at the same time. They are opposites.

DemSocs on the other hand, are Reformist Socialists. They are who the dictionaries should actually refer to. They are the people who believe that a peaceful reformist transition from capitalism to socialism is the way to go, even though it has never worked. They believe that if you just vote hard enough, the capitalists will just let the poor take away their power. I don't actively dislike them, but I think it is very very naive.

Marxists are usually Revolutionary Socialists, who believe in revolution as a way to make change. This has worked several times in history, and there are several countries in the world right now that still exist after a socialist revolution, and are doing as well as you can considering that the entire western world is sanctioning them.

Marx hated Social Democrats btw. When one of the founding figures of the ideology does not think that a Social Democrat is a socialist, then I dunno what to tell you.

In short, the dictionaries are wrong. In an academic setting those definitions would be rejected instantly. People just do not understand what these ideologies are, so they use the words the wrong way. These words get used the wrong way enough, and the dictionaries will change to fit, as that is what dictionaries do. But the original meaning, that is part of the books that many of us read about these subjects, do not match with the dictionaries. If you referred to dictionary definition in a Political Science class, you would not pass, I assure you.

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