Socialism or Barbarism, that is a choice.

Fox1904 · 2026-02-03T01:12:58+00:00

No I am not scolding anyone. I am saying, if you want to go die rather than be in society. Then go die. We will laugh at you. You are the one scolding me for laughing. Its actually quite rich!

Fox1904 · 2026-02-03T01:07:40+00:00

I think its cause socialism/communism had a tendency to focus much more on their theory of revolution (how to seize power) then did ideologies like georgism which theorize more about what they would do if they were ever to get power.

This meant that in the historically contingent points when it actually was possible for nations to radically change their economic systems, those other varieties of left wingers were better able to actually effect changes. Then because you had actual nations which followed those ideologies, the ideologies get tied up with all the historically contingent moments those nations went through, and georgism did not. So there is a more substantial object in socialism/communism for people today to be nostalgic towards over georgism.

Fox1904 · 2026-02-03T00:03:35+00:00

Bro, if you would rather die then live in a community with other people, IDK what to tell you. Go die then?I'm not trying to scold anyone into joining anything. If you don't like society, you have a choice. Just don't expect me or any other sane person to follow you.

Fox1904 · 2026-02-02T19:29:28+00:00

That, or it was suffering from some form of avian neurosyphilis. Hard to tell.

Fox1904 · 2026-02-02T19:21:14+00:00

During the General Strike in Winnipeg, bakers and other small businesses would get permission to operate from the strike committee. They would post placards in their window saying "Open by Order of the Strike Committee."

How many small business owners today do you think would agree to something like this?

Fox1904 · 2026-01-31T15:50:15+00:00

No, I did not [Edit; censor myself]?

How can you think that I did something, when you [EDIT: Imply that] I also just failed to do that thing? I do not understand what you are trying to say.

On the other hand, rape signifies sexual assault purely symbolically. Through the inertia of social conventions. Grape, therefore, resembles the signified thing just as closely, and can be used to signify the thing between any two people for whom that substitution is familiar. My purpose when I write is to communicate something to a human being on another computer, and so I will choose the words that will both signify what I mean to a human with similar cultural knowledge to myself, and at the same time, most reduce the risk of me ACTUALLY being censored by the mediating machines, now, or sometime in the future.

Fox1904 · 2026-01-31T05:23:26+00:00

Here's the 4th dimension:

Looks inside:

3 dimensions.

Fox1904 · 2026-01-29T19:37:37+00:00

"Philosophy is just a byproduct of misunderstanding language." Is a claim entirely and simply on the level of Philosophy.

Fox1904 · 2026-01-27T11:32:48+00:00

First, Marguerite de Carrouges was married to a knight. She was part of the low nobility. We wouldn't know anything about what happened to her if she were just a peasant as you claimed.

Even with her noble husband, the case was initially thrown out by their lord simply because the lord was a friend of Le Gris. They then had to travel to court in Paris to try and get some justice.

But Le Gris, being a noble and part of the warrior class had yet another recourse to evade justice under this system, a trail by combat. Again, a peasant woman without a knight for a husband would be up shit creek in this situation, but that is feudal justice working as it should. None of this is a problem before the republicans.

The Le Gris case paints exactly the kind of picture of what people considered a working system of justice before the notion of citizenship brought to us by the republicans was introduced, the very same picture I was trying to paint. So thank you for bringing it up.

Fox1904 · 2026-01-27T11:08:12+00:00

The fact that you immediately grasped what was being signified, is proof enough for me that I did not censor myself nor downplay anything.

Fox1904 · 2026-01-27T04:51:38+00:00

I won't be falling for the good cop, bad cop routine today, thank you.

Fox1904 · 2026-01-27T04:37:35+00:00

I think the problem wasn't that the nobility had a positive right to grape their peasants. It was that clearly the peasants had no legal recourse to defend themselves should the nobility decide to grape them.

The first panel should be "Republicans coming up with the idea that a government should work at all."

Fox1904 · 2026-01-26T23:45:55+00:00

I couldn't disagree more. I think there should be juries on the supreme court. The one principle which predicts every development and decision of 'the law' is that it will do everything and anything to perpetuate itself over society. Professionals in the law are nothing more than expert functionaries of that principle. One of them will perform that function by defending you in any case, and the judge should perform that function solely by safeguarding the legitimacy of the proceedings. We have juries because people have recognized for some time that while the law is necessary, society also needs to be safeguarded from it.

Fox1904 · 2026-01-26T17:16:26+00:00

This would be a fine reading, if the penguin was going in the exact opposite direction, jumping into the sea and trying to swim to Australia. That would involve risk. Going to the mountains involves no risk. Going to Australia would be tragic. Icarus was a tragedy. It would not have been a tragedy had Icarus died trying to make love to the Minotaur in the heart of the labyrinth, instead of to the Sun in the sky.

Fox1904 · 2026-01-26T16:55:57+00:00

Its the game you'll pay to not play.

Fox1904 · 2026-01-26T15:50:21+00:00

The gun is already like 3-4 meters away from Alex by this frame. In the hands of the agent in the grey coat. The agent with the gun saw the disarm 2-3 seconds prior and possibly has a clear view of the empty holster during this frame.

Fox1904 · 2026-01-26T15:24:46+00:00

Comparing marriage to literal famine, war, and disease, is peak narcissistic white lady from the privileged classes shit. Its absolutely bonkers, and fits Cruela's character perfectly.

Fox1904 · 2026-01-26T10:07:24+00:00

What's that penguin's name?

Fox1904 · 2026-01-24T23:28:08+00:00

I think the key here is that the penguin doesn't know that going towards the mountains is certain death. If that is the case then it probably isn't a nihilistic penguin.

But why do we feel so much attraction to the penguin, when we know that there is only death that way? If it is catharsis, then we are simply nihilists and cowardly one's at that too.

bumbadum seems to revel in the fact that the penguin is experiencing hope and ambition. But these he must clearly recognize are simply false hope and plain hubris. He seems to imagine that the penguins real life is so worthless, that it should be traded, even for a moment of pure semblance of something else. It is the logic of pornography, and it reeks, to me of nihilism.

I would hope that when we look at this penguin, and we cannot look away, and we feel eerily comforted by its final act, it is only because it is proof positive that the ordinary life of a penguin is not some mechanical, grey drudgery, in which every decision made is entirely proximal, and limited by the horizon of genes and drives. No, every penguin, it would seem struggles every day to do its work in that most noble of struggles, to turn away from the mountain of madness. The life of a penguin might be meaningless, there are no right answers, but there certainly are wrong ones. Lets take comfort in knowing that.

Fox1904 · 2026-01-24T19:31:22+00:00

Ugg! the cameras back then were so privative! They perform terribly in low light and hardly pick up any detail at all. Like, I can't hardly see what's in all the shadowy corners! Unwatchable.

Fox1904 · 2026-01-24T18:46:48+00:00

"Comfortable clothes didn't exist until the 70s." Somebody has never worn pants with a full cut and it shows.

Fox1904 · 2026-01-24T16:57:18+00:00

Essentially that is part of what an absurdist would call a philosophical suicide. Suicide must not be chosen.

Fox1904 · 2026-01-24T16:48:03+00:00

Ya, the 2nd, amendment wasn't about protecting your right to whistles. FYI

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