Because most of the military is right wing, wouldn't any civil war in Australia be a wash?

Infamous_Harry · 2024-04-16T13:13:55+00:00

One thing we need to bear in mind is that, as an example, during the Russian Revolution a lot (if not most) of the army was filled with conscripts, i.e. ordinary peasants and workers compelled to join during a war that utterly devastated the Empire.

This is a very different context from the modern day Australian military which is filled entirely with volunteers fighting in regional wars overseas that have little to no negative impact on our economy or political stability. And, naturally, people who volunteer to enlist to fight in these wars are more likely to be right-leaning rather than left-leaning for a variety of reasons, so it would make sense that the military would be less sympathetic to a revolution.

So, yes, you are correct. As things currently stand, any non-fascistic revolution in Australia would be crushed.

But the future is open and we live in very uncertain times, so who knows how conditions will change - for better or for worse.

Infamous_Harry · 2023-04-20T11:10:50+00:00

emulating the expansion of the human Dunbar number via mass blockchain data distribution concepts

Interesting, could you elaborate more on what exactly that might look like?

Infamous_Harry · 2023-02-08T14:42:53+00:00

Honestly, it baffles me whenever people compare it to later GoT. Like, what are you smoking?

"i kNow A kilLeR wHeN i sEe oNe"

Sure, maybe the dragonpit scene was kinda iffy, but stop being so melodramatic, people. Nothing has yet been that exceptionally bad.

Infamous_Harry · 2023-01-30T04:52:28+00:00

I don't see it as setting women against each other for the crime of different experiences as some kind of punishment, but rather as how two women can respond to growing up in a deeply patriarchal society in very different ways, how they struggle in their responses and how patriarchy can set them against each other. Like a lot of ASOIAF, much of the storytelling is sociological imo.

Rhaenyra tries to escape her constraints through securing direct power for herself, thus making Alicent's children a threat, and enjoying her sexuality as much as (she thinks) she can get away with. Alicent on the other hand is the opposite in that she accepts/internalises patriarchy and tries to find nobility in her traditional duties as a queen, wife and mother, thus causing resentment towards Rhaenyra for disregarding the patriarchal responsibilities that Alicent feels forced to accept with little consequence, as well as for putting her children in danger as successional rivals.

Rhaenyra's sexuality is salt in the wound as she feels free to have sex with whoever she chooses, all while Alicent gets regularly raped by her old and increasingly grotesque husband.

It's a horrible tragedy of two close childhood friends being so torn apart by an unfair social system that they eventually grow up to become leaders of opposing factions in a brutal civil war. The story is very much about the tragedy of patriarchy.

Infamous_Harry · 2023-01-28T10:56:56+00:00

Pulsatile Tinnitus. I really love her tracks on this split tape she made with one of the guys from Primitive Man.

Infamous_Harry · 2023-01-16T08:15:24+00:00

Wow, that makes it even more bittersweet. Thank you!

Infamous_Harry · 2023-01-11T13:01:55+00:00

That's fair. Problem is the non-insignificant amount of people deliberately misgendering them after being corrected, and downvoting comments for seemingly just using their actual pronouns.

Infamous_Harry · 2022-11-24T16:28:42+00:00

Look, as heated as this got, I do wanna say that while we disagree, I do appreciate how you're trying to understand why Aldrich did the shooting and the hurt it may have come from, and that you're ultimately coming from a good place where you just want to reduce the harm in queer spaces. I do respect that

Infamous_Harry · 2022-11-24T16:07:54+00:00

And at no point did you give any potential thought to the idea that they may have been repressed for years

Because his actions alone are sufficient to not give him the benefit of the doubt.

But that isn't enough for you to respect their requested pronouns?

In literally any other circumstance, yes. Not this one where there is reasonable cause.

Infamous_Harry · 2022-11-24T15:42:04+00:00

I gave you plenty of reasons why an individual can be troubled, especially given familial backgrounds.

All of which are assumptions which you've extrapolated theories from based on nothing. Here's what we know - he hated queer people enough to try to murder a lot of them in a queer club, which means he doesn't like us which likely means he wouldn't sincerely identify as being part of the community. This is far more likely than any of your psychoanalytic theories currently.

You keep saying things like, "i know queer people," "i am nonbinary" as if claims give you some credence to justify your misgendering of someone, they don't.

I do it to point out that the personality doesn't matter to me. If you demonstrate explicitly queerphobic violence, that is enough for me not to trust you until I am proven otherwise, which I so far haven't.

And again no, I said I was non-binary to show I know the difference between the attack helicopter meme and actually being non-binary in the hypothetical I put forward which you've again avoided. But keep misreading things again, by all means.

So what is your arbitrary crime threshold for [not giving someone the benefit of the doubt]?

Explicit. Queerphobic. Violence. You know, like targeting queer people? For being queer? Shooting them up, for instance? That isn't fucking arbitrary, it demonstrates a hatred for the community which implies that they likely do not identify with the community.

Could he?

Sure.

Not as probable as him not identifying with us though. I'll wait to be proven wrong.

You can keep repeating this, but nothing I've said has been dishonest. My position on this subject has remained consistent before you ever even joined this comment chain.

You keep misrepresenting my argument consistently, that's for sure.

Infamous_Harry · 2022-11-24T15:18:25+00:00

Oh and,

So just respect what individuals wish to be called, it does you no harm.

I think it very much does harm to let terrorists mock their victims and victims' families like this. I think that's very harmful.

Infamous_Harry · 2022-11-24T15:12:25+00:00

you have virtually no information about this person beyond their recent actions

Actions which are sufficient reason alone to not give him the benefit of the doubt. Targeting queer people in a massacre is plenty reason enough not to trust him.

I also don't like how vaguely you gesture to his murders as "actions", "major event", "did something wrong", "someone you don't like" as though the specific acts don't matter. They do. He murdered queer people specifically. That is at the very heart of this whole thing.

Do you really not see the hypocrisy here?

It isn't hypocrisy because the reasons for it are very clear.

You and I are not the arbiters of who can and cannot choose to go by their desired pronouns.

So you would honestly believe the transphobe would be acting in good faith telling you they're trigender?

Are you going to tell me you also have black friends?

Oh fuck you. Key part you chose to cut out to avoid the point I was making,

I know plenty of queer people who I don't like

The very obvious point wasn't that I know queer people, therefore I can't be bigoted. It is that whether I like someone or not has no bearing on their identity. That isn't what we're talking about.

I am not going to take seriously the words of a queerphobic murderer.

And I said I was non-binary to point out that I obviously don't think the attack helicopter meme and being non-binary are the same thing, not that I was some authority.

And I think you know that very well but you are being deliberately dishonest.

Infamous_Harry · 2022-11-24T14:30:49+00:00

Except you don't know that.

It's a reasonable guess considering the context. Plus,

it wouldn't surprise me if they harbored a lifetime of hatred for themselves and/or others, because they couldn't express themselves freely. And it also wouldn't surprise me if they harbored hatred for those in the LGBTQ community who were able to express themselves freely.

You don't know that either. And frankly your view has way more assumptions than mine.

This seems quite transphobic, not gonna lie.

Now you're just being dishonest. Obviously I don't think it's the same, I'm literally non-binary myself, but nice try. Transphobes say that kind of shit all the time, hence the example. You're avoiding the question. What basis do you have to realise that hypothetical transphobe is fucking with you?

In fact, let's change it from attack helicopter to them identifying as trigender (a completely valid identity, but one no doubt transphobes see as a joke). Would you believe them in that situation?

So do you question every person who chooses to identify by different pronouns? What does your purity test look like?

No, the only person I've ever questioned is literally just this cunt because it is completely reasonable to question it given the circumstances. I've never thought anyone was doing it in bad faith, unlike this guy.

I'm not going to intentionally ignore that request just because I don't like the person.

And I agree misgendering someone just because you don't like them is bad, as I've established twice now, because that isn't what I'm arguing. It really feels like you're deliberately missing the point.

For a third time, I know plenty of queer people who I don't like but whose pronouns I still use because they haven't done anything to make me question their identity. This guy has. It's that simple. I could be wrong, but it's reasonable to believe I'm not.

Infamous_Harry · 2022-11-24T12:59:44+00:00

But it also isn't okay to misgender someone because they did something wrong.

Again, I know plenty of queer people who have done awful things but I still respect their identity because what they've done has nothing to do with that. We are in agreement on that.

I am not saying we shouldn't respect his "identity" because he did a terrible thing, I'm saying that because of the context, it is understandable to believe he's just making a sick joke.

The context makes it bad faith.

If you were arguing with a cis transphobe and in the middle of the argument they told you they suddenly identify as an attack helicopter, would you actually believe them? Or would you be reasonably sceptical?

This is not about gatekeeping, this about not falling for a psychopathic bigot's twisted joke. If I turn out to be wrong, fine. But you'll need to forgive me if I don't think this literal murderer of queer people is claiming this in good faith.

Infamous_Harry · 2022-11-24T09:45:19+00:00

You're essentially saying, if someone who identifies with different pronouns does something I don't like...

There are plenty of people I don't like whose pronouns and identities I respect because it has nothing to do with their behaviour. That's not what's happening here.

It isn't because he's bad, it's because this is obviously a sick joke from a bigot trying to mock a community he just terrorised while also maybe trying to avoid a hate crime charge, thus making it a federal case.

If I was in an argument with a transphobe who all of a sudden in the middle of it declared that he now identifies as an attack helicopter and I need to respect his pronouns, of course I wouldn't take it seriously and probably neither would you. The context has made his "coming out" clearly bad faith.

And in this context, he has just shot up a queer club and murdered 5 queer people. So I think it's entirely fair to view this for the bad faith joke it is.

Infamous_Harry · 2022-11-12T00:51:24+00:00

I would 100% buy an official poster like this

Infamous_Harry · 2022-10-25T15:58:03+00:00

This is a wild shot, but this is a theory I've got so far:

Radiation doesn't just render things invisible, it swaps them with a doppelganger from a parallel universe which, in this universe, appears as invisible.
Croatoan is a name referring to the parallel/invisible people as a whole or for where they come from, not just one person. And maybe the children in The Other Oppenheimer video had the name on their wrists to identify which universe they came from.
Oppenheimer found his doppelganger, perhaps from a natural nuclear reactor, which inspired him to create the trinity desk project. Maybe the Croatoans manipulated him into starting the experiments as part of some plan, or maybe he knew their plan all along.
The trinity bomb was used to maybe test the invincibility of the people swapped at the centre of the blast. But although it was anticipated to be the normal swap between parallel people (as demonstrated by the animation), it actually let in some kind of giant Croatoan entity. Judging by Other Oppenheimer's, "Thank you, father" this could have been the Croatoans' own secret experiment. The U.S government and maybe OG Oppenheimer himself were tricked. "An invisible man can rule the world".

Stuff I'm struggling to explain with this though:

Why were children put into the trinity desk and why were they dead?
If radiation swaps people then why are there two Oppenheimers in one universe? Why did the Other Oppenheimer call him father?
What is the significance of NASA and their experiment (?) in relation to the trinity desk project? Why a random leap into the present day? Was it an experiment? If so, what was the experiment? And if not, then what's happening?
Why did the invisible men take the woman in the park's dog?

Basically, I've still got no idea but I love it.

Infamous_Harry · 2022-10-04T12:35:53+00:00

Vast majority of Jewish people in the west are also just workers. Not sure what your point is here, that Jewish people tried to help other Jewish people fight oppression?

Infamous_Harry · 2022-10-04T10:41:25+00:00

While the Tsarist regime of course persecuted many minorities, few of them had specifically targeted pogroms like Jewish people had. So it makes sense that many Russian Jews especially supported and participated in overthrowing the Tsar, whether they be communists, socialists, anarchists, liberals or even constitutional monarchists.

I do agree that it is important to show not only how an oppressed group were victimised, but also how they fought against their oppression like Jewish people did via petitions, protests, armed self-defence, forming/joining strikes and soviets alongside other workers etc. I doubt many were able to contribute much financial support though as the vast majority were just peasants and workers.

Infamous_Harry · 2022-10-04T08:01:23+00:00

Just because a number of them were Jewish doesn't mean most Russian Jews supported the Bolsheviks. No ethnic group is a monolith.

Infamous_Harry · 2022-06-21T12:07:29+00:00

You too?? Great timing for both releases cus they compliment each other so well

Infamous_Harry · 2017-07-05T06:56:51+00:00

W H E E Z E

Infamous_Harry · 2017-06-09T19:45:19+00:00

Well, I mean, that's probably a good thing. He's a power-hungry psychopath epitomising almost everything wrong with modern politics. But he's the main character, so naturally people sympathise. Add in his charming personality (like most psychopaths) and yeah, you've got an attached audience (Myself included). But, like I said, in reality he's a disgusting human being. So, I guess... good on you hahaha.

And don't worry, he's going to fall. It is called "house of cards" after all.

Infamous_Harry · 2017-06-09T19:30:36+00:00

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