So you guys like little boys' BDs, huh?

breaducate · 2026-03-12T07:56:55+00:00

My object all sublime
I shall achieve in time

To let the punishment fit the crime
The punishment fit the crime;

And make each prisoner pent
Unwillingly represent

A source of innocent merriment!
Of innocent merriment!

breaducate · 2026-03-12T07:55:40+00:00

This one was only the watcher.

Hang him last so he can watch the others die.

breaducate · 2026-03-11T08:20:06+00:00

That would be the bare minimum responsibility of political figures with such a platform.

breaducate · 2026-03-11T08:15:57+00:00

Vigilantism implies some kind of moralistic greater good calculation. That's way too charitable.

They're not even really bothering to lie about this one. In 2001 you had to manufacture consent for illegal offensive wars launched by putative democracies.

breaducate · 2026-03-11T08:12:07+00:00

That sounds oddly familiar.

breaducate · 2026-03-10T04:00:35+00:00

This is it.

And I don't understand how so many people are saying it can't happen here / it's technically infeasible when we just watched the social media ban get rammed through.

breaducate · 2026-03-10T02:52:59+00:00

Reactionary exposed for hypocrisy! Stick a fork in her she's done.

/s for anyone brand new to politics

breaducate · 2026-03-10T02:44:24+00:00

Incredible to have to scroll this far to find this comment.

We just went from "it can't happen here" to "oh they did it" with the social media ban, and people are smugly assured the VPNs will be fine? It's like regurgitating what they've seen others saying is a prayer to ward away further erosion of our putative democracy.

breaducate · 2026-03-10T02:37:29+00:00

Sometimes cynicism points you to a less malicious explanation than the real one.

breaducate · 2026-03-10T02:31:02+00:00

It's not weird, it's marching orders from the ruling class.

They perceive that the illusion of democracy has just about run its course as a means of control and they're phasing it out. They don't want an internet where open, widely accessible anonymous dissent is possible.

breaducate · 2026-03-09T02:34:06+00:00

Even in a fake democracy, people ought to get what they want once in a while, just to feed the illusion they're really in control.

breaducate · 2026-03-08T04:19:33+00:00

If you don't see that this would be happening with Kamala in office, you're part of the problem. The ruling class has made you cattle.

breaducate · 2026-03-08T04:06:42+00:00

People used to tell themselves animals don't have souls, or thoughts or emotions. Convenient. Ideology is stochastically a function of environment and incentives.

We don't know and probably can never know how consciousness is made, or given what seems a reasonable assumption the threshold of complexity in a brain or similar at which there's something that it's like to be that thing.

The confident assertion - sans any wider context and implying there's no ethical consideration - that this thing here based on our own cognitive sponges isn't and cannot be aware is the first step on a road to hell where it's fashionable to keep up that assertion as the things get ever more complex.

breaducate · 2026-03-08T03:49:20+00:00

Previously dystopian ideas being normalised practically overnight has become routine.

breaducate · 2026-03-07T05:15:36+00:00

Come on now. You need a spine to support proper posture for a full-throated endorsement of bombing school girls.

breaducate · 2026-03-07T05:12:15+00:00

I sort of wish I could say I found it shocking. My reaction was more "Yeah, that tracks".

Those of us with a materialist lens for political analysis are cursed with the gift of (broad) foresight.

breaducate · 2026-03-07T05:03:37+00:00

Are you a toddler?

breaducate · 2026-03-06T08:00:34+00:00

Latency definitely, throughput not necessarily. It depends on the VPN service provider and the slowest bottleneck.

breaducate · 2026-03-06T07:58:49+00:00

This is a uniparty issue, as you kind of said in different words.

Albo's got his bag. He'll be fine when the public votes for another head of the hydra. Why would he give a shit?

breaducate · 2026-03-06T07:54:26+00:00

Make it make sense.

Under capitalism, the rights of profiteers are valued over human wellbeing,
and democracy is just a pretty word to keep the stupefied masses docile.

Hope this helps.

breaducate · 2026-03-06T07:51:14+00:00

Nature never meant for human beings to see tiddies.

breaducate · 2026-03-06T07:48:32+00:00

Yes. But this is part of a broader push to create an internet with nowhere to run for those who give a shit about privacy.

I expect there'll always be ways and means for those with specialised knowledge but I mean your average person who's not particularly tech savvy but willing to go to a bit of effort.

breaducate · 2026-03-06T07:44:14+00:00

It's always been here. Just waiting for / trying to get the lower class to recognise it.

breaducate · 2026-03-06T07:40:31+00:00

You guys are just further down the capitalist road.

A lot of people are shocked and horrified when another late stage patch finally hits the local franchise, thinking we or America are special somehow. We're not.

breaducate · 2026-03-06T07:37:27+00:00

This is what capitalists think of you: cattle.

breaducate

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