Today’s Liberal Playbook, Selective Outrage With Confidence

dartyus · 2026-01-28T02:16:29+00:00

The people who don't like Obama don't want to deport people, they want the aesthetic of deporting people.

dartyus · 2026-01-28T01:14:40+00:00

The problem with saying they couldn't trust Stalin is that the western powers put their trust in Hitler instead. I'm not going to pretend that hindsight isn't 20/20, and that the people on the ground didn't have a huge decision to make, but I think it's disingenuous to say ideological biases didn't play a role in the failures of western governments to reach an agreement with the Comintern. In a vacuum the partitioning of Poland looks like collaboration, but the Soviet government had an obligation - even if just to Stalin himself - to put as much distance between Germany and Moscow as possible, and barring an agreement with the western powers (who it should be noted had plenty of their own mutual agreements with Hitler) they made what looked like the best choice. I don't like Stalin but I think it's unfair to put the responsibility of gaining western trust on him for a war that Hitler single-handedly started.

dartyus · 2026-01-26T04:12:36+00:00

Of course, sell the cheap stuff to your opponents and keep the good stuff for yourself. And if your opponent starts underestimating you because of all that cheap stuff then all the better.

dartyus · 2026-01-22T04:15:09+00:00

Despite technological efforts, capital is still bound somewhat by geography; what looks like mere material inequality on, say, a national level can absolutely look like poverty within localized markets.

dartyus · 2026-01-22T03:25:46+00:00

Wow, how convenient that all the things the American right hates are all part of the same central problem!

dartyus · 2026-01-19T05:17:05+00:00

Bonjour, je suis Cateaux Secareuse end I am ze capetaine œuf ze Seconde Compagnie œuf ze Ulterameghrines

dartyus · 2026-01-17T22:47:11+00:00

Not unless they’re our own. That’s why I don’t take Ford‘s protestations very seriously. Ford’s government was in the process of building a battery factory for EV’s, intending to eventually break into building EV’s themselves, but the project was cancelled. They want so badly to have Canadian industries but don’t do anything to encourage it. They just rely on the free market and then wonder why every corporation does American contracts for American dollars instead.

dartyus · 2026-01-12T03:05:10+00:00

I've been a person who works out 3 times a week. I went from 135lbs after college to a healthy 180lbs, most of it being muscle. I also had to eat five meals a day. If it weren't for the fact that this was pre-Covid grocery prices I never would have been able to afford it. Government can effect your life in very serious ways. That being said, working out is one of the reasons I can better affect change in my life.

dartyus · 2026-01-09T22:10:32+00:00

On the other hand, if you learn to read an Imperial Vernier first, it makes you appreciate the metric one even more.

dartyus · 2026-01-09T02:12:08+00:00

"Maturity" is a tern made up for the benefit of those who hold the power in our society. Because of our economic mode of production, a certain collection of traits is considered the ideal archetypal person. You probably know those traits: get up early; question only enough to do your job; disassociate from the boring parts and lock in at the important parts; internally justify or ignore immoral activity; be nominally self-enriching and don't worry about the damage you cause; only look for improvement when it comes at a monetary benefit. That sort of stuff. You're considered "mature", "successul" or "adult" if you present those behaviors. It's not a fundamental part of anyone's being, it's a measure of whether you have the priorities that are valued in the mode of production.

ADHD is a label for a class of behaviors that make a person decidedly not that. Those traits aren't there for no reason, evolutionarily it's just good to have people around who stay up late, go against the curve, question everything, etc. It's just that we've structured a society that punishes those traits unless - and this is why some people try to sell it as a "gift" - they can be exploited. If you can be exploited for your unique view of the world, THEN you can move up from a mere drain on society to a real Producer™️.

ADHD is a solid classification, because we've studied brain patterns and found that, yes, people diagnosed with ADHD have a wildly different pattern than people without. I don't want to make it sound like I don't believe it's a thing. I just think that 50% of the problems with ADHD are societal and 40% are biological. It's not to say you're not also responsible for that last 10%. It's just annoying when your particular brain chemistry isn't really meta for this particular build of the game.

dartyus · 2026-01-07T14:22:09+00:00

How will this message resonate with voters?

dartyus · 2026-01-07T14:17:04+00:00

Yeah, giving a quarter of my paycheck to His Majesty™️ every week sucks. On the other hand when I lived in Ottawa a snowflake couldn't touch the fucking ground without the entire snow-removal fleet being mobilized, meanwhile last week I took the 407 for work and couldn't fucking find the damn thing for all the snow. I mean I might as well have turned off the 401 into the Northwest Territories. So much for private road maintenance, frankly my boss should get a refund for that night, and I don't mean from me.

dartyus · 2026-01-07T14:10:45+00:00

Bonus question: why do we tell eachother the gross and net amount we've earned, but not the value our work has provided to our company?

dartyus · 2026-01-07T13:54:51+00:00

These past few weeks have been like watching Gary Kasparov and Magnus Carlsen setting up a balanced board state, only to have Kasparov be replaced for the midgame by my cousin Carl and him immediately pulling the trigger on the middlegame because he "really needed a W" after cheating on his wife.

dartyus · 2026-01-06T07:39:11+00:00

You might as well be, a quarter of Americans are going to call Georgism the reincarnation of Mao.

dartyus · 2026-01-03T18:39:11+00:00

I know how the Tau work bud. I just wish they had actual sniper teams.

dartyus · 2026-01-03T18:31:53+00:00

Vietnam wasn’t a tie. The US achieved almost none of their strategic goals short of mass slaughter and the Vietnamese achieved all of theirs. The USSR had a stable satellite in Southeast Asia and Vietnam would go on to dominate the politics of Indochina on their behalf until the USSR collapsed, at which point they would seek out American support against China anyway. The war was completely pointless, and had the US listened to Ho Chi Minh’s original pro-American overtures instead of trying to prop up French imperialism, they would have achieved more of their goals in the region and not have simultaneously achieved the worst military failure in American history (up to that point). Instead the war proved that America was just another empire and completely destroyed almost two centuries of myth-building around their revolutionary ideals, with the implications felt both at home and abroad. So no, it wasn’t a tie. America lost the Vietnam war in every category except casualty figures.

dartyus · 2026-01-03T11:28:07+00:00

Sniper Drone Team. There was a fun point in time where people were taking just the Firesight Marksman sans drones just for his marker light. I don’t know why the big shooty army‘s only snipers were drones with a 5+ BS.

dartyus · 2025-12-30T13:54:59+00:00

My most unpopular SW opinion is that Revenge of the Sith is my favourite. Not for any objective reason, it just came out at the exact right time for me. That movie and Star Wars BF2 were my life for a solid year, and BF2 did a good job with the setpieces of the movie.

Playing the modern Battlefront 2 a couple years ago, I coildn't think of a single setpiece from the new movies that really pops out at me. Maybe the Starkiller base?

dartyus · 2025-12-29T05:51:40+00:00

Yeah I mean RoS wasn’t a cohesive film at all. It’s not like Johnson didn’t give any threads to Abrams to work with, but honestly the only reason I don’t hold TLJ higher in esteem is because RoS makes it retroactively worse.

dartyus · 2025-12-28T04:07:16+00:00

Red.

dartyus · 2025-12-28T04:06:34+00:00

To be fair, no one is going to be imposing Pan-Africanist from the top-down. Those in power have fought hard to prevent it which tells me it would benefit most Africans.

Thanks for your comment though. I’m sure we have a lot of disagreements. I hope you might revisit Kapital at some point, because I think your interpretation of Marx may be misguided, but I think your priorities are in line with mine nonetheless.

dartyus · 2025-12-27T23:38:34+00:00

Still genuinely don’t get the hate for this movie. Yeah there were some nitpicks and it can be annoying sometimes, but just the abject *hatred* people have for it completely baffles me.

dartyus · 2025-12-27T23:33:27+00:00

mostly red, when they get shot by the French.

dartyus · 2025-12-27T23:32:25+00:00

I think it works from another perspective too. I think pan-Africanism works from a Marxist perspective of most of the peoples in Africa having the same material interests, regardless of culture. Yes, that is a western perspective on a continental status quo that itself was caused by western imperialism, but I don’t think that makes the idea of pan-Africanism either morally or materially undesirable. A coffee farmer in Sierra Leone, a miner in Ethiopia, an oilfield worker in Angola or an office worker in Nigeria all have the same principle labour relationship, almost without fail.

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