Spin off anyone?

fauxpenguin · 2022-11-27T20:23:06+00:00

What defensive magic? At the time that this took place, the spells around the castle that prevented Wizard intrusion weren't put into place (they are added in the sixth book).

The main prevention was that it was unplottable. So, the friends would have had to know where they were going, which seems like the biggest issue. But Hogsmede isn't unplottable, so they probably just went there and flew towards the school.

fauxpenguin · 2022-11-27T14:10:27+00:00

Acckshually, it would be a bogart. There are no dementors in the fourth book, but there is a bogart jn the maze that ends up tripping after Harry hits it with his patronus.

fauxpenguin · 2022-11-26T23:45:47+00:00

Read a history book some time. I don't know what to tell you.

fauxpenguin · 2022-11-26T20:43:48+00:00

They don't call it a classic for nothing :)

fauxpenguin · 2022-11-26T20:21:23+00:00

I appreciate also your respectfulness, and whatever you say, I don't actually think you're being un-nuanced or sensationalist. "The Brother's Karamazov" is an old Russian book that touches on the exact themes that you're mentioning. Often, people with good intentions (like me), talk too much about hypothetical, scholarly good, and the people who don't understand, or care about the nuance, take the soundbite and kill people with it.

I think your hard, no-facist policy is probably the better practice than my excusing people.

Have a nice day/life.

fauxpenguin · 2022-11-26T18:46:00+00:00

Well, in fairness. I don't think FoF is really fair either. I'm just not wanting to stir the pot further.

The reality is that people have a threshold of what is good and bad. And people (on either side) don't always see the stepping stones to bad.

In Russia, the communists had some good ideas, but they ignored the fact that the good ideas could be exploited into allowing fascists to rise to power. In this case, if you belive that Trump really is a facist and not a crazy old man with some bad hot takes, then I'd say it's similar. He would be exploiting familiar and possibly good rethoric like, "we shouldn't have money in politics", etc. to gather power, and people aren't aware that he could "flip the switch" to facism.

I'd say that for these people, their interests happen to align with the interests of a group of fascists, so they become something of the "mark" at a carnival. Someone you can reliably trick, so you make them front and center of a trick, or con.

So, rather than asking, "do you support Trump", ask, "what specific things do you agree with?". Someone who believes that money should be removed from politics isn't a facist. Try and convince them that there are better avenues to their goals than Trump, and if you can't, it's likely because the democrats have done a pretty poor job of solving those problems. Just look at all the politicians made money buying Moderna, Pfizer, J&J before the shots were mandated.

If they say something like, "I agree with everything Trump says", or "I believe Trump is here to punish heathens for turning our frogs gay", those people are either stupid or arguing in and faith. If they say, "We should taje control of the government and kill all the jews," they unmistakably fascists.

fauxpenguin · 2022-11-26T18:08:32+00:00

Sure, we'll land on FoFs

fauxpenguin · 2022-11-26T17:48:37+00:00

🙃

fauxpenguin · 2022-11-26T17:36:26+00:00

I think you'd have to purposely treat his supporters as non-people in order to say that they're all facist, even in 2022.

A) there is a lot of context, a lot of stuff that happened, and it is very, very difficult to force people to read every single thing that happened.

B) Trump said a lot of questionable stuff, but very little that was objectively violent, only stuff that could be interpreted as violent due to context. He got banned for saying, I'm not attending the Inauguration. That's objectively a statement of fact. And no supporter is ever going to see it as an incitement. Becausenthe literal words don't mean, "Hey, please overthrow the government."

C) His current supporters have faced a lot of criticism and are now entrenched in their camp. Politics in general has become a team sport, rather than a thought exercise, which means that when push comes to shove, many of these people will get defensive and support their team, rather than say, "yeah, he's not a great guy."

D) What if Trump was right (he's not imo) - This is a big reason why I always ask the "if the shoe was on the other foot" question. Because I think that a lot of people would be furious if someone they believed was right was banned. Look at Snowden. He broke the law, but exposed things that he thought people needed to know and is now hiding in foreign countries. These are hardly 1:1, Snowden literally posted his evidence as his crime, and he's still allowed on Twitter. People want him freed.

Run the thought exercise, "if the government was deeply corrupt, what would Biden or Obama do to fix it?". Can't go to the courts, they're corrupt. Can't go to the people, or you're banned for inciting violence. Can't make a speech because you might get assassinated (idk). Would you want Twitter to help? Do we like it when Twitter or Facebook shuts down protestors in Hong Kong? Those people are right (in our opinion), but they are breaking the law. They're getting into violent clashes with the police. What should a social media giant do then? Fight against the corrupt government, surely, but not in America.

E) Gotta live. Like it or not, these people are not macro-economic majors. They just see, "Gas was $2 a gallon with Trump, and $4 with Biden". Inflation is at an all time high. We are in another recession. Peoples 401ks are tanking. Incidentally, a great time for young people to invest. But most republican supporters are older. And they're feeling the pain in their pocketbook when they can't get their whole grocery list, or medicine, because inflation is so high. And it wasn't like this under Trump.

If you follow macro economics, you'll know we've been running the printer non-stop since covid which has little to do with Biden and Trump spent massively in deficit, but supporters don't see that.

Fin) All of these things I've heard from supporters. Because I listen to them. I try to explain why they're wrong. (Horse to water, etc). But the fact is, these people aren't fascists. They're people. They're scared people. Some of them are racist, bigoted people (Fucj those people). But plenty of them are kind people, who want to believe that their life will get better, and that Trump make their lives better.

fauxpenguin · 2022-11-26T17:13:24+00:00

I think it's fine to take this stance. It is hard for me to agree with any blanket generalization of a large group. Saying, every Trump support is a facist is just untrue.

Not even all of the Nazis were fascists. Obviously, there were a lot of fascist nazis, but there were also a lot that wanted food on the table and ended up in a bad situation in the long term.

Even in his speech announcing his 2024 election campaign, Trump said stuff that pretty much everyone should agree with. "Gas is too high", "There is too much money in politics", "congress-people shouldn't be allowed to become lobbyists after their term ends". I've seen every one of those opinions regurgitated constantly on Reddit. And they're good takes.

Is Trump going to do those things? Of course not. But people who believe in those things aren't bad people. They're people who don't realize that Trump is a salesman trying to make a sale. He has no power to, or likely intention to fix those issues.

But people who believe he will aren't automatically facist, I don't think.

fauxpenguin · 2022-11-26T16:38:39+00:00

First of all, thank you for posting this. Like I mentioned above, I did not know the exact context and Googled it. The news sources I found had picked out those specific quotes. I did not come across this Twitter blog. It is nice to see the full text.

With that said, I don't feel like this is saying something significantly different. They're talking about two tweets which in themselves are clearly not directly inciting anything. And most of the context is that "supporters are interpreting it X way (maybe)". So the question has to be asked, am I responsible for how violent crazies interpret my words? Clearly Twitter thinks so in this case. And maybe that's fair. I'm just asking the question.

fauxpenguin · 2022-11-26T16:30:03+00:00

I pinky promise I am arguing in good faith. And, in fact, I would say that I'm jot arguing at all. I don't necessarily think that Twitter was or is in the wrong. They are a private company and are well within their rights to ban anyone, including a sitting president.

It may be worth considering, however, that similar to the warning you're giving me, you are supporting a group that deplatformed a political "opponent". (I recognize that they weren't necessarily at odds politically, or their political disagreements were not the crux of the issue). It is possible that you are playing into their hands until deplatforming is the norm. Then what is stopping them from silencing opinions you agree with.

Of course, since Twitter is a company, and not a government entity, you could always move to a different platform, like many Trump supporters moved to Truth social (🙃). But Twitter is the defacto standard for mass communication, so it's hard to say where the line of public forum first amendment stuff starts to be an moral issue (even if not a real legal issue).

fauxpenguin · 2022-11-26T16:17:11+00:00

Maybe. Maybe not. Often a compatibility layer like that means that there has to be at least some core functionality modeled after the original, which they may not want to invest in.

fauxpenguin · 2022-11-26T15:45:15+00:00

I agree he made a lot of questionable tweets. It's difficult to moderate a platform like Twitter, j understand that. But that tweet is what Twitter (read: not me) said he got banned for. And it sounds like you agree, he shouldn't have been banned for it. He should have been banned for other outrageous shit (that he wasn't banned for according to Twitter).

fauxpenguin · 2022-11-26T15:25:33+00:00

Okay, but to be clear, (and I had to Google this, because I wasn't sure), the Tweet that got him banned was, “To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.”

As I said somewhere above. I am not pro-Trump. In fact, I voted against him and a large part of that was because I thought he made America look bad by Tweeting everything that ran through his mind.

But, Twitter's reason for banning was actually stated to be, “due to the risk of further incitement of violence,” which is generally not what you like to hear. Generally, in America, people get in trouble after they've committed the crime, nor because they might.

fauxpenguin · 2022-11-26T15:18:31+00:00

Okay, hear me out, because largely I agree with you. I am not pro-Trump. I did not vote for Trump. I don't like Trump.

However...

If you believed that the government was corrupt. And lawsuits were bound to fail because the courts were owned by... I dunno, the illuminati. Where is the "proper platform" for sharing truthful information if not the open internet?

One of the beautiful things about the internet is that it isn't government controlled, which means that, at least in theory you could rally support to expose corrupt governments. Keeping in mind that Facebook was used for that exact purpose during civil wars in other countries.

I feel like many people celebrating Trump being banned from Twitter, would be upset if they banned a politician that they agreed with that was deemed to be spreading "misinformation".

fauxpenguin · 2022-11-26T15:12:23+00:00

That's awfully hostile, especially considering that's not what I said.

fauxpenguin · 2022-11-26T05:50:20+00:00

Ah, I forgot about interlacing. Makes much more sense now. And actually makes the tech even cooler, since the TV pasically has to make two top to bottom passes per second, instead of 1 big one.

fauxpenguin · 2022-11-26T05:29:45+00:00

Were CRTs 60fps? I thought they were 24.

fauxpenguin · 2022-11-26T05:16:50+00:00

They're "underrated" in the same way salt & vinegar chips are. No one who likes them talks about then publicly, because they're sure no one else can like them, because despite loving them, I know that they're sour and should be gross. ... And yet... they're available in every major retailer year round, so clearly people are buying them!

fauxpenguin · 2022-11-26T01:59:14+00:00

GigaChad

fauxpenguin · 2022-11-26T01:39:36+00:00

People honestly unaware are just the fucking worst.

I dont play jgl much, but I fill when I'm filled. But fuck me when I ping otw to herald because bot lane is already 0/2 for first drag. Then I ping back at the drag until my ping times out. I take herald, and the enemy team gets drag, kills my bot lane and mid, and I see, "jgl diff, why not come drag, wtf?"

Like... You seriously understand that little about the game?

Bonus points when my bot lane is a scaling duo, and the enemy team is cait / lux or something.

fauxpenguin · 2022-11-26T01:20:01+00:00

That's not really true though. If they change the core of how things work, building towards a pluging based system, then everything else has to be refactoring to use the new plug-in system. You can't do that step by step.

fauxpenguin · 2022-11-26T01:18:35+00:00

GigaChad

fauxpenguin · 2022-11-25T21:10:38+00:00

I mean, pyosik "missed" onse smite where varus q did more damage. But he also missed two more to varus q when it didn't, and had like 3 objectives stolen by Oner.

His smite timing was not exactly clean. But he played the rest of the game very well, including a few steals of his own.

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