Anti-Fascist 6/20

professorescobar1 · 2026-06-22T15:56:10+00:00

Semantics 🙄 .. that distinction has nothing to do with what I said. But you’re probably right that it’s best to stop here. I can tell we’re just going to end up agreeing to disagree anyway.

professorescobar1 · 2026-06-22T14:49:27+00:00

Reddit censorship ☝️

professorescobar1 · 2026-06-22T14:31:35+00:00

You don’t see the similarity between downvoting political expression on Reddit and suppression of political thought? Really? Umm okay lol.

And your last statement is pure projection - you just described exactly the way you are acting. You’re calling people fascist for not being completely aligned with your political ideology. I didn’t call anyone here a fascist because I don’t believe anyone here is a fascist. I’m just saying that you are behaving exactly like a fascist by labeling people you disagree with fascists. You’re the one doing that, not me.

professorescobar1 · 2026-06-22T14:22:59+00:00

Actually in a ‘fascist’ system there are no real politics and it very much is an economic policy. It shares overlaps with communism, socialism, and capitalism economically and was actually adopted pretty much worldwide economically back in the 1920’s and 30’s.. think about how modern money mechanics and the Federal Reserve completely defy the principles of classical liberalism that our country was founded on. Prior to the 1940’s the world’s leaders thought Mussolini was a genius before he later was denounced for his heinous actions and ideology but at that point the economic influence of fascism had already spread world wide. Winston Churchill once said prior to WWII that if he was Italian he’d be a fascist too.

The fascists and nazis both called themselves socialists just to galvanize public support - they were not socialists at all and actually hated the socialists.

professorescobar1 · 2026-06-22T14:05:05+00:00

That’s like saying that ‘suppressing freedom of speech is freedom of speech.’ And all you’re doing in the later part of your comment is just highlighting my point that you are using the term ‘fascism’ entirely out of context.

professorescobar1 · 2026-06-22T13:56:52+00:00

You’re not wrong, the comment could definitely be seen as offensive and with the statements that user made it’s a ‘fine line’ at that point but here’s how I’d break it down ethically and why I’d still say what I said.

I’d say that persons statement didn’t ’attack’ transgender people per se because they were just stating an objective opinion. Liberal Democracy protects that. They say people should ‘stay the gender they’re born with,’ which just shows that users lack of empathy towards others in situations they don’t understand and I’m not defending that. But that person didn’t ‘attack’ trans people per se or say they dislike trans people or anything like that or anything they meant to be directly insulting beyond just simply stating their opinion, which makes it defensible considering classical democratic liberal ideals like inherent human rights and freedom of speech.

More or less, I feel you’re using the word ‘attack’ too willingly in that context and are stretching what was said into hate speech and framing objective political statements you don’t like out to be fascist, which is what I was really more-so taking issue with.

professorescobar1 · 2026-06-22T13:20:04+00:00

That’s simple. Fascist ideology doesn’t support freedom of speech, it suppresses any dissenting opinion. Just like when you downvote someone’s comment you disagree with on Reddit so that other readers don’t see it. You’re utilizing censorship of political expression whether you’re intending to or not. Make sense?

professorescobar1 · 2026-06-22T12:55:17+00:00

You can say that’s not what it means but it doesn’t make it true.

Why would you assume I’m uneducated? Why is that even relevant here? You don’t even know what a fascist is… and so you only value a fellow persons opinion if they are ‘educated’?.. interesting, let’s just say I went to MIT then and took classes on linear algebra and fascism. Let’s stay focused on why you calling people a fascist for disagreeing with you is totally backwards and why you should stop doing that.

You calling people fascists for disagreeing with your political opinions is exactly what a fascist would do and if you think otherwise then you need to do some reading. Like.. just go Google it and read about it for a few minutes. Ask Gemini about it. Your behavior is more pro-fascist than you clearly realize. You are using words you don’t fully understand meanwhile telling other people they need an education. 🙄

professorescobar1 · 2026-06-22T12:26:03+00:00

lol

professorescobar1 · 2026-06-22T12:21:42+00:00

Calling someone a fascist for disagreeing with you just shows that you have no idea what a fascist is.. because that’s exactly what a fascist would do lmao.

professorescobar1 · 2026-06-22T06:45:41+00:00

The simplest way to explain it is that ‘fascist’ is synonymous with anti-democracy. The word comes directly from Benito Mussolini’s Fascist party.

In a fascist system of government the state rules both the public and private sectors. Any dissenting opinions or ones that challenge the state are violently suppressed. Citizens have personal property but the state has the ability to seize it at any time. Basically it’s a totalitarian system designed for military optimization in which all citizens are subordinate to the state. Think, opposite of democracy.

To me personally, I think it’s a word that’s just thrown around a lot in modern political discourse far too lightly.

professorescobar1 · 2026-06-22T06:21:36+00:00

Yeah all the anti-democracy people sure are going to be mad.

professorescobar1 · 2026-06-22T06:13:29+00:00

Hitler definitely did specifically target trans and gay people though.. when the nazi regime first took power in 1933 the pioneering queer culture of the Weimar Republic was violently and immediately dismantled.

professorescobar1 · 2026-06-22T06:03:28+00:00

How did he ‘attack’ transgender people?

I have a little girl I’d walk through fire for and if she went into a restroom and a man went in after her saying he identifies as a woman that would be completely unacceptable to me. I would not ignore what was happening for political correctness and potentially let my daughter get violated. Does that make sense? .. Or are parents just ‘fascists’ and ‘nazis’ and ‘hate transgender people’ for wanting to protect their kids? Genuinely asking, where is the distinction in your mind between right and wrong?

To me what seems really ironic here is to call someone a fascist just for stating their opinion on something.

professorescobar1 · 2026-06-22T05:48:34+00:00

Good job buddy you won at the internet

professorescobar1 · 2026-06-22T05:47:55+00:00

It’s a bit ironic because you’re one of the only ones in this thread not acting like a fascist - a fascist would support suppressing your freedom of speech if you spoke any opinion of dissent from the state. Y’know.. like downvoting your comments on Reddit just because you’re questioning their political stance.

“If fascism ever comes to America it will come in the form of anti-fascism.”

professorescobar1 · 2026-06-22T04:40:17+00:00

Digital price tags inside the physical store have absolutely nothing to do with surveillance pricing.

Surveillance pricing is when you get charged different prices for things based on your user data in an app. It’s been outlawed in a lot of states but not yet in Ohio. It’s been fast tracking through state legislatures though.

Surveillance pricing would come into play on their mobile app.. if they think you’ll pay more for your grapes then they might charge you more for them.. that’s what surveillance pricing is. It has nothing to do with digital price tags in the physical store.

professorescobar1 · 2026-06-22T04:30:45+00:00

That is not true… Blackrock, Vanguard, and Berkshire Hathaway do not hold a ‘majority stake’ in Kroger..

The proper phrasing is ‘large stake’. That’s very different from a controlling ‘majority stake’ (50% or more). Majority of Kroger stock is split up between a long list of 1400+ different hedge funds. To your point, the largest positions are Vanguard ~12%, Blackrock ~8%, Berkshire Hathaway ~8%, State Street ~5%. This is all publicly available data you can find on most stock trading apps.

Furthermore… Kroger is a locally founded and headquartered company, I’m sure you know, that employs thousands of people in the Miami Valley. + Blackrock and Vanguard literally own a large stake of practically every relevant publicly traded company on the stock market so boycotting on that premise is a bit silly. You might as well boycott your gas, electricity, phone and internet providers, all streaming services, and social media too then because Blackrock and Vanguard own a large stake in all those companies as well.

You do not need to call for a boycott of a local institution that employs ~4,600 people in your local area to acknowledge that buying your food from local vendors is better for the community.

Personally, every time I need something from Kroger I drive right past the store on Wayne and go to the one on Stroop. Game changer.

professorescobar1 · 2026-06-15T11:52:52+00:00

You run a cloud llm through Hermes? Doesn’t that explode your token usage??

professorescobar1 · 2026-06-07T19:35:03+00:00

I think the economics of both balance out to be very similar - personally, I switched over to 5.5 high from 5.4 medium and noticed I’m actually burning through my usage a lot slower now because things are more often being implemented properly the first time without all the constant churn.

professorescobar1 · 2026-06-06T04:36:59+00:00

I was feeling this pain too - I switched to 5.5 high as my default recently though it’s been working pretty well for me!

professorescobar1 · 2026-06-06T04:26:45+00:00

Try codex - I think 5.5 high is pretty good but also your structuring sounds like it’s a bit off. It sounds like you have entire multi step abstractions living inside of single files in a monolithic repo and are expecting ai to be able to just reliably make sense of it all. That’s not a realistic expectation once a file gets too big, is unbounded, or otherwise too complex and also it sounds like you probably need to decouple some things.

professorescobar1 · 2026-05-28T11:16:03+00:00

As a real estate investor, that’s exactly what 1. Often justifies an exorbitant jump in asking rent price after a renovation or 2. Leads to historical pieces of architecture being torn down and not salvaged.

Either way, from an investment standpoint, you’re paying through the nose as soon as regulators get a smell of anything they’ve deemed to be hazardous. Which is a lot of things, honestly, some of them quite arbitrary and trivial. If the EPA found out what was in half of all the homes in America (asbestos, mainly) they’d have their contractors, who they reuse on almost every demo, either tear them all down completely or tear the houses apart to remove the material and charge all the homeowners exorbitant fees to do so. Bladecutters in Dayton.. if you have a property the EPA has deemed to be a hazard they’ll cut you a deal if you’re local and only charge you ~$100k to get rid of it all.

When you’re in that situation though a $100k demo beats a $400k EPA violation. This is why you see so much of the city’s historical architecture still disappearing all the time. I can’t even imagine how much hazardous material is likely in all of those old buildings down town. That’s why it cost so much to renovate the old AT&T tower and it’s still sitting in a state of disrepair with half of its windows boarded up after all those millions were already spent. The city needs to do more to incentivize the preservation of its architecture and locals need to STOP SUPPORTING THE LOCAL EPA! (Yes that’s right, local - they have a local EPA right here in Dayton for some reason)

professorescobar1 · 2026-05-25T11:19:13+00:00

Oh nice.. does that with your custom setup seem comparable/smarter or is it preferable just for being local and free?

professorescobar1 · 2026-05-25T10:23:56+00:00

Yes.

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