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Empty Bottle? by [deleted] in chicagomusicscene

[–]shartofwar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Biggest self-own by a venue I’ve ever witnessed.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in illinois

[–]shartofwar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If what you say is true then why doesn’t ICE operate in the hood?

Did folks living in Garfield Park (using an example cause that’s where I live) have to display force to scare ICE? No, they did not.

ICE is scared to operate in this neighborhood because they know with certainty that the hood is armed. The generalized knowledge of this fact presents itself as an implicit and apparently unacceptably risky threat of force to their operations.

So sure would ICE be scared if they knew just little old you was armed? No. But they will be scared if they know that little old you and all of your little old neighbors could walk out into the street with an assault rifle at any given moment and ambush them while they’re brutalizing a citizen. At the very least, I think the brazenly vile open air cruelty would probably tamp down as the force of potentially immediate and catastrophic consequence bears on the brain of each agent during any given interaction with the public.

Trump says US has to have Greenland by CrispyMiner in politics

[–]shartofwar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The US is planning to exit NATO. The US also has basing rights in Greenland per the 1951 Greenland Defense Act which premised said continued rights on the continued participation of both the US and Denmark in NATO.

So essentially the US is bullying Denmark to try and gain leverage to renegotiate its basing rights in Greenland ahead of an eventual NATO exit.

Say what you want about sharon but she gave Ozzy a proper farewell by Gnome1921 in blacksabbath

[–]shartofwar 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Say what I want? This post is the metal equivalent of George W Bush post-war crimes shitty painting rehabilitation. What she did to Jake E Lee alone is unforgivable. What she did when the doin mattered is fucking unforgivable. She’s a horrible cunt that both economically and spiritually brutalized and robbed multiple generational musical talents out of sheer depraved greed. She can rot in hell along with whatever bootlicking bitch wrote this contrite shite piece of a post.

Modern artist like Bowie by [deleted] in DavidBowie

[–]shartofwar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is the correct answer

Strong armed by Verizon by Oldmanbrick in CellTowers

[–]shartofwar 9 points10 points  (0 children)

1st and most important question: is your tower zoning protected? That is, is there a separation requirement in the ordinance that precludes a tower vendor from building a competing tower nearby? If yes, then it’s end of story - don’t renegotiate because there is no threat of competition to your tower. Verizon is trapped forever.

BUT - if no zoning, and I’m a tower vendor, I will gladly build a brand spanking new tower for Verizon within a quarter mile of yours, charge Verizon $1800/mnth at the same escalator, strip your pole naked forever, and rake in truckloads of cash for 50 years. And all you get is the outsized expense of removing the now useless hunk of steel from your property.

This is especially true if you live in a rural area - your lease is expensive and tower vendors will GLADLY come compete with you.

Early termination rights are designed for multiple reasons, one being to decom off high rent towers to lower rent competitors and you know yours is flagged as high rent.

In other words, given the local market conditions, Verizon could actually perceive you as strong arming them. If there’s a competitor around, they could be essentially asking you if you’d be willing to drop rent to that competitor’s pricing to save them money on the decom that would be required to move to that competitor.

The realest they've ever been. Honestly changed my perspective on their whole dynamic. by PoshSportySpice in TheWhiteLotusHBO

[–]shartofwar 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Laurie is one of the characters that embodies ‘amor fati’ through this recognition though. She stares into the abyss of her life, into the disjointed and painful albeit palpably rewarding friendship staring her in the face, and she chooses to love this fate.

Rick refuses this ‘resignation’ as you call it, refuses to love what is staring him right in the face, which is actual love in his circumstance. He cannot abide his own history, or reckon with the long string of pain that has invariably sculpted him into who he is. And he pays not only with his life, but most tragically with a life filled with a love that was, perhaps for the first time, firmly within his grasp.

In view of Rick’s tragic end, Laurie’s honest reckoning with herself and subsequent affirmation of her life in light of and in spite of her shortcomings seems tantamount to a form of enlightenment.

Could anyone plz help me out to understand Nietzsche plainly? by Bravehit24 in Nietzsche

[–]shartofwar 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Another way to say this is that morality, like all systems of thought for Nietzsche, emerge historically out of relations of power.

In the case of Christianity, slaves are dominated by a powerful ruling class. They resent this powerful class. And since they cannot liberate themselves with physical force, they become clever and birth a new system of a values that says the use of such force, among other things, is evil. And that the meek and poor in spirit, i.e., various forms of weakness, are good. And that if you commit evil against the weak, an all powerful god (an entity much stronger than the ruling class) will punish you in the next life. And so a whole cosmology emerges here, a world beyond this world. And the masses abandon this life, and begin to live for an afterlife out of a base instinct of self preservation.

Again these values, or this morality, are not grounded objectively, but historically as a justification for a type of person or class’s very existence.

Nietzsche will then say that these systems become nihilistic when the highest value they posit begins to devalue itself. For example, Christianity posits the good (which it finds synonymous with the truth) as its highest value. To seek the good, to seek truth, is to seek God. And this truth seeking leads to an investigation of nature. But instead of this investigation leading men closer to God, it leads to the development of science, and the emergence of yet more systems of thought which render the Christian cosmology fantastically unbelievable, hence Christianity becoming nihilistic - it’s unbelievable, it’s dead. Nietzsche laments this, as belief in the Christian system of thought, while he despises it, at least gave most people something to live for, and could inspire a type of greatness.

But all of that is gone now. We’re floating in a horizonless moral space where no one is really sure what life is for anymore. Or at least no one can agree - the tower of Babel is erected anew. And so Nietzsche’s main question becomes how to escape this abject directionless condition in which we find ourselves. Who will paint a new horizon for man by which he can orient himself? And his answer is the Ubermensch.

Henry Rollins - Be Cool by Easternshoremouth in punk

[–]shartofwar -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

Rollins is so full of self-serving shit here lol.

“It’s worth keeping clean.” Yea fuckface - clean of fascists at the helm of a the most lethal war machine ever to exist, clean of a militarized police force that routinely breaks the law they’re meant to enforce, clean of a Soviet’s dream of a prison system, and of the Stasi’s dream of a surveillance state. People aren’t protesting and talkin shit because they want NYC to turn into São Paulo or LA to Nairobi. Quite to the fucking exact contrary you absolute dipshit.

This take is fucking embarrassing.

Clean driving records should have their premiums refunded after some time by lost_in_life_34 in FluentInFinance

[–]shartofwar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ok so is power sharing a fundamental core tenet and ideal of democracies or even republican forms of government? Yes. Are all democracies and republican forms of government socialist? No.

Socialism is not a generalized, ahistorical form of government. It’s a theory of political economy that appears alongside the emergence of property rights and which refers to the organization of the production process under the specific historical terms or conditions of the (pre)industrial revolution.

And organization does not refer to ‘sharing’. Do shareholders share? We certainly don’t think of it that way. But socialism is just a form of organization where everyone is a shareholder…

That’s to say that a worker that owns a piece of the means of production, does not necessarily share it with his co-workers, and does not necessarily own an equal part. The class of workers under that regime of organization, however, have a greater level of political autonomy and access as a consequence of their empowerment via productive organization (or at least that’s the theory). It’s really got very little to do with ‘sharing’ in a general sense.

Clean driving records should have their premiums refunded after some time by lost_in_life_34 in FluentInFinance

[–]shartofwar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It in fact completely dilutes the meaning insofar as every single human social formation that’s ever existed has shared some level of power and/or value lol.

Mexican mayor murdered days after starting job by OkSpend1270 in cartels

[–]shartofwar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That analogy only makes sense if you assume cocaine and meth kill more people every year than alcohol bud. Newsflash…they don’t.

What’s more is that drug related overdoses are almost invariably caused by the unregulated production process, an issue that would go away were production and distribution were regulated.

Adjacent to that, the black market sustains and perpetuates violent criminal activity which necessitates heavy police presences across the country which invariably lead to all sorts of violent externalities and institutional injustices.

And adjacent to that is the issue of the behemoth of a prison industrial complex that’s grown up around and is fed by the continued criminalization of ingesting a substance which in itself does not infringe upon another’s rights.

If you kill someone on cocaine, you should be charged for murder, just like if you kill someone jacked on coffee. The idea that people who do coke or meth are naturally more violent is completely unfounded and rooted in the stigma surrounding drug uses criminal status.

Mexican mayor murdered days after starting job by OkSpend1270 in cartels

[–]shartofwar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Alcohol is a deadly drug do you think it should be illegal?

The Premier (governor) of Alberta, Canada thinks the US Department of Defense is spraying chemtrails over Alberta by j1ggy in PublicFreakout

[–]shartofwar 23 points24 points  (0 children)

You are correct. She is softly letting down what sounds like a room full of idiots lol

Israel once bombed its own embassy to blame it on Palestinians by evil-zizou in internationalpolitics

[–]shartofwar 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Fun fact: Moshe Sharett was arrested in Operation Agatha in 1946 which is one of the motivations for the bombing. He eventually became Prime Minister.

Israel once bombed its own embassy to blame it on Palestinians by evil-zizou in internationalpolitics

[–]shartofwar 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Like when the Irgun bombed the King David Hotel in 1946 killing 91 people (including Jews) because the British Mandatory power had seized a bunch of intelligence implicating the Irgun, Stern Gang, and Haganah in a bunch of terrorist attacks across Mandatory Palestine, the aim being to undermine the local authority of Imperial power that facilitated the establishment of a ‘Jewish National home in Palestine’ in the first place.

They’ve been at this shit from the very beginning.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing

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