rambling_lunatic

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Jan. 6 rioter seeking asylum in Canada after skipping prison time for storming Capitol with mom in c/[email protected]
[–] rambling_lunatic 7 points 13 hours ago

Keep Alberta rat-free

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Rule (sh.itjust.works)
 

Please excuse the censorship, I don't think the gamer word is allowed on this instance.

Have you ever had any of your personal spaces being rummaged/searched through? How did you feel about it (emotionally)? in c/[email protected]
[–] rambling_lunatic 6 points 4 days ago

My old family home got burgled back in high school. Some things of value were stolen, though luckily nothing sentimental.

What was worth more than the stolen money was that I no longer felt safe in my own home. I couldn't sleep well for a long time after that. I felt like I was sleeping out in the open. Sometimes I would hear a noise and jolt up and spend a whole hour trying to see if I could spot something weird on the camera feed (we installed CCTV).

"The workers are the ones who make billionaires, billionaires." Amazon acts "like a Dracula, sucking the blood of people." in c/[email protected]
[–] rambling_lunatic 5 points 6 days ago

"The prolongation of the working-day beyond the limits of the natural day, into the night, only acts as a palliative. It quenches only in a slight degree the vampire thirst for the living blood of labour."

~ Marx, Karl. Capital, Vol. 1, Ch. 10, sec. 4.

"Who is the real criminal, Ladies and Gentlemen? Is it the starveling who occasionally steals a loaf of bread or burglarizes my house or is it he who is the eternal vampire on the body of labor, forever feeding on the bone and marrow of the worker, exploiting and oppressing him, always keeping him on the verge of starvation that he may exercise his benevolent charity upon him, and ultimately degrading him to the lowest depths."

Berkman, Alexander. Confession of a Convict.

Anon wipes his ass in c/greentext
[–] rambling_lunatic 62 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Eventually there is blood but no shit.

Better red than bidet!

The media is lying to you Taleb Al Abdulmohsen (Christmas car attacker) was not an atheist in c/[email protected]
[–] rambling_lunatic 0 points 1 week ago

Scroll a bit further through the Xitter thread you yourself linked and you will see screenshots of him dissing Iranian Shiite law, the context for the Hamas tweet, and a bunch of pro-Israel crap from him.

Israeli troops shoot Syrian protester as forces move beyond buffer zone in c/[email protected]
[–] rambling_lunatic 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Good on the media for using the active voice for once

Rule of Left Psychology in c/[email protected]
[–] rambling_lunatic 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Freud getting praised by everyone but actual psychologists always baffled me. Imagine if politicos started backing up their points with references to luminiferous ether.

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Rule of Left Psychology (self.196)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by rambling_lunatic to c/[email protected]
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A lot of people on the left seem to hold The Authoritarian Personality by Adorno et al. and The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Reich in very high regard.

These are very old books. The Adorno book has been criticised for methodological reasons. The Reich book is very rooted in Freudian psychoanalysis. Yet they still seem to be widely read and discussed.

I am not a psychologist. Can psychologists please tell me if these works are still considered to be useful and supported by the available evidence? I feel awfully skeptical when someone backs their point up by citing them and I want to know whether I should unclench my arse.

Thank you :)

Ewwww in c/[email protected]
Russia hits China with trade tariffs in c/[email protected]
[–] rambling_lunatic 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Protectionism only really makes sense if you're a country without native industrial capacities and trying to industrialise. Even that is debatable.

Russia used to be a major world power with highly developed heavy industry and okay-ish light industry. A lot of that has been poorly maintained since the fall of the USSR but the factories are still there. Protectionism makes little sense here.

UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers in c/[email protected]
[–] rambling_lunatic 2 points 3 weeks ago

Ireland too :(

Joker in c/[email protected]
Joker in c/[email protected]
[–] rambling_lunatic 12 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

What is SBC?

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It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible (theonion.com)
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Being Right Tastes Bitter Rule (sh.itjust.works)
 
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Average Frenchman (sh.itjust.works)
 

Sources:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/therese-dubrule-i-never-saw-guy-debord-do-the-dishes

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jan-d-matthews-an-introduction-to-the-situationists

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Tutoring Depression Rule (sh.itjust.works)
 

I earn a little spare cash as an English tutor over the Internet. My student is a little girl in Russia. During today's lesson she asked me if YouTube isn't working my country either. She said that people are trying to make RuTube to replace it.

I can't explain to her why it doesn't work for her but works for me. Either I must lie or break the law.

Kids are naive and innocent. It breaks the heart.

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Don't Panic, Organize: Meeting the Moment of Trump's Second Term (blackrosefed.org)
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Russia fines Google more money than there is in entire world (bbc.com)
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Russia fines Google more than entire world's GDP (www.bbc.com)
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Proper Copper (file.garden)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/45375306

Should've got it from the Dwarves...

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Question regarding behavior in modern society (self.anarchism)
 

We anarchists are generally averse to cooperating with the police, for very good reasons. However, as I understand it, at times the only real way to protect the community in the society we currently live in seems to be talking with the pigs.

Suppose you believe yourself to have evidence incriminating a serial killer. In an anarchistic society the serial killer could be sent to the psych ward and dealt with humanely. But what about the modern day? Do you turn over the evidence to the police?

This question has been bothering me for about 3 days now. It was provoked by learning about Aufhebengate. It made me wonder under what circumstances snitching is justifiable.

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Rule (sh.itjust.works)
 
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