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  1. Why do you think these movies have aged badly? (Besides the fact that not a lot of them were that good to begin with)

    in response to Feeling like going back to rom-coms to temporarily escape from this hellish experience that we call "life" Are there any that you're a fan of?

    mainstream comedy already ages poorly as it relies a lot on whatever they think a general public will enjoy, but throw in that rom-coms are often explicitly *about* the normative gender politics of the day, and... yeah

  2. Would you consider yourself to be a reformist or revolutionary socialist?

    Well, I'm gonna restate that I am an anticapitalist and a leftist but haven't declared an -ism because I haven't done the research I think is necessary to know what we should replace capitalism with.

    But, re: reform vs. revolution, I am a short-term reformist with the long-term goal of revolution. I think reform is necessary as harm reduction, to help us survive under capitalism, keep our allies alive, and put us in the best position for real change. But I do not believe capitalism can be reformed into something ethical, and being even *tolerable* is only ever a passing condition. Capitalism is fundamentally unsustainable and needs to be ended or it will collapse and bring us all down with it.

    But I also don't know what form revolution should take.

  3. Feeling like going back to rom-coms to temporarily escape from this hellish experience that we call "life" Are there any that you're a fan of?

    honestly, I can't think of any genre that ages worse? looking at lists of "best rom-coms" and they're either movies I dislike or movies I really enjoyed at a time and now go "eeeeeeesh."

    When Harry Met Sally is still mostly solid, though there's the whole debate over whether it's really a rom-com since men like it and don't want to admit they like a chick flick.

  5. Do you agree with (I think it was) Stephen King who said that horror is a fundamentally conservative genre, in that you fear what will change the status quo, be it your nice suburban life, or your body being whole and not chopped up?

    in response to What themes do you want to see in horror more

    I dunno, I'd have to read the quote in context to be sure, but in the past few years, with Assassination Nation, Get Out, and Ready or Not, we've seen horror tropes used to align audiences with trans girls, Black men, and working class women and against cops, the wealthy, pretty much all of society. So it feels like "I don't want to get chopped up" is a really excellent way to get audiences to identify with people who are outside the status quo.

  6. Canon + capitalism = "This is the only way this work is allowed to be interpreted, based on (in order of importance) the least objectionable/most profitable parameters, who profits off it, who funded it, and the author's intentions."

    Canon in an ideal world = "This is the work as the author intended it."

    in response to Does Harry Potter belong to the fans?

    Incorrect.

    Canon in an ideal world: "This is the work as the audience has chosen to interpret it."

  7. Do you think it is worth it to try to come up with alternatives to ACAB, defund the police, and abolish the police that more clearly communicate what we mean by those statements?

    in response to How come leftist slogans (defund the police, ACAB, trans women are women, black lives matter, abolish ICE) always seem to require non-trivial explanations not only to make people understand what they really mean, but even that they are not silly or even nasty, especially when contrasted with how dead simple and effective the liberal/conservative responses like "all lives matter" or "sex is real" are work superficially; It's just so frustrating because going against what comes easiest to most people seems like an unwinnable proposition

    I literally just said this will happen no matter how we phrase our argument. No matter how much they say otherwise, the opposition hates the thing we're suggesting, not the words we use to suggest it, and stumping for the status quo will always be easier and simpler than advocating change.

    The best defense is to encourage people to think critically and complexly about the issues, because then conservative arguments stop working on them.

  8. What do you think the alternative to 'cancelling' is? Like a way to hold people accountable within our movement that doesn't end up death threats and harassment.

    The main issue I see with cancelling is it's conflated "holding people in power accountable" with "keeping our communities safe."

    Cancelling Kevin Spacey wasn't primarily about "protecting our community." Kevin Spacey did not pose a threat to most of the people involved in cancelling him. Part of the reason to cancel is to deal with people so famous or powerful that they are functionally immune to community policing; you can't just disassociate with or shun him, he's untouchable. He interacts with all of us through media unless you stop the media from getting made.

    Whereas, within a "community" in the traditional sense, cancelling often just means not letting that person interact with the group anymore, because they pose a threat or have caused an irreconcilable conflict with a community member. This can go a few ways; I know of communities where, the moment says "this person is an abuser," the whole community immediately disavows them, and then, sometimes, over the years they notice, "wait... we've cancelled a lot of people and it's always the same person who accuses them, are we sure THEY'RE not the abuser?" But I've also been in communities where people are very, very slow to cancel, because each person is deeply stitched into the community and removing them is going to be complex and painful and everyone's afraid of cancelling if there are still other avenues to try. Sometimes this is founded and the conflict can be resolved, and sometimes it means a toxic person stays way too long, and it's hard to tell which is which. And, either way, you rarely try to get that person fired from their job or cancel everyone who even speaks to them.

    But the logic of cancelling internet personalities keeps flipping back and forth. Like... JK Rowling is (semi-)cancelled not because she assaulted or abused anyone, but because she's spreading TERF rhetoric. In most communities, that would be grounds for a conversation, maybe an ultimatum if it persists, which cancelling as a last resort. We're not in a position to do that with Rowling, and, because her audience is so huge, her words have a lot more impact than just some random member of your local Gay-Straight Alliance. So she's held to a stricter standard.

    But when cancelling an internet personality? People use the "this person is a threat and must be removed for our safety" of a serial abuser, but with the "we must remove their base of power" strategies of a problematic celebrity. They don't get the private call-in convo of a normal community, but they aren't protected by fame. It's the worst of both worlds: they're treated with the scorched earth tactics of someone untouchable but they are very much touchable, and I feel it's, in part, because the parasocial nature of the internet means minor celebrities *feel* like community members, and so their transgressions feel like personal betrayals, but amplified by the fact that it's affecting thousands instead of dozens.

  9. Are you a moral realist?

    I'm a moral surrealist.

  10. Does Harry Potter belong to the fans?

    In the sense that all fiction belongs to the audience, yes. In the sense that it is still very much a capitalist entity whose canon is managed by wealthy conglomerates who will penalize derivative works... no.

    Canon + capitalism = complicated.

  11. I didn't have twitter at the time of the contrapoints buck angel controversy so i was wondering what your thoughts on it were, considering your research into hate mobs?

    What I found is that, given it was a conflict between a trans woman and a portion of the nonbinary community where people were, right or wrong, feeling genuine pain, there was really no way I, as a cis person, could weigh in constructively. Any time I would try to talk angry people down, it just came off as a cis person who doesn't understand why XYZ person is a problem - even in cases where I did - or as a cis person policing how trans people are allowed to behave. The trans community does not owe me the benefit of the doubt, and, without it, I couldn't find a way to talk on the subject that didn't just make things worse. Believe me, I tried to find it.

    But did not and will not cancel Natalie Wynn, and find her to be very obviously *not* a transmedicalist.

  12. How come leftist slogans (defund the police, ACAB, trans women are women, black lives matter, abolish ICE) always seem to require non-trivial explanations not only to make people understand what they really mean, but even that they are not silly or even nasty, especially when contrasted with how dead simple and effective the liberal/conservative responses like "all lives matter" or "sex is real" are work superficially;
    It's just so frustrating because going against what comes easiest to most people seems like an unwinnable proposition

    Well, the short answer is because "all lives matter" and "sex is real" are designed to keep things as they are where "Black lives matter" and "trans women are women" are asking for change, and people don't need the status quo explained to them.

    BUT ALSO it's because people willfully misconstrue them?! Like, the phrase "Black lives matter" should be the most goddamn uncontroversial statement in the English language. The *only* reason it sounds divisive is *because* of the response "all lives matter." No one was confused by what BLM stood for until ALM came along.

    Make no mistake, phrases like "all lives matter" and "sex is real" and "it's okay to be white" exist to create controversy out of uncontroversial statements. There *is no progressive statement* that they can't do this with. No matter how seemingly inoffensive, there is no slogan that advocates for change that can't be countered with an even more seemingly-inoffensive slogan that advocates for things staying as they are.

    Because, it turns out, what is or isn't "offensive" or "complicated" has more to do with what it demands of the listener than its actual morality.

  13. Maybe I'm being too optimistic, but even the most conservative people I know are horrified by the thought of privatized police.

    I don't think something like that would have very much support.

    in response to Are you worried about the possibility that polticians will respond to Abolish the Police by transitioning to law enforcement for hire? I’m terrified about a nation wide Blackwater. Hell I can already hear Conservatives make the arguments for privitzation now. Why aren’t more leftists talking about this? Or am I over thinking this?

    how popular something has less and less to do with what cops and politicians do

  14. I feel vindicated that you don’t love the Coen Brothers or Kubrick.

    in response to Not even the shining?

    The Coens' first movie Blood Simple is genuinely good and Kubrick's 1956 film The Killing is one of the better noirs.

    They showed promise before they were auteurs.

  16. https://itch.io/b/520/bundle-for-racial-justice-and-equality

    Itch.io is running a megabundle for Racial Justice and Equality. To add an actual question on to this, do you have any recommendations on what to play first?

    I was just looking through this on Big Joel's stream the other day! There's a lot of good stuff there (and obviously I haven't scrolled through all 1500 games), but Quadrilateral Cowboy is on there and that game is *so good*.

  17. Hm, so if all living adults on Earth were to make their own porn, would Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism be established?

    in response to What is the greatest and most communist porn movie ever made?

    we need more than porn, we also need our state-mandated polycules and weekly general assemblies that end in group sex

    diversity of tactics, comrade

  18. I hadn't seen the "people that menstruate" one, that was yikes. But the ones about how sex is real, I'd like to know why that's a hurtful thing to say.

    in response to Genuine question: What exactly is wrong with Rowling's tweet? Is there some transphobic dogwhistle there?

    - saying "sex is real" includes the unspoken argument that trans people say it's not
    - saying womanness is dependent on sex being "real" includes the unspoken argument that cisnormative definitions of sex are the only way sex can be "real," that anything else is a universe without gender
    - saying that, without "real" sex, you are erasing the experience of women includes the unspoken argument that treating trans people as valid invalidates cis experiece and even implies it erases misogyny

    all of this is obvious to me, though I get that it's deliberately phrases so as to be unobvious to many. but it's harmful in the way that all lives matter is harmful, despite seeming innocuous without context.

  19. Are you worried about the possibility that polticians will respond to Abolish the Police by transitioning to law enforcement for hire? I’m terrified about a nation wide Blackwater. Hell I can already hear Conservatives make the arguments for privitzation now.

    Why aren’t more leftists talking about this? Or am I over thinking this?

    I don't know. The people making demands aren't calling for that, but I suppose if someone used this opportunity to make private police but spin the PR as though it were community-run law enforcement, other cities might try the same. I feel like worrying about it requires making a lot of assumptions, though, and I don't have enough information to make me think those assumptions are valid. So, for the time being... many things are possible, I don't see as that it likely, will change my mind in the face of counter-evidence.

  21. necessary?

    No judgment or anything, but why "necessary"?

    in response to Is it ethical for communists to watch porn?

    just as you are owed the full benefits of your labor, you are owed a sick nut

  22. What themes do you want to see in horror more

    I have few opinions on horror.

  24. not a question, but your videos on video games has re-ignited my love for them after almost a decade of thinking they were all the same, or just not worth playing, Your enthusiasm is hella contagious ^_^

    oh good! <3 <3 <3

  25. Would it be good or bad praxis to roleplay as a bourgeoisie top while domming a proletariat bottom, and if it is bad can that be apart of the kink.

    in response to What is the greatest and most communist porn movie ever made?

    look if you want my semiotics of porn opinion you're gonna have to pay for a Vimeo account because they're too complex for CuriousCat but inappropriate for YouTube

  26. Would it be more understandable for NYT to publish fascist opinion pieces if they also published actual leftist, rather than centrist, opinion as well?

    I mean, it would be preferable, but it would just be another flavor of bad. The problem with the articles is not that they are unbalanced, it's that they are immoral.

  27. What is the greatest and most communist porn movie ever made?

    in response to Is it ethical for communists to watch porn?

    the one you make yourself, comrade

  28. Which superhero would you most easily beat in a fight? If the answer is "none," which one would have the hardest time defeating you?

    if by "beat in a fight" you mean "take on a very nice date and be super respectful," Valkyrie

  29. Out of those you've seen, which Stephen King adaptation did you dislike the least?

    in response to Favorite adaptation of a Stephen King book?

    Stand By Me, I guess?

  30. I meant the first! I didn't even know her name was Grace. Her videos are art in themselves, honestly. Surely it would take years of specialised practice to hone these types of abilities, right? In addition to just having a brilliant mind to come up with her scripts!

    in response to I can recommend Overly Sarcastic Productions' videos about the classical epics – The Odyssey, the Iliad, Theogony – as excellent examples. This is probably beyond you (NO OFFENCE MEANT I AM SORRY), but What's So Great About That?'s video on House of Leaves is an all-time high bar for translating literary imagery to video form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27b16c9PHac

    with my current animation skills I could pull off *some* of what she does if I actually learned After Effects, but it would take a long time to do it with the skill she has

    I am a definitely in the Grace Fan Club

  32. Anyone who says they're afraid of death is, in reality, afraid of life

    are these AFI lyrics or something?

  33. Is it ethical for communists to watch porn?

    both ethical and necessary

  34. How can liberals with marginalized identities trust that socialistic policies won’t leave us behind, like they have in the past? I know there are many marginalized socialists, but my fear is that they’re doing all the labor for change we won’t benefit from.

    how can they ignore that capitalism already has left them behind?

    every brutality minorities ever faced in this country happened under capitalism.

  35. So you don't like Stephen King?

    in response to Favorite adaptation of a Stephen King book?

    I haven't read the books themselves, and I hear part of the selling point is the depth of detail that usually doesn't translate to film. So maybe they're good on the page. But I find their premises deeply silly.

  36. Genuine question: What exactly is wrong with Rowling's tweet? Is there some transphobic dogwhistle there?

    buddy that's just a whistle

  37. Are you currently renting a place or you're cohabitating with another landlord?

    don't try and get me to dox myself

  38. Favorite adaptation of a Stephen King book?

    I don't really like Stephen King adaptations and don't read his books

  39. this is a horrific waste of unlimited money. these are the WORDS of the PRIVILEGED, IAN!

    really enjoying your new vids btw

    in response to 20 years to live with an unlimited amount of money or 50 years to live with an average 9am - 5pm job?

    I would carefully bequeath my unlimited riches to leftist causes, but in the form of a trust that pays out enough money that they can accomplish whatever they need but never enough that they are tempted to sell out the working class in favor of hoarding wealth

  40. https://www.insider.com/john-krasinski-cia-cop-jim-halpert-2019-11

    in response to So do I have to add John Krasinski to the list of Very Bad Famous People? Cause I genuinely think that he's an okay guy, and if that list grows any longer, I think I may begin to embrace misanthropy.

    the specific reason the OP was mad at John Krasinski was because he sold his webseries for millions of dollars after implying it was just a fun and free hangout, but these are pretty valid reasons to be grumpy with him, too

  41. I can recommend Overly Sarcastic Productions' videos about the classical epics – The Odyssey, the Iliad, Theogony – as excellent examples. This is probably beyond you (NO OFFENCE MEANT I AM SORRY), but What's So Great About That?'s video on House of Leaves is an all-time high bar for translating literary imagery to video form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27b16c9PHac

    in response to Would you ever do a video about a book instead of a movie or a game?

    if by "beyond me" you mean Grace trumps me on After Effects skills, yes... yes she does

    if by "beyond me" you mean you think I haven't seen it, HECK YOU, that's the first video of Grace's I saw!

  42. What is "leftism?"

    "leftism" is an umbrella term for progressives who are to the left of liberalism, with some differing views on what society should look like but in agreement that capitalism must be replaced. it's mostly various flavors of socialists, communists, and anarchists.

  43. The Verso Books website, which I can't link to since I can't seem to make an account on here, is offering The End of Policing as a free ebook until the end of the month, with the author's blessing. If anybody'd like to pick it up for free, or buy a copy directly from the publisher without needing to go through amazon, they can check it out there.

    in response to https://twitter.com/brownasthenight/status/1268288386936320002?s=20 Infographic about reform vs abolition with a link elaborating on it. Gives a lot of concrete ideas to think about. https://twitter.com/rad_shiba_/status/1267431992704012288 This is a twitter thread about the black panthers and their step-by-step guide to set up community defense groups. https://www.amazon.com/End-Policing-Alex-S-Vitale/dp/1784782890 Good book about police abolition.

  44. Hey Ian, any book recommendations on wealth inequality? I went through your research masterpost and didn't find anything specifically about that topic.

    Less about wealth inequality but more about poverty generally, I can recommend A Framework for Understanding Poverty by Ruby K. Payne and Unequal Childhoods by Annette Lareau. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich is a little more pop science-y (and kinda liberal) but still has a lot of good observations. Orwell's Down & Out in Paris and London is also an excellent resource on poverty, though it has little to do with the modern economy.

    Griftopia by Matt Taibbi was a pretty good explainer on the subprime mortgage scam, but Taibbi has turned out to be a scumbag so I feel very conflicted about recommending him.

    A lot of my research into how the rich get richer in the modern day has been piecemeal, not a lot of specific books I can point do. Honestly, the most useful research I did was, several years ago, just setting aside an afternoon to research Reaganomics. That was just a cluster of articles online, but getting my head around that was probably the most important piece of the puzzle.

  45. Any tips on how to not become a doomer?

    nope. I can only recommend finding a way to accept we may be doomed and do what's right anyway, and to find joy in spite of it all. there's a grand "dance while the sky crashes down" vibe I manage on occasion.

  46. https://twitter.com/brownasthenight/status/1268288386936320002?s=20

    Infographic about reform vs abolition with a link elaborating on it. Gives a lot of concrete ideas to think about.

    https://twitter.com/rad_shiba_/status/1267431992704012288

    This is a twitter thread about the black panthers and their step-by-step guide to set up community defense groups.

    https://www.amazon.com/End-Policing-Alex-S-Vitale/dp/1784782890

    Good book about police abolition.

    in response to Do you think policing is so fundamentally broken that the only meaningful fix would be to defund/abolish it outright? If so, what alternative method of law enforcement would be ideal? I am, unfortunately, a liberal, so I struggle to imagine what a future society without at least an institution comparable to the police would even look like.

  47. Do you think policing is so fundamentally broken that the only meaningful fix would be to defund/abolish it outright? If so, what alternative method of law enforcement would be ideal? I am, unfortunately, a liberal, so I struggle to imagine what a future society without at least an institution comparable to the police would even look like.

    I haven't done a lot of research on police/prison abolition. But there's a lot of different ideas on how we could replace both institutions. Similarly to "what would the world look like without capitalism," there are a lot of forms it could take. Let's free our imaginations a bit and stop assuming there's only one thing that works and humanity already found it.

  48. Where about 10 to 15 years before all of the Holocaust survivors dies off. How close are we to having a second Holocaust? Will those survivors when they pass away die in vain?

    I understand the desire to have someone tell you the future but that is not within my powers, I'm sorry.

  49. Curious your opinions on Stephen schwartz’s work. I know you did godspell, but wicked? Children of eden? Pippin? Prince of Egypt? ...the hunchback of notre dame?

    of the others I've only seen Hunchback, which is kind of a mix

  50. Charlie Kaufman or Christopher Nolan?

    it's not even a contest

  51. I'm from the UK so most of my exposure to the protests has been through social media. What do you think is the current public feeling about them in America? Has there been any shift in perceptions of the police?

    the thing about the modern media is it is legitimately impossible to tell what the current feeling is. mainstream media has its narrative which is almost entirely focused on "looting," social media is tailored to a person's own politics and social circles. not that there ever was an objective source providing accurate temperature checks, and even those making an effort were probably pretty biased, but there at least WAS AN EFFORT, and I feel we've gotten even further from it in my lifetime. it's startling the degree to which we are aware that all information has been tailored or spun before we get it, that there is literally no way to know what most of the country is feeling right now.

  52. Malkovich malkovich malkovich! Malkovich malkovich? Malcovich! <3

    [movie reference]

  53. Hey, mind if I take a second to use your curious cat to scream into the unfeeling abyss? Thanks

  54. I'm sorry, the scientologist nut job who does all of his own stunts is less interesting than John Malkovich?

    in response to Why nooooot?

    for the purposes of that story, yes. the whole point of it being John Malkovich was that it was someone intriguing that we didn't know very much about. make it the most famous man on Earth and it's a completely different premise.

  56. Black Lives Matter

  57. How's the situation in Massachusetts? Any protests and/or curfews?

    There was a somewhat dubious protest yesterday that claimed it was supported by the NAACP and the Mass chapter of BLM but wasn't, but near as we can tell it was just run by some over-eager college students and went off peaceably. So far as I know, no curfews, no police escalation, no teargas or rubber bullets.

  58. If the right has think-tanks, does that mean the left has think-tankies?

    BOOM

  59. I've got half a mind to join in on the protests (there's one going on in my city right now), but I worry that my presence may be unnecessary and I may only be making things more difficult for those who are actually meaningfully helping. Do you have any advice as to how I can judge whether or not my involvement would be a net positive or negative?

    What is so different about you that your attendance wouldn't be helpful?

  60. What do you think of the argument blaming white anarchists as outside infiltrators for property destruction?

    It's one of those "plausible but we have to be alert for disinformation" kinda things. Keep your ears open for evidence that this is a spook story meant to delegitimize the uprisers.

    Also I've heard everything from "white Alt-Righters" to "white cops in plain clothes" so let's not leap to blaming the anarchists just yet.

  62. i deactivated my twitter

    hell yeah, comrade

  64. I dont understand why you defend looting and random destruction. I'm fine with violent protest against the police and destruction of police property. But random looting is just bad. And don't try to compare this to the Boston tea party, the revolutionaries were dumping tea from the east India company an agent of the British empire. Just answer why you think looting is OK no random unrelated observations just tell me why?

    I don't "defend" looting, I just understand it. The Hampton Institute summed it up well: "You can't commodify every single aspect of living and then not understand looting as a legitimate form of protest. Looting is the ultimate strike against a system that deems mass-produced objects to be far more precious than life itself. It is humanity demanding to be recognized."

  65. Do you think that "Being John Malkovich " should have been Being Tom Cruise?

    no

  66. What are your thoughts about the small number of towns (Flint, Newark, Camdem) where police or other officials have joined in with marches? Is it a positive step or too little that will just work as a band-aid on a septic leg of society?

    I didn't know that was happening until you just said it, but any time officials side with the people instead of the government is usually a good sign

  67. How do you feel about Anomynous hacking into the Minneapolis Police Department's website?

    I think I'm into it

  68. Currently finding it hard to work, hell, just function normally during these times You've got any advice?

    when functioning normally isn't working, don't try. get involved with the movement in whatever ways you have energy for, disappear into books/movies/video games when you need an escape.

    ~the notion that you must be productive and functional at all times is capitalist propagandaaaaaaaa~

  70. Is now a bad time to release a game about a friendly neighborhood cop?

    when exactly do you think would be a good time?

  71. I'm mostly curious about what the left response is to it, or just why it's not a sound idea, because to me like a lot of right wing libert stuff it's like the premise seems to be in broad agreement but the proposed solution is in itself dumb. But maybe it's actually OK somehow?

    in response to I hear "taxation is theft" from nerdos, what's the deal there?

    see, there's where you're wrong. libertarians actually see the world very, very different from the Left, and you can't really argue with them about taxation without first getting to the root differences in your philosophies. if you don't have the time and energy for that, you might wanna just let the argument slide.

  72. Would you mind saying more about the “do the right thing & encourage others to do the same”, why it doesn’t work and/or you don’t like it?

    in response to Is there a viable way we can contribute to support George Floyd's cause and fight for justice especially in a time where we're not supposed to go out due to a pandemic? And though they are people looting as well, should we also be concerned of their health? That things would get riskier and unhealthier for out movement? What can we as Lefttist/democratic socialist do to properly contribute?

    the short, flippant answer is: if it worked, it would've worked by now

  73. Maybe? Cause they seem reactionary only to current events rather than including other marginalized people who were equally abused during the pandemic and 9/11

    in response to What's your take on people insisting "All Lives Matter" in the current George Floyd & looting situation? Not so much about being explicitly ignorant of the plight of the black community, but there are people who are thinking of other Muslim, Asian counterparts who are also just as ostracized in the past and present.. would you accept one's take that All Lives Do Matter Alongside Black Lives, hence All Lives Matter?

    Black people are responding to the murder of Black people. Have you ever once seen a Black person try to end a conversation about the treatment of Muslims after 9/11 by yelling "Black Lives Matter"? They are in no way negating the efforts of other marginalized people and you'll note BLM activists tend to speak out more for other marginalized groups than the white folks saying "All Lives Matter."

  74. What do you think of the phrase "no bad tactics, only bad targets"? I've been hearing it in certain Leftie spaces lately.

    I actually agree, but I feel like the people invoking the phrase are usually justifying the use of tactics in situations where they're aren't justified. Like, just because the rule is true doesn't mean you're following it.

  75. Is it normal to feel a coexisiting mixture of, excited, thrilled, eager, and disgusted, furious, rage, in response to recent events

    I hope so. it's very nice to have eagerness mixed in with my usual disgust.

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