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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 14h

In theory, it just comes from the colors matching the Jorda– I mean Palestinian flag. In practice, it's harder to separate the two, because western activists decided it was a great symbol to use while harassing Hakeem Jeffries specifically.

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 14h

It's from Hamas propaganda videos, where they film themselves shooting at e.g. an IDF tank (and then the video ends before the tank fires back). Because the target audience for these videos are blind morons who might otherwise not see the tank, they add a red triangle pointing to it.

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 14h

IME they just pretend those are something other than full citizens with equal rights. Or conflate them with the West Bank situation.

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 1d

excuse you, r/thedonald is a peaceful haven of donglovers that never hurt anyone

(r/the_donald is the Trump place, r/thedonald is a parody run by Donald Glover fans)

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 1d

Sherman isn't an assassin, but is in on the secret conspiracy anyway because he's too useful to leave on the table, too competent to keep in the dark, doesn't care enough about the "shadow war for history" thing to bother selling them out, and Grant will tell him anything important anyway

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 1d

even if you think Yasuke was kind of a dumb choice, how the fuck does that translate to vetoing a game where it makes perfect sense to have a black protagonist

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 1d

...FUCK. How did I miss that

actually given that this is the first time I've seen this idea despite spending an irresponsible amount of time reading people who spend irresponsible amounts of time overanalyzing comics, maybe it's just one of those things that's actually only obvious in hindsight

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 1d

and not pre-1850s steel either, 21st century steel, which would kinda be comic-book phlebotinum in that context

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 2d

I bet it has fewer swords, though.

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 2d

Bob's commute is noted to be on foot. AIUI that would have been the default, at least inside a city – the primary extant alternative at the time was outsourcing the footwork to horses, which are expensive.

And now I kinda want to see Bret do a cost comparison of 1850 horses vs. 2020 cars...

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 2d

yeah, SSC/ACX has a bunch of all-time greats

daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 2d

"...but it might work for us!"

daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 2d

if it involves actual knives then I may start believing in a non-malevolent deity

but even if they're just turbo-airing 30+ years of dirty laundry I'm going to need to block off time in my schedule for when half my YouTube subscription list updates at once

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 2d

it will be a crowdsourced Night of the Long Knives and I can only hope everyone involved puts in their best effort

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 2d

there's actually an interesting non-bullshit (or at least less-bullshit) book in there, you just have to replace the core thesis with something that makes sense

slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/01/b...

Book Review: Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind

I. Julian Jaynes’ The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind is a brilliant book, with only two minor flaws. First, that it purports to explains the origin of consciou…

slatestarcodex.com

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 2d

I see where you're coming from but I think a case can be made for it as a preventative measure against the Malevolent Discourse Machine and its [gestures broadly] consequences, given how much of a disaster those have been for the human race

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Marble Liberal @marbleliberal.bsky.social · 3d

These are the positions of a reactionary 19th century bourgeois who hates the industrial revolution and is also racist. They are being presented as the most up to date opinions for avant garde teens

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Marble Liberal @marbleliberal.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely wild that in order to be a leftist you must believe in the existence of souls, that good art "reveals" this "soul," that certain ethnicities have access to the "truth" revealed by this "soul" and not others so they can't make art, and that art can't be made by machine.

A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 3d

It's shit like this that makes me think The Youths have a real fuckin' problem.

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 3d

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 3d

(Apropos of nothing, this post came as a good reminder of why intellectual diversity is valuable: I have an abundance of Thoughts™ about the toxicity of clique dynamics, but this would never have been one of them, because I've never been in this position.)

daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 3d

only my out-group can be faulted for lying on the internet

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 3d

FWIW I have no trouble believing them when they say he was a Pillar Of The Community. But that says more about The Community (and the "them"s in question) than anything else.

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 3d

> no defecting Imperials

half of Rogue Squadron, ≥2 general officers, Princess Leia's boyfriend, and the ex-Sith double-reverse-manchurian-agent founder's clone:

We Have Some Issues Eli GIF

Alt: We Have Some Issues Eli GIF

media.tenor.com

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 3d

I think his framing here is that leftists are LoB's target audience more than their subject matter.

(Also, for some reason your skeets are only visible from below. Not sure what that's about.)

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 4d

his whole account is flagged as rude, got mass-reported a while back

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