Talcosis

What an astute observation! I wouldn’t even describe it as a boil, maybe a light simmer if anything. Because you know what? My life is pretty nice.

So now that we have established that fact, perhaps it would be prudent to consider how you reach the majority of the population that is in my boat (not literally, I mean, when I’m on my boat I’m generally reading a book on my own). But I mean the ones that think like this and don’t read books by Kropotkin.

I mean, that was implied. CoughEpsteincough

I am glad that you were able to build a community of your friends and neighbors.

I do not have the time or resources to do so.

So you labeled that as me being a consumer brained idiot on par with Alzheimer’s. Now you’re surprised that my general demeanor towards you is negative?

Okay. I guess your world doesn’t have a place for me then. If it’s camps either way, I’d rather do it the easy way.

Okay. Well, when all your hard work leads to actual tangible results that are better than the status quo, then we’ll talk.

Until then, less blabbing and more sleeve rolling

Yes, I am certain that your life will begin improving measurably when the food runs out.

Okay. Well, when this glorious mythic Revolution begins, we will see what happens. Until the second coming of the Revolution, were stuck in reality. Although it seems some of us might be stuck is a certain level of Revolution Revolution worship.

Revolution.

Oh no no no, when I said killing minorities I meant more along the lines of white guys blowing away anyone that ain’t white through a locked door in self defense.

Correct on all counts.

And yet, the reality is that the collapse of society will lead to even more casualties. The other reality is that I don’t know of a single collapsed society that became altruistic, and did not devolve into local warlord killing each other.

Alternatively, there can be the simple recognition that breaking the system that exists will result in a mass casualty event as current systems keeping the masses alive break down, and the resulting collapse will be capitalized on (lol) by your local warlord.

I’m sure the local warlord will be a great bastion of anti authoritarian praxis.

It would be nice if self defense often meant an abused person ending their abuser, but what it usually looks like is shooting minorities.

I feel like a billionaire pedophile can afford to buy a fall guy to take the death penalty for them.

The problem with “self-defense” is that it is often a “pre-emptive self-defense”, which is indistinguishable from aggression. Especially when it becomes a question of personal self defense using lethal weapons.

I spent my teens and 20s achieving financial security and now I have a house and a career and zero women in my life.

Exactly. Even in the worst case, it’s better to ship a bottle of wine from California to Canada, than try to use greenhouses to make a Canadian winery a reality.

Nah, humanity is really good at shipping. Locally sourced wine is only environmentally friendlier than shipping if you happen to live in a vintner.

To be fair all of that is still true while the refinery is running. There’s a reason that Refinery Row and the Cancer Belt overlap almost perfectly in texas.

Fired up Desynched again for some reason. It’s a factory game, but instead of conveyor belts you have little robots that you can program to do stuff, from something as simple as pickup->dropoff to entire decisions trees and logic that fights enemies and builds stuff.

No, I am not insinuating that you are advising the genocide of Russia. I am insinuating that the original video is involved in blaming all Russians for the crimes of the state, and you’re adding to that by saying Russia is the worst of the worst.

That being said, Russia was not involved in the korean/vietnamese conflicts after the Korean/Vietnam War, nor was Russia involved in most of the middle east conflicts outside of Iran and Afghanistan. Not to mention any of the insurgencies or proxy wars in South America. Unless you mean licensing the AK, in which case…well. Yeah, sure. The Soviet Union will be the cause of pretty much all conflicts going forward indefinitely.

So, once again. Extraordinary claims, extraordinary evidence.

edit: In English, there’s a concept called “scare quotes”, where you use quotation marks to express a certain “so-called” expression. Exampled twice.

Yeah, I see blaming Russia the political entity for invading Ukraine.

Blaming Russia (the political entity) for causing every conflict since WWII is certainly a choice and will require some extraordinary evidence.

Once you start blaming Russians the ethnic group you’ve lost me entirely, because youre starting to sound very, uh, “final solution”-y.