melpomenesclevage

basically all the water policy here is terrible ideas.

I dont think she deserves to be held up as high as you seem to want to, but I agree with the rest of what youre saying.

fucking hope so. might even make me consider voting blue in local elections

I'm not big on being thanked, fuck you.

how long is having a GPU you can't use without an OS going to he worth staying off Linux?

oh. wow. fuck you, then, I guess.

okay so sometimes living in a half passed shadow run 6e campaign run by severely concussed Kurt Vonnegut as he dies of dysentery is pretty fun.

even in that condition; man can still write. apparently.

well. not hats exactly.

and nah. this is definitionally black hat. only heroes we get in this genre.

if money were money, the stock market wouldn't exist.

if money were money, Donald trump would be a beggar in a gutter.

if money were money, the wealthy would pay taxes.

if money were money, you could do a revolution with the power of gold.

its not, he's not, they dont, and you can't.

universal human dignity

why? based on what? at what point(s) does it start applying? at what point(s) does it stop?

what if I go into a coma. total vegetative state.

what if, in that vegetative state, my brain starts to physically die, which parts would I need still biologically functioning (though no longer effectively being a brain) to qualify?

if I take a shit, there are human cells in that. does it deserve dignity?

if I die, that's human. does it deserve less dignity if it gets burned, or when the blood is switched out for embalming fluid?

what about another animal just as intelligent and just as capable of feeling as us, maybe more? say an elephant, a whale, a cuttlefish?

what about a hypothetical uploaded mind? or a from-scratch agi; what traits would it have to have to acquire various degrees of human dignity, and not just be a script/dataset for me to copy+paste+delete at my whim?

if you think about it, and make it more than some mystical magical woowoo bullshit, some things are going to have at least a talon/tentacle/hoof in that aren't 'human' and some things are going to be out that appear very much 'human', and maybe even were in the past.

most if my criteria for giving a shit are things you are scientifically proven to lose with wealth. are they recoverable? maybe, in the way you can unmix a drink. and in an ideal world, maybe we should. we dont live in an ideal world. the labor cost and risk to others whose humanity is at risk (from dying) takes precedence; its a triage thing.

and if it's happening; I might as well enjoy it. revenge can feel nice, even if its usually stupid and counterproductive.

take their money

money isn't money though.

money us the concept of deserving and promise of agency, which has been pressed so deep into them that they are stained with it, to any remaining capitalist loyalists or other idiots.

you can take their money, but that isn't really taking their money. youd need to take their faces, their names, their fingerprints, And the memories of all their secret stashes or things they could use to authenticate to associates. which seems way more fucked than just killing them.

dehumanize yourself

in what ways? ive been through an amount of shit, already skewed pretty far from default. might not be in a way that matters to me. hell, if you could lower my very human chance of breast cancer, I might even be willing to do something I find unpleasant.

generally I agree, but you need to be more specific here. maybe if I salt half as many people arguing half as much for the dignity and humanity of the unhoused and laboring classes, it would be easier to rake this shit seriously, but I'm not going to devote a second more than necessary to dealing with billionaires, and in a revolution, that means a bullet.

Robespierre

that fucker's problem was trying to autocratically lead a movement of popular power while keeping the people infantilized. nothing wrong with killing the aristocracy.

so I dont care about biology-on a moral level; obviously its cool and I need to think about it at lunch- a life is precious for actual reasons

and being wealthy diminishes just about all of those reasons.scientifically, there are studies that prove it. the wealthy are less intelligent less logic less compassionate less connected to the world. they dehumanize, in the terms that matter to me, themselves.

I'm not suggesting you should get the wall the moment your income slips into six figures, but in extreme cases, where all humanity has fled, theres nothing worth keeping there. its an it. no moral wrong in killing it, at least no more than a rat.

now, I'm not going to go around smashing rats in a hydraulic press for fun. that's sick. but I'm only going to spend so much time doing catch and release in my pantry before I try poison or snapping their necks, because I have other fucking shit to do with my life, and I dont consider the rat worth that much fucking time.

biionaires get coddled from every direction. if nurturing warm fuzzy feelings were going to work, they would have by now, so I'm in favor of actually fixing the problem. that means a guillotine.

in my experience, monsters having families should not be a point of sympathy.

they dont tend to treat us well. we're usually better off without.