@karchie i’m not a great fan of Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance, because I think in practice once we accept it we have no principled grounds for line drawing. the same case for free speech broadly (we might be wrong!) should chasten us in imagining we can identify meritless intolerance.
but putting that aside, at least invoking the PoT is an open and principled way of acknowledging that sometimes we do mean to suppress things, and that what we are objecting to is bad criteria for doing so.
@admitsWrongIfProven who is discussing forced work for asylum seekers? i’m asking not rhetorically — fascist or not, i think liberalizing immigration on condition of participating in some kind of work program (“you can come, but you have to pay your dues”) might be a worthwhile way of overcoming public resistance to allowing entry by people otherwise in extraordinarily difficult circumstances. (is it fascist to consider this?)
@karchie the same government libraries that Gender Queer is being pulled from I very strongly suspect don’t carry Turner Diaries.
do you disagree? do you think that choice is content neutral, just that libraries can’t carry everything and Turner Diaries isn’t notable enough?
listening to an NPR segment discussing “Gender Queer” as a “banned book”, i looked up “Gender Queer” on Amazon, and it was there, available to purchase. i looked up “Turner Diaries”, and it was not.
“Gender Queer” is, I am sure, “banned” from many schools and public libraries (which also, I suspect, don’t carry “Turner Diaries”).
should we be outraged by the suppression (“banning”) of “Turner Diaries” too, or are we arguing more about the criteria of suppression than the fact thereof?
"What the Nordics Can Teach California About Sector Bargaining" #NickWarino https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2023/10/10/what-the-nordics-can-teach-california-about-sector-bargaining/
do these self-identifying capitalists understand just how close this is to old-school Marxism? much closer than the people they bizarrely demonize as “cultural Marxists”. these neoaccelerationists just make a different guess than Marxists did about what comes after what one group calls the singularity, the other the revolution. both imagine it must be something good and so work to drag us all heedlessly to our fates. https://www.businessinsider.com/silicon-valley-tech-leaders-accelerationism-eacc-twitter-profiles-2023-7 ht @baldur
we mine history to garb atrocity in bright colors of false legitimacy.
i’m really tired of murder.
cancel any time.
i am tired of this golden age of the snuff film.
we are on the verge of essentializing one another to rubble.
#emacs org mode
@jamesarosen i'm pretty sure the one that comes up for me as RIGHT-FACING is the Third Reich associated one, open on the top in its upper-left quadrant. it looks like there's unicode for both.
(the distinction never did much for me given that flags are translucent.)
TIL the swastika is defined as unicode U+0FD5
was a bit weirded when tab-completing unicode chars beginning with RIGHT in emacs, that particular symbol showed up.
@sqrtminusone very cool.
@andregasser there is this one... https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-apps/ (thanks @smallcircles)
what was branded "economic liberalism" (which was no more liberal than proclaiming a right to swing my arm regardless of the position of your nose) has largely discredited liberalism.
but recent history makes a stronger case than ever that pluralism (and therefore tolerance of wide variations of individual + group behavior), equal dignity, integration, and democratic governance respectful of pluralism form the only nondystopian modernity we've even glimpsed, and our best hope looking forward.
@John you could provide URLs to a content addressed system like IPFS, so if the content was altered the URLs would either continue to show the original or break.
it's just not a day that makes you feel hopeful about things.
@mattlehrer (of that i had no idea! it was just a thing that came up…)
