You think having a military offers any form of protection against aggressive militarism?

If anything, it makes wars and invasions more appealing - if the infrastructure of control and oppression, the police, the military, the courts, etc. are all there, all they need to do is seize those levers of power.

If that infrastructure does not exist and a population is hostile to your attempts to impose it, you would effectively stand no chance against a determined resistance. There are no major military targets, no leaders to assassinate, no positions of power to leverage. They would need to keep boots on the ground to maintain power. And those soldiers, while constantly stationed in hostile territory, can’t do anything else and would constantly find themselves under attack by decentralized militia forces - there would be very little hope for holding such territory, and as soon as the occupying force left, anarchy, and therefore peace and order, could once again be restored.

I genuinely can’t tell whether this is satire or not.

A socialist state will always be recaptured by capital. The state must be smashed, repeatedly and relentlessly, until no state can ever rise again.

Wars are a tool to thin out the fighting age population among the working class, so they can tighten their oppressive grip on those of us left behind who aren’t strong enough to fight. And those who survive are a danger to society after returning home with nowhere near enough support and having been subject to brainwashing under extreme conditions.

Wars are an enemy of the working class. They are a tool of our oppressors.

Whoever shot those fascists is a goddamn hero and I hope to see more like it.

I dunno… get a nice, well-intentioned, thoughtful, compassionate and caring person with intellectual disability into office, they’d listen to advisors, work well with others, they wouldn’t assume they already know best about every situation… I think it would work out pretty well, to be honest!

You absolutely can ridicule someone’s lack of competence, for sure, because competence isn’t an inherent trait. Intelligence and competence aren’t really causally linked. Sure, someone with an intellectual disability might not be the world’s greatest chess player, for example, but for most people with an intellectual disability, with more than an average amount of practice, they can beat an average player.

I think “tripped over his own dick” is fine, that doesn’t suggest to me “he’s bad because he has mobility issues”, it’s more like carelessness.

Remember as well that you don’t need to be perfect, nobody is acting or expecting that. All we can all do is try our best and if we hurt people, take accountability and apologise to them. No one always gets it right and it’s okay to get it wrong, so long as you’re not being stubborn and refusing to change because you don’t care about the feelings of others, people will be fine with it!

The ableism is coming from inside the house - it’s not a bad thing to be intellectually disabled. The problem with Trump is not that he’s stupid, it’s that he’s a selfish, careless, thoughtless, cruel, ignorant asshole.

Using words like “stupid” as an insult implies that all people lacking in intellect or wisdom are also bad people.

Will no one rid us of these meddlesome lawmakers?

An opportunity to share one of my favourite StackOverflow questions of all time!

It’s well worth reading through the answers and the comments, but here’s a little sampler platter:

This will run for a lot more than hours. Assuming it loops at 1 GHz (which it won’t - it will be a lot slower than that), it will run for 10790283070806014188970 years. Which is about 83 billion times longer than the age of the universe.

damn - so maybe serveral threads generating guids is a better idea?

4 threads on a quad core processor would make it run in 20 billion times the age of the universe - so yeah, that would help a lot.

I have no problem with the people. I have a massive problem with the society. Criticising one does not mean that I have a personal problem with the people who comprise that society.

It’s all built on exploitation. Tourism is just another kind of exploitation. So, no, I think by telling people they should be thankful for their oppression, you were doing a shitty thing. That doesn’t mean you’re a shitty person, I just want you to reflect instead of brushing concerns under the rug.

Being “nice” won’t get us to where we need to be. Solidarity and class consciousness will.

It’s everyone’s fault, collectively. We all need to rise up and overthrow the ruling class. To achieve that, we need to actually talk about the problems our current society has without taking it all personally, and reflect on how the structure of our society has created the problems we have. It’s not about who specifically we have to blame, that’s a distraction.

I’m a huge star wars fan, every time I hear star wars fans complaining about Star Wars it’s literally just this:

fuck civic pride, are you kidding? you’re telling people who have been priced out of their hometowns to shut up and appreciate the surge of shady shops selling tacky trash

The good news is that there are a billion no-name brands in China etc. manufacturing drop-in replacement Arduino-compatible boards.

I got into microcontrollers through Arduino but very quickly moved to much cheaper (and tbh, better) third-party options.

You think having a government offers any form of protection against aggressive militarism?

If anything, it makes wars and invasions more appealing - if the infrastructure of control and oppression, the police, the military, the courts, etc. are all there, all they need to do is seize those levers of power.

If that infrastructure does not exist and a population is hostile to your attempts to impose it, you would effectively stand no chance against a determined resistance. There are no major military targets, no leaders to assassinate, no positions of power to leverage. They would need to keep boots on the ground to maintain power. And those soldiers, while constantly stationed in hostile territory, can’t do anything else and would constantly find themselves under attack by decentralized militia forces - there would be very little hope for holding such territory, and as soon as the occupying force left, anarchy, and therefore peace and order, could once again be restored.

Because it is. Politics in all democracies is that way, the US is just letting the mask slip a little.

It’s always been ruling class vs. the rest of us. Who the ruling class are changes and the means of oppression changes but the structure of rulers oppressing those beneath them has been constant all the way back to neolithic humans.

we have to have a government

Citation needed. I completely disagree.

This reminds me of Always Sunny in Philadelphia. We don’t need to pick someone to “be in charge” to get shit done.

So are you like, rich or something?

I’m not a fan of the Sex Pistols, I’m way too young really, I assumed you were!