Uh, source? Do I know you?

You don’t. That’s why its up to you to make your point when making statements like this.

I’ve seen no such actions so without any particular claims, this is just fantasy posting.

The leverage is numbers.

I literally address the fact that you don’t have said leverage and wont get it any time soon in the very thing that you quote.

No one is being convinced by your angsty, snarky, online leftist purity raging.

And the organization at this point is just basic survival instinct?

If you think basic survival instincts are in any way conducive to long term goals… I don’t even have a clever retort. That’s just an insane thing to think.

We’re on a burning planet and being told that yes we need change, but we also need to wageslave while doing it.

You aren’t told, thats the reality.

People stop doing their jobs, without tremendous planning ahead, and they die.

That’s reality.

You are nowhere near having the capacity for a general strike, and you’re losing capacity as the tech feudal lords clamp down on the means of communication, and as people on decentralized platforms are notoriously completely impossible to deal with and hyper idealistic.

Nice try glowie.

See, it’s childish bullshit like this which means we can’t make progress.

My point is clearly that nothing remotely like these fantastical ideas of an underground revolution are actually happening. We’ve seen these grumblings online for fucking decades.

You’d think you’d have literally anything, like non personally, to show for it. Instead its nothing but talk.

Some random not hyper online dude shooting a healthcare ceo in the back because his back hurt and he was hard done by them is the closest you’ve come to that, and it wasn’t you.

I just know what has already happened in the past and can try to extrapolate.

You are remembering selectively, and remembering out of context, because the US is not WW2 germany. They’re WW2 germany with nukes and a military multiples of times more formidable than the next multiple combined.

There is no coalition of countries currently equipped to take them on.

More than that, those countries are all having similar problems with right wing groups flaring up.

More than that still, in recent history, when there have been revolts, they haven’t switched to socialism, or even just more socialism than before in notable ways. They’ve mostly just switched to more capitalism, supported by the US.

And again, I don’t know what basis you have to speak of my character.

Because once again, the online fringe you represent simply has no track record to speak of. They simply have not done anything for decades, and if they had any teeth, there would be something, anything to show for it.

Jesus christ, is that the most radical, outside-of-the system take you could think of for global policy change?

No, it isn’t the previous thing you absolutely do not have the guts or organization for is. This is the accomplishable thing that would not accomplish the final goals and instead would be handing right wing fascists the long term victory on a silver platter.

Have you ever considered taxes to pay for collective goods and services, making peoples lives easier, them smarter, building trust in the idea that government can work and giving the government more teeth?

People will eat shit salads before they give up their F150s. We can’t just let people pay to avoid responsibility.

The F150 people were sold on the ridiculous trucks by the automotive industry. Theyre also much smaller as a part of the problem.

The people who make decisions we all feel forced to live with are the ones whose businesses choose the path of least resistance

No we don’t, and no it isn’t. That’s how the suppression of radical change works.

You aren’t doing jack shit of this radical change you spout on about. You don’t actually want to help, so you come up with excuses to do nothing while feeling better than those who do because your ideas all start with someone else moving first.

I am not saying that anything short of utopia is not worth pursuing, just that I don’t see why we shouldn’t start from that and then work down to a realistic compromise

Because you don’t have the leverage or organization to start there. Instead you must start by slowly working to put out the fire and getting your fellow countryman to see the benefits of socialist policy.

rather than starting from the bad options that are given to us.

You exist in this system, not outside of it. You start here for that is reality, not fantasy. Id love to start from the position of being the rich using my wealth to sway policy. It’s not reality though.

There are other choices, if you can look further than your nose.

List one that doesn’t start with some fantastical revolution you aren’t organizing and aren’t willing to risk your life in as a first mover

If the answer is about forming a new party in a country that has winner takes all or first past the post, I fear you’ve not thought it through.

No we don’t.

What we really need is people to stop fantasizing about spherical revolutions in frictionless societies and do the boring, unfun, hard things that actually make a difference.

It requires people not doing nothing until magically the perfect thing comes along and realizing they’ll have to wade through and actively support shit, until they’ve successfully reformed or composted said shit into something that is finally able to grow the first leafs of anything resembling a society they want.

I’m just so tired of people rejecting the facts of the political systems they live under in order to pretend to chase some other system they won’t see within their life time.

We have to pick the least bad option and then try to make them better because that’s just the way shit works. Acknowledging that doesn’t mean you are complicit or any other such nonsense in the same way acknowledging climate change doesn’t mean you don’t want a climate that isn’t rapidly deteriorating.

“But if x, y, and z people just…” yeah well they won’t, and we know they won’t, so we have the constraints we have.

Not super directed at you, I’ve just been seeing entirely too many naive, in my opinion, fake socialists that seem to only value socialism as far as they can use it as a weapon to brandish against liberals and other socialists who simply see reality and acknowledge that doing anything requires getting your hands dirty.

But wont end as long as the biggest resistance they see is people making snarky self censored comments on mostly right wing billionaire owned social media.

World is too busy deciding whether to kill minorities or tax the rich an extra few percent to make any progress on this.

Truly, its not all that funny because its like, yeah, Im reading a meme. Of course I dont pay attention to the details. This isn’t a large itemized bill

Ah no I just meant it was a coincidence that when I said robots, referring to my milling machines, you guessed one of the main things I do with them (combat robots).

It’s what I plan to do when I have enough time and space since I already do makery things when I’m feeling up to it, so I figured, if you already have a work bench and CNC machine, there are very few low stress/investment things you can make with one and this is one of the more fun ones.

Like sure you could be making product prototypes or tools etc, but all of those are like getting a second job. Combat robots is like once every 2 months you have 2 days of fun getting your shit torn apart and figuring out what you fucked up at the design or assembly stage, or that your control scheme is jank.

(Is there really a difference between a vert spinner and an antweight flipper…?)

I mean, one can do actual damage, has additional difficulty driving with the gyro effect, and flips bots and, the other can turn the other bot upside down temporarily.

Turns out those jobs are really hard to get, damnit…

Yup, and you might not be selling your soul, but you’re certainly leasing it.

Antweight, yep!

What type of bot/s do you have/are you planning to build? Meta vert spinner? Meat and potatoes horizontal? Control bot? Entirely too technical and expensive to be practical at antweight flipper?

Though I just meant I own a lot of manufacturing robots

Like industrial “rip your hand off without bogging down” arms or ?? and why?

the antweight thing is just a coincidental hobby.

That sounds like the least coincidental thing possible considering they can’t exactly be used for anything else can they?

if you don’t have a specialization that shunts you into the public sector.

Everyone wants the coveted silicon valley stress for 5 years then retire and coast off your resume position dont they.

who doesn’t love robots???

Like combat robots?

Very curious where the idea I’m in a cabin came from

The wood workbench for the CNC cabinet sorta looks hand built and cabin like, and then the rest has a sort of background firewatch sorta older home aesthetic that made me think Cabin. The angles also made it look smaller/like it had less rooms than a house would, and things like the bar you were hanging off of also seemed a bit strange to just be in a regular house (like who just has a horizontal bar running from one side of an indiscriminate room to another sort of thing).

In hindsight I can see it being a house but thats what made me think it.

I think all my posts have been from when I was living in my regular boring old house!

And now you live in a boat off the coast of Costa Rica like many other digital nomads (Is what I am guessing based on this and the software developer part).

Weird question, but I absolutely got rick rolled and then definitely scrolled through your posts and just have to ask, and hopefully this comes across well but, wtf do you do? Like not about the nsfw pictures but like, you’re in like a cabin, but have an electronics work bench for a CNC mill project, and then a (I presume work) friend sends you vault pictures?

Sparky? EE? Hobbyist unrelated?

God no. The entire point of nudes is that the person took the effort to try to be sexy for you, and is teasing you about what they’re implying will happen in the near future.

If they are just posting old nudes to you, thats a bit like someone using their old wedding vows and substituting in your name.

It takes away all the personal intimacy of the interaction.

Totally not the asshole there.

Definitely not. I’m describing a situation where someone you know is sending you nudes.

I also am definitely as enticed by people irl or porn as any other person. I just don’t find nudes all that great. Like, I’d probably enjoy taking the nudes with someone over seeing them, or better yet, just doing things.

This probably bangs with autistic chicks

Honestly, no doubt there’s truth there, as I think a lot of guys focus on making their dicks look big because from a typical straight(… actually gay too) guys perspective on sex, like thinking about sex from a mans perspective as if you were a woman, its like, you gotta make the lightning rod spark. Like the weight of the dick is elevated much more than the types of shit women want to see more of, like a lot of veiny-ness (which I think I can speak for the average man in saying, we generally don’t like on women (I think gay men differ from men here)), that brooding batman style of posing, the arms, forearms, and some chest hair, a confident and slightly domineering position, etc. Heck, I’m probably even somewhat wrong there.

I do think women tend to do this quite a bit as well, with all that weird duck lip, hand under chin, Victorian era poses, theatre kid coy, kinda “Sappho and her friend” leaning photos where to a lot of guys its like, Eyyy, show off all of that thing (where that thing is honestly a lot of things), or give me some “Ill be like this for you [sir/daddy/baby/pet/insert favourite pet name]”.

I dunno. It just all feels like I think people find it hard to conceptualize what the other person is truly looking for out of a photo because despite being into each other, people don’t really share their photo preferences in particular, and you can’t even necessarily transfer what you know about the other person in bed to what they’ll think looks good in a photo because the scenario is so different.

That being said, I really do think most pictures from both, dare I say all (to be more inclusive), tend to still ultimately, on average, be just mid.

Like no one is opening up their curtains, buying diffuse lighting, taking a hundred different shots, story boarding their angles, making sure all the money showpieces are hairless, or appropriately and perfectly haired or whatever it is for whoever it’s intended for, dehydrating to lean up, etc.

Like, to get nice photos, you basically have to become a NSFW content creator without the monetary incentive, and that’s a lot of work when the other person probably appreciate that time a lot more in person.

You fucking wish.

In reality nudes from women look shit too.

People just generally give women a pass/see women as more attractive for the same equivalent level of attractiveness or effort for the photo. They also feel much more pressured by society to be all "WOW! I’ve never seen tits in my life!!! Magnifico! ✨✨🍆*

Nudes suck.

Thats my hot take.

The fucking suck, the person sending them expects you to receive them like they’re gods gift to green earth and they’re (the photos, not the person) just mid, so you have to act like you’re a pavloved chimpanzee in full caveman mode so excited by this barely lit could be big foot sighting.

At best nudes are an indication the person sending you them wants to fuck.

They’re not jerk off material. They’re barely semi chub material.

They’re just… mid.

Could be the hottest person imaginable and they’d still be mid.

Its ultimately just a poorly taken picture with poor lighting, with someone who (reasonably) won’t be bending over backwards to send you page 34 of the Kama Sutra.

It would be so fucking nice if it was deemed socially appropriate to say “Look lady, I don’t need to see a 15th picture of your gooch from the same fucking angle” (but you know, with tact), but instead if you ever were to do that, they’d misinterpret your message as “I’m not all that sexually interested in you” rather than “I’m not all that sexually interested in every piece of evidence there is for extraterrestrial UFOs existing, but in a vaguely human shape”.

Just a bit of a rant I hope was humorous but like seriously, I thought a few years back… probably like 15-20 years back, we all kinda agreed that nudes were stupid for security and revenge porn reasons, but now it seems the world is back at it again, for seemingly no reason, because next to no one is actually masturbating to these, and its like, just some fun chatting would get across the same effect or more, because it could display more personal knowledge of the other persons preferences and your desire for them.

Bah.

Ugh.

That is fucking absurd.

How the fuck even.

Why is no one with this information making a top comment about it?

All the top comments seem totally unreasonable at first glance.

Seperation of church and state is so obviously different than the state infringing on your personhood.

Its a wildly incongruent comparison.

I’m not sure I follow your attempt to paint this as a slippery slope given that one thing is a person’s personal name, a part of their person, and the other is the state brandishing elements of religion.