I absolutely disagree that they are a few good conversations from being left-wing. Especially for the libs that are pushing the abundance agenda, the abundance agenda is specifically a way to off ramp liberal voters who are radicalizing from listening to left-wing analysis. It is a limp response to the question "Why isn't M4A even on the agenda anymore? What happened to the GND or Bidenomics?"
A reminder that the Chernobyl show is incredibly ahistorical despite having pretenses towards historicity. For example, it portrays the scientist living in a apartment block alone, when in fact he lived happily on a farm with his family, a fact acknowledged by his daughter in interviews. This is as well as pretending that the people who were dealing with the crisis weren't among the top in their field for nuclear science, and were a bunch of bumbling bureaucrats.
It also does not acknowledge that despite the Soviets lack of communication to the public, this was mostly due to the fact that they didn't exactly know what was going on as well, and causing mass panic with misinformation is exactly the wrong thing to do in a crisis.
That is very interesting, I didn't follow that little saga.
That said, I will say that from his other works, Simon suffers from liberal blinders from having spent too much time with cops and journalists. But like chuds who are telling on themselves when they make movies, David Simon also tells on himself by literally seeing things from the cops point of view, including their bad behavior. In that way, his blinders actually work in his favor because he literally can't see it as 'consistent negligence and bad behavior'. A more self-aware propagandist would either hide the behavior so it doesn't exist or highlight the behavior so much that it would never get past the censors of production funding.
I fundamentally disagree with that take. The Wire doesn't have to mention it, it literally shows that policing is systemically racist, so while no singular cop regularly expresses racist views, and can be quite diverse in race themselves, they still end up treating the places they patrol, which are by and large poor black communities, as their personal fiefdoms, where they believe that they have carte-blance to 'fight crime' even as they commit crimes (like constant reckless DWI, that even 'good police' do) to no actual positive effect on the neighborhood because there is no trust in the police, because there is no reason to trust them.
What the Wire is guilty of is having characters who we are supposed to think are smart (Bunny Colvin) wax on about a time when it wasn't like this and blame it on the War on Drugs policy, which is some grade-A rose tinted glasses. But I like to think that it just portraying a guy who thinks like that (who may exist in the police), and not the writers actual opinion of historical policing.
Herc especially is portrayed as the stereotypical cop, a mildly racist buffoon who is so incompetent at his job that despite failing upwards the only actually good police work he does is when he has been fired from the police and now works as a PI for the lawyer of the very drug dealers that got him fired. We are supposed to be following the last few 'good po-lice', not necessarily the average cop, though them and their work do come up quite often. And pretty much all the cops are shown to be cowards who never do anything without a massive force disparity.
What we don't get is the openly racist cop who never gets any punishment and still continues to move up the ranks, but idk if that works for Baltimore particularly as a setting.
Dbz the user is an insufferable debatelord who barely hides their contempt for you while posturing as jaqing off. Who was rightfully banned here around a year ago due to said tendencies (that I may or may not have got them to mask off on).
Dbz the forum is pretty chill. Little to Reddit for my liking, but not terrible.
God help us if the people who 'teach rhetoric' can't see past this nonsense. I'd genuinely prefer sophism.
Ah yes, as if anarchism, liberalism, libertarianism or really any other human ideology and methodology centered entirely on egoism don't engender some strange communal cargo cult behavior. It's almost as though they too are full of shit?
It is funny to believe in 'self-determination' when you can't even recognize that all the important decisions have already been made for you. It is rich to pretend to fight against the nihilist when you only believe in yourself. So go egoist, live your life as you please, blissfully unaware that you are just as stuck the very herd of individuality that we all find ourselves in.
So I read through his links. There isn't a citation to any of these interviews (a necessity for actual academic journalism) to make sure things aren't being taken out of context. The first document even says that "North Korean experts disagree with these things because they view North Korea through the lens of their propaganda." And even then there are only three uncited interviews, one which is obviously an absolutely outrageous lie that breaking the frame of a photo of Kim Jon Il while polishing it is grounds for the execution of an entire family.
For context, the atrocities of the Pinochet regime are backed up by literally hundreds of recorded, cited interviews, some even by guards who participated in the violence admitting their culpability years later (though usually with the excuse that they weren't the ones committing the mass rape, etc.).
This is nothing. This is unsubstantial.
Oh Christ I had totally forgotten about that one, that is some DEEP lore.
This is more of a technical question than anything, but if we post on an instance of lemmygrad, can .world people see it? Or because they are unfederated, they can't see anything we post, even if it is on a posted hosted in lemmygrad? Probably not the correct venue to address this, but I have given this whole federation thing about three brain-cells worth of thought.
Hog out or log out.
Gonna be honest, it's probably gonna take a few months to get back into fighting trim. We're out of practice from peak-r/chapo era, and in general, nicer and more genial people than we were back in those days. We'll see how long it takes before enough libs annoy us enough to reach that level of true power-posting.
I know we're (hexbearians) not technically supposed to do this outside of our own instance, but your general level of anxiety and growing antipathy is why the 'Chapo Posting Method' was created.
It's essentially the online leftist answer to the general question posed by Sartre's Anti-Semite and Jew. If they are not going to take words and the conversation seriously (and why would they when there is no material incentive to do so, it is just a game of psychological aggrandizement to them) then you are under no obligation to do so. There are rarely any bystanders, and if there are, the point isn't to convince them that you are right, the point is to convince them that you are funny, because people habitually listen to people they find funny and make them laugh. And these redditor-types, despite their two second replies ultimately take themselves very seriously so they're easy marks for this stuff. Never be the nerd in the room.
So the poop touching story was from I believe the 2018 midterms. Matt Christman had made a bet that the Dems would do poorly (I believe) with Virgil (Who's Virgil?) and Virgil won because he generally speaking had a better grasp mathematically of the horse-race of electoral politics (which is why he was a wonk about them mattering). When Matt lost, he had to 'touch the poop', which was I believe Virgil's cat's poop.
Details may vary. It's amazing to me that I remember that much.
Edit: it was also done live on-pod. I'd say it's about the closest the pod ever got to 'Adam shitting himself on air'.