consider the Dot Com Bubble: the internet obviously didn’t disappear but that doesn’t mean there weren’t serious economic consequences.

This was Vance’s plan all along: become Vice President so he could get the CIA to initiate an entrapment operation to coerce some internet loser to shoot Charlie Kirk so he could take over his podcast.

The mind boggles

how about reconsidering your position instead of just regretting saying you support eugenics out loud?

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jokes on you, I’m too old to be drafted…they’ll probably just send me to the prison farm to harvest strawberries

guys, enough with the foreplay and kiss already

I’m not saying that I think roblox should be protected from a lawsuit, I made a bad joke about how roblox exploited child labor with their outrageous percentages on their store (I have no idea if that still happens because I’m perpetually ~10 years behind everything in pop culture)

I think I worded that poorly; Roblox is infamous for exploiting the labor of children, in the form of user-created content, to generate a shitton of money on their store by taking a (rather large) percentage of the sales.

Would be pretty silly if roblox lost a lawsuit for letting someone else exploit children through their platform.

Just to clarify:. I am not saying that it would be silly if roblox lost this particular lawsuit but rather the possibility that the law holds negligence to be somehow worse than the direct exploitation of children that Roblox openly participates in through their less-than savory user-created content store

I think people have a pretty distorted view of the cultural background of ww2: Folks were anti-Nazis because they were “the bad guys”, not because of their ideology. I mean, sure , a fair few people probably thought fascism was shit but the popular acrimony against Germany et al was not anti-fascist in essence. it was simply old-fashioned war and they were the enemy.

Just like all the racist jokes your shitty uncle made about Saddam in the 90s and/or 2000s

Self-hosting is your only safe option

but then nobody gets your emails because you aren’t one of the big boy domains.

Email was not designed for the modern internet and not just on the security front. But we just kept beating at it with a hammer until it was a vaguely square shaped peg and put it in the hole anyways.

What a coincidence; I’ve been seeing no roku laetely

that’s why I specified secular scholars.

that’s certainly a take that most secular scholars of early christianity would disagree with but do you

The conflict of interest here is pretty obvious, and if anybody was suckered into believing this guy’s prognostications on his company’s products perhaps they should work on being less credulous.

through the secret force technique of “who gives a fuck”

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Kirk wasn’t even a politician, he was a talking head. And not even an A-lister like Shapiro or Jones. These guys are looking for an excuse to become violent and it didn’t take much.

I’m super not stoked on this event, I know that makes me a big softy or whatever but I’m not gonna be the one celebrating blood and death and mayhem regardless of who it is…BUT Charlie Kirk is was one of the leading big mouths pushing political discourse to this point. He’s been helping fill the tinderbox and somebody just dropped a lit match into his lap.

I just hope to God they don’t try to spin this into a store-brand Reichstag Fire moment since they can’t get any big reaction from the Nat’l Guard presence.

his book on propaganda, The Formation of Men’s Attitudes, is also well worth a read.

I think his ideas on concentration camps/prison camps slot in nicely with Deleuze’s ideas about Control Societies and the ways that technology is being used to extend the Foucaultian ideas of discrete enclosures to never-ending enclosures in all aspects of life.

And, if you like Ellul, you should definitely check out Ivan Illich’s work. He’s another social critic coming from a heterodox Christian perspective (Catholic in this case). His ideas can seem a bit unintuitive at and even off-putting to modern sensibilities at times (especially his idea of Life as Idol and his critique of modern medicine in general) but he’s another guy with a lot going on that has been pretty accurate in his prognosticating of contemporary society.