U.S. Riots of May 2020 over George Floyd and others - ITT: a bunch of faggots butthurt about worthless internet stickers

[alreadyhome]

Assuming this entity didn't create the ant farm (it created itself or something) and doesn't poke anything inside, ever (because it's more interesting to watch things play out without interference and amuse yourself with foolish mortals praying to hundreds of totally made-up gods) I don't see anything scary here - it's like there's no entity at all.

More scary, or hilarious, would be an advanced entity nervously observing the ant farm, searching for homosexual ants to throw into Hell after they die. You could typecast Woody Allen for this.

You think a dispassionate observer is like no observer at all?

 

[DumbDude42]

If he really wanted to secure a meaningful legacy, I mean like 100 years from now, he would have reinstated the gold standard. Hopefully he'll do that in his second term, but I highly doubt it.

re-instating the gold standard while china holds as many dollars as it does would be a disaster

 

[Jan Ciągwa]

You think a dispassionate observer is like no observer at all?

An invisible, non-interfering observer is like a no observer, for the observed.

Or a voyeur

 

[alreadyhome]

An invisible, non-interfering observer is like a no observer, for the observed.

Or a voyeur

Exactly like a voyeur

 

[DumbDude42]

Remember Obama? Everything was always great. Even when Ghaddafi was killed, even when Abu Gharib happened, it was like "oh yeah I suppose we shouldn't pile naked men on top of each other". Can you imagine such a thing today? Trump would likely have public support for impeachment to be perfectly reasonable.

abu ghraib happened like 5 years before obama entered office you clown
and yes, the media absolutely used it to shit on bush and on the american war effort in general

 

[Vaclav]

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Elected leaders - or those seeking office - who remain silent in the midst of these acts of violence and criminal destruction are equally complicit.

Whoa, hold up, did Teddy Boy just call out Joe Biden?

 

[murdered meat bag]

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>Another minority owned, local business was destroyed by a violent group of individuals
>Minority owned business
>Destroyed by a bunch of masked white people

Isn't this the part where activists are supposed to crawl out of the woodwork like the cockroaches they are to demand names? Oh wait, he's referring to minorities who are productive to his city. So of course he's going to chuck their asses under the bus to appease the shit cunts terrorizing his neighbors in the middle of the night. What an irredeemable piece of crap. I bet his neighbors are going to throw the biggest going away party for him. Thing is, he won't be invited.

he also bitches about the cops in the second post.

 

[ColtWalker1847]

Yes, extremely varied before the states were unified. But the first federal currency was only those three metals, and so a cogent argument could be made for the legitimacy of that today. Maybe Trump does not want to be assassinated and that's why he won't even try to revert. I hadn't thought of that before.

He won't revert because it is a terrible idea.
Monetary systems advance. Going back to a precious metal standard (whose value is often arbitrary and prone to panics, shortages, and spikes) from the greater flexibility of a fiat currency is a backwards step.
Let alone the problem that there isn't enough of the stuff available to hold in reserve to represent the currency we have out there.

Shit is like saying we need to go back to a barter system. Totally unworkable and it would collapse everything. Nonsense.

 

[alreadyhome]

He won't revert because it is a terrible idea.
Monetary systems advance. Going back to a precious metal standard (whose value is often arbitrary and prone to panics, shortages, and spikes) from the greater flexibility of a fiat currency is a backwards step.
Let alone the problem that there isn't enough of the stuff available to hold in reserve to represent the currency we have out there.

Shit is like saying we need to go back to a barter system. Totally unworkable and it would collapse everything. Nonsense.

Respectfully disagree

 

[Who dat?]

Nah, they're just relying on their opponents being nice. They have been this whole time. It wouldn't take much to kill the lot of them, but optics and compassion or something.

Election.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

I don't know guys, I'm really conflicted. On one hand the schadenfreude I feel when I watch SF, Sacramento, LA, Portland and Seattle burn feels good. After all, the far left people who live and work in these cities voted in the morons that allow these meth addicted pseudo punks tear everything down. On the other it's hard to see my hometown and places I know well literally get destroyed. Wat do?

 

[Jack Awful]

he also bitches about the cops in the second post.

And his apartment being attacked in the third, which is the only reason he's suddenly denouncing the violence.

 

[Freedom Fries]

If he really wanted to secure a meaningful legacy, I mean like 100 years from now, he would have reinstated the gold standard. Hopefully he'll do that in his second term, but I highly doubt it.

Is the petro-dollar not good enough for you? Seriously, having our dollar virtually backed by energy albeit on a moving basis should be good enough.

Also, Biden has a new ad out and every single person in it is black.

Huh. I wonder if this is woke staffers or if this points to some truth behind the rumors about internal polls showing that the Republicans have really advanced Black approval ratings.

They are fools who have no clue about how quickly things can get violent. Once things actually do get violent, they have no concept about the fragility of life.

Just look at this image from Portland the other day:
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These people have watched so many superhero movies that they think they can match the torque of a fucking dually pickup, made for towing heavy loads. How can they not comprehend that it only takes someone smashing the gas and they are going to die or be permanently maimed? Why would anyone put themself in that position? It baffles me.

Nah, they're just relying on their opponents being nice. They have been this whole time. It wouldn't take much to kill the lot of them, but optics and compassion or something.

I think the left is so used to using lower-level violence as a tool to intimidate that they don't really understand what happens when you keep cornering an animal. Perhaps they think they aren't even being that violent as individually they are mostly delivering one shove or punch and bleeding back into the crowd. It might be why they get so shocked anytime somebody who was totally peaceful suddenly shoots in self-defense.

A cornered animal doesn't slowly escalate violence, it avoids it for as long as it can then dials the violence up to maximum and strikes as hard as it can. In general this is a good policy to follow for violent human interactions as well.

 

[Ponderous Pillock]

I've been pondering god(-s) lately, mostly why even bother creating the world when you know it all, can do all and did all infinite times already, have no desires and can fulfill them by a thought if you want to have them and, since you're perfect in the state of perfection, why even "do a move" creating the universe because if you move or change something, your state wasn't perfect and logically couldn't be (otherwise there's no need for action).

So yeah, I guess if you're an infinite being who can do and know anything, there is no point of doing anything because you know the outcome already. There's literally nothing "new" to you. The only way to experience novelty is to neutrally and invisibly sit back and observe something and how it changes. Does Zeus have a kiwifarms account?

No, Zeus does not (too busy turning into people and fucking them).

Dionysus on the other hand...

 

[Sneed's Feed And Seed]

Burger King...
Beep...Beep...Beep
Charleston...
Boop...Boop...Boop
Tamir...

ERROR. ERROR. SCOOPS LIMIT EXCEEDED.

 

[Freedom Fries]

And his apartment being attacked in the third, which is the only reason he's suddenly denouncing the violence.

I don't really think he gives a shit about his apartment building although it is pretty funny how all these politicians suddenly take things seriously when it starts appearing in their lives. I think that over the weekend, the DNC has quietly given orders to attempt to mitigate the damage this is doing to the party.

 

[gangweedfan]

Once again agorism is the answer.

Another way is form your own clique, gang, cult, tribe, mutual aid group, whatever and get your people to focus on what immediately matters. If it does not involve food, shelter or immediate survival then it ought be discounted.

By doing so you erase the political allegiance of those in your group and make them loyal to your group.

I swear I have a half baked concept as a counter philosophy to all this shot but cant be bothered to formalize it.

Basically form your own tribe of 150 people and get them to focus on survival above all else. Bring up pronouns? How that going help in case of a collapse? Privelage? What good does such an abstract concept do concerning rent? So on and so on. By focusing on the micro, immediate and concrete you erase any bullshit with ease.


In fact try that as a debate tactic. Next time they bring up kenosha kyle ask them what the hell a gunman five states way have to do with your paycheck?

Keep asking and refferongto the cincrete necessities of life. How do pronouns keep my house warm during the winter?

I dont know Im just rambling ideas like a spergy tard. I just know from personal experience if you keep the discussion to the realm of the immediate and concrete you shut down their shit really quick. Do it right and you will see them break down and cry.

I know this is a late reply but im pretty behind in this thread lol. Its pretty cool to see another argoist here. Its hilarious that these protesters call themselves libertarians while they burn down peoples stores and houses. As opposed to argoism which doesnt involve any violence.

 

[Rafal Gan Ganowicz]

I mean 600 drunks from Pennsylvania started an insurrection in the 1790s.

They might need an actual/the military to win an insurrection but an insurrection can certainly exist without that and with very low numbers.

Pretty unfair to call them drunks. They were farmers who distilled product for pleasure and easy transport to market.

 

[Stress Sigh]

And his apartment being attacked in the third, which is the only reason he's suddenly denouncing the violence.

These people are so much like a cartoons depiction of inept leaders. Let the pleasants burn until the savages are banging on the castle gate then start inept groveling.

 

[dinnuffindu]

Does Zeus have a kiwifarms account?

I'll never tell.