Why do people think I suggest wars should be fought in the currently taboo methods of actually targeting the actual instigators regardless of mil / civ labels, currently taboo because they long ago removed themselves from the fray & propagandized against it, for very obvious reasons...

However if you are talking current warfare, don't kid yourselves, those supporting are not innocent even if they have convinced themselves they are.

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In fiction, the point of view from how we see the story can often color how we perceive the ethics of characters. And of course, that lesson can apply in real life as well.

If you ask most people if Neo and Trinity in the Matrix are heroes or anti-heroes, for example, they’ll probably say heroes. There is nothing particularly dark or edgy about them other than kind of a general “cool” factor. They’re pretty chill and well-meaning people in their downtime, we care about their relationship, they help their friends, they have rather pure motivations, etc.

But in the Matrix, agents can teleport themselves into any unplugged person. Which means that when Neo or Trinity attack a place, they pretty much have to slaughter everyone. Leaving survivors means that agents can teleport in. Innocent guards and stuff just get wiped out by the dozens. The stakes of humanity being enslaved by the machines are so high, that the characters don’t even really debate the ethics of this; they just accept it.

Like literally the opening scene is Trinity killing police, and the audience is like “wow cool” instead of “so, is that the antagonist?” The famous lobby scene consists of Neo and Trinity wiping out tons of guards that are just doing their job of guarding a skyscraper. In the sequel, Trinity sends a motorcycle bomb into a power station, and then murders the remaining guards as they attack her. We all basically like Trinity, and yet there are platoons of widows and orphans out there from all the guards she killed. There aren’t really even any scenes of her reflecting on that, like finding it emotionally difficult in any way to do those things or feeling in any way haunted by it.

If the Matrix story was shown from like, a detective’s point of view, these characters are terrorists and would either seem like outright villains (if you don’t know their motivation) or anti-heroes if you do (ends justify the means; mass-murder is okay and not even worth feeling bad about if it saves billions).

So, how the movie *frames* things for us makes a big difference. We closely follow Neo and Trinity so much that we’re like, “of course they’re the heroes”. The same thing happens in real life with political commentators and things like that; a cultural narrative can frame something as wholly good or wholly bad when often it’s actually kind of complex.

Therefore, it’s a useful practice whether in analyzing fiction or real life, to always ask how you could invert the framing for something.

#nostriches and #austriches

Do Aussies feel anywhere near the passion for freedom as Americans?

We are approaching Orwellian times with MAD and the ban on social media for u16 year olds.

This comes after

- record immigration to the detriment of housing affordability

- Commoditisation of our education (for visas to prop up the ponzi)

- Longest lockdowns globally

- Inability to seriously fight the above without retribution

Yeah I should have started procreating earlier, our fertility Dr said my swimmers were 14x the average, called me an "over achiever" 😂

Could have repopulated the west with Indo-European babies.

Buy the killdozer dip!

I looked at some guy wearing leather buckled sandles and felt like starving millions by withholding grain, but then it passed.

I looked at some guy wearing leather buckled sandles and felt like starving millions by withholding grain, but then it passed.

I looked at some guy wearing leather buckled sandles and felt like starving millions by withholding grain, but then it passed.

Raided the money jars today. That’s about 8 years worth of shrapnel.

Funny that they coloured the tokens silver and gold to tap into human instinct, but really they’re worthless.

The 5 cent coins might as well be taken out of circulation but Gov doesn’t like people being reminded that their money is worthless.

Two thoughts as we walk around the city on a wine tasting walk. We don't come in to the city very often, so things stand out.

1. Marxist/communist/leftist people never look like they have, or could, actually do any hard work. Skinny or chubby losers 😂

2. There is a proliferation of gin that is just not needed. Every cunt with some spare time is sloshing out some average gin and it's everywhere.

#thoughts #grownostr

Two thoughts as we walk around the city on a wine tasting walk. We don't come in to the city very often, so things stand out.

1. Marxist/communist/leftist people never look like they have, or could, actually do any hard work. Skinny or chubby losers 😂

2. There is a proliferation of gin that is just not needed. Every cunt with some spare time is sloshing out some average gin and it's everywhere.

#thoughts #grownostr

Sadly I can't say that I have much hope for the general public but at least tech savvy people will know how to get around this.

Sadly I can't say that I have much hope for the general public but at least tech savvy people will know how to get around this.

Sadly I can't say that I have much hope for the general public but at least tech savvy people will know how to get around this.

I have decided to change tack.

Instead of bitching at the parasite class; I’m going to challenge them all to single combat til death.

Forget duelling, that shit is way out of date. The parasites will just nominate their seconds who they buy off to be their bodyguards anyway.

Nah Im going out of my way to challenge any politician who seeks authority over me or mine to settle it like men.

If you want to govern me, you’ll have to defeat me in single combat first to prove you are worthy.

I challenge you all to match me in this and make the parasites put skin in the game.

My first call is Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. This snivelling halfwit keeps talking tough when it suits him and then talking about his upbringing in a council house when that is debunked.

I challenge Albo to one-to-one combat with the loser exiled to death.

Ready Albo you fucking cunt?

I have decided to change tack.

Instead of bitching at the parasite class; I’m going to challenge them all to single combat til death.

Forget duelling, that shit is way out of date. The parasites will just nominate their seconds who they buy off to be their bodyguards anyway.

Nah Im going out of my way to challenge any politician who seeks authority over me or mine to settle it like men.

If you want to govern me, you’ll have to defeat me in single combat first to prove you are worthy.

I challenge you all to match me in this and make the parasites put skin in the game.

My first call is Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. This snivelling halfwit keeps talking tough when it suits him and then talking about his upbringing in a council house when that is debunked.

I challenge Albo to one-to-one combat with the loser exiled to death.

Ready Albo you fucking cunt?

What have they done?!

What have they done?!