Ok I finally fell for it and Studio Ghibli’d the fam from a photo I took this morning. It’s so freaking cute

That's like saying it's unnatural for every interaction to take place over a computer, when no one is saying every interaction should take place via a computer. Money is a technology for scaling interactions between people who don't know each other, and prices efficiently communicate changing economic conditions.

No one is saying you shouldn't lend your neighbor a tool or a cooking ingredient if you want to do that. But people who want all economic transactions to be part of a "gift economy" where money doesn't exist, or some other such nonsense, are generally either idiots or parasites, often both.

What’s everyone’s Friday plans

“People who die on their feet live a lot longer than those who die on their knees”

While I have nothing against short fiction, the reason I’m not drawn to it is that I want to get to know the characters. That takes time.

My sweet spot tends to be a long stand-alone novel or a duology/trilogy.

When you go longer than that, into some epic series, I’m skeptical. By default I view it as someone writing for a career rather than to tell their optimal story, with *very* limited exceptions.

I think what a person considers natural says a lot about them. Peaceful & productive behavior is what I consider natural to healthy humans. People who cannot distinguish productive behavior from parasitic behavior are fucked up people.

Your efforts to now deflect from the real issue are weak.

Uniting to hold someone else's property hostage as a way to extort someone. That's your idea of humanity?

You are actively trying not to understand because what I am saying makes clear that your ideology is one of theft & parasitism.

I think being a natural healthy human means engaging in honest trade & negotiating based on the merit of what we have to offer each other. Unions negotiate with threats of force using numbers (usually obtained by threatening individuals to join or be atracked for being a "scab"). There is nothing healthy about humans behaving like dumb animals.

HAHahaha 😂 they think anyone here cares. Like China banning US film is gonna have some big shift to Hollywood’s trajectory. We’ve been watching them slowly commit suicide for over a decade all by themselves, you’re just stabbing a corpse. 😂 nostr:note1y7nsaa9gpfe7gr57788cqhz0fsjh0jgrnlsfjlyx0ysuynv4gc9s4gjate

How many people think unions are perfectly normal?

How many people think "the govt is just us."

Many violent or coercive groups work very hard to blur the lines because they don't want others to see who or what they are & they often don't want to admit it to themselves.

Opposition to natural heirarchy is basically a self loathing desire to not exist. The Pareto principle is a law of nature.

"Big pharma" only exists as a result of govt theft. Theft is a destruction of porperty rights antithetical to capitalism.

A "revolutionary" who doesn't understand the natural laws of the world they live in is just a destructive idiot rebelling against existence.

A successful revolution has to be more productive than destructive.

Opposition to natural heirarchy is basically a self loathing desire to not exist. The Pareto principle is a law of nature.

"Big pharma" only exists as a result of govt theft. Theft is a destruction of porperty rights antithetical to capitalism.

A "revolutionary" who doesn't understand the natural laws of the world they live in is just a destructive idiot rebelling against existence.

A successful revolution has to be more productive than destructive.

The left is basically some mix of the following:

- Pro UBI (success based theft)

- Pro Universal Healthcare (theft funded health monopoly)

- Pro Gun Control (monopoly control of personal defense)

- Pro "hate speech" censorship

- Pro Union (advocate mob coercion in contract creation)

- Pro "greater good" (advocate human sacrifice)

- Anti heirarchy (violently opposed to voluntary employment & other natural productive arrangements)

While Bakunin may be more represented by the latter part of the list, all of the above are destructive, parasitic, & authoritarian.

Happy to explain why collectivism always leads ro death & destruction if you'd like.

They are a mixed bag of authoritarians who want to destroy property rights & enslave others.

The right is a mixed bag. It appears that Ron Paul & Massie have had a massively positive impact on the right.

Israeli money & influence keep many of them stupid.

Many seem unable to grasp that govt is funded by theft because the intent is to do things people dislike. They are supporters of the govt religion, even if they claim to oppose the current shape of govt. They are easily triggered into more frantic support for the govt religion if someone disrespects the flag or some similar such nonsense.

But they are generally not completely mentally broken & braindead like most of the left is now.

He didn't say that. Athough I would like to hear what's wrong with the right as well because they're not much better

The govt is the tool that the politically connected use to enslave everyone else by force & fraud & authoritarian controls.

Pharma corps don't have an army of thugs to lock everyone in their homes, or to steal subsidies for themselves. Without govt enforcers, their power over people is almost zero.

The left seems to (in some ways) hate the conditions associated with being enslaved, but they do not want the govt to be weakened or eliminated because they dream of enslaving "the rich" to serve them. They don't want to eliminate domination & subjugation, they just imagine themselves in the role of imposing such things.

Josh offered Gavin breakfast *if he went on the big wave haha