[-] holygon@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

Oh I just found it 10 seconds before you answered, but I really appreciate the help!

[-] holygon@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Do you know where this quote is from? I'm having a hard time finding it, but would love to read more.

Edit: Found the source right after typing this haha. It's "Anti-Semite and Jew: An Exploration of the Etiology of Hate" by Jean-Paul Sartre. Here is a PDF. It's on Page 13 of the book (Page 36 of the PDF)

[-] holygon@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago

If you're interested in something fun, there's an old blog post about how terrible the Thieves Guild questline is:

https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=14422

It's a bit long, but I think it's very entertaining. Deep dive into every single plot hole, and nonsensical story beat.

[-] holygon@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah I agree. I don't think he's fully had a change of heart or anything, but the potential shame that he undoubtedly feels right now, might eat at him enough to eventually actually have a change of heart.

An example - that is of course much much much less serious than this - is when I was a teenager, and acted like a smug prick towards some friends, and acted like I was much smarter than them. They (rightfully) called me out, and while I was initially defensive, the shame of it made me realize that I had in fact been wrong, and when I made my second apology to my friends, I actually truly meant it. They accepted it, and I no longer behaved that way. Shame is a tool, and it can work wonders. However, if I had just apologized, and then continued to act this way, they should of course not have accepted it.

My point is just that shame can actually make people change, and if the person in question actually does change in their words, and their actions, then it is a good thing to, maybe not accept, but to acknowledge the apology. Reason I say acknowledge is that no one is required to just "accept" a person that has slighted them, I just mean in the societal sense, it's good that people are afforded the opportunity to change.

[-] holygon@hexbear.net 19 points 11 months ago

It's actually not named that originally in Danish. It's named "Under Sandet", which means "Under The Sand". I think this title is a little bit more poetic, and less on the nose than "Land of Mine" hahahha. Just some context, if you're interested.

[-] holygon@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago

Early piracy was just so fun. Like I'm glad that it's more simple, and accessible now, and that you are less likely to use your dial-up internet to download a virus over 3 days... But, it was so exciting lmao. Like it felt like you were stepping into some underground club that no one knew about - even though you were a 12 year old nerd with no prospects of a girlfriend in the near future hahahaha. But it was really fun, and it helped me learn to like problem-solving, and the idea of piracy, and open-source software def also helped me develop some ideas about the world around sharing, and stuff.

Anyway I think that's enough gushing about that hahaha, just wanted to indulge in my nostalgia for a minute.

[-] holygon@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I kinda miss the days of pirating a movie, burning it to a disk, and then popping it into a DVD player. Like it's objectively more convenient now, with Jellyfin/Emby/Plex media servers that can stream to any device in your home, but it has lost some of the analogue charm of feeling like a hackerman dressed like Neo when you gave a friend or a family member a DVD with sharpie writing on it, and them thinking you were some tech genius lmao.

I remember some software where you could include like a custom DVD menu, where you could press chapters and subtitles and stuff before starting the film, and thinking I was the coolest person in the world when I showed my friends hahahha. Ah good times. Thanks for the nostalgia trip.

[-] holygon@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You are right that he wrote about it, but it was in his book To Kill A Nation, and not Against Empire. Here is the direct quote from the book:

As the war dragged on and NATO officials saw press attention drifting toward the contrary story—namely that the bombing was killing civilians—“NATO stepped up its claims about Serb 'killing fields,'” notes the Wall Street Journal.2 Widely varying but horrendous figures from official sources went largely unchallenged by the media. Support for the bombings remained firm among Clinton supporters in Congress (including the one professed “socialist,” Bernard Sanders [Ind.-Vt.]), and among self-described humanitarian groups such as Human Rights Watch, Doctors Without Borders, and Concern Worldwide, along with “peace” groups, and various NGOs—many of whom seem to have convinced themselves that NATO was defending Kosovo from a holocaust.

Just searched through my copy of both Against Empire and To Kill A Nation to make sure party-parenti

[-] holygon@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

I have all of it, and I will never share with any of you society

[-] holygon@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Ah I see. I just wanted to make sure that it wasn't some specific thing that I wasn't aware of. I appreciate the answer, thanks!

[-] holygon@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can anyone educate me on what Spiritual Bypassing is, and how it relates to White Supremacy? I'm from a quite secular place, so I can't say that I often experience people even being spiritual at all, so this is a blind spot for me. I Googled it, but could only find vague explanations on using Spiritualism to dismiss things. I'm aware of all the other concepts, so figure I might as well educate myself on the one I'm not aware of.

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