The Gamer's Quarter

[dhex]

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[dhex]

i don't know what they're smoking but i would like a pull or three thanks.

man i got this from like 14 sources simultaneously. amen internet, amen.
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[Shapermc]

religioneers?

sowing faith seeds?

hell, who would pay for... oh.
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“The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

[dhex]

yup.

my daily lulz from a funny dude i know out in libertopia talking about the duty of anarcho-capitalists to indoctrinate children.

[dhex]

someone buy me this book for mithras or something:

http://www.armedamerica.org/

also the bouncer book is available for preorder on amazon!
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[Scratchmonkey]

[dhex]

man leave me out of it.
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[dhex]

http://ptonline.aip.org/journals/doc/PHTOAD-ft/vol_60/iss_8/49_1.shtml

this is long but a very interesting read.
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[dhex]

i am generally a fan of the idea of this resurgence in popular economics books, but i wonder where it all leads in the end.
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[dhex]

"Conventional work is out of the question for me - both in terms of my conscience and on an intellectual level - as it seems objectionable with regard to both my personal well-being and the well-being of society as a whole. Emotionally too it creates unbearable pain and dejection," he wrote.

awesome.
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[dhex]

url=http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/011237.html]Teen girl to friend: Oh, I know about the Great Depression! That's when Hitler's wife poisoned her kids and then shot herself. She was really depressed.[/url]
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[Dracko]

Goebbels' wife, damn it.
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"This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!"

[SuperWes]

[dhex]

yeah i'm going to pick this up when i see it someplace for cheap.
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[ryan]

[dhex]

[dhex]

my friend has a term for people who seemed too stupid to be alive: human headwound.

man i met one last night. it was one of the most excruciating two hour monologues i've ever sat through. all of my attempts to derail her train of insane were fruitless. reincarnation, a long discussion of the astrological significance of pet birthdays, various past lives. basically anything you'd read in a cardboard sendup of new age type stuff, except in living form. she wasn't a bad person, just insatiably lonely.

needless to say, she was wiccan.

needless to say, pills are involved.
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[seryogin]

[Swimmy]

[dhex]

yeah i mean i understand her motivations since her life sucks.

i mean i have a lot of wacky beliefs but those who hang with me can say that unless i'm drunk and someone brings up anime i won't go on a five minute tirade about how the people of japan owe a blood libel debt to the rest of humanity because of loli.

i mean i have standards. more importantly, my particular metaphysics are very interesting to me and with the proper load of alcohol and dancing can be made interesting to others. but generally speaking talking about metaphysics in public is a lot like talking about your bowel movements in mixed company; very interesting and central to your life, but a little bit gross for everyone else.

oddly enough the only really enjoyable part of the evening was explaining some factual stuff about salvia. apparently it's big in the occultnick communities now but at fairly low threshold doses.

also: get a load of this blowjob!

ONE MONTH from The Anniversary, I'm thinking another 9/11 would help America.

fuck these collectivist pieces of shit right in their communal ear.
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[Dracko]

You being a PKD fan, I thought you might enjoy this read.
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"This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!"

[dhex]

i'll peep that shit when i get home.

this made me laugh:
http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/011288.html

[dhex]

But it's always good to remember that in order to make it marginally more difficult for Americans to get high, not only are you footing the $1.9 billion bill it costs the DEA to raid homes, pay snitches, arrest doctors, spray poison across Latin America, and storm medical marijuana clinics each year, you also pay your bank to spy on your financial transactions on behalf of the U.S. government.
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[dhex]

[dhex]

oh god man:

FREEDOM IS POPULAR!
a Ron Paul rEVOLution benefit show

Bands:
PHONOGRAPH www.myspace.com/phonographny
USED TO BE WOMEN www.myspace.com/usedtobewomen
THE VIOLETS www.myspace.com/theviolets
THE CASE OF GRETTA CONNERS www.myspace.com/cgc13

Saturday August 25th
8pm
Suggested Donation: $10 (money raised goes toward contest to get RP to our meetup group)

THE SUGAR FACTORY
289 Kent Ave at S. 2nd
Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211

myspace.com/sugarfactoryclube


ok go to the violets and listen to the ron paul song and then cry with laughter and crying. (shake this monkey isn't actually a bad song)
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[Redeye]

[helicopterp]

Dhex, I wanted to take this opportunity to tell you that I think you would get a big kick out of hating on the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education. (I have to take classes there for certification.)

So far we have traced our bodies in bright marker on ten-foot long pieces of paper and represented a teaching experience visually by using sticky foam critters.
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Like you thought you'd seen copter perverts before. They were nothing compared to this one.

[dhex]

what?

is this for like, grade school cert or something?

how does long division make you feel?
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[dhex]

hey this is neat:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/wikiwatch/
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[helicopterp]

[Dracko]

[dhex]

[dhex]

[dhex]

on my way home i heard two guys talking about how great dragonforce is.

i don't really know what to say.
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[dhex]

reason story on campus RIAA enforcement.
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[dhex]

i received a mass email from a friend of a friend complaining about creationists.

that this person is deep into homeopathic medicine is part of the fun of modern life.

it must be very hard to straddle that line. or perhaps very easy. i know not. it would seem difficult to me, but i am notoriously simple-minded.
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[dhex]

[dhex]

this is funny, yet very very sad.

[The Soviet Onion]

[dhex]

go paul!
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[Isfet]

[Shapermc]

That should go in the squirrel thread too.
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“The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

[extrabastardformula]

[dhex]

ok well short version: that difference is cultural, because we're raised in most cultures to see the excesses of that variation of national socialism as not intrinsically evil, where the nazis' variation was/is. for ethical reasons i see them as being nearly equivalent, the outgrowth of the great governmental leap forward that struck most of the developed world (the rise of fascism in italy, germany; intense centralization in america; entrenchment in the soviet union and the eventual spread to china, etc) and the general bricks in the road that have led us to the cusp of the superstate. obviously, being a minarchist i think this is not only bad, but Very Bad (tm), and that bored kids wearing thugs on their shirts (nothing more rebellious than state power, kids!) is merely a low end outgrowth of this unfortunate tendency towards greater surveillance and socialism, if the two can be separated at this point.

alternately i have been told by several sources that of course i would think this is bad due to factors xyz (my presumed racial and social status/class) but like someone that's hung up on freud there's only so much you can do to argue against beliefs-as-pathology on either the right or left, where it has found various manifestations as a great way to shut down an argument. maybe they're right; rhetorically they're still fucked because you can only use moral arguments with people who take either your words or your person as a moral authority. (which is a good reason to back away from strict moral insults in these sorts of arguments if only because they are ineffective. this is not the same as not making a moral judgment about something.)

so anyway....in a funny ha ha bit you get aging folk singers turning around decades after the fact to grudgingly admit that perhaps stalin was not so cool a dude for the same reasons you see a lot of conservatarians on hit and run playing KULTUR WAR type games against an enemy that ceased to be so very long ago.

TEAM RED TEAM BLUE GO TEAM GO

personally i find that show boring myself. on the other hand i think collectivism is basically inherently an evil, or at least a NOT GOOD tendency for public policy*; but it's also inherent to human psychology on a very deep level. this can be dealt with by making the collective/social parts less coercive, which is generally what's happening right now (i.e. the increase in surrogate communities based around various political, social and even sexual behaviors; you'll notice the more serious ones are often referred to as families, or extended families, or use familial descriptions.) so it doesn't always have to be boring TEAM RED TEAM BLUE type routines; it can be boring vegansexualists or boring catholic workers or boring xyz groups, or even exciting versions thereof. (perhaps one day an exciting version of TEAM RED TEAM BLUE will be found.)

so at the end of the day i take heart in the fact that the great tyrannies of the modern era have been relatively short lived, even if they have crushed millions upon millions upon millions of lives in ways that we cannot possibly begin to measure because so many vectors were shut down and so many processes were begun that may not manifest for many, many years. oh but the heartening part is that the discordian formula seems to be true:

the imposition of order = the escalation of chaos

it's just that a lot of people tend to die in the process.

but to the original question, i think governmental communism was historically more evil than nazism, and will continue to be a force of evil in the world so because it is a new variation on an old story which gives it a memetic fitness lacking in variations on nazism, which tend to be dead ends fixated on racial categorizations from the 19th century. whereas governmental communism is based on the promise of "we will help you - the good people - take the stuff of them - the bad people" which is a dance nearly everyone can get into.

voluntary individual communism is obviously not the same thing, and the variable, loose family of voluntary, non-coercive organizations it could be grouped with (including various flavors of anarchism, mutual aid societies, artistic communes, the free state project, sexual groups, occult groups, etc) are all working against that kind of superstructure regardless of the success or failure of their efforts or the ridiculousness of their clothing, beliefs, etc.


*people tend to respond to that with a "but the community is great and all that" while forgetting that the most tightly knit communities control the shit out of personal behavior, punish sexual deviancy and generally act in traditional, even reactionary, ways.
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[dhex]

and in the grossest injustice of all, no one laughs at the idea of a shirt that reads "we are all kulaks now" except me.
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[dhex]

TODAY IS THE DAY
(tomorrow)

doors open at five! it's a polish guido club so they want all the metalheads out by 11 or so. saipan and a few other bands on steve austin's label are playing tomorrow. i'm bringing a fuckload of cash for merchandise too.
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[dhex]

man the ahmadinejad at columbia thing is way overblown.

1) disinviting him would look stupid
2) there's slim hope of a real q&a session
3) it beats all the other options

and yeah yeah of course it's semi-hilarious that you can invite someone from a country that murders homosexuals but ROTC was kicked off campus partially because of their policy towards homosexuals but jesus fucking christ do people really expect politics to be logically consistent? it's MY TEAM MY TEAM RAH RAH RAH and that's that.
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[seryogin]

[dhex]

the daily news is actually more frothy in comparison, or so it seems. perhaps because this is generally post territory.

don't get me wrong i think the post headline writers are the greatest poets of our age and all...
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[dhex]

i just elected this guy president of my brain

http://computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=172871
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