Quality Post

The Luigi Legacy…

I’m gonna talk out my ass for a minute, I haven’t actually done any focused reading on most of the tidbits I’m about to discuss. Just putting together a lot of disconnected thoughts and anecdotes I’ve collected over the years

I’m remembering that the phrase “white pride” only exists in imitation of the phrase “black pride” and the accompanying explanation for why one is absolutely not at all problematic while the other is unabashedly supremacist. That explanation being that “black” references the culture common to that group of people which, in the case of American black people, can’t really be narrowed down to any one country. While it can be narrowed down (mostly) to one continent, that still represents a fifth of the Earth’s land-area and therefore includes a lot of cultures that don’t have anything in common.

So, “black culture” then is a sort of (the word I’m about to use may be problematic, I don’t know, it makes sense in my head but I’m white and have no idea how it might feel to have someone else describe me this way) “prosthetic” culture. I’m thinking, because they did lose a real part of themselves but, because there are so many others with the same culture-esque background in America, the phrase “black culture” refers to a real thing that exists.

Now, the other direction. “White culture” is problematic because, what culture is it that “white” people share? People who are “white” have a cultural history already, they don’t need a prosthetic. I know I come from something vaguely Scots-Irish. If I could be bothered to look into that more, I could surely find clubs, celebrations, or whatever kind of pageantry I wanted to validate that identity. But what cultural history do I have in common with this other random “white” person who it turns out is actually Romanian?

And that brings me to the best bit! Take all the people who are considered “white” today, put them in a room and have them discuss with each other, looking for the single attribute that their culture shares with the most other cultures in that room. I would guess (totally out my ass here, I have no idea) that the one thing most cultures have in common today even the ones currently considered “white” is that they used to be persecuted for their non-whiteness.

I don’t have any numbers for that. I’m just thinking about how, for example, Italians didn’t used to be “white”, Irish people didn’t used to be “white”, or Romanian people are still kind of struggling to be considered “white”. Or we could take it another way, Jews aren’t “white” regardless of their skin color (though of course the state of Israel is likely to sterilize anyone whose skin is too dark…) and I remember a stereotype about Catholics that sure seemed to fit in the category of non-“white”.

So, now I don’t remember what the subject of the post I’m writing this in was…

This quote is part of her speech delivered 19 November 2014 as acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (Ursula K. Le Guin’s speech, obviously)

That looks promising! Thanks!!

Ooooof

While your argument is sound, a server can’t feed their children or care for disabled parents with sound arguments and principled stances.

Right, I get that, but where was it he was bitten?

I’d really like a source for the “200 million per decade” number, the closest I’m aware of is this catalog of US atrocities but that’s both a wider and narrower subject than this one, not directly comparable.

Wait, is it really easy as that? I can just set Proton VPN up and download the LotR Extended Editions, no problem?

A friend of mine is curious about pirating without having their ISP shut the internet down, are there any tips I should give them?

Honest reporting looks like propaganda if the only news one is used to reading has been filtered through the fourteen layers of the American empire’s propagandic method.

The following is a representation of conservative thought:

Because it defies belief! Everyone knows any real superhero team would have NO women, women couldn’t be superheroes! Movies only force us to have women there because of Woke. We can “tolerate” (will still complain about but will give Hollywood our dollars anyway) a 5/6 men/women ratio. If we gotta pretend to be Woke, it better not be more than five sixths!

Source: I was raised in a conservative household and did not fully reject that poison until I was 27.

Ahhhh I highly doubt they’ll admit to a mistake, they’ll likely simply not acknowledge it at all but if they do acknowledge that they’re stepping in their own shit they’ll spin it as some kind of grand strategy to “determine which portions of the fat they trimmed were truly useless”.

This is my first time encountering the words “democratic confederalism” in the wild, I only know what that is from Robert Evan’s The Women’s War.

Same, I’m assuming it will be in the periodical email?

I’ve never worried about it too much.

Usually, I clean my glasses with a microfiber cloth which I’ll occasionally toss in the general laundry.

Sometimes I’ll clean my glasses with soap and water using just my fingers, then dry it with just a handy bathroom towel and then my microfiber cloth.

I can handwrite cyphered text as fast as I can write ordinarily. Never have practiced reading the cyphered text though so reading notes that I took in cypher is a pain in the ass…

“emissions are still increasing… thanks to China.” I understood China led the world in renewable energy development, their total emissions are still increasing despite that?

all your hands?