Rusty Shackleford

Getthefuckouttamyfacewiththisridiculousbullshit.

https://giphy.com/gifs/crying-matthew-mcconaughey-interstellar-l3vR4CdLInXOhr3rO

But come on.

Unironically, no u.

You ooze self-righteousness.

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Your are assailed by many threats: the religious, the nihilists, the corporatists, the fascists, and the alleged “collectivists”. Extreme authoritarian “leftists”, A.K.A. “tankies” (i.e., apologists for Lenin, Stalin, Mao, the CCP, the DPRK, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Xi Jingping, etc.), are threats to a free, egalitarian, and open society, are just as violently authoritarian as their religious, corporatist, and fascist competitors, and should be treated with the contempt, distrust, and ridicule they deserve.

They claim to speak and fight for the proletariat, promising a new utopia, never before seen, once their revolution executes the last “class-traitor”. In practice, once they’re finished with “seizing the means of production”, they’ll never relinquish control and become the new ruling class.

They’ll assume the mantle of an enlightened elite post-revolutionary administration to guide the proletariat to their promised utopia of “each according to their ability, to each according to their need”. In practice, "the party leadership needs the most, because they’re obviously the most able” in reorganizing the economic and political structure of society. The utopia of the “dictatorship of the proletariat” will never exist, only the dictatorship of the “revolutionary party”. Repression and execution await those who question their claims and decisions.

These supposed champions of labor are really harbingers of death - of the mind and the body. They claim to be the true authoritative “voice of the people”. Understand what they really are; power over everything and everyone, forever, is what they seek. They want you either as a true believer (a willing pawn) or dead, just like all of the other supposedly benevolent dictators who promised utopias throughout history.

They’re akin to the pigs in Orwell’s Animal Farm, the loudest voices in the revolution, usurpers of a righteous cause, but a bit “more equal” than everyone else after the farmer is done away with. Fortunately, the pigs, like the farmer, got their comeuppance in the end of the story. Make these pigs squeal.

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“Freemium”

very LOUD minority

self-anointed gatekeepers

top posts are continually about shaming other users

Crabs in a bucket. No one’s allowed to succeed, unless everyone™ does.

Our sorrow, despondency, and terror are their sustenance.

Vermin.

100 is the average, implying half the population is lower than that

At the risk of pedantry, if 100 is the average (the mean), we’re saying “most people are at 100”. If it were the median, then we’re implying “100 is the middle score of those sampled”. A subtle, but important difference.

The audio quality is still far inferior to hardline, though Bluetooth audio standards have gotten better over the past recent years.

Long may he reign.

Git-illeterate illiterate

the paradox of thrift holds that collective thrift may be bad for the economy.

Collective thrift is great for the economy. It’s just bad for corporate parasitism, economic stagnation, and cataclysmic wealth imbalance.

It renders parasitic business models as unviable and allows for the rebalancing of resources and development capital towards products that provide actual meaningful value for the vast majority of people.

This probably wouldn’t be a problem if I weren’t so critical of myself.

Same.

I spend too much time being frustrated inside my own head, and that makes it easy to use that same tone when I’m interacting with other people.

Same.

My Dad’s neighbors always say:

Hurt people hurt people.

And as a counterpoint to that, from Slavoj Zizek:

Never presume that your suffering is, in itself, a proof of your authenticity.

Just because we wrestle with ourselves internally, it doesn’t justify our perniciousness to others.

Uncle Iroh nailed it:

Sometimes the best way to solve your own problems is to help someone else.

I just don’t wanna sound like an asshole when I attempt to do that!

As someone who discovered my Type 1 ASD at 40, the gods know that I have a lot more work to do on my self-awareness and abrasiveness.

Not saying you should adopt this, but sometimes I read aloud what I type and imagine myself replying to a student in real life in the way of and with the tone that people sometimes have on StackOverflow.

My gut reaction at that point, usually, is to rewrite a response or post completely with a more generous dose of humility and compassion.

I don’t always get it right, but when I remember to do that and read replies, I like myself a little bit more.

Does the snark really make you feel better?

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