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    9 months ago

    Nah, man. I do want everyone to have the same rights and freedoms, and as many of them as possible without bothering each other (out of sheer selfish reasons: if everyone has as many rights and freedoms as possible without being a bother to others, I have as many rights and freedoms as possible, and they don’t bother me! Golden rule, bitches!), but fuck them neighbours, brunch of bastards the whole lot of them (I should know, I’m their neighbour and I am one), those freedoms don’t include me opening the door or answering when some bastard rings the fucking doorbell, just slip a note under the door like a normal person and I’ll get to it when my executive dysfunction feels like it.








  • I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, “no. get out.”

    And the dude next to me says, “hey i’m not doing anything, i’m a paying customer.” and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, “out. now.” and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed

    Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, “you didn’t see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them.”

    And i was like, ohok and he continues.

    "you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it’s always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don’t want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.

    And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it’s too late because they’re entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.

    And i was like, ‘oh damn.’ and he said “yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people.”

    And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven’t forgotten that at all.

    — Transcribed from a series of tweets by @IamRageSparkle, around 2020.






  • Not defending China, but I wouldn’t say that had anything to do with political convenience… the Irish potato famine, or the way world governments are currently letting Israel starve Gaza, are examples of mass starvation caused by political convenience… but Mao’s thing was due to criminal ignorance and stupidity, not political convenience.