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Yes! What was that about unity?

Hah!

Too much thinking.

The right doesn't care about accuracy, but they will pretend to to keep us busy. To counteract it, we can't spend our time engaged in good faith arguments of carefully considered wording. We need to beat them on that flippant energy that shows we won't take their bait and we know we're right, so we don't have to prove it.

Weird is perfect for that. They don't want to be weird.

Now when they turn it around and try to call us weird? Then is the time to say 'hey, that's cool! I'm happy to be weird!' and literally not worry about the contradiction at all.

They picked an arena where they can't beat us. Let's meet them there.

Imagine being so fucking lazy and uninspired that you outsource your political propaganda to an overgrown spell checker.

This honestly feels like the left taking back the social position we had in the 90s, which the right has spent the past few years attempting to be a pale, unfunny imitation of. Irreverence is our jam. Defiance is our bread and butter. The left does best when it saves the analytical brain for getting shit done and confidently mocks the presumption that some stuffy authority knows what's better for us.

Don't waste your energy arguing with these trolls, just call them weirdos and move on with your day!

Dino Land for Genesis was a lot of fun!

This is the conclusion I've come to since reading the State and Revolution. The people who are capable of overthrowing the current system aren't likely to be the same people capable of keeping true to an approach that's legitimately socialist. There are problems with reformism as well, as it can result in an endless series of small concessions to distract from an equally endless series of measured power grabs.

If I take what I read of Marx and Engels as likely to be accurately predictive, my conclusion has to be that the circumstances they're discussing haven't occurred yet. Basically, Lenin jumped the gun with his support of imposing a revolution and a dictatorship of the proletariat. The power structure it creates is too centralized to achieve its goals.

This would suggest to me that if Marx and Engels are correct, a spontaneous and universal proletariat uprising is probably still down the road somewhere. Basically, we see hints at this state reflected in the microcosm of revolution, but have yet to see the circumstances that cause an actual change of prioritization and autonomy rather than simply a changing of the guard.

Honestly I mostly just know because I have a big stack of old Game Pros and Nintendo Powers from the 90s and I only ever remember seeing Game Informer in Barnes and Noble once those became a thing.

But you may still be right! xD

2006 is a bit late in the game. Game magazines as a relevant medium peaked in the 90s. By 2006 you have a pretty robust internet, what's the point? Yeah, sure, if you stick them in every single B&N they'll sell, but Game Pro and Nintendo Power were institutions in the 90s. If you wanted to know about games, that was the way.

Bummer. Game Informer was the leading game magazine when Game Pro and Nintendo Power were around, though? I think not. Game Informer was third fiddle at best.

I don't know that that's an operational definition of Christianity. It seems to me that a great many people who don't seem familiar with love or forgiveness, but who seen intimately familiar with avarice and greed, self-identify as Christians. You can say that they're not, but I don't think that's how religion usually works.

Ooohhh, that does look promising! Good to know there's some kind of viable alternative!

That's cool! I only really do thumb-ball mice, though, and I haven't really seen alternatives to Logitech in the same form-factor. I imagine they might even have a patent on it.

Buuuut I'm betting I can do stuff like repair the couple of MX Ergos I have lying around if I need to if I get motivated about it. Or like, maybe there's a way I can have replacement parts fabricated or use the shell of a Logitech mouse as the basis for something similar.

You hear that Logitech? Charge me a subscription fee and I will absolutely figure this out and distribute blueprints and repair guides to the whole ass internet. I appreciate your ergonomics, your unifying dongles, your precision mode, and all your hotkeys, but $90 is plenty for a mouse. Don't get greedy or I will personally bite you in the ass.