Tonight (Sat7/8/23) at 21:00 EST/ 01:00 UTC we'll be doing another Testing and Breaking Things Stream over on Kick.com.
We'll be doing a bit of grinding in Disgaea to level up the new character and around Midnight we're going to watch some Silent movies, a silent short that is TBA and Der Golem (1920)
A German expressionistic Horror film set in the middle ages. The Golem is the last film in what was the very first Multimedia mass merchandising SciFi Horror Franchises, with Book, Radio, Film and Merchandise elements. It is also a prequel that serves as the origin story for the film series. https://kick.com/brickmuppet Come by, say "Hi!" and poke about while checking out the Beta of Kick.com!
(We actually showed this looonng ago on Twitch, but only had 2 viewers the whole night and this film really deserves to be seen. )
So, in what is now called Independence Hall, in Philadelphia, 247 years ago today, a group of men, some more reluctantly than others, declared the independence of their homeland from their nation.
After a declaration of principles, they listed their grievances. Those grievances are highlighted in red below the fold.
Aside from certain ones that have a contemporary ring to them ("He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us...") and a few others that were products of their time, I am struck by how mundane many of these concerns seem to most of us today, yet back then were seen as sufficient infractions of liberty to inspire men to take up arms against the most powerful military in the world.
I'm further struck be the lack of anything approaching child genital mutilation amongst the grievances.
This may yet be winnable without a great deal of violence.
SEcondly, the appropriate time and place for violence would be in circumstances where every American would understand it to be justified. See Rittenhouse.
Thirdly, the path out will need a victorious coalition able to deliver peace. The type of person most necessary to bring into that coalition are the ones who would dislike stupid emotionally compromised applications of violence, that are directed against innocents.
Each of these items alone would perhaps be grounds for some thoughtful and attentive deliberation. Together, I find them strongly compelling.
Most current things seen as provocation have perhaps been going on for decades. I think the schools were pretty abusive twenty or twenty five years ago.
Covid and the rest of 2020's activities were a combination of the left unmasking thinking they had won, and them being too clever for their own good. The current level of disenchantment is downstream of their own goals, and discrediting of their tools.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Sat Jul 8 21:58:13 2023 (r9O5h)
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Ian's moderation team or Ian himself deleted my comment for that video. It may be my first time. The comment itself was fairly innocuous, I think. It said: "FYI Antelope Hill sell ``The Foreigner Group'' by Carolus Lofross on their website." I didn't even post a link (which I can post here, if you're interested). But someone could not stand it. I guess I'll go ahead and cancel my Patreon subscription now.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Wed Jul 5 00:48:48 2023 (LZ7Bg)
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I think Lofross's book was the one that Patreon threatened Headstamp over when they were trying to publish it.
Thanks for the link BTW!
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Wed Jul 5 07:37:11 2023 (ir7rl)
Posted by: Rick C at Fri Jul 7 09:41:19 2023 (k3/O4)
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OK, that was weird, I posted my comment, the page refreshed, and the video's there instead of "this video is not available."
Posted by: Rick C at Fri Jul 7 09:41:48 2023 (k3/O4)
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@ Rick C: I've heard that You Tube and Patreon have been deleting/ shadow-banning/ generally dorking with... channels that feature edgy content by the standards of hypersensitive Karens.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Fri Jul 7 16:37:43 2023 (ir7rl)
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Whoops, I missed your reply somehow. That wouldn't surprise me. Daily they seem to go to new heights of idiocy. In a recent Louis Rossmann video talking about their latest attack on adblocking, Rossmann says Youtube will display a message on some people's screens saying they need to "allowlist" Youtube's ads...because "whitelisting" obviously is a Very Bad Word.
Posted by: Rick C at Fri Jul 14 09:14:18 2023 (BMUHC)
