Grames Barnaby

[Ethical Skeptic ☀ @EthicalSkeptic]

I attended a concert the other night where the musician interrupted the performance to lecture the audience with a string of familiar leftist talking points. The atmosphere shifted immediately. People went from enjoying the music to feeling uncomfortable, even irritated. He spoke to the crowd as though we were incapable of thinking for ourselves.

I won't be paying out listening time or money to that artist again. He seems to have spent too many years inside a celebrity bubble.

I'm tired of entertainers who mistake their ability to play a guitar for expertise in subjects they clearly haven't studied. Musical talent is admirable. It is not a substitute for competence in history, economics, science, or public policy.

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[Matt Forney @mattforney]

As much as I loathe how Indians are taking a hatchet to Microsoft's gaming division, "the id Software fans have come to know" was dead when John Carmack resigned to design space rockets and Matrix VR headsets.

[Grames Barnaby @overunderwriter]

@HMBohemond In a roundabout way, you could consider the Tau to be the equivalent of the Young Kingdoms in space with an anime skin if you were so inclined to match the old pulp inspiration from the old Elric books.

[Grames Barnaby @overunderwriter]

@HMBohemond Listen if you're not playing the Eldar in the same way you're playing a Eldren, Melnibonéans and Vadaugh or the men and women from the end of time from Michael Moorcock's fantasy/SF work. You've failed to grasp what they are.

[Grames Barnaby @overunderwriter]

@martianwyrdlord I add one counter point you aren't thinking about. What if the Flock cameras are more about inducing riots and anarchy. And then just using the data to just make shit up for false flags instead? Never presume that the true knowledge will be used against you, only falsehoods.

[Grames Barnaby @overunderwriter]

@Nerdcognito Alas yes, I do remember that dang ol' aux switch box.

[EM Burlingame - 蒲 奕 言 @EMBurlingame]

Tonight's closing out wisdom.
Time for the fights.
Night all.

[KennyLauderdale @KennyLauderdal3]

Like the very fact circuses use to exist with clowns & elephants doing tricks is a complete anachronism to most people. You only see clowns at really shitty birthday parties now, if that. I once asked a guy why they shut it down & they said "I heard an Elephant sat on a guy"

[Matt Forney @mattforney]

This is literally just communism. I'm not just talking about illegal alien amnesty or defunding the military. I'm talking about getting rid of the Senate and independent executive and judiciary.

Communists do not believe in separation of powers, not even the weak separation that exists in parliamentary democracies like the U.K. The ideal Marxist system of government is the "highest organ of state power" (or "supreme state organ of power"), a parliament that combines legislative, executive, and judiciary functions. Marx based this on the Paris Commune, which merged all three functions into a single council, and argued that having an independent executive branch (even a legislatively-derived executive like a prime minister) and judiciary would enable capitalists to retain a foothold in the government. This is combined with bans on political participation by non-communist parties.

Every communist state is organized around the unity of power. China's presidency is a figurehead position; Xi Jinping's power is derived from his position as the CCP's general secretary and the standing committee of China's legislature, the National People's Congress. Yes, China has an elected legislature, but it meets infrequently and the only parties allowed to exist are in alliance with the CCP. There are no brakes on any of these entities' powers. North Korea, Cuba, Vietnam and so forth are organized on the same principles. The Soviet Union was organized on the unity of power principle; Soviet citizens were allowed to vote (and indeed encouraged to; party functionaries would visit sick people to ensure they could cast a ballot), but the only candidates allowed to run were Communists or communist "independents." There was also no secret balloting; you were technically allowed to write in a vote, but since the normal voting procedure just consisted of taking a pre-filled ballot and putting it in the ballot box, everyone would see you writing in the name of a different candidate and you would be punished.

The separation of powers in the American system is annoying, but it's also a hard brake on libtardery. Is it annoying that lower courts can screw with Trump's executive orders? Yes. Is it annoying that the Senate can infinitely punt the SAVE Act with parliamentary arcana? Yes. But these structures also prevent Democrats from going full hog with their insane ideas. Biden had to pare back his Build Back Better plans after being unable to pass them through an evenly-divided Senate. Mitch McConnell blocked all of Obama's judicial appointees during the last two years of his presidency---including, most famously, Merrick Garland---enabling Trump to fill all these empty seats during his first term. Those judges are why Trump 2.0 is far more effective. The relatively small amount of Biden-appointed judges causing problems is because the Democrats only had full control of the Senate for the last two years of his term (the 50-50 split from 2021 to 2023 gave Democrats overall control, but required them to split committees evenly with Republicans). And of course, foreign policy is the sole prerogative of the executive branch. If these constitutional walls didn't exist, we'd look like Britain or Canada.

All of this needs to be articulated to normies. The DSA is quite literally communist to its core.

[Grames Barnaby @overunderwriter]

@fandompulse A shame because if she wasn't trained to be an absolutely obnoxious pop performer that just kept acting mean to the audience and she hit a gym at her young age, she could have been a better songwriter. She did have some good composing talents if the rumors be true.

[Grames Barnaby @overunderwriter]

@fandompulse Nah her so-called "fans" abandoned her over time and bolted when she abused her own fat staff. And without the funny money funding her all over the world gone and dried up the normies no longer have to deal with Lizzo in their everyday faces anymore.

[Matt Forney @mattforney]

There's enough cameras in NYC to catch arsonists. You don't just walk into a church into the middle of the night and light it ablaze without someone noticing.

This is happening because the Muslim mayor is allowing it to happen, assuming he's not outright directing it.

[John Carter @martianwyrdlord]

Interesting and very unlikely to be coincidental that the same thing is happening in Canada, while the price of beef is sharply up.

Oh, you didn't want to eat the Impossible Burger? Maybe you'll change your mind when an all beef patty goes for $50.

[Grames Barnaby @overunderwriter]

@RazorFist Ellen Page just needed to hang out with Clavicular and taken alot more peptides is what I'm saying and seeing.

[Grames Barnaby @overunderwriter]

@HonorAndDaring You're thinking of AI as nothing more than a philosophers stone with a magical formula that will perform a miracle and advance the forces of providence. What you're talking about with AI especially at the LLM stage is no better than a magician of old talking to the marks.

[Grames Barnaby @overunderwriter]

@cirsova True though in a rather funny way, isn't it interesting that Lupin is not unlike Conan in that way, it's sense of episodic structure allows it to live in a particular way with a variety in it's adaptations. Oh yeah because it's classic pulp.

[Grames Barnaby @overunderwriter]

@cirsova So seeing a faithful adaptation some 30 years on IS fresh because most while GiTS has been in print internationally over the years, we've gotten enough distance that it doesn't feel like a remake per se of the Oshii verse versions of the series.

[Grames Barnaby @overunderwriter]

@cirsova And it's why from my view that the new GiTS series isn't as much of an issue I suspect with the audience as one thinks, because back in the 90's and aughts the manga was an episodic series and the film simply just took what it thought were the best chapters to adapt.

[Delicious Tacos @Delicious_Tacos]

“Libertarian? Really?”

“Not that it’s your business, but yes.”

“Why?”

“No reason.”