The sophist of the hour didn’t take the time to address this point. I wonder why!

It’s been a hot minute since I last watched IASIP, I think I had mixed feelings on it…

Your writing here is truly evocative of the teachers of young Athenian statesmen in the fifth century BC.

I voted Democrat in 2020 for whatever an overseas vote in a blue state is worth — the past four years left me without much need of convincing that the best strategy for US federal elections is indeed to vote third-party. Stateside “Seppos” will often experience some amount of cognitive dissonance upon learning that this is my informed decision, for my decision runs contrary to the civil-religious orthodoxy they were indoctrinated into practically since infancy. And the simplest way for such “Seppos” to deal with that stress is not to actually question their own indoctrination, naturally, but rather to convert their stress into aggression towards the stressor, which is in this case a non-binary second-generation immigrant on the opposite side of the Atlantic.

It is dubious at best that such “Seppos” will ever do anything actually productive with their stress — The whole of Seppoland is after all built cap-a-pie on this colonial psychopathology.

Yeah, I got to explain how voting from abroad works, and I got to explain the general voting patterns of my family across the sea, so I did get to answer a few questions in that regard.

It was a pretty painfully liberal conversation all around, so I mostly stayed out of it. I feel like it was probably enough to just make clear who I voted for instead of aggressively going after every single bit of nonsense they said.

Incidentally, yesterday I watched the Boondocks episode “It’s a Black President, Huey Freeman” and plus ça fuckin change I tell you hwat

I’ve been waiting for this for a while!

The Circassian genocide is the example that comes to my mind first. In my experience, most people, at least in Western countries, when they hear “Circassian”, they will immediately think I’m actually talking about Cardassians, a race of fictional aliens from Star Trek (or they’ll at least remark on how similar these words sound).

I also think the Milan Congress is an event more people should know about. This was a congress on Deaf education in 1880 that declared a ban on sign languages in schools, causing trauma and poverty and general harm to Deaf people for nearly a century until around the time of Stokoe’s research on ASL.

Really, the amount of history that people should know is abundant, but a lot of it is also very clearly more important to know if you live in a certain area, right?

So you’re certain that revolution is impossible, but you’re also certain that if there is a “strong middle class” in the future, that you would actually be a part of it?

Well, it seemed like you were saying that if given a choice between more racism and more climate crisis, that you would choose more racism because of how “climate crisis is worse”. Don’t you think that’s at all a weird or uncomfortable thing to say, given how there’s a frightening number of people nowadays who genuinely are trying to present “more racism or more climate change” as an actual choice that people will have to make?

“I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at climate crisis!”

“You can excuse racism?”

Sometimes I think about making the web browser from my conworld real just because the name slaps a lot harder than something like “Floorp”, but then I remember that the name only really slaps if you have the cultural and linguistic background of a country that literally doesn’t exist

Thus we return to the days of rote memorization and oral storytellers

WHAT’S DONE IS DONE, IT FEELS SO BAD; WHAT ONCE WAS CONTENT NOW IS AD

I’m assuming it’s referring to this:

ProtonMail removed “we do not keep any IP logs” from its privacy policy: Swiss courts compelled it to log and disclose a user’s IP and browser fingerprint

The Swiss injunction was on behalf of Interpol and targeted a French climate activist.

To be clear, I’m quoting the season 1 episode in which Riley, Ed Wuncler III and Gin Rummy try to kidnap Oprah but accidentally kidnap Maya Angelou instead.

Wait, are you meaning to say that “I just mean it as a general term for ignorant motherfucker” was ANOTHER thing from The Boondocks that I had just assumed was a joke satirizing race relations, but was in actuality a 1:1 recreation of something that real people actually do?