4 ms·
Just donated 5$/month, will keep it up for a year at least. PayPal transactions take a bit of time to go through -- the hardest part was filling out the details
by myaso 9y ago
Just donated 5$/month, will keep it up for a year at least. PayPal transactions take a bit of time to go through -- the hardest part was filling out the details :(
I really don't have the resources to arbitrarily afford charity, but fuck it -- I spend more money on coffee in a month and it's been too cold to wander around for a while here. It must feel really awful to some people who make 6 figure salaries to part with just a little money to a person who is both talented and likely lived in agony all his life. Maybe some people can start acting like the ubermensch they pretend to be from their libertarian ideology.
- stevenh 9y agoI'd ask you to explain how all libertarians are Nazis but then I guess I'd be taking the bait.
- klez 9y ago"Ubermensch" doesn't imply "nazism". It's a nietzschean concept referring to humanity going beyond itself, and was then adopted by nazism to refer to a man of pure race, which is not what Nietzsche was talking about.
- stevenh 9y agoHe wasn't thinking of Nietzsche when he used the word. It's trendy now to accuse libertarians of being neo-Nazis.
- myaso 9y agoYou sure like to put words in other people's mouth ;) Please tell me exactly what I'm thinking and what I meant -- I'm burning with curiosity at this point. And maybe together we can iteratively refine it.
- stevenh 9y agoOkay, what did you mean?
- myaso 9y agoYou got it totally wrong, I think you need to understand me better. I'm like the internet special forces on the harsh battlefield of the hn forum -- I dodge incoming bullets of political correctness, I roll away from bombs of guidelines of politeness designed to silence discourse, I shoot my enemies with a rifle designed to make them look stupid, I effortlessly lob grenades made of nothing but words, I pick up random wounded allies and I inspire others to keep going. I run faster and faster until momentum gathers and based upon nothing but air I cause the laws of probability to crash and I do it for no benefit to myself -- ok maybe there is some benefit for me ;) My only fault is that I slay my enemies too efficiently, I had an excellent sparing partner. I will extend an olive branch and make it easy for you. I lied about donating to Terry
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- klez 9y ago> Maybe some people can start acting like the ubermensch they pretend to be from their libertarian ideology. I know that libertarians are often accused of being Nazis, but how I read that phrase was a general "you libertarians think you are such superior beings, start acting like it".
- myaso 9y agoYou'd be taking the bait if you actually made a donation to Terry.
- stevenh 9y agoI've donated hundreds. He told me to stop on a livestream because he was worried it would cause him to lose his disability payments.
- myaso 9y agoTelling the truth is easy and pleasant -- he would disable his account if that was the case. Prove you are not lying. Link with irrefutable evidence given the constraint of keeping necessary information confidential.
- deadmetheny 9y ago>Prove you are not lying. Link with irrefutable evidence given the constraint of keeping necessary information confidential. This is hilariously overblown for a forum post, dude. Chill out.
- myaso 9y ago"a mind for strategy and tactics you have not" -- wise master myaso Thou shall not make me chill.
- tsheikhs 9y agoPlenty of people have made donations to Terry, so I'm not sure what you're getting at.
- myaso 9y agoWell, I'm in a charitable mood today so I decided to run a fundraiser on a whim using nothing but my phone.
- dang 9y agoWe've banned this account for repeatedly violating the site guidelines. Please don't create accounts to do that with. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html