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by duairc 13y ago
I'm actually really surprised they seem to think that the HN community is anti-sexist. Compared to 4chan, maybe, but from my experience it isn't at all.
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by duairc 13y ago
I oppose all prisons everywhere of course, but The American justice system is fucking grim. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/13/us-prisoners-se...
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by duairc 13y ago
So we should feel good about it, or feel that we're lucky, or not try to fight back against this system? I know you probably think you're “not saying that”, but if you're not, why did you feel the need to post that?
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by duairc 13y ago
So what if it's illegal? Is your moral compass really dictated by the state?
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by duairc 13y ago
I think that's hopelessly techno-utopian.
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by duairc 13y ago
Maybe you are already well-read in this department, but you might like reading some anarchist critiques of different forms of democracy: In Defense of Anarchism by Robert Paul Wolff: http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library&
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by duairc 13y ago
I feel like you're assuming that I'm American and that I don't want America to die. I think most people in the world will be delighted when the American empire inevitably collapses. Not just “Iranians” — as if there are “offi
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by duairc 13y ago
If you read my post carefully, you'll notice that I put “nothing” in quotation marks. You're close when you guess that I mean that “the effect doing nothing is to support the status quo, and morally equivalent to positive action s
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by duairc 13y ago
This reminds me a bit of Russell's teapot[1]. Basically, you're saying, imagine if there existed “certain information”, which nobody can tell me about, but if they could, it would change my beliefs? Okay. Given what I do know, I
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by duairc 13y ago
The short answer is: you. Obviously there is no objective universal criteria for legitimacy or morality or anything like that. It will come down to what your personal politics are, a fact which will itself be hugely influenced by your mater
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by duairc 13y ago
Okay, I appreciate that. People generally refer to me as “he”, and I usually don't say anything, but sometimes it bothers me. But that's neither here nor there. I appreciate that you made an effort at least.
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by duairc 13y ago
In a way I actually agree with nearly everything you say, I just think you haven't taken what you say to its logical conclusion. The thing you seem to be missing is that there are no “neutral” beliefs. There's no “middle” in terms
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by duairc 13y ago
This is true. I tried to clarify this equivocation in another one of my posts in this thread.
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by duairc 13y ago
> There's no possible reason for people to support these programs and so it is pointless and even harmful for us to talk about possible reasons. I almost agree with this, were it not equivocating two different senses of the phrase
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by duairc 13y ago
I don't know where you're getting this “out of bounds” thing from. I didn't tell anybody to shut up. I didn't tell them that they can't say what they're saying. And even if I did, it's not like I'm in
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by duairc 13y ago
Trying to identify the motivations of an action from the perspective of the perpetrator doesn't mean that one agrees with their actions, no, but the post that I replied to implied that there exist reasons to support “these types of a
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by duairc 13y ago
There's a Deleuze quote about this that I really like: “It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality”. What I understand this to mean is that the nature of “rationality” is such that a
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by duairc 13y ago
> Everyone on HN acts like there's no possible reason for people to support these types of activities. And they're right. You don't need to play devil's advocate. The devil has enough advocates.
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by duairc 13y ago
Yes, I could. I don't like the word "hypocritical" though, because it implies that contradicting oneself like that is the moral failing of an individual. But really, we all contradict ourselves all the time, and we don't
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by duairc 13y ago
That's pretty funny from the admin guy. He describes the person who posted the piece as "politically correct thought police", and then right afterwards threatens to ban them if they post anything else "like this", i
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by duairc 13y ago
This is total nonsense. Reverse sexism is not a thing. Of course "bro culture" is bad, and of course female-friendly is good.
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by duairc 13y ago
> It lacks a solid, broadly applicable proposal for remunerating the effort of software engineers. How about this: abolish capitalism. I mean, sure, I agree with you: under capitalism, where people are denied access to the necessities of
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by duairc 13y ago
Because it's Hacker News, not Bourgeois News. And I know this site is tied to an ideology that reimagines the "DIY" (for want of a better term) aspect of the hacker tradition as a kind of pro-capitalist (or at least "DIY
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by duairc 13y ago
No, they don't, they do a bad thing. In actual fact, all cops are bastards. Their primary function in society is to defend the property rights of the capitalist class against the working class, thus preserving inequality.
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by duairc 13y ago
We also say "yous" in Dublin. Other parts of Ireland generally say "ye".
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by duairc 13y ago
It's not really in the interests of the ruling class to build genuine solidarity and shared values. Divide and rule.
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by duairc 13y ago
But anarchists don't think that if you just "get rid" of the state, everything will magically fall into place. And anarchists don't just want to get rid of state: they want to get rid of capitalism, patriarchy, white supremacy, heterosexism
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by duairc 13y ago
> First of all, if you really are an anarchist you need to think a little bit more about the implications of an anarchist society (or whatever) and grow up a little bit. Are you serious? Do you really think that, as an anarchist, I hav
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by duairc 13y ago
This is ridiculous. There's nothing "open-minded" about this. To quote the bug description: > What should happen: A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software . This does not happen, so marking this bug as fixed is
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by duairc 13y ago
ACAB

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