komali2

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by komali2 9mo ago
Your unshaking confidence in your subjective experience as being representative of something factual about the universe made me peek at your history to see just how far it went. I found this comment: > It's the Christian version of
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It's already usually illegal to do graffiti, sometimes that's the whole point.
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I almost exclusively take trains now because the experience of flying is one of repeated dehumanization, especially in the USA. First, if getting dropped off in a car (most American airports this is your only option), you must suffer being
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> This top-to-bottom social astro-turfing would be just laughable grandstanding if it didn't result in real consequences for less affluent kids: crime, drugs, and deadly injuries as well as filing for bankrupcy We were discussing gr
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Then why is Clarion Alley covered in graffiti that hundreds of people a day come to look at? Why is said graffiti often applied by residents? City ordinance is not an accurate reflection of the desires of all subsections of a city. It'
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I really don't understand the connection between street art and the George Floyd protests. I understand that you generally don't like the idea of people operating outside of the State-mandated heteronormative way, in which case I
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> It's borderline demonic Demons aren't real so I don't understand what this means. > tasteless disgusting mess Do you disagree that taste is subjective, then? It seems what's happening here is that you're ver
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> It really undermines the sense of community The people in these communities feel the opposite of you, especially since a lot of street art is murals capturing some local culture e.g. see Clarion Alley in San Francisco, a lot of very ex
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You would be doing so alongside tens of other artists, and then after a month or so I would whitewash the wall, and everyone would start up all over again. Such is street art. Kinda beautiful, how much effort people put into art they know w
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I think that's very exciting for you, because imo it's very rarely we encounter truly challenging problems like this. I understand that you prefer to make up your mind about street artists, but I can assure you as someone that use
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You don't see graffiti in rich neighborhoods either because you're describing the suburbs where nobody really lives (as a measurement of people per square kilometer) or because rich neighborhoods get immediate attention by cleaner
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> You really think that the majority of taggers are thinking this deep? Nope, not something I thought up at all, this is what I discovered after talking to a lot of taggers and street artists as a result of my photography obsession leadi
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by komali2 9mo ago
Do you believe you're giving graffiti artists even a thimbleful of good faith by comparing them to dogs?
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Sometimes tagging is that, sure, or just some person indicating that they exist there. For some taggers, it's an addiction. I knew one that would tag at people's houses when invited to parties. I was outside smoking a cigarette wi
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by komali2 9mo ago
> So, what are these random scribblers resisting, exactly? The idea that the city is owned by the uppermost caste of that society. > There is nothing lovely about seeing all this garbage littering the walls of public buildings and his
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by komali2 9mo ago
No accounting for taste, but, graffiti is important whether it's aesthetically pleasing or not. https://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/ Graffiti is a population's expression of ownership of their city. It'
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The majority of people are horrified when they become aware of what's happening in Gaza. Personally I think a large majority of those that support it are sheltered from the reality of it, e.g. avoid seeing images of assassinated childr
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Now look up Romanian or Israeli football hooligan incidents.
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Luckily there's no evidence to support your claims.
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Japanese people are just people. They have a unique culture... Like literally every other identifiable culture on earth. I love Cryptonomicon but it engaged in that distinctly American brand of orientalism when it got into Japanese soldiers
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How can I know if this subreddit is populated by college students, let alone leftists?
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Completely agree since both sides in the USA is two conservative parties. Luckily there seems to be an actual opposition finally arriving in the form of the Social Democrats.
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Several thousand years of human history in fact argues for their point of tendency towards equality being a natural imperative, and artificially enforced caste systems being unnatural and instinctively distasteful to people. See Graber&#x27
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Yes, protests are fertile recruitment grounds. I have inducted many a liberal into leftist thinking after they experience the shocking violence the State is willing to deploy against them for executing what they thought was a guaranteed rig
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Don't underestimate the importance of the other reason protests are effective: as a politician, it's very, very scary to look out your window and see thousands of people that are mad enough at you to forgoe their day and instead c
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Am American "riot" is a European city after a football game. Would that Americans use the term more accurately.
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Assassination is fascinating for its ability to abruptly change a paradigm and the fact that it can be done by a single person, but it is extremely rare for a reason - murder is bad and instinctively despicable to most humans. [1] An assass
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Keith McHenry of "Food Not Bombs" made an argument for nonviolent resistance in his version of "The Anarchist Cookbook," available for free download https://www.foodnotbombs.net/anarchist_cookbook.html H
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Snow Crash explored this much more literally, supposing that there may be memes so powerful they can function basically as magic spells that reprogram people's brains.
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Wtf is with the random racist diatribe in this?

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