ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
13hr ago
The bigger deal would be Matthew (of Matthew Mark Luke and John fame) being a tax collector for the Romans. But modern society usually doesn't quite comprehend why that was such a big deal in Christ's time.
I've been politically homeless for years, you get used to it. I've been an open source freetard for a long time, while also being rabidly anti-communist. And while I am not anti-AI, I do believe the tech is overhyped. And my overall political worldview is decently chuddy, but I'm not anti-Israel, which has led to plenty of awkward assumptions and interactions.
Most people don't neatly fit into one political camp or another. Find the one that fits you best, and then try to be a voice of reason within it (without being a saboteur or infiltrator or spoiler to the overall goals of whatever movement(s) you join).
ChickenOverlord
23hr ago
No, I simply see it as the latest thing in a series of shifts in the tech world
For the past couple of years DHH (David Heinemeier Hansson), best known as creator of Ruby on Rails and Omarchy Linux, has been accused of being a fascist, a supporter of genocide, etc. Usually on the basis of extremely minor things, like refusing to fire people for joking about certain foreign names sounding funny.
Well, he still hasn't come out as a supporter of fascism and genocide, but he has officially gone full chud by recommending Camp of the Saints after witnessing the chaos currently going on in France (DHH himself is Danish, but I can see why he'd see something like that in western Europe as striking close to home): https://x.com/dhh/status/2105982071747604545
Now I disagree with DHH on plenty of things (Ruby and languages without strong type systems generally are dogshit, change my mind). And DHH's opinions aren't really my focus here. But such a prominent voice in tech going openly in favor of remigration strikes me as a sign of a growing rift in the world of tech. We already saw the beginnings of this with all of the big tech CEOs that decided to back Trump in 2024 (Musk in particular).
The world of software development has traditionally been split into two main camps: open source borderline communist hippies, and mercenary enterprise software people. There's exceptions in both camps (Eric S. Raymond is a good example), and software devs as a whole often fall into gray tribe as opposed to red or blue. But there seems to be a seismic shift in this world, with new lines of allegiance being drawn daily. AI has been a big divider, with the borderline communist hippies in the open source world largely coming out against it, and the corporatist mercenary crowd in favor (at least if you listen to the loudest voices on either side).
Software/tech has been one of the biggest drivers of significant social, economic, and political changes for the last half century. AI seems poised to be the biggest change yet, and the more chud-aligned faction seems to be the biggest supporters. So my question is, do you see the same sort of shifts occuring? And where do you see these shifts leading to in culture, governance, etc.?
EDIT: Palmer Luckey was another tech guy known to be rightwing, but it appears he has gone full chud as well: https://x.com/PalmerLuckey/status/2106469826189574369
ChickenOverlord
2d ago
Surprisingly haven't heard this one yet. But it reminds me of the George W. Bush housing deed "scandal" where someone found out the deed to his house had a covenant that it couldn't be sold to black people. It had been put there by a previous owner decades before and hadn't been enforceable since the Civil Rights Act and there was a decent chance that Bush didn't even know about it but that didn't stop the media from making hay from it.
Honestly Talarico being descended from slave owners would be a complete non-issue to me if it was actually true. The heretical stuff his pastor says is far more concerning: https://cbn.com/news/politics/james-talaricos-pastor-makes-shocking-statements-no-way-knowing-if-jesus-really
ChickenOverlord
2d ago
Sure, but magicalkittycat seems particularly egregious in this regard. You don't see me making a thread about Brandon Herrera's Democrat opponent being a fat illiterate retard who claimed a photo of him clearly holding up a copy of the Communist Manifesto was actually him holding up a copy of Mein Kampf.
ChickenOverlord
2d ago
Do you ever make threads about democrats acting like retards? There's plenty of examples I can share if you'd like somewhere to start.
I'm not denying that there are plenty of people on my "side" that act like buffoons, I'm just trying to point out that you only ever seem to care when Republicans do it.
ChickenOverlord
5d ago
the US is at war with Iran.
Is it? Or is it a "special military operation" or "police action" or one of the 50 different terms countries have come up with to avoid officially declaring war?
ChickenOverlord
5d ago
I'd love to see them called "unlawful combatants" instead of terrorists, but I imagine if the press adopted such a practice generally it would lead to some awkwardness in their reporting on things like Gaza.
ChickenOverlord
7d ago
For those unaware, Nathan Fielder is the guy who did the sort-of-comedy/sort-of-serious show Nathan For You where he would give businesses outlandish business strategies to try out. Like a gas station offering ridiculously cheap gas, with the catch being you had to fill out a rebate form and deliver it to a drop box at the peak of some mountain in a national park two hours away.
But also, many Christians insist that they are not dualists.
I can only imagine most Christians denying ethical dualism (i.e. that good and evil are essentially equal but opposite forces), not that body and soul are distinct things.
The only Christian groups that could potentially be considered monists in the body-soul sense are probably those that believe in annihilationism, i.e. Jehovah's Witnesses or Seventh Day Adventists.
ChickenOverlord
10d ago
But by the time of Last Ditch’s monthly community meeting on September 11, only one of the original founders, Matellian, is still involved. The two others stepped back from the daily operation months before, Matellian says, citing various pressures and health issues. One had enrolled in clown school.
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it." - Voltaire
ChickenOverlord
13d ago
I did but I did it after putting in my two weeks notice
ChickenOverlord
17d ago
Very, very rarely. Judges and prosecutors have near absolute legal immunity for anything they do in the process of carrying out their duties.
ChickenOverlord
19d ago
That, and also the death penalty, and war. Apparently slaughtering Persian schoolgirls for no reason is a-ok but aborting a 2 month fetus is not. Weird.
I don't see how an accidental mistargeting of a school that used to be a military base due to outdated intelligence is in any way remotely comparable to intentionally killing a 2 year old outside of arguing in bad faith. Weird.
ChickenOverlord
19d ago
Following up on the surrogacy story shared by @MollieTheMare last week, I present to you yet another man-made horror beyond our comprehension:
https://www.lifenews.com/2026/09/14/netherlands-euthanizes-disabled-2-year-old-child/
Another link if you think a pro-life website isn't a trustworthy source: https://nltimes.nl/2026/09/09/first-ever-case-euthanasia-young-child-2-handled-well-dutch-committee
"The doctor and the parents decided to actively end the child’s life after concluding that the supposed suffering could not be relieved, according to the Assessment Committee for Late-Term Abortion and Termination of Life in Newborns and Children Ages 1 to 12."
My first thought while reading this article, apart from general horror at what was done, was "The WHAT committee?" My second thought was to Philip K. Dick's now officially prophetic short story, The Pre-Persons. That's right, if you didn't know, the father of cyberpunk and author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (i.e. Blade Runner) and We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (i.e. Total Recall) was anti-abortion (emphasis mine):
“Oh, good Lord,” his mother exclaimed, on seeing him. “What in the name of God have you been doing?”
He said stammeringly, “I — saw — the abortion — truck.”
“And you thought it was for you?” Mutely, he nodded.
“Listen, Walter,” Cynthia Best said, kneeling down and taking hold of his trembling hands, “I promise, your dad and I both promise, you’ll never be sent to the County Facility. Anyhow you’re too old. They only take children up to twelve.”
Infanticide is nothing new in human history. And while Christian societies haven't been free from killing infants en masse via exposure, abortion, and other means, they have been (as far as I can tell) effectively the only societies in human history to even attempt to abolish the practices. Philip K. Dick, for example, was Episcopalian (though he shifted towards a more Gnostic view of Christianity towards the end of his life).
I guess I'm mostly curious to see everyone's reactions to this story, but also to my assertion that opposition to these things is almost exclusively a Christian thing. I'd be curious to see some secular humanist or other arguments against them, though I strongly suspect that they will be smuggling in some very Christian assumptions without realizing it. After all, to quote Leon Trotsky: "We must rid ourselves once and for all of the Quaker-Papist babble about the sanctity of human life."
ChickenOverlord
21d ago
Depends greatly on the state and on what the prenup covers. Various state divorce laws, marital property laws, etc. generally trump anything you put in a prenup, but anything outside of what those laws cover is generally fair game to include (and enforce) in a prenup.
ChickenOverlord
21d ago
Seems similar to Christ talking about the Pharisees declaring their wealth as "Corban" (ostensibly dedicated to some future contribution to the temple) to avoid having to use it to support their parents in need.
ChickenOverlord
23d ago
Not a conspiracy, as I explained to FCfromSSC
And as he replied to, in detail, explaining that most of the examples in question did in fact require multiple people in positions of power coordinating in secret for malign purposes.
You're not quite as bad as magicalkittycat at ignoring counters to the things you claim, but you're getting there.
ChickenOverlord
23d ago
Technically it's possible to set your post history to be private. Won't stop someone searching for it through Google or scanning the contents of the site, but it does make it a pain for the typical user.
ChickenOverlord
29d ago
No. As far as I understand it, the insanity defense (NGRI) shifts the burden to the defense.
In Massachusetts this is specifically not the case.
ChickenOverlord
1mo ago
(This doesn't count stories where the dream explicitly creates something real, but I don't remember that happening here.)
Marin becomes a seagull in the real world if you beat the game without dying.
ChickenOverlord
1mo ago
The ‘actually still alive’ niche in American conspiracy lore is reserved for rappers.
And Elvis
ChickenOverlord
1mo ago
Given how often we've seen claims about what happened to someone wildly differ from what video (and/or physical) evidence shows, I think at least the tiniest amount of incredulity would be useful on your part.
See how half the eyewitness testimony (and all of the physical evidence) in the Michael Brown case was counter to the "Hands up, don't shoot!" narrative. Similar situation with Trayvon Martin. Or just start watching bodycam videos.
FWIW the Apocrypha usually refers to a specific set of Old Testament books that are accepted by the Catholics as canon but rejected by most Protestants. Books like the Gospel of Thomas etc. tend to be called "Pseudepigrapha".
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