Will Shetterly's Blog, page 17

shared on June 4ths

My procrastinating is so good it makes everyone else's look like fancrastinating.

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Resolved: Tomorrow, I will stop procrastinating.

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Proper consequences of free speech: Being refuted or mocked. Improper: Being jailed or fired.

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Where governments can jail you or the rich can fire you for speaking, speech is not free.

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Conservatives think free speech is a right to fire workers who say

shared on June 3rds

Capitalist libertarians think the people with the most money should have the most liberty.

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Star Wars Storm Troopers miss on purpose because they've been forced to fight for something they don't believe in.

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The craziest thing about our legal system is it's based on the belief humans are sane.

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The First Amendment has nothing to do with free speech. It only puts limits on government

The very white, very Antifa origin of the Minneapolis riots

At this point, the police were holding back and letting the protesters protest. This shows the black bloc fans breaking into the parking lot and smashing things.

Repost from @roar_ara via @media_action ... Protesters tear down part of a fence at the Minneapolis police 3rd precinct and proceed to trash cop's personal vehicles in revenge for the broad daylight brutal murder of George Floyd.#ftp #

shared on June 2nds

Writers, every word is a victory. Do not feel bad if you only write one today.

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Brutal oligarchs have one-party systems. Clever oligarchs have two-party systems.

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Authoritarians assume you use force to impose what you believe, so they can't understand that there are right and left libertarians who think things like abortion are morally wrong, but the law is the wrong tool to use for their

shared on June 1sts

Why Antifa and the KKK should both be ignored:

We don’t fight wars until every idiot hiding in the woods has been defeated. We declare victory and move on, and eventually the idiots die or rejoin society.

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The internet is full of people proudly fighting wars that have already been won.

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Coolest thing about Wonder Woman toys: boys will want to play with their sisters' swords.

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Capitalism

shared on May 31sts

‪Under capitalism, workers have two jobs. The first is to earn their pay. The second is to earn their bosses’ profit. The faster they do the first and the more they do the second, the more their bosses love them.‬

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I hate talking about morality and politics because

1. They cannot be neatly separated.

2. Including morality usually turns the focus away from politics.

3. My morality is

shared on May 30ths: best evidence Jews were always white, more

Pretentiousness tip: Don't say "take apart". Say "deconstruct".

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Perhaps the best evidence that Jews were always white in the US: When the Nazis studied US laws for ways to segregate German Jews, they didn't study US laws about Jews. They studied Jim Crow laws about black people.

Bonus fact: Nazis decided the one-drop rule was too strict.

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When fans of capitalism reveal their ignorance

shared on May 29ths

It's odd so many of the people who object to rhetoric that might diminish the horror of slavery and Jim Crow will insist white non-Protestants like Italians, the Irish, and the Jews were not white. They don't see any differences between racial, religious, and national prejudice.

They may not see differences between racial, religious, and national prejudice because they think identity is personal

shared on May 28ths

In war, religion is often the excuse but never the reason.

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If you worry you're a bad or worthless person, you probably aren't. The worst people are certain they're good.

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"Progressive" has followed an old path: it meant the radical left, then it meant the cool kids, then it meant the fashionable kids, now it means Democrat and maybe nothing at all.

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Re Hachette and Amazon fighting over

shared on May 27ths

Sometimes when I read intolerant posts, I check the user bio, then nod when I see the writer is single.

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There's no way to guarantee you'll find someone compatible, but there are many ways to guarantee you won't.

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This explains why tiny gatherings of racist idiots should be ignored:

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." —misattributed to Gandhi