Interesting… I can see what you’re saying. My personal use of it has been to punch up and infer the white person that I call a slur as having a broken morality.

So if we get into the bourgeoisie foundations of our day to day used language I think others, like me, keep learning new ways they’ve influenced our language and in turn ways of thinking. That said, common use of language is what defines it over time (e.g. new language is created all the time), so we can reclaim and recreate the meanings of words and phrases. But in light of what you’re pointing out, should we?

I can see where digital blackface could be what someone sees in my language too… If I call them “white devil”, I’m of course invoking language popularized by the Black Panthers, and I do mean to do so. My purpose behind that is to convey that I’m not a friend of the concept of “whiteness” and it’s hegemonic power. Again, should I not? My thoughts when it comes to this is that I align with my class and that the language of the BPP come from class and not race. But I’m white, so I know I’m liable to have shitty blind spots. I’m trans so my focus tends to be trying to find my queer phobic blind spots first, and naturally through a white lens.

The unintellectual lizard brain side of me also just wants something to call ruling class and their toadies something that pisses them off.

Well, I’m not entirely clear on what snapshots are so you’re doing better than me and I haven’t been on windows in a few years now lol!

I mean, I really don’t like it. I’ve worked with a lot of severely disabled people and it just really grates on me. But also, I’m more in the camp of the people who it effects the most decide. But with the r-word, there’s a whole subset of people who don’t have the capacity to decide that’s not present in the other communities, so I think we should err on the side of not using it.

Black folks can say the n-word as they please and I don’t have a right to say otherwise. If a black person doesn’t want too use that language that’s their right. So basically if you’re not black, you don’t get a pass - ever. If you are black you get to decide.

Same sort of rules for other slurs… Except Cracker, snow roach, white devil, honkey, bleach demon, etc. Racism doesn’t exist against white people. Prejudice, sure, but not racism.

Is that the “Dominican ray” joke? Hasan does that a lot too. Personally I’m sick of the new guy saying the r-slur more than anything.

A lot of queer people I know will sometimes say the f-slur with each other. Hell, I know someone who has it tattooed loud and proud. I don’t think there’s any reclaiming the r-slur though. Someone who is SXI and can’t talk can’t have a say in it so I think it needs to stay in the realm of music and automotive timing.

Idk, but my install offers a version rollback at the bootloader. Had a weird graphics issue after an update, so I just used an older version for a week or so till a new update fixed it.

I chuckled about this like the sicko that I am, then remembered my server is an old Intel… Fuk

Come to think of it, isn’t Intel CPUs running some kind of Linux like… The backbone of the entire Internet?

Thousand yard stare from The Last of Us

Could just be a dead guy, that’d be more stable.

Better run an empty suit from the administration everybody hates.

I have no faith that they’ll be able to recapture the magic.

Saw too many x files episodes to feel okay about this.

https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Revelation 13%3A3

This verse has been interpreted in the Left Behind series IIRC too.

They religious nutters will say it was God intervening, but the evangelicals will mysteriously forget that the Bible says that The Antichrist will miraculously recover from a head wound.

Reading this is an actual cognitive hazard.

Hell yeah, praxis! It might also vary by branch too.

Yeah, Iraq fucked my head up too, and I was there much later after the major combat. What stopped me in my tracks was when I saw pictures of the places I patrolled from before the invasion. I was a dumbass kid that the empire (and my family and local community) indoctrinated into believing war was good. I was hollowed out and turned into a souless pawn, trained to murder. Me getting killed for being there would have been justified and just.

I’m thankful that I’ve lived long enough to see the truth and change. Now I get to help people heal and grow for my job, and my experience gives me a deep conviction. Hopefully some of these people can change for the better and contribute positively to society. I’m not holding my breath though, few to none of my former colleagues are comrades today. I can’t say if I have any sympathy for them, maybe because I feel me being killed in Iraq would have been justified. I’ve suffered for what I did, it doesn’t absolve my culpability though. I just try to keep a materialist analysis in mind and help people understand and change the material conditions that are pushing them into abhorrent behavior or just hurting them.

If you meet someone in military service who seems to have some moral conflict, let them know they can object to the conditions of their service and get out. I wish someone had talked to me about that when I was in.