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freemo, 6 days ago

@kmic steam power such as this was used many many centuries earlier. W have recorded use of steam power 1 AD, and probably earlier.

freemo, 6 days ago

@kmic yea its still cool :)

freemo, 11 days ago

@kravietz

There is no excuse for this and no one should be praising hamas.

Just as there was no excuse when the IDF used children of a similar age as human shields and got called to international court on war crimes for it (And refused to show)..

In the end anyone taking either side as the good guy is morally corrupt. The hammas are evil, the IDF is evil, full stop.

freemo, 11 days ago

@kmic

As the saying goes... be open-minded, but not so open-minded your brains fall out.

freemo, 18 days ago

@kmic The new one from picard?

freemo, 18 days ago

@kmic I mean, she had the cleavage cranked up to 11... saw that coming a mile away :)

freemo, 1 month ago

@NickEast

To be fair Elon and Zuck have also never been in a cage fight :) They like playing pretend and talking about it.

Pretty sure Dolly has kicked more asses than Musk, thats for sure :)

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freemo, 2 months ago

@timorl He did not have a negative view of political moderates... he had mentioned criticisms of "White moderates" but they were moderate in the sense of the politicial spectrum.. he was talking about whites who were not vocal against racism while not actively being racist themselves... he was purely talking about a moderate stance on racism, not politics.

freemo, 2 months ago

@timorl

> Are you seriously suggesting that race was not a (if not the!) political issue then? o.0 Not to mention it still is now.

Literally anything and everything can and is a politicial issue, then and now...

Science is a big political issue too with the right thinking the scientific community are liars and corrupt and with the left generally saying to follow the science as a mantra... Does that mean if someone calls me a "moderate scientist" that they are implying im politically moderate? Of course not

Racism was politicial, but calling a moderately racist white person as somehow meaning the same as a person with an overall political stance that is moderate is absolutely not the same.

MLK made it clear in two ways

1. he has never said or suggested he was talking about political moderates, on racist moderates 2) he has explicitly taken a centrist/moderate political opinon in what he has said and done time and time again.

freemo, 2 months ago

@timorl

Except not... racism is a clear evil, it is bad in any quantity and when you facilitate others doing it through inaction it is virtually always wrong.

So yes being on the fence as to whther a minority is "equal enough" and going "thats an ok about of pain they deal with ill accept it".. is never acceptable. It is evil in all proportions.

So no,, we cant apply that to other things too often because most things are not as wholly evil as racism is. If the choice is between locking down the borders complete with no exception or having completely open boards (two radical non-moderate extremes on views)... you have something that is not wholly one sided evil... Either of those choices in their radical extreme can and will harm communities. Where moderate solutions may find actual long term workable solutions.

In fact, we find that outside of a few exceptioons most things have valid arguments on both sides where only a moderate could hope to reach a good balance effective solution that actually fixes the problems.

freemo, 2 months ago

@timorl

> You could say the same about poverty

Sure poverty is fairly close to always bad (you can argue it gives character, but only if you actually get out of it at some point)..

So yes you shouldnt be "I am pro poverty I want more people to be poor!" (extreme left communism)... and you shouldnt be "I am anti poverty and I think 100% of people should be billionairs (extreme left to the point of pooling all the money and letting everyone else die)....

Neither extreme is good, so again, we have centrism being best, where people want to eliminate the poor, but not the rich, but also accept that the middle glass should thrive.

freemo, 2 months ago

@timorl

I have the feeling you are ever so slightly strawmanning communism…

Its not about communism or what you think.. But when it comes to poverty there are two extremes… Either you make everyone poor by taking it away so no one has any (communism), or you let everyone starve and die and give the wealth one or a few elites.. Both extreme non-moderate approaches are harmful compared to moderate approaches between those two

Thats all it isnt about communism.

Im not arguing whether being moderate is good or bad, but whether MLK can be accurately called a centrist.

Well you did earlier, you tried to claim that his view on moderates when it came to race could apply to other political things in the same way, which i demonstrated it cant, and MLK likely would have known that.

but whether MLK can be accurately called a centrist.

Happy to go back to that.. so I provided one piece of strong evidence where it made clear he was at least somewhere opposed to both parties, essentially playing both sidism and demoncrating himself as a centrist with that quote

Any time he has been asked to side with a party or a part of the political spectrum he never has… Do you have any quotes or evidence from him he saw one side of the political spectrum especially superior to the other?

freemo, 2 months ago

@timorl

So first lets lead in with another quote showing his centrism:

“The Negro has been betrayed by both the Republican and the Democratic party. The Democrats have betrayed him by capitulating to the whims and caprices of the Southern Dixiecrats. The Republicans have betrayed him by capitulating to the blatant hypocrisy of reactionary right wing northern Republicans.” – MLK

I assume that means you disagree with MLK being a democratic socialist

You seem to misunderstand centrists.. They can and will pick views on one side of the fence or another.. gut they will not espouse it as an ideologically pure idea, they will try to temper it and bring it to a modified more central manifestation.

I am about as centrist as you get, but I have views on both sides of the spectrum, usually strongly, and always modifiy those views to address the nuance rather than use a sledge hammer, bringing them closer to the center. For example sure, I beleive in free guns, but i also beleive in tax paid resources, like giving everyone a free gun paid for by taxes… cant get more centrist than that! (I am half-joking of course)…

But to get back to MLK, yes he leaned more social-welfare capitalism (what we really mean when we say democratic socialism) than pure capitalism. In fact he even made clear that while he liked the idea of social-welfare the pure system of socialism would need to be modified in some way in order to be of use to us. Here is the quote:

“If we are going to achieve a real equality, the U.S. will have to adopt a modified form of Socialism.” – MLK

So yea as always he leaned one way, but never to the ideaologically pure end of the spectrum where the extremes exist, he lives well within the moderates and close to the center.

The latter also contains quotes where he clearly states he at least mostly voted for Democrats (and he was even planning to endorse one, only a political assassination stopped him), and no indication whatsoever that he ever voted for a Republican

That sounds like a compelling argument. Sadly when i followed the cited sources so i could read and gather an opinion I couldnt find anything linked I could follow. More research needed.

freemo, 2 months ago

@kmic Just watch the movie in black and white, same thing :)

freemo, 2 months ago

@timorl

Good info, thanks.

Which cases did he loose exactly? That seems weird that he would loose a csae for rape and not go to prison.

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freemo, 2 months ago

@timorl

I'm probably still missing a lot... So far all I hear are the accounts of the witnesses. While they will be heard and considered in court (As they should be)... I cant find, as of yet, any evidence beyond that.

One woman said she visited a rape center after the incident... that sounds like it could be a piece of evidence... has that been confirmed or do we just have her word on it.

Any other evidence i have overlooked in my quest search?

@bonifartius

freemo, 2 months ago

@olives

Ahh yes I think i remember that.. if so I'd say that makes it a pretty cut and dry case of his innocence and her guilt

@timorl @bonifartius

freemo, 2 months ago

@timorl

What do you mean, a lack of evidence from Johnnys side would have exactly that effect, he would be found guilty, especially if the other side did not have a problem there.

@bonifartius @olives

freemo, 3 months ago

@julianna It checks out :)

freemo, 3 months ago

@kmic ok doing now.... e-mail me when you want it reenabled or else ill do it this weekend.

freemo, 3 months ago

@kmic @trinsec @khird

In case I forget I just limited this accoutn at the users request. This weekend one of us should try to remember to reenable it.