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If they produced an equivalent of That 70s Show today the "very special episode of" would be the one where 9/11 happens.

Vinyls don't really offer any fidelity over digital, that's mostly confirmation bias from vinylheads owning nicer sound systems. But they're a fun and sort of interactive physical medium much in the same way books are, in that way they offer a unique and enhanced musical experience, and that's why I keep buying them to this day (It's 1PM on a Saturday and I've already played two LPs on mine today, while my gf and I ate breakfast).

For Playstation games you had to get one of the nicer-quality CD-Rs and burn it at a slower speed than usual. Also I remember I got a replacement disk drive cover for my PS2 that allowed you to pull it open with a hook. I'd boot up the console with a legit disc, then use the hook to open the drive without the console knowing and swap in a pirated disc.

Strong disagree, declassify everything that won't get someone killed and maybe some of the stuff that will too. You don't have to stan the military industrial complex to oppose these goons.

All three days of the transcript are entirely what I'm pulling from here. Whole thing read as extremely presentational to me, especially the first day. They knew they were probably getting published.

The Signal chat "leak" was 100% arranged and intentional. Every person in that group was typing full copy-edited paragraphs like they were on reddit, not a chat room. They added one of the most conservative and compliant voices in the "liberal" press and somehow nobody in that small group noticed. And then he left to break the story as soon as he could instead of remaining a fly on the wall as long as possible like any real journalist worth their salt would.

Nah man, this was a little stage play to make this cabinet look like tough guys carefully making hard choices. To soften any public backlash against them bombing civilian buildings to rubble without congress even declaring war. I wouldn't trust a damn thing that Jeff Goldberg pens.

And to be honest? If I'm right, this is maybe the most competent op that the Trump II admin has pulled off so far.

They still do it at all the sportsball games, and woo boy if you ever want to really understand the power of social pressure try to stay quiet and seated through that.

All good, I'm starting to realize that this interaction would have been even more a waste of my time had you actually taken my advice to heart.

The funny (sad?) part is that libertarianism was originally coined to be a synonym for anarcho-communism, when discussion by name of the latter was outlawed in France. In fact, the definition has been completely overwritten only in the USA, where the word was colonized by Murray Rothbard in the 1950s. In Europe a lot of people still recognize the word "libertarian" outside of North American contexts as reference to leftist anarchist tendencies.

But colonizing an existing social good and contorting it to become something antisocial is extremely on-brand for capitalism.

I think you just didn't realize that's synonymous with what you said. Private property is wealth, private property is theft... But even if you didn't realize that's what you implied, you were still correct :)

The thing is, there really is no such thing as libertarian capitalism. Capitalism cannot exist without the state, they're essentially two necessary sides of the same coin. American "libertarianism" can really be described as a (successful) attempt to obfuscate that fact in the minds of capitalist subjects (Especially the most socially and financially privileged of those subjects). To make it seem like nothing good has been the result of competent governance, that it's all great men unburdened by regulation, unbridled by law. Really though, all the coercive might of capitalism deflates without the violent capacity of the state.

It's good to remind people that the term "libertarianism" ("Libertaire") was coined by French anarcho-communists in the 1850s when the French government outlawed speech advocating anarchism specifically by name, and that for a full century is was used by anarchists throughout the western world to refer specifically to non-hierarchical modes of socialism and communism, ideologies that are founded on concepts like mutual aid, social solidarity, worker's control, anti-authoritarianism, etc. It wasn't until the 1950s when the American Murray Rothbard colonized the term to advocate for the exact opposite in an attempt to obfuscate the inseparable relationship between capitalism and the state. His attempt worked.

Ideologically I'm a true believer in communalism, a sociopolticial practice that is not quite anarchist and therefore is best described as a "libertarian socialist" tendency. But thanks to that ancap rat bastard Rothbard that description does not aid in helping most people to understand me.