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I didn't really read it as racist, that's kinda a you thing dawg I think most people would expect you to draw the parallel between his comment and the whole 'violence having unintended consequences' thing rather than going right to "that's racist" just because John Lewis is black

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 03/10/2026

I'mma say I don't necessarily endorse this one but it is funny

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 03/10/2026

you don't think that one time he punched a guy in Oakland changed anything?

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 03/10/2026

he's ready to vote right now if he could

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 03/10/2026

You wanna give me a date range? Specific events? What the literal fuck are you talking about? "The gulags were bad" yeah no shit, is your knowledge of this just a caricature of evil red bad guys cackling while they sent people to the camps? WHO and WHAT are you talking about, jesus fucking christ

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 03/10/2026

Suppression of *what* man, use your fucking words. What was being suppressed This oversimplified bullshit doesn't work here, you're talking to people who know more about the thing you're talking about than you. What "suppression" are you talking about? Is 'gulags bad' the extent of your knowledge?

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 03/10/2026

Here, alright, since you're spinning your gears on this, I'll pull it back a bit. Let's talk about actions and outcomes, and what 'speech' actually is. At what point does the application of force, applied to any group of dissent within the context of power struggle, constitute suppression of speech

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 03/10/2026

Violence is not impressive and the fact that you think it is is telling. Were you fighting "government suppression of political speech" when you were beating the shit out of those skins or were you scratching your itch to fight an ideological enemy? Perhaps you have a lot more to learn about Beria

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 03/10/2026

When they're goosestepping down your block you're gonna hopefully think really hard about this because I'm becoming more and more convinced that you'll be the one with the band around your arm, comrade. Better hope it's the right color

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 03/10/2026

which, I'm just going to throw out there, is Really Fucking Difficult To Do from a Marxist-Leninist perspective in the west do you think we take pride in slaughter and genocide? who the fuck do you think you're talking to

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 03/10/2026

at least as an example of the Great Red Evil. like buddy you're on a web forum full of people who I promise you are more aware of the life and times of Beria than even the vast majority of former Soviet nationals. You're among people who've written dissertations on Why The USSR Failed

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 03/10/2026

I'd put Beria on Stalin's Mount Rushmore of colossal fuckups, yeah, he gets that honor, surely

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 03/10/2026

Andropov actually wrote at length about Beria, both openly and in personal collections. Not once did Andropov ever question the validity of Beria's actions in and of themselves. The methods though, he studied those endlessly as an exercise in how not to fuck it up

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 03/10/2026

bingo and there was alignment with the Stalinist state interest insofar as that extended beyond Stalin's material needs but it turns out that when you're The Guy you get to make the choice every plenipotentiary of a dictator must in that position. You cast a wide net. Really brutal shit

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 03/10/2026

Bringing up Beria in particular is kind of telling. Khrushchev spent basically his entire career trying to explain Beria's actions as a greater extension of Stalin's usurpation of Lenin's nascent personality cult, but the one thing Khrushchev never really questioned was "why", everyone knew "why"

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 03/10/2026

Oh hell yeah are we doing "were Soviet gulags justified" discourse

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 03/10/2026

after much consideration it is J because Sarajevo

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mothra stewart @gorl.gay · 02/10/2026

smonkin doinks and playing chess

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 03/10/2026

that's where they keep "the dragon"

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 03/10/2026

oh like you'd do anything differently if you had a Kentucky Castle

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 03/10/2026

this is my emotional support bottle of pre-woke Hoy Fong Sriracha

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 03/10/2026

This seems to be same event but I have it from a guy I trust that the 1,100 number is wildly undershooting it

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 03/10/2026

The grapevine is quoting me staggering numbers. Possibly five figures. It accounts for wholly a quarter or more of entire subdivisions responsible for maintenance, scheduling, the whole nine yards. As the grapevine put it: "...they make the trains work. The trains don't go without these guys."

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 03/10/2026

Word on the grapevine is that CSX is furloughing a shit ton of people. Huge rail freight conglomerate in an east coast duopoly with Norfolk Southern. Now why in the world would a major domestic rail freighter be furloughing thousands and thousands of its employees right before the holiday season

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 02/10/2026

not sure I could ever come up with a better example of this in my life but, behold, this is what we mean when we call Jamelle Bouie a textbook example of reactionary corporate liberalism

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 02/10/2026

I don't actually doubt that Geller has given a lot of introspection to what he did, or that he feels remorse for it. Most people aren't cartoon villains. But under no circumstance is he entitled to an audience. I think he knows that too. Just a real fucked situation all around.

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 02/10/2026

The problem here is that they're not wrong, to an extent. People have a hard time separating what they know about someone from the media they consume ("Jacob Geller" is a brand) versus who that person actually is. And most often those two things have a lot of overlap

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 02/10/2026

Geller accepted that risk and built a brand that targets the very people who'd clearly take umbrage with the act if it ever came to light. It's just kind of stupid when you think about it

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 02/10/2026

And it may very well have been, I don't know, I wasn't there. But when you do something like that and you don't disclose it, there's a certain amount of social risk you're deciding to accept

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 02/10/2026

The 'leftist lane' is and always has been that mob rule often wins out, relative to the egregiousness with which someone breaks those social norms *irrespective* of law, because the 'leftist lane' is that law's enforcement of social norms cannot be fairly applied due to the influence of capital

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 02/10/2026

This thread comes from a place that is ideologically "correct." People should have the opportunity to be habilitated. But read this carefully, because it's an important: the actions people take are measured twice. First socially, and then judicially. The purpose of law is to enforce social norms.

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

stephen king really understood that brands are horror

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 02/10/2026

It's actually kinda poetic that tech billionaires accidentally invented a product that not only people overwhelmingly find repulsive but also burns through billions of dollars a year that can't not be spent or they'll all simultaneously drown in the lobster bucket they've induced to sell the product

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 02/10/2026

I am playing Ultima Online and listening to this on repeat. 9/11 has not happened and never will

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Boo-sty Shackleford @ginerso.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Colder weather food truly begins. I just needed to appropriate midwest culture a little. The pear galette is just for fun though. It’s got the last of my peach jam brushed on it.

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 02/10/2026

That's fair, but also not insurmountable if you sell it for what it is: an extremely complicated, high-risk dress-up simulator

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 02/10/2026

Many people are asking themselves that recently and some of those people are having a truly enjoyable time fucking around on Outlands studying the blade and trying not to get gibbed

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 01/10/2026

no, but I've spent a long time cultivating the principal that laziness is a fake concept and I ruthlessly burn bridges with anyone who calls me out on that so, maybe

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🧌🥛 🏨 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

hey train perverts wanna see the shinkansen cloaca

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 01/10/2026

Sorry about that, I was very high and trying to do a bit with a new account and because of the tism it didn't occur to me that while I found it very funny it might have been extremely fucking offputting without context

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 01/10/2026

I recently picked it back up after... a while. Trying to metagame the survival aspect of it without a group and a bare bankbox has been kind of fun to be honest

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 01/10/2026

I think this is like the single most common issue new players have with private UO servers. Outlands is really more forgiving than most and has put a lot of work into its onboarding systems and stuff but UO is the kind of game where it's just plain hard to start from scratch no matter what you do

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Metamora @ancient.technology · 01/10/2026

I made a new account and was going to do a whole bit with it to fuck with the AI boosters and Substack cretins but honestly that shit seems exhausting and I have better things to do with my time This is a space for healing and talking more about stuff I enjoy and less about the forces of doom

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