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Technology & Information / Re: Apple Event 12 September 2017
« on: September 17, 2017, 06:07:16 PM »
Yeah, I'm really not a fan of touchscreen laptops either, and the idea is especially bad for MacBooks because Apple have the touchpad UX figured out. Adding a touchscreen means either split focus or half-assed implementation.

Besides, having to touch a display standing upright on a desk is always an ergonomics disaster.

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Flat Earth Community / MOVED: FE as a cultural phenomenon.
« on: September 17, 2017, 04:52:58 PM »

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: August 16, 2017, 08:42:40 PM »
I'm not in your country

Yes, I'm aware you're from the birthplace of the Aryan race, no need to remind me.

Wrong.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: August 16, 2017, 07:13:47 PM »
Call them whatever you want. #NotAllAlt-Right is a bizarre hill to die on, and yes, people expected the President of the United States to condemn them and their bullshit ideology.

Ok, well, good thing he did just that, then.

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And so far, the available evidence suggests that James Fields was most likely one of them.

I assume Trump didn't have that information when he made his initial statement.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: August 16, 2017, 05:56:28 PM »
Well, it's not unusual to hesitate when it comes to condemning entire groups based on the actions of one person. For some reason, the left has unequivocally agreed that in this case it's perfectly fine, yet I didn't see anyone in the MSM lambast Obama for failing to condemn BLM for Dallas shootings.

Well, yeah, people don't really equivocate BLM and Nazis.

That's fine, but Trump didn't condemn just nazis, nor was he expected to, because 1) not everyone in the protest were nazis, and 2) the driver of the car very likely wasn't one. Trump was expected to condemn essentially all of alt-right, based on a lone actor whose affiliations are unknown, and some fisticuffs from people whose affiliations were also unknown.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: August 16, 2017, 05:25:18 PM »
I can only think that after months of saying almost nothing regarding Trump, Blanko's choice of this particular incident to speak up and defend Trump's words, something literally nobody in this country except the Nazis he sympathizes with has been willing to do, speaks volumes about the nature of his character.

Ah, yes, the ol' "everyone who disagrees with me is a literal nazi". Ya got me.

I'm not in your country, so I don't subscribe to your tribal us vs. them bullshit. Political discourse where I'm from thankfully isn't that retarded, so you could say I'm used to not being called a nazi every time I disagree on something, and therefore my choices on what to say aren't influenced by that possibility. It's too bad dealing with Americans makes that quite a bit more difficult.

Also, I don't like to talk about Trump often because I think he's incompetent and a dumbass. I'm not really even defending him right now, I'm criticising the reaction from the media and the left.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: August 16, 2017, 04:38:26 PM »
Well, it's not unusual to hesitate when it comes to condemning entire groups based on the actions of one person. For some reason, the left has unequivocally agreed that in this case it's perfectly fine, yet I didn't see anyone in the MSM lambast Obama for failing to condemn BLM for Dallas shootings.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: August 15, 2017, 11:39:23 PM »
I can imagine quite a few legitimate reasons for why Trump didn't want to address nazis et al. right away (other than pandering). One of them being that the nazi boogeyman is massively overblown by left-leaning media. How many actual nazis or white nationalists do you think there were in that protest? Sure, there were some I'd imagine, but certainly not all of them. And those some likely weren't involved in the violence at all.

Condemning hateful ideologies in general is fine and dandy, but let's not blame people for something they probably didn't do. Let's just condemn all violence in one statement and the ideologies in another, which is what happened.

Nice rationalization, but we both know that Trump is utterly incapable of this level of restraint and nuance. If it had been a Muslim who did this, an illegal immigrant, or a leftist, the self-congratulatory shitposts would be flying thick and fast from Trump, as we've seen multiple times in the past. But now suddenly Trump's thoughtful, patient side emerges? Bullshit.

So you would agree that if this weren't Trump we're talking about, his statements would be fine?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: August 15, 2017, 09:31:37 PM »
I think he (rightfully) doesn't want to invigorate the extreme left that is just as capable of being violent.

if i hadn't been alive and conscious for the 2016 election cycle, then i could maybe buy that.  i think he's just a pathetically amoral coward.

either way, let's not restrain ourselves from criticizing violent nazis because we're afraid of hypothetical future violence by someone else.

plus he could've just addressed that directly while also displaying a modicum of moral courage:

tweet #1: nazism and white nationalism are immoral.  fuck off, nazis.
tweet #2: hey "leftists" don't use this as an excuse to be violent.  violence is wrong my dudes.  you have to let others peacefully protest even if you think they're dicks.
tweet #3: here are the concrete steps we're gonna take to keep things cool and safe. 
tweet #4: including free capri suns for both sides.

I can imagine quite a few legitimate reasons for why Trump didn't want to address nazis et al. right away (other than pandering). One of them being that the nazi boogeyman is massively overblown by left-leaning media. How many actual nazis or white nationalists do you think there were in that protest? Sure, there were some I'd imagine, but certainly not all of them. And those some likely weren't involved in the violence at all.

Condemning hateful ideologies in general is fine and dandy, but let's not blame people for something they probably didn't do. Let's just condemn all violence in one statement and the ideologies in another, which is what happened.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: August 13, 2017, 06:30:47 PM »
Yes, trying to bait me into admitting a purely pedantic mistake does seem quite irrelevant.

Sorry deleted my post, before I saw you had replied. It's irrelevant because Trump appeared to be assuaging the actual violent protesters making your first statement perhaps incorrect and to boot, you admit in practice his actions are pointless. It seems more likely that Trump was trying to pander to the people who actually vote for him, in this case the white supremacists over the left-wingers.

Hmm, why does that seem more likely to you? He condemned the violence, plain and simple. That line of thinking seems to be predicated on the notion that violence from the left is not the same as violence from the right (it certainly seems to be what CNN thinks) which I don't agree with at all, and in any case, it's not something the president should be suggesting even if he did agree with that notion.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: August 13, 2017, 06:13:31 PM »
Yes, trying to bait me into admitting a purely pedantic mistake does seem quite irrelevant.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: August 13, 2017, 06:07:30 PM »
Hmm, thinking that good intentions matter is doublethink? That's interesting...

Also, I never said what he says "doesn't matter", I said it doesn't matter to the extreme left. For most other people, whether or not he normalizes violence does matter quite a bit.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: August 13, 2017, 05:58:13 PM »
I inserted the word "rightfully" because I thought his intention was good. Not because I thought he succeeded in what he intended. Like I said:
However, I also don't think it's smart in any circumstance to normalize their violence.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: August 13, 2017, 05:42:11 PM »
No, the first statement merely concerns Trump's intentions. You must be giving him a lot of credit if you really believe what he intends is the same as what he accomplishes.

I really don't think anything Trump says can stop Antifa et al. from being violent. However, I also don't think it's smart in any circumstance to normalize their violence.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: August 13, 2017, 05:24:27 PM »
I assume you're being sarcastic, so let me ask you, what's contradictory about them?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: August 13, 2017, 05:10:36 PM »
listening to trump try to condemn the charlottesville violence without offending white nationalists would be p funny if it weren't so pathetic

I think he (rightfully) doesn't want to invigorate the extreme left that is just as capable of being violent.

So your theory is that he was trying not to "invigorate the extreme left", so he treated the matter in a way that would be guaranteed to anger the left. That's hilarious. Is this how Hannity's spinning it or something?

I don't think it makes any difference to them what Trump says. They're already angry because of violence from the alt-right/white nationalists. If Trump were to ignore the violence coming from the left, that would be akin to a tacit admission that violence coming from one side is worse than from the other. That would set a dangerous precedent.

Anyway, Trump did condemn the violence, and I think that's what really matters.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: August 13, 2017, 01:55:58 PM »
listening to trump try to condemn the charlottesville violence without offending white nationalists would be p funny if it weren't so pathetic

I think he (rightfully) doesn't want to invigorate the extreme left that is just as capable of being violent.

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I would gladly incorporate this into merch, but I don't think we're in need for a full rebrand. And, even if we were, you'd have to provide actual design guidelines - all I'm really seeing here are designs for the respective items, not a fully fledged visual language.

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Suggestions & Concerns / MOVED: Money talks, BS walks.
« on: July 23, 2017, 05:28:11 AM »

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: CN Mobile Formatting
« on: May 17, 2017, 11:40:03 AM »
Yes, a CN variant would have all the functionality of the main theme.

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