I hold with Lord Acton on the corrupting influence of power. One reason I’m an anarchist (in the original sense of no rulers, not in the warped colloquial sense of no rules).
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And Sikhs tend to be pretty cool even in places where they are more advantaged
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A healthy mind will always give the ‘benefit of doubt’ and these types take advantage of it. Even when you know what is happening, it’s hard not to be a good neighbour.
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The first theorem of any neighborhood is that the most annoying residents never go on vacation and never move away.
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Yeah. And “honk honkler” is just a jovial expression of clown congeniality.
SHARPs always seemed pretty cool, and they have better music too.
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Well, I think the sharing of cultures is a wonderful, beautiful thing, and I will give him every benefit of the doubt. I will totally buy that he is a lifelong devotee of Tibetan culture just, uh, hey, biker dude, could you just tell me what this number is: བརྒྱད་ཅུརྩབརྒྱད་? No? Really?
Huh. And I bet it is your favorite number, too!
[[Apologies to anyone Tibetan if I’ve butchered my attempts to write 88 in Tibetan.]]
Someone needs to paint the Rainbow pattern on the swastika. See how he likes that.
He’s a biker. Both are there to piss off cops and “squares”. Its almost plausibly not racist. Doesn’t mean its not offensive; being offensive TO EVERYBODY seems pretty much the point.
even if he is saying it’s not the nazi one it’s bullshit the religious one is the other way round (left facing)
you see them a lot in tokyo + rest of japan on maps and signs:
the nazis flipped it around and stole it. it’s like if the SS had stamped hello kitty on their guns
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out of curiosity, how does an anarchist society handle bad actors?
people who rape, murder etc? I guess you can expel them, but doesn’t that just kick the can down the road to the next… commune?
Well pre-Nazis, the Swastika also had use in Europe as a Christian cross, a good luck symbol, and an Art Deco motif among other things. In the America’s it was used by several Native tribes, such as the Navajo. And you can find it’s use throughout history across many, many different cultures.
The Nazi’s didn’t chose the Swastika. It was already being used by other nationalist and racists groups. They were using it because of it being found on artifacts from Turkey, thought to be the birthplace of the “Aryan race”. It was also found in the newly discovered ruins of Troy, which was seen as evidence that the Greeks were of Aryan decent. Basically they cherry picked examples of “great cultures” using it, and thus used it as symbol of their own racial identity.
Here is a book from 1896 which catalogs many of the findings across the world. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40812?msg=welcome_stranger
Article on the history:
Oh as I post this, it seems like it was linked above as well. Well, it’s a good read. I’ve read other similar articles in the past, including a great one I think in Communication Arts magazine in the mid 90s.
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I think you misspelled “asshole”, though I get your point.
I’ve known several bikers (I had a chop for a few years), and there are a lot of good guys out there. My dad’s biker friends do less offensive things with their free time, like play shuffleboard.
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Or dyslectic Buddhist.
Knowing what I know about HOAs, it’s worth it!
(That is, suffering the symbols of fascism to avoid the actual fascists.)
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In Heinlein’s novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, bad actors were thrown through an airlock on to the lunar surface, without a pressure suit. Anybody could do that but they needed to be sure their actions has community approval, lest they get “spaced” as well.
Its the US libertarian argument that an armed society is a polite society. Not sure that it would work in practice.
there was a star trek voyager episode where they had put a guy in solitary (confined to quarters) because he’s a sociopathic murderer, and he learns to grow weed and ends up helping save the ship by going all john mcclane so i dunno, what happens when the moon gets taken over by east german?
Thats more of a Silent Running scenario, than anything related to anarchism.
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i’m kidding around.
i was just curious if they had any concept of i dunno, house arrest or something.
“you’re shitty but mentally ill, you can’t go outside. or feel free to try your hand at living in the forest if you prefer.”
