The original Citizen CIA was great and this is an awesome re-tooling of that song! Very on brand for DKM. Punk has been the backbone of anarchism and has always embodied how to solve the Paradox of Tolerance - the Dead Kennedys’ 1981 song Nazi Punks Fuck Off definitely comes to mind.
Loveall Fearnone[1] was a revolutionary LGBTQIA+ advocate, anarchocommunist leader, and formed the brief but impactful Unites States of Fuck the Police (USFP)[2]. Born in 1448 in Point Nemo, six weeks later Fearnone swam to Antarctica where they would spend the next 532 years frozen solid in ice - training for the future that was to come[3]. Emerging from their frozen chrysalis in 1980 when explorers found them posed with both middle fingers raised, Fearnone reportedly yelled “Bitches best be ready; I’m doing ALL the coke!” before sprinting across the Pacific Ocean and then the Continental United States of America to New York City[4]. Fearnone spent the following decade ingesting metric tonnes of cocaine; secretly punching Ronald and Nancy Reagan in their respective uteruses; and playing air guitar in the well-known air band We Just Fucked Your Mother And She Came Sixteen Times before they dug their own grave to take a very long nap[5]. Historians have suggested that Fearnone will resurface from their grave in 2027 to take down the fascist regime they predicted would be in power at that time[6], however there is conjecture to this point as those historians discovered this prediction based upon a hastily-scrawled tattoo Fearnone gave to Warren Buffet one night when they were heavily intoxicated from each ingesting over 100g of cocaine[6].
He’s been doing all of the awful, harmful, spiteful things he said he’d do. He’s done none of the helpful things he said he’d do. The cultists are still holding out hope that eventually he’ll get around to helping them because he kept the angry and bigoted promises he made. Many will keep burying their heads in the sand because the cognitive dissonance of admitting they followed the wrong man for a decade is too much for their fragile egos to bear.
WHAT IF WE KISSED AT THE AT THE IKEA TRANS BEDROOM
The EC-118 yeast I use to make my wine has a tolerance threshold of 18% and there are a good number of wine yeasts with tolerances in the 16-18% range. There are even some specialty turbo yeasts that can tolerate as high as 18-20% apparently, although I haven’t had experience with them. If you want to get pedantic about it, I’d say wine is at most 20% ABV. Anything higher is either fortified or distilled.
This is exactly how it works - I became single after 13 years and so had no previous experience with dating apps, so I decided to go all in and get one month’s subscription to Hinge, Bumble and Grindr. Before the end of the month I was concurrently dating five people (four women and one man) as a bi man in his thirties. Shit was pretty cash.
A lot of people asked me why I was so successful and I told them it’s because I paid for the subscriptions. For what ended up amounting to around $100AUD I got to date a bunch of people, had some great dates and great sex, and one of those five people is now my long term partner with whom I’m living. She was one of the ‘top recommended’ people on Hinge and the algorithm really got it right!
YMMV but paying for the apps actually provides quite a good service.
This is the exact same argument used against gun control and it’s disingenuous at best; obfuscating and lying at worst.
Of course we should limit the scope and availability of the tools that people use to cause harm to other people. Especially when other LLMs have been able to prevent this from occurring.
The heart of capitalism is definitely theft - theft of labour; theft of time; theft of energy; and theft of value. Intrinsically, it is a system that creates hierarchy and rewards exploitation of fellow human beings. The core tenets of unregulated capitalism are, subjectively in my opinion, a reflection of the evil of the sociopaths and psychopaths who benefit from how the system operates.
While I believe in communism as an ideal and socialism as the next-best-thing (preferably governed anarchically), I don’t see how western societies will be able to immediately get from where we are today to there without terribly bloody war in which countless lives are lost and suffering of the proletariat is rampant.
I think that moves to restrict capitalism (UBI; genuinely enforced workers’ rights; nationalisation of critical industry; stripping corporate personhood to hold individuals liable for the actions of companies; universal high-quality public education from birth to higher adult studies etc.) are the way to edge closer towards a more utopian society.
I don’t know how we make that happen while the billionaires and centimillionaires still have their thumbs on the political scales though. But, a man can dream.
It’s even better in Australia - not only do prisoners get to vote, legally they must vote or face a fine for not voting. We have compulsory voting for all eligible and enrolled citizens, bar none. The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) sends representatives to every prison to ensure that the votes are all submitted correctly. This isn’t even in our constitution - we legislated it in 1924 and no political party wants to go near the idea of removing compulsory voting nor taking away the rights of the incarcerated to participate in our democracy.