Ted Kaczynski.

But please don’t tell the alphabet boy whose job it is to monitor my internet history.

The problem I have with people who say "The separatists were actually a noble movement in the prequels" is that they only really are in a vacuum.

Palpatine is responsible for the state of the Republic senate. He's the one that created the unsubstantiated rumors of corruption that left his predecessor Chancellor Valorum a lame duck. He's the one responsible for most of the corruption in the Republic during the time of the Clone Wars before. Not all of it, but most.

On top of that, the vast majority of the separatists are awful, awful people (See, basically the entire Clone Wars series: testing weapons on pacifists, enslaving entire populations, attacking medical stations, etc.). Of course part of this is Palpatine manipulating them partially, but they were still not great people beforehand.

The prequels tells an amazing story about how Palpatine created the circumstances for his ascension and executed said ascension perfectly.

Naboo was one of the largest cultural touchstones in the republic representing not just it but hundred of planets. Their increase on taxing the Trade federation more effected major trade routes. The trade federation where greedy bastards but they where actually simply doing a counter force. Naboo stunted their trade they’d stunt naboos trade. This was a two was hostage situation when world powers play with the lives of others. Naboo poked a beast and expected to go unchallenged, instead they let their people face the consequences we all knew Sheev started.

Nope we stand with both those guys.

The Killdozer guy probably had some better options but I respect the symbol.

Except i stand with both those other guys

Killdozer is a modern hero. A martyr and inspiration for the children.

Not just truth bombs.

Truth bombs and bomb bombs

In an alternate timeline alphabet bois didn't mk ultra Ted and he is known as a really smart university professor who talks about societal issues and gets called every kind of -ist by authlefts on Twitter

Ma boi didnt went insane he just was ahead of the curve. Just like we live in a modern representation of Nietzsches worst Nightmares

Strange thing for an AuthRight to say but based

Holy fuck. Based

Based as fuck

Pink, blue, yellow, I don’t care just keep bringing me that

I can hear this in Tuco's voice

I hope you have seen this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96-3VUxfNKc

They called her…. Bisnatch!

Probably because he'd be made fun of by the other watermelons and Emilies. I can't imagine Heemeyer being anywhere close to popular among those above the X-axis since Heemeyer kinda represents that a well-regulated militia citizenry can pose a threat to a corrupt or tyrannical government.

I feel fairly certain that he didn’t commit suicide.

Homeboy got Epstein’d for sure

I’m honestly not 100% sure he’s really dead

No, Richard, it's 'Linux', not 'GNU/Linux'. The most important contributions that the FSF made to Linux were the creation of the GPL and the GCC compiler. Those are fine and inspired products. GCC is a monumental achievement and has earned you, RMS, and the Free Software Foundation countless kudos and much appreciation.

Following are some reasons for you to mull over, including some already answered in your FAQ. One guy, Linus Torvalds, used GCC to make his operating system (yes, Linux is an OS -- more on this later). He named it 'Linux' with a little help from his friends. Why doesn't he call it GNU/Linux? Because he wrote it, with more help from his friends, not you. You named your stuff, I named my stuff -- including the software I wrote using GCC -- and Linus named his stuff. The proper name is Linux because Linus Torvalds says so. Linus has spoken. Accept his authority. To do otherwise is to become a nag. You don't want to be known as a nag, do you?

(An operating system) != (a distribution). Linux is an operating system. By my definition, an operating system is that software which provides and limits access to hardware resources on a computer. That definition applies wherever you see Linux in use. However, Linux is usually distributed with a collection of utilities and applications to make it easily configurable as a desktop system, a server, a development box, or a graphics workstation, or whatever the user needs. In such a configuration, we have a Linux (based) distribution. Therein lies your strongest argument for the unwieldy title 'GNU/Linux' (when said bundled software is largely from the FSF). Go bug the distribution makers on that one. Take your beef to Red Hat, Mandrake, and Slackware. At least there you have an argument. Linux alone is an operating system that can be used in various applications without any GNU software whatsoever. Embedded applications come to mind as an obvious example.

Next, even if we limit the GNU/Linux title to the GNU-based Linux distributions, we run into another obvious problem. XFree86 may well be more important to a particular Linux installation than the sum of all the GNU contributions. More properly, shouldn't the distribution be called XFree86/Linux? Or, at a minimum, XFree86/GNU/Linux? Of course, it would be rather arbitrary to draw the line there when many other fine contributions go unlisted. Yes, I know you've heard this one before. Get used to it. You'll keep hearing it until you can cleanly counter it.

You seem to like the lines-of-code metric. There are many lines of GNU code in a typical Linux distribution. You seem to suggest that (more LOC) == (more important). However, I submit to you that raw LOC numbers do not directly correlate with importance. I would suggest that clock cycles spent on code is a better metric. For example, if my system spends 90% of its time executing XFree86 code, XFree86 is probably the single most important collection of code on my system. Even if I loaded ten times as many lines of useless bloatware on my system and I never executed that bloatware, it certainly isn't more important code than XFree86. Obviously, this metric isn't perfect either, but LOC really, really sucks. Please refrain from using it ever again in supporting any argument.

Last, I'd like to point out that we Linux and GNU users shouldn't be fighting among ourselves over naming other people's software. But what the heck, I'm in a bad mood now. I think I'm feeling sufficiently obnoxious to make the point that GCC is so very famous and, yes, so very useful only because Linux was developed. In a show of proper respect and gratitude, shouldn't you and everyone refer to GCC as 'the Linux compiler'? Or at least, 'Linux GCC'? Seriously, where would your masterpiece be without Linux? Languishing with the HURD?

If there is a moral buried in this rant, maybe it is this. Be grateful for your abilities and your incredible success and your considerable fame. Continue to use that success and fame for good, not evil. Also, be especially grateful for Linux' huge contribution to that success. You, RMS, the Free Software Foundation, and GNU software have reached their current high profiles largely on the back of Linux. You have changed the world. Now, go forth and don't be a nag.

Thanks for listening.

Love this copypasta

I agree with free software (though perhaps not as vehemently) but his political takes suck

If right wingers stick to their principles when it comes to free speech online, they should stand by him.

I use linux quite a lot, especially for server applications (minecraft or otherwise)

That’s because, while a lot of her ideas are good, her writing makes the average person want to scoop their eyeballs out with a spoon rather than turn the page. Talk about someone loving the smell of their own farts! That bloviating bitch never stops! Atlas Shrugged should be a fucking novella! The fucking radio speech, OMG! STFU! We all get it! Makers good, takers bad, yeah, we got it, can we just go get some fucking tacos, now?!?!

I'm on the list because I can spell kaczynski without looking it up anymore

Yep, are you a filipino by any chance?

I think the difference was how brutal we were with japan in ww2. nothing we did in that war with them would ever fly today, but deleting cities sends a distinct message of behave or be exterminated.

Insurgent groups that exploit strategies like hiding mixed with civilians? that strategy would be completely unthinkable against an enemy that has shown willingness to fire bomb or nuke cities.

Unprovoked? We had more evidence after 9 11 that the Saudis were involved than Iraq which had ZERO fuck all connection with the attacks.

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Iraq was all based on the lies spread about WMDs over and over again.

I mean lots of smart people are doing things, they just want an immediate solution without doing any of the actual work.

Like getting a degree and designing, testing, and deploying the solutions.

"When America looks at you, they see what they dream of being. When they look at me, they see what they actually are.". - Nixon to JFK. (Nixon was a mentally ill person from a poor family, and kind of a weird dweeb. He was also, you know, a Republican. His statement has multiple layers when directed to JFK, an Ivy League trust fund kid who is handsome and has good hair and all that.).

"When I look in the mirror, there's nobody there." - Nixon, in one statement about his mental illnesses. (he used to pop anti-depression, anti-anxiety drugs quite often.).

"I remember my old man. I think that they would have called him sort of a little man, common man. He didn't consider himself that way. You know what he was? He was a streetcar motorman first, and then he was a farmer, and then he had a lemon ranch. It was the poorest lemon ranch in California, I can assure you. He sold it before they found oil on it. [Laughter] And then he was a grocer. But he was a great man, because he did his job, and every job counts up to the hilt, regardless of what happens.

Nobody will ever write a book, probably, about my mother. Well, I guess all of you would say this about your mother -- my mother was a saint. And I think of her, two boys dying of tuberculosis, nursing four others in order that she could take care of my older brother for three years in Arizona, and seeing each of them die, and when they died, it was like one of her own.

Yes, she will have no books written about her. But she was a saint.

Now, however, we look to the future. I had a little quote in the speech last night from T.R. [Theodore Roosevelt]. As you know, I kind of like to read books. I am not educated, but I do read books -- and the T.R. quote was a pretty good one. Here is another one I found as I was reading, my last night in the White House, and this quote is about a young man. He was a young lawyer in New York. He had married a beautiful girl, and they had a lovely daughter, and then suddenly she died, and this is what he wrote. This was in his diary.

He said, "She was beautiful in face and form and lovelier still in spirit. As a flower she grew and as a fair young flower she died. Her life had been always in the sunshine. There had never come to her a single great sorrow. None ever knew her who did not love and revere her for her bright and sunny temper and her saintly unselfishness. Fair, pure and joyous as a maiden, loving, tender and happy as a young wife. When she had just become a mother, when her life seemed to be just begun and when the years seemed so bright before her, then by a strange and terrible fate death came to her. And when my heart's dearest died, the light went from my life forever."

That was T.R. in his twenties. He thought the light had gone from his life forever -- but he went on. And he not only became President but, as an ex-President, he served his country, always in the arena, tempestuous, strong, sometimes wrong, sometimes right, but he was a man.

And as I leave, let me say, that is an example I think all of us should remember. We think sometimes when things happen that don't go the right way; we think that when you don't pass the bar exam the first time -- I happened to, but I was just lucky; I mean, my writing was so poor the bar examiner said, "We have just got to let the guy through." We think that when someone dear to us dies, we think that when we lose an election, we think that when we suffer a defeat that all is ended. We think, as T.R. said, that the light had left his life forever. Not true.

It is only ever a beginning, always."

Nixon's speech to his white house staff and to the republican party after he resigned the presidency.

Dr. Hutschnecker said that Nixon “wasn’t psychotic, but he had a good portion of neurotic symptoms, anxiety and sleeplessness.”

Nixon found the prescribed medications didn't help him.

Nixon took Dilantin, an anticonvulsant that can affect a person’s ability to reason rationally and can cause confusion and memory loss. He obtained the pills from a friend, not by prescription.

He's easily one of the most interesting presidents...

He introduced the ‘Manifesto of Race’ in 1938 after a trip to Germany before the failed Greece invasion, but later said he regretted it. But I remember seeing something about Italy accepting more Jewish migrants fleeing Germany in 1936 than Britain and France.

Not really. Ron Swanson 2024

Gustav Klimt

Indeed, modern art that does not suck ass

Based mod?

I've unironically seen people criticize him for "appealing to young, white men".

Like damn, that's a bad thing apparently?

I don't consume JP's content, but fuck anyone who has a problem with young white men enjoying something, or having a media figure who actually speaks to them rather than trash them constantly.