Notices by Anthony Trevelyan (trev@icosahedron.website), page 18

@maloki I love this emoji combination

well, looks like twitter made a little oopsie whoopsie

time for a buncha new fedi accounts

@shmibs I'm vain and you not being can't stop me!!

but ok

@shmibs I would say we should hang out if you're nearby but... no haircut...

@shmibs I think it's good to be able to argue with your loved ones!

Just as long as you don't resent each other!

@shmibs when's that?

@shmibs If the Internet has taught me anything, it's that you can't have friends with ideological disagreements, because they're monsters. </s>

But really, the people I love and trust most in my life are people I have a lot of ideological difference with, on at least one level.

I think I was talking more about that old trope where a husband-and-wife archetype bicker constantly, or their relationship only exists to be exploited for disagreement and tension. Like mutual resentment is expected.

@shmibs this is the stuff fanfic is made of

@kibi All this Lacan quoting in his early works, and then in Less Than Nothing he says:

"There is nothing in Lacan which is not stupid, no exceptions to stupidity, so that what makes him not totally stupid is only the very inconsistency of his stupidity."

@shmibs

I realize I just opposed a ( and a " on that post and to any of my friends who write lisp I am terribly sorry

@lycaon This is probably a pretty contrary point of view around here, but I find In Defense Of Lost Causes utterly reprehensible. He carries entirely too much water for dead fascists. It's like an edgelord shitpost in paperback.

That said, if you're looking for answers, don't read Žižek, on that we can agree

@shmibs He's like so many other professors, to me. I both respect him greatly for the ideas I find useful, and roll my eyes often at the rest of his self-important drivel

I think the critique that Žižek doesn't actually bring people closer to solving the problems of the Left is a pretty valid one.

But I also don't think it's complete vanity, or all pop-psych, that he calls bullshit on a lot of popular ideas or notions. Cynicism has its place.

"Try to find in all of the work you mentioned some principles from which you can deduce conclusions, empirically testable propositions where it all goes beyond the level of something you can explain in five minutes to a twelve-year-old. See if you can find that when the fancy words are decoded. I can’t. So I’m not interested in that kind of posturing. Žižek is an extreme example of it. I don’t see anything to what he’s saying."