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Notices by Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com), page 48

  1. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 31-May-2022 13:07:35 EDT Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    • Hypolite Petovan
    These are the things you could do, but few can yield a living income (farming with a few acres? in this economy?) and most depends on their location, paving the way for yet more inequality. And there's still the problem of the unwanted present, I wouldn't want a few acres of land for myself, it would be a burden more than a gift.

    A lump sum payment has the advantage of closing the reparations debate once and for all. It doesn't close the discrimination debate however, so the actual consequences of the reparations themselves have little bearing on this ongoing societal issue. Reparation is a question between the US government and descendants of slavery. Discrimination is a question between US citizens themselves, only loosely related to the slavery question. People of color are discriminated against even in countries that did not employ slaves.
    In conversation Tuesday, 31-May-2022 13:07:35 EDT from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  2. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 31-May-2022 12:09:04 EDT Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    • Hypolite Petovan
    I see what you mean, but I believe any kind of convoluted stipulations for reparations is both unwarranted and condescending. What would city people do with a few acres of land for 30 years? What would anyone do with a few acres of land for 30 years for that matters? It sounds more like a curse than a boon.

    A straightforward one-time lump sum payment still is the best way do make reparations. Yes, some will spend it on frivolities, but it's frivolities that they may have bought anyway had their parents' and their grand-parents' work not been exploited by whites.
    In conversation Tuesday, 31-May-2022 12:09:04 EDT from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  3. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 31-May-2022 11:26:03 EDT Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    • Hypolite Petovan
    You're right on both counts, but you've already given way more credit to my original stupid idea than I did myself.

    And for the record, I prefer WhiteNats supporting abortion than not, and for the second part, I believe it isn't a good reason not to try; although I assume you didn't meant it this way.
    In conversation Tuesday, 31-May-2022 11:26:03 EDT from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  4. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 31-May-2022 10:38:26 EDT Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    I just had this impossibly twisted realization that if racist mass-murderers really were about the birth rate, they would support reparations as socio-economic situation has a strong inverse correlation with fertility in post-industrial societies.
    In conversation Tuesday, 31-May-2022 10:38:26 EDT from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  5. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 30-May-2022 16:05:43 EDT Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    Sometimes, I wish I was someone else who never wished they were someone else.
    In conversation Monday, 30-May-2022 16:05:43 EDT from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  6. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 28-May-2022 08:30:33 EDT Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    • Isaac Kuo
    Oh they do that for military buildings, but not for civilian buildings. Orbital bombardments aren't very discriminating though.
    In conversation Saturday, 28-May-2022 08:30:33 EDT from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  7. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 27-May-2022 22:48:08 EDT Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    Warhammer 40K contractor: Are you sure you want tall gothic hand-carved stone buildings again? I mean, with what happened with the Orks, then the Tyranids, then the Chaos, you'd be better off with prefabs, it'd be cheaper. Yeah, yeah, for the glory of the Emperor and all that...
    In conversation Friday, 27-May-2022 22:48:08 EDT from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  8. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 27-May-2022 18:55:24 EDT Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    • Brian Ó
    • Martijn Vos
    Ah, sorry, it did but Diaspora replies aren’t attached to the comment you replied to, so I had to guess who you were replying to.
    In conversation Friday, 27-May-2022 18:55:24 EDT from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  9. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 27-May-2022 17:40:52 EDT Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    • Brian Ó
    Oh I know about it, I still think it’s wrong.
    In conversation Friday, 27-May-2022 17:40:52 EDT from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  10. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 27-May-2022 17:02:43 EDT Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    • Khurram Wadee
    And lobby local governments for additional funding including by threatening violence if they don’t get it.
    In conversation Friday, 27-May-2022 17:02:43 EDT from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  11. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 27-May-2022 16:55:29 EDT Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    • Khurram Wadee
    Of course not, they showed up, didn't kill anyone themselves, job done!
    In conversation Friday, 27-May-2022 16:55:29 EDT from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  12. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 27-May-2022 09:45:04 EDT Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    • Hypolite Petovan
    Thank you for the clarification. I guess I’ve alway been a police abolitionist then.
    In conversation Friday, 27-May-2022 09:45:04 EDT from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  13. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 27-May-2022 09:31:28 EDT Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    Re: Uvalde shooting delayed police response.

    I’m a “Defund the Police” supporter, however I believe that a reduced armed police force is necessary to handle situations like in Uvalde. The actual poor police performance in this case makes me doubt this belief.
    In conversation Friday, 27-May-2022 09:31:28 EDT from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  14. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Thursday, 26-May-2022 19:55:23 EDT Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    • Brian Ó
    Firefighters either, and yet they put their lives on the line day in and day out.
    In conversation Thursday, 26-May-2022 19:55:23 EDT from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  15. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Thursday, 26-May-2022 18:43:10 EDT Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    The Uvalde shooting unfortunately showed everything that's wrong with the "thin blue line" ideology. Cops will only protect themselves and their own children because everybody else is on the wrong side of the thin blue line.
    In conversation Thursday, 26-May-2022 18:43:10 EDT from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  16. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-May-2022 12:24:50 EDT Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    What's an economy of war without a war?

    It seems to me that historically the Western economy always has been one geared for war. Efficient and ruthless, because any other would have been crushed after an actual combat. The major downside of this kind of economy is that it exhausts both its environment and its own people out of fear of being killed or annexed. This lesser of two evils can be justified when there is an actual existential military threat, but it becomes the main problem when there aren’t anymore.

    American political commentators have recently asked since when the American society became so politically divided. The truth is that it’s always been divided as a nation of settlers of an inhabited land and later the major beneficiary of the slave trade. But it’s also always been under military threat since its inception, so there always was a threatening foreign enemy for Americans to rally together against. However, this stopped after the Soviet nuclear threat vanished in 1989. The United States won a race nobody was running anymore, and started recounting its own internal injuries it ignored to get there.

    It isn’t for a lack of trying to cover them up though, as made-up wars have freely burgeoned in political speeches. The War on Drugs, the War on Terror, the Second Iraq War, all failed to provide a tangible external threat that could focus the public attention away from social justice, instead producing even more internal resentment as the war beast turned on itself for a lack of prey.

    The September 11th, 2001 attack on the Twin Towers in New York City rekindled the national fervor against a common enemy, but it was short-lived. It quickly became apparent that this attack was meant to be a single event and that the United States weren’t structurally threatened. But at this point the US already did far greater damage to its own people (mainly freedom and privacy-wise) than any foreign power could have done themselves.

    We don’t need this kind of soulless efficiency now, even less by spending people’s well-being and dwindling natural resources.
    In conversation Tuesday, 24-May-2022 12:24:50 EDT from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  17. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 21-May-2022 10:26:36 EDT Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    "Love potion" as a positive concept and not a horrifying consent-breaching accessory is rape culture.
    In conversation Saturday, 21-May-2022 10:26:36 EDT from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  18. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 20-May-2022 20:25:07 EDT Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    Constantine (2005)

    ♲ @MrLovenstein@twitter.com: Say your prayers...

    Secret Panel HERE 🙏 http://mrlovenstein.com/comic/997

    In conversation Friday, 20-May-2022 20:25:07 EDT from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  19. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Thursday, 19-May-2022 13:44:01 EDT Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    I don't mind revisiting domain blocks on my server; today I put "poas.t" for reconsideration, within ten seconds their local timeline showed me an antisemitic meme, I guess it's staying on the block list. #FediBlock
    In conversation Thursday, 19-May-2022 13:44:01 EDT from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  20. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Thursday, 19-May-2022 11:21:44 EDT Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    New personal best! I solved yesterday's Redactle (#42) in 24 guesses with an accuracy of 87.50%. Played at www.redactle.com/
    In conversation Thursday, 19-May-2022 11:21:44 EDT from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
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