holygon [he/him, comrade/them]

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Early piracy was just so fun. Like I’m glad that it’s more simple, and accessible now, and that you are less likely to use your dial-up internet to download a virus over 3 days… But, it was so exciting lmao. Like it felt like you were stepping into some underground club that no one knew about - even though you were a 12 year old nerd with no prospects of a girlfriend in the near future hahahaha. But it was really fun, and it helped me learn to like problem-solving, and the idea of piracy, and open-source software def also helped me develop some ideas about the world around sharing, and stuff.

    Anyway I think that’s enough gushing about that hahaha, just wanted to indulge in my nostalgia for a minute.


  • I kinda miss the days of pirating a movie, burning it to a disk, and then popping it into a DVD player. Like it’s objectively more convenient now, with Jellyfin/Emby/Plex media servers that can stream to any device in your home, but it has lost some of the analogue charm of feeling like a hackerman dressed like Neo when you gave a friend or a family member a DVD with sharpie writing on it, and them thinking you were some tech genius lmao.

    I remember some software where you could include like a custom DVD menu, where you could press chapters and subtitles and stuff before starting the film, and thinking I was the coolest person in the world when I showed my friends hahahha. Ah good times. Thanks for the nostalgia trip.


  • You are right that he wrote about it, but it was in his book To Kill A Nation, and not Against Empire. Here is the direct quote from the book:

    As the war dragged on and NATO officials saw press attention drifting toward the contrary story—namely that the bombing was killing civilians—“NATO stepped up its claims about Serb ‘killing fields,’” notes the Wall Street Journal.2 Widely varying but horrendous figures from official sources went largely unchallenged by the media. Support for the bombings remained firm among Clinton supporters in Congress (including the one professed “socialist,” Bernard Sanders [Ind.-Vt.]), and among self-described humanitarian groups such as Human Rights Watch, Doctors Without Borders, and Concern Worldwide, along with “peace” groups, and various NGOs—many of whom seem to have convinced themselves that NATO was defending Kosovo from a holocaust.

    Just searched through my copy of both Against Empire and To Kill A Nation to make sure party-parenti


  • I think it’s fun to make very socialist comments in subs that are very much not socialist, but like not use any socialist words, and then get a lot of upvotes from people who would call me a tankie in a heartbeat if they realized. I don’t think I’m changing anyone’s mind btw, I don’t think I’m doing anything important, I just think it’s funny to write one of those a couple times a month lmao.

    I also just need some outlet to disagree with libs on the internet, as lots of sorta-libs-who-don’t-follow-politics surround me irl, and I don’t want to be that guy to them, as they are my friends. It’s also just fun to practice arguments at random people, so you can see what works, and what doesn’t without any real consequence. There are people I actually want to convince in real life, might as well prototype my arguments when I can.

    Also it’s entertaining to yell at fascists. Like yeah, I should touch grass, but Redditors being mean to me doesn’t really bother me, so it’s not like I’m losing anything doing it. It is nice however to have this place, where I can go to relax a bit, if I don’t feel like having /r/europe people in my replies.