As the term is currently being applied to describe modern government behavior, "anarcho-tyranny" is a completely misapplied and logically incoherent concept.

Here is the basic linguistic problem. When we use hyphenated terms, a thing must be both A and B in order to be A-B. A Mexican-American is a person with Mexican lineage who has been absorbed into the US population through immigration. A red chair must be both red and a chair to qualify as such (that one's not hyphenated but you get my point). To qualify as A-B, you have to actually possess the definitive traits of both A and B.

The way people talk about so-called anarcho-tyranny today, they are specifically complaining about the behavior of a centralized state. They are describing a government that allegedly crushes everyday people with petty regulations while letting actual street crime slide. That's clearly not anarchism, it's corrupt behavior of a centralized state which makes it not anarchism in any way, shape or form.

"Anarchy" requires a stateless society. If you are describing the deliberate actions, policies, priorities, or uneven enforcement of a functioning, centralized government, that situation does not fall under anarchism. You can't have a stateless state. If you have a situation where a centralized state is behaving in corrupt or tyrannical manner then what you're describing is state tyranny, and state corruption, not anarcho-anything.

Is actual anarcho-tyranny possible? Sure, but it would look entirely different. It would look like a collapsed society where a power vacuum has been created. If a centralized state falls and warlords, roving gangs, or privatized militaries step in to fill the gap, and they start behaving in a tyrannical manner, then you could argue that is a proper use of the term. It would be an anarchic situation where the citizens are living under tyranny, not of a state, but of all the other non-state forms of power structures that could form in the absence of one.

What we are seeing today isn't that, at least not in the West. If a state enforces laws unevenly, allows certain types of lawlessness to persist and behaves oppressively or corruptly, that is not anarchistic behavior. It is state corruption and state tyranny.

Calling corrupt, uneven state enforcement "anarchy" just muddies the water. If the state is acting tyrannically or failing to apply the law evenly, we should just call it what it actually is: corrupt behavior of the state.

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Elder Millennial here. I had a conversation with a young Gen Z guy and when we started talking about movies, he said he had no interest in watching any movie made before he was born. I think I might have mentioned The Matrix and he said he'd never seen it. He might have been around 22 so if he was born in 2004, that leaves a lot of classic films (some not even very old from my perspective) that he's decided in advance that he won't watch.

I don't even have anywhere near enough time to list them all and no one would read a post that long but you can look up "best of" lists by decade, or by genre, and most of what you'll find was made before 2004. Anyone choosing that cutoff point for films wouldn't be watching any of the LOTR movies or the Matrix or Terminator or the original Jurassic Park or... so many things. The Godfather (I know it's slow but it's beautifully done) and the Kurosawa samurai films or the 'spaghetti Westerns' or... like I said I don't have time to list them all but there's a lot.

I don't want to make this post overly long I'm just a bit perplexed by this attitude. Using someone's birth year to decide that they're going to cut off everything before a certain arbitrary point... it seems like... voluntary amnesia regarding our collective history.

So my question for the sub is, how common is this? Do you feel this way? And would you apply the same attitude to music or books? I would suspect that anyone of any generation saying they won't read a book older than 2002 would sound really stupid but I'm wondering why they'd apply that attitude to movies. And music, are there 'Zoomers' who refuse to listen to older music? There seems to be a '90s nostalgia thing going on lately and some of that is with people young enough to not actually remember the 90s so it seems like the music is ok but maybe not movies and I'm not sure about books.

I will say that I relate with one thing: I watch way fewer movies than I once did. More of my time is taken up by Youtube and online content in general so a smaller percentage of my 'watch time' is going to be dedicated to any movies or TV whether they be new or old.

Anyway thanks in advance, curious to hear what you all think. Cheers.

I’ve been rewatching the show recently, and during Season 4, a realization hit me about the Mirror Universe episodes, Especially S4E20 'Shattered Mirror'. The mirror universe episodes in contrast to the rest of the show are campy, melodramatic, wildly hyper-sexualized, and completely throw out the grounded political tone of DS9. My theory:

The Mirror Universe in DS9 isn't an actual alternate dimension. It is a series of pulpy, highly embellished sci-fi manuscripts written by a 19-year-old Jake Sisko. I'll give some examples of why I think this explanation makes a lot of sense.

In the Season 4 episode "Shattered Mirror," the story kicks off right after Jake has a conversation with Odo about being stuck on one of his short stories. Almost immediately after, he gets whisked away to an alternate reality where he becomes the absolute emotional center of a galactic conflict, gets to be a hero, and reunites with his deceased mother. The timeline of this event happening right as he mentions being "stuck" with one of his stories opens up the possibility that what we're witnessing is his imagination running wild rather than a genuine event happening in the real DS9 world.

It has all the classic hallmarks of a young writer inserting himself into his own high-stakes fantasy novel to resolve his personal trauma, and it resolves the issue of why the characters behave so strangely. Such as:

Why are the women in the mirror universe so unreasonably horny? Especially Kira and Dax. This is the biggest giveaway. In the main timeline, Major Kira is a formidable, deeply religious former freedom fighter, and Jadzia Dax is a 300-year-old wise sage trapped in the body of a supermodel. To Jake, these women are intimidating, high-ranking (and extremely hot) authority figures who walk around his home station every day. We already know based on the episode when Troi gave everyone the 'love bug' that Jake has at least some latent attraction to Kira. And Dax is, well hot by any standard of beauty. So it's unsurprising that a young man would be fantasizing about them.

How does a young male writer diffuse that intimidation when building an experimental sandbox? He turns them into campy, bisexual femme fatales in skin-tight leather who spend half their screen time crawling across tables and aggressively flirting with everyone. Intendant Kira and Mirror Dax don't read like believably real alternate-universe counterparts. They read like a teenage guy trying to write "dangerous and evil women" but overshooting the mark straight into 90s pulp softcore by turning them into over the top, stereotypical and semi-one-dimensional sex objects.

One thing that always bothered me about Mirror Jennifer Sisko is how emotionally flat and wooden her characterization/performance feels compared to Avery Brooks' hyper-intense acting. Maybe the actress just wasn't very good at acting... but I don't think it's just that.

If this is Jake's manuscript, that total lack of emotional depth makes complete sense. Jake was just a little kid when his mother died at Wolf 359. He doesn't actually know how to write her as a complex, three-dimensional adult woman with real nuance. Instead, he writes a flat, idealized "Mother" archetype whose sole narrative function is to come rescue him within the story and for them to have a few more moments with her before again saying goodbye. The fact that she dies again in this episode gives this fact away. Jake isn't trying to ignore the fact that she's dead, he's just trying to simulate a few moments with her through his writing.

One might also ask, in an alternate universe, what are all these people doing on Deep Space Nine aka Terak Nor?

History had to unfold a certain way in order for this set of people to end up on the station together. In an alternate universe with a totally different history, the series of events leading up to the present would have been totally different, and Sisko, Dax, Kira, O'Brien, Bashir and the rest of them wouldn't all be there. They'd be on Earth or on a different planet or space station or ship or anywhere else but not there. Or they might not have been born. If history had been completely different the set of people alive at any given moment would be different. The mirror universe being a product of Jake's imagination, a writing exercise where he recasts all the people he knows on the station into some similar in some ways but completely different in other important ways kind of world... it makes sense out of the whole thing. The tone. The over the top characters. The oversexed women etc.

Writers frequently build hypothetical scenarios to stress-test their real-world acquaintances through adversarial conflict. The Mirror Universe is Jake throwing the historical figures he knows into extreme, oppositional roles:

What if my noble, heroic father was a chaotic, cynical mercenary?

What if the strict station commander was a hedonistic tyrant?

What if humble engineer Chief O'Brien was a grizzled rebel leader?

What if Worf was a stereotypical Klingon warlord?

What if the Federation was weak or non-existent and there were other sadistic rulers in charge?

It’s a young author letting his imagination run totally wild, untethered from the historical realities going on around him such as the pressing threat of the Dominion War. He's also grown up in close proximity to Bajor, with the plight of the noble rebels being something that would be on his mind due to how much time he's spent around them and learning about their history. So when it comes time for him to write a story, this is the one he wants to tell, but instead of Bajorans fighting the occupation of the Cardassians it's the 'Terrans' fighting for their freedom against a cruel oppressor.

TL;DR: The Mirror Universe episodes feel like campy 90s pulp noir because they literally are 90s pulp written by a horny, traumatized teenage Jake Sisko sitting in his quarters and roaming the promenade on DS9 brainstorming, trying to figure out how to write fiction. The 'flavor' and tone of this setting is based on the vibe that Jake was going for with one of his earliest writing projects and reflect his mental and emotional state at that point in time. They are a projection of the psyche of a young aspiring writer and his surroundings, his life experience, his fantasies, and his conception of a hero's journey mirroring that of the noble Bajorans fighting for their freedom.

Curious to hear what you all think.

The way they've designed their app is overly cumbersome to use. Things that should be automatic instead you have to go searching through the list of things you want to buy, then check the box on all the stuff you might need.

But that's not enough. Once you've ticked the box you have to go into the 'clipped' deals and again check the box you already checked. It's so incredibly stupid.

I just did one where you get $10 back by spending $50, which is a cool bonus... but there was also one for getting an extra 200 reward points if you spend $50. I didn't see it until I'd already finished the transaction.

Items like "4X reward points on certain items". Why not just give people bonus points if you want to do that? Why make them go through the app to search for things about bonus points then tick the box twice when it should require zero clicks. It's all just so stupid. And nothing about the app is intuitive to use. It's not user friendly like the big social media apps. It's just a massive pain.

The app shouldn't even be needed unless you want to have groceries delivered. Making people jump through all these dumb hoops to get the sales is just such an unpleasant user experience and a crappy way to treat your customers.

I haven't seen anyone discussing it but maybe we should.

"It’s another energy harvesting psyop and it’s working because it’s keeping the normies entertained and arguing. It’s almost identical to a case in Ireland from 2020. A mother of 3, also a paediatric nurse strangled her 3 kids while her husband was at work. He showed up just as it was all over and acted very strangely ever since - courting the media and organising fund raisers within days.

She was found not guilty by reason of insanity as she had postpartum, was on a cocktail of SSRI’s and had visited a hospital a week earlier and wasn’t admitted. Exact same story.

Both incidents happened on the same date: Morley: 24th Jan 2020 Clancy: 24th Jan 2023. Both women were nurses. Both husbands seem suspicious. Both countries divided on who’s to blame. Both sets of kids were 2 boys and 1 girl and had the same initials: Morley: Conor, Darragh and Carla (CDC) Clancy: Cora, Dawson and Callan (CDC)."

We don't need to believe all the gematria/numerology stuff. Something about this case just feels wrong. The inauthentic level of support she is allegedly getting from women feels contrived and forced. It feels like manufactured outrage, like so many other recent events.

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Since they want to maximize profit, and rejecting claims helps them to maximize profits by not paying out benefits, why don't they reject every claim for maximum profit?

Scrolling through the top players I counted 8 with the blue bird token that comes from finishing the second collection. There shouldn't have been time to do that yet. Is there some kind of trick or exploit going on here? Ideas appreciated.

There's a section in the user profile that says verify your pizza bag and if you do it the app under preferences/ get more offers: verify your pizza bag. When done it says Pizza bag verified with a green checkmark. So far so good.

The problem is that once you verify it, the app keeps wanting you to re-verify it every time you get a pizza order. What is up with this? Stop harassing me. I verified already. What's with all the extra steps? Take a photo of this. Take it again, and again, and again. What's the point of going into your preferences to verify the bag if you just have to keep doing it over and over? Enough already, DD.

People can operate their social media presence any way they want to. If people want to seal off a perfect little echo chamber where only the people who agree are permitted to speak, you are free to do that... but I am free to be annoyed by it. It is cowardly and obnoxious. I'm not a bot, I just don't agree. Maybe that's part of the new world of AI, everything is assumed to be fake and 'dead internet' so you can dismiss anyone you don't like as if they weren't even real. "Anyone who doesn't think like me is a bot." Also the smug attitude of "I'm a doctor so I'm smarter than everyone... they're all in denial." No valid disagreement or doubt can exist, it's just stupid people and bots.

/sigh. Just needed to get that off my chest. This kind of thing grinds my gears.

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Hey all, I'm curious about the sub's responses to this video. I tried to respond on his page and he's deleting comments that question his climate doomer narrative. What should be said to people who think this way? I'm at a loss to how to get through to them, their minds are so made up, it's frustrating. Thanks in advance.

Title pretty much says it. If you look into the details of how this company was formed, in Atlanta a major federal government hub, rolled out incredibly quickly all across the country using federal grant money. The CEO's name is Langley FFS, just like the city where the CIA HQ is located. That's like some stuff out of a movie, or maybe we're literally living in a simulation and whoever runs the sim just finds it funny to mess with us. In any case, this "public-private partnership" is something that I'm convinced is aligned with a three-letter agency such as CIA or NSA, yet we're being told it's just some kind of normal private business when it absolutely is not.

No one voted for these things, they were just put up under our noses without ever asking us what we think. We're not supposed to have an opinion on it. We're being told that if we oppose mass surveillance that "it means you just love crime and criminals." It's the old line about "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear." The tyrants can't understand that people just don't want to live under a panopticon... an "all-seeing eye" of federal surveillance.

Just be honest, Flock... tell us what you really are. Declare yourself to be a federal government surveillance grid. Admit that you're putting up the "all seeing eye" because you think you need to be able to keep an eye on everyone at all times for any reason of your choosing. Admit that you see us as your subjects and slaves, not free citizens in a free society.

I'm a few episodes into S2 and the two that come to mind so far are firstly there was an episode in S1 where the crew was under the influence of that virus brought in by the Klingon where it caused them to start re-enacting a mutiny. When Odo finally gets the "influence" out of the crew he opens an airlock and sends it out into space. Obviously you can't open an airlock with people inside the cargo bay exposed to the vacuum of space as this would kill anyone instantly and probably also suck them out off of the station faster than any of them could react. "Hold onto something!" Yeah right give me a break. A simple solution would have been to have Odo create some kind of forcefield around the alien "beings" and either keep them captured in some kind of container or send them out into space using the force field.

The second was in the episode where the guy temporarily steals the Dax symbiont. That rag-tag crew had way too easy of a time taking over the station. It was almost like DS9 was completely empty when you had this shuttle with a few people with basic handheld weapons who are somehow able to take over the station. Where is the rest of security? Furthermore, this is right after the station had gotten through an attempted coup involving rogue Bajorans. The station should have been on heightened security, yet it seems like there was Odo and that's it. The station for most of the show feels populated. On that episode it seemed like absolutely no one was there. It just doesn't make sense.

If the internet existed back then they would have been lambasted on the forums/ social media for stuff like this. What are some other examples of writing mistakes, scientific errors or other "what were they thinking? moments throughout the history of the show? Thanks in advance.