The geese are known for being fearless, aggressive, and quite hard to fight back against.

Colonel Kuntz in Apocalypse Now delivers a monologue about the commitment of the enemy.

I found the goose.

You’ve obviously never fought a Canadian goose before, let alone a pair of them. We once went into a flock to feed some geese. We left the flock after we had fed them and this old goose came running after us and it was quaking. It couldn’t see.

We went back there and they had spat up every piece of bread. It was in a pile. A pile of little pieces of bread. And I remember… I… I… I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn’t know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget.

And then I realized… like I was shot… like I was shot with a diamond… a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought, my God… the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we. Because they could stand that these were not monsters. These were geese… wild birds. These geese who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love… but they had the strength… the strength… to do that.

If I had ten divisions of those geese, then our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have geese who are moral… and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling… without passion… without judgment… without judgment! Because it’s judgment that defeats dogs.

I respect your agency in your learning process and assume personal wisdom.

I learned very little useful studying the Bible and philosophy by myself. Some subjects are just that way, such as Capital. And, no one comes just wanting to learn the material. All want an opportunity for praxis.

Q: What’s the difference between a capitalist, a socialist, and a communist?

A: Their faith in future humanity to not only trust anonymously, but also love anonymously.

MLK preached as you do: We will love them until they see the light. The police turned hoses on them, let loose dogs, beat them and shot them. The same happened to the miners before and truckers after. There’s still an artillery piece on top Kettering University, placed there to intimidate those that went on to form the UAW.

Nothing would make me happier than a time where we could hash out our differences about what comes after we win the increasingly violent, bloody class war that we’ve been loosing for 70 years.

This isn’t the default behavior of Win10 Pro without a DC. I don’t know enough about graceful shutdowns to have a perspective. Maybe Home has a different user presentation than Pro?

Unrelated: I’m trying to get from two Virtualbox Mint VMs to one paravirtualized (docker?) image, then to move to physical hardware. When I’m ready, where in the fediverse should I ask for assistance?

A couple Canadian geese would’ve taken down the whole bar, the dog, and a probably a couple pigs.

It’s a metaphor for what we should do now, rooted in responsible BDSM play. While I have much appreciation and respect for your message of love, history tells us that it won’t succeed alone because our oppressor doesn’t speak the language. We must use physical and fiscal violence as that’s all that is understood (discipline). Then, after, we’ll need loads of love to cobble together the pieces (aftercare).

This isn’t what I want. It’s human nature. It’s what will happen, just as it has countless times before.

Well, privacy can be infringed as a motivator after tax and campaign finance reform. Prison is a bigger motivator.

DaddysLittleSlut, now’s the time for discipline. Aftercare comes, well, after.

Taxes, government ownership, or communal ownership. For example, tax all wealth above $100m at 100%.

If I were in a position of power I’d hopefully willingly give up some privacy. But, no law can sit in judgement, let alone something so simple.

If humans constantly tempted by wealth and power, who then fall victim to it, have their right to privacy infringed, then they’ll go right on feeding their addictions, no matter the cost of maintenance of privacy?

Above, I wrote one cohesive response, not three snippets. It’s powerful because great people wrote it: from King to Wiki. I’m just a guy who knows you’re not looking for ideas.

Thank you for the compliment. But, lucky for us, humanity has much better choices.

Privacy is prerequisite to a life of dignity. It’s not a bargaining chip for another prerequisite.

Crystal clear piece of writing. Humans are obviously collectively responsible for the systems they create and perpetuate.

I am currently not smart/cognizant enough to think of a way.

An individual, regardless of wealth, power, and ability, is powerless relative the systemic mandate. Large groups produce mediocrity. Their outcomes fail to meet the prerequisite urgency of the human mandate.

However if you think there is a clever way to gum up the system in a purely procedural/bureaucratic way, I am all ears.

The first rule consists of a relatively small number of people, who know little to no information concerning organization assets (such as member identities). This limits the harm that can be done to the organization as a whole by any individual member. The structure can range from a strict hierarchy to an extremely distributed organization, depending on the group’s ideology, its operational area, the communications technologies available, and the nature of the mission.

I was wrong. I edited my post to say so.

Good idea. On another platform I could once put notes next to a username, shows up every post.

I want to compare present day VP candidate to a horse concubine. But, there’s too many good choices to decide which is the best joke.