This is wrong. Psychopaths feel themselves just fine in the society and usually don’t become school shooters.

Shooting up bullies is a very crude solution, one that a psychopath usually doesn’t need.

In any case most of school shootings I’ve read about were connected to bullying, and bully lives don’t matter. Don’t bully, don’t get killed.

A psychopath usually plans their murders, so they’ll do just fine with a heavy sharp object or a reactive not intended for food getting into food. A psychopath will also be on the convenient side of any socially approved action.

I’ve recently fully realized that I’ve met a high quality psychopath once.

Things which were obvious for any paranoid I2P user 15 years ago, and were being discussed in Freenet 20 years ago, and by cypherpunks 30 years ago, are again new and unexpected.

See, you can murder people in the open if you can make it comfortable enough for everyone to ignore it.

Surveillance and censorship should be scarier, because without them you can cry out about the murderer or avoid strategic disadvantage against the murderer, but are not - most people haven’t been in real danger they understood. And even if they were - suppose that’s already happening, people are being murdered in the open, censorship and surveillance happen, and the latter causes more outrage, - we all can see nobody cares enough to pay with a few bruises for opposing it, not just their living, health, life.

Here we are.

“… it’ll be the same, but it’s a huge honor to work on this project in our company.”

School shooters usually use it as their last resort. Bullying of autistic kids is the main problem. Them finding such an exit is a secondary one.

The nations that decide that bombing anyone in the Middle East is lawful when they are doing it.

Also the nations that decide that Kosovo has to be independent, but this is not a precedent for anyone else.

Arabs and Turks ethnically cleansing Arabs, Kurds, Assyrians, Yazidis, Armenians is fine. But a few Slavic peoples murdering each other because of religion warrant an exceptional intervention. But Mustafa Kemal is a good guy.

Russians are to blame for their government’s actions and have to be banned from payment systems and visiting EU countries. But Russians who work in the government and their family members can live in EU countries half the time and more. That’s justified by “killing Russia’s economy for the war”, except Russia’s war is not funded by taxes from citizens paying and accepting payments for shit with MC and Visa. Russia’s war is funded by oil and gas trade. Or by “punishing Russians and making them change the regime”, which is very funny, because the people actually part of the regime are not “punished” this way, they are also the exact group that should be “punished” for good effect, and we the rest kinda see that and don’t have huge sympathies to the narratives of people doing such stuff.

Also about Russia - those nations would decide that Putin’s and Yeltsin’s regimes are nice and legitimate and democratic when they were limited to destroying Russia itself. Again, now every Russian is retroactively to blame for those years as well, except those they were dealing with.

And it’s the same everywhere, if there’s an authoritarian regime - then just like with businesses, it’s sort of a profitable endeavor. And the process making it profitable happens in the western countries. It’s one system in which their elites have that cozy spot of hypocritically accusing everyone other than themselves of the processes they create. A continuation of the colonial system, too continuous and similar to even use the “neo” prefix.

That they are mostly democracies is not real republicanism, at least not in the last 20 years. It’s a sign of luxury - look, we can afford such magnificent Colosseum shows that our populace is well controlled even under pretense of democracy. The countries higher in that hierarchy play democracy more, the countries lower in it - less.

Say, Iran’s regime is unfortunate, but calling it less democratic than UK would be preposterous. It has more crime and corruption, true. But maybe the fact that Iran’s appearance of democracy is above what it’s “allowed” is not a smaller reason for the violence against it, than any fears of it attaining a nuke.

… I’d rather listen to what DPRK, IRI, PRC, even Turkey’s leadership have to say on what’s civilized and what’s not. Everyone is better than NATO&EU. Russia’s … eh, I’ve met some people too close to that, they stink too much, quite westernized one can say.

The world would be a safer place if not only every country had nukes, but also every adult citizen had a farm of combat drones.

I personally don’t want to hear of NATO&allies lecturing everyone else morals. Tired of that. And I understand why in ex-USSR the perception of them like some global good guys was common - the reaction to very invasive and obnoxious and irritating Soviet propaganda.

I don’t understand how people in the west can believe that.

Anyway, no intelligent person from the west I’ve talked to did, so … kinda as it should be.

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We have batteries. But yeah, attacking the grid might be smart.

I’ve literally told you where to look for an example. You are wrong. That this syncretism seems impossible to you means nothing.

In the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan local leftist-Islamist groups (with just a few al-Qaeda like ones) were against the USSR, while the secular-leftist government remnants were its ally (after they created the whole situation by assassinating the friendly dictator, it’s complex).

Mojahed has, yes, a rather wide meaning, but politically it’s associated with left-Islamist groups.

Shia fundamentalism is pretty socialist. Actually Islamic (including right and Sunni) fundamentalism in general has a lot about support nets, helping poor and such. They also have their own “not dirty” financial organization methods, like “Islamic banking”.

What had to be done to make political Islam the jihadi-Christian\Yazidi-beheading-ISIS-like-Caliphate-willing movement again, since the Ottoman empire, was a lot of work by western nations and a few small Arab monarchies. In Soviet times it was basically the western MO, to support-create-guide right-wing and fundamentalist organizations as opposed to the kind of movements USSR’s appearances attracted.

Of course, now they are trying to wash their hands.

That’s usually hereditary and the parents won’t want such action.

From the inside - yes, what I meant is that British society is often seen favorably from the outside.

And the comparison to Russia is maybe because this was one of the pictures imagined when thinking “how does a society look when fixed”, and the Russian society sees itself as broken, that feels recent, but isn’t.

And that picture still affects other societies.

He thought it was a two way relationship, he didn’t understand Russia viewed it as a one way relationship.

That’s the problem with Russia’s regime.

It’s still people born in the USSR with the typical Soviet person’s thinking - they say all the right things, but act differently eventually.

You can live alongside such a person for many years and think that their personality is real, but that’s because USSR’s society was created this way. It took ignorant peasants and workers and street food sellers and taught them professions requiring deeper understanding than they had, by direction, by order. That means those people just developed imitation skills of amazing quality.

Those looking like engineers and scientists can be found to covertly go to fortunetellers and be antivaxxers. Those looking like rock musicians can be found, like Kipelov, to be covertly USSR-nostalgic and conformist. Those looking like artists with some peaceful and humanist themes, like Makarevitch, can be later found in Israel living in a mansion in place of a burnt Arab village.

And so fucking on.

So, in case of Putin, they had that appearance of scary-scary mafia or smart-smart group of deep-state-secretly-serial-murderer-ex-intelligence-KGB-patriotic-brain types, but over time their inner essence too becomes visible, as they get old. And it was all a pretense too. It’s all fake. They have killed many people, they do drugs trade, they torture people in prisons, they do everything for it to seem real, but without understanding. They just imitate the picture they saw in movies, books, gossip, of others doing it.

In fact they are a group of komsomol woodcutter team leaders or kolkhoz directors who got to a higher place than was ever intended for them. All they can is to voluntell a bunch of people to go cut trees. They have fewer and fewer people over years and they terribly mismanage the forest they have, but there are too many people and the forest is too big for them to notice. At the same time they are able to steal, which is enough for them.

They don’t really understand what diplomacy means, or what war means, or what strategy is. They don’t understand why their side of the deal should be fulfilled. They didn’t conclude that many big deals in these 30 years.

If they did, then Trump’s expectation would make perfect sense.

OK, I’ve read many Murricans say that, but didn’t believe that. Now, after seeing this post, I think something snapped.

Yes, you are a banana republic.

Iran has been invaded quite a few times with rather satisfying results for those doing the invasions.

No, US funded what became Al-Qaeda, but the word Mohajed is usually used for a certain mix of Marxist and Islamist which is not common in our world anymore. The, eh, Islamic Republic of Iran in its ideology bears a significant trace of that though.

About appearances there’s also that everybody has what you’re describing in their stereotype of Britain (if not itself, then the Harry Potter universe at least), but feels that there’s something “true”, “real”, “deep”, “magical” about it.

It’s the feeling that “yes, that’s ghoulish, but maybe in the end that’s for the better, how do we even know?”.

A lot of cheap fantasy books in Russia in the 00s had that feeling too communicated, it’s probably one of the things that prevented the Russian society from being alarmed about the regime we have now.

The worst propaganda tool in my opinion, because it makes a person look at mafia and think “it’s mafia, but maybe I shouldn’t judge it like mafia, what if they’re secretly beneficial”, or look at jihadist bandits and think the same, or look at a fascist dictatorship and think the same. And worst of all, because in such it exploits openness of mind, as opposed to most other propaganda.

I mean, when popular movies started getting stupid and neutered, someone should have realized that we’re in the stage of bringing the interesting things from older movies to the real world.

Unfortunately they can block services in the Internet, and this federation will consist of Internet services that can be blocked. There’s no need to go a level above that.

It’s like in the olden days kings couldn’t eavesdrop on everyone, so many people could conspire in secret against them. But with time recording devices, listening devices (including some very smart ones not requiring electricity), secret police organization methods emerged.

You can’t say that an open federated system will help, just like you can’t say that street gossip will help.

What we might need is a resilient multimodal communication system for revolutions of the future. Making weapons is now a bit more accessible than in 1917 or 1813 or … , but the coordination of any kind of revolutionaries is less competitive against states than then.

With functionality including tracking cops and politicians.

So. We are sheeple after all. Because in supposedly free and democratic countries such mechanisms, which will kill freedom and democracy, are being erected with very good speed.

Also I think the ancap idea that everyone should own a bag of killer drones might seem more attractive.

That Ulysses’ pact of people not carrying weapons and expecting the police to defend them, it naturally doesn’t limit those who don’t take it.

Like elites who use every weapon they can get their hands on to change the world.

The good part is that this thing being built now, it’s unstable. It kills itself on the next stage. The solution will have to be found.

It’s not anonymous, it in fact exchanges everything else from real currencies’ good properties to be hard to control.