I'm still hung up on the association of the word "magazine" with firearms before publications.
In the context of a discussion forum, how do you skip over the very obvious meaning unless you are looking for dogwhistles in everything.
I am also as sensitive as any social justice conscious person to known dogwhistles, but looking for them in a conspiratorial manner is a bit too much I think.
I would have blocked a lot of them just looking at the vile usernames. Thanks for the headsup.
Wait...
Is he letting that sink in? Is that the joke?
I think the name kbin, which is officially /kbin, is a play on the term /sbin, which is a system directory on unix based systems that houses binary files which require root privileges to run.
I don't know how @ernest got from /sbin to /kbin though. Maybe he told the story somewhere but I haven't seen it.
I hope Kebin wins out too.
I said global. This is a human phenomenon, not specific to US politics.
Think of it like a "greed is the root of all evil" kinda statement.
To the top with you!
Centrists can go suck a fat one. The primary reason we're in this fascistic mess globally is the centrists' aversion to being inconvenienced for the rights of their fellow people and for the future of the planet.
That's what creates dictatorships, that's what starts world wars, in summary, that's what enables fascists.
Little guys lapping up right wing propaganda sure make it extremely difficult to fight the elite, tho.
They become merely another instrument of the "up" of suppressing the "down" when you're feeling frustrated, helpless, and hopeless all the time.
Oligarchical defenestration
Is 'got root?' still a thing?
And with Threads potentially federating, it's pretty ominous