Dennis Hackethal’s Blog
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Tweets
An archive of my tweets and retweets through . They may be formatted slightly differently than on Twitter. API access has since gotten prohibitively expensive – I don't know whether or when I'll be able to update this archive.
But in case I will, you can subscribe via RSS – without a Twitter account. Rationale
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
Death will walk the face of the Earth. The dying will flee screaming from the dead; blood, pus and vomit spewing from…
RT @aginnt:
Nightly protests continue in Germany against COVID mandates.
Kaiserslautern tonight👇🏼
pic.twitter.com/pf7iP4ezGh
People in the UK have a right to work and a right to rent? Is this for real?
RT @GregAbbott_TX:
Biden says there’s no federal solution to COVID and that this gets solved at a state level.
He should immediately end h…
RT @reitschuster:
Wenn die Polizei Pfefferspray gegen Demonstranten einsetzt, die mit Kindern unterwegs sind, und dabei ein Baby Pfefferspr…
RT @aginnt:
A Christmas rally in Berlin against the COVID police state. pic.twitter.com/9DhAiAvQu3
RT @ThomasEWoods:
“We never said the vaccines stopped transmission”
Liars gonna lie
RT @libsoftiktok:
The state of the rental market in NYC pic.twitter.com/GKeQIwgR5i
RT @joergnicht:
Bülowstraße. #Berlin pic.twitter.com/zdKfTEPNNy
RT @aginnt:
Merry Christmas from the streets of Barcelona! No more COVID mandates! pic.twitter.com/Iwdma9pjXQ
@Markgsparrow @ClimateWarrior7
Exactly. By some projections, in the next ten years 20 billion ppl will die and 50 billion will immigrate to Berlin alone.
RT @aginnt:
Protestors march in Germany for Christmas to end COVID mandates. pic.twitter.com/vtPi5RuJ0E
I can’t tell if it was a cash grab. They may have genuinely tried to create something great and just failed.
It sucked. Really bad. It felt like a parody at times. Acting was bad (including Reeves’). Story shallow, not enthralling. I won’t consider this a sequel to the trilogy.
If you disliked the third one and thought it couldn’t get worse: it actually got a lot worse.
Important article. Hope to see you guys on the other side as well. twitter.com/NickHudsonCT/s…
RT @jreichelt:
In unserem Haus, das “Dem deutschen Volke” gewidmet ist, bröckelt der grundgesetzliche Gedanke der Gewaltenteilung. Stattdes…
RT @textklang:
Stasi surveillance as natural history documentary: covert (or not) filming of #Punks attending gig at Berlin’s Erlöserkirche…
RT @hubertus_knabe:
Die Gleichschaltung des liberalen #Hongkong durch #China geht weiter: »Säule der Schande« zum Gedenken an das #Tiananme…
RT @BNicholsLiberty:
Brought to you by progressive Democrat hero, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. pic.twitter.com/zByzKI29ZY
“Etwas. Unterschied bei schweren Verläufen weiter unklar.” Panikmacher
RT @re_develop:
I‘m very excited to read this book @DavidDeutschOxf pic.twitter.com/mNXyFJrD5u
RT @catturd2:
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES !!! pic.twitter.com/prgEgUPUbC
Medical tyranny. Scientism at its worst. twitter.com/disclosetv/sta…
Kenne den Mann zwar nicht, ist aber keine schlechte Aktion! twitter.com/politicalbeaut…
Es nimmt überhand 😡 pic.twitter.com/OXAMSDpDmv
RT @twittonreg:
Mutter und Sohn trugen an der frischen Luft keine Masken und wurden brutal festgenommen! Leute, was ist hier los? Masken an…
RT @ben_brechtken:
Lockdown bleibt Lockdown, auch wenn man die Scheisse “Kontaktbeschränkungen”, “Neujahrsruhe” oder “Solidaritätswackelpud…
(That’s assuming it’s not a parody account.)
There are some clues here that Chely is a second-hander if you’d like to analyze together @IamtheWay13.
This tweet isn’t actually about Breaking Bad. Click bait. twitter.com/PhyllisSilver/…
A good example of how systems that haven’t yet undergone what Deutsch calls the jump to universality can be more difficult to implement than their universal counterpart. twitter.com/PR0GRAMMERHUM0…
[You have] certainly no way of falsifying your accusation.
Somebody I accuse of being second-handed could in principle persuade me that he isn’t one and that I’m wrong.
You have no direct access to another person’s thoughts.
That’s always true, of course, but it doesn’t imply that we should never judge. Or we’d have no way of judging!
Yes, but without a good way to distinguish between the two.
Did you read the linked page? I think it contains good ways.
One way to tell is if someone is scared to do something he thinks is right (to the extent that he can) because others might not like it.
Everyone repeats ideas shared by other people – that’s just enacting memes. I see nothing wrong with that per se.
What I’m referring to is the concept of second-handedness: aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/second…
I did read it in its entirety and analyzed it in detail. Why did you assume otherwise?
Karl asked me what I oppose, not about how to persuade pathetic sheep not to be pathetic sheep anymore.
But yes, I’d guess in the process of persuasion ridicule can sometimes be productive but there are definitely times when it should be avoided.
Warren lies constantly, don’t trust a word she says: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/lying-li…
Still, even using the definition “A man who causes trouble in a playful way”, how can saying something mainstream be said to meaningfully cause trouble?
If they do it in a setting where most around them disagree they may not be sheep because that takes courage. (But it gets tricky eg if they’re missionaries sent to such settings, or if afterwards they post on social media about how courageous they were being.)
No, they could still believe that spreading ‘the word of god’ is virtuous AND show off what goody two-shoes they are. They’d be merely mistaken about the first part while also being pathetic sheep for the second.
I don’t understand your second paragraph. I’m guessing the word “guy” refers to yourself, but I was saying that what Deutsch says is mainstream, not what you’re saying.
AFAIK it also roughly means ‘bad guy’, which in the context of your tweet I took to mean ‘unconventional enough to be perceived as a bad guy/troublemaker’. But English is not my first language so what do I know.
Those who post on social media about what good, committed churchgoers they are, sure.
I oppose making them mandatory. And those showing off their mask on social media to score social points – they are pathetic sheep.
RT @NorbertBolz:
“Gendern” ist ein Schulbeispiel dafür, dass auch in einer Demokratie eine Minderheit eine überwältigende Mehrheit tyrannis…
Da “uns” Plural ist, haettest du doch bereits wissen muessen, dass “nur in Deinem Kopf” falsch ist.
In “uns” bist du mit drin, oder?
Verstaendlich, dass du es so gelesen hast, war aber so nicht gemeint. Ich meinte es solidarisch.
Was willst Du damit bezwecken?
Dass Drosten aufhoert, Leuten Angst einzujagen.
Drosten et al haben vielen Tausenden Angst eingejagt.
Mir uebrigens nicht. So oder so werde ich natuerlich nicht aufhoeren zu lesen.
Little injun has covid. Maybe there are some indigenous herbs she can use for healing. Wishing you a speedy recovery @ewarren. twitter.com/disclosetv/sta…
Na prima, dann koennen Sie uns ja weiter Angst einjagen.
Louis CK’s new special ‘SORRY’ is great. Well worth the $10.
RT @aginnt:
The Parisian streets are filled with anti-mandate protestors today. pic.twitter.com/IVeUtYWDMC
The corporate media conflates climate change and healthcare so politicians can implement ‘climate lockdowns’ in the future. twitter.com/RitaPanahi/sta…
RT @aginnt:
Freedom is spreading all around the world. The “new normal” is failing.
Argentina today👇🏼pic.twitter.com/TaXYYCklLs
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
As a Tesla driver, I resent having to foot medical bills for drivers of less safe cars who have more accidents. Also t…
RT @_Islamicat:
These brothers is rear-wheel drive pic.twitter.com/xQVko0xpjA
@AyushmanKar27 @domainophile @elonmusk
I was kidding. And no I’m not worried about any carbon footprint, but I am worried about government ‘solutions’ to the ‘problem’.
RT @diemauerthewall:
West Berlin postcard from 1967. Children play at the Berlin Wall at Bethaniendamm.
#Berlin #Kreuzberg
#berlinermauer…
Und ausgerechnet die werden als Rechtsextremisten abgestempelt. twitter.com/aginnt/status/…
RT @aginnt:
A huge protest today in Melbourne against COVID restrictions.
Australians haven’t stopped protesting for months.
https://t.co…
Are your retweets endorsements?
RT @elonmusk:
Starship Super Heavy engine steering test pic.twitter.com/VG4RQAGuyk
Enough for sea levels to rise by 2 miles, surely.
You seem to be speaking in favor of some sort of mandate to “protect others”. Wanting people to endure, comply with, and enact coercion for the ‘collective health’ is altruist and collectivist in the Randian sense and therefore immoral.
Bill Burr has commented on democrats saying ‘Obama sucks – and I’m a democrat!’ The implication being that anyone who disagrees is being unreasonable since even a democrat thinks Obama sucks. The first sentence in your tweet has the same effect.
What’s rogue about it? Sounds pretty mainstream (eg the seatbelt argument is common).
Resisting force is not “crazy” or “irrational”. Even with seatbelts we can be mistaken about their safety and coercion robs us of our ability to correct that mistake. Or one may value resisting force over safety, in which case it’s irrational not to resist.
The analogy is flawed. Seatbelt laws are bad but they’re not part of a widespread attack on civil liberties. There’s no threat of lockdowns, nobody’s turned away from the hospital for not wearing them, or fired, ostracized, or forced to close their business.
Babies can’t possibly consent to that. twitter.com/disclosetv/sta…
Wenn ich in Dtld wäre, würde ich mitlaufen. twitter.com/aginnt/status/…
RT @reitschuster:
Immer diese bösen Fake-News! ;-)
Januar 2021…. pic.twitter.com/yK6uldSQ3w
RT @reitschuster:
Das Oberverwaltungsgericht in Lüneburg hat die 2G-Regel im Einzelhandel in Niedersachsen verboten. Sie sei nicht notwendi…
Try fanning it with organic, non-GMO herbs.
RT @aginnt:
A protest tonight in Germany against medical segregation. pic.twitter.com/TC4YpfRki0
Don’t bite the hand that feeds you. twitter.com/libsoftiktok/s…
BioShock has significantly impacted my relationship with this kind of music:
RT @TheBabylonBee:
White Man Callously Attacks Native American Woman babylonbee.com/news/white-man…
RT @_Islamicat:
Never forget that Amerikkkan SEALs murdered innocent Sheikh Osama. We is have revenge pic.twitter.com/Wsz4fOZ3xr