Niclas Hedhman @niclas@angrytoday.com

Thought: Programming is more fun and rewarding in an environment of scarcity than in an environment of abundance. Example: debugging with a single flashing LED versus debugging with an IDE.

notice how the entire concept of "treason" seems to have largely disappeared from western political discourse? it only ever gets trotted out occasionally as a criminal charge to justify locking up and torturing journalists and whistleblowers who reveal facts that are inconvenient for the international bourgeoisie. otherwise, we never seem to talk about it.

and we should be talking about it. a lot. there's a hell of a lot of people in the west who are traitors to their nation in every way except by the flaccid legal definition. traitors to their heritage, heretics who reject their people's traditional values and collaborate with their nation's enemies abroad. instead, we operate according to this liberal idea that these shouldn't be offenses, that they're just matters of personal opinion, that people have a right to maliciously undermine their nation's values and disrespect their own culture. and that's just absolutely fucking horrible. any nation's foundational values aught to be clearly defined in its constitution and cultural sabotage against those values should be punished as harshly as any other form of treason, because it's one of the cruelest, most dangerous forms there is short of leaking nuclear secrets to an enemy in wartime. if you do not have shared values, you do not have a nation, period.

and then there's the people who turn against, not their own nation, but a nation that took them in and welcomed them and cared for them when they claimed to be unsafe in their homeland. i'm not sure if that can be called treason, exactly, but it's certainly unforgivable. if you bite the hand that feeds you, you should damn well starve.