splonglo

@splonglo@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Complicated subjects like this have dozens of citations which often contradict eachother. The great thing about wikipedia is that it shows multiple sources and where they came from. This is a far higher standard of evidence than just cherry-picking one source that agrees with me and pretending that it’s definitive. Meanwhile the only thing you’ve cited is your imagination.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The data for Ukraine is so contested that it’s hard to put a number on it, but it’s probably higher than the Israel Palestine conflict, and at least comparable.

  en.wikipedia.org/…/Israeli–Palestinian_conflict en.wikipedia.org/…/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine#Ca…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say that Russia is the biggest source of suffering caused by imperialism in the world right now ( just going by the death toll of the Ukraine war ) . Is saying that a ‘distraction’ from American imperialism?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well the proper lefty take is supposed to be that the system is bad - not that anyone who profits from the system is a bad person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realistically... How fucked is the US?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  From the wiki on Project 2025:

  Critics have characterized Project 2025 as an authoritarian, Christian nationalist plan to steer the U.S. toward autocracy.[14][16][17][18] Legal experts have said it would undermine the rule of law,[19] separation of powers,[7] separation of church and state,[20] and civil liberties.[7][19][21]

  “It proposes criminalizing pornography and imprisoning those who produce it,[34][35] removing legal protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity,[35][36] and terminating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs[7][36] while having the DOJ prosecute “anti-white racism” instead”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never give up⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The person you’re talking to is unlikely to be pursuaded but there’s usually silent, invisible lurkers who can be.

  I know I’ve changed my mind on things because of arguments I’ve read on the internet.

  It is proven that people do double down on their views when confronted with opposing evidence, but IMO this is more about the psychology of trust and confrontation between individuals, rather than proof of the futility of argument as a concept. Hell, Vsauce made a video called ‘The Future of Reasoning’, where he makes the case that argument might have been selected for as an essential part of human psychology and necessary for our survivial.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never give up⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The trick is to argue with the voices in your own head and simply project them on to other people’s comments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨History is written by the victors⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually History isn’t always written by the victors. After WW2 a load of german officers fled to south America and began writing books about how great they were and could have won if only they had finished developing all their wonder weapons in time. This is the origin of a lot of persistent and false memes about how advanced and brilliant the nazis supposedly were. It’s history written by losers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If 17 million dems just showed up out of nowhere to throw the vote, the GOP would just overturn the results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You are suggesting that anti-Israel protesters should have spontaneously joined the Republican party en mass as a ploy to throw the primaries?

  Damn, when you put it like that I guess it is their fault.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stay Mad⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the Tankies have already made their minds up. The real people who won’t be voting Biden are some % people who saw the debate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't you all get tired of the constant negativity?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO the issue isn’t that there’s too much negative content, but that there isn’t enough of everything else. I’d encourage people to post, engage with and signal boost other kinds of content their interested in. May just be that politics and social issues are some of the most popular interests in the community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Youtube has always claimed that it doesn’t turn a profit but I don’t believe them. My reasoning is that if the server costs are more than the revenue today, then they’re going to be worse tomorrow. A gorillian gigabytes of data are uploaded to that thing every nanosecond. A company can’t get exponentially less profitable every second and still survive. And what else is there to prop it up? Google ad results? No way is Youtube not profitable. They’re saying that to avoid tax.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What will happen to large companies once poor people have no more money to use?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine they’d go under if they rely on the general public as their customer base. Companies that cater to the wealthy would probably grow. Companies are created and go bankrupt all the time, individuals in the owner class will win or lose but that won’t affect the broad distribution of power. If it gets really bad feudalism might come back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are so many countries in the world “developing” and poor, while essentially only Western countries have a high standard of living?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a big factor is the western labour movement wrestling away some of the prosperity created by the industrial revolution. Developing nations have profitable industries but the wealth doesn’t make it’s way down to the average citizen because they haven’t forced it to happen. The small minority of people who do profit from dirt cheap labour are quite happy for things to stay that way indefinitely, and so it does, because they are the ones who hold political and financial power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women in Iceland including the prime minister go on strike for equal pay and an end to violence⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Women are paid less for the same work. The gap is around 10%. For all men and women in full-time employment not in the same job it’s 20%, while the average total difference is 40%. Also you just linked to an article about a person recieving the Nobel prize instead of anything actually supporting your claim.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Historic change for tipped workers: Subminimum wage to end in Chicago restaurants, bars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice. always struck me as insane when i heard that waiters in the US were expected to make money from tips and were paid almost nothing