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- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 week ago:
That is the extreme
No. It isn’t.
Being pro-capitalist is extreme… which means being liberal is extreme by default - it has merely been so normalized for you that you don’t actually see how batshit insane it truly is.
Its like saying someone is not right unless they are against any social program or public property of any kind.
Do you require me to explain to you what left and right actually mean? I’d be happy to do so - and I can guarantee you that it will be perfectly painless.
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 week ago:
I think this is us convervative/liberal.
Yes. It is.
It doesn’t matter where you are… liberalism is purely a right-wing ideology - there has never been anything “leftist” about it. It’s very easy to check for yourself - simply try and find an anti-capitalist liberal.
You’re going to be looking for a long, long time.
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 week ago:
“Conservatives” are just liberals either openly flirting with fascism or simply are fascists pretending not to be fascists. They don’t hate their fellow right-wingers (yes, liberalism is right-wing ideology) - they are goading their fellow liberals into either joining them, or, at least, remaining quiet while they hand more and more power to fascists.
- Comment on How did we get humans on the moon in 1969 and are still struggling to get the Starship rocket to launch properly? 3 weeks ago:
Well… since you put it that way - I’ll just have to concede.
- Comment on How did we get humans on the moon in 1969 and are still struggling to get the Starship rocket to launch properly? 3 weeks ago:
Remember how Reagan and Thatcher told your parents that private corporations are (somehow) “more efficient” than state run organisations?
Yeah… they lied.
- Comment on Hypersensitive tankie mod 5 weeks ago:
By what measure is China or Russia “the South”?
Russia certainly was after the fall of the USSR - whether it still is is open to debate. China is an active exploiter of the “Global South” - which kind of means the concept is overdue for an update.
ZA thought their ties with the ICC are more important
Nahh, they didn’t want another repeat of the al-Bashir debacle. South Africa’s ANC regime will bend over backwards for the west and especially western corporations - but the US forgot that they will only do so behind closed doors.
- Comment on Hypersensitive tankie mod 5 weeks ago:
I’m still undecided as to who is more irritating to deal with… the tankies over in .ml or the liberals over here.
- Comment on Hypersensitive tankie mod 5 weeks ago:
I am really tired to hear “Global South” over and over again.
We are perfectly aware that beneficiaries of colonisation (like you) would like us here in the Global South to just shut up and give you our resources and labour for absolutely nothing - so there’s no need to say the quiet part out loud, okay?
- Comment on Why is there no true Progressive party in America right now? 1 month ago:
You need radical politics - not “progressive” ones. “Progressives” are far too easy to buy - or indimidate.
- Comment on Would you drink breast milk if it was commercially available? 1 month ago:
Nope. If you were to do something useful to it, though - like turning it into yoghurt or cheese - I might give it a try.
- Comment on How do you keep your homes clean? 1 month ago:
You’ll never be able to get things clean - all you will be able to manage is “cleaner than it was before.” It becomes easier if you accept that.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
At least three days, I reckon. No water infrastructure workers here means no water around these parts - period.
- Comment on What's stopping people who lash out at the world from going after corporations? 2 months ago:
Obviously violence isn’t ever the answer
Says who?
what makes their decision to attack something like say a school or a church/mosque
Maybe the right-wing child terrorists perpetrating terrorist attacks against marginalized people are motivated by their politics? Just a guess.
- Comment on Lyft and Uber say they will leave Minneapolis after city council forces them to pay drivers more 2 months ago:
And nothing of value will be lost.
- Comment on The Feds Are Coming for “Extremist” Gamers 2 months ago:
The recruitment starts the minute they pressure kids into worshipping a piece of colored fabric.
- Comment on The Feds Are Coming for “Extremist” Gamers 2 months ago:
I mean the US military, among others, have been using gaming to recruit people already.
Somehow I don’t think that’s the kind of extremism they’ll be clamping down on…
- Comment on Why are mental hospitals run like prisons? 2 months ago:
Sorry, but I don’t buy this. Many, many years ago I had a loved one in one of these prison-like institutions - I fought hard to get her out of there and into a better place.
Miraculously, her (supposed) “violent tendencies” disappeared the moment we got her out of the prison-like place and into one where she wasn’t treated like a subhuman.
- Comment on Is Russia a fascist dictatorship? 2 months ago:
Forced Conscription.
Lol! Conscription is forced by definition.
Rigged Elections
If this was a definition of fascism the US would qualify as fascist as well.
kills all opposing candidates
This was a thing long before Mussolini thought up the word “fascist.”
Control of the state media and news outlets.
Again, all states exert control over the media inside the territories they control.
This is not how you go about describing something as fascist.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 4 months ago:
individual experts
Sooooo… are you suggesting that individual physicists would be better off working in isolation? That must be what you are suggesting… since nothing that I have said suggested anything about groups of people making collective decisions about matters that are completely arbitrary.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 4 months ago:
especially in the context of humans.
Were you not aware that humans are animals?
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 4 months ago:
Collective decision making works in specific circumstances where the majority have some idea about what the problem is.
So you’re saying that the only obstacle to effective collective decision-making is the withholdiing of relevant information?
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 4 months ago:
a person is smart but people are dumb.
Whoever says that pretty much qualifies as dumb in my book.
Collective deision-making is superior.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 4 months ago:
Especially when it comes to verifying “facts.”
“90%” doesn’t feel very factual to me.
No, I don’t feel (or think) that.
If 90% of the population was stupid there’d be no need to spend uncountable billions brainwashing them with propaganda at every turn, would it?
FYI… I once worked in the propaganda industry - propaganda doesn’t work on the stupid (and I use that term lightly, since I’m not sure “stupid” is something that even really exists). The smarter you assume yourself to be, the more susceptible you are.
- Comment on BREAKING NEWS: Amazon workers around the world on strike [2:45 | Nov 24 2023 | Progressive International] 5 months ago:
Fuck Amazon.
- Comment on BREAKING NEWS: Amazon workers around the world on strike [2:45 | Nov 24 2023 | Progressive International] 5 months ago:
Found a scab!
- Comment on This split sink 5 months ago:
If there was a third sink in-between I could see this working.
- Comment on Can you get banned on lemm.ee or kbin or other reddit alternatives? 6 months ago:
Yes. I was recently banned off lemmy.ml… and it took me asking dumb technical questions all over Lemmy to discover that no, it wasn’t just a login problem and that you don’t actually get notified of any bans - you have to go look it up in the modlog.