LarmyOfLone

@LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Snow White, Disney, Rachel Zegler and a toxic debate that's not going away⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what I was referring to:

  Zegler also stoked controversy with her views after the 2024 US presidential election. Writing on Instagram, she said she hoped “Trump voters and Trump himself never know peace”.

  BBC simply shouldn’t take the critique coming from fascists seriously, it legitimizes it as two valid viewpoints.

  The article mentions the “shade” but it seems she only commented on the elements of stalking and I guess you can also throw in the somewhat necrophiliac element of the prince kissing her presumably dead corpse lol.

  But Snow White is based on a Grimm’s fairy tale anyway, which are quite bloody and cruel and far from the sweet Disney movies, and they also contain centuries of storytelling condensing a cultural subconsciousness and dreams. Disney was always more shallow entertainment going with the times. Enchanted is completely bonkers too but really amazing movie. So it’s all bullshit asking a remake to “stay true”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rocky rock rocking⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw rocks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Snow White, Disney, Rachel Zegler and a toxic debate that's not going away⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean casting her is obvious bait by the producers. But the BBC calling her comments “controversial”? That’s problematic at least. She opposed genocide and illegal occupation and opposed an authoritarian strongman gaining power. That is not a controversial comment in a liberal democracy and the founding values of the western democracy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meanwhile, in Springfield Ohio⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some socialist theory defines fascism as capitalism in decline. I don’t really agree with that definition but it’s not wrong with their critique of capitalism. So if you want to learn more about that, you should look into the (few) socialist academics.

  One simple example would be corporate or capitalist ownership of media or the “fifth estate”. How could you have a democracy when voters are deliberately misinformed about reality? And not because of ideology but for profit and to create better rules to increase corporate profits? What else do you expect to happen?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex developer at Bethesda quit his job after 14 years and made this heavy metal horror game as a solo dev with no publisher⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Financing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨stars & sharks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah those were the good old days, when we still made quarks in this country!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨stars & sharks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean the protons and neutrons are never new, all of this stuff is just second hand recycled garbage!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's coming! :(⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m curious, how is copyleft license supposed to improve the quality of browser development?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meanwhile, in Springfield Ohio⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never realized until now why they use the “45” so much. Just move one of the black bars and it’s a fucking swastika… And Haitians are really a stand-in for black people.

  The real problem is that we allowed the plutocrats to control both the news and social media and the government. Basically the US doesn’t have a free press any more but a quasi-government controlled oligarch media. As long as these neoliberal policies continue the degradation of institutions and politics continues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let me at 'em!!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm this made me wonder why something like this wouldn’t melt the rock and then sink into the crust and then into the planet. Probably not hot enough.
  And that made me think if we could build something like a big pellet of fissile material, encase it in tungsten or something so that it is hot enough to do so but remains stable, and then let it sink into the earth. Maybe that could be tracked? Then we could learn something about how it moves and where it ends up. But probably can’t be tracked since this isn’t star trek 🖖

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Square!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now make a square out of squiggly yarn

  String theorists claim this is the true shape of spacetime!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never ask⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither is ok of course. The thing is that Israel had an overwhelming military and economic advantage for decades. The strategy should have been to aid in democratization, education and prosperity of the occupied Palestinian territories and neighboring countries. Propaganda is an incredibly powerful tool and they could have used it to de-radicalize Palestinians and create a peaceful 1 or 2 state solution. They’ve had decades to do this. But they did the opposite.

  Part of it is I believe the US geopolitical strategy. The USA does NOT like democracy in countries it wants to exploit. This isn’t ideology it’s just a result of playing imperialist games. Imagine countries with oil and resources were democratic and educated, they’d want to own and control their own resources instead of accepting all this despotism and corruption. See Saudi Arabia.

  And of course, see Iran. They had a democratic society and when they wanted to “renegotiate” the oil deals in 1953 the UK and USA created a coup and put a dictator in charge (the shah) to continue to exploit cheap oil. You sometimes see this propaganda of how modern Iran was in the 1960 under the Shah, but there was also repression and torture in prisons. Iran’s theocracy today has a guardian council that is I believe partially structure the way it is to prevent foreign influence or NGOs (the modern tool to create color revolutions). Of course Iran and other groups fight back, and one of their tools is Hezbollah.

  Israel serves as a client state of the US to help control the middle east, and partially their strategy is to keep them unstable, to have the right amount of extremism and repression and poverty and suffering so they can be ruled through force alone.

  Socialists call the USA fascist long before Trump because they do not see people in other countries as equal or “worthy” of democracy or prosperity. So from that viewpoint Israel’s policy was fascist long before Netanyahu. At some point they killed of most of their Kibbuzihm which was their socialist base.

  And all this is the reason why propaganda is presenting this as a pure “good vs evil” conflict instead of the brutal and cruel calculus of power or imperialism using very sophisticated strategies and tools.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon browses r/AmITheAsshole⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry I was a bit aggressive. I was mocking Trump’s ‘very fine people on both sides’ because it felt like an attempt to say there is a reasonable way to use that term.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawless society⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or I can set up my own private server where nobody can join, then I can have anarchy, totalitarianism and socialism all at once!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon browses r/AmITheAsshole⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it’s a term to dehumanize women they don’t agree with. Don’t be stupid and explain how there are good people on the incel side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never ask⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For communication? Does Lebanon have a right to defend itself?

  This is like asking why Biden has a phone line to the fascists in charge of Israel. Does that make Biden a legitimate target?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawless society⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually believe one day we’ll need lawyers and courts for complex virtual reality worlds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawless society⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I reject your definition and substitute my own. But I won’t tell you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawless society⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No just free association. But having no alternatives to legitimate needs, like participating in our civilization’s free speech discourse through the internet, free association doesn’t help. So before the fediverse you were “forced” to associate with reddit/facebook/twitter or have little association at all.

  I’m not sure how anarchism would work for a social media platform. Everyone is a mod? Everyone can post anything and can delete anything? :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fascism.

  People have been lied to for decades and we all know it’s going to get worse in the future. The democrats are neoliberals who will continue to exploit people. The news media and social media are all owned by oligarchs. Wealth inequality is getting worse. Climate change won’t be solved and will make all things worse. Why should people vote for the status quo? Work hard, get fucked? No solidarity, no rational action, no plan. And nuclear war when?

  Fascism and nationalism is not just something to break this but also has the better story. Something the stupid masses can believe in again. Trump is telling them everything they want to hear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clueless about Biology⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the only rational reason to spell it Artoo-Detoo and See-Threepio is if they got paid by the word and they wanted to bolster their paycheck? The alternative that they somehow thought this was a good idea is even worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wolf Man | Official Teaser - Directed by Leigh Whannell, out January 17⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Daddy? What is this garbage daddy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've got some dank memes ready to go⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just want to say that I’d absolutely love a dog that is genetically engineered to eat vegan food. Not just be able to survive off it but actually like it. But still retain it’s instinct as a guard dog / social hunter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah well lol, it’s sort of like a “roast me” sub for liberals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your mistake was posting in the dunk tank. That is literally a “vent” sub where they vent their frustrations against stupid US empire propaganda takes.

  It’s the dunk tank.

  This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.

  If you go there expecting reasonable treatment for your opinions, you misunderstood the assignment. That is a shitpost sub where only one side is right.

  How do I know this? Because I went there once and got dunked on too! But that does not represent the entirety of hexbear. I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I also haven’t seen this but it seems to make fun of the authoritarian excesses in Mao’s China (struggle session).

  The Three Body Problem show features this, leading a character to go mad and wanting to destroy humanity.

  The funny thing is that this post is sort of a struggle session, an attempt to build consensus against socialists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MSc Mansplaining⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s so funny because he looks so sincere and precious and all the women look so annoyed but polite haha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hello my name is Sacctonsayinlrlyn⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And they name is tragedeih

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there so much hype around artificial intelligence?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Look at all the comments on this post. We’re not quite there but imagine half of the comments written by Chat GPT and it’s only going to get better.

  Does it matter than 50% of them get it wrong?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America's Smartest Man Finds Something Interesting⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The trouble is that they do need to compete with people who do pursue power (or wealth) relentlessly. So there are hard calculations. Those who don’t play don’t get power and won’t change anything. Those who do want to chance things and want other things than just power are at a (big) disadvantage. Even with the best of intention, the game plays you.

  I believe the solution would be something like more rules or systems in place to focus on this kind of pursuit and call it out and dissuade it. Like develop social tools to change the rules of the game. No clue how though. Maybe AGI.