SpookyBogMonster
@SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Literally nobody 1 day ago:
Jesus wouldn’t have had politics we would find legible to us today, because the political landscape is contingent on the material conditions of a given place and time.
It’s certainly interesting that the Bible is a series of documents written on the margins of empire, and that might inform how to think about it today. But Jesus himself would have had political opinions that do not map onto our modern, post-French Revolution, ideas of “left vs right”.
- Comment on The Ultimate Robot Knockout Legend (URKL) is a professional, freestyle combat sports league for full-sized humanoid robots. This is real. 1 week ago:
10-20 years from now, these thigs will be gunning down people in the streets
- Comment on *Entombed starts playing* 2 weeks ago:
Rad!
I haven’t been clued into the death metal scene for about a decade. I felt like a lot of production trends at the time were leaning towards sounding to clean and overproduced. My metal listening, lately, has been a lot of leftist black metal, which I’m glad is finally a thing.
Anyway, does anyone have any good death metal recommendations?
- Comment on It's the spelling for me 2 weeks ago:
We’re both drowning
There is no sign of land
You are coming down with me
Hand in unlovable hand
- Comment on not getting it™ since 2024© 2 weeks ago:
Hexbear has been Beanis posting for a long time now. I don’t know how it started, but it’s a significant part of that instance’s content at this point
- Comment on Got too greedy at the end there 2 weeks ago:
I’m too distracted by the fact that the gear shifter appears to be a Dildo having its Quinceañera
- Comment on May not buff out 3 weeks ago:
Jorth Atlantic Treaty Organization?
- Comment on Domino's Pizza is going digital 3 weeks ago:
I can’t believe Hatsune Miku would do this
- Comment on Don't let your mind be a jar 4 weeks ago:
You’re thinking of Mr. Hands, the guy who got fucked to death by a stallion
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 1 month ago:
it’s becoming a necessity.
Fucking try me
- Comment on Don’t forget to regularly check your eyes! 1 month ago:
I’m actually color blind, so I don’t see anything. But the comments tell me that it’s the loss comic. Which means I should probably go do something else ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on You know this is gonna happen. 2 months ago:
Oof, that’s an unfortunate typo. You can thank my phone’s autocorrect for that one 😮💨
- Comment on You know this is gonna happen. 2 months ago:
I mean, period people can be conventionally attractive, and also do awful things. Equating beauty with goodness and ugliness with evil is some Disney movie morality.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 months ago:
Again, thought terminating cliche. why do you believe that to be the case? Have you read its constitution? Engaged in good faith with Conflicting defector accounts? Looked at past electoral data? Or Studied the country’s history to conclude why North Korean politics has taken the shape that it has?
Or, have you simply swallowed an orientalized view of a country on the other side of the world, without really questioning it?
Let’s address the elephant in the room here. You and I probably agree that the cult of personality around the Kim family in the DPRK is not conducive to a healthy political culture,and I would consider it a failure within the DPRK’s political project. I don’t think there’s anything controversial about that.
Why is there a cult of personality to begin with? If we look at charts of electoral results immediately preceding and following the Korean War, we see North Korea go from an incredibly vibrant, multi party, Socialist Republic, to a system where the Workers Party heavily dominates the legislative process. So this centralization in North Korean politics has a clear material origin.
But did you know that, in contrast to this centralization, the Kims have all held different positions in government? Did you know that those positions, on paper at least, get progressively more diffuse and less centralized as time has gone on?
Those facts alone don’t tell us everything about the DPRK’s politics. But it does lead us to consider why these two concurrent trends, the cult of personality and the diffusal of power, have are happening. Perhaps it points to factional divisions.
What I’m getting at is not that China, or the DPRK, or any other country on earth for that matter, is not some secret, perfect, democratic utopia. But that these places have political cultures and institutions that arise from history, and we can analyze them to see how and why they work (or sometimes don’t work). And that making sweeping generalizations based on aesthetic vibes isn’t helpful. We have to strive to actually understand the world if we want to meaningfully discuss it
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 months ago:
Lmao
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 months ago:
I said there are elections. People go vote for their representatives. Whether that electoral process is effective, or those representatives truly representative of their constituents is a different question which we lack good information on. This isn’t hard to grasp
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 months ago:
You give enough of a fuck to post this lame-ass comment
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 months ago:
North Korea has a nominally more direct electoral system than China, though it’s equivalent to the Chinese President is the President of the State Affairs Commission, which Kim Jong-Un holds.
These are head of state positions which, while influential, are more insulated from the day-to-day operations of governance.
That said, we have a much better window into what Chinese political culture is like, as well as the robustness of its institutions, as compared to the DPRK. So it’s more difficult to say, one way or the other, what the DPRK’s politics are truly like.
That said, these thought terminating cliche’s don’t help you or anyone else. Its worthwhile to learn how these systems work.
Also, Indirect elections aren’t inherently bad. The prime minister of the UK is also indirectly elected, but that fact alone tells us very little about the UK’s political culture, institutional responsiveness to the popular will, or how able institutions of governance are able to weather crises
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 months ago:
He definitely is elected, just not directly. The Chinese President is elected by The National People’s Congress. The Presidium, which is the body that presides over the NPC when the full body Is not in session, elects one or more candidates, and then the whole NPC deliberates and votes
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 months ago:
Buddy, that wasn’t a genuine response… I’m making fun of you
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 months ago:
Mashallah, the yanks are already cooked
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 months ago:
Then tell us how you think it’s used instead of saying “no” over and over like a toddler
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 months ago:
No u
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 months ago:
Xi is not directly elected
- Comment on Hexbear is incapable of understanding hypocrisy 2 months ago:
Suck my girldick fuckwad, lmao
- Comment on Hexbear is incapable of understanding hypocrisy 2 months ago:
to fight like Pokémon
HEXBEAR! I CHOOSE YOU!
USE PIGPOOPBALLS!!!
- Comment on Oh. 2 months ago:
Wrong: the isolation also triggers me
- Comment on Spooooookyyyyy Scaaaaaaaarrryyyy 2 months ago:
Four group chats and the best you’ve got is some Facebook boomer shit??
- Comment on Spooooookyyyyy Scaaaaaaaarrryyyy 2 months ago:
I mean, they represent physical labor, in the sense that one physically uses a hammer and a sickle as tools. But the reason communists pair those symbols together is because they represent the class alliance of industrial workers, and rural peasants.
This is a repost of bad conservative Onion ripoff, The Babylon Bee, though. So I expect only the most shallow, baby-brained, “jokes” your average chud could muster
- Comment on Spooooookyyyyy Scaaaaaaaarrryyyy 2 months ago:
Post hog, or log off, chud
