TheDemonBuer
@TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
- Comment on The only one country 21 hours ago:
It’s true, we are beyond pathetic.
- Comment on Fuck AIPAC 22 hours ago:
Turns out Americans are tired of being Israel’s attack dog.
- Comment on Do americans living in Red States really despise american living in Blue States? 23 hours ago:
The county isn’t really divided by state lines, it’s divided by: urban v rural, college educated v non educated and rich v poor, as well culture, ethnicity and religion.
I would say the “heartland” of America is relatively culturally homogeneous, and many, if not most people from the heartland definitely seem not to like or trust the Pacific Coast states or the Northeast/Atlantic Coast area. If there’s a big political divide in America I’d say it’s more the interior v the coasts and big cities v small towns than red states v blue states.
- Comment on Beans 4 days ago:
Rob or kill the successful
Famously self made success Tsar Nicholas II.
- Comment on Any politician who disagrees needs to go 5 days ago:
Will America continue to be a hyper-individualist/ everyone for themselves/hustle and grind/zero sum/I got mine so fuck you society? Or will we come together and try to make our nation a good place for us all to live the healthiest, happiest life possible? I guess we’ll see. I can tell you, though, the former is not sustainable. The everyone for themselves/zero sum way requires violence to maintain, and it will end in violence.
- Comment on Can anyone confirm? 6 days ago:
The fourth major US city is Springfield. Which Springfield, you ask? Any and all.
- Comment on Pov It's 2035 1 week ago:
What makes you think they’re pretending? Do you think all politicians are ideological nhilisists? That no politician, ever, anywhere, actually adheres to an ideology? Because I’m pretty certain that most do. And I think it matters what ideology guides a politician. I mean, I want to know that before I decide to vote for someone. I want to know what their guiding philosophy is. I think that’s important information.
- Comment on Pov It's 2035 1 week ago:
The liberal dream. (I use liberal in the classical sense. Here in the US - where people don’t know what words mean - instead of “liberal” folks here might refer to them as “centrists,” “moderates” or “neoliberals.” Interesting that neoliberals are not liberals here in the US, even though “liberal” is IN THE DAMN NAME!)
- Comment on Interesting 1 week ago:
Marxism-Leninism is a dead-end.
- Comment on He was no friend to the middle class 2 weeks ago:
They believe everything is zero-sum
Well, they’re right about that. The Earth, and all the resources on it, are finite. The more any one person owns, the less everyone else can own. Now, I would agree that the Earth’s resources are abundant, and that there’s more than enough for everyone on Earth (at our current population level, at least) to not only survive but thrive. But, because the Earth’s resources are finite, it’s not possible for any one person to own an infinite amount of resources, let alone for that person to own infinite resources and there still be resources leftover for everyone else.
- Comment on He was no friend to the middle class 2 weeks ago:
Clearly their problem isn’t with good wages or quality healthcare, it’s the “universal” part they have a problem with. And I don’t think it’s necessarily because they want some people to go without (although that could be the case for at least some of them), it’s just that they realize that for everyone to have enough, they have to have less, and that’s unacceptable to them.
- Comment on Indie dev defends criticism of Steam refund abuse amid review bombing of his game: 'It's wrong to refund a game after having fun with it and completing it' 2 weeks ago:
I have never refunded a game on Steam. But then, I usually wait to buy a game until it’s been out for a while and usually on sale.
- Comment on Context is for people that read US news 3 weeks ago:
I found this in 30 seconds.
- Comment on Context is for people that read US news 3 weeks ago:
It’s more than a little disingenuous to pretend that Bernie Sanders hasn’t received significant criticism from the left, especially on matters related to race and gender.
- Comment on Context is for people that read US news 3 weeks ago:
Even if he was completely free of controversy, you’d find something to disqualify him. Maybe even just the fact that he’s white and/or a man. Men are inherently sexist and white people are inherently racist, so either of those characteristics alone would be enough.
But I will concede that there could potentially be a candidate who could be deemed acceptable, but such a candidate would necessarily hold limited appeal to the working class broadly, and especially the white working class, specifically, thus making them not a threat to capital. So, yes, liberals might allow a candidate who fails to meet their unattainable standard, but only if that candidate poses no threat of organizing the working class.
- Comment on Context is for people that read US news 3 weeks ago:
The standard is perfection. You establish that any and all leftists must attain this standard, or they are not true leftists. This works because perfect is an unattainable standard for every single leftist, so all are guaranteed to fall short of it. It’s such an easy, effective means of suppressing actual leftist movements. Remember, liberals are not new to this. They’ve been doing this for the better part of a century now, and they’ve gotten quite good at it.
- Comment on Don't worry, not like they are fake leftist planted to suppress actual revolution or anything 3 weeks ago:
Just keep waiting for that glorious international proletarian revolution. I’m sure it will start any day now.
- Comment on As billionaires’ wealth soars, US workers struggle: ‘The rich keep getting richer for no good reason’ 4 weeks ago:
Organize a general strike. It doesn’t even necessarily need to be a large scale workers strike, a consumer strike would do it.
Not that a workers strike wouldn’t be good too, but I know a lot of working class people are reluctant to strike because they can’t afford to lose any pay (that being said, a consumer strike that went on long enough would likely cause layoffs so some people would lose their jobs regardless, but unfortunately that’s just unavoidable if you want to cause the kind of economic pain necessary to send an effective enough message).
And a consumer strike wouldn’t even need to be that widespread. Just get enough people to reduce their discretionary spending enough to cause overall consumer spending to decline even just a few percent and panic would set in. The stock market would plummet. Billions in net worth would be lost.
- Comment on Supermarkets destroy food if it doesn't sell. We can always feed the world. We just don't. 5 weeks ago:
It seems to me that affordability starts with housing, because it is usually a household’s single largest monthly expense. And it seems to me the best way to make housing more affordable is to make it non-profit. That doesn’t necessarily mean city owned or other public housing, nor does it mean tax payer funded or subsidized housing, but having apartment buildings owned by a non-profit organization that charges tenants only enough rent to cover their expenses without any extra going to the owner as profit. And the thing, non-profit housing isn’t only theoretical. It exists right now, but it’s relatively rare. The reason is for-profit landlords don’t want it because they can’t compete.
Let’s say you have two identical apartment buildings, but one is owned by a non-profit housing cooperative and the other is owned by a private landlord. The non-profit housing cooperative is going to have the same ongoing expenses (property management, maintenance, etc) as the private landlord, because the apartments are identical, but rent will be lower at the non-profit housing because they charge only enough rent to cover expenses whereas the private landlord charges rent to cover expenses plus some for his own personal profit.
- Comment on [politics] ya but, at least Juneteenth still lives! herp-a-derp! 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Just give me someone to vote for who is normal 1 month ago:
The right in the US only says what their cult leader tells them to say. If he says the government is bad (which he often does when he’s not the one running it), it’s bad, but when he says it’s good, (which he often does when he’s the one running it) they say it’s good.
- Comment on Gold 2 months ago:
Everyone being a billionaire is the same as no one being a billionaire.
- Comment on "Public deserves to know”: Harvard Professor says official messaging contradicts hantavirus science 2 months ago:
I never used tags before. I got you tagged now too!
- Comment on "Public deserves to know”: Harvard Professor says official messaging contradicts hantavirus science 2 months ago:
None of your claims about transmissibility are in the article you linked to. That article is all about protein complex imaging.
The source for the claims seems to be the video. Fine. I understand the person in the video is highly accredited. I will watch it when I am able.
Block me, I don’t give a shit.
- Comment on "Public deserves to know”: Harvard Professor says official messaging contradicts hantavirus science 2 months ago:
Ok, calm down. Chill, relax, take a breath.
First, none of this:
As the video talks about, just walking within four feet of an infected person is enough for transmission…
No coughing, no sneezing, not even talking required.
A dude four feet away is breathing normally and may feel like their allergies are acting up, and that’s enough for you to catch something with a 40% mortality rate …
Was in the comment I replied to.
Apparently it was in the video, but I am not able to watch the video right now. But even if these claims are in the video, that doesn’t necessarily make them true or accurate. And frankly, it would be nice if you offered some kind of substantiation for these incredible claims beyond “watch this YouTube video.” Any kind of credible source.
- Comment on "Public deserves to know”: Harvard Professor says official messaging contradicts hantavirus science 2 months ago:
Officials keep saying it’s not respiratory, it’s not human to human, and it’s no big deal…
From what I’ve read, the human to human transmission requires very close contact. I’ve even heard it’s described as “intimate” contact. That seems to me to imply that it doesn’t transmit from human to human very easily.
- Comment on what's the secret 2 months ago:
First, we’re comparing a candid photo to one that looks like it was taken at a film premier. Cruise knew he was going to be photographed, so he was probably assisted by a makeup artist, hair stylist, and likely a wardrobe consultant. A fair comparison would be between two photographs where each subject has equal opportunity to prepare.
Second, Cruise is one of the top movie stars in the world. He has access to personal trainers, nutritionists, private chefs, stylists, etc. As a world class movie star, Cruise also has a significant professional and financial incentive to maintain a youthful, well manicured appearance. As such, Cruise has almost certainly had some cosmetic surgery or other work done. At very least, he’s dyed his hair.
Looking your best, especially in your 60s, takes a lot of work. Cruise clearly has a strong incentive to put in that work. McGillis doesn’t necessarily have that same incentive. As a middle aged man myself, I could be doing a lot more to look my best, but why bother? Again, it’s a lot of work and for what? So that maybe if someone snaps a candid pic of you the internet won’t see it and think you’re fat, old and ugly? I mean, who gives a shit, but also they’ll probably think it anyway. And let 'em. Fuck 'em.
- Comment on Why is Greg, Pastor of the Promised End playing guitar??? 3 months ago:
Complete with fold down basketball hoops.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I don’t really get what libertarian socialists and libertarian anarchists are.
I’m not sure I understand it myself. There’s a lot about libertarianism, both left and right that I don’t fully understand or agree with.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I think many of them are left libertarians, like libertarian socialists and anarchists. It seems to me that libertarianism, whether left or right, is just liberalism taken to its logical extreme. Libertarians do seem to be focused primarily on individual rights, liberties and freedoms. I think that focus on individual freedom can impede their ability to really organize with a lot of other working class people, because it seems to me that often working class people tend to be more “conservative,” as in they have a less, let’s say, permissive attitude about individual expression.
