TheDemonBuer
@TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
- Comment on Context is for people that read US news 2 days ago:
I found this in 30 seconds.
- Comment on Context is for people that read US news 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 6 days 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’ 1 week 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. 2 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! 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Just give me someone to vote for who is normal 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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??? 2 months ago:
Complete with fold down basketball hoops.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 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] 2 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.
- Comment on Fuckin bummer 2 months ago:
So, what, if we’re all going to be assholes, some of us should at least be rich? Ok, well, chances are it ain’t gonna be you or me who are the rich assholes, so what’s the point? For everyone to be miserable, but a few people get to be rich and miserable?
- Comment on Fuckin bummer 2 months ago:
No.
- Comment on Fuckin bummer 2 months ago:
You’re better off. Rich kids grow up to be assholes.
- Comment on Big Sun behind it all 2 months ago:
Brenda Shaffer, whatever she is, is clearly an idiot.
- Comment on Emissions go brrrr 2 months ago:
You can charge an EV from a regular household 120V outlet. Sure, it will charge slower than molasses but that’s enough for a lot of people. You might only get 30 miles of range from charging overnight, but if you’re driving less than 30 miles everyday, that’s enough. I know I drive less than 30 miles a day, most of the time. But for those days where you’re driving more than 30 miles, yeah you’re going to need to know where there’re some fast chargers near you, but there’s more of those being built all the time.
And there are some good deals on used EVs, too. And the batteries they have now last long enough that there’s really no worry about having to replace the battery on a used EV.
- Comment on Strange are afoot at the Walter Reed 2 months ago:
Wait, this is real?! Holy shit, he’s gone off the deep end.
- Comment on Emissions go brrrr 2 months ago:
Better than them e-lectric vehicles. If my car ain’t big, loud, inefficient, polluting and running on ancient fossil goo that’s totally nonrenewable and expensive to pump out of ground and refine, I ain’t interested!
- Comment on I have a plan 2 months ago:
The allies? Like the US, who didn’t declare war in Germany until after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, two years after Germany invaded Poland? Like the Soviet Union, who signed a non-aggression pact with Germany in 1939, a pact that wasn’t terminated until Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941? Those allies?
- Comment on I have a plan 2 months ago:
It needs to be explicitly stated because there are still people who don’t understand that violent regime change is wrong.
- Comment on I have a plan 2 months ago:
Unless that one person is god emperor of the country, no.
- Comment on I have a plan 2 months ago:
No, I wouldn’t like it. No country should bomb another and force regime change. I don’t care how shitty the leader being replaced is. I want Trump gone, but not like that. I know this is a joke, but I feel like this needs to be explicitly stated.
- Comment on Prisoner peeing on the libs? 3 months ago:
Such a rich and vibrant culture.
