Triasha
@Triasha@lemmy.world
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 1 week ago:
“wider inter-class politics” we call that intersectionality. I support the interests of POC and the disabled and the neurodivergent and the working class because it’s the right thing to do and I hope they will do the same for me. Solidarity.
You have more faith in majorities to do the right thing than I do. My country was founded on genocide and slavery. Some European countries were too but maybe farther back in history.
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 1 week ago:
That sounds like you are agreeing with my premise.
When rights were being extended to (sexual) minorities identity politics was not needed. Did progress slow down because of identity politics or did identity politics form because expansion of rights slowed down?
I don’t know your country, and I certainly know less about it’s politics than I do about my own in the US.
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 1 week ago:
Minority groups didn’t make up identity politics, majority groups did, when they engaged in oppression of minorities.
Queer people don’t have that much in common. Straight people forced us to band together for our rights.
Gay people don’t have much in common with trans people, but straight people can’t tell us apart/treat us the same so we band together.
Disabled people, people of color, it’s similar stories.
- Comment on What are some of your unpopular opinions, hot takes about shows, streamers, the wider industry etc? 1 week ago:
Atunshei and Contrapoints have a lot going for them.
Checkmate Lincolnites is YouTube gold.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 2 weeks ago:
One point. Never recorded a CD from the radio.
The encyclopedia belonged to my grandparents, but I lived there and used it.
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 3 weeks ago:
First of all, screw the Democrats they are not left wing. They are center right shitlibs, with a few milqtoast standouts like Bernie and AOC.
Second. You correctly look at democrats and see they are just Republicans lite, but your mistake is in thinking that going further left leads to greater power to the state to curtail speech, thought, and action. The left wants liberation. Economic and social. The power of government to celurtail speech is not liberation, it’s oppression.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah all 50 states is crazy. New York and Cali have enough people to get a protest going at the drop of a pin.
Texas has Austin, you get protests there. East coast cities, Chicago, you can get protests.
But there are dozens of states that just don’t have that kind of energy or population density, but they do now.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 3 weeks ago:
There have been dozens.
- Comment on Sounds logical to me 3 weeks ago:
Logical enough. I did nearly the same thing.
Hooked up with a couple. Was more attracted to the girlfriend even though boyfriend was more enthusiastic and attentive in bed.
I’m lesbian.
- Comment on Sounds logical to me 3 weeks ago:
Is that a joke?
- Comment on Why is Jury Nullification a Thing, But You Can’t Talk About It in Court? 4 weeks ago:
If you want to abrogate your responsibility as a citizen that’s your choice.
I will not be an unthinking cog in a deeply flawed legal system.
- Comment on I don't envy the humans pre-dentistry 4 weeks ago:
Not all. Pre industrial humans where I live ate a lot of slow roasted cactus. After 2 days buried with hot stones the cactus hearts were caramelized. I’ve tasted it prepared in the traditional manner and it’s just syrup in a leaf. Delicious, and I have no doubt it was great energy for people that had to walk miles every day.
Anyone that lived past 30 had their teeth rot right out of their head, according to the archiological record.
- Comment on Why is Jury Nullification a Thing, But You Can’t Talk About It in Court? 4 weeks ago:
If I am on a jury, part of my job is to consider the justice of the law.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 1 month ago:
Milei’s performance really does depend on your metric.
If all you care about is inflation and regulations, then he’s doing all right. Somewhere between fantastic and “eh, he’s getting there” depending on how you squint.
If you care about how many people are in poverty, or struggling to eat, he has been a disaster.
Conservatives don’t care about suffering. The suffering is natural. Life is hard. Lots of people are losers. Trying to stop the suffering just moves the pain from people who deserve to suffer (the poor) to people who don’t deserve it. (The rich)
- Comment on Mr. Grey, can I go to the bathroom? 1 month ago:
Yes. I do prefer to watch films not in English in their original language.
The only exception would be very fast dialogue or multiple people speaking at once. But I can read at the speed of most movie speech.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 month ago:
Military power and wealth have an irrisisatable pull. China can still make deals and do diplomacy. Even North Korea can cut deals with Russia. Russia and Iran work together. One nations pariah state is anothers opportunity.
The rest of the world will hedge their bets, but if the US negotiators start talking sense again after the trump admin they will attend the meetings and make agreements hoping for the best. International law people live and breathe the hypocrisy of tyrants and democrats alike.
The optimism of the 1990s is dead, but that was a lie even then. The US reputation as the “leader of the free world” is dead. It was a self appointed title anyway.
The world will keep spinning and deals will still be made by non idiots.
If the predictions in this thread of a hot civil war in the US prove true, then deals will be made with whatever comes out of that.
I hope not, but I am not optimistic about the next few years/decades
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 month ago:
20 years of progress?
12 years is optimistic. Every Republican has been a mistake going back to Nixon, but the US is a fundamentally conservative country, we want corruption in the highest halls of power, and our voters will keep coming back to it.
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 1 month ago:
Thank you for the clarification.
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 1 month ago:
They don’t realize that… Yet.
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 1 month ago:
“electric vehicles factories were built” “the government had nothing to do with it.”
These people deserve trump, Amazon, and poverty if they can’t see the connection between the inflation reduction act and electric vehicle factories.
That’s the only good thing about democracy. You generally get the government you deserve.
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 1 month ago:
Americans are pissed as all hell. Michael Moore said in 2016 “the American people will throw Donald Trump into Washington like a Molotov Cocktail.”
We do not agree who is at fault. 40% the voters think it’s brown people and queer people and about 30% of them think it’s the wealthy.
- Comment on What do you think of anarchism? 2 months ago:
I can’t deny there are dirty jobs that nobody would do on a lark or as a hobby or even a calling.
A busted sewer is a community emergency. You can ask the infirm, the pregnant, the elderly “what are you willing to do to support our efforts to fix the sewer?” And the answer might be cook some large meals, care for the children, or take someone’s regular job for a week
Yes, everyone will be side eyeing young, strong, men (and maybe women) to take the lead on fixing the sewer. There might be promises to make it up to them later. A fifty year old with carpentry experience might offer to expand a house install new cabinets if they will help with the sewer. I do think there are things that others can do to support a major effort like that.
- Comment on What do you think of anarchism? 2 months ago:
Given that an anarchist society wouldn’t have capitalists, I Imagine that wages, if they still existed, would be substantially different than they are today.
I would think the desire for flush toilets would be enough, but if you think people need extrinsic motivation there is room for that.
- Comment on What do you think of anarchism? 2 months ago:
Whoever steps up first. For a sewer, probably several people. What’s your point?
- Comment on What do you think of anarchism? 2 months ago:
Anarchist response would be “people who want functioning sewers, which should be everybody.”
Yeah it’s a dirty job. So is wiping your ass. Does someone need to threaten you to wipe your ass? Take a shower? When your toilet breaks at home do you shrug and just shit on the bathroom floor?
No, you fix the toilet. Same with the sewers.
- Comment on They just had to one up the TikTok ban 2 months ago:
I signed up with Blahaj. Zone when I came with the reddit exodus, but some time later I couldn’t log in, couldn’t reset my password, and couldn’t make another because I already had an account.
.world let me sign up. And hasn’t broken like blahaj. My heart is there, but I’m not willing to spend hours figuring how to make it work.
- Comment on Hold on! 2 months ago:
Well, if you insist. 😄
- Comment on Wild times in a wild world 7 months ago:
Hijacking a plane wouldn’t be enough. Plane highjackings were nothing new. They were even common back in the 60’s. Conventional wisdom was you cooperate with the highjackers. They have to land eventually.
Nobody anticipated suicide highjackers.
- Comment on Wild times in a wild world 7 months ago:
2001 you could use a pay phone to stay anonymous.
- Comment on ‘Who dreams this crap up?’: Kevin O'Leary slams new rule that allows employees to ignore their bosses after hours 7 months ago:
If it’s important enough that it can’t wait until tomorrow, it’s important enough to pay someone for.