retrospectology
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- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Because the term “woke” when used as a criticism is literally just a dog whistle for racisim, misogyny, and homophobia.
- Comment on BREAKING: Mass Casualty Event in Israel After Hezbollah Rocket Attack 4 months ago:
A taste of what happens every single day in Gaza.
- Comment on If you had a drain that you knew was clogged only with hair, could you unclog the drain only using Nair? 5 months ago:
Not sure about Nair in drains, but if it’s a bathtub drain many of them have a sort of catch where all you need to do is unscrew the cover thats over the drain hole and pull the assembley out, if it’s the kind I’m talking about it’ll have kind of a long screw thing with a bunch of hair and junk wrapped around it.
- Comment on Oh god, that can't be good... 5 months ago:
Same. I did it with all the “moe” communities as well, really cut down the spam when browsing.
- Comment on Blender 4.2 is another crazy-big release 5 months ago:
Blender is amazing, the pace at which they improve it is really incredible. It’s one of those projects I’m happy to donate too, knowing what incredible value it offers.
- Comment on Hes alive so this meme is OK right? 5 months ago:
Sure, yet none of them are able to do what Trump does. That’s why it’s taken 40+ years for them to get to this point. The Mitch McConnells and such might be politically saavy, but they don’t have the “charisma” of Donald Trump to actually pull off the end game. That’s why they all protect him so much, he’s a cult figure, which can be difficult to fabricate.
- Comment on Hes alive so this meme is OK right? 5 months ago:
He’s already a god to his followers. People literally paint him as the second coming of Jesus Christ. There is no one worse in this moment than Donald Trump.
- Comment on Elon Musk Advocates for Overthrowing Bolivia, The Country with the Largest Lithium Reserves 5 months ago:
I advocate overthrowing Elon Musk directly off the end of a long pier.
- Comment on The justices of the supreme court ruled that Trump was immune and effectively above the law while being president. What is now stopping Biden from bringing a gun to the next debate? 5 months ago:
He’s the commander in chief, ordering a seal team or the CIA to assassinate someone is an official act and legal now. What you fail to mention in your haste to try to downplay this is that they also made it impossible to present evidence of crimes by the president, so any non-public action by the president is de facto legal. It would be impossible to prosecute because even if you gatheted evidence he ordered the hit, you couldn’t use it in court.
Yes, it’s that bad. No, it’s not that people are over reacting.
Read Sotomayor’s dissent, she says explicitly that this gives the president legal immunity against assassinations.
- Comment on Would America be as divided if Trump lost to Hillary in 2016? 5 months ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Stay Mad 5 months ago:
A vote for neoliberals is a vote to not have fascism for four more years.
That’s an extremely hard case to make at this point though when the “not” fascist guy is funding a genocide and refusing to entertain the measures we’d need to take to actually take the fight to the fascists (ex. Championing an effort to pack the supreme court). Neoliberals are not truly acting like democracy is on the line, they say it a lot but it’s not what their actions communicate, which makes it difficult to believe they’d ever stop obstructing progress.
Neoliberals don’t stop or stall fascists by getting into power – they just soft sell it and give the general public time to acclimate to the slipping of the Overton window. They do this in service of corporate interests rather than theocracy the way the far-right does but it ends us up in the same place.
If the plan is to try and encourage the Democrats to have primaries that actually have the power to move the party left, now is not the time to withhold a vote in protest as there’s a good chance that even if it did convince them, there’d never be another election that wasn’t rigged so they’d lose it no matter how popular they were.
Now is the time that the Democratic establishment chooses to try to strong arm the left into voting for them, they do this every election; claim the sky is falling and that we must vote for them or else. So I guess my view is, if they have assessed that they can risk playing a game of chicken, so can voters.
I understand Project 2025 and its seriousness, but that problem is going to be there every election from here until such a time that the GOP dissolves. I’m skeptical that 4 years will allow them to achieve everything they want to without sweeping the house and senate too. The president cannot legally be crowned king, and if they try to do that perhaps that is what it will take to actually radicalize the self-sedated upper middle-class liberals and political fence-sitters.
I’m sick of defensive leadership, and any offensive needs to start with attacking the Democratic structure that’s making the party so ineffectual and complicit. More time is not enough in my opinion, people were talking about GOP plans to capture the supreme court as far back as Bush Jr. and giving Democrats wins achieved nothing. They need to be forced to take it seriously and I just don’t see that happening without some pain (for them and, unfortunately, us).
- Comment on Stay Mad 5 months ago:
So this happened under Obama. People voted blue no matter who, gave Dems a super majority and they used it to pass a GOP-crafted bill that forced people to pay for useless private insurance.
- Comment on Stay Mad 5 months ago:
Yes, Hillary and the DNC allowed Trump to win by ignoring their base and chasing imaginary “swing” voters. And now they’re doing it again.
- Comment on Stay Mad 5 months ago:
People do understand that concept, but it’s literally what Democrats have been doing for the past 40 years and it has put us right here where we are right now. The “lesser of two evils” thing just has no propellant left, no one is buying that line anymore. Neoliberalism needs to go before Democrats can start winning again.
You need to understand that people have been saying “just put the neolibs in power again and we’ll work to improve things” every election cycle, and now we are closer to fascism than we’ve literally ever been. You at least understand why people see that strategy as a failure, right? Like, you understand why no one believes it anymore?
- Comment on Horizon is The Biggest Gamble of Kevin Costner’s Career 5 months ago:
I like how the hero is not just a reluctant hero in that one but kind of a parasitic man-baby lol.
- Comment on Lemmy is the best social media 5 months ago:
Ok, so I’m not the only one who noticed that their spam has a weird taste to it. It’s got that vibe of some agreeable left-wing content but then feels likes it only there to mask authoritarian narrative building.
- Comment on Looks like something straight from Warhammer 40K 5 months ago:
The Abrahamic religions are based on superstious oral traditions that extend into the bronze age. They are a hodge podge of cults and spiritual traditions that got absorbed as tribes genocided eachother over the millenia. Taking over a conquered group’s pantheon is a regular occurrence throughout history, similar to how the Romans took Christianity and adapted it. There are remnants in the torah/old testament of the stitching together of different polytheistic religions that eventually became the Abrahamic traditions.
I don’t really care about technical specifics, believing in invisible skymen is not the same as a material tool or a mathematical proof. It’s a bunch of bullshit stories people told eachother for why the rain fell or why lightning happened, it belongs in the past, there’s no excuse to still believe it now.
- Comment on Looks like something straight from Warhammer 40K 5 months ago:
All the Abrahamic religions are death cults. It’s just as morbid as muslim sects that force women to dress head to toe black robes or w/e. The extremism just becomes part of the scenery when you’re around it, but it’s all objectively bizzare.
Like think about it, these religions were literally invented by bronze age goat herds who thought the earth was flat and covered by a dome, and people in the modern day still believe in them. It’s literally group insanity.
- Comment on Focus Features Sets Fall 2025 Release For Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone & Jesse Plemons Reteam ‘Bugonia’ 5 months ago:
Damn, Yorgos and Emma Stone cranking out films together for whatever reason. I feel like Poor Things wasn’t released that long ago.
- Comment on My mom's doctor be like 5 months ago:
Why is this always the reaction by AI advocates when faced with major problems in AI?
If you want to convince AI can potentially be a benefit and not a negative then denial is not the way.
This kind of hasty implementati of AI by tech bros should absolutely be ridiculed, since it has real world consequences.
- Comment on Well, it's officially over. Tom Hardy says George Miller’s "MAD MAX: FURY ROAD" prequel "THE WASTELAND" is no longer happening. 5 months ago:
I do early matinees and avoid a lot of the worst aspects of the theater experience. Far fewer people, tickets are like $6 and when you get out you still have the rest of the day.
I did make an exception for Dune to see it in iMax and it was worth it, though that might just be lucking out with a decent crowd where people are respectful of eachother’s experience. The baseline of respect people have for strangers hasn’t fully bounced back since the pandemic, sadly.
- Comment on Well, it's officially over. Tom Hardy says George Miller’s "MAD MAX: FURY ROAD" prequel "THE WASTELAND" is no longer happening. 5 months ago:
I’m kind of surprised it was considered a flop, it was just as good as Fury Road. It even did a little bit better job at filling out the world and solidifying the characters than FR. It was actually more than just one long chase (as cool as that is) but still had plenty of action and vehicle antics etc. Critic and audience scores are also high.
I think it’s maybe more a reflection of the cinema landscape as a whole or something. Theaters aren’t dead, but I do think they peaked maybe in terms of the insanely inflated box office numbers that have set unrealistic industry expectations for “success”.
- Comment on Elden Ring Twitter warns of DLC spoilers being posted everywhere 5 months ago:
“And thus it was that the Great Finger Lords, thralls to Gordana the Pulchritudinous, cast their withered finger-bodies into the Well of Sangine Apoploxy, shattering the Piteous Eye, and covering the vale in a shadow of fingers.
Only when the Order of the Beshivered Spindle is restored upon the Great Finger-ruine Mountain will Bodkin the Befingered return to rebuild the Yeoman’s Sepulchre and return the Affrighted Digitus to its finer-realm. Fingers.”
- Comment on Elden Ring Twitter warns of DLC spoilers being posted everywhere 5 months ago:
What spoilers? That you fight a big, weird-looking boss with multiple baby heads or something at some point? The game’s story is not exactly full of twists and turns.
- Comment on Justice for our boy 6 months ago:
Isn’t this meme throwing their rhetoric back at them though? It highlights how absurd it looks when they make this crazy religious political rhetoric that makes a criminal out to be some “godly” man.
This cynical use of religion is a pretty good satirization of what right-wingers do.
- Comment on Horror story 6 months ago:
- Comment on Is it just me or do Lemmy communities tend to skew left wing? Why might this be? 6 months ago:
I think it’s more that you don’t get many right-wing extremists and the mods don’t protect the ones that do exist from seeing things they don’t like.
There are still a lot of neoliberal kind of conservatives on lemmy, and then also right-wing types in the form of tankies, but for the most part I think the light touch by most of the moderators means that facts (which favor the “left”) tend to be allowed to persist in a way they don’t on many social media that see profit in extremist content.
- Comment on Big Kone lies 6 months ago:
Show me a left wing community on the Internet where they joke about rape and share videos of beheadings and pictures of dead kids to make jokes about. Where they relentlessly dox women who dare complain about being represented as sex objects in video games and media, harassing them in a coordinated, explicit purpose of driving them to misery or even suicide. Where their memes like “an hero” stem from a literal suicide posted to their community. Show me the left wing equivalent of that trash.
4chan is disgusting, and it’s disgusting because of the garbage human beings who hang out there.
- Comment on Big Kone lies 6 months ago:
How does one achieve the naivety to believe only a single political faction operates like this?
Because literally only one does. There is no bothsides here. 4chan is a cesspool that spawned some of the most awful hate seen on the Internet. Bannon saw the opportunity to there during Gamer Gate and 4chan was a willing springboard for the political disaster unfolding not just in the US but globally.
Fuck 4chan and fuck fascists, there is no giving them a “fair shake”.
- Comment on Big Kone lies 6 months ago:
I’d prefer to express why the downvote was given, since a lot of people aren’t fully aware of how the alt-right uses a specific brand of humor to insinuate themselves into communities and that 4chan humor has its basis in largely in white supremacist/misogynist/pedophile shit.
The whole point of the humor is to make a bigoted meme, then layer over it again and again until people who aren’t “initiated” don’t understand that they’re basically propagating nazi symbols etc.
It’s kind of like how after a while of a community making “ironic” nazi jokes it gets more and more difficult to distinguish the irony from just straight up support for racism. Morons get caught up in that trap, it’s how the right recruits skinheads, incels, and proud boys and such, by massaging them into complacency.
Chantard humor and symbols should be rejected wholesale, no reason to allow the fediverse to become a breeding ground for right-wingers like Reddit became.
