DarkCloud
@DarkCloud@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon gets a job writing clickbait 3 days ago:
Anon just does the job, same as anyone that does that job.
- Comment on Via porn, gore and ultra-violence, extremist groups are sinking hooks online into the very young. 4 days ago:
It’s about young Islamic men, if you’re wondering.
- Comment on Going to quit my job and just do sculping full time 4 days ago:
Docking procedure complete!
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 1 week ago:
Sewer mutants cooking up some grub.
- Comment on Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑 1 week ago:
It’s almost entirely located on land.
- Comment on Kawasaki unveils a hydrogen-powered, ride-on robot horse 1 week ago:
Hard to say because it’s a concept of an idea at this point.
- Comment on Think about it 1 week ago:
Who put Lysenko in a position of power?
Look bud, I don’t have all day to teach you this shit. I’m not your mommy or daddy or the teacher at the local school, so just stop bothering me with your lack of knowledge about this.
Lysenko was elected in 1945 to the ruling committee of the USSR Academy of Sciences—the top scientific institution in the country—numerous scientists spoke out against him, citing his poor scientific reputation [7]. Over the next several years, Lysenko was criticized numerous times, and there were even steps taken to open an institute of genetics [4]. From 1946-1947, up to 1.5 million people died within the Soviet Union due to famine [18]. Lysenko’s nadir during this period was reached in April of 1947, when he was harshly criticized by Russian chemist Yuri Zhdanov, who highlighted Lysenko’s failures. He pointed out the destructive manner in which Lysenko had demonized geneticists, and argued that monopolies in science inhibit advancement [4]. Zhdanov’s words were particularly dangerous for Lysenko, given that the chemist was from a family with close ties to Stalin (e.g., Zhdanov went on to eventually marry Stalin’s only daughter) and he was a member of the powerful Central Committee of the Communist Party [13].
- Comment on Think about it 1 week ago:
I feel you don’t know much about what you’re on about.
Trofim Lysenko
The downfall of Soviet genetics and agriculture occurred due to the alignment of numerous social, economic, scientific, meteorological, and political factors. No single person can bear complete blame for the events, but a crucial actor in the story was Trofim Lysenko. Lysenko was born to a Ukrainian…
www.storybehindthescience.org/lysenkoism
I also think you’re arguing just to argue rather than doing something more useful.
Bye.
- Comment on Think about it 1 week ago:
Past the numbers I told you about.
I’m done here - you’re having a conversation with yourself at this point. I addressed the topic I addressed (the deaths from starvation Lysenkoism caused).
- Comment on Think about it 1 week ago:
You seem to think I denied those numbers rather than being the person who pasted them to you.
- Comment on Think about it 1 week ago:
No, I wasn’t. Also, frankly he wasn’t “responsible” for Holodomor and it’s clear you still don’t know what Lysenkoism is.
He was responsible for directing the hunger politically, not for seeking to, or being the cause of the famine.
I’m sure you’re understanding pf history isn’t deft enough to understand what I’ve said, so I’ll simplify it for you:
If one person turns a tap on and another directs the water, who is responsible for the fact the tap is on?
I’m saying Lysenkoism (which has little to do with socialist and communist doctrine or schools of thought) is the man who turned the tap on. Stalin, being an authoritarian monster - chose to direct the water to what suited him politically. But the famine at that point was already happening.
As I said, probably too nuanced a point for you to grasp. But maybe you’ll surprise me.
- Comment on Think about it 1 week ago:
…yet.
- Comment on Think about it 1 week ago:
Where’s it say to do that?
Why would correcting one point of fact mean ignoring another? That’s not how truth works.
Two statements can both be true at the same time.
- Comment on Think about it 1 week ago:
Not directly. The conman Lysenko, originator of Lysenkoism was. Stalin didn’t aim intentionally to create mass starvation in Soviet Russia. Nor did Mao in Chin, these were issues of understanding science which we tale for granted today but weren’t well understood at the time.
Wikipedia:
Before the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the archival revelations, some historians estimated that the numbers killed by Stalin’s regime were 20 million or higher.[5][6][7] After the Soviet Union dissolved, evidence from the Soviet archives was declassified and researchers were allowed to study it. This contained official records of 799,455 executions (1921–1953),[8][9][10][11][12] around 1.5 to 1.7 million deaths in the Gulag,[13][14][15] some 390,000[16] deaths during the dekulakization forced resettlement, and up to 400,000 deaths of persons deported during the 1940s,[17] with a total of about 3.3 million officially recorded victims in these categories.[18] According to historian Stephen Wheatcroft, approximately 1 million of these deaths were “purposive” while the rest happened through neglect and irresponsibility.[2] The deaths of at least 5.5 to 6.5 million[19] persons in the Soviet famine of 1932–1933 are sometimes included with the victims of the Stalin era.[2][20]
- Comment on photosynthesis 1 week ago:
Only one of these images is meaningful to the majority. The other is indecipherable.
- Comment on trapped in the middle with u 2 weeks ago:
Only the best child groomers get into heaven:
- Comment on Always guard against living in the world of fantasy rather than undeniable facts 3 weeks ago:
I get the spirit of the comic, HOWEVER: if you put a little tail on it - you’re getting close to 4 territory.
You shouldn’t go straight to calling someone a dumb fuck for that.
- Comment on Trump supporter Rick Fuze was arrested in CA for using a stun gun on peaceful protesters outside a Tesla dealership. The woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor with 16,000 citations. 3 weeks ago:
Her research makes it seem like she’s also trying to kid HIV/AIDS ass.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s crazy. What’s that line: To the privileged any attempt at equality is going to look like a loss of privilege.
Something like that. I’m pretty sure they just want to harm come to groups they’re prejudiced against. Even more insulting is I’m pretty sure the Trump administration has a lot of drink and drug related parties, Trump spent his youth in nightclubs, Musk is addicted to ketamine and Grimes mentioned them tripping on acod together.
So it’s debauchery at the top, austerity for everyone else. It’s a real let them eat cake they’re doing. Not serious or good people at all. Very little in the way of mprals or ethics, it’s all about power, privilege, politics, and personal gain.
- Comment on Taking huge cock is therapeutic 3 weeks ago:
Laprodic posture like that ain’t good for most people.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 3 weeks ago:
The problem is their spin isn’t designed to be positive or have mass appeal. It’s designed to create fervent followers who are desperate for something different and a sense they’re winning.
In your example I believe the response for them would be something along the lines of “Good, women shouldn’t be getting special treatment anyways - END DEI !!!”
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 4 weeks ago:
But they also think you’re in an alternative reality because of “leftist reactionaries” over blowing things in the media. Some of them would probably go as far to say that “We need anti-propaganda laws against the left wing media”…
…the problem for the left is, the right wing “alternative facts, alternative media landscape” is unfortunately MORE REAL in a legal sense because they own SCOTUS, and SCOTUS want to institute Unitary Executive theory… Which is what they’re doing.
It’s a very clean word for a kind of fascism.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 4 weeks ago:
They’ll say a mix of “He’s clearly not guilty because nothing stuck! Teflon Don!” and “You shouldn’t go after politicians personal lives” and “Suck for you he’s President now! You’re just a sore loser.”
…that might make you mad, which they enjoy.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 4 weeks ago:
They don’t think Trump and Musk are doing anything wrong. When quizzed they’ll ask you to name anything they’ve done wrong.
Everything Trump and Musk are doing is guised in Libertarian and Conservative values.So nothing wrong has been done on their eyes.
If you go places like r/JordanPeterson (to ask) and r/Conservative to observe the media landscape - you’ll see that “The Woke” are wrong and have turned violent against Tesla. You’ll see Trump and Musk are thought of as doing great things.
That’s how they think. They’re not in the same media landscape as everyone else is.
- Comment on New ‘Starship Troopers’ Movie in the Works from ‘District 9’ Filmmaker Neill Blomkamp (Exclusive) 4 weeks ago:
There’s already like five or more Starship Troopers movies. They really went to tpwn making bad sequels.
- Comment on Why do American leftists support / defend dictatorships? 5 weeks ago:
So your issue is just that the left/right categories are very broad to the point of not being that useful.
You’ve basically said; why do Christian conservatives in America, support the Holocaust?
Then everyone’s gone… what do you mean?
… and your answer is “well, the German Nazis in 1942, and the American Christian conservatives are both on the right”.
Or “why are all these dogs meowing?”… Dogs and cats are both animals, so same thing right?
No, not really. So you’re being downvotes because of your lack of nuance.
Why are far left communists pro-Russia… Is a very different set of assumptions than “why are leftists all supporting dictatorships?”
- Comment on BJJ and the Bear 1 month ago:
So you’re saying approach from the back when out of range?
- Comment on Sun God 1 month ago:
Science Journalists; Neil Degrasse Tyson claims dead pixels may actually be Mercury sized planets!
- Comment on The Downtrodden Billionaires 1 month ago:
The problems the free market creates, are intentional.
- Comment on Stop touching your stuff! 1 month ago:
Hetero women and gay guys might just… Stop at that level and stay for a bit.