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- Comment on PROTEIN BRO 1 day ago:
This pic reminds me of a ten-year-old post:
Used to take prework out as a teenager. About a year ago I’d be taking 2 scoops of the strongest shit I could get my hands on. I’d have to spend almost 10 minutes between sets sometimes to keep from puking. Then one day I just thought, what the fuck am I doing. I started lifting to get healthier. And here I am taking in God knows what from a container with a psycho clown that’s chewed half his own face off. What the fuck happened. I started with a half a scoop of c4 and now here I am. Who the fuck is this for, am I supposed to be that methhead clown, is that supposed to be appealing? Since then completely gave up prework outs and never looked back
- Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 1 week ago:
This one was making a child with an HIV-positive parent resistant to HIV, so it’s a bit better than 731 torture.
- Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 1 week ago:
I have problems with their way of doing so, but their act was to allow an informed consenting(? it’s complicated) couple with an HIV-positive parent to have a child resistant to HIV. It was problematic, yes, but very different to the war crime experiments, much of which was simply about morbid curiosity and torture.
- Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 1 week ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Jiankui_affair
Laws were changed after this incident:
In 2020, the National People’s Congress of China passed Civil Code and an amendment to Criminal Law that prohibit human gene editing and cloning with no exceptions
So, in case you actually meant that weird ignorant remark you made about Uyghurs, the answer is no and no.
- Comment on I wonder if the "money can't buy you happiness" people ever lived in a car. 1 week ago:
The parts I talked about are more the groundwork of analyzing the here and now, rather than actually talking about it, yes. I was addressing the points about how individualism and self-serving ‘nature’, to point out they were only capable of manifesting through feudalism, capitalism, etc., and aren’t some inherent immutable human nature. We know that egalitarian societies have been workable worldwide, it’s not some utopian idealist dream.
As for no-one coming up with workable alternatives, yes and no:
- There are examples of societies today which are anarchist and/or socialist instead of capitalist such as the Zapatista territories in Mexico (pop. ~300,000). Most of them are smaller pre-industrial societies, so we can’t just transplant their society structure into modern cities and expect it to work, but they’re still useful examples.
- The PRC presents one interesting example of dirigisme. Their state does not (nor claims to) depart from the capitalist mode of production, but it has departed enough from capitalism as-we-know-it due to the unusual power the government has over big business. So while the government has historically had troubles with corruption (which the CIA would exploit to accelerate assets into higher positions, pay-to-win IRL), on the other hand, we see institutional attacks against corrupt billionaires and selfish bosses which are unthinkable to most other capitalist states. Musk, Bezos or Zuckerburg would have to stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody before they maybe go to a special upscale jail or house arrest, while the PRC have given suspended death sentences for extreme financial crimes (like Liu Liange taking millions of dollars in bribes) and notoriously executed multiple billionaires (for murder convictions).
Now, whether that second example is a society that people want, that’s obviously a hotly debated topic, but I’d say objectively their system is working (in terms of stability and economic strength) and a modern alternative to our current system (their system is capable of rewarding societal values above self-service)
- Comment on Musk shares post that Hitler didn’t kill millions, public workers did. Union rages 2 weeks ago:
You can reply “I hope Musk gets shot in the head” for all we care, friend!
- Comment on I wonder if the "money can't buy you happiness" people ever lived in a car. 2 weeks ago:
The point being that nothing is inherently wrong with making individualistic self serving choices except when there is disregard for others
Historically, individualism hasn’t been a good survival strategy. I agree that self-interest isn’t inherently wrong, although I believe much of the things we consider self-serving are ultimately only sane to do once our basic needs are met, and depending on where you are and who you are, those may be at risk soon. There’s a reason why people historically formed tribes and villages to survive, individualism is only possible when you have the privilege of an advanced enough society. The capitalist market system, in fact the market system altogether, couldn’t come into existence prior to civilization, where society was strong and safe enough that individual enrichment was a viable survival strategy.
This video makes the point I’m getting at more concretely. Can start at 15:55, when they begin talking about historical materialism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nPVkpWMH9k
(tagging parent commenter @Cryophilia@lemmy.world because this also addresses their reply about people’s inherent self-serving)
- Comment on I wonder if the "money can't buy you happiness" people ever lived in a car. 2 weeks ago:
Liquidate the billionaires… assets, of course.
If it were that simple, then we should just liquidate the billionaires with rifles. They deserve no respect.
Unfortunately, they’re just the symptom of systematic issues of capitalist political economy, so without solving that, new billionaires will emerge.
- Comment on Sooo, where did the blatant Nazism suddenly come from? 4 weeks ago:
On one hand, yes, these people are pathetic and have little idea what the symbols they’re playing with truly mean beyond white supremacy. And yes, it is useful (and fun) to mock farcists.
On the other hand, some of these people are (literally) astronomically rich, in bed with leaders of one of the most powerful military forces ever to exist, and the others are those supported by these rich haute-booj oligarchs (just like the original Blackshirts and Brownsharts were supported by landowners and maginates). A Nazi salute, understood with respect to history and the powerplay of today, is personal to many people. If it’s a teenage edgelord fucking around to get a reaction, sure, dismiss them or let them ‘find out’, but Musk and Bannon are people with huge influence over politicians and mass media. Elon Musk, for example, literally owns a pervasive media platform. They can start sizable rallies gathering both the batshit unhinged and the ideologically driven, armed and hungry.
So if you’re someone who the Nazis would have sent to the extermination camps (and there are many, many groups that were, basically most of humanity), then that salute is someone with state power declaring they want you dead. I wouldn’t call it insulting as much as a credible death threat.
- Comment on For No Reason in Particular Here's a Bunch of Games Where You Kill Nazis 1 month ago:
are actually very well defined
Eh, I can’t quite agree with “very well defined”. Even Nazism isn’t really internally coherent, it’s surprisingly nonsensical, let alone all the variants of fascism straying so far from classical fascism.
But that’s me nitpicking academically. Fascist organizations are crystal clear about their association, beliefs and what they want. When they heil or wear neo-Nazi symbols in a political context, there’s no longer any need to doubt.
It is a concerted effort to redefine or undefine them so there is no longer a word to describe them.
Absolutely. Nazis have been made very aware that most communities reject them on sight and so wolf-whistling and pathetic attempts of plausible deniability are used to pretend they’re just ‘regular’ patriotic nationalists (see: Musk salute, and this related salute overseas a few weeks earlier). But even then, these are paper thin attempts. “You’re the real nazis!” “Oh everyone’s a nazi these days!” “Actually they were a specific party at a specific place at a specific time!”, you just gotta laugh.
- Comment on For No Reason in Particular Here's a Bunch of Games Where You Kill Nazis 1 month ago:
Nazism refers to a school of political beliefs. It’s not some vague unknowable thing, a Nazi is perfectly capable of advocating for Nazism using speech and symbolism. So don’t pretend they have no clue what a Nazi advocates.
No, killing a Nazi does not make someone “the Nazi”. It would be nice if you didn’t trivialize atrocities like the Holocaust.
- Comment on For No Reason in Particular Here's a Bunch of Games Where You Kill Nazis 1 month ago:
People who self-identify as Nazis, as well as those knowingly in neo-Nazi organizations, are therefore perfectly valid targets of assassination. Historically, such people are seen as national heroes, so don’t give me that ‘winning people over to your side of history’ junk.
When it is strategically effective to shoot a Nazi, and it often is, then I advocate you do so without hesitation. Where it is not strategically effective, I advocate the myriad of nonviolent techniques put in use by antifascists. These are preferred, not because of some silly claims that Nazis should not be harmed, but because they’re safer and more sustainable than individual actions.
Listen closely to what a Nazi wants, yes even the ‘cosplay Nazis’, and think about whether their life is more important than stopping their goal of mass extermination.
- Comment on Anon experiences German humor 2 months ago:
haha that one’s rough! That said, you can put a lot in a junk car.
- Comment on Anon experiences German humor 2 months ago:
o hohohohohoho!
- Comment on Anon experiences German humor 2 months ago:
It’s neat that the ant joke’s pun translates into English, good pick.
- Comment on Anon experiences German humor 2 months ago:
The Wikipedia page on East German jokes has a few Trabant jokes.
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What’s the best feature of a Trabant? – There’s a heater at the back to keep your hands warm when you’re pushing it.
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A new Trabi has been launched with two exhaust pipes – so you can use it as a wheelbarrow.
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How do you double the value of a Trabant? – Fill it with gas.
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The back page of the Trabant manual contains the local bus schedule.
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Four men were seen carrying a Trabant. Somebody asks them why? Was it broken? They reply: “No, nothing wrong with it, we’re just in a hurry.”
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How do you catch a Trabi? – Place a piece of chewing gum on the road. (Allusion to weak engine.)
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- Comment on Anon gets rid of crackheads 2 months ago:
I half-expected the German radical left-wing to keep rents low by shooting into the landlords with firearms.
- Comment on Anon is triggered by RedNote 2 months ago:
Correct, that screenshot is from /leftypol/
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- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 3 months ago:
I can’t remember anyone justifying out of personal dislike or popularity. Their justification is that this person’s actions are mass social murder, suggesting that such anti-social people deserve to be killed if the legal system refuses to punish and deter them. The fact that people generally hate a mass killer is incidental, it’s not the reason they deserve a punishment.
There are good arguments against vigilantism in general, and while I don’t fully agree in this specific case, I respect them as valid reasons. But to say this assassin is being given a free pass just because people don’t like them is absurd.
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- Comment on You don't need to answer this 3 months ago:
haha rabid in what way?
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 3 months ago:
He didn’t get murdered for being unpopular.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 3 months ago:
Morality is subjective, no real system can truly decide what is evil. But in this case we’re talking about, it’s pretty clear cut that the CEO was a willful threat to the health of millions. This isn’t some abstract slippery slope of dubious vigilantism, might as well be claiming that the assassination attempts on Hitler were a gateway to Mad Max dystopia.
- Comment on Words reportedly written onto ammunition found at scene of health insurance CEO's killing [USA] 3 months ago:
Why?
- Comment on Words reportedly written onto ammunition found at scene of health insurance CEO's killing [USA] 3 months ago:
“N00B”? Maybe as banter to dunk on the scrub, but that CEO had years of experience killing. It was a boss fight.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 3 months ago:
We’ve collectively agreed to put the law above
I don’t remember agreeing to these laws. I break the dumbest ones constantly. Laws are made by politicians who are controlled by the owning class. They are enforced on us, not developed by us. That’s why corporations and their board of directors can rape the earth and kill thousands and millions while you and me can get jailed for petty little things.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 3 months ago:
Who’s he going to pick next?
This was not a random or petty attack. Their message on the bullet casings makes it clear they were attacking this person because they’ve knowingly helped enable incomprehensible amounts of human suffering on a scale of millions.
I understand that vigilantism, speaking generally, has its own serious dangers. But speaking specifically, this person is clearly not a threat to people who aren’t legalized mass murderers. Who’s he going to pick next? Probably the CEO of the second most abusive healthcare insurer.
That said, obviously with limited resources the police have to pick what cases take priority over others.
The police follow the law. The law is defined by politicians, who are effectively purchased by the owner class. The police were never going to arrest that CEO for their crimes against humanity, it would be illegal for them to do it out of the public interest. Direct vigilantism was the only realistic chance at deterrence in this situation.
because they’re too busy chasing down all those people who hurt others’ fee-fees by misgendering them
Weird fantasy but ok.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 3 months ago:
Interesting take, but on the other hand I suspect that nothing new would be learned. afaik their main forensics techniques aren’t really a mystery, there are thousands of cases to learn from.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 3 months ago:
From whom?
