rottingleaf
@rottingleaf@lemmy.world
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 4 days ago:
They’ll just be afraid.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 6 days ago:
That’s not surprising, but if that doesn’t change, things won’t get better.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 6 days ago:
You don’t want oligarchy and she’s on oligarchy’s side. Please remember what made Trump win the first time.
I don’t expect her to improve things at all. Only compared to what would happen if Trump would win.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 6 days ago:
anticommunist propaganda
As if that was needed to show how communists do things.
people feel like they’re getting fucked, and Trump offers a clear, simple narrative of who is fucking them
Correct.
Kamala comes across more as representing the political establishment, and her messaging doesn’t tap into that dissatisfaction or contrarian nature
Not only that’s correct, but she’s still your enemy. It’s just a situation where one has to choose what’s worse. From my point of view far from USA - Trump is immediately worse. But that doesn’t mean Harris is going to radically improve things.
It’s sad you have no third strong grassroots movement, but that seems to be the case in every shitty election.
Russia, when it supposedly had those, first was choosing between Yeltsin and his “kinda democrats, but with that smell” and “red-brown” communists with Stalin pics and swastikas, second between Putin and senile communists, the third one was between thinly masqueraded Putin and rich city kids, and then it kinda lost meaning. Trump is kinda similar to the “red-brown” side in the first example.
One can find many such example.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 6 days ago:
He says that fear is a bigger motivator than love.
He’s correct in a sense you may not notice.
Those voters fear Harris and what she represents, and love some idea of what GOP could in theory represent.
So the fact that Trump is shit means less for them as it’s on the side they love, while Harris being stronger makes them even more afraid.
That is, the best strategy for Dems to insure victory would be to successfully present Trump as having a potential to win to his own voters. Then they would care about him being a felon and such.
- Comment on Black mold growing on the dispensers at my local McDonald's 6 days ago:
I dunno what that was, but I got a cup of something transparent and not tasty once at BK. Don’t think I felt too bad, maybe cause I stopped drinking that immediately.
- Comment on Inaccuracies 1 week ago:
Oh. People from English-speaking countries don’t sink you with downvotes immediately for criticizing that show anymore. Nice.
Even the broad strokes are, eh, how do you say it, eh … worse than Tom Clancy and that’s an achievement I’m not sure everyone is capable of measuring.
It’s funny though how such series about “USSR” talk in fact about something American. Reminiscent of the “17 moments of spring” series which were about a Soviet spy in Berlin in the last months of WWII, but mostly explored Soviet ideology and morality issues.
- Comment on Anon gets diagnosed 1 week ago:
It’s just that some of us are autistic and have had wrong parenting, only due to various kinds of stigma our parents, on the contrary, only looked for confirmation that we (and them) are “normal”. So please consider that.
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 2 weeks ago:
The whole of USA is something 300+mln people, now do Christianity, then do Islam, then do Hinduism, then do Communism, and then do Fascism.
- Comment on Inflation? 3 weeks ago:
It is inflation. And “greed” is accounted for in the definition of a market. Oligopolies are not.
- Comment on it's just that simple. Don't forget to exercise out of depression... 3 weeks ago:
Also take showers when you feel like it, not when it’s appropriate. Well, at least put some water on your face and make your feet wet, if shower is not an option.
(At least that helps me personally.)
The “less sugar” advice is good.
The physical exhaustion advice is good.
But frankly all this seems connected to that cluster of autism\depression\ADHD or something. Getting more dopamine, reducing prolactin, reducing bodily disregulation, something like that.
- Comment on How to treat a man 3 weeks ago:
You teach your daughter how to spot manipulative behavior
Yeah, only do it right. Because some girls have apparently been taught to classify anything they don’t understand as that. Sucks being autistic and trying to explain some emotion and being accused of manipulation and ghosted, because that’s easier than admitting that sometimes you just don’t understand other people as well as you think.
I also hate that folk psychology with “personal borders” (usually asymmetric, quite normal things said to those people are apparently emotional abuse, and quite heavy things from them are just life) and “red flags” (usually applied to autistic people and not applied to literal creepy\insecure behavior) and a few thumb rules which apparently describe anything in a conversation. People employing that also by default consider that everything is fine with them personally.
- Comment on obesity 1 month ago:
What your will allows you is too defined by health.
- Comment on obesity 1 month ago:
while body weight is something you can at least control through dedication.
Generally not.
There are quite a lot of disorders affecting eating habits, and there are quite a lot of conditions that mean that even on something like a keto diet you’ll get obese (or extremely thin).
So no, if you are not obese, you most likely are not more “dedicated” than some person you know who is. You are just healthier. Most likely since birth, and there’s nothing they’ve done wrong.
Obviously it’s still bad to be obese.
- Comment on The problem with sleeper ships 1 month ago:
Such a plot device has been used in every sci-fi universe I’ve been interested in. It’s not even funny.
- Comment on the final boss after you clear Donald Knuth 1 month ago:
Do you have some reading comprehension issues?
I don’t consider it useful to continue conversations with such fools who also can’t stop insulting people better than them. Fool blocked.
There’s a difference between relatively non-destructive “advent” of a religion in a certain culture and conquest by illiterate Bedouins burning and sacking everything “immodest” they see.
- Comment on the final boss after you clear Donald Knuth 1 month ago:
Pretty sure Persia, India, and China all had great empires and knowledge well before
I said that most civilized areas conquered by Arabs during the initial Muslim expansion were mostly Christian, and they were. That would be Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, Armenia and the Iberian peninsula. Berbers in Northern Africa yeah, mostly weren’t Christian.
The Sassanian Empire was obviously a Zoroastrian theocracy with a huge Christian population.
What does this of yours sentence have to do with what I said requires clarification.
well before Christianity was even a little sperm cell in the Judean god’s sac but sure
You do realize that this is even truer for Islam, right?
Which btw most of foundational mathematics was created in the Eastern and Persian world, not by Christians.
And as I’ve said already once, the Middle-East was Christian at the moment of the Arab invasion, and Iran was Zoroastrian. Thus attributing praise for any of the achievements the conversation was about to Muslims is fucking asinine.
So yeah you’re just racist and misinformed.
I’ve forgotten on this subject more than you ever knew.
Also how does contempt for the Muslim religion make one racist, I wonder? It’s (in Sunni variants, I’ll admit Shia Islam is better) every bit as worthy of contempt as the Christian religion, but without the upsides.
- Comment on the final boss after you clear Donald Knuth 1 month ago:
Which doesn’t change anything in the conversation that started about “the Islamic world” being built on the conquest of more civilized peoples, which were mostly Christian.
Also I’m fine with reducing Christians to “middle-eastern Christians” here. Others don’t seem really Christian from there anyway. For these reasons as well:
King Leopold murdered ten million Congolese. The British empire 100 million Indians. The dutch started the slave trade.
Only I think the Portuguese started the slave trade. Not that it changes anything.
- Comment on the final boss after you clear Donald Knuth 1 month ago:
I’m Armenian, so I know you’re bullshitting me in the context of the Middle-East. We are not talking Americas and Africa here.
- Comment on the final boss after you clear Donald Knuth 1 month ago:
OK, said one stupid thing. Anyway, this makes them at worst as bad as Muslims.
- Comment on the final boss after you clear Donald Knuth 1 month ago:
I know what I’m talking about, but I get furious over Westerners trying to find indulgence for their own ancestors’ actions at the expense of Middle-Eastern native Christians, and I see saying that Crusaders were somehow worse than any Muslim conquest as part of that.
Being furious I may sometimes say something imprecise.
Doesn’t negate the fact that Islam is not native to any place outside of the Arabian peninsula, and those areas it has invaded still have native populations and religions not yet completely exterminated, and those are largely Christian. Saying that Crusaders were the baddies, but the Muslims whom they were fighting were not, is disgusting in that context. It’s like that “Irish were like slaves too”, putting things into American context so that you’d understand better.
Same as that myth of Salah ad-Din being benevolent and honorable, mostly started by German Empire’s propaganda as part of their relations with genocidal Ottoman Empire.
- Comment on the final boss after you clear Donald Knuth 1 month ago:
Go read something on
what Muslims did during their actual initial conquest
. This was casual for them. The difference is, though, that Crusaders didn’t intentionally destroy books and art.
- Comment on the final boss after you clear Donald Knuth 1 month ago:
Are you high or something?
Which is vastly different from being murdered and having their civilizations destroyed, like for instance the Crusaders did.
The Crusaders didn’t do a fraction of what Muslims did during their actual initial conquest.
When looking at the details, Persian, Arab and Mauretanian rules over people of other religions were much more tolerant and civilized than comparable European ruling situations. I guess the saddest example of these are the Spanish Jews, who flourished under the “Moors” and got genocided and ethnically cleansed by the Catholics, after they were no longer dhimmis under Muslim rule.
I think you should go and learn the meaning of the word “firman” in the Middle-East.
Anyway - I may agree about late Muslim rule in Spain specifically and some periods of Arab rule in Armenia, Mesopotamia and Egypt.
In Iran Zoroastrians were to be exterminated, they wouldn’t get that sweet dhimmi status. Which may be one of the reasons it became largely Christian after the conquest and then largely Shia.
- Comment on the final boss after you clear Donald Knuth 1 month ago:
Edison is known as a businessman, not as a scientist though.
- Comment on the final boss after you clear Donald Knuth 1 month ago:
Downvotes show that people here don’t know that even in 9th century a large part of the ME’s population was Christian dhimmis. Coptic, Assyrian, Armenian, Nestorian. “Dhimmi” means they couldn’t bear arms and had to pay “protection tax”, and also a “Muslim robbing a dhimmi” situation was usually resolved in favor of the Muslim.