Dragonstaff
@Dragonstaff@leminal.space
- Comment on If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him? 1 hour ago:
Nothing good, but nothing surprising.
- Comment on If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him? 2 hours ago:
I don’t at all understand how you got your definition of “liberal”. I think anyone who could conceivably be called a “tankie” would bristle at being called liberal.
Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property and equality before the law.[1][2] Liberals espouse various and often mutually warring views depending on their understanding of these principles but generally support private property, market economies, individual rights (including civil rights and human rights), liberal democracy, secularism, rule of law, economic and political freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and freedom of religion.[3] Liberalism is frequently cited as the dominant ideology of modern history.
Both of our American parties are liberals. However, most Americans use the word to mean “progressive”.
I think “Leftist” starts at anti-capitalism and goes from there. I half jokingly say a progressive is someone who thinks the system is broken and must be fixed. A Leftist is someone who thinks the system is working exactly as intended and must be destroyed.
- Comment on What do zoos do with dead animals? 6 hours ago:
Honestly, we probably know everything we could learn from a dead hippo carcass.
- Comment on The Amish are onto smth 6 days ago:
Most restaurants keep reservations in a $2.75 spiral notebook.
I doubt an online reservation calendar would be $10k for a single restaurant, but still…the only profit is marginal: the people who eat there who would have without the online calendar, and I doubt it would recoup the costs in a quarter or two. Especially considering that the wealth gap and tech gap mean that the number of people who want to schedule online is inversely related to the people who can afford to eat out a lot.
- Comment on “No” 1 week ago:
I’ve decided to believe that there was a grueling audition process and he ultimately had to go forward with his second choice.
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 1 week ago:
why aren’t you guys screaming?
I screamed when Bush won a second term. I screamed when Trump won his first term. The American people can’t really let me down any further than they already have.
Do you mean rioting? The guy even won the popular vote, possibly fair and square. Are you under the impression that there is some action we can take at this point to improve the situation?
because people couldn’t get no injustice, they stayed home
That’s not a valid interpretation of the situation. Millions of people who voted for Biden did not come out for Kamala. There’ll be a lot of people trying to discern why and you probably won’t like my guess, but it’s too early to really have good information. Exit polls said only about 10 percent of people cared about Gaza at all. This idea of progressives not voting, sending the election to Trump doesn’t hold water at all. Dems first instinct is to punch left. I hope they learn a better lesson from this loss.
People who don’t vote aren’t hanging out on Lemmy talking about politics. All of the vitriol from Democrats is even more misplaced than usual. This outcome was pretty much what I thought would happen, but when I talk about how Dem decisions aren’t exciting voters, the response is to admonish me to vote, missing the point entirely.
it’s broken deliberately by one side to suit them,
Refusing to admit the part the Dems play is part of the problem as well. We can’t keep doing the same thing we’ve always done, and if we don’t learn from this we are truly doomed.
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 1 week ago:
Korra was good. TLA was one of the best animated series of all time, so nothing would fill it’s shoes. But Korra was a solid show.
I am a fan of the Netflix version and looking forward to the next season.
I am honored to accept the Earth King’s invitation. 😛
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 1 week ago:
That’s fair and I respect your decision.
I was excited about Obama. For whatever reason I thought he’d be a lot more progressive than he ended up being.
I phone banked for Clinton. Was never a fan, but I agree that Trump was/is uniquely dangerous.
I voted for Biden. He was explicitly picked to be the conservative balance to the liberal firebrand, Obama (😬), but hey vote Blue no matter who, right?
The counterpoint to this thinking, for me: Where does this end? Do I stick it out until the next “unimportant” Presidential election? At what point am I just enabling the Dems to run rightward to pick up imaginary centrist Republicans while ignoring the left and the working class?
I doubt the DNC will learn their lesson from this election. I hoped they’d learn from a win, but I pray they take this loss to heart. The idea that Republicans somehow convinced people that they’re the party of unions and the working class is laughable, but if they could do that, that says Dems aren’t making the difference in people’s lives that they should be.
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 1 week ago:
I voted for the Unity party largely to make this point. I live in Colorado. That’s “shooting myself in the head”?
I heard someone say “Well what if so many voters vote third party that they lose the state?” If the Dems lose Colo-fucking-rado, do you really think they still have a path to 270?
I respect the right of people in swing states to vote their conscience as well, but that’s obviously a different consideration. But the vitriol a lot of Dems have without even asking where someone lives is just… unhelpful.
- Comment on Anon doesn't tip 1 week ago:
It’s not exactly legal, but a lot of places will charge the server for a done and dash.
- Comment on Anon doesn't tip 1 week ago:
I waited tables for years. (I was good at it, and even helped train everyone at a new restaurant.) Hourly pay would have definitely lowered my wage, but it’s still better than tipping. It’d be cool to get hourly wage, or even commission, so that your pay isn’t based on people’s whims.
servers who were bad at their jobs would get paid just as well as servers that offer good service.
(Note: I use the general “you” a lot. You’re just repeating what someone else said, I assume you don’t have any wait staff working for you personally.) You can fire people for being bad at their jobs. Why do you have bad staff working for you, tips or no? How about: Unattractive people will get paid just as well as traditionally attractive people. Minorities will get paid just as well as whites. Your salary doesn’t hinge on whether you can sneak extra stuff to your tables without your boss finding out or putting up with sexual harassment. Salary means that my paycheck comes from the restaurant and I don’t have to try to balance the interests of the people paying me against the restaurant.
- Comment on True Story 1 week ago:
This is just astoundingly out of touch. When I asked “why”, I was looking for evidence. What evidence do you have to support your supposition? Nothing.
To the contrary, polling says that only 10% of people cared about Gaza. The American people are largely tuned out of politics. Democrats’ first instinct is to always blame leftists, but the problem is that people don’t want to vote for more of the same.
- Comment on For my fellow Americans, when is enough enough? 1 week ago:
This is meaningless though.
You said “a clear majority voted for Trump”. In fact: a majority of Americans didn’t vote for a fascist. That is a good thing.
Neither did a majority of Americans vote for a milquetoast centrist, but I don’t expect anyone to take a great deal of comfort or pain in that fact.
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 1 week ago:
I watched the Last Airbender movie before seeing the cartoon.
It’s not a bad kung fu movie, except for the casting. Not great, but it was a fun watch. Now that I’ve seen the cartoon, I understand why the folx who grew up with it refuse to acknowledge it’s existence.
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’d call it heavy handed. It felt like it was a message first. Not as bad as the Daily Wire stuff, but going down that road. Even if I agree with the message, it felt contrived.
Just my two cents though.
- Comment on True Story 1 week ago:
It is on the candidate to inspire people. Yeah, the left was lukewarm to a candidate that was trying her best to court Republicans. How else could you expect that to play out?
- Comment on True Story 1 week ago:
Only 10% of the electorate even cared about Gaza. You’re giving the American people entirely too much credit.
- Comment on True Story 1 week ago:
You really think the 15 million people who voted for Biden but not Kamala was “misplaced sense of moral superiority”? Why?
- Comment on True Story 1 week ago:
Imagine thinking that billions of dollars in campaign funds were overturned by a picture posted on Lemmy.
The Left is a group so insignificant that we don’t need to cater to their positions at all, but so massive that they’re completely responsible any time we lose.
- Comment on Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy 1 week ago:
I’m not terribly bright, but I’ve never understood the original statement.
If I bash my right hand on a typewriter an infinite number of times, that will never turn into the complete works of Shakespeare. If we assume a monkey will enter one random letter at a time, that probably would.
- Comment on Why are people doing this at voting locations in the USA? 3 weeks ago:
That’s not an argument that being filmed at a polling place is dangerous.
- Comment on Why are people doing this at voting locations in the USA? 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure a good argument can be made. Being at a polling place doesn’t say who you’re voting for. I don’t see the danger.
- Comment on Cynthia Erivo calls out fans who made their own Wicked poster 4 weeks ago:
How specifically similar to this instance does the erasure of Black women need to be? Yes, Black women are dehumanized all the time. It’s common for movies to turn Black people into animals and objectify Black women in any number of ways.
That is what is offensive about the fan edit. In the original movie poster she is a person. Her eyes are meant to connect with the viewer. The fan edit specifically takes that away from her.
- Comment on Asian Beauty 4 weeks ago:
I met someone with a “Man shall not lie with another man” tattoo.
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That verse is literally the previous chapter to the “don’t get tattoos” verse. Why did he think one was important enough to get tattooed while ignoring the other?
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He really chose to get that tattooed?!
There was no way a conversation with this guy would go well, so I’m going to be stuck with these questions forever.
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- Comment on Anon sells girl scout cookies 4 weeks ago:
Perhaps “nobody” is slight exaggeration. But I guarantee that more people would buy Girl Scout cookies for $5 than a mystery box for $200.
- Comment on Anon sells girl scout cookies 4 weeks ago:
Nobody just gives away $200, and buying a “mystery box” from an anonymous stranger is the same thing.
- Comment on He's just lucky I guess 5 weeks ago:
Granted, I think a human stomach is more difficult to traverse than a frog, and it’s more likely that it came in the back door. I’m just not willing to rule it out.
- Comment on Still true I am sure 5 weeks ago:
Or the store just got their Dasani shipment. Or they ordered twice as much because it’s so popular.
Sometimes jokes are funny as long as you don’t think about them too much.
- Comment on Anon has a plan 5 weeks ago:
They’d probably just turn back into grizzlies eventually.
- Comment on Anon has a plan 5 weeks ago:
I’m not saying this will definitely reverse the Earth’s polarity and doom all life on earth, but do we really want to take that chance?!