surph_ninja
@surph_ninja@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? 4 days ago:
Sure, I’m making some assumptions based on patterns I’ve seen.
- Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? 4 days ago:
Well when these things get posted, you’ll see an unnatural flood of downvotes & angry comments come in. Definitely seems like some kind of coordinated brigading. Or could just be one asshole with a bot farm.
- Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? 4 days ago:
I really don’t get it. There’s definitely a group of ideologues that are pushing anti-meat on here, and flood any post on the topic. Something like that either needs funding or volunteers coordinating. I’m guessing either extremist anti-meat groups, or big ag astroturfers trying to make them look bad.
- Comment on Brazil sues China carmaker BYD over 'slave-like' conditions 1 week ago:
Seizing a worker’s passport should be an automatic life sentence. And it’s not just a problem with these big companies. Tons of wealthy individuals in the US do this with their immigrant workers.
- Comment on The Democrats’ One and Only Union-Busting Governor: Jared Polis 1 week ago:
“One and only” my ass. Every single Democrat governor will send in strike breakers just as quickly as any gop governor. Both parties serve capital.
- Comment on Anon describes past 3 weeks ago:
They left out ‘be white.’ It was a horrific time for anyone else.
- Comment on Bingo 1 month ago:
Yes, the people are supposed to hold politicians accountable. This attitude of ‘I don’t want to have to pay attention to politics’ from liberals is fucking wild. This is exactly why they don’t know the Dems were supporting most of the same Trump policies, but quietly.
Just go back to brunch.
- Comment on A bit of salt makes it taste more savory 1 month ago:
Sounds a little unhinged dude.
- Comment on A bit of salt makes it taste more savory 1 month ago:
It’s not hard. Just state facts that are kept off the news, and they’ll come rolling in.
- Comment on A bit of salt makes it taste more savory 1 month ago:
If you haven’t been called a “Russian bot,” you’re not really challenging western imperialism yet.
- Comment on Eternal Darkness' infamous sanity system patent has expired - so can anyone now copy it? 1 month ago:
Good call. They couldn’t have been enforcing. Amnesia had a sanity meter, and it came out in 2010.
- Comment on Zuckerberg had a 'crazy idea' to boost Facebook's relevance: Make everyone start from scratch 1 month ago:
That would be a quick way to clean house of all the users who are stuck out of habit or lock-in. What a dumb idea.
- Comment on Eternal Darkness' infamous sanity system patent has expired - so can anyone now copy it? 1 month ago:
I don’t understand how they successfully patented this without challenge. Call of Cthulhu has a sanity system, and it came out in the 80’s.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 1 month ago:
Guess you haven’t been keeping up with the new document releases. Or you’re a hasbara bot.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 1 month ago:
I don’t believe he’s a billionaire. I think that’s why he refused to release his tax returns, because it would reveal he’s wildly unsuccessful and destroy his billionaire image.
- Comment on Should we boycott games with loot boxes? 1 month ago:
Many of us have been doing this from the beginning, but it represents a fundamental misunderstanding of how gacha games work.
Most people do not pump loads of money into these. Many don’t pay anything at all. But those people are not the audience. These companies are going after the whales. Basically gambling addicts who will destroy their entire lives to pump everything they have into it.
Which is exactly why these games either need to be illegal, or the law needs to put caps on how much individuals are permitted to spend on these.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 1 month ago:
It’s true. Effeminate dudes are getting more pussy. Been trying to tell people for decades.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 1 month ago:
Well, it’s pretty likely that Kennedy was assassinated by Israel. And Trump is infinitely loyal to Israel. So if it happens, it won’t be in the same way.
But if people really want to make the world a better place, they’ll start with the billionaires who are pulling the strings.
- Comment on This is unfair! 1 month ago:
Does this sound like a man who had all he could eat?!
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 2 months ago:
We still pay for subsidies. Those don’t come out of thin air. Better to nationalize, and much more efficient.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 2 months ago:
Neither do. Import bans and nationalization do.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 2 months ago:
We’re not talking about zero trade. We’re talking about nationalizing industries that are critical for economic or national security. There are plenty of countries who have done that, and the neoliberal west tends to retaliate against them for it.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 2 months ago:
For one, every country in the world controls which countries and outside parties their corporations can do business with.
Secondly, you obviously have no idea how business works in China, and the amount of control the central government exercises over them.
So what the fuck are you talking about?
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 2 months ago:
That’s a lot of failed policies to avoid direct control and regulation of industries.
And that chips act was also paired with a chipmaker’s visa to import indentured labor from Taiwan. So while it was intended to bring back manufacturing, it was never going to deliver on the empty promises of jobs.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 2 months ago:
Wow. That was a wildly inaccurate and naïve statement.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 2 months ago:
What other means?
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 2 months ago:
If it’s an industry the nation needs to survive, economically or otherwise, that’s an industry that needs to be nationalized.
And this is the opposite of imperialism. Imperialism is what we have now.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 2 months ago:
Their intent is to bring back manufacturing. I agree, it’s a bad plan.
The point with Taiwan is that both Dems & the GOP want to escalate to a potential hot war with China over control of Taiwan. But I see a lot of crossover between people who oppose drastic measures to bring back manufacturing stateside, while also supporting increased escalation with China.
So I’m asking people how they reconcile the two. How do they support war with our chief manufacturing partner, without supporting immediate measures to bring back manufacturing? As things stand, China could defeat us within a month by cutting off exports to the US.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 2 months ago:
As I stated, yes, the implementation is a clusterfuck. But unless we’re moving to a planned economy, aren’t widespread tariffs and increased costs necessary to force manufacturing to come back to the states?
It sounds like the warhawks in the Dems and GOP want war with China sometime this decade. How do you go to war with your manufacturing partner, and not crash the economy?
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 2 months ago:
Yeah, everyone who disagrees with you is a bot.
