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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Luigi Mangione sacrificed his freedom for Nothing.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So I agree that this is a problem. It undermines the legitimacy of pretty much every sitting government in history. And it’s something that needs solving. Very important.

  But when the choice is between someone who shows no motivation whatsoever to support universal healthcare, and someone who shows no motivation whatsoever to support universal healthcare, I kind of struggle to see the connection between low turnout and low healthcare coverage.

  Again, low turnout is a bad problem, and if we had higher turnout, no one could ever say “not my president” about Trump/Biden/Obama/Bush, which is something to aim for. Legitimizing the sitting government is very important, and as such greater turnout is important.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Luigi Mangione sacrificed his freedom for Nothing.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Self defense is not violence, it is intelligence. Mangione did the right thing, and the world is a better place for it. And he did this at great expense to himself. This is the definition of noble.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unregulated Capitalism would kill the planet.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Since regulated capitalism inexorably devolves into unregulated capitalism, you can just drop the adjective and say “capitalism would kill the planet”. And since we’re already in a capitalist system, and have been for a while, and we’re currently experiencing it killing the planet, you can change the tense too and say “capitalism is killing the planet”. Much clearer, and equally true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All workers deserve the same Paid Time Off deal as Mitch.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, that’s kind of a truism. But I really, really struggle to find one thing that the United States, as a nation, does better than, say Germany or the Netherlands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doesn't add up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s stopping that from happening?

  Capitalism, actually. The purpose of a system is what it does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The only one country⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  TIL: Indonesia, population 288 million, is not a major country. I wonder what makes a country major.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cool Japan 🌸⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see signs like this where I live either. But when I went to Japan I did see this a couple times. Not a racist sign like this one, but signs saying “we’re full” in Japanese, at restaurants. Different cultures do things differently, I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's lil bro goes through his first break up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a big distinction between people’s self-image and their behavior. One’s confidence in telling a story doesn’t come from its adherence to reality, but from its internal coherence. It’s why, in user interviews, you stay away from questions like “how do you generally use feature xyz?” but rather ask things like “tell me about the last time that you did xyz”. It’s an unavoidable aspect of talking about yourself, and I’m not calling anyone a liar, but it’s something to keep in mind when talking abt stuff like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally an explanation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see it. How does a society tolerating the intolerant not enable them to be intolerant, even if you believe in social contract theory?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally an explanation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they’re taking it bit too literally

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally an explanation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Blatant flaw in this: I don’t want to murder anyone. I don’t want to rape anyone. I don’t want to be racist to anyone (though I acknowledge I am). And the moment I would do something like that to anyone, I would be a murderer or a rapist, and that’s a shitty thing to be. So no thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨📡📡📡⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What we want: henry cavill in the exact outfit on the left What we got: henry cavill in the normal superman outfit

  Not pictured: an AI rendering of the above, because do we really need to spend resources on that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Windows users find the Threadiverse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I genuinely have never seen this take. Sometimes someone shares something like “I tried it out and it wasn’t quite for me”, and that’s about as vitriolic as it get. And even that’s rare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But that’s the whole point of my comment. The part “secretly” in the phrase “jews secretly control Israel” means the only reasonable interpretation of the phrase is the antisemitic one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean that’s kinda like arguing white people weren’t responsible for apartheid in South-Africa

  Yes. Because that’s the correct take. Folks in Novosibirsk were not to blame for apartheid in South Africa. Most white south afrikaners were, and probably some of the natives played a role as well. Probably the Dutch and the English were to blame to a large extent. But whites as an ethnic group, as a whole? That’s just silly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Very true, very correct. But like I said, don’t mistake beneficiaries for perpetrators. Norman Finkelstein, despite being jewish, is certainly not to blame for Israel. Madea Benjamin, despite being jewish, is not to blame for Israel’s actions. Any random jewish kid born today outside of Israel, despite being jewish is not to blame for Israel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. Like I said, just because jews are the beneficiaries of (this means the people who benefit from something) Israel’s jewish supremacist ideology, doesn’t mean they are the perpetrators of it (this means the people who are to blame for something).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The phrase “is it true that jews secretly control Israel”, has two interpretations:

  • judaism as a whole, controls Israel
  • there are some people who happen to be Jewish who control Israel

  The latter is very obviously true (Netanyahu is one of them[1]), which means that the word “secretly” narrows the interpretation down to the first one.

  And the first interpretation is antisemitic. It plays right into the zionist propaganda that israel is for the jews and, more importantly, by the jews. Just because jews worldwide are the beneficiaries of the israeli jewish supremacist ideology, doesn’t mean they’re the perpetrators of it. Israel is a western colonial project aimed at establishing an international ghetto for the jews. It is not “secretly controlled by jews”. Death to Israel.

  [1] I’m not pulling a Bernie Sanders here. Israel has no right to exist. You won’t catch me saying “Stop it Israel, this isn’t you” type shit, blaming the genocide on Netanyahu only. Israel needs to end if we care about the right to self determination (which is a real right) of the people between the river and the sea, in particular Palestinians.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Video] Hasan Piker wonders why he is banned from the UK but Elon Musk is not after inciting race-riots in Belfast⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s true, it was blue checkmark #freeTheHostages twitter accounts as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Video] Hasan Piker wonders why he is banned from the UK but Elon Musk is not after inciting race-riots in Belfast⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right wing youtubers told me he shocks his dog, so I’m gonna go ahead and believe that. You’d have to be really gullible not to believe whatever Asmongold or Ethan Klein tells you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So, I know of the existence of this rhetorical device, but I’ve been around enough people who operate in a theoretical framework where this statement cannot be taken as anything other than genuine, namely that of capitalist realism. This has two implications:

  • the original tweet could’ve been written with this mindset (which, I should add, is the dominant mindset, btw), and should be taken at face value
  • many of the readers will have this mindset, and will not have the theoretical tools on their belt to appreciate it for the rhetorical device it is, much less take advantage of it and learn something (they might walk away with anything ranging from “huh that is weird” to “it’s those darned republicans/democrats”)

  In either case, making an explanation (there’s more than one) explicit, is useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Differences of Opinion by Wendy Cope⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think having the final word be “flat” makes it so much better. It opens up the poem to a much wider set of interpretations. There’s yours, but you can also derive this statement about male dominance in hetero relationships, for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They be chompin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get the connection to autism. Could someone explain the joke?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s not to understand? The owning class owns the facilities and sets both the prices and the wages, and they will do this in the way that maximally benefits themselves, i.e., maximizes profits. It’s a really, really basic feature of capitalism (yes, also whatever super duper special unicorn flavor of capitalism you think works better than “crony” capitalism)…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gog Promotional E-Mail Containing Nazi Symbols Goes Out to Subscribers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This has to be satire. You’re doing satire, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cuba Libre 🇨🇺⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine where we’d be if America wasn’t working its ass off trying to make Cuba fail. The Cuba story in general, mainly the stuff they’ve been able to accomplish regarding living standards, in spite of the gigantic blockade that the largest economic and military power has imposed on them, has convinced me that whatever their system is, it’s far superior to capitalism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays World of Warcraft⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I picked it up recently with a group of friends on turtle wow (RIP, fuck blizzard), and while I really enjoyed the social aspect, the actual gameplay felt like a chore the whole way through. Plus, it felt like an obligation to keep up with my friends who somehow had much more time to throw at the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Damn straight!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or from a more selfish perspective: an increase in burger flipping wages greatly increases your bargaining power in your own salary negotiations.

  “For that wage I could just as well be flipping burgers, and that comes with much lower risk of personal injury.”

  Never forget that solidarity benefits you personally, no matter how much the owning class and media try to pit us against each other. Also death to Israel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How could steam do this to gabe?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They can’t give it to you because it’s not real

  You literally can. You can transfer ownership of stocks.