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- Comment on Imagine the comments section. 14 hours ago:
Haha I love it when large corporations are down to earth and have a sense of humor. If you think about it they’re just like us :)
- Comment on Very helpful. 10/10 🎉 1 day ago:
Do you ever reread the same sentence in a book? Does it ever help?
- Comment on 103°F in Los Angeles all week 1 week ago:
Have you considered directing your ire at the folks who’ve bought our politicians to advocate for pro-fossil fuel policies, and the folks who bought our media to popularize pro-fossil fuel positions instead of at their victims?
- Comment on 103°F in Los Angeles all week 1 week ago:
I figured people could extrapolate, but here goes for your benefit:
If you can vote for politicians P1 through PN where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and all of them are bought by the fossil fuel companies, to what extent are you to blame?
- Comment on 103°F in Los Angeles all week 1 week ago:
Are the cars Ferrairs? The planes private jets? The trucks and cargo ships transporting exquisite furniture? The farmers producing kobe beef?
The point went so far over your head that you won’t be able to observe light emitted by the point until at least a couple years from now.
- Comment on 103°F in Los Angeles all week 1 week ago:
Sure, but making it worse at a slightly slower rate is still making it worse. The most recent democratic presidential candidate was pro fracking.
- Comment on 103°F in Los Angeles all week 1 week ago:
I was responding to
Tbf they voted for them
- Comment on 103°F in Los Angeles all week 1 week ago:
If you can vote for politician A and politician B, and both of them are bought by the fossil fuel companies, to what extent are you to blame?
And if citizens can be held accountable for the actions and choices that their goverment has made, and that government has committed war crime after war crime abroad, killing literal millions, does that mean citizens are a legitimate target for retaliatory attacks? Was the Dresden firebombing justified? Was 9/11 justified? Were the atomic bombs dropped on Japan justified?
- Comment on My people need me 1 week ago:
This is a logical error.
Over 55s own about 73%
What this number establishes is that a significant portion of the owning class is over 55. What it doesn’t show is that the boomers are the ownership class. If one guy over 55 owns 75% of the country, you still end up with
Over 55s own about 73%
being true. You’re focussing on the wrong group of people.
- Comment on My people need me 1 week ago:
Over 55s own about 73%
Ok, so what this number establishes is that a significant portion of the owning class is over 55. What it doesn’t show is that the boomers are the ownership class. If one guy over 55 owns 75% of the country, you still end up with
Over 55s own about 73%
being true. You’re focussing on the wrong group of people.
- Comment on My people need me 1 week ago:
This is your reminder that division along age or generation lines is as much of a distraction as division along race lines is. The real division is between who works for a living and who owns for a living. Simple as that. Sadly, the owning also includes owning the media and politicians (why yes, also most democrats), so there’s not much you can do either way. Get used to not owning a home.
- Comment on The irony of arguing with someone who read about it in a history book vs. you having lived it 3 weeks ago:
I’ve heard some stories from friends of mine (mostly Romania and Poland, which is not the USSR, I know), but it turned out (I wasn’t so sharp on the timeline) that they were between sth like 2 and 9 when communism fell. And it’s still interesting to hear these stories, but when I think about my views and knowledge of the world when I was 6, I don’t come up with much that’s worth listening to.
Were you politically active? Was that possible at all? Did you have a strong opinion on Gorbachev? Did it change in 1991?
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
This reddit thread has more details from Greens party members
No it doesn’t? Is there any particular comment you’re talking about here? Because I see nothing that indicates that she said anything antisemitic.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
None of that sounds particularly antisemitic imo.
- Comment on currently busy 😅 1 month ago:
I haven’t found a reason to say anything.
- Comment on "No precedent in American history!" NYT would have defended child labor. 1 month ago:
It’s just information.
This show an astonishing lack of media literacy.
- Comment on "No precedent in American history!" NYT would have defended child labor. 1 month ago:
What an aggressive reaction to learning that America is a continent.
- Comment on Luigi Mangione sacrificed his freedom for Nothing. 1 month 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. 1 month 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. 1 month 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. 1 month 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 months ago:
What’s stopping that from happening?
Capitalism, actually. The purpose of a system is what it does.
- Comment on The only one country 2 months ago:
TIL: Indonesia, population 288 million, is not a major country. I wonder what makes a country major.
- Comment on Cool Japan 🌸 2 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago:
I think they’re taking it bit too literally
- Comment on Finally an explanation 3 months 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 📡📡📡 3 months 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 3 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.