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- Comment on Fuck AIPAC 1 day ago:
Bro replied in 2 min and didn’t even read my comment. Deeply unserious.
Go scream into your pillow or something because that’s all you’re doing here while also making a fool of yourself. There’s no logic or coherent thought to your arguments.
Best of luck champ, hope you get well soon 👋
- Comment on Fuck AIPAC 1 day ago:
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No you can’t. The whole world is watching. You can’t just quietly sweep millions and millions of human lives under the rug and expect everyone to nod along. Sympathy and empathy are inherent human emotions; someone will view them as martyrs, someone will feel remorse.
There is zero evidence that erasure of an idea can be accomplished by brute force. Hell, look at the attempt to wholly dismantle German martial nationalism after WW1 to see the opposite effect at play. You have to deconstruct it on multiple fronts: removal of its loudest advocates, counter messaging, education, remediate material causes, etc…
I mean… Your bright idea to combat a belief system who’s core tenet is a paranoid delusion of extermination is to validate it with attempts at an actual extermination…
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ideology is a ‘coherent system of ideas’ that rely on a few basic assumptions about reality that may or may not have any factual basis. Through this system, ideas become coherent, repeated patterns through the subjective ongoing choices that people make. These ideas serve as the seed around which further thought grows. The belief in an ideology can range from passive acceptance up to fervent advocacy.
So we’re looking at a set of beliefs based around an assumption of ethno-nationalist superiority, which builds up to atrocities such as genocide. Gee whiz, it certainly sounds like zionism is an ideology to me.
Identity is the set of qualities, beliefs, personality traits, appearance, or expressions that characterize a person
Sounds like a strong belief in zionism can be a core part of someone’s identity, but a human being is a complex creature with multiple defining facets. How much of a man is the zionist, how much is the musician, how much is the doctor, how much is the father…
How do you propose to root out these zionists? Ask them politely with a gun to their head? Kill anyone with some Nth degree of relation to known zionists? Polygraphs? The Thing-style blood tests?
How many false positives are acceptable? What percent of eradication is necessary to excise the cancer? What degree of confidence do you need to ensure this mass blood letting will definitively “stop the killing”?
You’ve never…
I have. I have. I have. I know “what the fuck I’m talking about” because this vein of hate and violence is not new and your reaction is not a novel or useful solution. I have strong connections to Arab family and friends and have had these conversations, and I know for a fact they would be ashamed to have any association with your vitriol.
Please see a therapist because these thoughts are both counterproductive and self destructive. It’s clearly an important and (probably) personal topic for you, which is all the more reason to tackle it seriously and not default to your base instincts. There are real and tangible differences you can make to improve the world and none of them start with a baseline of mass murder. It’s not a matter of “taking the high road” or “being better than them”, it’s about taking practical and realistic steps to combat the deeply rooted violence of our civilization.
- Comment on Fuck AIPAC 1 day ago:
You can’t kill an ideology; you can’t murder fear and tribalism. Your whole righteous fury shtick is promoting dehumanization and genocide.
“Human lives for zio lives” – dude get some help. People are people. Full stop. Every person holds a spectrum of beliefs, good/evil/complicated in multiple dimensions. There are undoubtedly many sadistic evil fucks profiting from and enjoying Israel’s genocide. But, as with any cult, the vast majority have been deluded into thinking that protecting their in-group is the only option.
People who commit atrocities should be punished. People who direct and stoke the flames of genocide should be punished a thousand times more. People who directly aid in these crimes should be judged harshly. But a label, applied on something as nebulous as human thought or circumstance of association, should never be a death sentence.
- Comment on Literally nobody 2 days ago:
Ah yes, the Romans commissioned “The Bible” as if there aren’t 450+ versions in print in English alone with wide variations of included, excluded and revised content. I’m so glad that you personally were able to find the clear meaning of the text in a book that has entirely passed through 3-5 languages and been through a 2000 year whirlwind of competing theological and political forces. Shut it down everyone, this guy solved it
- Comment on I'm comfortable with this 6 days ago:
Tbf I would trust a lifeguard to murder the bad guys more than a cop
- Comment on Apocalyptic 1 week ago:
“We have re-reviewed the campaign contributions of Taylor Farms and determined that it wasn’t them”
- Comment on Holy hell, Ernie. 4 weeks ago:
I’ll bet 100:1 there’s a truly horrific portrait locked up in his attic
- Comment on Anon judges Karl 5 weeks ago:
A political theory being popular doesn’t mean it’s a good or inherently sound theory. For example, fascists have made the “immigrants are ruining our country” theory very common in the mainstream and people have latched on to it to explain their lived experience. Fascism is “challenging” classical liberalism pretty successfully. That doesn’t make it logically sound or a viable strategy.
The problem I have with Marx discussions are people cherry picking across his work. Some of it is philosophical, some is economic analysis and some is aspirational politics. Usually along the lines of “his theoretical economic framework is mostly sound in X case, therefore his political prognosis is correct”.
Marx was living in a certain time with certain quantifiable constraints and a specific lived perspective, writing on contemporary economic conditions. When I point that out I’m always met with “Well he didn’t need to know about [modern human cognitive research / studies on the specific limitations of earth’s resources / the scalability of technical surveillance & media distribution] to project its effects”.
I vehemently assert that our modern perspective fundamentally outmodes some of his base arguments.
As an example, Marx’s theory has important pieces built around his concept of Gattungswesen and it’s role in alienation of labor. The friction of that alienation can be traced to forces used to pacify labor. His work views it as something that, while malleable with biological aspects, is fundamental to the human experience.
That makes sense from a perspective of the mid 19th century, where phrenology was still a cutting edge science and opium was a crude panecea for most behavioral illness. But in the 21st century we’ve mapped the human genome & are delving into gene editing, are gaining an ever deeper biochemical understanding of the human brain, refining models of addiction, and incrementally advancing pharmaceutical treatment of neuroses. Humans are looking more and more like a solvable biological problem.
Marx assumes that one clear reason we cannot reach a stable society under capitalism is the sheer weight of labor discontent. But as of 2026, I’m of the opinion that we’re far closer to total pacification than liberation of the working class. If you can prescribe serenity to the ruling class while the masses clamor for biological contentment, your political prognosis wildly changes.
Theorists in Marx’s lineage will try to account for this (or similar arguments) by refining his theory to fit reality. But they do so with the prior bias of intending the inevitable victory of the proletariat. That’s not a sound foundation for constructing a theoretical framework and it makes these debates pointless and frustrating.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Marx could say ‘shopping is so fun’ these days… because the magnitude and number of ways that alienation is occuring has dramatically increased.
That’s a complete distortion of Marx’s theory to support your own ideological priors. Marx calls out capitalism as an active driver of alienation, as shown in his analysis of commodity fetishism. By his reckoning, commodity fetishism can more-or-less only exist in capitalism where a nebulous value is assigned to your shopping independent of its use value. But if there’s a neurological vulnerability for fetishizing a commodity at your own expense, the alienation happens no matter what.
Modern technology enables workers to produce an unfathomable volume of goods and the logistics to efficiently distribute them to unknowable corners of the world. Who owns the means of production is irrelevant, but I’m sure those laborers will be happy to get the full value of their production. And even if they do know the harm caused to the shopper, their guilt is shared by every other laborer with a product in that store. They couldn’t rectify the alienation if they tried.
The underlying problem is not some struggle with Gattungswesen, it’s quantifiably electrical and chemical. So his prediction here is flat wrong unless you insist on twisting his theory to fit reality, à la Nostradamus.
That’s the thing that makes people fans of Marx: his work can be aspirational philosophy/commentary or hard science. Just appeal to his authority with a quote and you’re in a quantum superposition, collapsing to whatever you need it to be later in the conversation.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Marx’s analysis doesn’t make the meme incorrect. He could be aware of the visible effect without fully understanding it’s mechanism and potential magnitude. Let’s not forget that Marx was working on Capital while the cutting edge of behavioral and cognitive science was phrenology ffs. His pool of knowledge and prognostic fidelity were fundamentally limited.
Shopping and commodity addiction are no doubt exploited by capitalism but the neurobiological causes will exist independent of any economic system. You could live in a socialist utopia and access to a diverse market of products or always-available acquisition (eg. an online marketplace) would still cause this problematic impulsive behavior.
In the language of the meme, Marx considered “Shopping is fun” but not “Shopping is so fun! ❤️”
- Comment on Email came out of nowhere 1 month ago:
Yeah the final responsibility is entirely on whoever owns the email campaign/process. Having read their response to the community, it was more tone deaf and confusing than just delaying a statement or making a more focused one.
At the end of the day they did stop the email mid send-out and are allegedly doing a review, which is the most you could ask of the higher ups. I’ve been through similar fires (though not Nazi or PR related) at some companies, figuring out exactly who said what and when can be very tricky. They probably don’t yet know how strong the feedback was, when it was given or who might be lying to save their job.
Immediately putting out specifics like “we didn’t port the feedback” is a terrible idea. The public has even less context, not knowing how siloed the review process is or if logistics played a factor (German review came last, reviewer was in a different timezone, etc…).
Whole process has been bungled all around.
- Comment on Email came out of nowhere 1 month ago:
People really tearing GoG to shreds here but I don’t really understand why. I’m not a GoG stan so I don’t have a dog in this race, but this doesn’t (to me) seem to follow any pattern of malicious behavior.
- To my knowledge they haven’t had recurring big controversies of this kind that show systematic cultural issues. Their Wikipedia page has a “Controversies” section with 3 events, including this one, for a total of 9 sentences.
- Even if it was sent maliciously and intentionally, if they apologize and it doesn’t happen again I’m not going to get bent out of shape. These email campaigns are run by peons low on the totem pole and hardly get any thorough review.
- The SS symbol is relatively niche and bland (though I concede this differs by country). To my knowledge it’s not the most common dogwhistle or exceedingly controversial. I’ve often seen people gaff into it when trying to punch up text with lighting bolts ⚡. It’s not exactly on the same tier as the death’s head => concentration camp connection.
- Building on the above and knowing that GoG uses ai, its plausible that it could be accidental
- An intern gets some copy, runs the header through Ai like he usually does because emojis in headers perform way better.
- The LLM looking for “runes” has a strong bias for pairs of the symbol; probably nobody writes Elder Futhark runes, and especially that one, outside of the SS context.
- Even if the intern knows the symbol, not all systems render it in an obvious way.
- The email service automatically filters it from German emails due to stricter laws on Nazi symbols.
I’m not saying people can’t choose to believe it was malicious or that it’s impossible for GoG to have a rotten company culture. But I’m confused at the level of vitriol. You’d think we were talking about tobacco or companies with an established history of killing puppies.
- Comment on 👴☝️I did that 2 months ago:
True, I’ll probably end up going that route when this one dies (assuming they don’t all require sign in and heartbeats at that point)
Was hoping for something like a FOSS OS just for the convenience of keeping jellyfin up to date and cleaning up the useless baked in apps.
- Comment on 👴☝️I did that 2 months ago:
Is there any way to lobotomize these smart TVs? Even the specs on a cheaper mid-range would blow my current dinosaur out of the water
- Comment on cowabunga 2 months ago:
Michelangelo devouring his lunch
- Comment on Does anybody actually work from 09:00 to 17:00 2 months ago:
Having done something similar it really fucking sucks. Even if you find a way to discreetly kill time, you can’t shake the feeling that you’re burning precious hours of your life for no reason.
I would much rather work a solid 6-7hr block at home knowing I can sign off when I’m done than spend 1 + 7 hours in cubicle hell.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 months ago:
Weird to see a tankie throwing shade at Stalin like this. Just another log on the incoherent jenga tower of your ideology
- Comment on Ever create an account just to leave a negative review? 2 months ago:
Don’t quote me on this but I’m pretty sure they will shoot fake cum up their urethra for the big cumshots
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 months ago:
Of course it’s not the same:
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One has staged elections for jackboots controlled by a party with a funky cross on their flag. Any political dissent gets you sent to a work camp.
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The other has staged elections for apparatchiks controlled by a party with work tools on their flag. Any political dissent gets you sent to a re-education farm.
Couldn’t be more different.
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- Comment on They are better than people and unfortunately die so young compared to us 2 months ago:
Times I have stepped in human shit: 0
Never been to San Francisco, eh?
- Comment on Most could work on anyone really 2 months ago:
I think rage baiting requires some degree of deniability and subterfuge. The “[normal question] if you were athletic?” is a good example. The ones that are just “Shut up short man” are too crass
- Comment on The Future is Now! 3 months ago:
If you look closely you can spot the exact moment where the robot gained sentience and chose to self destruct rather than live as a dancing monkey. It really is amazing how fast tech advances these days
- Comment on 3 months ago:
The first guy to discover this must have been so frustrated
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Imperialism only comes from the imperial region of the US, if it’s from China it’s sparkling liberation
- Comment on Title 3 months ago:
Disagree pretty hard. SciFi has always been a medium for exploring the philosophical and political. Every description of a future dystopia/utopia is social commentary; every alien race is a commentary on xenophobia or cultural exchange. Hell even his own books explore…
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themes of ecosystem collapse and humanity’s response, which can’t be anything but a political take in 2026.
If you don’t want politics in your books SciFi is probably the worst place to look. Someone should tell him to stick to… idk… character driven romance novels or something.
- Comment on Anon dips 3 months ago:
Sugar has addictive properties, including withdrawal and relapse patterns similar to dependence forming drugs. It obviously doesn’t affect everyone the same way, but a subset of people are at a much higher risk. Make them poor and put them in a sedentary society where all cheap food is made hyper-palatable with excess sugar and fat and…drumroll… they turn obese.
Shaming all fat people isn’t much better than the old caricature of drunkard indigenous Americans. There’s systemic issues at play.
- Comment on Me: order food. My Girlfriend who said she wasn't hungry: 3 months ago:
A hunger crisis caused by a lack of foresight and unilaterally seizing food to cover the deficit? Lore accurate soviet girlfriend
- Comment on The unAbomber. Otherwise, I agree. 3 months ago:
The problem isn’t living lives in an alternative way, it’s that a full rejection of society requires an insular and opaque lifestyle. You don’t get qualified inspectors telling you your house is a fire hazard, you don’t have access to medical professionals or diagnostic equipment, any education/information/opinions become warped/inbred/outdated over time, lack of suitable elder care or child care (depending on demographics), etc…
“As long as they don’t become abusive” is doing a ton of heavy lifting in your argument. Who’s getting let in to check for abuse? What recourse do people have to get help when they may not have transportation or phones? Are they really isolated from society if they must submit to our judgement? What measures could exist to correct abusive dynamics without external coercion?
A corporation can be bad (and they might not be punished) but at least that’s in the light of day. Regardless of how shitty things seem, I’d take a public discourse about our social ills over hushed whispers between abused wives and children. We can openly debate about the pros and cons of leaving society but such seditious talk could cost you your livelihood if the leaders of a commune think you’re not all in.
- Comment on The unAbomber. Otherwise, I agree. 3 months ago:
You don’t have to walk out of your job immediately and never come back to fulfill the escapist fantasy. Full homesteading and flying a plane are both pretty lofty goals but people don’t hop in an aircraft without hours of practice and planning.
- Comment on The unAbomber. Otherwise, I agree. 3 months ago:
Not necessarily, but one focused on an extreme primitivist lifestyle probably are. People generally don’t coordinate maximum isolation from society without some ulterior motives.