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- Comment on why do they only ever "sensationalize" news when it helps the Nazis!? 4 hours ago:
because the ruling class own and control the media. this is one of the major reasons why capitalism inevitably leads to fascism
- Comment on Anon changes his strategy 5 hours ago:
An incel could make the point that the internet changes the calculus, or that “ugly” people can be born to “beautiful” parents, or any other number of counterpoints.
You can’t use logic and reason to argue someone out of a conclusion they have arrived at for emotional reasons. Lots of men and boys have been socialized in a really bad way, which makes them unappealing partners. Realizing, accepting, and working to change that, is extremely hard. Instead, with “bad” genetics, then the failures aren’t actually your fault, and you don’t need to change.
- Comment on AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet 6 hours ago:
The AI bubble bursting, which I would put good money on happening this year, will probably cause a global financial crash on a similar scale as 2008. Many AI and tech companies will be completely exposed as dead trees and basically wiped out completely. A bunch of hardware will most likely flood the second hand market at that time. Sadly, due to job losses and ballooning cost of living, few of us will be in the market for it, so mostly the wealthy and corporations will benefit from it. Good opportunity to get a decent quality office chair, though.
- Comment on Anon changes his strategy 7 hours ago:
I think stuff like this is why there are articles saying ‘exercise culture is fascist’
Probably plays a part of it, but the main reason why is because fascism has always been obsessed with aesthetics, individualism, and the concept of übermenschen. Much of our modern health & wellness industry is focused more on aesthetics than actual health outcomes.
- Comment on [Video] Australian police violently beat up protester with his hands up at demonstration against Israeli president Isaac Herzog visiting. 6 days ago:
It will. all cops are bastards.
- Comment on But bro please 6 days ago:
I’m not criticising anyone, just pointing out your fallacious reasoning. For what it’s worth, I don’t think there is one single “right” approach, revolutionary movements are complex and multi-faceted, successful movements usually have a more moderate wing and a more militant wing, I want to see that more militant wing start to become bigger, stronger, and more visible. A peaceful protest movement by itself accomplishes very little - it is the state’s fear of the threat of worsening violence which actually brings about a change. For that fear to be realized, it needs to be visible. I don’t want widespread violence or mass shootings, I just want visibly armed protesters standing up against ICE and defending themselves if necessary.
- Comment on But bro please 6 days ago:
The reality is that a lot of that law discussion is bullshit, the Supreme Court infamously just picks and chooses constitutional interpretations to support whatever goes in line with whatever they wanted to do in the first place. The more you learn about the Supreme Court, the more obvious it becomes.
I can’t speak for the rest of Europe, but we don’t have anything similar here, but we don’t have a written constitution.
- Comment on But bro please 1 week ago:
Renee Good didn’t have a gun and got killed anyways. It’s a good idea for everyone to arm themselves to fight fascism, believe it or not.
- Comment on But bro please 1 week ago:
Compliance in advance with fascism to avoid violence does not prevent violence. It allows violence to continue against minority groups, to the benefit of the majority.
- Comment on But bro please 1 week ago:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Emphasis mine - obviously there’s more than one interpretation, but I think that if the intent was to only protect the rights of people to keep and bear arms if and only if they are members of some organized militia, it would have been clearly indicated by the text. It seems obvious to me that everything before that comma is explanatory, personally.
- Comment on The perpetually immature and irresponsible 1 week ago:
So yeah like I wrote above, I’m disabled, and people have been telling me my whole life that I’m lazy, not contributing to society, a drain on resources, immature, irresponsible, and things like that. I’m 32. So this kind of joke brings back memories of all of those moments of cruelty people have inflicted on me, and those memories bring back other painful memories.
And yeah, that is my problem, I’m not trying to take the joke/meme away from you, I’m just trying to explain how jokes like this can hurt some of the most marginalized people in society, and why you might get people deliberately missing the point to try and explain this to you.
- Comment on Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass 1 week ago:
Nah, not at all indicative, it’s super common in the UK for people to use their real name when writing letters to the newspaper, most tories are boomers so it’s nothing out of the ordinary to see this at all.
- Comment on The perpetually immature and irresponsible 1 week ago:
I’m 32 and I can’t help out much because of disability
- Comment on Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass 1 week ago:
Do you remember after 9/11 and 7/7 how Indian and Pakistani (and frankly, any non-white) people living in Britain were treated? That attitude went away for a while, but came back with a vengeance. In many places around the UK, people of colour face really severe discrimination. I don’t live in Germany, so I can’t say which is worse, but I imagine both are pretty bad tbh
- Comment on Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass 1 week ago:
Oh yeah, for sure, no doubt - if there was any funding available for such programmes. All the research on this points pretty conclusively towards prioritising getting unhoused people into stable accomodation first and foremost, it’s impossible to recover from PTSD living on the streets for example, and we would also need a robust public health focused approach to drugs, e.g. decriminalizing drugs and treating them as a health issue rather than a criminal one. That, plus funding the NHS appropriately, esp. mental health, would work miracles and change so many people’s lives.
But instead the bastards running the show would rather loot the public purse for all it’s worth to line their pockets before getting a cushy 6 figure job as a lobbyist.
- Comment on Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass 1 week ago:
Does she spot problematic patterns more among people who have poor English than those who have fluent English? I’m sure your mum is lovely, really I do not mean any disrespect, but I really suspect that subconscious bias may be playing a major role, here - it’s easy for out-groups to stand out and to see a pattern which isn’t really there - it’s just how our brains function.
In the full interests of fairness, I also do know that some people who speak ESL do sometimes weaponize their issues with English if they think it could benefit them, e.g. pretending not to understand something they actually do. In their defense I would probably do the same thing if I could get away with it tbh
- Comment on Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass 1 week ago:
The UK pretty consistently scores low compared to other emigration destination countries, and Germany consistently scores higher, actually.
This is one of the mainstream media’s favourite pieces of propaganda. “we’re a soft touch, that’s why migrants come here!” it’s just completely transparently wrong, the reason migrants come here over other countries is because there used to be a British Empire that colonized half the world and as a result lots of people speak far better English than they do German or Swedish. Most of the countries people migrate from we had some hand in destabilizing too.
- Comment on Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass 1 week ago:
God I hope you’re right, but idk, I can imagine that Telegraph readers self-select for bot aspirancy.
- Comment on Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass 1 week ago:
I’m picking up a vibe that their ethnicity might be something she mentions, am I right? Not being accusatory or anything here, just trying to have an honest conversation.
- Comment on Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass 1 week ago:
This is why people come over in small boats from France, because they see our empathy as something to be taken advantage of.
Oh, actually, this isn’t true, usually it’s because they speak English. The UK is quite a nasty place for immigrants.
- Comment on Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass 1 week ago:
a lot of the rough sleepers they come across aren’t really helping themselves nor extremely interested in actually getting help
Unhoused people more often than not have quite a series of issues which are at odds with them helping themselves or proactively seeking help. I think this is the issue with most cases like this where people think others are “exploiting” the system, simply because they don’t know what it’s like to live that person’s life, you know what I mean?
Either way, no matter how many people really do abuse benefits, it doesn’t come anywhere close to the exploitation that the ruling class subject us to.
- Comment on Australian universities to be graded on how well they deal with protests under antisemitism report card 1 week ago:
I know you’re just joking, but imo it is our duty to break laws that we know to be immoral. Fuck Israel, it has no right to exist and it should be dissolved.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 1 week ago:
The amount of SS troops who ended up unable to continue due to the mental after effects is staggering.
I’m interested to learn more about this, could you point me in the right direction?
- Comment on Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass 1 week ago:
Her bitterness about it stems from the fact that many of the families doing it aren’t that integrated into society.
Can you clarify what you mean by this?
- Comment on Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass 1 week ago:
Anyways, this sounds pretty good to me. It genuinely sounds like they’re taking accessibility seriously, and their approach sounds pretty well considered to the needs of everyone.
- Comment on Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass 1 week ago:
Telegraph commenters are truly the most revolting, ignorant people of all time.
TW: ableism
- Comment on Australian universities to be graded on how well they deal with protests under antisemitism report card 1 week ago:
Not according to this, which uses the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which makes criticising Israel antisemitic.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
be proud of yourself for who you are, find happiness in a life you choose, and live without regrets, that’s all any good parent could ever hope or dream for
- Comment on I worked some prison and jails. They always put this big heavy green thing on you if your on suicide or solitary watch. My question is if Epstein was on watch then how did he suicide? 1 week ago:
I’m not making the argument to you that Epstein for sure killed himself, I’m making the argument to you that this specific claim you made:
He just got busted down to the justice system tier for mortal Americans and his life was over.
was completely and obviously incorrect. You can believe whatever you want about Epstein’s death, but if this man had survived, he would not have seen any kind of justice with the level of power and influence he had, and if you believe otherwise you’re either not paying attention or you’re delusional.
- Comment on I worked some prison and jails. They always put this big heavy green thing on you if your on suicide or solitary watch. My question is if Epstein was on watch then how did he suicide? 1 week ago:
He had blackmail material on politicians, authors, billionaires, thought leaders, presidents and princes. If I was in his place, I’d be sitting pretty comfortably, thinking “there’s no way they can take me down with the justice system without taking themselves down too. I’m too big to fail.” literally the only risk would be being assassinated by those you have blackmail material on.
how is this not obvious?
