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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Personalized Political Spectrum⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, yeah, all you have to do is look at Iran under Mossadegh to realize that reactionary forces often stem from colonial oppression. What doesn’t make sense is denying that those forces are reactionary. You can understand why something is happening and still call it what it is.

  The US is largely at fault for how reactionary Iran is, but Iran is still reactionary. If you never learned to swim because your parents wouldn’t let you near water, it isn’t your fault that you never learned, but you still shouldn’t jump in the deep end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Personalized Political Spectrum⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no way to be a leftist or progressive dictatorship. There is no leftist or progressive way to have unequal laws for women, or to prevent gay people from marrying, or to deny people medical care. It’s a contradiction in terms. You may believe that Iran or India becoming more powerful is an overall good thing, but it is objectively and definitionally not progressive or leftist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Personalized Political Spectrum⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  India is well to the right of e.g. Norway. Brazil only recently moved to the relative left. Argentina is also very right-wing (and also a lot more settler-colonialist than most of the countries not allowed into the White Countries Club). Iran and Afghanistan are about as far-right as they come, despite being very much opposed to the global order as it stands today. I wasn’t discounting the so-called “Global South,” I just also don’t think that an imperialist past is the only factor in determining whether a country is right-wing.

  In fact, I’d potentially go so far as to say that the majority of poorer countries are farther right than wealthier ones. The exceptions that come to mind are Cuba, Vietnam, Burkina Faso, Bolivia, and Mexico, but on the other side you have the ones I’ve already mentioned, plus Qatar, Lebanon, El Salvador, Pakistan, and more. Not doing imperialism is good, and refusing to do it is better (as opposed to simply being unable), but it doesn’t singlehandedly make an extremist theocracy leftist. If your country does not interact with others at all but is still an absolute monarchy with laws that explicitly discriminate against marginalized groups, it’s an isolationist right-wing state, not a leftist one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Personalized Political Spectrum⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The global status quo is liberalism. Social democracy is to the left of liberalism.

  And I never said that socialism was fascism, I said that the USSR gave way to fascism. Vladimir Putin’s Russian Federation is fascist. The USSR collapsed, and fascism followed, much like the Weimar Republic collapsed and was replaced by the Nazis. That doesn’t mean that the liberals in the Weimar Republic were fascists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Personalized Political Spectrum⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Anarchist Catalonia, modern Rojava, more than a few pre-Columbian North American societies, the Paris Commune of 1793… Maybe read some theory instead of making arguments from ignorance.

  And you can care about results without having historical results. Anti-monarchism in general had basically zero results post-Industrial Revolution until the liberals won in North America in the late 18th century, but that didn’t mean that they didn’t care about results, just that they hadn’t achieved much yet. The American Revolution was pretty quickly followed by the French Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, several more French revolutions, Brazilian independence, and eventually the October Revolution, the most recent Chinese civil war, the Cuban Revolution, and so on.

  Between 1775 and 1925, the general concept of people voting on matters of statewide policy went from a relic of the Classical Era that had ended more than 1800 years earlier to the norm in North America and Europe. 1800 years of obscurity, then 150 years to ubiquity in the world’s wealthiest states and another 50 to expand to most of the rest.

  Sure, anarchism has had a longer period out of the spotlight, not having been the norm since roughly the invention of agriculture ~8000 years ago, but you never know when it might return. Having a concrete, achievable plan to get results is good, but you also want to make sure that the results you’re striving for are just, otherwise you end up with liberalism again. And we all know how that ends up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Personalized Political Spectrum⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Being better at violence doesn’t make you more left, it makes you better at violence. That can be useful, but it isn’t the same thing. Your argument boils down to “might makes right” and could be expanded to classify social democracy as “more left” (after all, it’s left of the global status quo and its citizens are the happiest on average). In fact, you might even be able to use the argument for liberalism; it’s left of monarchy and fascism. Sure, it frequently decays into fascism, but so did the USSR.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get political however How did J Epstein die? Usually suicide watch they put you in a specialized suit so it's impossible. So given if they did that like law says how did he commit suicide?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s on top of all but one of the cameras just happening to be out that night, and the last one just happening to have a nightly outage at the same time as Epstein died, and the prison staff not just neglecting him but literally falling asleep when he had already tried to kill himself and was on suicide watch.

  Too many coincidences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always funny to hear the young try to figure out stuff from the past.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s been a joke since at least 2013, so even if it happened, the kid was probably fucking with OOP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happens if someone refuses to work in a socialist economy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That isn’t what socialism is. Socialism is laborer ownership over the means of production. If you don’t labor, you aren’t a laborer.

  Communism would be more tolerant of the lifestyle you suggest, but social pressure gets enough people to contribute that the occasional person who legitimately doesn’t want to help anyone with anything won’t destroy the society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy Loser Celebration Day!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The one in the OP should get an exception.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can SHOW you the WORLD⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a popular strategy for police brutality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Annon is confronted with the pasing of time and the inevitablity of his incoming death⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Could also get a PS3, depending on how you feel about its settings for displaying on LCDs. That way, you have a console, but it has an HDMI port.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How will you celebrate?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it would probably be better if he survives until the midterms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the colour blonde apparently only exist in human hair?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Another reason, and probably the main reason I would argue, is that cartoons are not meant to be realistic.

  See also: black hair being drawn as blue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a youtuber⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In what way is she showing off anything but the board she’s repairing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guess who will be classified as an extremist by Palantir in 2030 for expressing criticism of pedophilia⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does that mean Epstein also trafficked boys, or is Thiel bi? I thought he was gay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In WW2 we were told Hitler was a danger but not to us directly. Iraq was for WMD''s. Now Iran is for oil basically? What if the US got out of other peeps stuff and went isolationist for about 10 years⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the US didn’t enter WWII to do an imperialism, it was attacked by a nation and declared war on that nation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bean virus⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  $10 delivery fee on a $1 can of beans

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just one more square bro⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, if you have extra space but not enough for another row or column, just adjust the size of the inner squares.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I am especially proud to be the first President in decades who has started no new wars" - Donald J. Trump⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Biden’s term was after the Trump term that didn’t quite start any new wars (though not for lack of trying, they assassinated an Iranian general).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game over⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The staunch vegetarian stance of not eating anything you yourself killed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Being vegan is unnatural"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The argument that non-human animals do not possess some vague set of traits that make humans the only species worthy of being classified as ‘people,’

  Metacognition. It’s just metacognition. Not vague in the slightest. You can argue that it isn’t a good criterion, but it’s a very clear one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're just scanning for the bear...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The only violent crimes that women are more likely to be victims of are sexual ones. Any nonsexual violent crime is more likely to have a male victim. Is this because women are more cautious? Maybe!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes this year is going to be really good and productive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Couldn’t he phrase it as “you will be laid off in 60 days and you’re getting 60 days of bonus PTO”? I don’t see the issue with no warning if they still get paid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hamburglar, meet Hat Man⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  MDMA tranq rifle

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spagett⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe they’re very high up, where water boils at a cooler temperature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Too many people recorded the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti for them to control the narrative, but all that happened was that one guy got demoted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Correlation equals causation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing wrong with being weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Correlation equals causation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Edibles are better than vapes, too. It isn’t just water vapor and THC coming out of those things. I prefer tablets, though; when I eat a brownie, I’d rather it not taste like I just licked a lawnmower.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Flashlights are actually where wall-plug efficiency matters most, because nicer flashlights are limited almost entirely by heat. Even if we got to 98% efficiency, going from there to 99% would nearly double the brightness that you could fit in a given size.

  Power input isn’t a problem at all, by contrast. A tabless 21700 can do 70A continuously without breaking a sweat, which is over 250W, and that’s with a 5Ah cell, which is plenty of capacity. A 6Ah cell can do about 10A, and that’s plenty for basically any single-cell light out there.