FlyingCircus
@FlyingCircus@lemmy.world
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 3 days ago:
Predators yes, carnivores no. Things that eat bugs are insectivores.
Honestly though, almost no mammals are purely carnivorous, herbivorous, or insectivorous. The majority of species will opportunistically eat what is available.
- Comment on Had to look this up 1 week ago:
It’s ok to laugh at satire of racists 👍
- Comment on The existence of billionaires is a policy failure 2 weeks ago:
It’s especially hard for the state to say no because the state is run by the capitalists themselves. They are the same people.
- Comment on The existence of billionaires is a policy failure 2 weeks ago:
Yep. People love free markets, but they really only benefit billionaires. The idea that free markets lead to a better society is bunk and should be abandoned along with every other capitalist lie.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 3 weeks ago:
64 per cent of Russians say life was better in the Soviet Union than now
Data is better than anecdotes.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 3 weeks ago:
If you say something is bad, you must have some frame of reference to know how bad it is. So if you say communism is bad, we will want to know, “relative to what?” And since capitalism and western hegemony are the dominant systems, naturally they will draw comparisons. And those comparisons will be unfavorable since capitalism is clearly broken and incentivizes great evil.
So OK, we’re still not really discussing the merits and flaws of communism as they stand on their own, but most of you aren’t ready to accept that almost everything you have learned about communism is a lie and you definitely aren’t ready to engage with the actual historical record.
So instead, the arguments revolve around what-aboutisms. Because most of you deny the evidence of your eyes and just listen to daddy. Long before we can delve into how the soviets actually existed in the world, you have dismissed us as “tankies” and stuck your fingers in your ears.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 3 weeks ago:
I think it says more about how Lemmings and other westerners understand authoritarianism. Because capitalist countries are way more authoritarian than any communist country has ever been. Y’all have just been fed lie after lie until you start repeating them yourselves.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 3 weeks ago:
You’re hopped up on that US propaganda, bud. The USSR was democratic from the ground up. Working people’s voices had more power there than almost anywhere else at any other point in history.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 3 weeks ago:
The USSR never intentionally starved its citizens as the US is doing right now.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 3 weeks ago:
Why shouldn’t I be offended on behalf of other people? You just were…
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 3 weeks ago:
I reported the guy after he doubled down. Waiting to see if the mods will do something or if I will have to block the comm.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 3 weeks ago:
Can you say that again without the misogyny?
- Comment on Rockstar Just Fired Over 30 Employees From UK and Canada in an Attempt of Union-Busting 4 weeks ago:
No war but class war.
- Comment on Never buying milk from Walmart again 4 weeks ago:
God, all you non-Americans really need to stop bragging. I’m way too jealous over here.
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” 4 weeks ago:
If we survive this, it will be because we all gained class consciousness, in which case we won’t have to wonder, we will know what we were thinking, and why.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
If you’re only ever getting a few items I can see how self-checkout is faster, but for full grocery trips cashiers are undeniably way faster, primarily because I can bag while the clerk scans.
- Comment on How are these ICE agents allowed to fire on protestors like this 1 month ago:
The Democrats have no interest in prosecuting cops because they’re all on the same team. It’s Capitalists vs Us, and the sooner we all realize that, the sooner we can actually start improving the world.
- Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 1 month ago:
Apple is hardly the giant corporation you want to be switching to, though.
- Comment on kya 1 month ago:
The problem with American tax payers is that they have been taught that selfishness is the highest virtue, especially when it comes to their cars. You see it with the high beams, and you see it with the ginormous toddler-killing trucks.
- Comment on Unified Theory of American Reality 1 month ago:
Unfortunately, nowadays populism is used almost exclusively about progressive ideas that are popular as a way to dismiss them because they’re not profitable or some shit.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 2 months ago:
9/11 also marks the end of western hegemony as the West destabilized the world and ruined its reputation as a force for good in its pursuit for revenge, leading to the rise of BRICS and other anti-imperial coalitions.
9/11 also coincides with peak imperialism, the final stage of capitalism, which marks the point when increasing exploitation abroad has diminishing returns so capitalists must begin devouring the imperial core, leading to stagflation, enshittification, rent-seeking, and other parasitic activities. This in turn leads to an economically struggling population of former petit-bourgeois, which is a class condition that is especially susceptible to reactionary propaganda, leading to the rise of fascism.
Historians will almost certainly mark 9/11 as the beginning of the end of the American Empire.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 2 months ago:
The overwhelming majority of Democrats also voted for the Patriot Act. Democrats and Republicans are two sides of the same coin.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 3 months ago:
You know that American conservatives have been banning books from libraries, and banning topics like racism and homophobia from being talked about in schools, right? American conservatives love censoring anything they don’t agree with. They are the original snowflakes.
I suspect your butt is just chapped because you can’t drop a hard “r” on BlueSky.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 3 months ago:
Well that’s why I didn’t say “leftists.” But if we’re continuing to be honest, leftist governments also censor. I don’t think you can find any ideology that doesn’t censor, actually.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 3 months ago:
Tbh liberals love censorship as much as conservatives (see the proscription of Palestine Action in the UK).
But it’s a bit silly saying you are going to vote for a conservative because a conservative group is censoring you.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 3 months ago:
Collective Shout is a conservative organization you numbskull.
- Comment on It's all connected 3 months ago:
It’s far more plausible that his administration ignored a credible threat to allow a security incident to use as justification. Similar to how Israel ignored intelligence of October 7.
- Comment on You wanted the secret to getting rich? Here it is 4 months ago:
Henry Ford still underpaid people for their labor. That is the fundamental key to capitalism. Profit is surplus labor that capitalists steal from laborers.
- Comment on Plant Slurs 4 months ago:
Pampas grass is actually super invasive in certain areas (like all of California).
- Comment on Plant Slurs 4 months ago:
The idea of “weeds” is a colonialist construct.