Alcoholicorn
@Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 2 weeks ago:
There are hundreds of representatives each with their own motivation on every different vote.
And there’s a party whip and the power to take representatives off committees or remove their access to party infrastructure. The whole point of a party is that it can force its members to work together, without that ability you don’t have a party.
Even Trump hasn’t been willing to fire the parliamentarian and blow up that system. It has a purpose.
It hasn’t been useful for him because he appointed a parliamentarian who does what he wants. When Bush’s parliamentarian wouldn’t, he fired him and replaced him with one who would.
You want to throw out the whole Constitution and start over? Fine. How many dead are worth it to you? There Conservatives are sure as hell not going to give up power without a fight and they are willing to kill to keep it.
The literal only use any government institution is to enact the will of the entity that controls it. The conservatives understand this, the left understand this, only the liberals who don’t understand why they keep losing at calvinball have yet to figure it out.
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 2 weeks ago:
Oh, you think carrying out the will of your voters is good? Well have you considered that goes against the design of a system made by slave-owning rapists to maintain their class’s power?
-ChonkyOwlBear, probably.
- Comment on the tech billionaires have lost the plot 2 weeks ago:
Are they? The fact that we aren’t seeing more completed projects on github tells me its not useful for coding beyond peer-review and generating boilerplate. I’ve met 2 non-tech people who managed to get a MVP they have no way to maintain. Who is realizing significant benefits?
- Comment on Anon hates tiktok 3 weeks ago:
They have communicators and iPads.
- Comment on Happy Kirkday! 3 weeks ago:
Polymarket is a betting website, clearly someone made a bet that Zoran Mamdani would mandate teaching arabic numerals knowing that idiots would bet against it.
- Comment on *Damn you all to hell!* 3 weeks ago:
They still have Toys R Us in China.
- Comment on Contrast 3 weeks ago:
Western media did a lot of nazi propaganda, from portraying them as more competent, disciplined, and technologically advanced than the allies to the “clean wehrmacht” to asiatic hordes myths.
Its not shocking that the dipshit-in-chief would buy into it.
- Comment on Pressing question 3 weeks ago:
Did you not feed them??
- Comment on Anon reads Don Quixote 3 weeks ago:
It’s over-emphasizing the non-japanese sounds in “hamburger”; the point is that there are rules for loan words in any language and it sounds awkward if you break them.
- Comment on Anon reads Don Quixote 3 weeks ago:
Literally the only people who don’t get upset about it are the ones who speak whatever language it is.
It depends on the exact word and context, like if you go to Japan and say Hay mmmburrrgurrrr をいただきたいです, it sounds so bad.
- Comment on Happy labor day to real workers 3 weeks ago:
Some of the worst senators barely make any money and just do it for love of the game, Biden comes to mind.
- Comment on And forgot it when waking up 3 weeks ago:
What is stopping you from being able to talk to anyone? I am in a country I don’t speak nor understand the language even a little, but I still find people who speak english, failing that use translate, catch up with friends in other countrie, or internet friends.
- Comment on And forgot it when waking up 3 weeks ago:
Weird, a few times I’ve looked up downvotes on utterly innocuous posts, and its been an account that makes hundreds to thousands of downvotes while making very few or no posts or comments. I guess Rimu must only be looking at his own instance.
It should be technically possible to apply this limit to other instances users too, so you only see their first 240 votes.
- Comment on And forgot it when waking up 3 weeks ago:
You’ve missed so much. I won’t catch you up because none of it matters, and being aware of petty drama among a group of redditors will not improve your life.
- Comment on And forgot it when waking up 3 weeks ago:
daily cap for how many votes per user per day are counted
Ok, but this is good actually, there’s a lot more accounts voting a dozen times a minute for hours than people actually reading a thousand comments a day and responding accordingly.
- Comment on Machine Rights Will Give Us A Harder Fight 3 weeks ago:
This is it, the dumbest way you can arrive at the right answer.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been there!
I was extremely confused when a woman handed me a banana like it was a completely normal thing to do.
- Comment on I'm not sure they will 4 weeks ago:
AI ruined AI.
- Comment on Why the fuck are you awake, don't have have work in like 3 hours??? 4 weeks ago:
Por que no los dos?
When it’s hot out, I wake up at ~5:30 to be outside by 6/sunrise, get all my shit done by 1pm, take a solid 2-3 hour nap, sometimes in a coffee shop, and then I’ve got the entire evening.
Its easier when I can hear the roosters start waking up.
- Comment on German joke 4 weeks ago:
Maybe in Europe, idk I’ve never been there, but the only people I see who talk about “craving maccas” certainly aren’t American.
- Comment on German joke 4 weeks ago:
I mostly see Brits/Australians and wealthier locals with small children at McDonalds, who travels to the other side of the planet to eat expensive poison, we have expensive poison at home.
- Comment on German joke 4 weeks ago:
See, thats why I think a lot of non-germans don’t get German humor, there isn’t a scenario where you say “10 inches soft” that isn’t a dick joke, so when the punchline comes around “haha it is about penis”, the recipient is confused thinking they missed the real punchline.
- Comment on negativity 4 weeks ago:
That is a lot of liver.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
You can use USD in Cambodia just as easily as Cambodian riel. ATMs even ask you if you want USD or riel, and often you’ll receive change in the opposite currency if that’s what’s convenient.
- Comment on negativity 4 weeks ago:
Is fatty dairy cow liver a french delicacy?
- Comment on negativity 4 weeks ago:
You know, I’m kinda surprised the French don’t have some recipie that requires feed a cow alcohol until it got a fatty liver.
- Comment on Infuriating day of the week layout 5 weeks ago:
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- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
hhhhh is like hahahah in chinese btw.
- Comment on Let’s start protecting people instead of profits 5 weeks ago:
Its not even a real thing. There is no contingent of voters who will vote for “means-tested subsidies to buy health insurance from 1 of 50 marketplaces based on what your family’s expected healthcare needs are and employer contribution”, but won’t vote for free healthcare. There is no “help Israel do only a little genocide” vote.
But every time, cable news would dupe the poor man into voting for what some imaginary moderate wanted instead of policy that materially benefits everyone.
- Comment on Let’s start protecting people instead of profits 5 weeks ago:
What about all the unions who fought for healthcare?
-My dad, justifying voting for Hillary again Biden in the primaries.
Every election it was “yes, the left have policy that would directly benefit us, but the moderates won’t vote for that.”
Well except when he voted Bush thinking he would get lower taxes.