leraje
@leraje@piefed.blahaj.zone
Atheistic satanist - justice, compassion, science.
- Comment on UK Cops 'Ashamed and Sick' of Enforcing Ban on Anti-Genocide Group Palestine Action 1 week ago:
Everyone knows what they did. That's not the issue that people have. The issue is proscribing them as a terrorist group when they quite clearly aren't a terrorist group in a monumental trivialisation of what terrorism actually is and an obvious attempt to silence people.
- Comment on Neo-Nazi music festival cancelled after backlash from locals 1 week ago:
- Comment on Why are eugenics bad seen? 2 weeks ago:
It would improve the society
No. It would create a society in which the powerful have decided which genes are the ones they like when in reality, its diversity and complexity that is what's 'best' for humans.
and people quality of life
That is not how eugenics works.
I don't understand why is it bad
Then take a biodiversity and ethics class.
Just to Godwin the thread, eugenics is the province of nazi's and other totalitarian regimes. Even though it could never work in the way they want, all anyone who advocates eugenics really wants is to eradicate other people different than them.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It's not a bad idea at all - more people should try things they're curious about. As long as everyone involved exercises informed consent its your call what you do.
- Comment on Is the whole DC "cleanup" pointless? 2 weeks ago:
The first step in implementing a military coup is to secure your base.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
On behalf of the saner members of the UK, sorry about Murray. Sadly, we're overrun with pedants of this nature which is largely why we've become such a backward set of mouth breathers since 2016-ish.
- Comment on The least problematic early black metal band 2 weeks ago:
ABMN is not just Black Metal, they're YT channel (findable on Invidious too) is divided in to playlists by subgenre.
SNH also a huge mix of sub-genres and non-metal genres such as EDM, Noise, punk etc.
In terms of non-metal, there are similar projects for neofolk (which also has a tendency to attract the fash), the LeftFolk collective features some great music. The Riihimaki Collective feature hardcore, and DIY Conspiracy are a punk collective.
- Comment on The least problematic early black metal band 3 weeks ago:
Luke's List (Google spreadsheet)
Antifascist Black Metal Network (not just Black metal)
- Comment on AI to help police catch criminals before they strike 3 weeks ago:
This will be fine. After all, a government that understands technology so well it implemented the genius tech regulations in the OSA coupled with a Police force with officers so intelligent they never get the law wrong or have a growing reputation for violence against women can easily be trusted to not take the UK down a dystopian path where the non-white and/or poor and/or disabled will be targetted simply by living in an area where a crime once happened.
- Comment on Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England 4 weeks ago:
"We need an excuse to carry on increasing the surveillance of our citizens."
"Just say sex offenders and terrorism. If anyone protests we can then call them a sex-offending terrorist, thus winning the argument instantly."
"Hmmm...we have used those excuses quite a lot over the last few years. Don't we risk-"
"The phrases becoming essentially meaningless? Well, yes, but it doesn't matter. By the time the populace finally realise that, we'll have total control." - Comment on Trump administration accuses UK of failing to uphold human rights 4 weeks ago:
The two examples the US uses - 'chilling online free speech after the Southport attacks' (translation: not giving credence to the lies Farage and the extreme right invented about the immigration status of the perpetrator in order to avoid people being burned to death in hotels) and 'prohibitions around silent prayer outside abortion clinics' (translation: stopping christofascists from trying to intimidate service users and providers) speak volumes about what fascist America sees as the only important free speech.
- Comment on Isn't Batman's questioning Superman because he is an unknown entity basically the same reason Lex Luthor has against Superman? 4 weeks ago:
Again, I would have to check, but I think that might've been where Bruce got the idea.
- Comment on Isn't Batman's questioning Superman because he is an unknown entity basically the same reason Lex Luthor has against Superman? 4 weeks ago:
I'd have to double check but I think it was a New 52 run. You're right to say he has no set, specific plan but his best work-in-progress is using her own warrior tendencies against her by making her constantly fight an unbeatable opponent.
- Comment on Isn't Batman's questioning Superman because he is an unknown entity basically the same reason Lex Luthor has against Superman? 4 weeks ago:
He has a few possibles for Diana, largely centred around trapping her in a virtual world with an unbeatable enemy she is forced to fight until she dies of exhaustion.
- Comment on Isn't Batman's questioning Superman because he is an unknown entity basically the same reason Lex Luthor has against Superman? 4 weeks ago:
All the DC billionaires think Superman is dodgy. Lex is a xenophobe who wants to destroy anything more powerful than him, Bruce sees a potential threat to humanity but respects the man. Oliver just thinks he's a pompous dick.
- Comment on Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit? 1 month ago:
Yes its a swear word. Yes, there is a shrinking population where I am (UK) that still can associate it with its original meaning (but that is different in other places too) but you can apply that weak justification to a lot of other words too. 'Cool' literally means 'not warm' but it has also evolved to incorporate other totally different meanings, which can also vary slightly or a lot depending on geographical colloquial use.
You find it offensive because of your local cultural interpretations. I acknowledge that and respect it, hence why I have said things like 'that word' in my subsequent comments to you. What I'm asking you to consider is that, in places away from your local culture, it doesn't carry that meaning and hasn't for some time. The US is not the entire world.
- Comment on Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit? 1 month ago:
I really don't mind discussing this with you, but please at least make an effort to have your statements make some kind of sense. Just try and envisage the possibility that outside of the US the same or similar words have always had, or have evolved to have, different or alternative meanings. The people where I live who still interpret the word in the same way you insist is the only possible interpretation are of an older generation. Its in pretty common use by all genders in younger generations.
Also, if you ever get around to getting a passport (a document that lets you travel to other countries), you might want to leave Australia, the UK and Ireland in particular out of any travel plans you have.
- Comment on Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit? 1 month ago:
Outside of the US, that meaning fell away and/or changed in some places quite sometime ago. I know it's difficult for a certain type of American to envisage a world outside of their own borders but believe it or not, it does exist and even has different cultural language evolutions.
- Comment on Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit? 1 month ago:
I'm assuming you're American? If so you should be aware that word doesn't carry he same baggage elsewhere in the world.
- Comment on Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit? 1 month ago:
You say: "...prevailing orthodoxy to the dogmatic views of leftism..."
Most on Fediverse say: Just respect difference and don't tolerate intolerance.
By the way, it's OK to swear. Some examples might be: "You seem to be making a ham-fisted attempt to troll people. Stop being a cunt."
- Comment on Bluesky age verification uk 1 month ago:
Can confirm the ubo custom filter method works perfectly.
- Comment on Why do people hate coldplay? 1 month ago:
Hate is too strong a word I think - I nothing them - but they produce the sort of soulless indie/pop ballad that you know will end up in the soundtrack of Hollywood paint-by-numbers romcom that would've gone straight to DVD a decade or so ago. The unending radio play rotation would force the song (and we could be talking about any and all Coldplay songs here) into your brain and then five years later you'd find yourself humming it as you suddenly realised a longe bar version of it is playing in the lift (elevator USians) you're in.
- Comment on Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act 1 month ago:
Not to pour cold water onto any sort of activism but this has zero chance. We all know what the OSA is really for and the kids/terrorism thing is a front for spying on us but the gen population are totally bought into the kids/terrorism thing and there's not a single MP with any sort of political ambition who'll take the chance on looking like they hate kids and support terrorists.
- Comment on Owen Jones: This column does not express support for Palestine Action – here’s why 2 months ago:
You might personally think defence trumps all other things - I don't. Its clearly not unimportant (and I never suggested it was) but defence is, we're told, something we use to protect our way of life and our way of life includes not being called a terrorist for doing something which very obviously is not an act of terrorism.
All forms of protest are under a sustained attack in the UK right now and this is just another extension of that. Sabotaging reality to exert control over a populace is obviously a very much worse thing.
- Comment on Owen Jones: This column does not express support for Palestine Action – here’s why 2 months ago:
It is now - but yeah my heart bleeds for those poor RAF jets, they're definitely what's important here, not making the word 'terrorist' a meaningless empty word that can be used to justify anything at all.
- Comment on Owen Jones: This column does not express support for Palestine Action – here’s why 2 months ago:
They did wrong by breaking into an RAF base though
Hardly a terrorist action though is it? Breaking in to throw around some red paint.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I learnt to speak French by living there for a year or so but I still cannot read it at all beyond short sentences because how a word sounds is different than how it looks.
As for English, I think both learning English and English speakers learning other languages is extra hard because English is such a hodge podge of random bits of other syntaxes and structures. Its a mess of a language in lots of respects making it hard to learn and hard for native speakers to get past the messiness and learn a better structured language.