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- Comment on Trump Administration Live Updates: President Expects Impeachment if G.O.P. Falters in Midterm Elections 1 hour ago:
Monica Lewinsky as Speaker. Because nothing matters anymore unless you do it with hyperbole.
- Comment on Evidence 3 days ago:
That’s what happens when you grow up with the National Enquirer in every checkout line and there’s no internet to fact check anything. The GOP has been grooming the whole generation since Nixon.
- Comment on "Refrigerate after opening and store in the refrigerator door." Why the door for this mayo? 6 days ago:
Canada was a mistake.
Le Canada était une erreur.
- Comment on What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? 6 days ago:
Copyright circumvention is the lie YouTubers tell themselves as they shamelessly feed their ego. They’re imagining all their followers laughing because they thought something was funny. Copyright circumvention is the useful product distilled by human ingenuity out of the toxic cesspool this market created as it feeds upon the attention capacity of the youth of the world.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Lemon… it’s Wednesday. But it’s not all bad news…
- Comment on What is the difference between an American liberal and a liberal outside the USA? 1 week ago:
American conservatives have capitalized on denigrating the word “liberal” so thoroughly that using it in a remotely similar vein makes us ignore you immediately.
- Comment on Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' 3 weeks ago:
The cat’s out of the bag. Focus your energy on stopping fascist oligarchs then regulating AI to be as green and democratic as possible. Or sit back and avoid it out of ethical concerns as the fascists use it to target and eliminate you.
- Comment on Anon is smart or dumb 4 weeks ago:
9 years old! Lmao. Was that 3 years ago?
- Comment on Anon is smart or dumb 4 weeks ago:
Only liking “pretty women” is dumb because it’s not a real thing. Op will be miserable until he learns to appreciate the diversity of the human body.
- Comment on Anon is smart or dumb 5 weeks ago:
only like pretty women
Just dumb.
- Comment on So now that it's that time of year again in the US, what are some tips and tricks for dealing with that one relative who goes on about the same bullshit for hours and won't shut the fuck up? 1 month ago:
Someone who becomes suicidal because you won’t listen to them rant is addicted to power and control. You’d ultimately be doing them a favor helping them wean themselves off it. You can’t be responsible for someone’s actions in this state. It’s a diametric opposite to, say, someone who is depressed/suicidal because they cannot afford food. They do not need you to listen to them. Tell them to fuck off.
- Comment on How has there not yet been a leak of the Epstein files? Surely there is someone with access to them that could have been subject to worldwide pressure to let something out. 1 month ago:
Would you intentionally piss off Putin/Pinochet/Capone/that one German guy? And for anyone close enough to have access, fear (and billionaire money) reaches across international borders.
- Comment on How come NK doesn't just come out and say we are in trouble and need help? Like their lack of food and stuff? I really don't see a downside for a country admit they were wrong and need help 2 months ago:
Capitalism is economic policy, not a governance system. You are committing the gravest sin leftists struggle with by conflating it with a power structure. They are not the same thing. Capitalism is not actually practiced anywhere in the world now, as oligarchy is the norm. The whole “capitalism vs socialism” argument has been conflated and abused to drive a wedge between Democrats and leftists in the USA.
- Comment on How come NK doesn't just come out and say we are in trouble and need help? Like their lack of food and stuff? I really don't see a downside for a country admit they were wrong and need help 2 months ago:
The authoritarian ruler maintains control when enough people are brainwashed. See the current situation in the USA as an example. It’s not necessarily even the majority, but enough to maintain and enforce power.
- Comment on How come NK doesn't just come out and say we are in trouble and need help? Like their lack of food and stuff? I really don't see a downside for a country admit they were wrong and need help 2 months ago:
This. Their entire system of authoritarian control depends on it. The people are brainwashed into believing it’s true and if cracks start to appear in the facade, the government could (and definitely would for NK) quickly lose control of the people. The regime would be toppled.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Jesus said “feed the hungry” and AOC said NEXT.
- Comment on Andrew will be banished from royal premises to King Charles' private and remote Sandringham estate 2 months ago:
Private and remote enough that you need your own Lolita Express to get there.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 2 months ago:
Why didn’t the world sanction Russia over Chechnya or China over Tibet? It has to have a certain impact on everyone before they’ll do anything.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grokipedia launches with AI-cloned pages from Wikipedia 2 months ago:
It will be full of frog memes and crypto “fundraiser” popups. The references section at the bottom will be links to buy life insurance and commemorative freeze-dried Trump feces with bits of undigested/unpaid bills sprinkled throughout.
- Comment on ‘I’m suddenly so angry!’ My strange, unnerving week with an AI ‘friend’ 2 months ago:
That’s the point. This isn’t for anyone.
- Comment on ‘I’m suddenly so angry!’ My strange, unnerving week with an AI ‘friend’ 2 months ago:
This type of device is probably perfect for people who are ALL of the following: lonely, depressed, financially comfortable, cognitively able to accept the device’s limitations, not prone to paranoia or delusional thoughts, not easily manipulated by propaganda, have capacity and empowerment to enact change in their lives, and able to reflect upon and respond to their inner world. For the rest of us…
- Comment on Julia Gillard endorses Donald Trump 2 months ago:
Okay but… If you describe yourselves as unserious, you have the main trait of American conservatives in common. We used to laugh in America too. Do you have space for the next round of criminal exports neé Democrats?
- Comment on Introverts of our era spend their time on their computers, but what did introverts do before? Like when literacy rates were lower (pre-1950s)? Or before the printing press? 2 months ago:
Build model trains.
- Comment on Is it possible to be a leftist, but still really enjoy capitalism? 2 months ago:
If your friends always play Monopoly and you get dragged into it, do you refuse to have fun on principle? Or do you choose to have a blast with your friends, occasionally chuckle at the game’s shortcomings, and indulge in exploiting some of its weaknesses to ensure you come out on top? (That last one is optional and depends on you getting assigned to play the banker)
- Comment on Fuck this expresso depresso life, but double fuck all these assholes. 2 months ago:
Imagine you get chased by a wolf through a forest. You nearly run off this cliff, catching yourself in the roots of this tree. Then you notice a ripe wild strawberry…
- Comment on Why everyone is quitting social media 2 months ago:
Spare me the buzzwords. Doomscrolling is horribly addictive and ruins attention spans. There’s a proliferation of news/propaganda sites worldwide that are shared uncritically. Bot vote manipulation creates a false reality. Ads masquerade as opinion posts. Foreign actors locked behind monitored firewalls participate in open free speech discussions.
The list goes on and on. Don’t point to brain cancer to defend thyroid cancer.
- Comment on Why everyone is quitting social media 2 months ago:
No there isn’t. Not as it affects your mental health. Bots are on the fediverse fueling the same paranoia.
- Comment on What happens if a world leader gets assassinated during a foreign visit by a *former* citizen of that leader's country? (Like: international relations wise) 3 months ago:
Read up on Franz Ferdinand if you want to know how it goes.
- Comment on Kinky 3 months ago:
Me, dialoguing with myself to enter the public pool:
- Comment on Elon Musk tells Tommy Robinson protest ‘violence is coming’ in call for change in UK government 3 months ago:
Remember how Nazi Germany tried to take over the whole world? There’s only one authoritarian playbook.