realitista
@realitista@lemmus.org
- Comment on Is it impolite to crosspost someone else's post to another community on Lemmy without saying anything? 2 days ago:
No. At least I wouldn’t give a fuck if someone did it with mine.
- Comment on What a nice blue and black dress. 2 days ago:
I’m mildly colorblind and it’s just too dark for me to make out. It could be white, blue, etc. But the black part doesn’t look solid enough to be black either. I just think the camera failed to properly get a read at that lighting level .
- Comment on Anybody else do this today? 4 days ago:
That’s a pretty perfect encapsulation of most days at my work.
- Comment on Can't click my app controls! 4 days ago:
Damn cat!
- Comment on fighting evil by moonlight 4 days ago:
You were talking about the CIA overthrows. All violent revolutions. Including the 2 you list.
- Comment on fighting evil by moonlight 5 days ago:
It looks to me like you are listing violent revolutions.
- Comment on fighting evil by moonlight 5 days ago:
I think you are making my point for me. Violent revolutions are often if not usually hijacked and perverted by violent parties to achieve their own ends, which almost never line up with the needs of the actual citizens of the territory.
- Comment on fighting evil by moonlight 5 days ago:
I’m only arguing based on the real world examples presented on each side of the argument to date.
- Comment on fighting evil by moonlight 5 days ago:
I’m comparing what our lives are here under democratic rule here in my country to what they were under the single party communist system. And we have no desire to go back. The communists will never win another election here, and for good reason. If you have to force your system of government on the population at gunpoint, it’s not anything to be proud of.
- Comment on fighting evil by moonlight 5 days ago:
I’m sorry, are you trying to tell me that the government system that oversaw the Holomodor was one with a conscience? As someone who lives in a former Soviet satellite state, I can ensure you they didn’t do this out of the kindness of their hearts, they did it because they collapsed under their own incompetence.
- Comment on fighting evil by moonlight 5 days ago:
My point in the Haiti point is that you ended up with an Emperor for life, as in all the other cases where you ended up with kings or single party systems. And yes, I can accept that from the very poor starting points of many of these countries, maybe the shakeup at least loosened something that could have opened up improvements in the next century or something.
But the USA is not at that kind of starting point yet. They still have an (admittedly flawed and likely compromised) democracy with a strong economy and still very high living standards, even if they aren’t evenly distributed. They do still have some checks and balances and rule of law that has not yet been subverted. Moving from this to a full autocracy, single party system, theocracy, military state or monarchy would not be a step up by any stretch of the imagination. It would be a disaster that would take decades if not a century or more to recover from.
So yes, sometimes things get so bad that you really
- Comment on A sudden epiphany. 5 days ago:
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
- Comment on fighting evil by moonlight 5 days ago:
And they’ll bury you in the despotic regime your violence creates.
- Comment on Antiwoke Straight of Hormwin 6 days ago:
Still rather logistically difficult to convince the host country to nuke their major population centers.
- Comment on Antiwoke Straight of Hormwin 6 days ago:
Has he ever looked at a map? The only way I could see this happening is by going through the most populated parts of UAE.
- Comment on fighting evil by moonlight 6 days ago:
I disagree . The moment violence happens, the whole movement loses its credibility and high ground and opens the road to despotic overthrow of the movement. This is why it’s so important to guard against the tactic of your enemy installing agitators to discredit your movement and open the door to violent suppression of it.
- Comment on fighting evil by moonlight 6 days ago:
The problem is that violent revolutions rarely produce anything other than more and worse chaos, and are usually settled by the biggest despot in the room who is often worse than the guy being deposed. The vast majority of actual social progress made in history was due to peaceful, not violent revolution.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Uncontrolled flatulence is a real problem people.
- Comment on Quality TV 1 week ago:
Ugh now I want to see this.
- Comment on Makes you think 🤔 🦵☕️ 1 week ago:
Yeah it’s on the internet now. It’s ours to do with as we see fit.
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- Comment on They mods dont want you to know. 1 week ago:
Is it that fediverse chick that was sending me messages?
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- Comment on There’s a Class 100 semiconductor cleanroom inside this backyard shed. 2 weeks ago:
I’m guessing he can’t really do much of a chip per se. Sounds more like he can do only base components.
- Comment on Fr Fr 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Can AI do 40% of your job? Block’s Jack Dorsey thinks so. 2 weeks ago:
The price of these services is pretty heavily subsidized today. Unless their costs go down a lot over the next couple years , they will eventually have to raise prices which will destroy roi.
- Comment on Can AI do 40% of your job? Block’s Jack Dorsey thinks so. 2 weeks ago:
You’re safe.
- Comment on the two party system is just one big party 2 weeks ago:
I voted 3rd party for 20 years, but I stopped when Trump came to power. It’s not a 10% difference any more. It’s the difference between living in a free and democratic country and living in a fascist dictatorship.
- Comment on the two party system is just one big party 2 weeks ago:
I used to think this way in the '90s. But anyone today who can look at Trump and say he’s the same as the Dems is fucking delusional.
- Comment on Aging 3 weeks ago:
An Irish Folk Song about Cheap Airline Tickets
