GreenShimada
@GreenShimada@lemmy.world
- Comment on The inner fire of my hatred COULD melt steam beams 3 days ago:
Your hatred is steaming beans?
My hatred usually corns beef.
- Comment on Potatoes are always good 4 days ago:
I now have exactly 1 reason to go to Boston.
- Comment on Political discourse 1 week ago:
OK, so just to recap:
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You start off by deriding anyone that isn’t carrying the same label as you as either evil or stupid.
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Immediately and unironically say that it’s only the Right vs. everyone else after just saying that it’s the Left vs. everyone else because they’re either wearing your label or they’re Secret Hitler or an idiot.
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Double down and imagine that everyone actually has secret but strong political feelings and simply are confused or too chicken shit to reveal them, but that all the secret opinions of average people are not just mildly conservative, but actually full-on far-right?
My friend, I’m not sure you understand how many people don’t spend 18 hours a day online reading political news. Because that’s exactly how you end up alienating normal people who are all out of fucks to give about politics, and fracturing opposition to fascism like you’re doing here. You’re not helping anyone but the fascists by calling the people stuck in the middle fascists for just trying to live their lives.
Case in point, this is a shitpost comm and you’re too wrapped up in your self-labeling to read the room and the meme that most people don’t care about the things you care about. That’s the meme, and lesson, that you missed.
Polls are usually pretty consistent in that the majority of people (usually between about 65% to sometimes up to 80%): 1) Don’t actually care about politics at all, which is a big part of why we have a representative democracy in the first place, 2) Certainly don’t keep up with political news or even the actual news that much, 3) Are so self-absorbed and wrapped up in their own affairs that until the rapid disintegration of the nation and Constitution affects them specifically, they won’t even notice because they have a job and kids and a universe of other shit to be doing so they want the status quo always, whatever that was.
Which is all supported in depth by game theory studies about what it takes to get people out in the streets. Which you clearly can’t be bothered to think about because we’re all secret nazis and idiots you wouldn’t associate with in the streets, right?
You’re taking the same bait that Mandella fought against people taking in South Africa. Apartheid specialized in turning everyone who wasn’t white against each other. Fracturing opposition was how a small minority stayed in power for generations.
Which is exactly how the GOP managed to work out Red Stating and Gerrymander me and my formerly solid blue district into a solid red district. That’s not on me. That’s on you for fracturing opposition to fascism, like you’re happily doing here, because all the rest of us aren’t “pure” enough - because most people are either secret Nazis or idiots, right? I get the same shit from the GOP, but they actually accomplish the shit they set out to do, so at least I have something to react against.
For the people who not only do care about politics, but also hate every bit of it and just want people to shut the fuck up and do rational policy stuff without egos like big boys and girls, it’s cringe to see shit like “Hur durr, all Centrists are just closeted Nazis!” because it undoes coalition; it accomplishes exactly what fascists love to see - infighting among their opposition. You give them power like this, with uninformed blanket statements that alienate people who actually ARE fighting these people and now know that you can’t be counted on as an ally. But that’s fine, I know for sure that I 100% can not count on the Left to accomplish a damn thing because y’all are too enthralled with the Old Money Traditional Branding BS the Dems offer you so they can once again use you up to trot out Candidate Dickbag and get you genuinely thinking “yeah, this time, they’re gonna win!” before they lose again and steal your money and time and energy.
But I expect you stopped reading 4 words in and said to yourself “yeah, secret Nazi I think. Or idiot. Either way, I have to hate that one, too” and turned an ally once again.
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- Comment on Political discourse 1 week ago:
Doesn’t directly bringing up “enlightened centrism” (I assume sarcastically) from a non-right position indicate disdain for centrism? That would be a conflict between whatever you are and both centrists (for not being where you are - right of you, but to them, still left of the Right) and the Right.
Also, if you’re aware of the Three Percenters and their claim that only 3% of colonial America supported the revolution, it means that even if they’re off by a factor of 10, with 30% for the revolution, and 30% against, it leaves 40%, a plurality of people, who have the sentiment from this meme where they just want to be left alone and not forced against their will into a conflict that indroduces instability and violence to their lives.
- Comment on Don't get mad, get even 1 week ago:
nah, not the same. You can still set small stuff in there and it might still turn. Taking the plate makes anything you set in there all uneven.
- Comment on Don't get mad, get even 1 week ago:
Woah.
Hey, like, that’s not “we’re just having fun joke haha” stuff.
That’s enemy for life shit.
- Comment on If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get? 1 week ago:
For sure, never ever connect it to the internet.
Samsung equipment is pretty good, and to some degree the larger companies subsidize the cost of the TV with the assumption that you’ll connect it and give them data to sell. So while a large monitor might be more expensive, there’s a reason why. Unless your friend actually gets over the air TV stations, consider a large monitor, then Samsung and LG.
- Comment on THIS IS A SHITPOST 1 week ago:
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- Comment on 1 week ago:
One day…
…one day…
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Very awesome stuff! And hey, as long as you have good root stock, that’s half the challenge right there. Especially if it’s surviving the winter, that’s likely enough to carry the C. baccatum I would expect.
Nice that you have the chocolate habanero with good flavor. I’ve always been partial to the orange stage of a scotch bonnet or habanero, but I can see a good deep brown pepper going just the right way. I’m jealous of the opportunity you have with spring upon you!
Good luck to you!
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Is pomato! Word has already existed for it for 170 years.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Frustrations about grafting is on topic!
I’m very curious what peppers you’re grafting.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Life, uh, finds a way.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Bro, I have tried several times to graft a potato and tomato plant together and can’t ever get the timing right. So I just end up with potatoes and tomatoes on their own plants like a dummy.
I will say that Oranges are lazy as fuck on those trees. They’re like the cats of the fruit world. Just sitting there…nothing, then one day they fall on your car and gnats explode out of there.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
That’s how you know it’s lying - we all know oranges are far more active than potatoes.
- Comment on Please let the Lions win the Superbowl... 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on ngl im kinda here just waitin for it 🤣 2 weeks ago:
Now THIS is the dystopia I signed up for!
- Comment on "Undercover Informant" 2 weeks ago:
Bro, I’m undercover at NASA. Deep deep undercover. I don’t even work there, that’s how deep under cover I am. I just watch the videos and, like, know what’s up, man. I drove by JPL once and I almost blew my cover!
- Comment on Age check 2 weeks ago:
Agreed. Poor woman basically had to flee to the UK and go into hiding. She’s been surprisingly resilient, all things considered.
- Comment on ISO 26300 2 weeks ago:
Because the chef didn’t know how to do that? I dunno.
- Comment on All I Want for Christmas Is You 2 weeks ago:
If it makes you feel any better, I once saw a Smashmouth concert where the lead singer guy got hit in the head by a thrown shoe mid-set and got very pissy about it. It was a total lucky shot.
- Comment on ISO 26300 2 weeks ago:
Best thing I ever saw was an Italian cooking class that sent recipes as an ODT, and then 20 minutes later as a DOCX as an afterthought for the Americans.
- Comment on Anon eats Italian 3 weeks ago:
I would guarantee this thing is overcooked to hell, dry as a paper towel in the center. It probably swam in day-old red sauce in a pot for 90 minutes to prevent lawsuits, then cooled off, cooking another 20 holdover minutes. Then into the fridge to be microwaved when anon orders it.
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 3 weeks ago:
Ugh, too real!
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 3 weeks ago:
Not quite. It’s that he was flying a plane and being shot at 6 days a week, and yet still didn’t need to jump up to a new bad word. Whatever he already knew is the language he used.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 3 weeks ago:
Caffeine habits are very real, and holy shit, that’s like 6-7 coffees a day. If he went cold turkey, it would be a week of hell at home, vomiting from the migranes.
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 3 weeks ago:
What’s interesting is, traditionally in language, once forbidden words got ran out, there were still other bad words left to enter the lexicon. “Damn” used to be a genuine curse. My grandfather survived WWII and proudly told be people of all the bombs he dropped, he never dropped the F-bomb.
What’s next? There’s no new forbidden words. Nothing left in the back of the store. Our ability to run through words outpaced our ability to make bad ones.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, WTF is up with this? The people that will drink 3 or 4 cans of Monster a day? JFC, that shit’ll kill you, man!
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
He 100% didn’t think this would result in criminal charges. A lot of people don’t think through the “how will this company with lawyers react to my petty nonsense?” when doing stuff like this.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 4 weeks ago:
Consent?
As if any of these people want to talk to ME for 3 hours?