Mulligrubs
@Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
- Comment on The Nebraska legislature has approved a bill that lowers the minimum wage from $15 an hour to $13.50 an hour for teen workers 1 week ago:
Meanwhile, when I was a teen I had to pay bills and rent, and I was paid MUCH MORE than kids are today (inflation).
But fuck teens, right? Oh, and you’re drafted womp womp
- Comment on The cops pay Anon a visit 1 week ago:
They do that already (gun them down), but they can’t kill too many people! It’s like they have a murder quota.
So, for the rest they plant evidence on, drugs and this.
Also, many of them are sadists and prefer the torture route (like 40 years in prison).
- Comment on The cops pay Anon a visit 1 week ago:
On one hand, I loathe pedophiles and the awful black market they use to trade whatever
On other hand, I wonder how often the “law” just uses this to get rid of people who displease them, they just install the appropriate stash with a thumb drive while “scanning”.
Decades in prison, asset forfeiture, who would stop them or even be able to prove it? The modern equivalent of planting drugs (which they are caught doing frequently), and nobody wants to defend pedophiles.
- Comment on Ah, customer service 1 week ago:
Who knew? That’s what I get for believing the National Academy of Sciences! Thank you for correction.
I was going to argue with you for weeks for daring to challenge my claim, but then I remembered I am tired
- Comment on Ah, customer service 1 week ago:
There was a study on judges and parole hearings, and early in their shift they were much more likely to grant parole, and the closer it got to lunch time, the less likely they would grant parole.
After lunch, they were again much more likely to grand parole, but as the day wears on they are more and more strict.
Consider this an anecdote I am not going to track down the study to prove the great debate or anything I’m tired
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 1 week ago:
Instead of trying to extend the prole’s work life by a couple years, we COULD tax billion-dollar companies and their owners by 2% more and make three times as much money!
But we can’t! Sorry. Our hands are tied
Also, can’t afford minimum wage increase this year, times are tough.
Oh! Almost forgot! We need a raise of 10% this year, and it’s time for our winter break! After winter break, it’s spring break. Lots of breaks. Then we will come back to “work” to pass more important legislation, right before our summer break.
You don’t get breaks every year? Damn. Well, life is not fair what can we do later gator
- Comment on How accurate is this? 1 week ago:
I have worked in food service and retail and to tell the truth I would I would choose “picking up shit with a shovel” over either any day of the week. Wouldn’t even blink, give me the fucking shovel no problem boss
- Comment on Anon looks back 1 week ago:
This guy is a lucky bastard and the funny part is he doesn’t even know.
It’s like the kid who’s exited to work some day and get the fuck out of school. I just smile and nod, maybe pat them on the shoulder and say “you’re a good kid”
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 1 week ago:
They don’t bother with such things, America uses other means to squash such protests long before organization.
The means of organizing (the internet) is also the surveillance state. “grass roots” organizing has been dead for a very long time.
See the Patriot Act and history of CIA for further details. Recommend “Legacy of Ashes” by former CIA spook regarding history since 1950s or so. The people in charge then have been replaced by far worse, worse every term.
We only know a tiny bit, and what we do know is truly staggering and frankly when I’ve repeated actual facts online I’ve been told I’m a conspiracy theorist and booted, so I’ll skip that part. The truth sounds ridiculous.
This is all publicly available information, they don’t even bother hiding it any longer.
- Comment on Tankie 1 week ago:
By blocked you mean you are following
- Comment on Tankie 1 week ago:
What did you say? I didn’t read it.
by ‘not even reading’ you must mean that you are ‘memorizing every syllable.’
- Comment on Tankie 1 week ago:
Oh, I get it! By ‘use’ you mean "no one has ever said this ever’, just like by “tankie” you mean “peaceful negotiator”!
Now I’m not sure what you mean by arguments and points… obviously by argument you mean agreement, and by point you mean vague nonsensical claim not reflected anywhere in English ever.
Right?
By right, I mean you’re wrong.
- Comment on Tankie 1 week ago:
It doesn’t mean “peace” in any recorded English literature since the inception of the word… somehow what you call “use” has avoided every English publication ever made.
Snort
- Comment on Tankie 1 week ago:
It’s far beyond “I’m right and you’re wrong.”
It’s “I am right as reflected by the entire history of the word until it’s present day, as recorded by Cambridge, Oxford, Webster’s, dictionary.com, and every other English dictionary… and you are wrong”.
You DO contribute something… a chuckle.
- Comment on Tankie 1 week ago:
I have made ZERO blind assertions and provided a definition from CAMBRIDGE.
Your points aren’t real, if only they were as solid as a brick wall. You have nothing to back you up, I have decades of word usage and published definitions used everywhere English is used.
That’s because you’re wrong, and that’s okay!
- Comment on Tankie 1 week ago:
No, it’s not. Tankie in NO WAY means “people who support peace”.
You explained why, true, but your explanation was FALSE. Because words are defined by common use. And common use of the word “tankie” is “authoritarian communist”, not “people who support peace”.
You saying I’ve failed proves that I’m right, because you also say “tankie means people who support peace”. Your claims are absurdly wrong to a comical degree, you’re some kind of bizarro tankie that hates itself.
- Comment on Tankie 1 week ago:
Indeed, I said that I directly addressed your points because I did.
I never said “this is how I use it.” The definition exists independently of me or you.
And that definition is “authoritarian communist”, and has nothing to do with peace, actually!
- Comment on Tankie 1 week ago:
I didn’t say that’s what you said, I addressed how I responded to you. Obviously.
I don’t care what you are and don’t want to discuss you, thank you.
Tankie means “authoritarian communist”, regardless of what you are or what you think the word means. “Tankie” has nothing to do with “peace”.
Definitions exist independently of you, thank God!
- Comment on Art of the deal.. 1 week ago:
If only he really had Downs, things would be much better.
- Comment on Tankie 1 week ago:
Yes, really!
I addressed your argument re “definition”, what the definition was, and what makes a definition.
It’s okay if you don’t see that, that means that you are suffering from some sort of cognitive dissonance. You can’t see it! It’s like it doesn’t exist!
No accusations have been made, it’s all here for anyone else to see (as long as they don’t share your cognitive dissonance, that is).
What you say or “believe” doesn’t matter, the definition of “tankie” remains “authoritarian communist”, not “peace-loving friends” or what have you. And tankies love tanks and communism and Stalin.
What you personally are or are not doesn’t matter, it’s irrelevant.
- Comment on Tankie 1 week ago:
I addressed them each, directly.
And you are a tankie, because you are an authoritarian communist who wants to crush dissent with tanks or any other means.
But you can’t! It’s a tragedy.
- Comment on Tankie 1 week ago:
I addressed all of them.
You’re ignoring that because you’re wrong. And that’s fine. See you later, tankie
- Comment on Tankie 1 week ago:
The definition reflects how it’s actually used. That’s what definitions are. They are what is “actually used”. If they weren’t what was actually used, they would cease to be definitions.
It’s not generally actually used towards people who promote peaceful, diplomatic solutions.
It **actually **used to refer to “authoritarian communists” generally.
You should recognize that your subjective experiences never dictate objective reality. You are not “the decider”.
The people who have used the term inappropriately against you were either jerking your chain and using it ironically, or misinformed and stupid.
- Comment on Tankie 4 weeks ago:
Well, that’s just silly.
I didn’t make the definition
tankie noun A member of the Communist Party of Great Britain who slavishly followed the Kremlin line, agreeing with the crushing of revolts in Hungary and later Czechoslovakia by Soviet tanks.
This was how the term was first used in the 80s. As of today, the definition has expanded to “authoritarian communists”.
Nothing about peace yet, sorry.
- Comment on Tankie 4 weeks ago:
Words are defined by common use. If the common use of the word “tankie” is to throw it at people who oppose war, then that’s what it means now. You can say it’s defined as being pro- war, but I’ve never seen it used that way.
Indeed. And the common use of the word tankie is “authoritarian communist”
Why are you using an uncommon definition?
- Comment on Tankie 4 weeks ago:
Yes, really! I’ve been called a tankie and a Nazi and worse. Don’t judge what a tankie or Nazi is by insults on the internet, hyperbole and bullshit rule.
Again, your definition is not the standard definition. Tankies love tanks. And Communism. And Stalin. Which is funny, because Stalin wasn’t much of a communist.
I use the standard definition, that’s it. I am not familiar with the tankies you describe, I haven’t met them… Tankies hating tanks seems wrong to me. Back in the day they loved the T-34 tank and Russia in WW2 and so on.
Where can I find YOUR definition of “tankie”, the peace loving gentle communist? Seriously
- Comment on Tankie 5 weeks ago:
I agree with you! And as we speak, they are selling weapons to the Taliban, and selling weapons to whoever is fighting Taliban at the moment.
After there’s nothing left but smoking rubble, the IMF (controlled by the same concerns) will give the winner a “loan.” The winner won’t be able to pay off those loans, so what will they do? Provide them with more loans to cover those loans. The interest is all profit, and the “loan” is never actual printed money in circulation and is “virtual money”, so it costs them nothing. They collect all of that interest with no cost to themselves.
I’m simplifying, it’s actually much worse than I describe. The more you investigate it, the worse it gets…
- Comment on Tankie 5 weeks ago:
My parents are dead! (runs out of room crying)
- Comment on Tankie 5 weeks ago:
Tankies are “authoritarian communists”, they are not pro peace in any way, they love tanks.
(standard definition, not familiar with the tankies that you describe)
- Comment on Tankie 5 weeks ago:
Those in control of the USA are internationalists, too.
They don’t care who “wins”, they profit off of the war itself.
They love tankies