Comrade_Spood
@Comrade_Spood@quokk.au
- Comment on Mary's Revenge 5 days ago:
I know from experience bearded dragons can, so I would assume reptiles generally can. But take that with a grain of salt. Idk about invertabrates tho
- Comment on California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park 1 week ago:
You’re punishing him solely to potentially prevent others from doing copying him. Which frankly is insane. Cause lets be honest, he was more than likely right, so punishing him isn’t going to make him regret what he did. He would probably do it again under similar circumstances. If his work is undone by the city, then not only will it make his sacrificd meaningless, it will also likely make him and others want to escalate. If his actions do work, whether or not he is punished, it serves as proof that his strategy works, and if people are desperate enough they will copy him. Then lastly the people who want to fuck with traffic stuff just for the fun of it are not going to be the kinds of people deterred by the possibility of getting arrested.
Punishing him not only won’t stop shit, it further proves him right. Making an example of him is punishing a man for doing the right thing when the city wouldn’t and is unproductive and wrong. The city shoulda just put the stop sign in and none of this would have been an issue.
- Comment on The unAbomber. Otherwise, I agree. 1 week ago:
Looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, its a duck. I don’t really care if the duck says its not a duck and that it is against ducks, its still a duck. When you go about blaming the lefties (of which he labelled fascists as leftists) and the gays, and envisioning a society that would functionally genocide a bunch of people I am gonna call you a fascist. Cause if we just got rid of technology and returned to primitive living, a lot of people would die. Namely disabled people and people with chronic illnesses. It is indirect eugenics. Its exactly why most anarchists nowadays do not associate with anarcho-primitivists, and call them eco-fascists as well.
The reason why people like Bookchin and Bari are better is because they critique industrialization while putting forward solutions that don’t kill a bunch of people.
And lets not pretend like fascism is this coherent or cohesive ideology. Its an ideology of opportunism. Mussolini and Hitler were vastly different, and even just comparing Mussolini’s writing to his actions there’s a lot of differences. For example Mussolini’s writings were anti-monarchist, yet the monarchy remained in fascist Italy because it gave him an opportunity.
Ted might not have been a fascist ideologically, but his ideology is not incompatible with fascism. And the consequences of his ideology is still genocide, even if indirectly. So maybe rather than fighting over whether it is or isn’t fascism, we should fight it cause it is bad and harmful.
- Comment on The unAbomber. Otherwise, I agree. 1 week ago:
Thats the problem. So maybe rather than giving the eco-fascist more coverage, we should highlight people who deserve it
- Comment on The unAbomber. Otherwise, I agree. 1 week ago:
Yes that is what I am saying. But just because someone made some good points doesn’t mean we should keep using them as the defacto idealogue. Imagine if we kept saying “Hitler had some good points” when talking about animal rights or Osama Bin Laden for anti-imperialism. If you want an edgy thing to make a meme like this out of, use the ELF or ALF. Two groups that are controversial but lack the eco-fascism narrative of the unabomber.
- Comment on The unAbomber. Otherwise, I agree. 1 week ago:
I never said don’t read it, but comparing and contrasting is not what is happening. Its like when Osama Bin Laden’s manifesto or whatever was making the rounds and everyone was like “ya know he makes some good points.” Everyone just keeps parroting the points of far-right extremists cause they pointed out a pretty universal issue like imperialism, consumerism, environmental destruction, etc. If the only perspective that gets spread is that of a far-right nutjob, then it normalizes the problematic parts of their perspective. Its always just begins and ends with “the unabomber made some good points.” Not “the unabomber made some good points, but Bookchin is more practical and not a eco-fascist.”
- Comment on The unAbomber. Otherwise, I agree. 1 week ago:
That have been made by much better people who weren’t also eco-fascists.
- Comment on The unAbomber. Otherwise, I agree. 1 week ago:
To all the people in the comments being like “Ted had some good points.” Judi Bari, Peter Kropotkin, and Murray Bookchin are all people who have written about environmentalism and the problems of technology, industrialization, and such and better than the reactionary psychopath did. Fascists love the unabomber and use him to normalize eco-fascism. Stop fucking saying he had good points cause there are better authors who have made those same points without all the fucking reactionary and eco-fascism tied to it.
- Comment on You're cured! 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, they are DOs
- Comment on You're cured! 2 weeks ago:
You can also go to a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) who is an actual doctor and will crack your back in scientifically backed ways.
- Comment on I know. Somehow, I've always known. 5 weeks ago:
Power can only account for arrogance so much. I interpret it as Anakin was the most powerful Jedi, but his arrogance and lack of self control often times got in the way of it. So to me, Obiwan didn’t win because he was stronger, but because he was in control.
- Comment on Remedy's new CEO is a former sports betting guy and EA executive who aims to 'scale Remedy in a way that builds lasting value' 1 month ago:
I imagine locking Alan Wake 2 to the EGS on pc probably did not help their sales there. FBC I feel like had no excuse though
- Comment on This is crazy. Why don't you just take their car ? 2 months ago:
I agree with you largely. Although I don’t think people downvote for the cognitive dissonance, at least thats not the reason I do. I live in a very rural state, and even the most industrialized cities here have dog shit public transportation and are not bike-able or walkable. I also do not want to live in a city, so I really have no options but to have a car. Personally, when I hear people say “get rid of cars” it feels very privileged because it comes off as a very blanket solution that is really only achievable in cities and other urbanized environments. Otherwise I do largely agree with boosting public transportation and other non-car centric solutions, and obviously I definitely agree with completely replacing the justice system around one of rehabilitation and addressing problems that cause crime in the first place.
- Comment on This is crazy. Why don't you just take their car ? 2 months ago:
Coulda woulda shoulda whatever, thats not reality. People break rules and punishments aren’t effective at stopping them. So come up with an effective way of stopping it without ruining people’s lives or shut the fuck up. No one deserves their life ruined over speeding, and if you think they do then I hope you get to experience the other end of the stick.
Also L+ratio
- Comment on This is crazy. Why don't you just take their car ? 2 months ago:
And if you were smart enough to use critical thinking and follow your logic to its inevitable conclusion, you’d see how that would just send people into cycles perpetually keeping them in prison and never being able to reform or reintigrate into society all over a speeding ticket. But since you aren’t, let me walk you through it.
John gets a in trouble for speeding. Maybe they give him a ticket he cant afford or maybe they just take his car away. Either way it doesnt matter, it just speeds up the cycle so lets go fast and say he loses the car. He now lacks a car so I hope his town has good public transportation! Oops it doesn’t, guess he loses his job because he cant get there on time. Now John is houseless. We all know how the houseless are treated so lets just skip to John going to prison. Lets say a year or so later he gets out. Now he will have an even harder time finding a job because he has a criminal record AND is houseless. On and on.
Now since we both understand the cycle I imagine you still think his car should be taken away but simply because youre a hateful and vengeful person who doesnt care about actually stopping crime, but just want to see people who do something wrong get punished (whether or not the punishment will have unintended consequences that cause the punishment to be way more severe than the crime).
- Comment on Thanks 🙏🏻 2 months ago:
The only experience I have is in not having any experiences, and the only thing I know is that I know nothing about anything
- Comment on Took you a while... 2 months ago:
The only thing stopping me from going to GOG now is just being able to play with friends and the steam workshop. I think I’ll start getting my single player games that dont have steam workshop on GOG now
- Comment on does this count as a science meme? :3 3 months ago:
Fixed, now you get “couldn’t’ve” and “to’ve”
- Comment on TV watch you and... 3 months ago:
God I wish piefed allowed me to change my display name, cause I would totally change it to that while the cornposting is going on
- Comment on TV watch you and... 3 months ago:
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- Comment on Some people in the sub right now be like 3 months ago:
The filter is the fucking community. This space is for shitposts, not political news. You guys spit in the face of the natural filters in place (communities curated for specific things) and just tell us to filter it. Itd be like if you broke into my house and pissed on my floor and just told me to lock the doors. Like bro I did, you came through the second floor window.
- Comment on Some people in the sub right now be like 3 months ago:
Shit post, not a shitpost
- Comment on does this count as a science meme? :3 3 months ago:
Genuinely had a therapist like this. Kept telling her my problems were from an abuse relationship I had in high school, and she kept insisting it couldn’t of been that, it had to of been my parents. Despite me repeating ad nauseum that my parents were supportive and loving. Needless to say I did not continue seeing her.
- Comment on 6🤷♀️7 3 months ago:
- Comment on Latitudes 3 months ago:
Damn you could fit like 3 Two Sicilies in there. Which is likes 8 regular Sicilies
- Comment on 6🤷♀️7 3 months ago:
We had 9+10=21 so I do not think we have a high horse to sit on
- Comment on 6🤷♀️7 3 months ago:
You’re forgetting the most relevant one. Whats 9+10? 21
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 3 months ago:
Quick correction. We didnt steal it, we used it because of the British, then the British decided they didnt like the term anymore and swapped to “football” and Americans just kinda kept using it. Same thing with imperial measurements. They were invented by the British, we used them cause we were a british colony, then Britain changed their mind and Americans stuck with the original.
Long story short, British invent something and the Americans use it cause former british colony, then the british change their mind and then make fun of the Americans while the pretend they werent the people who invented it in the first place.
Its some gaslighting bullshit
- Comment on Things to say at the library 4 months ago:
- Comment on circle discussion 4 months ago:
Bro, I am just going to assume you are ragebaiting me cause no way did you use Its Always Sunny as a source lmao
