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- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 1 day ago:
“Only a handful of people indicate to me that I’m being an asshole when I know I’m being an asshole. What are you going to do? I am helpless in this situation.”
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 1 week ago:
Weird how many videos I’ve seen of German police beating anti-genocide protestors and British police arresting seniors for expressing anti-genocide opinions. Maybe that was just an American psyop.
White supremacy is the problem, and America may have the worst case of that, but certainly not the only case.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 1 week ago:
Cops basically exist to prevent people from taking revenge into their own hands.
No, cops exist to protect capital.
This is just one example too, they’ve issued multiple similar rulings. Also, uh, see: Uvalde.
If there were no cops, do you think these white “Karens” would just leave the black men alone? Or do you think they’d get together and lynch them?
…you think cops keep black people safe? Are you being remotely serious here?
- Comment on Gold 2 weeks ago:
We need to work on our social sciences before any other science can bring anyone real benefit anymore…
Well said. I have associate degrees only in Bio/Chem, and I was going to keep going but… why? To work for an evil pharmaceutical company? To work in the shitty corporate cannabis industry? To advise rich assholes on how to cut down our national forests in a way which makes it appear like it’s not the end of the world?
The only STEM career I’ve found which seems guaranteed to be ethical is the people who do wildlife surveys, finding endangered bees and whatnot to block bullshit luxury real estate. But going through all that education to aim for a single, specific, probably-not-very-common position doesn’t seem very smart.
- Comment on Gold 2 weeks ago:
Oi, beltalowda
- Comment on Language barrier 2 weeks ago:
There’s also, at least for Spanish but probably for other languages too, a significant difference between the academic version and the colloquial version.
I assume it’s sort of like if you, as an English speaker, only spoke as if you were composing a college essay.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 weeks ago:
The point I was making:
No.
You are saying that you depend on the left in order to win. In politics, that’s called leverage. The onus is on your party to run a candidate we find acceptable and behave in such a way that we reasonably believe they may uphold their campaign promises. Failing that, we do not care if your genocidal, oligarch-and-Zionazi-owned party wins or loses. You may view them as the lesser evil; that doesn’t matter to people like me who view them as equally evil. You can argue on Lemmy and Threads and Bluesky all day, it won’t change the minds of people who have seen what the Democrats are and what they support. You can win an election by meeting our demands, or you can keep losing. We owe you nothing and have no interest in your success otherwise.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 weeks ago:
Unfortunately I think the really brutal and sad reality is that they view the inconveniences / discrimination / etc they have been subjected to - or honestly more often, hypothetically could be subject to - as taking precedence over the actual murder of tens of thousands of brown people overseas.
They don’t think of it that way consciously and they’ll get angry and go into cognitive dissonance mode if you point it out, but voting for Dem or Republican requires one flavor or another of white supremacy imo. Or at least prioritizing the damages caused by white supremacy below their own personal priorities.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 weeks ago:
I’m doing a secret third thing: voting for someone who isn’t evil.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 weeks ago:
…I’m not, actually.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 weeks ago:
I don’t really care what you do in your country.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 weeks ago:
Agreed and same. I think Luigi was morally correct but I personally value my life and freedom. I accept that’s selfish and cowardly to a degree, but I also recognize I’m an animal who wants to reproduce someday and not die before then (or too early after).
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 weeks ago:
There were tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of Renee Goods murdered in Palestine with Biden’s help.
Miss me with that Blue MAGA weaponization of martyrs to further the goals of your preferred imperialist dogs. Disgusting.
I don’t vote for genocidaires. I don’t vote for imperialists. Period, no exceptions.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 weeks ago:
No.
You are saying that you depend on the left in order to win. In politics, that’s called leverage. The onus is on your party to run a candidate we find acceptable and behave in such a way that we reasonably believe they may uphold their campaign promises. Failing that, we do not care if your genocidal, oligarch-and-Zionazi-owned party wins or loses. You may view them as the lesser evil; that doesn’t matter to people like me who view them as equally evil. You can argue on Lemmy and Threads and Bluesky all day, it won’t change the minds of people who have seen what the Democrats are and what they support. You can change that by meeting our demands, or you can keep losing. We owe you nothing and have no interest in your success otherwise.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 weeks ago:
This picture might make sense if not for the reality that quantifiably more people died in Palestine during Joe Biden’s term than during Donald Trump’s.
They are both fascist Zionazi shitstains, errors in our species, to be clear, but just saying, Blue MAGA is as out of touch with reality as regular MAGA is.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 weeks ago:
Same.
Can’t say the same about when I was duped into voting for Genocide Joe, though.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 weeks ago:
In politics in general, sure.
In American electoral politics, tell that to the massive grassroots support of Bernie Sanders who were disenfranchised by the DNC, who argued in court (successfully) that they could “go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way” if they wanted to while defending the reality that they showed a clear bias (read: rigged the primaries) against the people’s candidate in favor of the corporate candidate.
The DNC is a rotten corpse that some people insist on continuing to provide mouth-to-mouth to.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 weeks ago:
I’m not voting for either oligarch-and-Zionazi-owned party.
If that’s the price of maintaining our plutocracy which we call “democracy” for some reason, I refuse. Too expensive. Not getting my name. Won’t stop them, but not getting my name to endorse your evil, Blue MAGA.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 weeks ago:
I’ll take “child” over “war criminal apologist” any day
- Comment on this is real btw 3 weeks ago:
Ask the indigenous people of America whether they feel the military liberated them, now or 80 years ago or 200.
America knocked down the fascists because they fucked with us, we were quite content to let them conquer Europe and Asia before that. You’re promoting American exceptionalism mythology.
And even then it was the Russians who actually defeated the Nazis.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 weeks ago:
This American is clearly more knowledgeable than you, yes.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 weeks ago:
Didnt read, dont care about how you justify supporting imperialist garbage
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 weeks ago:
Maybe stick to topics where you actually know what you’re talking about, then, because American politics clearly isn’t that.
- Comment on It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist. 3 weeks ago:
Not to feed the American billionaires who are currently actively ruining my life and the life of all those who I love. Chinese billionaires are certainly no friend of the working class, but again, “lesser evil” is the game when it comes to consumption (unless you can buy used). The CCP literally disappeared Jack Ma for a few months last time he stepped out of line lol (and the CCP is also no friend of mine, to be clear, but is also absolutely less evil than my country)
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 weeks ago:
Democrats aren’t left. Hope that helps.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 weeks ago:
Barack Obama also spent years illegally drone striking innocent people in Yemen and bragged about how good he was at killing people.
As someone who kept my house only because of Obama’s programs, I don’t think the latter quite justifies the former.
- Comment on It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist. 3 weeks ago:
I said “grew up”, not “born and raised”. Though I guess it was a few months so I was still overstating it, sorry about that. But the point remains: it helps to provide context for his attempts to justify the illegal occupation’s continued existence.
- Comment on It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist. 3 weeks ago:
Quote where I said or implied that.
- Comment on It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s the only thing I’d still use FB for at this point
- Comment on It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist. 3 weeks ago:
He grew up in Israel and still defends its right to exist (which inherently requires existing on top of a racial underclass) and brutally repress indigenous anticolonial uprisings. That’s what he’s saying every time he says “of course Israel has a right to defend itself, but…”
I don’t need to Google shit, I’ve followed him for years and I know what he is.