HCSOThrowaway
@HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon orders food 10 hours ago:
They’re not my rules. They’re our rules. I didn’t create English.
You and I both agree on the definition of “I,” “never,” “agreed,” “to,” “any,” “of,” “your,” “rules,” and “weird,” otherwise you wouldn’t have bothered typing that out. You knew I would understand what you wrote because we both form and express ideas with little characters known as “the Latin Alphabet” in specific permutations known as “English words” in specific permutations known as “English grammar.”
Those are all rules. Your childish “Fuck the system! I communicate how I want!” is naive, impractical, and not a principle you actually follow or you would be typing complete gibberish non-language via Wingdings and everyone would ignore you accordingly. You’ve accepted that some may ignore you because you break some English rules, but you do agree to follow most of them.
In other words, you desperately want to pretend not to care about how effectively you communicate with others, potentially to virtue signal that position, but you don’t actually believe that deep down. As they say, “larp larp larp sahur.”
- Comment on The Dangers of Socialism they warned us about... 10 hours ago:
Of course not. It’s a very effective pejorative. Really good at polarizing people into camps. Because, if you still say you like the guy, then you’re enabling tyranny. And that justifies hating the defenders of the government just as much as hating the government itself. If you start off saying you agree, then its straight on to “Well then you must be glad we flattened that guy’s house and killed as many of his friends and family as possible.”
So what would you call a head of state who happily and repeatedly conducts crimes against humanity and oppresses people?
I’m just tired of hearing people regurgitate ultra-nationalist propaganda.
Which what I said very obviously isn’t.
The reflexive need to point to Bad Country and dogmatically recite the prayer “At least we’re not in Bad Country”. Then to justify any horror inflicted abroad, by mouthing the apologia “At least we killed the Bad People. Now we’ll be greeted as liberators.”
Which I didn’t do.
I know you are here to block me. Block, coward, you are only going to block a man.
Blocking people who argue in bad faith is cathartic and productive in the sense that I can divert my time towards reading things written by people discussing things in good faith instead; it’s an opportunity cost thing.
- Comment on The Dangers of Socialism they warned us about... 11 hours ago:
That’s a whole lot of writing just to say, “I agree, but I want to argue with you.”
Did he or did he not use violence to throw out the Tsarists and then the Mensheviks?
Was the party he (and his comrades) created a vanguard party or was it not?
- Comment on How would Sam Altman have any idea what humans enjoy? 11 hours ago:
“The back-breaking toil is half the fun for these laborers!”
- People who have never labored in their life
- Comment on The Dangers of Socialism they warned us about... 11 hours ago:
You always know a guy who is fresh out of Reddit when they sound like an LLM listing off Logical Fallacies.
You’re the one who brought them up first, buddy. You’re the pot calling the kettle black here.
Exactly! And which countries are run by despotic tyrants? Always and forever the ones we don’t like.
So there’s no such thing as a despotic tyrant in your mind? Those words only exist to malign benevolent heads of state?
Pinning down what you’re about is exhausting given you love to play insincere. Have some intestinal fortitude and stop retreating behind sarcasm.
That or I can just block you. That’d probably be best for both of us, given your bad faith tactics.
- Comment on Anon orders food 12 hours ago:
right, so why are you doing that then? almost like you are directly contradicting yourself here… hmm
It’s not my personal feeling; as I said, it’s the agreed upon rules that everyone else use that I also use to make communication between us all easier.
maybe because you’re one of these folks and you are angry at being called out?
I mean, I’m quite obviously someone who capitalizes “I” for reasons I have repeatedly stated, so I guess? I don’t know why that computes as “anger” for you, but… okay!
let me do you one better, I’ll argue
Holy fuck you used a capitalized “I!” Guards!
- Comment on Anon orders food 12 hours ago:
It’s just widely-agreed-upon conventions to make the text more readable.
Injecting your personal feelings about how English should be written into everything you write is way more selfish than capitalizing “I.”
- Comment on The Dangers of Socialism they warned us about... 13 hours ago:
Politics is far too much like team sports for a lot of people.
People on Lemmy act like criticizing the misdeeds of the USSR is an attack on all of socialism’s principles.
- Comment on The Dangers of Socialism they warned us about... 13 hours ago:
Then we agree but you wanted to frame it as us disagreeing in order to fight?
Where the propaganda comes in is implying that it’s the only way socialism can work/happen at all. The stereotyping I referred to is the propaganda. But that propaganda would have zero fuel if it wasn’t for the authoritarian regimes I referred to.
- Comment on The Dangers of Socialism they warned us about... 13 hours ago:
Here let me help you (by using the same bad faith tactics you’re using against (y)our preferred economic model).
Socialism is when the people in the vanguard party make decisions for society.
You don’t get to decide what happens.
- Comment on The Dangers of Socialism they warned us about... 13 hours ago:
MFW the entire US and most of the western world is imaginary.
- Comment on The Dangers of Socialism they warned us about... 13 hours ago:
No.
Not all misunderstandings are propaganda, but all propaganda intends to create misunderstandings.
- Comment on The Dangers of Socialism they warned us about... 13 hours ago:
I’m far from a scholar on economics, let alone socialism or communism, but my understanding of the broad strokes would be:
Lenin proposed that a vanguard party implement Marx-described socialism by force. That one-two combination is called “communism” by many.
- Comment on Anon orders food 13 hours ago:
Your anecdote doesn’t change anything I said, nor my opinion.
If anything you biased me against what you’re trying to push with your lazy writing style, which is ironic given you criticize what you see as laziness in others.
- Comment on The Dangers of Socialism they warned us about... 13 hours ago:
This is a pedantic comment; read “Marxist-Leninism” where you see “Communism” when a lot of people use the latter.
- Comment on The Dangers of Socialism they warned us about... 14 hours ago:
I do hope you’re trolling, because it’s really funny that you make a reference to Whataboutism fallacies and then immediately invoke a kind of Slippery Slope Strawman yourself.
No, saying despotic tyrannies are bad does not mean that one must embrace laisse-faire capitalist individualism, and it’s weird that you felt the need to say otherwise.
“We must embrace the boot on our necks lest people do naughty individualist things with their liberties. Send me to the gulag next so that I may not sin.”
- Comment on The Dangers of Socialism they warned us about... 15 hours ago:
I don’t think socialism and democracy have anything to do with each other (other than that if you give people democracy they will generally vote for socialism depending on how empathetic the group is).
You can have socialism with zero democracy and you can have socialism with tons of democracy.
- Comment on The Dangers of Socialism they warned us about... 15 hours ago:
We never are. The Foreigners are always worse.
??? No.
I’ve been reading this since the Reagan Administration. It’s also Big Government. It’s always Authoritarianism. The remedy is always some flavor of Deregulation or States Rights or (Capitalist) Anarchism or A Return to The Constitutional Principles.
I can’t tell if you’re asserting we’re past this point or we’ll never get to this point.
Real Literal Reaganism
I can’t tell if you’re asserting I’m siding with Reagan or the post is siding with Reagan, but both are hilariously off-base.
- Comment on The Dangers of Socialism they warned us about... 16 hours ago:
In the US we’re not quite USSR/CCP-levels of these things yet (which are the countries anti-socialist people think of when they demonize socialism) (therefore the post is hyperbole/propaganda), but we’ve been making big leaps lately so I think this meme will be true soon. I think the much more coherent, accurate, and therefore effective facet of this is pointing out that it’s authoritarianism that does this, not socialism. We’ve had (very limited) socialism in the US for many years, and many prosperous and well-regarded-in-supposed-anti-socialist-people’s-eyes countries have more socialism than the US has.
- Comment on The Dangers of Socialism they warned us about... 16 hours ago:
100%
The reason why socialism gets stereotyped as authoritarian is that most hyper-capitalist societies are very resistant to becoming much more socialist in short order, so authoritarian factions emerge to make (violent) revolution, which begets an authoritarian system of government when those factions finish the revolution and are in a perfect position to fill the power vacuum.
- Comment on Anon orders food 16 hours ago:
Unironically, yes.
It doesn’t occur to most Americans to walk a bit instead of drive.
This is exacerbated by the design of American neighborhoods that discourages walking and encourages driving, which of course becomes a feedback loop where Americans don’t walk because their neighborhoods aren’t designed for it - or worse - designed against it.
- Comment on Just got arrested for a supposed DWI even though I blew a 0.0000000. Don't cops need to read your Miranda rights to you? I asked for a blood or hair follicle test and I was denied. WTH is happening? 16 hours ago:
Your example is both irrelevant and inaccurate; cops still get speed estimation training.
- Comment on Civic duty 1 day ago:
Yep, but good luck convincing a jury who raised on CSI/NCIS/etc. shows.
- Comment on Just got arrested for a supposed DWI even though I blew a 0.0000000. Don't cops need to read your Miranda rights to you? I asked for a blood or hair follicle test and I was denied. WTH is happening? 1 day ago:
No matter how much we expect/hope/demand cops to be superhuman, they will never be.
- Comment on US problems require US solutions 2 days ago:
Worth a shot!
- Comment on We hate him no matter who he represents. 2 days ago:
Was that before or after he vaccinated his troops because vaccinations are good and help keep war-fighters in fighting shape?
- Comment on US problems require US solutions 2 days ago:
It’s like carrying a backup fire extinguisher to go with your fire extinguisher.
You’ll probably never need one, and while it’s not impossible (see: this incident), it’s very unlikely that you’ll need both.
I’m a one fire extinguisher kind of guy. That makes me far more prepared than 0 but not as insane and impractical as 2.
- Comment on We hate him no matter who he represents. 2 days ago:
I don’t know J @jasonllevin well enough to make that assessment.
- Comment on Civic duty 2 days ago:
Though it’s important to remember that modern juries expect CSI-level investigations from the cops, where you can simply “enhance” a photo until the suspect is easily identifiable and all criminals coat the crime scene in semen prior to fleeing, so if there’s no clear footage or DNA evidence, a lot of people think that must mean the cops are incompetent.
- Comment on We hate him no matter who he represents. 2 days ago:
His logic is based in the notion that Party must be placed above Country or Principles.
… which is insane, and arguably exactly how the worst governments in history got so bad.