teslekova
@teslekova@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Shoutout to yall 10 hours ago:
That is not true at all. If it was, I would litter everywhere, and my body freak, health-obsessed adopted sister would never have thrown plastic wrappers cheerfully out the window of the car. (She does not do that any more, we trained her to give a shit. Hard upbringing, from which our adoption lifted her.)
- Comment on Shoutout to yall 10 hours ago:
It would make sense if you littered on that day only, before the pick-up, and only if it wasn’t light enough to blow away.
- Comment on my ideal relationship 1 day ago:
Scaroused.
- Comment on Firearm Advice 6 days ago:
You’re both wrong, they’re for unscrewing really tight screws.
- Comment on whos your favorite borg? mine is localhost 1 week ago:
Big bada Borg, yeah she knows it’s a multiborg
- Comment on Also how do I know if it works? 1 week ago:
The trick, dear Kazu, is not minding that it hurts.
- Comment on I was told it would be a cultural experience 1 week ago:
Jerky… Counter?
Goddamnit, yet another reason to visit a country right at the time I’d probably get arrested on the way in.
- Comment on I know. Somehow, I've always known. 1 week ago:
Hot.
- Comment on nothing really matters 1 week ago:
Cool, now you can quadcopter.
- Comment on ..? 1 week ago:
Ha! Same here.
- Comment on ..? 1 week ago:
Supporting Putin in the name of communism is the funniest thing tankies do, imo.
- Comment on ..? 1 week ago:
Tankie means someone who sometimes defends socialist authoritarian governments because they oppose the capitalist authoritarian governments.
They(we, sometimes, it’s complicated) have a tendency to forgive the crimes of those socialist governments. Sometimes this is justified, because the accusations are false, invented by capitalist media as propaganda.
However, sometimes it’s because we want to believe that the opposition to capitalism is always good and decent, when the truth is muddy and rather unpleasant: both sides suck in their own special ways, and you shouldn’t put anyone on a pedestal.
Here in the fediverse, anarchist leftists or left-libs are the norm, so we tankies get dogpiled pretty often. A pox on all hierarchical governments seems to be the way here.
- Comment on ..? 1 week ago:
You got the timeline wrong there. The US installed the Shah in the 50s, after destroying Iran’s democratic leftist government. Then in the 70s, the Iranian people rose up and removed the Shah. Almost immediately, though, the revolution was hijacked by fundamentalist clerics.
When the revolutionary government was put under pressure by an invasion from Saddam Hussein on behalf of George Bush Snr, which killed millions, that allowed the Revolutionary Guard to consolidate power, and become the brutally repressive government we see today.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
The flat surfaces make them look very… stackable. Do you know anyone with a crane?
- Comment on CONTACT LEFT! 3 weeks ago:
Liberate is standard army slang for steal, yes.
- Comment on deez nutz save lives 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, where were they fighting, the Pacific or something?
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 3 weeks ago:
That is something that people only understand at their own pace. Being shouted at, shamed by others, tends to reinforce the problem. It makes them defensive.
I get that venting can make the people who were right feel better, but that’s usually all it does.
For a good example, the left have been right about the problems in the DNC since 2015, and it has not helped whenever we point this out. Shouting at conservative Democrats has only made them more defensive, and alienated both sides from each other.
As usual, the solution is hard. Work towards building power and organisation from the bottom up, and don’t waste time hoping that the people who benefit from this mess will magically decide to do the right thing. I wish I hadn’t wasted so much time doing that.
Focus on what people need, pick three or four straightforward policies, and do everything you can to push those forward and promote your sincere effort to do so.
Don’t accept any funding from groups who want things you do not want, because that funding will be a chain holding you back.
Don’t lie.
Don’t. Lie.
People, the ones you want support from, aren’t fucking stupid. Don’t lie.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 3 weeks ago:
Gaza would have been worse, because Netanyahu would have kept up the bombing.
However, Kamala would never have defunded USAID, so those million and a half people who are dying right now from starvation and disease would be alive.
So, honestly, not voting for Kamala was a bad idea.
But it’s still because of the DNC corporate donors that Trump is in office right now, because they refuse to allow the people a progressive alternative.
Blame is pointless. I am talking about what needs to change. Shouting at reluctant third party voters will do nothing but raise your blood pressure.
Campaigning for the downfall of Chuck Schumer, there’s a worthy cause.
- Comment on We live in the future! 4 weeks ago:
Honestly the illegal cab company has been the most useful for me. Sometimes my car breaks down.
Mind you, the best illegal service I ever used was Dream market. Very convenient for buying acid and weed.
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 4 weeks ago:
FYI, Cyberpunk 2077’s DLC is the best I’ve ever seen, and thoroughly worth paying for. Unlike quite a few others, as you mention. It makes everything in the base game better, and the additional story is even better than the story in the base game.
- Comment on Alabama is forcing incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. Unionizing is illegal. The state takes 40% of wages. 5 weeks ago:
The formerly enslaved people willing to speak out and use their names on camera for this doco are incredibly brave. They are going to be targeted for this, and they know it. The system does not want to stop making money, and it will do anything to protect the cashflow.
- Comment on do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs? 5 weeks ago:
I like the lemon speech, but sometimes it’s good to try and be original, fail horribly, and regret everything.
- Comment on do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs? 5 weeks ago:
Fucking love it. Fresh-cooked eggs are great, especially egg yolk.
However, if you genuinely don’t like em, don’t let anyone force you to eat them just because most people like them! Throw the eggs in their face! Demand a better thing that isn’t an egg! Build a house of pain made of egg-loving freaks! Stand on it, laughing maniacally, flamethrower trigger permanently on!
…or hopefully people will accept it when you politely refuse eggs. That would also be nice.
- Comment on You are allowed flavor 5 weeks ago:
Google Churchill and Bengal famine.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 1 month ago:
That sounds like it was the inspiration for the specific timeline of the Ghorman Massacre in Andor.
- Comment on The holy journey 1 month ago:
How much acid have you taken yourself? Because it definitely works when swallowed.
- Comment on Utopia 1 month ago:
Sheep gotta ewe-nionise.
- Comment on We were all thinking it 1 month ago:
You could refer to a prostitute as a woodworker, depending on the clientele.
- Comment on What a great idea 1 month ago:
I guess we found the grocery maniac.
If they were tired and unable to communicate (happens to us all mate) they would have been okay with their cart being moved. Getting angry at the cart being moved, after saying it was okay to go, is the tell that this person was not capable of polite reason.
- Comment on What a great idea 1 month ago:
Glad the second encounter balanced out the first one. What a maniac.