Semjeza
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- Comment on Growth 3 days ago:
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- Comment on Growth 4 days ago:
The “bi” is for both homosexual and heterosexual relations. Not gender itself.
- Comment on Direct Action Is Now Terrorism 5 days ago:
… But the suffragettes were terrorists.
When states murder and wage war to get their way, don’t let them convince you that terrorism is always wrong. Because they’ll never say the state’s violence is wrong.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Imperialism always comes home to roost.
The technologies and techniques used to oppress the other get justified and moralised, and then get deployed in the metropole against the working classes.
- Comment on UK minister defends changes to student loans as criticism mounts 1 week ago:
Could always just do away with loans and make higher education free for the users.
This paid method hasn’t really helped much, has it and now if they’re saying the loans are going to loose too much money… Why not cut out the middle steps and just fund universities?
- Comment on The Russian Neo-Nazi Network Pushing ‘White Lives Matter’ Division in Britain – Promoted by Tommy Robinson 1 week ago:
Really?
Cause I think we have a track record in the UK of not caring, regardless of evidence of foreign backing. The proof of the extent that Farage’s various poor excuses for a piss up party had Trumpist as well as Russian backing was huge, but never seemed to get in their way.
- Comment on The Projected Truth 2 weeks ago:
Post-modernism denies grand narratives and puts forward that people will deceive themselves for their own benefit.
And indeed that values and ideals are socially contracted, so what is “Good” will vary across space-time.Not that there is no Truth.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
About 20.
More if you include oral, manual, and the like.
- Comment on Two men convicted of wounding journalist in London ‘on orders of Iran’ 2 weeks ago:
But ours are done by private companies that merely get preferable treatment from the government, not the nation itself.
So when BP or Rio Tinto do it, get government spokesmen to defend them, make sure any investigations lag, get government legal and financial assistance, are well warned of any seizures of computers, and invariably declare corrupt lone operatives, it’s totally different.
Not the same at all. - Comment on In some heavy Muslim countries women seems always to wear a black hijab and get in trouble for not wearing one. Why don't they wear colorful ones or with slogans? Is black all to wear? 2 weeks ago:
If you’re living in one of those very conservative on women’s dress Islamic nations (i.e. Middle East or Central Asia) then there are cultural limits imposed beyond the baseline of the religion.
A Senegalese Muslim woman in colourful patterned headscarf and matching dress is following what Islam requires.
Some places have kept, or imposed, much stricter controls on women’s dress (amongst other things). And while they might choose to wear more colourful ones, many of these countries (i.e. Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Bahrain, through to Pakistan and Afghanistan) turn a blind eye to femicide and are plagued by honour killings. - Comment on In some heavy Muslim countries women seems always to wear a black hijab and get in trouble for not wearing one. Why don't they wear colorful ones or with slogans? Is black all to wear? 2 weeks ago:
Socially constructed idea varies by society.
Who’d’ve guessed?
You’ll find very colourfully yet modestly dressed Muslim women in Indonesia, India, Kenya, Senegal, and more.
- Comment on Cuba Libre 🇨🇺 2 weeks ago:
The WHO does good work, but it’s as much a bureaucractic force as a medical one, and I think due to the desire for geopolitical clout the US cared more about the latter than the former.
Not that way that the US doesn’t also do some medical outreach with military missions as the PRC also does.
But it does make there a minor difference in kind. After all, the selfish jerk who goes around fulfilling people’s dreams just for his own selfish satisfaction of feeling like a good person still is.More reasonable than the embargo never existing is it finishing in the 90s following the end of the Cold War. Sadly US face couldn’t allow that to happen.
- Comment on Cuba Libre 🇨🇺 2 weeks ago:
We can’t be sure.
The PRC isn’t blockaded in the same way and has also invested in medicine and sends out lots of medical missions; that said, it had a bigger economy and does that less than Cuba.
And even so, it doesn’t make the blockade right - even if this is a potential silver lining.
- Comment on Cuba Libre 🇨🇺 2 weeks ago:
Cuba’s medical work is amazing.
The US blockade is has been and remains a crime against humanity.
- Comment on Hasan Piker, Cenk Uygur Denied Entry to UK Over Palestine Support 2 weeks ago:
On migration and trans rights they’re cleaving pretty right wing.
On economics, they’re still quite centre-left-ish.
And since everything is polarised these days, they get to be centre-left to the right, and moderate right to the left.
- Comment on Do people really "need" friends? 3 weeks ago:
Do you plan to only do things with romantic partner?
Why do you think you need a romantic partner?
… A better question would be: “what do you define as a friend?”
- Comment on Starmer vows to act on social media after meeting bereaved parents 3 weeks ago:
Requiring ID makes people happier with ID docs overall, so that they can still swipe through TikTok or whatever they do these days.
Asking change and responsibility of the companies might lower shareholder value.
- Comment on Father of Gaza flotilla activist says UK ignored call for help after son seized by Israel 4 weeks ago:
Nah, privateers kept the heriarchies of home, only attacked and stole from permitted targets, and those who captained ships came from the elite of society - such as Sir Walter.
Pirates were much more socially accepting, allowing women and people of colour in to crews, and even to positions of authority. They didn’t pay homage to a nation or work for empire. They saw a chance to get rich quick by not playing by nascant capitalisms rule.
Of course many pirates did start out as low levels on privateers’ ships, but unlike their landed gentry captains didn’t see a point in staying loyal to a crown and we’re happy to mutiny for their own benefit when the chance came along.
- Comment on Father of Gaza flotilla activist says UK ignored call for help after son seized by Israel 4 weeks ago:
Eh, I don’t count privateers as pirates.
That’s just a form of international economic warfare, and has homage to a nation/crown rather than full on piracy.
Maybe I’m too romantic about it all.
- Comment on Father of Gaza flotilla activist says UK ignored call for help after son seized by Israel 4 weeks ago:
But he wasn’t a pirate?
At most a privateer, but has none of the pirate stuff. A more nationally aligned mercenary. The page seems pretty poor and sensationalist if I’m honest. =(
I was hoping for more free from all law, not just that of their geopolitical rivals pirates, rather than privateers who aren’t much different from an informal navy.
- Comment on Father of Gaza flotilla activist says UK ignored call for help after son seized by Israel 4 weeks ago:
Sadly unsurprising.
After Israel worked with the US to screw Britain and France over with the Suez Crisis our government has done everything it can to kowtow to both Israel and the US.
We’re happier with their scraps than working for a better world.
- Comment on Father of Gaza flotilla activist says UK ignored call for help after son seized by Israel 4 weeks ago:
Love pirates and history!
Tell me more!
- Comment on what’s your best “nitric acid acts upon trousers” moment? 4 weeks ago:
Sulphuric Acid acts on trousers and carpets. Wooden desks seem remarkably immune.
Found out after getting an actual chemical and chemistry set from a deceased relative. Parents didn’t check what was in it, just “chemistry is educational, good he’s learning”.
I was either dropping magnesium or potassium into a beaker of sulphuric acid as both of them were in the set too. And I was either a butterfingered lummox, or the act of dropping the metal into unbalanced the beaker knocked it over and the sulphuric acid cascaded onto my jeans eating through them and making my leg itchy, and bubbling the carpet into a stinky white then grey foam. I can still picture-ish that sight; and I’m normally not very visually minded, a testament to the deep impression the experience left on me.
Was much more sensible after that: just burning magnesium and chucking potassium into tub of water in the garden like you do in Chemistry class from time to time.
- Comment on The SOAS Liberated Zone – Two Years Of Resistance 5 weeks ago:
SOAS is an amazing community of students, often organising amazing speakers and events - even when university administration is rallied, as is almost universally the case, againt them.
- Comment on X gon give it to ya 1 month ago:
I appreciate the choice made over X-ray fish, Xantops, and Xerus.
Going hard, and I wonder what other letters have.
- Comment on What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up? 1 month ago:
No, the age of America is over.
The Trump preaidencies aren’t a radical break from the past, he’s just an unveiling of it’s darkest, ugliest, impulses and the logical conclusion of its ideals.
Maybe European mainstream leaders can convince themselves to get back into bed with US imperialism, as we benefit from it so much, but US in the eyes of the people never recovered post Iraq II, and across the whole world the US is now primarily seen as the demagogic bully that it is.
The US must learn to get along with its neighbours and treat other nations and people with respect.
- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 1 month ago:
Suicide only stopped being a crime in many parts of the world recently… Euthanasia is much larger step beyond that.
Let’s give things time.
- Comment on Systems theory 2 months ago:
Other guy did a good job on the main points, but I’ll add something I saw in a study on a kind of bird in the US:
The birds realised cigarette butts had an antibacterial effect, and made efforts to collect and use cigarette butts in their nest building for eggs and chicks.
Learning and making use of novel materials.
- Comment on Palantir’s UK boss criticises ‘ideological’ groups as ministers move to scrap NHS contract 2 months ago:
Good, we should have an ideology and let that influence the governments we choose (while we are forced to have any) and the actions that they undertake on our behalf.