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- Comment on there's a Costco at the other end 16 hours ago:
Which they could spend on a vacation to see trees.
From www.youtube.com/watch?v=ratQlft_G5c
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lotThey took all the trees
Put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em - Comment on outsmarted 2 days ago:
So just for some context the shoes in the image appear to be “Asics Gel-Nyc - Graphite Grey/Black”. Which do not cost US$30’000. So I dunno what currency the price is in, if it is not just a fake image.
- Comment on Is there a word for people who will mess something up and blame the victim for it? 3 days ago:
I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt and assume it was unconscious guilty avoidance as opposed to intentionally lying,
As I understand it, that is pretty much the definition of narcissism. Narcissism is defined by an underlying inferiority complex, which gives the narcissist a mental block preventing them from consciously realizing their own imperfections.
- Comment on Is there a word for people who will mess something up and blame the victim for it? 3 days ago:
Very much behavior shown by narcissists, as I understand it.
A narcissist would often do it at an unconscious level. But it could also be psychopathy, where the psychopath completely deliberately lies to gain advantage.
- Comment on Is there a word for people who will mess something up and blame the victim for it? 3 days ago:
“Gaslighting” is a lie told where the victim knows it is a lie. So could be.
But with one subtlety: If the “liar” is a narcissist, then the “lie” is often believed by the narcissist themselves, making it not a lie as such - since “lie” implies they know it is untrue.
- Comment on lol 5 days ago:
Sorry for your loss, lol
- Comment on Hexbear is incapable of understanding hypocrisy 2 weeks ago:
oh no a 24 hour ban!
So they didn’t do the worst censorship they could possibly do. But it is still censorship.
- Comment on We are not the same. 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Your parents 640x480 glory. 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Crowd goes wild 1 month ago:
If true, it would still not be the stupidest thing Trump has said this week.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
liberate your own country
Tibet was not China’s “own country”. It was imperialistically annexed.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The excuse of every imperialist. Even using the word “liberated”. Yellow man’s burden?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
China has been acting like shit in Hong Kong, but it was originally Chinese territory. So I wouldn’t count that as imperialism.
China’s behavior in the South China Sea is a much better example.
- Comment on the simulation jumped the shark with the is Trump guy 1 month ago:
ChatGPT normally writes at a way higher grade level than that tweet. It seems unlikely to be from a LLM.
- Comment on the simulation jumped the shark with the is Trump guy 1 month ago:
China gets 37% of the oil normally going through the strait. So while China might be happy that the US is projecting less power, I assume the oil shortage will still be painful for China in the short run.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Have you ever heard of Tibet?
- Comment on Not even close 1 month ago:
Anti-SLAPP suit is gearing up very soon: feddit.dk/post/20969245/19914002
- Comment on Some cheeses are luminescent. 1 month ago:
Not a joke. She has said stupider things in the past.
- Comment on Polymarket bet: Will Trump praise Allah again by April 15? 1 month ago:
But there is some support from USA at this moment, right?
Limited. There are 1) some sanctions on Russia 2) intelligence support (which Trump has withheld intermittently) and 3) allowing European countries to pay for US weapons to be sent to Ukraine. 4) Maybe I forgot something.
If the US completely stopped supporting Ukraine tomorrow it would be suboptimal, but wouldn’t really change the situation fundamentally. If the EU stopped tomorrow, Ukraine would be completely fucked, and Russia would win within 6 months.
- Comment on Polymarket bet: Will Trump praise Allah again by April 15? 1 month ago:
Europe seems perfectly happy to fight Putin alone, right now. Europe might lose, but Europe still tries to do what is right there.
- Comment on Polymarket bet: Will Trump praise Allah again by April 15? 1 month ago:
Like, it was not all a lie. E.g. the 1991 Gulf War was perfectly morally defensible, while at the same time being in the US economic interest. But there is no inherent problem with defending your economic interest. And the US deserves unqualified praise for the 1999 Serbia intervention to prevent a genocide in Kosovo.
What the US is doing in Venezuela is (at least Trump thinks so) in the US economic interest. But completely amoral at the same time.
If America, Russia, and China is going to be evil, then Europe is also going evil for sure.
I don’t see why Europe would necessarily turn evil.
- Comment on Polymarket bet: Will Trump praise Allah again by April 15? 1 month ago:
What is the point of fighting evil
Traditionally, America has seen itself as standing for goodness, morality, doing the right thing, Democracy, etc… Most of the voters have, at least.
Trump does not think that. Look at Venezuela: It is open and blatant colonialism, resource extraction. Trump has just come out and said that he doesn’t care if the Venezuelan people have freedom and democracy - Trump only cares about profiting from resource extraction. Now maybe America has sometimes acted like this in the past, but Trump openly stating it is new.
This open disregard for doing doing what is morally right is a new thing. Which Trump can do without consequences from Republican voter, apparently - Trump still had ~90% approval among them, last I checked.
So in conclusion, asking “What is the point of fighting evil” is a non sequitur - Trump is not claiming to be the good side fighting evil.
As another example, look at Ukraine. Rarely have I seen a more black-and-white, good-vs-evil conflict. A fascist dictator is invading a budding democracy, with the openly stated purpose of annexation, without even pretending to have a casus belli. With Putin openly doing warcrimes left and right, torturing and executing prisoners of war, threatening nukes, and sending his own soldiers on suicide “meat assaults”. And yet, Republicans and Trump seems more sympathetic to Putin than Ukraine.
- Comment on Polymarket bet: Will Trump praise Allah again by April 15? 1 month ago:
It is sarcasm making fun of their religion. Iranians think their faith in Allah will save them, but Trump bombing will demonstrate that Allah will not save them. Demonstrating (according to Trump) that Islam is a fake religion, unlike Christianity.
- Comment on Polymarket bet: Will Trump praise Allah again by April 15? 1 month ago:
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- Comment on we're cooked 1 month ago:
there are sources that substantiate him saying something very similar.
As in, you can go read Trump’s actual post yourself.
- Comment on Fake News 1 month ago:
But I assume that nobody at the time had autism, because they were not vaccinated. Worth it!^/s^
- Comment on Strange are afoot at the Walter Reed 1 month ago:
Apart from the lack of misspellings, it is a very Trump post. Does this mean that Trump is not dead?
- Comment on Anon takes a writing workshop 1 month ago:
Like, maybe? She could also just be a jerk. It is hard to know without social cues on context.
- Comment on who said satire is dead 1 month ago:
Uproar in Heaven from 1964. Freely available on YouTube.