DudleyMason
@DudleyMason@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Revolution. 4 days ago:
Lol, imagine thinking it was actually anything at all to do with taxation and not the clear signals that Britain intended to outlaw slavery in the colonies and not just in Britain proper.
- Comment on How come the bacteria that make people obese don't seem to be affecting countries where there's widespread famine? 1 week ago:
Because the actual theory is that certain bacteria in the gut biome make a person more prone to obesity both by increasing hunger signals to the brain and by changing digestive processes. It doesn’t “make calories out of thin air”.
Maybe read more of the articles than just the headlines?
- Comment on Casual Reminder 1 week ago:
That point was past before most people on Lemmy were born.
But we definitely are now just passing the point where the privileged labor aristocracy can ignore the problems that don’t affect them.
- Comment on First world problems 2 weeks ago:
Pretty sure all of us would be living happier lives today if someone had bought that asshole some birth control and a bus pass.
- Comment on The ineffective Democratic leadership ain't going away unless we make them. 2 weeks ago:
And Democrats just want to never raise the minimum wage again and keep healthcare tire to employment. That’s why Schumer is still going to be Senate Leader, he’s a.safe bet for the donors.
- Comment on The reason the right are so anti Mamdani is obvious: they don’t want you to see what your tax dollars being put to work the right way would actually look like. Then everyone would want it everywhere. 2 weeks ago:
The far right are so virulently anti-Mamdani bcs they know it’ll get the compatible left to even more entrench their support for him even as he’s already drifting towards the positions of the center-right party that he’s adopted, despite them fighting tooth and nail to keep him out of office.
Everything in politics makes way more sense when you stop believing the kayfabe and recognize they’re all on the same team. “It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.”
- Comment on Close ad button 2 weeks ago:
No genuine human progress can be made until we make all forms of advertising a capital offense.
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 3 weeks ago:
No, this is capitalism. It’s capitalists doing the exact things Marx predicted 150 years ago that they’d do, under the exact conditions he said they’d do them under.
It’s almost like the whole thing was entirely predictable and followed a very logical sequence of events.
- Comment on gummy 3 weeks ago:
Ok, as long as you aren’t voting to mandate sticks in anyone else’s ass, then you do you.
But if you support banning things I might enjoy just bcs you don’t or bcs some asshole convinced you my enjoyment of that vice was somehow a danger to children, then I genuinely hope someone kicks that stick far enough in to do some real damage.
- Comment on gummy 3 weeks ago:
Or better yet, actually have lived a little as a teen when you were young enough to bkinc eback quickly and easily and known by adulthood exactly what your limits are and what dose will give you the best time.
But failing that, for the people who waited til adulthood to remove the stock from their asses, yes, there are many ways to learn what you should start with, among them: asking the people who sold it to you (they have a vested interest in making sure you have a good time so you’ll buy more), asking the people you’re doing it with (they probably removed the sticks from their asses long enough ago to have some idea what’s what), and yes, even Googling it.
- Comment on gummy 3 weeks ago:
Fuck. Them. Kids.
If their useless parents can’t parent them, that’s the parents’ failing. Flavored vapes and flavored cigarettes absolutely should not be banned, that was the top of a slippery slope and the people who’ll gleefully go sledding down it should be openly mocked for their pathetic desires to Disnify the real world by everyone literate enough to know that the bottom of that slope is prohibition style gang wars. Nobody who wants to make something completely inaccessible to adults is interested in “protecting children”, they’re interested in controlling adults.
- Comment on gummy 3 weeks ago:
Give them time. They’re too busy harassing trans kids and trying to re-criminalize cannabis to notice right now.
- Comment on gummy 3 weeks ago:
To answer the question: fuck them kids.
Anyone willing to restrict an adult’s access to vices in order to “protect children” is an evil piece of shit who shouldn’t be trusted around children or adults.
- Comment on How come we still haven't engineered a solution to this?? 4 weeks ago:
The solution is almost as old as the device itself: thin wooden tongs.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
It wouldn’t be appropriate.
She lacks the warmth and the depth.
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 5 weeks ago:
It would make sense if it were possible. It isn’t. The entire structure of the party as an organization is designed to ensure that no grassroots movement can ever wrest power away from the powerful.
But I encourage you to try your best. 10 years of busting my ass and becoming a paid campaign staffer was what finally made me see the light. The Third Way Foundation controls access to every single meaningful lever of power. Elected Dems like AOC and Bernie are tolerated because they help keep leftists hopeful, which keeps them voting Blue, which keeps them from ever genuinely organizing to become a threat to the Neoliberal agenda the Dems exist to defend. Their policy proposals are punchlines to the people who actually control the legislative agenda. They will only ever be brought up for an vote occasionally when the deck is stacked solidly against them to “prove” how they’re guaranteed losing moves, despite the fact that Medicare for All polls much better than any politician that opposed it.
- Comment on Immigrants are not the problem. Greedy corporate oligarchs — and the politicians they own — are. 1 month ago:
Shame the people stupid enough to blame low wages on immigrants will never be seated by something as woke as facts and numbers.
- Comment on The American Dream, minus 60% 1 month ago:
Yes, anyone exploiting the labor of others or seeking economic rents is a bad lesson and part of the capitalist machine.
I appreciate that you’ve made it very clear you’re not actually opposed to the exploitation of labor you just want the pillaged wealth distributed a little more evenly among the pillagers.
- Comment on The American Dream, minus 60% 1 month ago:
Or that they understand that everyone who exploits labor, yes even your local mom and pop restaurant, is the same. Maybe if you weren’t so hung up on the top ten worst offenders you could see that too.
Plenty of PoC exploit wage labor to get out of that 60% and into the comfy side of the imperial core. They aren’t less evil just because their evil is less successful.
- Comment on The American Dream, minus 60% 1 month ago:
So that’s just a straight up admission that she’d have done exactly what she said and the only difference between her doing it and Trump doing it is that when Trump does it the media puts it right in front of you and when a Dem does it they keep it quiet?
I guess also she’d have operated the orphan crushing machine a lot more competently and efficiently.
- Comment on The American Dream, minus 60% 1 month ago:
Did you miss the part where the headline is from 2023 when Biden was President and Harris was VP?
I mean. It’s pretty obvious you missed the part where she ran to the right in the GOP on immigration, the part where she virtually promised a war with Iran and continued escalation of Isntreal’s US funded genocide.
In what way do you think anyone would be better off? Aside from the fact that a compliant media wouldn’t be putting all this in your face to make sure you keep voting for one or the other halves of the Wall St party instead of revolting or voting third party or literally anything but continuing to legitimize the dictatorship of capital.
- Comment on The American Dream, minus 60% 1 month ago:
Yeah, yeah. We know. If she’d won you’d be at brunch.
And that’s the problem, given that the headline here is from the Biden administration.
- Comment on somebody has a case of the Mondays 1 month ago:
But in reality, community expenses don’t pay themselves and only whiny lolbertarian babies think that taxes to pay for those things is theft, so it is “arguable”, but making the argument says more about you than about taxes.
- Comment on somebody has a case of the Mondays 1 month ago:
That’s embezzlement from the treasury, which is different than pretending that taxes going into the Treasury is theft.
- Comment on somebody has a case of the Mondays 1 month ago:
“Taxes are theft” bullshit grift spotted. Tapping the sign.
- Comment on somebody has a case of the Mondays 1 month ago:
“Taxes are theft” bullshit grift detected. Y’all by the sign.
- Comment on It's never been about helping people 1 month ago:
The only difference as compared with the old, outspoken slavery is this, that the worker of today seems to be free because he is not sold once for all, but piecemeal by the day, the week, the year, and because no one owner sells him to another, but he is forced to sell himself in this way instead, being the slave of no particular person, but of the whole property-holding class. For him the matter is unchanged at bottom, and if this semblance of liberty necessarily gives him some real freedom on the one hand, it entails on the other the disadvantage that no one guarantees him a subsistence, he is in danger of being repudiated at any moment by his master, the bourgeoisie, and left to die of starvation, if the bourgeoisie ceases to have an interest in his employment
-Engels
www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/…/ch05.htm
The slave is sold once and for all; the proletarian must sell himself daily and hourly.
The individual slave, property of one master, is assured an existence, however miserable it may be, because of the master’s interest. The individual proletarian, property as it were of the entire bourgeois class which buys his labor only when someone has need of it, has no secure existence. This existence is assured only to the class as a whole.
-Engels, again
- Comment on The sickness of infinite greed cannot be sustained on our finite planet 1 month ago:
Greed is not a sickness. It’s a choice. The failure to hold greedy people accountable by any means necessary is also a choice. The real sickness is looking at the state of the world and not being radicalized enough to commit to that any means necessary to hold the greedy bastards accountable.
- Comment on This homeless character, who doesn't go to the gym and survives on junk food, somehow weights 300lbs of pure muscle 1 month ago:
I mean it’s fiction. That part isn’t half as unbelievable as the cops and feds being the good guys
- Comment on Team Car! 1 month ago:
Translation: I still can’t rebut anything you actually said, but I hate how it made me feel, so I’m going to dismiss it and stick my head back in the sand now.
