Zombiepirate
@Zombiepirate@lemmy.world
- Comment on The height of sophistication: the 1994 McDonald's manager collection 8 hours ago:
You have to spring for the french fry cuffs.
- Comment on RIP Dick 1 day ago:
Same.
It really begins to get at the depravity of the man.
- Comment on The Guy Claiming That You Have TDS 1 day ago:
Oh that guy is a paranoid loser. I think it’s also an alt for (among many others) Universal Monk.
- Comment on The Guy Claiming That You Have TDS 1 day ago:
The implication was that they’re smarter than “the educated.”
It’s an old fascist saw that folk wisdom is better than book-learning.
From They Thought They Were Free- the Germans, 1933-45:
Because the mass movement of Nazism was nonintellectual in the beginning, when it was only practice, it had to be anti- intellectual before it could be theoretical. What Mussolini’s official philosopher, Giovanni Gentile, said of Fascism could have been better said of Nazi theory: “We think with our blood.” Expertness in thinking, exemplified by the professor, by the high-school teacher, and even by the grammar- school teacher in the village, had to deny the Nazi views of history, economics, literature, art, philosophy, politics, biology, and education itself.
Thus Nazism, as it proceeded from practice to theory, had to deny expertness in thinking and then (this second process was never completed), in order to fill the vacuum, had to establish expert thinking of its own— that is, to find men of inferior or irresponsible caliber whose views conformed dishonestly or, worse yet, honestly to the Party line. The nonpolitical pastor satisfied Nazi requirements by being nonpolitical. But the nonpolitical schoolmaster was, by the very virtue of being nonpolitical, a dangerous man from the first. He himself would not rebel, nor would he, if he could help it, teach rebellion; but he could not help being dangerous— not if he went on teaching what was true. In order to be a theory and not just a practice, National Socialism required the destruction of academic independence.
In the years of its rise the movement little by little brought the community’s attitude toward the teacher around from respect and envy to resentment, from trust and fear to suspicion. The development seems to have been inherent; it needed no planning and had none. As the Nazi emphasis on nonintellectual virtues (patriotism, loyalty, duty, purity, labor, simplicity, “blood,” “folk- ishness”) seeped through Germany, elevating the self-esteem of the “little man,” the academic profession was pushed from the very center to the very periphery of society.
- Comment on The Guy Claiming That You Have TDS 1 day ago:
People can be led by the nose if you confirm their bigotry and make them think they’re smart.
- Comment on Feminism.... Not even once folks 3 days ago:
I’ve found that most people who hate feminism are sad divorcees who are pissed because they couldn’t financially trap their spouse into legalized rape.
Hating equal rights for women says a lot more about you than it does about women.
- Comment on And what car did you learn in? 1 week ago:
An automatic transmission has many clutches inside.
- Comment on And I don't care 1 week ago:
That’s a lot of spaghetti-o’s.
- Comment on another TUI 2 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure they’re a Donald J Musk alt.
They say the same kind of stupid shit anyway.
- Comment on Back in my day... 2 weeks ago:
It’s insane that manufacturers make smart TV remotes without a built in keyboard.
- Comment on Live Updates: Supreme Court Appears Poised to Upend Key Provision of Voting Rights Act 3 weeks ago:
You know what’s going to happen when the SCOTUS rules that you can’t make districts based on race?
The GOP will systematically disenfranchise minorities and pretend that it isn’t about race.
- Comment on Was the fall of Rome this stupid? 3 weeks ago:
After the murder of Pertinax on 28 March 193, the Praetorian guard announced that the throne was to be sold to the man who would pay the highest price. Titus Flavius Claudius Sulpicianus, prefect of Rome and Pertinax’s father-in-law, who was in the Praetorian camp ostensibly to calm the troops, began making offers for the throne. Meanwhile, Julianus also arrived at the camp, and since his entrance was barred, shouted out offers to the guard. After hours of bidding, Sulpicianus promised 20,000 sesterces to every soldier; Julianus, fearing that Sulpicianus would gain the throne, then offered 25,000. The guards closed with the offer of Julianus, threw open the gates, and proclaimed him emperor. Threatened by the military, the Senate also declared him emperor. His wife and his daughter both received the title Augusta.
- Comment on GOG expands their Preservation Program to include Gothic 1 & 2, Mortal Kombat Trilogy and more 5 weeks ago:
I would love to play Gothic 2 with German audio and English subtitles. The English VO is maybe the worst acting I’ve ever heard, but I’ve heard the game is amazing. I know a bit of German, but not enough to keep up with a whole game.
- Comment on Was it worth it? 5 weeks ago:
Conservatives think that assistance to the less fortunate should come from charity instead of the government.
Mainly because this gives them direct power over people: they can indoctrinate people and control poor people when the threat is starvation and homelessness.
- Comment on Lara Croft is a Sociopath 5 weeks ago:
I don’t read many comics, but there was a Wonder Twins run by Mark Russell that was amazing.
The villain had a plan to scramble everyone’s identity on Earth, so one day you could wake up and be in a horrible economic system. His thinking was that with the deadline approaching, people would have to work to make the world more fair for everyone.
Spoiler
The world leaders are so relieved when he’s finally caught, because they can stop wasting money on improving the lives of poor people.
- Comment on Cooking 😋 1 month ago:
Should be ginger instead of salt.
I mean, you need salt. But you don’t smell it.
- Comment on See no evil 1 month ago:
Fuck this bullshit.
You can be against an evil settler-colonialist state like Israel without being a racist, conspiracy pedaling piece of shit that drives hatred and violence towards people who have nothing to do with it.
We deal with this psycho shit from the right all the time, and it’s wrong when they do it. Try having goddamn principles.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 1 month ago:
Looks like they just added it in the new release. We should get you to ask for world peace next time, but this is pretty good too.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 month ago:
I bet the billionaires who back it will put Candace Owens in charge next.
- Comment on Are Americans quarks? 1 month ago:
They’re called Ferengi, but yeah close enough.
- Comment on banger 1 month ago:
Just like the time he told the world that Osama bin Laden was dead.
- Comment on Lots to unpack ha ha! 2 months ago:
Yeah, it’s a fascinating insight into what cops think about the people they arrest.
- Comment on Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord, Barbarossa to Berlin, and Afrika Korps are returning with updates to Steam in September 2 months ago:
Hell yeah, these are such great games.
- Comment on Mississippi Senator tells his constituents to 'get a life' 2 months ago:
The Senate doesn’t have gerrymandering like the house does. There’s definitely still bullshit based on the way representatives are appointed per State, but they can’t redraw districts to pick their voters like they can for the House.
- Comment on Booking.com ignored me after my bedbug nightmare 2 months ago:
That’s right.
- Comment on Booking.com ignored me after my bedbug nightmare 2 months ago:
Happened to me a few months ago, I rented a room and inspected the mattress as I always.
Tons of bedbug stains on the corners. I asked for a refund and they refused, so I requested a charge back with the pics I took.
- Comment on Good racing games on Steam? 3 months ago:
Assettto Corsa is a steal at $5. It’s a bit older, but there is a ton of community made content.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 3 months ago:
I still cry when I remember that they were clearing them out at $5 a pop. I’ll cling to mine until the day it dies.
- Comment on US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives 4 months ago:
And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
Matthew 6:5-6
- Comment on Even conservatives use to boast the virtue of achieving higher education. In MAGA times what is the pathway to success? 4 months ago:
To look at a historical analogue:
The system of government was formed whereby leading Nazi officials were forced to interpret Hitler’s speeches, remarks and writings on government policies and turn them into programs and legislation. Hitler typically did not give written orders; instead he communicated them verbally, or had them conveyed through his close associate, Martin Bormann. He entrusted Bormann with his paperwork, appointments, and personal finances; Bormann used his position to control the flow of information and access to Hitler. Hitler’s cabinet never met after 1938, and he discouraged his ministers from meeting independently.
Hitler’s leadership style was to give contradictory orders to his subordinates and to place them into positions where their duties and responsibilities overlapped with those of others, to have “the stronger one [do] the job”. In this way, Hitler fostered distrust, competition, and infighting among his subordinates to consolidate and maximise his own power.
The process allowed more unscrupulous and ambitious Nazis to get away with implementing the more radical and extreme elements of Hitler’s ideology, such as antisemitism, and in doing so win political favour. It was protected by Joseph Goebbels’ effective propaganda machine, which portrayed Hitler as a heroic and infallible leader. Further, the government was portrayed as a dedicated, dutiful and efficient outfit. Through successive Reichsstatthalter decrees, Germany’s states were effectively replaced by Nazi provinces called Gaue.
