Zombiepirate
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- Comment on Live Updates: Supreme Court Appears Poised to Upend Key Provision of Voting Rights Act 2 days 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? 4 days 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 2 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? 2 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 2 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 😋 3 weeks ago:
Should be ginger instead of salt.
I mean, you need salt. But you don’t smell it.
- Comment on See no evil 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 5 weeks ago:
I bet the billionaires who back it will put Candace Owens in charge next.
- Comment on Are Americans quarks? 5 weeks ago:
They’re called Ferengi, but yeah close enough.
- Comment on banger 5 weeks ago:
Just like the time he told the world that Osama bin Laden was dead.
- Comment on Lots to unpack ha ha! 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Hell yeah, these are such great games.
- Comment on Mississippi Senator tells his constituents to 'get a life' 1 month 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? 2 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 3 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? 3 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.
- Comment on 98 degrees upstairs, ac stopped working at 8am. 3 months ago:
When I used to fix cars we would sometimes have the service advisor ask us to do work for free. “Come on, it’ll just take you ten minutes!”
I’d tell them that they can do it themselves if it only takes ten minutes. “But I don’t know how to do that!”
You’re not just paying for the part, you’re paying for the knowledge, time, and tools of the technician.
- Comment on Midweek feels 3 months ago:
We’ve all bean there.
- Comment on Why don't people like Melon Tusk get tired of the shit they gave you pull through literally every day ? I mean doesn't the guilt of bad decisions pull them down enough like the rest of us ? 4 months ago:
That’s my point: billionaires are an establishment unto themselves, and they’re already in a cartel to control the US government.
Corey Robin put it better than I can in The Reactionary Mind:
Far from yielding a knee-jerk defense of an unchanging old regime or a thoughtful traditionalism, the reactionary imperative presses conservatism in two rather different directions: first, to a critique and reconfiguration of the old regime; and second, to an absorption of the ideas and tactics of the very revolution or reform it opposes. What conservatism seeks to accomplish through that reconfiguration of the old and absorption of the new is to make privilege popular, to transform a tottering old regime into a dynamic, ideologically coherent movement of the masses. A new old regime, one could say, which brings the energy and dynamism of the street to the antique inequalities of a dilapidated estate.
- Comment on Why don't people like Melon Tusk get tired of the shit they gave you pull through literally every day ? I mean doesn't the guilt of bad decisions pull them down enough like the rest of us ? 4 months ago:
How anyone can see a billionaire as “anti-establishment” is beyond me.
- Comment on Why don't people like Melon Tusk get tired of the shit they gave you pull through literally every day ? I mean doesn't the guilt of bad decisions pull them down enough like the rest of us ? 4 months ago:
Musk is so impervious to ego-death that I suspect his will hang around for a few decades after his body.
- Comment on Why don't people like Melon Tusk get tired of the shit they gave you pull through literally every day ? I mean doesn't the guilt of bad decisions pull them down enough like the rest of us ? 4 months ago:
I think it’s a mistake to believe that everyone has a sense of empathy; there are plenty of people who do not because of their brain meat or their experiences.
I think the closest Musk gets is the desperate and pathetic attempts to get gamers to like him: it makes him crazy that he can’t just buy their respect like he does for everything else that he wants.
- Comment on Why don't people like Melon Tusk get tired of the shit they gave you pull through literally every day ? I mean doesn't the guilt of bad decisions pull them down enough like the rest of us ? 4 months ago:
People like that genuinely believe that they should be in charge because of who they are. He has absolutely no feelings of guilt about the terrible things that he does; he thinks they’re good because he did them. Narcissistic megalomaniacs, especially ultra wealthy ones, lose their ability to empathize (or even the ability to mask and pretend) because they quite literally never have to care about how another person feels. I do think he’s confused as to why people hate him though. He sees himself as a lovable cheeky troll instead of the Nazi dickhead that he clearly is.
- Comment on What a mess 4 months ago:
You can’t sit for long on a stool with only two legs; I think it just becomes a stool sample at that point.
- Comment on Save Us, Senators, From a Very Expensive Mistake 4 months ago:
Too often, state and local progressives have called for climate action, but then fought off, shut down or lamented the energy sources — especially hydroelectricity and nuclear power — that until recently generated the bulk of America’s clean electricity.
I guess it wouldn’t be a NYT editorial without going a mile out of their way to run over progressives for something that’s not really even true.
- Comment on Bruh, chill 4 months ago:
Especially when there’s a free passing lane.