Zombiepirate
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- Comment on US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives 3 days 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 days 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. 1 week 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 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
Especially when there’s a free passing lane.
- Comment on [UFO 50] Personal highlight of fun cheat codes in UFO 50 1 month ago:
UFO50 is one of the most astonishing pieces of game design I’ve ever seen; its a master class in elegance.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered - Official Trailer (Available Today!) 2 months ago:
The Oblivion score is so good.
- Comment on Six Men Are Charged After Woman Was Dragged From Idaho Town Hall 2 months ago:
Hilarious how they throw the bootlickers under the bus to protect the POS sheriff.
- Comment on Achievable goals 2 months ago:
Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk I’ve got the flu, no time to talk Muzak loud and samples warm, I’ve been coughing loud Since this morn And now it’s all right, it’s okay And you may look the other way But we can try to understand This NyQuil dose effect on man
-Staggeringly High Fever
- Submitted 2 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 2 months ago:
Good pick! I was so bummed when I heard that was cancelled.
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 2 months ago:
I’d like to play around with whatever alpha build they made for the original concept of Team Fortress 2.
I love the one that came out (it’s probably my most played game of all time), but those first few screenshots before retooling were captivating when we’d already been waiting so long for the release.
- Comment on Metro 2033 Redux is free to claim on GOG for the next two days 2 months ago:
I can’t grab it either. It keeps telling me to log in when I’m already logged in.
- Comment on Trump Signs Executive Orders Aimed at Reviving U.S. Coal Industry 2 months ago:
Time to replace our infantry with the mighty phalanx. The Achaemenids won’t know what hit them!
- Comment on The first 1 star review 2 months ago:
Urm, actually… These glyphs were pressed into wet clay and then fired.
Much like Ea-nāşir should have been.
- Comment on Former Fable dev behind hit free Ultima-style RPG adds 100-floor megadungeon for a fiver 3 months ago:
I might have to dive back in. I had so much fun with this on the Steam Deck.
- Comment on Elon Musk Calls Social Security 'The Biggest Ponzi Scheme Of All Time' 4 months ago:
Maybe we shouldn’t have elected this fascist as president then.
He knows he’s lying, he wants to gut the benefits that we pay for to get a payout.
Fuck him and anyone who put him in office.
- Comment on It's almost that time of the year... (Easter lamb cakes) 4 months ago:
I’d never heard of Easter lamb cakes before, and it’s my sincere hope to never hear of them again after seeing this.
- Comment on Bombshell report reveals staggering amount of government funds paid to Elon Musk 4 months ago:
The thing about reactionaries is that they think that money is finally going to the right place. Enriching billionaires is the one thing the GOP consistently delivers on.
They’re happy to be subjects to the elite; that’s exactly how they want it. They don’t want that money spent on making people’s lives better by providing services, they want to be ruled by someone who they can see themselves in and therefore be raised up in the social order.
It’s pretty pathetic.
- Comment on Do you think progressives understand the difference between legal and illegal immigration? 4 months ago:
Reactionaries don’t care about other people.
Even their family; they’re notorious for disowning their children for being someone different than they wanted. They treat their wives like slaves.
He’s fine with it, because it doesn’t affect him. There’s no more thought to it than that. It’s an inherently anti-social ideology.
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 4 months ago:
Reactionary ideology is all about protecting privilege by demonizing marginalized people. They believe in zero-sum rights and privileges: in their view, expansion of rights for another group inherently means a loss of rights for them.
- Comment on I will take no arguments 5 months ago:
I always thought it was a Nintendo thing first.
- Comment on You have got to be kidding me... 5 months ago:
Maybe it’s aspirational.
