Zombiepirate
@Zombiepirate@lemmy.world
- Comment on They used to be all metal too. Its time for a revolution 1 week ago:
Right? They were awesome.
- Comment on Time to go to the Soup Store 1 week ago:
Minestrone or Italian wedding soup are both pretty chunky.
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 3 weeks ago:
I’d never seen this community before. Subscribed!
I’m terrible at keys, but I do like to play with 'em.
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, there’s no use in speed-running Reddit.
Let’s make our own thing.
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 3 weeks ago:
I wish instead that people would post in the general communities first, then spin off into a new community if there is interest.
Like, we don’t need a whole community for the new Dragon Age game or whatever, but we do have a games community that would benefit from the post. Then if there are 20 Dragon Age posts every day it could obviously support it’s own community.
- Comment on LA Times Refuses to Endorse Harris After Backing Biden, Hillary, Obama 4 weeks ago:
I know you crave my attention, but I don’t talk to you, remember?
I’m sure you can find the reason why with that big brain of yours.
I will not be responding back; you are worth only contempt.
- Comment on LA Times Refuses to Endorse Harris After Backing Biden, Hillary, Obama 4 weeks ago:
Is playing dumb usually a successful strategy for you?
I can’t imagine it would be.
- Comment on LA Times Refuses to Endorse Harris After Backing Biden, Hillary, Obama 4 weeks ago:
Because the billionaire owner told them not to endorse anyone; big money always aligns with fascism.
Keep linking the reactionary propaganda site that famously had a “black crime” section though.
Fucking gross.
- Comment on It's a matter of perspective 4 weeks ago:
It’s a riff on an old meme.
- Comment on How to clean a rescued pigeon 5 weeks ago:
It’s actually illegal to cut those off.
- Comment on Shrinkage 5 weeks ago:
Ooh, the most fun size!
- Comment on Performance review show failing grades for Kamala Harris as lawyer 1 month ago:
Although Harris and her team got favorable ratings for her quality of work, creativity in her advice, and understanding of problems, they got less favorable marks for other important metrics.
Don’t you ever get tired of posting reactionary ragebait?
Why won’t they release the docs? How do we know what was her team’s score and what was her own?
Furthermore, have you ever had a job where performance reviews weren’t kept artificially low to avoid paying out more compensation? I guess I need to switch industries, because that’s been absolutely standard for every job I’ve ever had.
And finally, it seems like if you cared about scoring you’d wonder why Trump’s team threatened to sue his school if his grades were released. But I guess scores only count for shitting on Democrats, regardless of how dubious the metrics are.
- Comment on If Trump Wins, Could He Really Use the Justice Department to Jail His Rivals? 1 month ago:
SCOTUS basically told him to.
- Comment on Women in STEM 1 month ago:
Don’t forget Mary Anning!
Anning searched for fossils in the area’s Blue Lias and Charmouth Mudstone cliffs, particularly during the winter months when landslides exposed new fossils that had to be collected quickly before they were lost to the sea. Her discoveries included the first correctly identified ichthyosaur skeleton when she was twelve years old; the first two nearly complete plesiosaur skeletons; the first pterosaur skeleton located outside Germany; and fish fossils. Her observations played a key role in the discovery that coprolites, known as bezoar stones at the time, were fossilised faeces, and she also discovered that belemnite fossils contained fossilised ink sacs like those of modern cephalopods.
Anning struggled financially for much of her life. As a woman, she was not eligible to join the Geological Society of London, and she did not always receive full credit for her scientific contributions. However, her friend, geologist Henry De la Beche, who painted Duria Antiquior, the first widely circulated pictorial representation of a scene from prehistoric life derived from fossil reconstructions, based it largely on fossils Anning had found and sold prints of it for her benefit.
- Comment on Polling guru Nate Silver predicts Trump has 64% chance of winning the Electoral College in latest forecast 2 months ago:
Your profile says you’re a conservative and a fascist? @neuromancer said before they’re incompatible, and he’s a conservative.
He also says Lincoln was a conservative.
Why do you both say the opposite? Is conservatism so meaningless that such fundamental differences are just ignored?
Why do you think conservatives deny that fascists are part of their movement when they clearly are?
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 3 months ago:
The idea of someone trying to sell a Lemmy account is pretty funny though.
- Comment on The Wisdom of Great People 3 months ago:
I think Rick Steves would fit in there, too.
- Comment on The Wisdom of Great People 3 months ago:
Sagan also wrote that pot enhanced his experience of food, particularly potatoes, as well as music and sex.
I believe the kids today call this “based AF.”
- Comment on Why a union president crossed partisan lines for a starring role at Trump’s RNC | CNN Politics 4 months ago:
I wasn’t intending to criticize you, I get it.
Just wanted to add some context.
- Comment on Why a union president crossed partisan lines for a starring role at Trump’s RNC | CNN Politics 4 months ago:
You’ll never get him to agree, because his entire worldview relies not on facts but on controlling the conversation.
It’s immaterial to him if he is right or not.
Reactionaries are inherently anti-intellectual, because it allows dim dipshits to hold court and have their ideas treated by their fellow regressive peers as the equivalent of that of people who actually know what they’re talking about.
It’s so much easier to “know” things when you can make up whatever bullshit you want or can cite another boot-licker who is also using motivated reasoning and magical thinking.
Do you think he cares that Republicans tried to have a Fascist coup before?
Or that Regan was flooding inner cities with cocaine?
Or that the Civil Rights Act was signed into law by a Democrat?
He doesn’t give a fuck, because all he cares about is projecting the appearance of being correct. The actual facts are irrelevant.
- Comment on Why a union president crossed partisan lines for a starring role at Trump’s RNC | CNN Politics 4 months ago:
They don’t care about facts, it’s always about controlling the conversation; they’ll sacrifice everything to that end, including their own judgement, edification, and dignity.
Reactionary politics is always about maintaining power for the privileged.
They believe there is no higher good than to fulfill the role bestowed upon you by your betters: it’s why they all lick the boots of cops who put those uppity minorities in their place. It’s why the “never Trumpers” started out reviling Donald Trump until he won and proved to them that he deserves to rule. It’s why the KKK terrorized black folks who rose above their station. It’s why they fought for school segregation. It’s why they opposed women’s liberation, abortion, and now birth control. It’s why they want to transfer wealth to the already obscenely rich. It’s why they ruined innocent people’s careers during the Red Scares. It’s why they oppose unions and strikes. It’s why they want to end public schooling. It’s why they kept locking up black men in chain gangs after slavery was (mostly) outlawed. It’s why they object to prison reform. It’s why they are opposed to welfare programs.
Everything about the reactionary right makes sense when viewed from this perspective.
- Comment on Why a union president crossed partisan lines for a starring role at Trump’s RNC | CNN Politics 4 months ago:
Well I just gave you Lincoln’s own speech and you choose to listen to propagandists instead.
Could you not understand it?
You refuted nothing- you drive-by fired a Wikipedia article at me that you didn’t even read because you’re lazy.
- Comment on Why a union president crossed partisan lines for a starring role at Trump’s RNC | CNN Politics 4 months ago:
Because you know I’m right.
Lincoln hated conservatives and slavers- one and the same in his time.
Lincoln is only a “well known conservative” to people who listen to grifters and liars.
You’ve incapable of refuting the facts laid before you, so you run away like you always do while claiming that you’re correct.
Conservatism is built on a pile of bullshit.
- Comment on Why a union president crossed partisan lines for a starring role at Trump’s RNC | CNN Politics 4 months ago:
Read the first fucking sentence, genius.
- Comment on Why a union president crossed partisan lines for a starring role at Trump’s RNC | CNN Politics 4 months ago:
But you say you are conservative—eminently conservative—while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by “our fathers who framed the Government under which we live”; while you with one accord reject, and scout, and spit upon that old policy, and insist upon substituting something new. True, you disagree among yourselves as to what that substitute shall be. You are divided on new propositions and plans, but you are unanimous in rejecting and denouncing the old policy of the fathers. Some of you are for reviving the foreign slave trade; some for a Congressional Slave-Code for the Territories; some for Congress forbidding the Territories to prohibit Slavery within their limits; some for maintaining Slavery in the Territories through the judiciary; some for the “gur-reat pur-rinciple” that “if one man would enslave another, no third man should object”, fantastically called “Popular Sovereignty”; but never a man among you is in favor of federal prohibition of slavery in federal territories, according to the practice of “our fathers who framed the Government under which we live”. Not one of all your various plans can show a precedent or an advocate in the century within which our Government originated. Consider, then, whether your claim of conservatism for yourselves, and your charge of destructiveness against us, are based on the most clear and stable foundations.
Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed. There is a judgment and a feeling against slavery in this nation, which cast at least a million and a half of votes. You cannot destroy that judgment and feeling—that sentiment—by breaking up the political organization which rallies around it. You can scarcely scatter and disperse an army which has been formed into order in the face of your heaviest fire; but if you could, how much would you gain by forcing the sentiment which created it out of the peaceful channel of the ballot-box, into some other channel?
Read a goddamn book
- Comment on Why a union president crossed partisan lines for a starring role at Trump’s RNC | CNN Politics 4 months ago:
And Lincoln hated conservatives.
It’s hilarious that you want me to read “the truth” by a convicted fraudster and conspiracy theorist.
You’re beyond parody.
- Comment on Why a union president crossed partisan lines for a starring role at Trump’s RNC | CNN Politics 4 months ago:
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
—Martin Niemöller
You’ve got to be pretty goddamn stupid to think Nazis are leftists.
- Comment on Judge dismisses classified documents case against Donald Trump — CNN 4 months ago:
He was found guilty by a jury of his peers.
He was also found liable for sexual assault.
Blaming others for your bad choices is a reactionary cornerstone.
- Comment on Judge dismisses classified documents case against Donald Trump — CNN 4 months ago:
Oh I know. I’m not really talking to them, I’m talking about them.
They have a completely different set of values, one not based on morality but instead in power.
They believe everything in politics is zero-sum: if there is a liberation movement or somebody gets a right recognized that should have been all along they see it as a loss for those who have privilege.
There is a reactionary streak running through all of American history: from the slaveholders who went to war to defend their human property to the America First movement in the 30’s to the KKK’s terror campaigns all the way through the neo-cons and the MAGA fascists.
There’s a reason why they want to confuse the issue, and my policy is that when reactionaries tell you what they don’t like there’s a reason to keep doing it.
- Comment on Judge dismisses classified documents case against Donald Trump — CNN 4 months ago:
“Tee hee, we’re stripping people’s rights away!”
And reactionaries wonder why they can’t get laid.
