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- Comment on Colorado Governor Jared Polis once again vetoes bill that would make it easier for unions to organize 20 hours ago:
Human variation.
Some people are wired to hoard as much resources as possible, like a squirrel compulsively burying nuts.
We didn’t evolve for the abstract concept of wealth we have now. It’s just a number on a screen, it can go up indefinitely and at a certain point it’s can’t help but accumulate.
At a certain point there should be “to much wealth to manage” that limits these people, if they don’t have a limit they’re never stop hoarding.
If they could have ever been satisfied, they would have been long before a billion.
What I don’t get is why not everyone see this…
- Comment on Colorado Governor Jared Polis once again vetoes bill that would make it easier for unions to organize 20 hours ago:
The real lesson is absolutely anyone can put a D by their name…
Even if not a politician, trump gave so much money to the Clinton’s they came to one of his weddings. He was a Dem “power donor” for decades.
Anytime people just care about the letter by a name we’re fucked.
But people are really opposed to critical thinking and really love easy binary labels.
- Comment on There Has Never Been an Example of Presidential Corruption Like This 3 days ago:
You did actually ask a question this time so:
Yes, Jackson’s campaign platform was basically Trump’s, and the result was even worse.
Jackson also said he would “drain the swamp” and reduce federal corruption and just instilled more. Naming expanded federal lands.
And that was wildly divisive, it was not what all Americans wanted, just a loud minority.
It’s fucking exactly like today in a lot more ways than I’m bothering to type out, because it almost assuredly going to be a waste of my time.
Because like I said, if I keep trying to explain things to you, I’m going to get frustrated with you. And I just don’t have the motivation to help you when even this short exchange is annoying.
Ask someone else, I won’t see anymore of your replies.
- Comment on There Has Never Been an Example of Presidential Corruption Like This 3 days ago:
I’m not gonna put all the time in to explain why morals are not the same as laws and corruption can be legal…
But wanted to at least say that’s something you need to understand before jumping into any conversation about corruption or morality.
Like, by your own logic trump ain’t corrupt, because unregulated capitalism has controlled our country for decades and no one is currently stopping him.
I’m just going to get way too frustrated that you don’t understand that yet if I try to explain it. I sincerely hope you figure it out tho.
- Comment on There Has Never Been an Example of Presidential Corruption Like This 3 days ago:
You guys realize we had presidents when we were genociding the natives…
Right?
Like, “manifest destiny” was a real thing that really happened…
trumps the most corrupt president in “modern” history, but when our country is less than 300 years old, it’s really all “modern history”.
He’s just the most corrupt president anyone alive has lived thru, still a big deal but a big reason we’re where we are today because people don’t know shit and just vote on vibes.
trump is the cough from a disease, we can’t afford to just take cough medicine because the cough is annoying, we need to fix what’s causing the cough. We don’t have time to keep treating symptoms while ignoring the disease: rampant unregulated capitalism.
Fix that and we just don’t fix trump, we fix all the symptoms that are fucking our lives up.
- Comment on Twenty Years After His Film, Al Gore Tweaks the Climate Script 5 days ago:
Did he move away from the moral message?
“It remains the central argument,” Mr. Gore said, pointing out that he was still making this case in speeches and at meetings. But he also noted that “experience says there are a lot of people who will be more easily be persuaded by the impact on their pocketbooks.”
Always give people the moral reason to do the right thing, but also a selfish reason.
Because when people are stressed, we get selfish, it’s Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
So you tell people the moral reason for good times, and the selfish reason for bad times.
Morals can prolong peace but it’s absolute dogshit at advancing society. Nothing solves wealth inequality faster than everyone understanding how bad it actually is.
- Comment on I investigated BBC capture by trans activists. It was worse than I thought 5 days ago:
Multi-millionaite spokesperson for the billionaires declares the real problem isn’t billionaires…
- Comment on Vet wins more than £12,000 after she was forced to work through her lunch breaks 1 week ago:
You can’t do that, you can’t just skip lunch…
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Nah, “South African Ebola”
Sure, Congo is in Central Africa, but maga doesn’t know that.
Get the name to stick. And point out all the white racist “refugees” from SA trump keeps letting in as the cause. Force the cognitive dissonance of “dirty refugees” and “but they’re white?!?”
The goal isn’t for them to vote D, it’s for them to not vote R.
All that needs done making them so confused and angry they don’t want to think about politics, let alone vote. It’s not hard
- Comment on Man 'sat happily drinking' after inflaming riot 1 week ago:
Because starting a riot isn’t automatically a bad thing anymore, quick not this is a racist piece of shit:
Leon Watson, 35, threw missiles at police and encouraged others to attack in Sunderland in August 2024 after anti-immigration protests turned violent, Newcastle Crown Court heard.
- Comment on "Honestly difficult to imagine a path forward with it" - licensed Paranormal Activity horror game "technically done for good", says Mortuary Assistant creator 1 week ago:
The only way that would be cool, is if the player was the demon and had to manipulate the target.
Be too obvious and they just the rational thing and leave, but you have to torment them so you can posses them or something
- Comment on Israeli security minister stirs diplomatic outrage with flotilla activist abuse video 1 week ago:
That guy’s a giant piece of shit…
Even for Israel’s current government
Ben-Gvir is a settler in the Israeli-occupied West Bank whose “political background lies in Kahanism—a violently racist movement that supports the expulsion of Palestinians from their lands”.[2] He has a long history of anti-Arab activism, leading to dozens of indictments and at least eight convictions of crimes including incitement to racism and support for, as well as possession of propaganda of, a terrorist organization (the now-illegal Kach political party).[3] As a lawyer, he is known for defending Jews accused of Jewish extremist terrorism in Israeli courts.[4]
Ben-Gvir is known for being a provocateur and has attracted headlines for a variety of reasons: threatening Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on live television in 1995 shortly before his assassination; having had a portrait in his living room of Baruch Goldstein, a Jewish terrorist and mass murderer; calling in 2019 for the expulsion of Arab citizens of Israel who are not loyal to the state;[5] inciting violent clashes between Jewish settlers and Palestinians in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah in 2021; and making highly controversial visits to the Temple Mount, where the al-Aqsa Mosque is located, in 2023 and 2024.[6]
- Comment on A woman has been ordered to remove a gorilla statue from the front of her house in Wakefield or face a fine. 1 week ago:
Hold up…
Are you saying that instead of letting anyone build anything, and then the government has to find everything and investigate to make sure it’s safe…
That instead we should set regulations for safe building and require people to get permits notifying the city of the build so it could be approved before it was built?!?!
You might be on to something here…
/s
Really disappointing so many people didn’t understand that incredibly basic system and downvoted you.
- Comment on A woman has been ordered to remove a gorilla statue from the front of her house in Wakefield or face a fine. 1 week ago:
If you think a 4 foot gorilla statue is bad, wait till you see what it’s scaring away…
- Comment on "Public deserves to know”: Harvard Professor says official messaging contradicts hantavirus science 2 weeks ago:
None of what you just said is accurate for the Andes variant, which is the entire point of the video you didn’t watch or any of the comments you didn’t read…
- Comment on "Public deserves to know”: Harvard Professor says official messaging contradicts hantavirus science 2 weeks ago:
See, last time trump wanted to get his hands in it and didn’t let Anthony Fauci take common sense steps…
This time trump has so much shit going on he likely doesn’t even know this is a thing.
So he’s going to let the people with decades of experience follow established procedure and take logical steps to minimize infection.
Yep, everything will be fine because the director of HHS will be able to handle this with essentially zero oversight…
/S
This is the director of HHS btw:
- Comment on "Public deserves to know”: Harvard Professor says official messaging contradicts hantavirus science 2 weeks ago:
we are somewhere in between “this happens from time-to-time” and “half the population on Earth is about to die”.
To be fair…
Those are not mutually exclusive
- Comment on "Public deserves to know”: Harvard Professor says official messaging contradicts hantavirus science 2 weeks ago:
The problem is, you’re repeating dangerous scientific misinformation…
That could very likely result in actual deaths if anyone is naive enough to listen to you.
If you can’t understand this, can you at least stop making confident sounding comments that contain dangerous scientific misinformation?
I don’t know why I blocked you before, but this time you’re causing actual human suffering and death, it’s not just you or if anyone can help you understand.
It’s now about making sure you stop spreading misinformation that will lead to death and suffering
- Comment on "Public deserves to know”: Harvard Professor says official messaging contradicts hantavirus science 2 weeks ago:
First, none of this:
As the video talks about, just walking within four feet of an infected person is enough for transmission…
No coughing, no sneezing, not even talking required.
A dude four feet away is breathing normally and may feel like their allergies are acting up, and that’s enough for you to catch something with a 40% mortality rate …
Was in the comment I replied to.
It literally was…
Officials keep saying it’s not respiratory, it’s not human to human, and it’s no big deal…
None of that is true for Andes,
I’m genuinely asking because everyone deserves to hear this in a way they understand…
Is the way I wrote that Andes is respiratory, it’s transmissionable to humans, and a big deal just not comprehendable?
Because I’m already dialing it down a lot, and the issue is if I dial it down too much, there’s no more “why” for why we should be concerned.
If you so finally understand this, can you phrase it in a way that you would have understood immediately?
- Comment on "Public deserves to know”: Harvard Professor says official messaging contradicts hantavirus science 2 weeks ago:
What?
What are you reading?
As the video talks about, just walking within four feet of an infected person is enough for transmission…
No coughing, no sneezing, not even talking required.
A dude four feet away is breathing normally and may feel like their allergies are acting up, and that’s enough for you to catch something with a 40% mortality rate …
I’ve even heard it’s described as “intimate” contact. That seems to me to imply that it doesn’t transmit from human to human very easily.
All of that is about Hanta in general and true for 99.99% variants…
But not the Andes variant that everyone is talking about
Jesus fucking Christ dude, you’re lit doing what the video is saying is the problem…
Even if you didn’t watch the video, presumably you read the comment you replied to
I need to understand why you don’t get this so I can help you and others understand it, and obviously my last comment didn’t work.
- Comment on "Public deserves to know”: Harvard Professor says official messaging contradicts hantavirus science 2 weeks ago:
They got away with bullshit that didn’t work but made people feel safe last time because with proper medical treatment COVID mortality was like 0.1%.
Andes has a 40.0% mortality rate with proper medical care…
400x as many deaths as COVID if we end up with the same number of infected…
And from what we’re seeing, this newest Andes variant is a shit ton more transmissible than even normal Andes. So if it takes off, it’ll overload hospitals faster and for longer.
Like, last time they essentially used “thoughts and prayers” and most people got by off chance. If they do that again, we’re all fucked
Like even in this video, the guy is operating under the assumption governments will realize the difference in time and start handling it appropriately…
But there is zero logical reasons to think that, they’re not going to take rational and logical steps at any point, especially in America where trump and RFK Jr are in charge.
They’re gonna ignore the problem and hope it just goes away. And I honestly hope it works, I just think we shouldn’t leave it to chance
- Comment on Two men convicted over filming of antisemitic TikTok videos in London 2 weeks ago:
Articles say they were “verbally abusive” but none of them actually say what was said.
There’s no way to say who was in the right here.
If they went up to someone in hacidic garb and said:
Do you support Israel genociding Palestine?
Well, people can ask questions if you’re in public. It’s shitty to bother people but it’s legal.
If they were just screaming “zionazi” at anyone that looked Jewish, then yeah, that’s illegal.
- Comment on "Public deserves to know”: Harvard Professor says official messaging contradicts hantavirus science 2 weeks ago:
This is the most public I’ve seen someone who actually understands this is “Andes variant”…
Not just America, but lots of countries are pretending that this is regular Hanta and not the Andes variant.
Officials keep saying it’s not respiratory, it’s not human to human, and it’s no big deal…
None of that is true for Andes, and because of that we started studying this variant years ago, because we have no way to fight it, and it could cause a devastating pandemic…
news.utexas.edu/…/scientists-map-deadly-hantaviru…
In 2024, the NIH identified several families of viruses — including hantaviruses — that were extremely dangerous and had no effective vaccines or treatments, making them of special concern for their potential to cause a pandemic. To better prepare for future pandemics, the NIH awarded a series of grants through the ReVAMPP program to study these viruses and develop new tools to combat them, including the grant that established the Provident consortium and enabled this latest study. McLellan and other Provident researchers have simultaneously been working to find ways to address other viruses that health officials have identified as especially dangerous in an outbreak, such as measles and Nipah virus.
Like, multiple people are starting to show symptoms on evac flights, they 100% infected everyone on their plane. But we’re only doing two week quarantines after the flight, and it can take 6 weeks for symptoms and transmission
We’re fucking it all up again and no one cares, maybe we’ll get lucky, but I don’t think so.
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- Comment on Britain's first gay surrogate parent charged with rape and human trafficking 3 weeks ago:
Logically it makes sense.
Wealthy and powerful people are always likely to be “first” in stuff like this, because they’re the ones with the resources to fight.
But wealth and powerful people are almost always pieces of shit.
Them being gay isn’t why this happened, that didn’t make them monsters.
The normal effects of being wealthy and powerful for decades fucks you up, regardless of who you were before.
The way to help them, is to not allow anyone to achieve this power of wealth/power. If they were capable of realizing that themselves, they’d give most of that wealth away before it changed them.
But some people need the government to do it for them.
It’s for their own good, but it’s for our own good too.
- Comment on Do all cis women support single-sex spaces being based on ‘biological sex’? 3 weeks ago:
What?!
I’m saying “all” makes the entire statement worthless…
I have no idea who you are, but it seems you’re upset at me personally?
- Comment on Do all cis women support single-sex spaces being based on ‘biological sex’? 3 weeks ago:
Do all
Who reads an opinion question that starts with "do all’ and expects a rational take?
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 weeks ago:
Yep
The problem is for a lot of people, they’ve only known a corrupt DNC.
The only purpose of the DNC, is supposed to be to run an unbiased presidential primary every four years, that’s literally it…
This one is staying out of other primaries, but endorsing everyone that makes it to the general. Which is fine, the party shouldn’t be picking sides in any primary
It has no ethical reason for billions of dollars, so it’s been pumping all of it back to state parties who desperately need it.
They’re not lock and step with billionaire owned media, because why the fuck should they be?
People look at the DNC right now and are mad “it’s not doing anything”.
While at the same time saying unprompted that the problem has been the DNC was doing too much.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 weeks ago:
I dunno…
Voting for “the lesser evil” does have a proven track record of overthrowing the two party system…
Marxism–Leninism holds that a two-stage communist revolution is needed to replace capitalism. A vanguard party, organized through democratic centralism, would seize power on behalf of the proletariat and establish a one-party communist state. The state would control the means of production, suppress opposition, counter-revolution, and the bourgeoisie, and promote Soviet collectivism, to pave the way for an eventual communist society that would be classless and stateless.[12]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism–Leninism
How many elections has Jill Stein ran in?
When’s the last time a third party candidate even came close?
Why keep trying that when it keeps failing?
I think the real stall, has been the people furthest left in both of the two parties have been convinced to leave.
“Moderate” Republicans became neoliberals, and when they chased off the commies to third parties, we were left with two right wing parties.
We need the commies to start voting like Stalin always wanted them to, but today’s commies only know propaganda, they don’t know any history.
- Comment on BBC Failed to Name Israel As Perpetrator in Half of Civilian Casualty Reports, Data Shows 5 weeks ago:
and they are quite open about using AI,
I don’t think you understand…
but fuck that weird blog for not disclosing the “data report” is from a spammy ai app
Your link obfuscates that what it’s references is an AI slop app “analysis”.
Many people would assume a human did actual analysis.
If you want to rehash “AI doesn’t need to be disclosed” I have no time for that.