ZombiFrancis
@ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 2 days ago:
It doesn’t seem like you’re grasping that I wasn’t or haven’t really been refuting you.
The Democratic Party’s appeal to centrism by passing right wing policies is against their progressive base. The strategy doesn’t always work and it hasn’t been working.
So why you working yourself up?
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 2 days ago:
Dems do like capturing centrists,
Doesn’t always work, but that’s the play.
Sure doesn’t. Very strong arguments to my point.
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 3 days ago:
Those statements are both true, but: Neoliberalism dominates both political parties in the United States and has for generations. The Democratic Party is also neoliberal, (often in spite of their voters.)
The Republican Party’s neoliberalism has fostered fascist and christian nationalist factions to the point they may take over.
The Democratic Party’s stance has been to try and absorb disaffected Republican neoliberal voters from the above.
Which leaves ‘non-neoliberal American liberals’ with the choice of supporting… well it is and has been a successful right wing strategy to say the least.
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 3 days ago:
It doesn’t even need to be an insult. It was and is an inherently anti-left strategy to correlate ‘Liberal’ to the Democratic Party and it is exactly what American political media does. (Hence my reference to Rush Limbaugh.) The goal is to inject confusion into the terminology to the point where your average low information voter/liberal can’t differentiate between the left and the right: or a tankie and a fascist.
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 5 days ago:
In the US political media ‘Liberal’ is deliberately used to reference the policies of the Democratic Party, which is demonstrably Neoliberal. This confusion is working as intended.
Thanks Rush Limbaugh and all the hellspawn you’ve enabled.
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 5 days ago:
The context is typically pretty important for how it is being used. The user of the term often provides more than enough context I find.
If ‘liberal’ is being used in a derogatory sense, which isn’t going to be captured by an academic definition, it’s often aimed at neoliberalism in a pretty broad sense.
Which is probably what this meme is referring to: the shared rejection of neoliberalism. The motivations are different but that’s immaterial to these things. I mean: it is specifically referencing an American political party here: so I wouldn’t be looking for a political science definition on ‘liberal’.
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 5 days ago:
I tend to see the derogatory ‘Liberal’ and moreso ‘Lib’ used for Neo-liberals and those supporting the neoliberal policies that have dominated the last few generations.
I otherwise see it used in the context of the phrase “scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds” which is pithy but tracks with history and typically the more antagonistic usage.
With context it is almost always pretty self explanatory which is being used.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 6 days ago:
Right, the yields of the industrialized farms are what go to waste. You dont need a level klof productivity that gers bottlenecked at what I’ll definely broadly and loosely as ‘distribution’–from a garden.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 6 days ago:
Given the sheer volume of food waste produced to begin with: it sure don’t have to be as ‘efficient’.
- Comment on Ripperonis 1 week ago:
Ptolemy: ‘Am I a joke to you?’
- Comment on SomaFM 1 week ago:
I had Drone Zone playing in an old apartment for like the entire year lease. Just kept the vibe of the whole room going.
- Comment on Anon shares their highschool mascot 1 week ago:
They’re usually called bikini baristas and its a woman in a bikini or lingerie who makes coffee. Some got busted years back for doing handies.
I have never actually patronized one but there’s a few in my area, mostly in gas station parking lots. The operations can be pretty fucking rough.
I always cringe when I see the poor girl throwing on a bathrobe to cart the wastewater across the lot to the gas station slop drain since there’s no internal plumbing in her road facing booth.
- Comment on I’m fascinated by this open-world delivery game that sounds like Death Stranding on a horse in 13th-century Mongolia, with “unparalleled equine realism” 1 week ago:
Is it in any way funded by Turkmenistan chairman Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow?
- Comment on Anon shares their highschool mascot 1 week ago:
Five minutes out the cities or cross the mountains to the east or go on the peninsula or drive south or north…
Puget Sound has population high density and mostly dominates the politics of the state.
- Comment on Anon ends racism 1 week ago:
It had a higher ceiling though. Objectification and kinks have some normal-facing sides.
Racism and xenophobia not so much.
- Comment on Whales is whales 1 week ago:
Monke is fish.
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 1 week ago:
I always have to remind myself that I was introduced to and raised in nerddom from my godmother. Everything was through the lens of her curated tastes.
So when I hit puberty later in life all the deranged horniness suddenly clicked in me as MY problem since for me it wasn’t normalized. Playing D&D and MMOs just didn’t have that foundation, so I could compare.
Thanks godmother for keeping me somewhat normal. I’ve been often alienated from gamers due to my application of basic respect and sometimes just plain apathy towards women.
- Comment on Wow, this is so much faster 2 weeks ago:
I think that’s an English thing because they’re still celebrating Agincourt.
- Comment on goddamn 2 weeks ago:
Oh loam. Construction engineers will try to force you into accepting septic system effluent unless stopped by a rational designer that recognizes a ticking time bomb.
- Comment on Razer to pay out over $1 million in refunds over its misleading (and hideous) Zephyr face mask 2 weeks ago:
Anything: exists Razer: I can slap some RBG LED on that.
- Comment on I am the thing that goes *thump* 'Fuck!' in the night 3 weeks ago:
That stairwell off to the right seems to be at such a shallow angle they could have just made a flat hallway and used slightly steeper steps.
- Comment on banana slugs 4 weeks ago:
Geoduck enters chat
- Comment on A bad influence 4 weeks ago:
Close. Each employee had a tab.
- Comment on It is truly magic 4 weeks ago:
Inevitable as the heat death of the universe.
- Comment on A bad influence 4 weeks ago:
I once worked for an organization that maintained a 10+ year old single excel file with no discernable backups for regulatory data.
The bar is low.
- Comment on YouTube needs more potato 5 weeks ago:
Pixels be crisp.
- Comment on Political science 5 weeks ago:
Then it is too and truly art itself.
- Comment on unsure why we are surprised lol 5 weeks ago:
I think for many is shock and surprise is that anything even remotely “ml” is even allowed. Like something illegal is being allowed in plain sight.
- Comment on Biden to defy Supreme Court in second attempt at sweeping student loan handout 1 month ago:
Friend, person
Man, woman, camera.
- Comment on sun time 1 month ago:
There are a number of geological anomalies in and around the area. I went there for a class on extremeophiles studying the organisms living in some of the more extreme environments.