Schmoo
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- Comment on Probably accurate 3 days ago:
Thomas Paine is the only one I could tolerate hanging out with. The rest are getting pushed back into the time machine and sent to the Devonian period.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
The Vietnam war began with majority support and slowly became unpopular over time. The Iran war started with the majority opposing it, and is the first war where that’s happened in US history. It’s a very different political climate from the Vietnam war era.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
I think you’re underestimating how gen Z would respond to a draft. There has been no generation in US history less supportive of war. I think a significant number of gen Z would gladly turn their weapons on the general that asks them to commit war crimes without hesitation, and that’s if they even manage to drag us kicking and screaming to the front.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
I fucking dare you to try it bitch. The backlash would be legendary.
- Comment on Trailer love, trailer life 1 week ago:
Looks like an American suburb but without yard space.
- Comment on Using conservative logic 1 week ago:
This is the logic behind conversion therapy and they actually do this (albeit with the addition of electric shocks and all sorts of abuse).
- Comment on Sometimes it be like that 1 week ago:
You’re connected to someone by a time thread like in Your Name and you just ruined someone’s life.
- Comment on Anon judges Karl 2 weeks ago:
You don’t have to adopt the ruling elites’ definition of success. You talk about politics being a means and not an end, but you still insist on calling winning an election success. If the end/goal is determined by ideology then so is the criteria for success, and my personal criteria for success is improving quality of life for as many people as possible. Winning an election can be a means to that end, but just seizing power does not by itself merit the political theory that enabled it. Fascism has proven quite capable of seizing power in liberal democracies with capitalist economies, but I would certainly not call that success.
- Comment on Anon judges Karl 2 weeks ago:
If we measure the success of a political theory by its ability to take, hold and exercise power
The success of a political theory should be measured by its ability to improve quality of life. Taking power may be a prerequisite, but that alone is not success. Seeing the seizure of state power as an end in itself is a mistake that leads to an authoritarian dead end.
- Comment on British Charlie Kirk wannabe beaten up debating people in Manchester 2 weeks ago:
So he’s less of a British Charlie Kirk and more of a British Nick Shirley.
- Comment on Cheese is available 3 weeks ago:
It’s not illegal to call it cheese because it has an emulsifier in it, it’s illegal to call it cheese because it’s mostly water. That’s what the emulsifier is for; it allows the cheese to mix smoothly with the water. They would rather call it “American cheese product” than “mostly water with <50% cheddar” because no one would buy that when the 100% cheddar is sitting right next to it.
- Comment on Cheese is available 3 weeks ago:
It’s an emulsification of water and a mix of cheddar cheeses with preservatives, stabilizers, and an emulsifier (obviously) added. It has some culinary applications but the real reason it’s made that way is it lets Kraft get away with selling less cheese overall for the same price as a block of 100% cheddar of the same volume by marketing it as a different type of cheese (American) rather than what it actually is (watered down cheddar).
- Comment on Pink Ranger 3 weeks ago:
So they’re trying to stop him from calling a vote on a bill that would create a pathway to citizenship for foreign workers. It’s xenophobes resorting to force because they’re afraid they can’t win democratically. Makes sense given how conservative Japan is and how low voter turnout is among the youth.
- Comment on WOMEN. 3 weeks ago:
Toxic masculinity teaches men that emotions are feminine, so to preserve our identity as men we are conditioned to suppress, hide, or find ways to describe our emotions as something other than what they are. That’s why men like Zerush think women are more emotional when the reality is that there is a difference in how men and women describe, express, and act on their emotions due to cultural conditioning. Hormones determine when and to what degree certain emotions are felt, but not what kind of emotions are felt or how they are expressed. That is determined by cultural conditioning and individual personality.
- Comment on I don't know about that one 4 weeks ago:
Moralizing to drug addicts helps no one. All it does is make you feel better about yourself for a bit and make someone else feel worse when they’re already down and using to cope. Your attitude actually contributes to a culture that promotes unhealthy relationships with substances.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
When I come across someone IRL who loves AI I avoid the topic around them. My opinions on the topic are likely to offend them, so to avoid hurting their feelings or causing conflict I won’t mention them. Now, if it’s someone I care about I’ll find a way to gently broach the topic because I know that heavy AI use is causing them harm and I don’t want my family and friends to lose their grip on reality.
- Comment on The Matrix 5 weeks ago:
*W. Sisters now.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
British food isn’t real, British food can’t hurt you.
- Comment on Shutting down a piracy site 1 month ago:
They’re talking about the Global Sumud Flotilla, a group that regularly attempts to break Israel’s blockade and deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, and is intercepted by Israel every time. Israel tortures and humiliates the humanitarian aid workers before sending most of them back to their respective home countries. The most recent one had the sister of Ireland’s president on it and the Israeli terrorist Itamar Ben-Gvir recorded the abuse of the aid workers and posted the video on social media celebrating it and european countries still haven’t done anything about it.
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 1 month ago:
My only gripe with this is that the state in its current form cannot be trusted to be an impartial judge of what constitutes hate speech. We see today that many states around the world are using anti hate speech laws to suppress criticism of the state of Israel. Giving the state broad powers to crack down on speech that it deems hateful will inevitably result in the state deciding that all criticism of its actions or the actions of its allies constitutes hate speech.
- Comment on Top-selling video games ever (2025) 2 months ago:
It’s what the kids these days are calling “friend-slop,” which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It’s just that most of the value comes from creating zany situations for your coop pals to get into and let hilarity ensue. It’s a bit like a lot of card games in that way, it’s simple because it mostly just has to get out of the players’ way and allow social interaction to happen.
- Comment on Crowd goes wild 2 months ago:
They’re making an effort to make them illegal too.
- Comment on ‘Power in the hands of people’: union leaders push to revive ailing US labor movement 2 months ago:
- Comment on ‘Power in the hands of people’: union leaders push to revive ailing US labor movement 2 months ago:
The IWW offers resources for people interested in forming their own independent union.
- Comment on ‘Power in the hands of people’: union leaders push to revive ailing US labor movement 2 months ago:
That’s because the labor movement in the US has been systematically suppressed for decades. Most surviving unions are what could be called “business unions” or class-collaborationist unions. They are corrupt and have leadership that cut deals with the employers, and union elections are intentionally manipulated to depress turnout, usually by keeping the rank and file in the dark about the schedule.
- Comment on Is there any way I can study Marxist theory in a way that wouldn't seem too boring or dry? 2 months ago:
If you want to explore classical Marxist ideas in an entertaining way, check out Michael Burns on YouTube. He used to run the channel Wisecrack and makes videos about philosophy, and he is a classical Marxist who talks a lot about Marx and Engels. That being said, these days you’re not going to find much discussion of Marx that doesn’t cover Marxism-Leninism in some way.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Not weird at all, they’re eating like many hunter-gatherer societies used to. It was very common to season meat with fruits and honey.
- Comment on Having to work during the apocalypse sucks 3 months ago:
I used to think this way when I was miserable and disillusioned with society in general. When you approach life with the assumption that people are evil by default you tend to only notice things which affirm that belief. I’ve since made a lot of changes in my life and gained a new perspective, and I’ve found that I more frequently notice people doing small acts of kindness when they think no one’s looking. Most people want to do good, it’s just that they don’t often succeed.
- Comment on Having to work during the apocalypse sucks 3 months ago:
Most people are good, it’s a wealthy few who exploit the planet and people for profit who are destroying the planet. The “humans are inherently selfish/evil” line only serves to protect those responsible from accountability by distributing the blame.
- Comment on Me watching someone on Lemmy getting cooked for having the same opinion as me: 3 months ago:
They’re not - or at least no one can reasonably claim ignorance now - and they have already voted for anti-genocide representatives in special elections and primaries thus far. It won’t be a wipeout across the board, but AIPAC will lose their stranglehold on US politics this primary season and they know it. They’ve been doing damage control rather than trying to get pro-Israel candidates elected recently.
