archomrade

@archomrade@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relevant advertising 🤪⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll admit - if there was any way to convince me to get a truck that big, this might be it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Whoosh

  “Everything is very good, actually”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Quit hitting yourself, quit hitting yourself, quit hitting yourself”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you really sure you want to be ascribing global trends to the US empire?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not much for word games, thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post-election blues⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  not protest, that doesn’t work

  Civil disobedience works too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post-election blues⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If all you do is vote then you’re a big part of the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post-election blues⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And this is why libs are made fun of for their feckless electoralism.

  Try organizing and building mutual aid networks instead of just sitting on your ass and watching.

  Maybe in 4 years you’ll be better prepared.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I just want to hear you say that votes cast not for your party aren’t legitimate votes

  Never what I said, nor intended

  voting for a 3rd party doesn’t count

  Whoomp, there it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I just want to hear you say that votes cast not for your party aren’t legitimate votes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I voted third party.

  Read it again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So did OP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It worked for some democratic voters, but not for the 14 million others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True Story⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because that explanation makes them feel better

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rested⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was just asleep for three and I do not feel well rested.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are peole hating on .world?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks, Logan.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mother nature will be like ‘sloooooowwwwww dowwwwwwwn’, and you’ll say “FUCK YOU” and kick her in the face with your

  ENERGY LEGS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks, Logan.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was just making that joke

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks, Logan.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Prime’s got what plants crave - it’s got electrolytes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks, Logan.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a caffeinated version of it and a ‘electrolyte’ version, afaik

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Missed Connection⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmao Iowa City might be the funniest place for someone to own a cybertruck

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There you go little guy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s less a problem with racial profiling and more a problem with it being a poverty-tax.

  Enforcing a flat-rate fee structure with speed cameras disproportionately hurts low-income drivers (who are already economically unstable), and allocating state/city funding toward road maintenance instead of public transit infrastructure pushes people into a loop of auto costs-> traffic fines -> loss of work -> more financial insecurity, ect.

  True enough: reducing officer interactions is a good thing, but those cops end up spending that saved time escalating other non-violent interactions instead. If that’s your goal, you should be de-funding and reforming law enforcement, not automating fine collection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There you go little guy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy try not to post crimes challenge - impossible. Granted, as far as crimes go, this one seems innocuous enough, but still.

  I’ve been told repeatedly on c/piracy that lemmy is just too small to attract the attention of law enforcement and three-letter agencies

  Paradoxically, I’ve also been told that lemmy is rife with state-sponsored troll farms, so…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There you go little guy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You know what else would reduce police forces? Eliminating car traffic entirely.

  Cops spend the most time on ordinary traffic stops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨jealousy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because apparently some of us only eat peanut butter and never chew anything solid

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Browsing their coms can be a pretty unique experience, especially if you go in with a preformed idea of what their communities are like. There’s a huge spread of interests and experiences, and sometimes you can be browsing a niche community and forget that these were the people posting BPB on lemmy.world threads a year ago.

  Knowing the academic writings and history they’re referencing helps a lot with understanding where they are coming from, even if you may not agree with all of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the most reasonable response.

  A lot of people here have long since made up their mind about hexbear based both on repeated meta posting on the topic and possibly a bad experience or two with them on a topic they assumed was uncontested but is a landmine topic for communists of a particular bent

  I’ve personally never had a bad experience with hexbears, possibly because I’m more empathetic to their perspective, but more likely because I know when it’s time to disengage. There are users on lemmy who feel strongly about a certain topic that’s abrasive to hexbear users and dig in their heels when jeered at (or maybe feel a personal responsibility to stand them down) and are usually the users here who have the most complaints, because the standard reaction from hexbear users is irreverence (both the users and the mods).

  Unlike a lot of liberals coming from reddit, communists often don’t have delusions about the neutrality of moderation and so they’ll ban you on a whim if they think you’re there to stir shit. They use the ban hammer judiciously even with users on their own instance. That’s often the biggest complaint both with hexbear and with lemmy.ml.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe this is better for everyone⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We can’t have a discussion at all if we’re not allowed to address the statements and intent of the other.

  stop making it personal.

  I’d kindly ask you to stop making it about the things I’m doing. You’re making it personal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe this is better for everyone⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s actually not speaking the personal costs born by consumers, it’s talking about the cost of purchasing food for the diet.

  As I said, if the paper was discussing the systemic hurtles and personal choices of consumers it would be a different paper, saying a different thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe this is better for everyone⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How can I leave you out of an analysis that is about something you said? You’re just being ridiculous now.