SpaceCowboy
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Simply Bananas 4 hours ago:
The real cover-up about the flag is so much more fun. The astronauts were sworn to secrecy for decades.
Then decades later, some scientists were taking high resolution photos of the moon that weren’t quite good enough to see the flags themselves but did show the shadows of them. But they couldn’t see a shadow for the Apollo 11 flag, and then NASA had to come clean.
When they took off from the Moon, Buzz Aldrin saw the thrust of the spacecraft blow the flag over. When he told NASA about it in the debriefing they told him “you can never tell anyone this.”
- Comment on Corporate media, owned by billionaires, refuse to recognize the wave of democratic socialism 2 days ago:
It is no lie that leftist channels ban conversations on this subject.
So now it’s your turn, do you think Hamas committed genocidal acts on October 7? Yes or lie.
- Comment on Corporate media, owned by billionaires, refuse to recognize the wave of democratic socialism 3 days ago:
My opinion on this matter is generally banned from being discussed within leftist communities.
You need to go outside of this little bubble to have discussions on that topic. If you’re not afraid of ideas, of course.
- Comment on Corporate media, owned by billionaires, refuse to recognize the wave of democratic socialism 4 days ago:
Some of them are, some of them aren’t. They’re basically Schrodinger’s communists. Both communist and not communist until you have a conversation with someone from the DSA.
Maybe you talk to someone in the DSA that says “hey we just want things like better healthcare” or maybe you talk to someone that wants to burn everything down and recreate the Soviet Union to prove it would’ve worked if it started out industrialized or whatever.
- Comment on Corporate media, owned by billionaires, refuse to recognize the wave of democratic socialism 4 days ago:
Leftists are just really terrible at communicating with the working class. It’s mostly a movement coming out of universities where the goal is to prove how clever you are to everyone else. That just doesn’t play well with the working class.
You’re implying that the working class doesn’t like leftism because they’re too stupid. Consider the possibility that how you think about the working class might have something to do with why the working class doesn’t like you.
And you have too many leftists that are completely disconnected from reality. This comes at the expense of the working class.
Anyone who has worked with someone that’s from Eastern Europe or has read a history book documenting the famines in the Soviet Union or China are really going to be turned off by a conversation with a tankie. When leftists dismiss the plight of the working class in these countries as being minor details because there’s a “bigger picture” that’s more important? Yeah that’s not going to fly with the working class. Obviously.
Really if leftists cared about reaching the working class they’d drop the use of the word “socialist” entirely. People obviously associate that word with the USSR, because that word is actually in the name of the country. But leftist care more about winning some debate (it’s the university crowd) so feel like if they can successfully argue that socialism is good actually, they have achieved something. The working class should appreciate us for how clever we are!
But how clever is it to think that a socialist movement can have success without the working class? There’s a lack of any kind of wisdom coming from leftism.
- Comment on Corporate media, owned by billionaires, refuse to recognize the wave of democratic socialism 4 days ago:
And this is why the left has an antisemitism problem. It’s forbidden to ever discuss the issue. I’ve seen people on the left say that Jews have been evil throughout history, I’ve seen leftists openly admit they want to kill all Jews. People post rationalizations for why all Jews are an acceptable target of harassment even if they’ve never set foot in Israel.
But there’s a blanket rationalization for why that kind of talk is completely fine because it’s “criticizing Israel”. That rationalization only works within your group. You’ve created a permission structure for antisemitism, and automatically block anyone who brings up the problem.
These rationalizations and whitewashing only work within your group. Everyone else just sees some bullies harassing Jews at synagogues. You can see in the polling data that your movement is unpopular. You can’t even consider there may be reasons why. You can’t even discuss those reasons because your group forbids that kind of discussion. The first step is to admit there’s a problem, but leftists are incapable of doing that.
- Comment on Corporate media, owned by billionaires, refuse to recognize the wave of democratic socialism 5 days ago:
For context Trump’s numbers are (according to the Economist, but most polls are similar):
34% approve 61% disapprove 4% unsure
So the DSA’s approval is less than Trump’s, but there’s a much larger percentage in the “Don’t know” column. Which makes sense, Trump is an incumbent, everyone knows him, while a lot of people don’t know what the DSA is about. But then I’m not sure the DSA knows what the DSA is about.
So Trump’s net approval is -27 while the DSA’s is -17. So the DSA is currently at 10% better than a criminal pedophile.
Obviously that 23% “Don’t know” number is significant. If every single person that doesn’t know about the DSA learns more about them and decides they like them, then I guess the DSA could get to a net approval of +6. But if people learn more about them they fall into similar categories as those that already have an opinion, then their net approval approval would drop to similar levels to Trump.
If they could clean things up a bit in regards to the antisemitism and things like “America deserved 9/11” kind of rhetoric they could improve their numbers. But I don’t think the DSA is interested in doing that. So they’re probably going to be stuck at around a net -20.
There’s good reason why people like Abdul El-Sayed and AOC are distancing themselves from the DSA.
- Comment on Not Enough Hate 5 days ago:
Yup, the algorithms are promoting body dysmorphia to men as well as women now. I guess that’s equality?
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons Officially Have A Pay-To-Press Button 5 days ago:
TV remote controls have had “pay-to-press” buttons for a long time that work in the exact same way. I press the Netflix button it asks me to subscribe to Netflix. We got to the point where “button functions are microtransactions” a long time ago.
- Comment on just temporarily embarrassed billionaires, one good idea or lottery ticket from making it rich 6 days ago:
Not to mention their influence on you.
Hasan Piker is currently on the front page of twitch.tv, a website owned by Jeff Bezos.
Yeah, now it’s too late.
You feel this way because the influencers the billionaires recommend you watch have made you feel this way. You’re told by Jeff Bezos’ boy Hasan that liberals are the enemy so you will never vote for taxing billionaires. It’s only “too late” because you’ve been made to believe it’s too late. You need to stop listening to millionaires that are being promoted by billionaires.
- Comment on Just Think About It 6 days ago:
Yeah they may have made those jeeps for a war against Car Soviet Union instead.
I can easily understand why cars would be opposed to Car Stalin.
- Comment on The sneaky Socialist plot. 6 days ago:
The MAGAs all believe a populist will magically fix all of the problems too.
Maybe think more on what policies are needed instead of which charismatic demagogue will fix everything.
- Comment on I could quit AI anytime I want to 6 days ago:
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Stochastic terrorism is the act of a coward. Posting on the internet that you want violence to happen hoping some poor bastard that’s mentally unwell does something crazy, is just hoping that someone else ends up in prison or killed.
And these actions have no real affect. Was healthcare fixed by this guy getting killed? No I think it’s worse now than when he was alive.
So what have we learned? Killing individuals has no effect. If you actually want change you need to organize. Change doesn’t happen from being a fucking coward hoping someone else kills someone for your entertainment.
- Comment on lord give me strength 1 week ago:
Boomer millennials
LOL
Isn’t it past your bedtime, son?
- Comment on Take cover 1 week ago:
2026 is all about burning gasoline to drive into an office instead of using the infrastructure that was proven to allow WFH, while forests are burning from global warming and countries are running out of oil. All so you can read and AI summary of something written by another AI.
Not judging you, ya gotta do what you gotta do to pay the bills. Just remarking at how absurd the world has become.
- Comment on This is what Democratic voters are saying. Will the party listen? 1 week ago:
Thank you for proving my point.
- Comment on Fact Check 1 week ago:
If you’re selectively empathetic than any claims of empathy towards people in other countries is suspect. I think you’re likely a psychopath.
- Comment on Centrists have such a Hard Choice. 1 week ago:
Of course you did. Leftism is currently very devoted to looking the other way about issues of antisemitism within your movement. You don’t want to consider that there is a very valid reason for leftism to be rejected.
It would be very easy to denounce Hamas, and denounce attacking synagogues. Make it very clear that leftism isn’t about these things. But leftists won’t do that, why?
Rule on the sidebar says:
We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.
You’re in the paradox of tolerance. If you tolerate antisemitism, then you’re in an intolerant group. The goal of anti-zionist rhetoric has nothing to do with unionizing or labour rights. It’s entirely about creating division and turning people against one another.
How much discussion on here is actually about unionizing and improving working conditions? I would love for there to be a community about that, since I support forming unions. But your community is mostly about bashing Jews and bashing Democrats. It’s not about building coalitions with those sympathetic towards the rights of workers, it’s about attacking anyone that’s not onboard with one side in the propaganda surrounding a conflict on the other side of the world.
You shouldn’t expect there will be broad support for a group that tolerates antisemitism. Trying to sweep the problem under the rug and pretend the problem doesn’t exist isn’t making it better. Attacks on synagogues continue to increase. People outside of leftist circles see the antisemitic comments by people in your group. It’s also noted that there is no one in the leftist sphere that ever speaks out against it.
It’s your choice whether to ban comments that bring up the issue, but that is you choosing ban discussion on a very real problem in your movement. There’s a long history of people looking the other way on antisemitism that you’d be joining.
- Comment on Centrists have such a Hard Choice. 1 week ago:
No, I recognize the distinction between Jews in Israel and the Jews that live in my community. “Leftists” threaten the Jews that live in my community and I’m not a big fan of that. Leftism in general is incapable of denouncing this kind of behavior. Which makes you deplorable to anyone that cares about their community.
This is why your movement is a failure. Y’all dabbled in hate politics and now it’s taken over your movement.
- Comment on Centrists have such a Hard Choice. 1 week ago:
You really can’t form a cohesive argument at all, can you?
- Comment on Disc drive needed 1 week ago:
Yeah, it would be fair use. Selling the tape would be illegal tho.
- Comment on This is what Democratic voters are saying. Will the party listen? 1 week ago:
Uhhh… Ro Khanna is a Democratic congressman. I’m from Canada and I know that FFS. He’s the guy that got some of the Epstein files released and it’s actually a crime that they haven’t all been released.
Y’all are so conditioned into thinking the Democrats are bad that when an incumbent Democratic congressman says something you like you have to pretend it’s a voter the Democratic party doesn’t listen to?
and I want to be clear - this means no aid to Ukraine either. We are broke as it is.
So abandon all allies of the US? I guess you believe both Russian and Iranian propaganda. Is there any propaganda on the internet you don’t fall for?
The US is actually the wealthiest country in the world. You’re just so blinded by hatred for Israel you can’t even consider simply taxing the wealthy. Hasan Piker is really earning the money Jeff Bezos is paying him I guess.
- Comment on Centrists have such a Hard Choice. 1 week ago:
You can’t discuss what I say so you resort to throwing childish insults.
It’s all you can do because you know what I’m saying is true.
- Comment on Centrists have such a Hard Choice. 1 week ago:
The policies you’re calling “radical left” is actually center-left. Every policy listed above are things the center-left wants, but they lack the votes to do it because the “radical left” is “uncommitted” to these issues.
Actual radical left is devoted to hating Jews in general Israel specifically. To the “radical left” most sacrilegious thing anyone can ever do is question whether Israel committed genocide. Or saying that harassing Jews in your own community is antisemitism. What does any of this have to do with the working class? Nothing. But it’s really the only issue the “radical left” actually cares about because they’re mostly university students fantasizing that they’re the working class.
Because of it’s not allowed to have sane conversations about Israel or call out antisemitism within the ranks, most people don’t want to associate with you. The DSA does have some people that care about issues around healthcare, but within the same group there’s people that want to kill all Jews, and no one in the DSA says peep about it. Instead the goal is to silence all discussion on the problem of antisemitism in the group.
You pretend that there’s some conspiracy to against the radical left (by you know who) but really there’s too many people in the ranks that are deplorable and the rest just look the other way about it.
Both the radical right and radical left are hate groups. They only slightly differ on the targets of their hate and the terminology they use.
- Comment on Fact Check 1 week ago:
USA as entity deserves hate of the world
The very first thing you said. Do you normally act surprised when people say you’re hateful when you furiously type out some long text (without paragraph breaks) about why a whole country deserves to be hated in an effort to rationalize violence against citizens of that country?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
But one does not need to invent dumbfuck shit then to use against an apartheid state.
Then why did you type that out?
- Comment on There’s a lot of confusion about what democratic socialists want, and that’s fair. Even within our group, there are differences among us. 1 week ago:
I could just link to the site you’re currently on. Just read the comments in leftist threads. I’ve had people tell me they’re for genocide of all Jews, and it’s the general consensus on leftist lemmy that harrrassing the Jews in their communities is completely fine. Stochastic terrorism is commonplace here.
You just need to google any story posted by leftists and find it on another source to get more information to understand that what gets posted here is propaganda. They leave out any information that’s inconvenient to their narrative. They’ll say someone got arrested for protesting when they actually get arrested for violent crimes, which they leave out because they want the narrative to be that they’re being oppressed peaceful protesters.
The number one target for hate crimes are Jews these days. These hate crimes spike whenever there’s activity in the middle east. You will never hear about that in leftist circles. Too inconvenient. So you need to goolge the data on that yourself.
And if you ask a “socialist” about anything to do with public policy, they don’t have any cohesive answers. Just vague slogans and repeating whatever wealthy monetized influencers tell them to say.
Just read lemmy, not from the perspective that these are your “allies” but from a more critical perspective. Socialism is just an aesthetic for most people. Put on a Che Guevara T-Shirt in your college dorm and say some slogans about the “workers of the world uniting” despite the fact that the university crowd is not the working class. The actual working class is generally despised by leftists, it’s mostly a fantasy where college kids pretend they are the oppressed working class. But that’s just half-hearted bullshit they’ll grow out of. The real driving force of the present day leftist movement is hatred of Jews and that’s what will stick with people for the rest of their lives.
Leftists do everything they can to avoid having any discussion about antisemitism, even when it’s painfully obvious to anyone outside their group. They dismiss any claims of antisemitism as an attack originating from… well guess who? So these problems will not be addressed by leftists and the movement will continue to degrade further into becoming a fascist hate movement.
- Comment on Fact Check 1 week ago:
Yup. That is exactly what violent expressions of hatred results in.
So what lesson did you learn from the end result of using violence out of hatred towards a country?
- Comment on Fact Check 1 week ago:
That’s a lot of text to just rationalize why it’s fine for you to be the same as the people you hate. You’re just white washing your hatred with a very thin veneer of something to do with nation states which is exactly the same thing the US does when it bombs countries.
You’re no different from the people you hate. You should be judged in exactly the same way you’re judging others.