SpaceCowboy
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
- Comment on This is why Americans hate Socialism. 1 hour ago:
Yeah I’d say there might be a bigger problem with leftists trying to associate things like healthcare programs with the word socialism that’s holding things back.
Kinda disconnected from reality when you’re saying we should do X because X is something failed systems have done. Might be more successful to say we should do X because X is good and it won’t make us into a failed state.
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 1 day ago:
The real trick: Republicans know their best shot of winning elections is to energize their base with “Democrats are going to destroy the country so you must go vote” while at the same time promoting the narrative “Democrats won’t do anything so you should bother voting” to de-energize the opposition.
It’s a very very obvious strategy being deployed here.
But go on and pretend you’re an edgy contrarian while spreading the exact narrative the fascists want you to spread.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Yeah but what the hell was Christian Bale doing with his voice? I could barely understand that he was saying Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
- Comment on Anon uses AI in a smart way 2 days ago:
Everyone ignore this guy, I have a way to get that same PDF for free. Just send me $50 and I’ll tell you how.
- Comment on There's got to be a name for this 2 days ago:
Prostitution?
- Comment on Real Capitalism Hasn't Been Attempted (tm) 3 days ago:
Capitalism is when the food on the shelves is expensive. Socialism is when the food is cheap but there’s none on the shelf.
- Comment on Video games 4 days ago:
What is it you think I forgot? No one’s forgetting how there’s people spending a lot of time trying to convince everyone that anything that recognizes the existence of Jews should be labelled “zionists” and be a target of hatred.
I also haven’t forgotten then general pattern of posts on “Lemmy Shitpost”. One day Gal Gadot is the target of your two minutes hate, next day it’s this guy I never even heard of before.
Also I haven’t forgotten that this isn’t the first time in history people have acted this way. Not everything is about comforting you by making you feel like no one notices this pattern of behaviour.
- Comment on Video games 5 days ago:
Yeah I know there’s some really deranged people on the internet.
It’s a bizarre thing when people think that proving the existence of a narrative is the same thing as something being true.
Apparently there’s a synagogue in it so some people are upset by that. You’ll of course claim that Zionism is not the same as antisemitism, while also spending a lot of time reading a lot of articles that tell you to hate a video game because it shows a synagogue in it.
- Comment on Video games 6 days ago:
Not everything has something to do with Zionism FFS.
- Comment on Left Wing Rage # Right Wing Rage 1 week ago:
I think you should read up on WWII. After going through a civil war, Spain was not in any shape to contribute much of anything to the fascist side in WWII. After WWII, France wanted the allies to do a regime change in in Spain, since they weren’t comfortable with fascists on their border for obvious reasons. But instead the allies opted for containment and isolation. It sucked for people in Spain for decades, but after Franco died they moved on from fascism. Regime change eventually happened in Spain without the need for other countries to invade.
Right now nobody in the Middle East is all that happy living next to Iran. Iran is pretty fascist, so do you think Trump is right in going to war with Iran?
I think you’ve got some tunnel vision on WWII and think it has to go that way and aren’t understanding all of the instances where regime change has not gone well. Maybe you think guys like Saddam Hussein and the Ayatollah of Iran are good guys and not oppressive authoritarian leaders or something? But they were/are horrible authoritarians and the same rationalization for other countries to get involved in some war in the US is the same rationalization for why the US gets involved in regime change operations in various parts of the world.
- Comment on Gotta catch 'em all... 1 week ago:
In the past, clothes were shipped to the developing world and sold in markets there. Fast fashion clothes don’t really sell in the developing world (too low quality) so there’s nothing else to do with it other than throwing it out.
- Comment on Now we're cooking with gas! 1 week ago:
Because OP uses their Brain in unusual ways.
- Comment on Left Wing Rage # Right Wing Rage 1 week ago:
Spain in the 1930s?
Yeah great, anarchism works until it gets taken over by a dictator.
An ideology that only works if you can get everyone in the world to believe in it is more of a religion than a viable political movement.
- Comment on just sayin 1 week ago:
that neurodivergents don’t think the same way as normal people.
Isn’t that the definition of neurodivergent?
- Comment on Left Wing Rage # Right Wing Rage 1 week ago:
Politics is mostly just tribalism. Radicalization is just having more loyalty to a tribe that wants to destroy the status quo. Whether far left or far right, people in these tribes are more likely to show a blind devotion to the leaders of those tribes. When the leaders of either the far left or far right gain power, the abuse of power will be similar.
Historical problems that stemmed from far right and far left movements in the past are something people pushing these things need to address. The far right goes for “accusing others of that which you’re guilty” which is typical of them. The far left sometimes uses this tactic, but tends to make rationalizations. Tankies go for “didn’t happen, Stalin was great, nananana I can’t hear you!” Non-tankies go for “that stuff that happened in all the other countries won’t happen if we did it here, they started as agrarian socialism and therefore there was no issues in the power dynamics involved with giving all of the power to a small group of people.”
But in the end all radical movements are just variations of “give me all of the power I’ll make you stronger/equal, you can totally trust me!”
- Comment on Interesting movie detail you've never noticed 1 week ago:
Recycled meme.
Also kinda dumb. There has been an effort made to make toy guns easily recognizable as toys because there’s always issues when people are running around that appear to be armed.
We know that you it’s a good thing to make it easily identifiable who is armed and who is not. So why doesn’t Hamas wear uniforms in combat to reduce civilian casualties? We see them wearing uniforms in their propaganda videos and when they’re out intimidating the local Palestinian population to maintain power. They have uniforms, but they don’t wear them in combat when it would prevent civilians from being targeted.
- Comment on International blind spot 2 weeks ago:
This is meme about proudly proclaiming that you trust a server in Israel with all of your internet traffic LOL.
- Comment on International blind spot 2 weeks ago:
I think by targeting Israeli people, the message being sent is that you hate Israeli people, not the Israeli government.
Also, WTF is a multiverse account?
- Comment on This crazy assassin character, who doesn't know what shampoo is, somehow would bother shaving her armpits 2 weeks ago:
Rise of Skywalker gave everyone what they wanted.
If you watched it wanting a fun action adventure movie, it gave you what to wanted.
If you wanted a movie you could nitpick and complain about on the internet, it gave you what you wanted.
- Comment on Philips shouldn't exist. Torx plus is the best fight me 2 weeks ago:
Yeah because she’s Canadian… unlike Americans who don’t know how to screw.
- Comment on I'd rather have cake 2 weeks ago:
Yeah they made computers better at talking like a human (lies and all) but that’s so very boring and not very useful when you want to be sure you got things right.
- Comment on Philips shouldn't exist. Torx plus is the best fight me 2 weeks ago:
My momma is Canadian and don’t want no inferior American bits.
- Comment on Philips shouldn't exist. Torx plus is the best fight me 2 weeks ago:
Robertson (square) is the best.
Americans just don’t know how to screw.
- Comment on Play games with your neighbor to sink even lower! Canada rules! 2 weeks ago:
Are you American and can only consider the goal to be to make profit? Consider the possibility of the goal being to cause economic pain for the US.
You admit the US bonds are currently in a precarious position. All the more reason why putting $450B worth of them onto the market would be effective in causing economic pain for the US. Sure Canada would lose money, but we’re going to lose a lot of money from this trade war anyway. I’m sure this would be considered like a nuclear option, only to be used if the US starts getting too crazy.
Besides, Canada will be making some money with the sale of bonds. That money can be used to offset the negative impacts of the tariffs. So US consumers pay higher prices while US government will pay higher interest on their debt so Canadians will get financial aid. Canada will transition away from US trade, while the US will decline.
- Comment on Heh Heh Suckers 2 weeks ago:
Historians aren’t supposed to trust primary sources from any time period.
- Comment on My mistake 2 weeks ago:
He can’t rest until he’s avenged the death of his best friend, Jeffrey Epstein.
- Comment on I wanna be a maelstrom in 1714 C.E. 2 weeks ago:
If you’re starving you’ll move to anywhere that has food.
- Comment on Play games with your neighbor to sink even lower! Canada rules! 2 weeks ago:
Yeah it would be great if all the hateful people in the world just went to the US.
So when are you moving there?
- Comment on Play games with your neighbor to sink even lower! Canada rules! 2 weeks ago:
Nope. Americans are used to having wars on the other side of an ocean. Those are wars you can be oblivious of. When drones are buzzing overhead and you see smoke rising from the strategic targets in your city, you can’t drive to work because the bridge was taken down and there’s military checkpoints everywhere asking to see your papers to prove you aren’t Canadian? I think Americans will notice that.
- Comment on Play games with your neighbor to sink even lower! Canada rules! 2 weeks ago:
If Canada sells the US bonds it holds, that US debt becomes very expensive.