Gorilladrums
@Gorilladrums@lemmy.world
- Comment on Just like in the movies. 2 days ago:
How would I know it’s Mexico if it’s not yellow?
- Comment on Too soon? 5 days ago:
Calling out people for making stuff up is not sea lioning
- Comment on Too soon? 6 days ago:
I disagree, the Republicans ARE a cabal of idiots. The people who own them and run the party in the shadows, however, are not.
- Comment on Too soon? 6 days ago:
I take issue with your question because it conflates two completely separate things as the same. There’s a very difference between a “system” and an “individual”, especially when that person is a private citizen. Ideally, political violence should be a line that’s never crossed, however, we don’t live in an ideal world. If people are tired of the system they live under, and they have no meaningful way of getting change then violence might be inevitable. However, in these cases people go after the system itself. That means the actual institutions that keep the system in place. Want an example? Look at what’s happening right now in Nepal.
What you don’t do to fight a system is shoot a private citizen over their political views. That’s not meaningful resistance, that’s just violence. It doesn’t do anything or change anything, all it does is help establish a dangerous precedent where violence becomes an acceptable part of political discourse. Don’t like someone’s political views? Shoot them, they probably deserved it anyway… at least that’s what people here are saying to justify it, but what these don’t understand is that it’s a two way street. Just as you cheer and condone political violence, others can as well, including the people you don’t like. You can’t condemn people you don’t like for doing it but then cheer for the same actions when the people you like do it, because you’ll just be a hypocrite and your words will hold no weight. It’s not a defensible position.
It should be noted that for any principle to mean anything, it is absolutely mandatory for it to be applied fairly and universally. If we want to remain a society that values civil liberties, then those have to extend to everyone, including those who you don’t like don’t or don’t agree with, and this includes people with vile views. When a system becomes a dysfunctional mess, it means that it has deviated significantly from it’s founding principles, and a new system needs to take it’s place to embody them. However, if the people no longer believe in civil liberties for all, then we’re looking at a very grim future because we would have tyranny’s pandora’s box.
- Comment on Too soon? 6 days ago:
So you can’t cite a specific example? Nobody is disagreeing that Kirk had vile views, but you made a very specific claim that I want verification for. Give me something, anything that directly shows Kirk actually did this:
He was promoting actual, race-targeted violence domestically and internationally
- Comment on Too soon? 6 days ago:
No it isn’t. You being not caring is perfectly fine, but the OC was wasn’t being apathetic to the situation, they were embracing it.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 week ago:
Can cite specific examples of this?
- Comment on Too soon? 1 week ago:
It’s not about him, it’s about the implications of embracing actions like this. Vigilantes killing people for political reasons without due process is not justice
- Comment on Too soon? 1 week ago:
See the issue with this mentality is that THIS is the mentality of authoritarians. You try to find ways to justify the murder of the people you politically disagree with while not applying the same standard to the people you politically agree with.
What you’re doing is helping set a precedent that political violence is justified if you frame it in a certain way. If that’s the case then other extremist whackos, including conservative ones, are going to start doing the same thing. What’s there from stopping some conservative nutjob from shooting someone like Hasan Piker or AOC or Mamdani or anyone on the left really as a retaliation? After all, if what you’re saying here is now passing as a valid justification, then they’ll just use your very own justification to justify their own actions.
The things that authoritarians don’t understand is that when principles aren’t applied universally, the standard becomes subjective, and sooner or later, their abuse of power will come back to bite them in the ass by the very standard they helped establish. I am fully aware that Lemmy is usually off the deep end on politics, but this is too unhinged even for this platform.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 week ago:
This is some tin foil hat shit solely because Trump is too stupid to do any elaborate planning like this
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 3 weeks ago:
The left path is better because if you adopt some privacy hygiene when using the internet, you can be more sure that these AI companies won’t scrape your sensitive info. Whatever data they scrape from places like here is going to be meaningless. Even if the AI is trained on your Lemmy posts, so what? People are here for the community and the people who want human experience will seek it.
- Comment on Anon tries to meet girls at college 4 weeks ago:
Lmao
- Comment on Anon tries to meet girls at college 4 weeks ago:
Lemmy is filled with incels who are in denial. It’s kind of like how the most rabid homophobes are closted gays.
- Comment on Worst part about living in Europe 5 weeks ago:
I honestly have no idea what you’re trying to say here
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 5 weeks ago:
Are there stats that show what languages/countries dominate Lemmy or fediverse at large? I feel like this could be settled easily with actual data.
- Comment on Worst part about living in Europe 5 weeks ago:
Number 4 is reasonable if people are educated on what Marxism is in theory and practice
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah okay, take it easy debate bro. Either make your point or go away. Debating for the sake of it is a waste of time
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 5 weeks ago:
Literally the whole point of this post is that most of Lemmy is revolves around Americans, and I’m saying that this makes sense because Lemmy and the Feddiverse at large are based around English as the primary language. Since the US has by the largest amounts of native English speakers, it makes sense that American related content dominates. This is common sense, idk what you’re trying to go for here. That the Feddiverse has other languages? Okay, I never said that Lemmy or the Fediverse is exclusively English, I’m saying it’s the most dominant language.
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 5 weeks ago:
What language are we communicating in? What language is the default for this platform? What language is used for the TOS? What language do the developers use? The Fediverse is a global project, but it’s also mostly English based.
- Comment on Posting in honor of my nieces back to school week 😆 5 weeks ago:
School can’t be fun and exciting all the time, otherwise kids would just have 8 hours of recess every day. They still need to learn math, spelling, reading, and science, and despite it not always fun. Ideally there should be a balance that tries to maximizes both education and a child’s mental health.
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 5 weeks ago:
>Uses an English based platform
>Is shocked most users are from the biggest English speaking country
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- Comment on We really don't want to talk about our problems 2 months ago:
I don’t think these two things are mutually exclusive
- Comment on Bitch shape attack 2 months ago:
I will forever choose to die on the hill that tumblr humor is not funny
- Comment on We really don't want to talk about our problems 2 months ago:
Therapy has become the new buzzword to prescribe to any individualistic issue because most people don’t know what it is or who its for, they just think it’s a silver bullet solution to everything because everybody else says so… but it’s not.
Therapy is great for specific people with specific disorders, it’s there to help provide these people with solutions and treatments to improve their conditions. It’s not meant to be a replacement for a social circle or to fix the problems in your life.
Not to mention that therapy is either expensive or hard to access or the therapist you do get to see are usually not that great. It is very hard and very rare to find a good therapist that’s affordable and nearby. Even then, a therapist can only do so much. They’re trained to work through common disorders using several established methods, but not much beyond that. Therapists can help you overcome your anxiety, but they can’t help you find meaningful relationships.
This is doubly true for men, because a lot of men are facing issues related to finding purpose and meaning in life, and that’s something that’s beyond the scope of therapy. Maybe these issues could be resolved as a result of treating a disorder, but that’s not always the case. The point is that therapy is not a magical solution, and it’s not going to solve huge societal problems like men turning their backs on society.
- Comment on You got it, buddy 2 months ago:
I too quiz my partner on the anatomy of genitalia when we’re hanging out
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 2 months ago:
But this isn’t an issue of technology or economic progress, but of politics. These are two different discussions. Jobs being automated away isn’t new nor is it going away. It’s simply a part of the evolution of economies. The issues we have stem from a flawed political system that’s not doing it’s job.
For our system to work as intended, we need to have a robust democratically elected government that proactively regulates the economy on the behalf of the people to protect consumers, the environment, and the health of the economy. This is one of the fingers of the invisible hand. A government is supposed to break up monopolies, ban deceptive and predatory practices, protect consumers from harmful products, make sure that businesses don’t pollute the environment, protect workers from exploitation, and so on. In other capitalist countries like Sweden, Germany, and Ireland they have this, we don’t… at least not anymore.
The reason for this is because there’s no accountability in our government anymore. No politician faces any consequences no matter the crime or controversy. Our public officials no longer fear the public, and this type of unchecked power allows them to be corrupt because they know they can get away with it. They have lost any incentive to do their job of holding bad actors in the country accountable and instead started doing their bidding (like endless deregulation and tax cuts for the rich). That’s the root of our issue, and blaming AI for it is just silly.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 2 months ago:
But we’re talking about different things though. I don’t disagree with the notion that the work week should decrease or that people should get more based on their production. We’re in total agreement here. I’m arguing that automation is going to bring about the apocalypse like the person I replied to implied because history shows us that this wasn’t the case when similar situations arose in the past. Technology does progress, the economy does evolve, old jobs and industries do die out, and people do lose their jobs because of it. But what is also true at the same time is that new jobs and industries do get created because of the new technology, and the people who lose their jobs do adapt and end up getting new roles that utilize their skill sets. People who get laid off don’t become forever useless, people aren’t that rigid.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 2 months ago:
My point isn’t based on an idea, it’s based on history. We’ve literally had the same thing happen before many, many times in the past.
Your arguments is based on the assumption that humans are static like sims characters. That they can only ever do one job, which isn’t true. You also know that it isn’t true, otherwise you wouldn’t appeal to extremes. There’s a lot in between being a truck driver and being a programmer that you’re intentionally skipping over. When people lose their jobs, they don’t automatically become eternally useless because they can’t do a highly specialized job that doesn’t utilize any of their skill sets, that’s not what history shows us. Instead, these people find other roles that use their skills.
In this case, truck drivers usually have skills like spatial awareness, logistics knowledge, mechanical aptitude, and time management. These skills are transferable, and other jobs do demand them. For example, they could work as safety inspectors or warehouse supervisors or logistics support or remote vehicle operators, field service support, and the list goes on and on. People adapt, that’s economies progress.
I don’t even understand what you’re argument is here. Should we just straight up freeze technological advancement and stop society from evolving because some people work outdated jobs? If things were left up to you, would you just not implement electric street lamps so lamplighters wouldn’t lose their jobs? You could make the some argument for people who work specialize for health insurance companies, so should we never have universal healthcare because these people might lose their jobs? It’s a ridiculous argument.
