Taalnazi
@Taalnazi@lemmy.world
- Comment on The American Dream, minus 60% 1 day ago:
I did already write a manifesto, actually. I think it was written before Trump, but it outlined some non-negotiable demands and some negotiable ones, though I also added a lot more that seem ridiculous. Because a good way to negotiate is to give ridiculous demands so the other will be more inclined to agree to the less ridiculous (which was what you ideally wanted anyways)
- Comment on Republicans are arguing over if trans people can play sports while the world laughs at us 5 days ago:
They def are Republicans, we just call them RINOs because they’re so far off the deep end that they lick the billionnaire’s boots instead.
- Comment on Republicans are arguing over if trans people can play sports while the world laughs at us 5 days ago:
The Netherlands has a solution to that free-rider problem. You can “opt out” of healthcare, but if you do so, you must pay every month to a fund for yourself; and if you get injured, all costs are on you, unreimbursed. If it’s empty, your problem.
So in practice, you’re still required to be covered, but if you “opt out”, all costs are on you. Last I recall there are very few people that do so.
- Comment on The American Dream, minus 60% 5 days ago:
There is more in the world than two. I prefer labour self-management where we work together.
- Comment on The American Dream, minus 60% 6 days ago:
The No Kings march managed to bring up 8 million, though! We can do this.
- Comment on The American Dream, minus 60% 6 days ago:
Private property is theft
- Comment on An insurance I don't love 6 days ago:
It does, in the Netherlands (my country), we have universal private healthcare.
We used to have universal public/singlepayer, but decades of liberal governance caused it to be privatised.
- Comment on A reminder 1 week ago:
In the Netherlands you get the unemployment support depending on how long you worked. So if you worked at least 108 hours in year 1, you get 3 months. By about 8 years+ it’s 2 years.
Unfortunately though the conservative liberal party wants to abolish that and make even more people suffer than Covid already did.
But yeah, assuming the minimum, it’d be about 1.5 years for me, with maximum maybe about 3 years.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’m not sure how “rarely talked about” we’re talking about, but it doesn’t get brought up often enough that Reagan and Thatcher were involved in Operation Cyclone, a CIA and MI5-backed financing of terrorists. specifically, they financed the deeply religious mujahedeen, and even met their leaders.
Osama used to help the mujahedeen, so in retrospect, in my view, most theocratic violence was caused by the aftereffects of Reagan’s and Thatcher’s politics backing religious fundamentalists, rather than y’know, moderate socialists. Oligarchs remain oligarchs, after all.
- Comment on What’s the difference between anarchy and libertarianism? 5 months ago:
Should also add that a lot of libertarians in reality tend to be more of the “I want the freedom to repress others” people, eg wanting homeschooling (which can increase abuse), opposing measures that would improve every person’s quality of life (such as universal healthcare) etc.
Anarchists on the other hand, tend to be more often on the socialist or communist kind, in where they favour the abolition of hierarchy and thus favour an egalitarian society, by abolition of private (but not personal) property.
- Comment on Annon punches a Nazi 6 months ago:
Or do it like me and ask the kid to stand before the swing, and then break his jaw with your feet.
Sorry, bully, but you kept calling me a fag. Now go enjoy chewing sand.
- Comment on If the 2028 election was held today, who would you vote for? 7 months ago:
Bij1. They’re as close to anarchist/council communist as it gets imho, pretty good stuff.
- Comment on Penetration 7 months ago:
GET OUT OF THERE! HE’S STILL ALIVE!
- Comment on This one goes out to Dennis Prager 9 months ago:
Based
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
I prefer me some C2H5OH, thanks
- Comment on How come NK doesn't just come out and say we are in trouble and need help? Like their lack of food and stuff? I really don't see a downside for a country admit they were wrong and need help 10 months ago:
I suppose they meant the fascists or liberals who think the US at some point ever really was benevolent.
IMHO, the closest it came was during Teddy Roosenvelt’s trust busting campaign, but still. The US is a capitalist project through and through. Being well-off I refuse to finance such a project. Let capitalism be destroyed through itself.
- Comment on Anon likes Dragon Ball 10 months ago:
Least honest Lemmyposter
- Comment on Anon likes Dragon Ball 10 months ago:
I’m not sure whether to be impressed or disappointed with your knowledge.
… seeing as it doesn’t hurt, I suppose the former.
- Comment on What are the demands of the No Kings protests? What's the plan if they win? 10 months ago:
I’d have put not 100 million $, but $ 1.5 million (including bonuses) above the lowest earners in the country, pacing with inflation but never more than it. It’s the amount you’d need to live purely on interest.
This would have as compounded effect that the rich would actually for once be motivated to raise the wages of their employees, if they wanted higher wages themselves.
- Comment on Do Americans expect the NK protest to achieve anything? 10 months ago:
Not with that spirit. It’s a warning:
“If you don’t stop and get off your mighty throne now, we will take matters in our hands, taking democracy back to the American people”.
- Comment on what country would you never go to again? 10 months ago:
The USA. Even if it hadn’t gone on its path of fascism, I disliked being treated as a potential terrorist at the airport. I didn’t even ‘look’ brown, Muslim, or anything they would’ve disliked.
Having to wait 3.5 hrs without toilet break? And having to wear a helmet when bicycling? Fuck you, USA.
- Comment on If proton decay isn't true 10 months ago:
For some extra existential crisis, consider this.
In 1x10^10^56 years, a new big bang could occur in the universe, through quantum tunneling.
If you multiply that with all possible ways in which all subatomic particles in the observable universe could be arranged (1x^10^115), that might be a possible timeframe for a new universe exactly like ours.
That is, a universe in where you posted that comment, and I’m writing this right now. Maybe we’re doing that a few seconds differently, but overall it’s the same universe.
- Comment on Anon shops for diamonds 10 months ago:
Or a stone that you saw on the ground somewhere, and just liked.
- Comment on THE CRAZY PILLS 10 months ago:
I mean, Trump doesn’t want competent people, he wants loyalists and yes-worms.
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 10 months ago:
“This glass shines. It does so by guiding extremely tiny kernels (which repel from others) through a sort of ‘road’ where they pass easier. This road leads to itself only.
There is a place that pushes these kernels away to an area on that road they’re pulled towards. When it encounters a sort of barrier, it hits that, and splats like a tomato; that’s light.”
- Comment on UK: If it looks, sounds and behaves like an enemy, why are we calling China a ‘challenge’? -- [Opinion] 11 months ago:
While China is an opponent, I think for now Russia and the USA remain the biggest problems.
Russia is the source of the far right gaining power in the USA. The USA likewise needs to be brought back to normal ASAP.
Through whichever methods that is needed, I am not sure. But while China is an adversary, if I had the power to, I would reject involving Europe into the Chinese matters, certainly so long as the Russian problem is not resolved, and also the American.
If China could help with bringing down Russia, I would actually consider China as a sort of ally. After that, whether the US or China is the bigger issue, is then up to us.
Since China at least sort of can agree to international treaties, I think I know which I’ll side with.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 11 months ago:
Some countries do take action. Mine does, by banning that.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 11 months ago:
Best way to change that is to shut down algorithms that have that bias, and mandate media literacy.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Ditto with fascist scum. Best to just wnjoy Kropotkin’s works.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Unlike Nazis, communists do have free groups such as anarchocommunists and so on, that are not authoritarian.