UnderpantsWeevil
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
he’ll change his mind if a girl he likes tells him he stinks…
Maybe. Or maybe he’ll get incredibly offended, go into a snit, and start posting incel-tier “Women are trying to steal our manly essenses” memes on 4chan for a few weeks.
- Comment on Little know fact 2 days ago:
He was hotter as a furry.
- Comment on Did I post this to the right comm 2 days ago:
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Bible
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Protocols of the Elders of Zion
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The latest Jordan B Peterson brainfart
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Anything tagged “Longtermist”
Big Image + Short Blurb is great for getting a quick rise out of people. But if you want to properly pill someone, you need to hit them with the firehose of content. The YouTube rabbit hole rots your brain not with a six second short but with a thousand five hour reactionary rants.
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- Comment on I miss myspace 2 days ago:
Everything was somewhere in between slashdot.org, ytmnd.com, and 4chan.
The nostalgia is entirely wasted on anyone who lived through 90s internet. It was cool because I was 12 and getting to drink from the information fire hose was a daily adventure. But it had all the same garbage politics, slop content, and horndog users of the modern internet.
The biggest difference between then and now is that Then Internet was considered a kind of counterculture (which meant 90s Reichwing Radio DJ Rush Limbaugh screeching like a stuck pig every time he heard about a new fad or meme he didn’t like) while Now Internet has your Rush Limbaugh tier content and your Chinese Rednote apps bumping into one another in the same oversized wave pool.
- Comment on I miss myspace 2 days ago:
It would be worse. The site got bought out by News Corp (FOX’s parent company) in 2005.
The site would be some kind of TurningPointUSA / DailyWire right-wing trash factory. Every song on there would be Ben Shapiro rapping or Oliver Anthony releasing the “Rich Men North of Richmond” techno remix.
- Comment on Get ya every time 2 days ago:
Extra exhausting when you hear some chest beating 2A loving conservative insist that Vietnam/Afghanistan proves police states can’t ever work in America.
There’s simply no conceptualization of what domestic resistance takes or who you need to win in a protracted insurgency.
We’ve just got a bunch of keyboard commanders who think your League of Legends rank would make you a modern day Rambo.
- Comment on It's why they tried to get rid of it 3 days ago:
Getting really far out into the woods and seeing the Milky Way in all its glory is a transformative experience, without a doubt.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
You had me until “unbiased therapy”
- Comment on Anon shares his taste in music 3 days ago:
Mega Man 2 OST is an incredible work of art.
- Comment on It's why they tried to get rid of it 3 days ago:
Thousands of people suddenly start staring into the night sky, exhaustively cataloging everything they see, and writing long journal entries arguing over whether a vague flickering dot is a planet or not.
And you think Pluto caused Autism?
- Comment on The internet is bad ux, everybody. There's too many choices. 5 days ago:
They offer data pacakages that are 50GB (for example) for social media data , and only 1GB for regular internet
In fairness, social media and streaming are absolute data hogs. I could get by very easily with 1GB for the old school message board internet of the early '00s.
- Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit 1 week ago:
Might want to calibrate your use of “liberal” for your audience.
- Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit 1 week ago:
Because one teeny step out-of-line on the left, and you’re labeled right wing
Genuinely trying to figure out what you’re referencing. Are we talking “one teeny” Daniel Perry shooting? Or is this “one teeny” mega-millionaire Dave Chappelle not getting a sixth Netflix comedy special because he’s become too transphobic? Or is this “my kids won’t talk to me anymore because I screamed ‘Pull your pants up!’ at Kendrick Lamar during the Superbowl Halftime Show”?
I tell people this constantly, and get ignored or chided for the thought.
:-/
- Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit 1 week ago:
The tools that were used to drive Germany to madness are much the same we’re seeing today. A lot of that first 1/3 is being bombarded with mass media saying “Black people are trying to kill you! Leftists are trying to rob you! The Evil Biden Government is trying to transgender your children!” over and over and over for decades on end.
This isn’t just Americans waking up one morning and deciding to be MAGA chuds. It is a product of two generations of intense right-wing propaganda through every avenue of mass media.
- Comment on Sotomayor Says Presidents Are Not Monarchs and Must Obey Rulings 1 week ago:
SCOTUS does not enforce policy - it interprets it.
So, in theory, a SCOTUS ruling allows bureaucrats in the various agencies to ignore a Presidential command. But in practice, we’ve got the Doggy Department stepping in behind the scenes and unhooking any individual disloyal to the President from their security badges and sign-in credentials. Power is being centralized via the mechanism of IT.
This is, incidentally, a strategy Balaji Srinivasan and his friends at Y-Combinator lay out explicitly in “The Network State” which is a favorite book of Peter Thiel and Elon Musk.
It’s as out of touch as someone saying “I think Mueller is still going to bring Donny down!”
Mueller laid out the terms by which incoming President Joe Biden could have prosecuted Donald Trump. And Biden’s AG Merrick Garland just… didn’t do it. This isn’t a question of “can” but of “will”. Do people in positions of power wish to utilize their authority to change the country?
Elon and Trump are 100% serious about changing the way the federal government functions this time around. President “Nothing will fundamentally change” Biden - the most institutional of the institutionalist Democrats still alive - was not.
I don’t even think this is a Donald Trump thing anymore. He’s just a vehicle for the Move Fast And Break Things Silicon Valley crowd to take control of the federal bureaucracy. But guys like Srinivasan and Thiel aren’t fucking around. They are using the mechanisms of power that the administrations of Biden, Trump, and Obama just kinda sat on.
- Comment on We're in the endgame now 1 week ago:
At a minimum you’d think a rabid conservative fanbase that claims to love the constitution would be aware of this
Conservatives who say they love the Constitution are a bit like Prosperity Gospel preachers who say they love the Bible.
They don’t see this statement as an expression of ideology. They see it as a psychological hack to disarm their audience.
That would require Republicans and US Conservatives to have actual ethics and principles
The idea of a politician with principles used to be the punchline to a sitcom comedy routine or the climax of a utopian drama.
It’s dizzying to see people blindly trust what has always been a pool of con artists and hustlers, both along conservatives (who doge-edly insist Trump is the Real Deal) and liberals (who keep screaming “hypocrite!” at a party that flaunts its hypocrisy)
- Comment on me_irl 1 week ago:
Nobody with empathy wants to burn down a state building
- Comment on White House Faith Office 1 week ago:
Condescending Joel Osteen Noises
- Comment on White House Faith Office 1 week ago:
We talking Iran, the secular democracy prior to 1953? Or Iran, the US backed military dictatorship that lasted until 1979? Or Iran, the Revolutionary Socialist Government that imploded in the run up to the US instigated Iran-Iraq War?
Oh oh oh. I gotcha. We’re talking about the modern theocratically controlled
Kingdom of Sauduh…Hinduvista Federal government of Indiaum…Revanchist Anti-Communist Christian Cult of the Park/Yoon governmenter…Apartheid State of Israeloh, here it is, Ayatollah’s Iran.Damn, can’t believe America would end up like Evil Foreign Country, instead of a model secular government we traditionally support.
- Comment on When we explain to other people how our capitalist system works and they recoil in horror 1 week ago:
Capitalism is based on slavery and genocide
Feudalism is based on slavery and genocide. Capitalism is based on industrial development yielding a compounding rate of return.
It is fucked, nothing good about it
Its a historical stage of economic development every society ultimately passes through. Again, go back and read Das Kapital. Go pick up a copy of Piketty’s Capitalism in the 21st Century. Get a book on Lenin’s NEP or Dengism or the modernization of Castro’s Cuba. Even the most staunch leftist cannot escape the materialist need to industrialize.
- Comment on Man, their reputation really has gone to shit 2 weeks ago:
anymore
Point to the moment in history when intelligence agencies were interested in protecting anyone worth less than $10M.
- Comment on Man, their reputation really has gone to shit 2 weeks ago:
salon.com/…/fbi-takes-a-page-from-breitbart-far-r…
In meetings, the Justice Department and senior F.B.I. officials agreed that making the Clinton Foundation investigation public could influence the presidential race and suggest they were favoring Mr. Trump. . . . They agreed to keep the case open but wait until after the election to determine their next steps. The move infuriated some agents, who thought that the F.B.I.’s leaders were reining them in because of politics.
Its the same FBI. They’re a pile of writhing fascist maggots, all too eager to get back to their COINTELPRO days of breaking the knees of union organizers, torching the homes of civil rights activists, and padding their wallets with protection money from the New York Mafia.
The MAGA is coming from inside the J. Edgar Hoover Building.
- Comment on When we explain to other people how our capitalist system works and they recoil in horror 2 weeks ago:
Capitalism has zero benefits whatsoever
Even Marx didn’t believe that. Capitalism is an outgrowth of industrialization, repetitively turning low-surplus undeveloped real estate into high-surplus improved real estate. If you’re not generating and then reinvesting your surplus, you’re not going to move past a feudal agrarian economy into a post-scarcity socialist state without that process.
you have American brainrot
This is, at absolute worst, British/German brainrot. The Americans fetishized the idea of capitalism and hid from its excesses with westward migration. But the Old World scholars were shoved into the maw and out the anus of it a century earlier.
- Comment on Wow, ok. 2 weeks ago:
Did he, tho? Seems like he’s continuing to be a strong vector for Scientology in Hollywood to this day.
- Comment on When we explain to other people how our capitalist system works and they recoil in horror 2 weeks ago:
Provide basic needs, food, clothing, healthcare, childcare, and education. Hell even a phone and Internet access.
Any government that has the power to grant these goods/services will have the power to take them away. Unless the public can directly own and administer the property through local councils and administrative bureaucracies, they are banking on the largesse of national socialist leadership to continue indefinitely.
Allow for those who do not wish to, or are unable to work to live with all basic needs covered. Those who wish to work are incentivized to do so, with access to luxuries. Better housing, better clothing, better technology. Allow a place for the market, but don’t make people depend on the market.
All of that is predicated on a continuously expanding surplus of raw materials, advanced technologies, and an educated labor force.
You can either import these as luxuries, in which case you’re operating an export-oriented economy predicated on the market price of your domestic surplus. That requires a bigger economy you’re effectively beholden to. Looks good in the moment, but over the course of centuries you just end up as a West African / Middle Eastern / East India Tea Company-controlled kingdom, wherein the bottlenecks of trade produce oligarchs of immense personal fortune.
Or you produce domestically, in the Juche model, and live within the means provided by your real estate and your people. But that requires an economy that can plan and organize resources on the order of decades (if not centuries) and invests domestically rather than keeping an eye towards meeting the needs of foreign import markets. It won’t work as a capitalist system, because the capitalist demand for growth will push you back into the export-oriented model that foreigners exploit.
“Free” markets follow the bubbles in credit and compel local economies to chase short term speculative bubbles for long term economic needs. Planned economies can build infrastructure in advance of future needs and plan social policy to curb economically regressive short-term profitable impulses with long term costs (opium consumption, coal/NGL power grids, cash crops that deplete arable land and water reserves like tobacco and pistachios).
They aren’t durable. They produce rapid consolidations of wealth and political capital. And they create intergenerational risks that the current cohort of investors have little reason to acknowledge or prevent.
- Comment on When we explain to other people how our capitalist system works and they recoil in horror 2 weeks ago:
Capitalism has its benefits. Namely, the rapid economic growth afforded through exploitation of natural resources by unemployed labor mixed with cash-rich / debt-friendly entrepreneurs. You don’t want an economic system that loses the benefits of industrialization and domestic improvement.
On the flip side, capitalism also has a huge problem of wealth distribution. Bottlenecks within the flow of revenue create huge pools of malinvestment, squandered natural resources on vanity projects, and a strong incentive for public sector militarization / police violence as a tool to maintain the disproportionate wealth distribution.
We need a system in which individuals can still cooperatively administer an economy with an eye towards long term economic prosperity, but one in which the surpluses aren’t horded or wasted by a rigid hierarchy of generationally wealthy lenders and carnival barker entrepreneurs. Communism provides a roadmap for redistributing titles and incomes across entire populations, while still socially reproducing a bureaucracy capable of managing industrial-scale and national-scale projects.
- Comment on Wow, ok. 2 weeks ago:
Tom Cruise and Elon Musk have the same energy.
- Comment on Americans witnessing an ongoing klepto-fascist takeover of their federal government [Day 68] 2 weeks ago:
post an angery tweet aimed at your base constituency on the platform owned by one of the klepto-fascists.
This. Is. What. The. American. People. Voted. For.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to try and beg some crypto-degenerates for a cup of money to fund my “I’m a former ICE Agent with a strong Pro-Life record who thinks Donald Trump is weak on the border and abortion” liberal Senate campaign in a purple state.
- Comment on Old-fashioned love 2 weeks ago:
Trying to explain to my 14 kids from three different fathers and the accumulated 217 grandkids that back in the 1950s we definitely were not fucking casually.
- Comment on The new Hulu Subscriber agreement just dropped - Don't like ads too bad. 2 weeks ago:
Just a numbers game. More people will absorb the costs than cancel their subscriptions. So these streaming services can keep ratcheting until they hit a breaking point. There’s no disincentive to these behaviors, as long as net revenue increases quarter to quarter.
