PugJesus
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- Comment on Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of SCIENCE? 3 hours ago:
He caught one of the nursemaids speaking G*rman to the infant and the experiment had to be aborted. RIP
- Submitted 4 hours ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 10 comments
- Comment on Based Red Dead 2 days ago:
They’re the same fucking word from different time periods on the treadmill of what is politically correct.
Either both are slurs that shouldn’t be used or both are acceptable.
That’s not how language works, and unless you go around calling Black folk ‘colored’, you understand that in other contexts. What words are acceptable and what connotations they have change with time and usage.
- Submitted 2 days ago to greentext@sh.itjust.works | 168 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
non-maga right wing
How many of those are left? Two, three?
I remember before 2016, I had respect for some right-wing folk online who, while far from agreement with me, I regarded as simply legitimately misguided (in a “Free markets because gubmint bad”) kind of way.
It was… eye-opening to see how many of them went mask-off in the Trump years, and how fast and fiercely they did it.
- Submitted 4 days ago to greentext@sh.itjust.works | 10 comments
- Comment on Why would Dumbledolf do this 2 weeks ago:
People do weird things to get past auto-censors. Sometimes it feels more like people developing new superstitions for a digital age.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to greentext@sh.itjust.works | 26 comments
- Comment on It insists upon itself 2 weeks ago:
I prefer Goncharov, personally
- Comment on Anon's PC works 2 weeks ago:
5 years here, a lower-end purchase to begin with. Still works fine. Only a few games I need to lower to True Potato settings to run.
- Comment on Rainbolt never misses 2 weeks ago:
The continuous US states are 8,080,460 square kilometres.
Europe is 10,186,000 square kilometres.
In what world is that “not far off”?
- Comment on Rainbolt never misses 2 weeks ago:
We have vacation days?
- Comment on Rainbolt never misses 2 weeks ago:
“all of Europe could fit inside the 48 continental states alone” - are you sure about that, fam?
Not far off.
- Comment on Anon's strict mom 2 weeks ago:
Happened to me twice within the last month. Once because I noted to an adult man that a full-up buss at 14:00 isn’t a karaoke and he shouldn’t be listenint to his phone on full while singing drinking songs with all the kids and parents. He started to yell he’ll kill me on the street and whatnot. I left the best as my stop came up. Went to buy a bevvie He came after me from the bus and stalked me lol.
I see the feral reputation of the Finns is not wholly unearned
I would rather live with wild wolves, no shit.
Kind of sounds like you already do XD
- Comment on Anon discovers Japanese jazz 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I have a European acquaintance who I’ve heard talk at length about how America is warm and friendly relative to Europe, and it’s a notion I’ve heard backed up by online accounts as well.
- Comment on Checking cis privilege 2 weeks ago:
Would someone do that? Just go onto 4chan and tell lies?
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to greentext@sh.itjust.works | 7 comments
- Comment on Anons make the worst game ever 3 weeks ago:
Senua is great. The combat felt fine to me, though it definitely wasn’t the game’s focus.
- Comment on Mental health 3 weeks ago:
I can’t be certain of that until I try it
Someone shroom my lazy ass up
- Comment on GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam” 3 weeks ago:
Any other sources for this? Not for the job cutting, but for GoG’s business model going downhill? Hasn’t this happened every few years since the start of GoG?
- Comment on It's been known for almost 40 years 4 weeks ago:
It’s funny. This was my relationship with my mother for most of my life, with as little ‘telling her anything’ as I could. Now we’re both in therapy and have a much better relationship.
- Comment on "Images of 'Saint Luigi Mangione, The patron saint of health care justice' have been making rounds on social media" 4 weeks ago:
He was arrested for US healthcare’s sins.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you are a witness or whistleblower who's adversary was a very big corporation (such as boeing), what measures could you take to prevent yourself from being "suicided"? 4 weeks ago:
Human beings are fragile creatures. Big corps generally don’t need to make the big effort of a murder and a cover-up when they can almost completely legally harass people into taking their own lives.
- Comment on Some Older PC games I have, just wanted to share. 4 weeks ago:
Blade of Darkness was kickass
- Comment on Pretty interesting when you really think about it. 4 weeks ago:
Sure, as soon as we all agree on what form of government to have and what actions it should take, or at least the point at which we are all willing to not take up arms in opposition against it, we can get rid of these artificially conceived borders.
- Comment on Iraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway. 5 weeks ago:
and fixate instead on a handful of retaliatory strikes against US interests.
Downplaying 9/11 as one of ‘a handful of retaliatory strikes against US interests.’
The Battle of Mogadeshu, which involved Black Hawk helicopters obliterating Somali mosques with hellfire missiles.
Not even vaguely what fucking happened.
The brutal occupation of the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan, from 1992 to 2001 as a US-backed narco-state.
Fucking all of this.
The entire Iran-Iraq War, sponsored by US arms dealers and double-dealing diplomats, which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Arab and Persian young people.
That we sold to both sides of the Iran-Iraq War is undeniable; the idea that the war itself was our fault and that 9/11 is just ‘blowback’ for that is fucking insane.
The occupation of Saudi Arabia by a western-backed military dictatorship going back nearly a century.
Christ, I don’t even know where to begin.
The violent overthrow of democracies from Indonesia to Egypt in pursuit of neoliberal international trade policy.
We were involved in the violent overthrow of many democracies throughout the years, this I agree on. But funny enough, Egypt isn’t one of them. So this had potential to be a good point, but failed by being posted by someone utterly detached from reality.
9/11 didn’t happen in a vacuum any more than the Brian Thompson assassination or the aborted coup in South Korea. These have long historical tails that trace back to a geopolitical policy that’s racked up a staggering death toll.
'Whatabout’ing 9/11 by implicitly arguing against it as a ‘violent act of terrorism’ as originally quoted, and then trying to justify it by the implicit comparison of 9/11 with the French fucking Revolution of the oppressed lower classes finally striking back against their oppressor.
Do you really not see any of these as objectionable.
- Comment on Iraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway. 5 weeks ago:
Jesus fucking Christ. Utterly unhinged.
- Comment on Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay 5 weeks ago:
Probably on DB0.
- Comment on Iraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway. 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Iraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway. 5 weeks ago:
What’s that old JFK quote? Those who make peaceful change impossible make violent revolution inevitable?
The state draws its legitimacy from the social contract. When people no longer feel like the social contract is beneficial to them or to society - ie as one might feel with a healthcare system that is 100+ years out of date and has received one (1) bandaid for normal folk in the past 40 years - the state can no longer expect individuals to uphold their end of the social contract (adherence to laws, norms, and peaceable conduct).
This doesn’t mean “the overthrow of the government is coming tomorrow”, but rather means that the social contract is beginning to fray, and a failure of those in power to recognize and accede to that fact (by making major concessions) will result in this sort of incident continually intensifying until… well, until the social contract is gone to a large swathe of people, and then at that point, the overthrow of the government will be imminent, for better or worse.
All interactions between state and citizen are implicitly negotiated. Negotiations require leverage. Violence has always been a form of leverage. But assassinations are far more powerful leverage than riots.
