PugJesus
@PugJesus@lemmy.world
Alt of PugJesus for ensuring Fediverse compatibility and shit
- Comment on Some Older PC games I have, just wanted to share. 17 hours ago:
Blade of Darkness was kickass
- Comment on Pretty interesting when you really think about it. 3 days 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. 1 week 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. 1 week ago:
Jesus fucking Christ. Utterly unhinged.
- Comment on Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay 1 week ago:
Probably on DB0.
- Comment on Iraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Iraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway. 1 week 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.
- Comment on Anon holds her bf 2 weeks ago:
It’s not her pants I’m aiming for, damn you, it’s empathy and headpats! Can’t a man crave headpats from a pretty girl? 😭
- Comment on USA USA! 2 weeks ago:
The government may not negotiate with terrorists, but corporations are absolutely terrified of them. Do with that information what you will. :)
- Comment on Anon holds her bf 2 weeks ago:
This is why you should always ugly cry on the first date, to establish whether they’re gf material.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 2 weeks ago:
If caught, he should be punished according to the law.
I also hope he’s never caught.
- Comment on Stupid Sexy Mice 2 weeks ago:
Monster Prom 3
- Comment on A little Russian invasion comparison to put it all in perspective 2 weeks ago:
“I-it’s just over resources!!! A-and whatabout America in the Middle East???”
Try getting your genocide-denialist talking points from a more effective vendor.
- Comment on A little Russian invasion comparison to put it all in perspective 2 weeks ago:
Christ. Really just going all out to defend genocide, huh?
- Comment on Stupid Sexy Mice 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on This map will hopefully clear up any further confusion. 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Meme. 2 weeks ago:
Lemmy.ml has a reputation for really bad takes, and the mods and admins ban people for not supporting the admins’ favorite genocides.
- Comment on What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games? 3 weeks ago:
Gods Will Be Watching and The Red Strings Club
Spec Ops: The Line
- Comment on Wait, my body's own heat is enough? Always has been. 3 weeks ago:
“This meme was made by someone in a warm climate.”
- Comment on Wait, my body's own heat is enough? Always has been. 3 weeks ago:
You can’t put sweaters on pets
I know many retirees who disagree.
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 3 weeks ago:
Mid-late 2000s. Roughly 2005-2012.
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 3 weeks ago:
Nostalgia might be pushing a bit hard here. Even playing obsessively on relatively small games on a limited number of servers for hours every day, I never got to recognize people just by being there. Occasionally someone would friend you, but otherwise, you knew people for 4-5 rounds at a time, and then never saw them again. Internet, even back then, was a big place.
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 3 weeks ago:
Had the same experience with AssaultCube last year.
Jesus, fuck, that’s still around?
- Comment on Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich? 4 weeks ago:
Because civic education is lowly valued.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 4 weeks ago:
It might be. Only time, and the actions of Americans themselves, will tell.
It’s the biggest crisis in my lifetime. But we have survived other crisises, some-fucking-how, so maybe we’ll luck our way out of this one too.
God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.
- Otto Von Bismarck
- Comment on Anon doubts WW2 Germany 4 weeks ago:
“So, since might makes right in your ideology, you’re going to admit that democracy and tolerance is the superior form of governance?”
“No, I’m actually just going to sulk here and spread Lost Cause style myths about how the Wehrmacht Wasn’t That Bad™”
- Comment on How do l hire moderators? 4 weeks ago:
People get paid for moderating?
- Comment on Het Pijnstillersparadijs: Europese Zelfbeheersing vs. Amerikaanse Pillenfeest 5 weeks ago:
Two 500mg tablets of acetaminophen please, thank you
-A Certified American
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 1 month ago:
I liked Korra, but Season 1 had trouble finding itself, and Season 2 was awful. 3+4 were masterful, but I think most people had made up their minds by then.
