Zombiepirate

Zombiepirate, 6 days ago

The move was part of a nationwide campaign by MAGA activists to block those donations, which they call “Zuckerbucks,” based on the prominent role of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in funding nonpartisan election-support charities. “I consider Facebook to be an enemy of the people” for Zuckerberg’s role in funding election-administration charities, Trump told CNBC in March.

Of all the shitty things Facebook gets away with, this is what makes them “enemies of the people?”

Republicans just REALLY hate democracy.

Zombiepirate, 8 days ago

The most important part about learning a musical instrument is consistent practice.

1 hour twice per week is not as good as 20 minutes every single day. And you do have to play every day if you want to improve. Work on one thing at a time and most importantly: use a metronome.

Guitar is a meditation exercise: you have to learn to love the process. If you aren’t having fun, maybe it just isn’t for you.

Zombiepirate, 8 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

From The Reaction Mind- Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump by Corey Robin:

Republicans have learned to disguise their intentions so well, in other words, that the disguise has seeped into and transformed the intention.

Even without directly engaging the progressive argument, conservatives may absorb, by some elusive osmnosis, the deeper categories and idioms of the left, even when those idioms run directly counter to their official stance. After years of opposing the women’s movement, for example, Phyllis Schlafly seemed genuinely incapable of conjuring the prefeminist view of women as deferential wives and mothers. Instead, she celebrated the activist “power of the positive woman.” And then, as if borrowing a page from The Feminine Mystique, she railed against the meaninglessness and lack of fulfillment among American women; the difference was that she blamed these ills on feminism rather than on sexism. When she spoke out against the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), she didn’t claim that it introduceda radical new language of rights. Her argument was the opposite. The ERA, she told the Washington Star, “is a takeaway of women’s rights.” It will “take away the right of the wife in an ongoing marriage, the wife in the home.” Schlafly was obviously using the language of rights in a way that was opposed to the aims of the feminist movement; she was using rights talk to put women back into the home, to keep them as wives and mothers. But that is the point: conservatism adapts and adopts, often unconsciously, the language of democratic reform to the cause of hierarchy.

This is the best book I’ve read for understanding conservatism.

Zombiepirate, 9 days ago

Then what the fuck is he doing in Ukraine, PotatoTown?

Zombiepirate, 9 days ago

It really is a great game.

The combat reminds me most of Half-life 1 when the soldiers are chasing you through Black Mesa.

Zombiepirate, 9 days ago

Your Beeness

Zombiepirate, 9 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

Love his style.

Also, I love that his mom’s name was Ann Egg.

Egg was born in London to Joseph and Ann Egg

Zombiepirate, 9 days ago

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Self_Portrait_as_a_Distressed_Poet_Augustus_Leopold_Egg_(1816%E2%80%931863)_Hospitalfield.jpg

Zombiepirate, 9 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

Maybe it’s a client issue?

Zombiepirate, 9 days ago

The woman, referred to as “Witness 1” in an FBI affidavit, previously recalled how a bit of “comically minimal ego-stroking” on her part led to Taake and other Jan. 6 participants giving up information about their activities during that attack.

“I felt a bit of ‘civic duty,’ I guess, but truthfully, I was mostly just mad and thinking, ‘F— these guys,’” the woman, who spoke anonymously for fear of online reprisal, said. The men wanted to “regurgitate” the lies they heard from prominent Republicans about the 2020 presidential election, she said.

That woman is an American hero.

Zombiepirate, 9 days ago

It’s so fuckin’ funny when reactionaries project their insecurities onto others.

It’s just so transparent LMAO!

Zombiepirate, 9 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

I’m rated at a +7, so it depends on my roll.

You’re hilarious. Keep it up.

Zombiepirate, 10 days ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1521a9cd-f681-42bc-98c7-d1e3bb0ab77f.png

Zombiepirate, 10 days ago

Here’s a tangentially related video from Not Just Bikes that shows how these suburban developments get subsidized by actual cities.

He talks about intracity funds, but it also applies to State funding of infrastructure.

Zombiepirate, 10 days ago

Good to know it wasn’t “economic anxiety” that lead those fascists to try and overturn a legitimate election.

Just old fashioned, homegrown, corn-fed American racism.

Zombiepirate, 10 days ago

You’re one of my favorite people on Lemmy.

I hope you never change.

Zombiepirate, 11 days ago

Thanks for contributing both to this community and to the academic study of art.

Beautiful selection to highlight on your post.

Zombiepirate, 11 days ago

Hey I love this kind of thing, but top level posts are intended to be the artwork for viewing.

Can you please repost with your favorite piece as the image and then link to your paper in the comment?

Thank you for your contribution!

Zombiepirate, 11 days ago

Thanks, I’ll remove this one because sometimes deleting doesn’t work correctly in Lemmy.

Zombiepirate, 11 days ago

This Nate White fellow has a way with words. I wish he’d do Ted Cruz next.

Zombiepirate, 11 days ago

An acorn probably fell nearby.