queermunist

queermunist, 6 days ago

Yes! Gawd. I can read so much faster than they can speak, I retain the knowledge much better when I read, it’s easier to search through written instructions for something specific, and I’m not always somewhere I can just blast audio.

queermunist, 6 days ago

Unfortunately no. Alas 😟

queermunist, 7 days ago

I’m glad he mentioned that we aren’t just our brains, but also our bodies and our historical and material contexts.

A “mind upload” would basically require a copy of my entire brain, my body, and a detailed historical record of my life. Then some kind of witchcraft would be done to those things to combine them into the single phenomenal experience of me. Basically:

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/e8efadef-840a-4821-bec1-8118adb14b33.jpeg

queermunist, 1 day ago

When the Tesla bubble pops it’s going to crash the whole tech sector. 😆

queermunist, 6 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

I’m sympathetic to lesser evilism, but what libs fail to do is apply it holistically. Biden is the competent fascist, Trump is the incompetent fascist, and that seriously complicates the question of which is actually the lesser evil.

And since I can’t tell I’m just going to stay out of it.

queermunist, 2 days ago

Blue MAGA isn’t the mummy. It’s the Party.

What do you think happens if Democrats, as a Party, know they can always just use the boogeyman to scare us into voting for them?

If you vote for blue MAGA the Party will realize they can kill anyone they want and you’ll still vote for them. Who’s next on the menu?

First they came…

queermunist, 2 days ago

There has to be a limit or Democrats can just do whatever they want, because you’ll always vote for them. Hence, blue MAGA. That’s a cult.

queermunist, 2 days ago

Why would Democrats fix anything? They can just use the threat of Republicans to get reelected. Fixing things is not in their interests, because you will vote for them even if they don’t fix anything at all.

queermunist, 2 days ago

I didn’t say that he didn’t do anything. I said he doesn’t need to do anything. Even if he did literally nothing at all you would still vote for him. You are a completely captured voter, you have no choice but to support the Party. They have you hostage and you love it.

Also this graphic is misleading. The three that jumped out at me:

Forcing police to wear body cameras is good, but the number of fatal police shootings has only gone up under Biden’s term in office. In fact, even though the Washington Post’s Fatal Force database has shown fatal shootings have increased, fewer fatal police shootings are recorded by the federal government every year. These fatalities are being covered up, despite the cameras.

Stopping the Keystone XL pipeline is good, but oil production hit a record under Biden. He stopped one highly visible project to satisfy protesters and continued to put us on the path to global catastrophe while people were looking away.

He “secured the border” by reaching across the isle to pass fascist legislation so he can keep putting kids in cages. He doesn’t seperate families, so now they all get to sit together in cramped prison conditions as the number of detentions has soared. You think this is a good thing? This one really pisses me off, what Biden is doing to migrants and asylum seekers is as bad as Trump ever was.

Don’t get your political news from memes.

queermunist, 2 days ago

I’m voting Dem in the downticket races, I’m just writing Aaron Bushnell in for President.

If Democrats think they can kill anyone they want and get away with it then they will. They’re only a lesser evil because they think they need to be to win over voters. If they realize they can be as evil as they want, why would they ever stop?

queermunist, 2 days ago

I’m trans. I’m not going to vote for other people’s genocide just to maybe protect myself.

But will we be protected? If my red state decides to forcibly detransition me in Biden’s second term he wouldn’t do shit about it.

queermunist, 2 days ago

Your claim Trump’s genocide will be “much” worse ring hollow, because you must realize Democrats will look at the election results and realize they need to obstruct Trump’s genocide or face even more losses in 2026. Democrats will become the resistance again, instead of being complicit collaborators.

queermunist, 2 days ago

First they came for the Palestinians and you won’t speak out, because you are not Palestinian.

queermunist, 1 day ago

🤡

Israel has killed hundreds of times more children than Russia has in Ukraine. It’s the deadliest conflict for children in the modern world.

queermunist, 1 day ago

This genocide is only possible because of our government’s logistical, technical, and financial support. It’s only possible because we protect Israel from its neighbors, who would have long since intervened if it wouldn’t put them into conflict with the US. Israel is the 51st State, what happens there is possible only because of us.

Furthermore, Foucault’s Boomerang always comes home! Palestine is where we test border technology, policing tactics, facial recognition software, military AI, new weapons and defenses, and methods of political repression. We send our actual police there for training! IDF come over here to teach tactics to us! They’re talking about giving Americans that serve in Israel full veterans benefits! We are not safe.

You think you’re safe? This will come back for both of us, the things learned in Palestine will be applied to us when it’s our turn. It’ll start at the border, then come to the cities, and before you know it they’ll come for you too. That’s what that phrase is supposed to be warning us of, take your head out of the sand. The empire always comes home.

queermunist, 1 day ago

I’m complicit! If I had an ounce of courage I’d do something that matters, not fucking post. I’m crushed by my guilt. Why aren’t you?

When our time comes, no one will be left to speak out for you.

queermunist, 2 days ago

Not only does blue MAGA want me to vote for genocide, they want me to vote for genocide denial and the destruction of international law.

queermunist, 1 day ago

A ton of companies are going to destroy their own products by replacing workers with AI and it’s extremely funny to watch.

queermunist, 7 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

Looked at one of those threads and someone made a good point: single issue anti-abortion voters got abortion rights overturned.

Single issue voting works. It’s almost Maoist!

There is always only one principal contradiction; however, the contradictions can trade places of importance. When looking at numerous contradictions, one must understand which contradiction is superior. One must also remember the principal and non-principal contradictions are not static and will, over time, transform into one another. This also causes a transformation of the nature of the thing, for the principal contradiction is what primarily defines the thing. These two different contradictions prove that nothing is created equally by showing the lack of balance that allows one contradiction to be superior to another.

Meanwhile, in the comic, Lady Lib is trying to tackle a dozen issues at the same time and is being overwhelmed by the different non-principal contradictions, unable to even hold on to all her signs. They’re literally refuting themselves!

queermunist, 4 days ago

Nothing to see here.

queermunist, 4 days ago

Things that make you go 🤔

queermunist, 9 days ago

This is clearly wrong because those both look pretty good.

queermunist, 9 days ago

Blue MAGA doesn’t believe the lying media or their fake poll numbers.

queermunist, 5 days ago

That was about the time we started hearing about bird flu infecting seals, wasn’t it? Seems like marine mammals were the bridge species, and then it went from them to cows.

The next jump might be ferrets or mink (I remember from COVID that they have very similar respiratory systems to humans). Or it might just jump over them right to morons drinking raw milk I guess.

queermunist, 5 days ago

Imagine not just being a refugee, but one that has to keep running and can never settle down anywhere. Forced to become nomadic, essentially.