Wtf does “yeah hit me” mean then? You invited them to explain, and they’re not wrong. I was a vegan for some time, and being able to eat whatever absolutely is nutrition on easy mode. You can’t get by as a vegan without deliberately subsidizing the nutrients omnivores get casually from hamburgers and stuff without really putting special thought into it.
Obviously just eating whatever isn’t the most healthy lifestyle, but omnivores typically don’t have to worry about life-threatening nutritional deficiencies.
They won’t learn Communist theory in school. Have you met kids? “That thing is bad, ask no further questions” is exactly the best way to get them to learn about something on their own.
Right? Governments don’t oppress people, people oppress people. Governments are a collection of obstacles to that oppression. Obviously people are going to find loopholes and exploits, but the alternative is oppression without obstacles.
The most potent spiritual successor I’ve seen is the whole GameStop thing: an attempt to exploit a recursively over-leveraged predatory derivative scheme. Over-leveraged derivatives are the characteristic underpinning of most of the Wall Street fuckery that the Occupy movement was fighting.
I don’t have any particular love for the company, but it’s impossible to overlook the similarity. If I was going to hit Wall Street where it hurts, I’d pile onto an exploit like that. The more people on board, the better.
Thesis never changed, it’s still shorted out the ass, still the biggest consumer-side rally against hedge fund market manipulation. If anything, the constant unsolicited cries that it’s doomed and to shut up about it just reinforce the thesis. No one feels that strongly about other people wasting money unless they have skin in the game.
It hasn’t though. Dems aren’t Communists, but they’ve moved slowly toward the left over decades.
Even if strategy A is a total failure, that’s no indication that strategy B will succeed just because it isn’t strategy A. That’s a ridiculous conclusion. It’s like saying “Bloodletting didn’t cure my cancer, therefore healing crystals will!”.
Yeah, we tried that, in 2016. We saw: Trump won, stacked the courts, dismantled public services, rolled back taxes on billionaires and shifted the tax burden onto the working class, dismantled pandemic watchdog labs which directly lead to the pandemic, and that’s just scratching the surface. How did Dems respond? Biden.
We tried it, we saw, it was an abject failure that played right into the hands of the far right. You’re either politically illiterate, or a bad faith actor trying to make the country mask-off fascist by splitting the left
Alright dude, keep shilling for the far right. That is what you’re doing, whether you’re doing it on purpose or because you’ve fallen for the propaganda. Your strategy failed and we’re all worse of for it. If you keep advocating the same strategy that’s sure to fail, then you’re just a pawn for the fascists. I don’t really care whether you’re a fool or malicious, I’m done with this brainless nonsense.
Are you smoking crack? Dems are a lot of unsavory things, but if you’re suggesting they’re equal to Republicans on the fascism scale you’re either unbelievably idiotic or a bad faith actor. The longer you talk the more you seem like the latter, so these responses aren’t even for you; they’re for the onlookers who might be confused enough to think your argument makes sense.
Leftists: this person is either an idiot who doesn’t understand US elections, or is deliberately trying to help the far right. DO NOT vote third party in the general election, the only thing that accomplishes is splitting the vote on the left which actively helps the right. All this “Vote your conscience! Show Genocide Joe you won’t support him!” rhetoric is designed to confuse you so Republicans win the general election. They are actively making the country worse for women, minorities, and the working class, don’t let these trolls equivocate “Not progressive enough” and “Actively evil”.
The Dems aren’t great but the Republicans are orders of magnitude worse across the board. There are many ways to support third parties and progressive candidates in order to benefit the left, voting third party in the general election is NOT one of them, and only HURTS leftists. Project 2025 is not a joke, if Republicans win this November we may not have another fair election again.
My favorite depiction of time travel tech is Primer. Assuming you figure out the time travel part itself, I can imagine a time machine that can take you all the way back to the moment it was switched on. Any other mechanism has introduces way more issues that time travel alone.
Double A. (lemmy.world)
dig in (lemmy.world)
I glued my balls to my butthole again. What should I do? (lemmy.world)
Gov. DeSantis signs new law requiring instruction in public schools on the history and ‘dangers’ of communism (www.news4jax.com)
Choose Your Own Adventure™ (lemmy.world)
What's your fave movie of all time that you love to recommend to people?
For me it’s Interstellar, it never fails to make me ugly cry at least twice during each viewing
Blog Murder (i.redd.it)
What are songs about the music industry that you like?
What is a song that you absolutely despised and now like?
Mine is Sympathy For The Devil Song by The Rolling Stones...
The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist (www.youtube.com)
The lyrics of both songs include the word psychosomatic multiple times
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Why did Occupy Wall Street fade away and how can we start it back up again?
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You had no say in being born, but you have the ultimate say in how you're going to live.
God has allowed me to live another day, and I'm going to make it everyone's problem (midwest.social)
Pardon me for not finding “vulnerable people need to die for my ideology” very convincing. (mbin.grits.dev)
The reason why we never meet time travelers is because our civilization ends before the technology can come to fruition.
Sort of similar to the Great Filter theory, but applied to time travel technology.