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alcoholicorn,

I haven’t seen either, but the OG has Nickolas cage running around in a fursuit sucker-punching a grandma.

alcoholicorn,

The best part is that Hitler didn’t win, Hindenburg won with 53% of the vote, and proceeded to staff all the positions of power with nazis, and then hand power over to Hitler.

The social democrats split from the communists and supported Hindenburg because “this is the most important election ever” and “we need unity and bipartisanship” type rhetoric.

Naturally that unity and bipartisanship meant working with the fascists against the communists.

The communists, ever cursed with Casandra Syndrome, ran on “A vote for Hindenburg is a vote for Hitler; a vote for Hitler is a vote for war.”

alcoholicorn,

Problem: A nuclear plant on the other side of the planet got hit by a tsunami

->

Solution: shut down all nuclear plants

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3 new problems: You no longer have cheap electricity, the revitalized coal industry is doing massive environmental damage, you now depend on Russia.

Exclusive: Tesla scraps low-cost car plans amid fierce Chinese EV competition (www.reuters.com)

The decision represents an abandonment of a longstanding goal that Tesla chief Elon Musk has often characterized as its primary mission: affordable electric cars for the masses. His first “master plan”, opens new tab for the company in 2006 called for manufacturing luxury models first, then using the profits to finance a...

alcoholicorn,

What do Chinese EVs have to do with the American market?

alcoholicorn,

Does this mean BYD will be able to sell Mexican produced cars in America?

I’d honestly be surprised if they didn’t update the laws to prevent Chinese competition no matter what the companies do. They’ve done it for the auto industry in the past, to countries they’re not hostile towards, and they’ve done it to Chinese companies in other industries with substantial lobbying dollars, notably phones, IT infra, social media, and weapon manufacture.

alcoholicorn,

So in your opinion, material conditions (such as housing and healthcare) aren’t the cause of the mental health crisis? People just need to talk about it more and it will all go away?

alcoholicorn,

To me, the start of a solution must lead to the solution.

I don’t see how conversations on individual people’s mental health leads to changes in material conditions. To me that reads as “more people need to individually seek or be encouraged to seek therapy” than addressing the material conditions.

alcoholicorn,

They’re not great in that they’re still western propaganda, but they’re 100x better than CNN/MSNBC/Fox.

alcoholicorn, (edited )

I don’t see the dems using abortion to bring out votes if it’s not a referendum.

Given that they let this happen by not codifying roe and let it continue to happen by not taking effective action such as cutting off states funding that ban abortion or requiring military hospitals provide abortion care, they cannot credibly say they will protect abortion.

That would change if we saw them using every tool at their disposal, but we don’t.

alcoholicorn, (edited )

The argument that the dems are making is “vote for me and I’ll protect abortion rights”.

We voted for them, they didn’t protect abortion rights.

But also, choosing not to stop something bad from happening makes you complicit.

This isn’t an argument that pro-choice voters should vote for republicans, this is an argument that the dems need to do something if they want pro-choice people to vote for them.

Same thing with the genocide in Palestine; Dems cannot run as the anti-genocide party while supplying the tools to carry out the genocide. If they stopped sending weapons to Israel and used every tool at their disposal to protect abortion rights, then they could credibly say “vote for us, we’ll protect abortion rights and stop Israel”.

alcoholicorn,

You have learned nothing from 2016.

The big mistake was Hillary running a dogshit campaign of “America is already great” and not offering enough to make it worth missing a day’s pay to go out and vote. It’s not the voter’s duty to vote democrat, it’s the democrat’s job to get elected.

If you’re talking about the courts, the dems could have packed them. If people saw them fighting and actually affecting their material conditions, the dems wouldn’t have lost in 2022.

alcoholicorn,

The error rate for inventing reasons you can bomb someone? Zero, whether it’s done by human or computer.

Biden Demands Immediate Gaza Cease-Fire in Call With Israel’s Netanyahu (www.wsj.com)

He also called on Israel to take immediate steps “to address civilian harm, humanitarian suffering, and the safety of aid workers” and “made clear that U.S. policy with respect to Gaza will be determined by our assessment of Israel’s immediate action on these steps,” according to the White House statement....

alcoholicorn,

Maybe Biden can write poems and sing songs about how much he wants to genocide to stop.

Words are irrelevant while he continues to send them the tools they use to carry out the genocide.

Is it me or does reddit feel, weird?

So I checked out reddit after a long time and was going through the top of r/videogames subreddit and I could clearly see a pattern in most of the posts there. Posts were mostly like “what game ______ for you?” or “what game _____ like this?” Now I could be wrong but it doesn’t feel ‘organic’ (if that’s correct...

alcoholicorn, (edited )

None of those even reference current games, they could all be repost bots reposting stuff from years ago.

The “Which era did you start playing video games” is missing the last 4 years of consoles.

alcoholicorn,

The US accepts Japan’s conditional surrender, the one that Japan was sending in hopes that the US would offer them a better deal now than after the USSR finished kicking them off the mainland.

alcoholicorn,

The US stopped selling oil to Japan. Japan needed oil to maintain their empire and fight the USSR, so they interpreted it as the US weakening Japan for a near-future war.

alcoholicorn,

The soviets were already involved, Japan lost Manchuria and were getting kicked out of Korea when Japan started offering surrender to the US.

Also there were 2 iron curtains, after Japan surrendered to the US, the US told the Japanese forces in Korea not to evacuate until the US got in and implemented martial law in the south, holding a sham election for a US-friendly puppet (whose administration included compradors who’d worked with the Japanese occupiers).

alcoholicorn,

*leave their neighbors for us to exploit

America was still directly administering its empire in the pacific.

alcoholicorn,

Hex, square, star.

Why wouldn’t you use the term that someone with no experience can immediately know what you’re talking about?

Who cares about the name of the guy who got the first patent for these things?

Elderly Chinese rights lawyer who was tortured in detention is finally free after six years and six months behind bars (safeguarddefenders.com)

While she was incarcerated, the 74-year-old Chinese human rights lawyer Li Yuhan was subjected to inhumane abuse and mental torture. This included denying her essential medicines for serious diseases such as heart issues, forcing her to take ice baths and depriving her of food and water. Officers also humiliated her by urinating...

alcoholicorn,

Damn, that’s the kind of shit you’d expect in an American prison.

alcoholicorn,

OK, someone tell me why this is a bad idea.

alcoholicorn,

Would this be good for the climate?

alcoholicorn,

How do you even send 20,000 wild elephants? That seems like a huge undertaking.

alcoholicorn,

My mom tried that with my sister once (30 years ago).

It made the tantrum 10x worse.

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