davel

davel, 9 days ago

You spelled donations wrong.

davel, 5 days ago

I actually saw A Boy and His Dog, and I’d categorize it as post-apocalyptic turbo-misogyny. The ’70s are a foreign country; they do things differently there.

davel, 14 days ago

Making me divide by 12: that’s a paddlin’.

<span style="color:#323232;">> console.log(`${Math.trunc(74/12)}' ${74 % 12}"`)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">6' 2"
</span>

davel, 5 days ago

The New York Post in c/technology, or really anywhere but c/nottheonion?

davel, 11 days ago

We get the strangest reports sometimes.

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Piracy

davel, 5 days ago

That’s a lot of mod interventions for a one month old account. https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/0c6e9517-fc60-44ae-94cd-fedbef4b33f8.jpeg You’re what I might call “high maintenance.”

davel, 5 days ago

Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Tankie Party?

davel, 5 days ago

Fredrich Engels, 1872: On authority

Have these gentlemen ever seen a revolution? A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is. It is the act by which one part of the population imposes its will on the other part by means of rifles, bayonets and cannons — by the most authoritarian means possible; and the victors, if they do not want to have fought in vain, must maintain this rule by means of the terror which their arms inspire in the reactionaries. Would the Paris Commune have lasted a single day if the communards had not used the authority of the armed people against the bourgeoisie? Should we not, on the contrary, reproach them for not having used it enough?

Therefore, we must conclude one of two things: either the anti-authoritarians don’t know what they’re talking about, in which case they are only sowing confusion; or they do know, in which case they are betraying the proletarian movement. In either case, they serve reaction.

davel, 5 days ago

Tankie is a floating signifier. If you ask twenty liberals what a tankie is you’ll get

1. Twenty different answers, and
2. Several people upset at being called a liberal because they don’t have even a Wikipedia-level understanding of liberalism or socialism.

davel, 5 days ago

Tankie is a floating signifier, a pejorative, a thought-terminating cliché, a rhetorical cudgel.

The only reason why you would deny it or hide it is if you have an agenda.

Or because it’s a thought-terminating pejorative. And in any case, just as it is impossible to be unbiased, it is impossible to be agendaless. By implying that I have some secret agenda, you’re doubling down on McCarthyism.

davel, 5 days ago

Maybe capitalist states should do that, but they won’t because they’re capitalist states. They’ll form bourgeois democracies at best and fascism at worst[1][2][3].

davel, 10 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

a sister post

Do you mean your repost of the same article to the same community at about the same time, which was removed for being a repost? That’s what we do to reposts regardless of content.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/c47b2490-233a-4a7a-98b6-bb35207a12bf.png

Just a cursory search shows that it’s been talked about:
lemmy.ml/search?type=Posts&sort=TopThreeMonths&q=…

davel, 6 days ago

People in China and Hong Kong can, actually. Presumably your understanding of the Tiananmen riots is about as garbage as almost every other Westerner’s.

• The Tian’anmen Square ‘Massacre’: The West’s Most Persuasive, Most Pervasive Lie.
• 1989 Tian’anmen Square riots
• A Note on the Tiananmen Protests
• Images from Tiananmen 1989 the West never shows (NSFW / CW: violence and death)
• https://twitter.com/carlzha/status/1134582926325104641?lang=de
• [Carl Zha’s] Memories of Tiananmen Protest

davel, 8 days ago

I’ve never heard anyone say “on people” instead of “about people”? Is it an Albany expression?

davel, 6 days ago

That’s a poor analogy given that the Pi 5 & Pi 400 are incomparably more powerful than 1980s home computers, and I don’t think OP was asking if a Pi 5 can run WordPerfect or VisiCalc.

davel, 13 days ago

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Election interference

davel, 11 days ago

How would the foreignness of the agents be relevant? And why ask that when I’m a thousand times more likely to be hunted down by domestic agents?

davel, 12 days ago

@d3Xt3r, did you actually look at the options in this poll? Because some of them are as racist and as fascist as can be imagined.

davel, 8 days ago

Some people do get upset; some people don’t.

The easily upset don’t—or refuse to—understand that 1) some of us have brains that just don’t remember people’s names very well, and that 2) they should get over themselves.