jerkface

jerkface, 11 months ago

It’s tacky, it’s a depressing reflection of the state of the world, but why is it something that you personally have to do something about? Are you maybe looking for meditation tips?

jerkface, 11 months ago

For this government, cutting funding in health, education, social services and infrastructure is intended to make them all fail so that privatization is the only answer. It's not some kind of accident or unexpected surplus. They are starving us.

jerkface, 11 months ago

AND MY AXE!!!

jerkface, 11 months ago

ODSP is 13k a year.

jerkface, 11 months ago

Reddit is shifting from user-focused to investor-focused and AI-focused. It doesn't matter what users think. They have done their job. They can all literally quit the site today, and it still doesn't sink Reddit's plans. Reddit has no reason to care what any user thinks anymore. Those days are over.

jerkface, 11 months ago

Finally, our long wait is drawing to an end. Sadly.

jerkface, 11 months ago

I heard a very unreliable rumour that the “movie” was only 20-odd minutes long. Having trouble finding the runtime, anyone know?

jerkface, 11 months ago

AND MY AXE!

jerkface, 11 months ago

It's disgusting that you would draw a direct equivalence between the hatred, suffering, and trauma caused by this man, and the expression of natural human emotions that harm no one. Any difference between, "I'm glad his negativity isn't around" and any other expression of joy exists only in your head.

jerkface, 11 months ago

I don’t know who you think you’re arguing with but no one said anything to the contrary.

jerkface, 11 months ago

Clearly

jerkface, 11 months ago

It might be hard, but they did it. /r/Canada used to be a great community. It was attacked, invaded, and destroyed. This post is tongue-in-cheek, but if there is any significant Reddit migration, I don't doubt that the community really will be attacked.

jerkface, 11 months ago

I think in the interest of building a healthy community we can acknowledge that the problem is not “people with right-wing views” despite whatever other problems might be fair to blame on them as a block. We’re talking about aggressively anti-social people who don’t really believe in governance and humanism at all. They appropriate right-wing politics when its convenient but they aren’t really political in that sense. They’re just assholes.

jerkface, 11 months ago

I dunno, I think we've come to a point where we really do have to distinguish between potential conservative allies, and outright fascists.

jerkface, 11 months ago

I would say that they almost exclusively adopt a right-wing persona, but I don’t think that someone who isn’t trying to constructively engage really fits on the left/right spectrum. We might have different values, and we might even disagree on what it means to do so, but ultimately we’re all supposed to be pulling for the common good. I think that anyone who is not working towards the common good is better described using other terms, so that we don’t alienate our allies. A kleptocrat is not left or right. A corporate agent engaging in legislative capture is not left or right. And a bunch of vandals who get a sexual thrill out of upsetting people on the Internet are not left or right.

jerkface, 11 months ago

That's not unfair. I felt genuine dread the day I saw a PPC placard in the window of a business I used to frequent. OTOH, the CPC only exist to fool us into thinking the LPC are tolerable.

The major owners of all the Canadian banks are all the other Canadian banks. All our ruling parties are bullshit. The LPC give us social liberalism when invested capital wants us to have it, and the CPC take it away again when that suits capital more. But they both stay within a very narrow prescribed window where they are allowed to grandstand like they really have any say in the matter. Canada as a state exists to transfer value from natural and human resources into corporate coffers, and all this democracy and civic stuff is just window dressing.

If things get as bad as they can get, the LPC will sell us out just as quick as the CPC. Whatever way the wind blows.

jerkface, 11 months ago

I thought that /c/ was a global namespace. Every instance can have its own /c/Canada? How does that federate?

jerkface, 11 months ago

I know this is going into the weeds but this thread is all weeds.

What policy are you referring to?

jerkface, 11 months ago

Thanks for letting me know you have made the migration so I can block you immediately.

jerkface, 11 months ago

I like to have sex with people I’m attracted to. Sometimes other people, too.

jerkface, 11 months ago

Remember when someone started a parody account and fedi-tips lost their shit?

jerkface, 11 months ago

“Exploitation” merely means to use for your benefit. If you are using an animal product, you are exploiting the animal it came from. There is no such thing as using an animal product without exploitation, by definition.

Even when cruelty and violence is not directly involved, because perhaps you simply found some bones or something, it’s still exploitation. There are lots of reasons to avoid exploitation that don’t require direct cruelty or violence, such as avoiding dependence and the biasing psychological effect that getting a benefit from an animal product has on our reasoning abilities as stupid apes.

jerkface, 11 months ago

we wouldn’t even kill one human to safe multiple others in a similar scenario

Yeah, we would? In fact, we make decisions every day that put other’s lives in risk, just for our own convenience. Is the one millionth of a person that you kill driving to the grocery store worth it when you could just walk?