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- Comment on TikTok appoints ex-IDF solider as its 'hate speech manager' 1 day ago:
The Nazis had a draft… With damn near 100% draft rate
Do you think that made it ok because under German law they had to?
Because during much of the war, if they objected they were just shot.
So surely, if jail is an excuse, your logic dictates that you also excuse every Nazi from what we did and you don’t judge any of them…
Unless there’s an inconsistency with your logic for some reason
Most people tho, think jail for a couple months is better than participating in a genocide. But everyone’s personal values are different.
- Comment on Every female Democrat presidential nominee has resulted in a Donald Trump presidency 1 day ago:
Holy shit …
You think a small amount of the wealthiest people control everything because they’re greedy and want more wealth!!!
How oh how did you ever manage to discover that in your “charting”?
You must share your knowledge with the world, no one else has ever had such a unique and insightful thought as:
The rich run shit, and they’re criminal assholes
- Comment on Every female Democrat presidential nominee has resulted in a Donald Trump presidency 1 day ago:
1972:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Chisholm
But to be honest I only knew that because of RA the Rugged man:
Reagan was the Pres’, but I voted for Shirley Chisholm
Did you understand that lyric? You’re too young, of course you didn’t, c’mon
- Comment on Every female Democrat presidential nominee has resulted in a Donald Trump presidency 1 day ago:
That’s more coicindence than causation tho…
Like, what’s more important than that is they were both:
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Historically unpopular within their own party
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Backing policy significantly to the right of the Dem voting base.
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So little charisma it was basically a negative
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Bought and paid for by the wealthy
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Openly antagonistic to anyone who didn’t only say positive things
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Redfused to even open a dialog with the left, and a willingness to pre-emptively acquiesce to demands from the right.
Bonus:
Bill and Hillary ran as a “two for one” so she was seen as a continuation of Bill. And Kamala couldn’t stop saying she’d do everything the same way as Biden. They made themselves in “establishment candidates” when the only party that’s every worked for was Republicans. To make matters worse, trump was still running as anti-establishment and people were falling for it.
The only good time to be an “establishment candidate” does well is when the average American already has a good life…
That hasnt been true in a while, the majority of voters these days weren’t an adult the last time shit was ok. It’ll take a generation before the next “establishment candidate” has a shit, because it’ll take that long for people to trust the establishment again, even if we hit the ground running in 2028 and start fixing shit day 1.
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- Comment on No matter how hard he tries, Elon Musk will never be as cool or as respected as Martha Stewart. 2 days ago:
hat her broker, Peter Bacanovic, tipped her off that ImClone was about to drop
It’s not one or the other.
If her broker said:
You need to sell
Then she wouldn’t have broken any laws.
But he said he had insider knowledge that it would drop. And he really did have insider knowledge and it did…
Like, you realize she has literally the best lawyers can buy, is a rich and connected white person…
And she still went to jail. Why are you just insisting she’s not guilty?
- Comment on I wish there was an uninhabited, autonomous zone for folks who want "freedom" to play out their dangerous ideas away from the rest of society 2 days ago:
Yes. Somalia has 1,900 miles of coastline, a government that knows its place, and all the guns and wives you can afford to buy. Why have I never heard of this paradise before?
-Pierce Hawthorne
- Comment on No matter how hard he tries, Elon Musk will never be as cool or as respected as Martha Stewart. 2 days ago:
Nope:
Martha Stewart, the founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, also became embroiled in the scandal after it emerged that her broker, Peter Bacanovic, tipped her off that ImClone was about to drop. In response, Stewart sold about $230,000 in ImClone shares on December 27, 2001, a day before the announcement of the FDA decision
- Comment on No matter how hard he tries, Elon Musk will never be as cool or as respected as Martha Stewart. 2 days ago:
(not that I’d expect Snoop to be into Nazis)
Got some bad news nephew…
- Comment on No matter how hard he tries, Elon Musk will never be as cool or as respected as Martha Stewart. 3 days ago:
Fuck Martha Stewart too
People don’t realize that “insider trading” isn’t fucking over a corporation, it’s fucking over everyone that’s invested and doesn’t get the tip off.
People’s retirement/pension and all types of other shit are tied up in random companies like this.
Absolutely no one should respect a billionaire who fucks over others to slightly see her numbers go up. She didn’t need that money from cheating, but she did it anyways and fucked over everyone else.
She’s a psychopath.
- Comment on It's utterly hypocritical that the "defence" industry/sector is not called what it really is, the war industry. 3 days ago:
Then it’s not really on topic…
- Comment on It's utterly hypocritical that the "defence" industry/sector is not called what it really is, the war industry. 3 days ago:
You just realized that?
- Comment on Meanwhile in Israel 3 days ago:
It seems we have different opinions on moderation.
I suspect you’ll feel more at home on Lemmy.ml
- Comment on Meanwhile in Israel 3 days ago:
If you’re going to report someone, don’t also bait them to say more. That’s literally trolling.
Besides, that’s a sentiment many Jewish people have expressed. And you reported it as “nope”? Which doesn’t make any sense and a lot of subs would ban as “abusing the report” function.
So…
Can you just chill out?
- Comment on Hideo Kojima learned "so many ways to kill people" in training, says it's "kind of sad" many devs "don't know how to dismantle a gun or shoot a gun" despite making military games 4 days ago:
It’s a small detail in a video game…
No one’s life is effected.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima learned "so many ways to kill people" in training, says it's "kind of sad" many devs "don't know how to dismantle a gun or shoot a gun" despite making military games 4 days ago:
You don’t need to have driven a car to make a racing game…
But it helps.
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal 4 days ago:
I mean, the phrase is for associates and random people you run into for one specific interaction
Basically:
Give em the benefit of doubt
It doesn’t mean if your neighbor kicks you in the balls everyone morning, you still try to shake his hand tomorrow.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima learned "so many ways to kill people" in training, says it's "kind of sad" many devs "don't know how to dismantle a gun or shoot a gun" despite making military games 4 days ago:
If people making a game where guns are a heavy focus don’t know anything about guns…
You end up with shit like Cyberpunk’s magazine fed revolvers.
Guns aren’t rocket appliances, you don’t need to spend years obsessing about them to know how they work.
Like, what if someone made a racing game with zero idea how a car actually worked?
Doing research should be a pretty low bar
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal 4 days ago:
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetentance
Is the saying, but it’s definitely not always true.
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal 4 days ago:
This isn’t a conspiracy…
It’s the reality of using Hotmail as a business account in 2025.
Which is frankly nuts.
But the author even says the same thing happened to them before too
- Comment on The media is hiding the real story 4 days ago:
I agree, and have even made more than a few comments speculating the same…
But going to remove this because it’s treating it as a fact it was intentional when it was likely coincidence
- Comment on Uber Eats is adding AI to menus, food photos, and reviews 5 days ago:
Yeah, but people expect it to look like what’s supposed to be a picture of someone else’s…
That was literally the whole point of user uploaded pics, to see what you actually get
Now peoples expectations will be higher, and initially they’ll order when they wouldn’t have. But it won’t take many orders for someone to always feel disappointed and associate that with the app.
This is a very short term focused change, and it’s not gonna work out well
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 5 days ago:
I didn’t say no one liked the first one.
They loved it, everything about it except the story. It was groundbreaking CGI and visually stunning.
No one wanted it a franchise except James Cameron though.
And when you strip away the story from any movie and rely on flashing visuals…
Dumb is the target demographic, they didn’t care about the story anyways.
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 5 days ago:
Well…
That your problem, you read it.
The story isn’t why anyone likes Avatar. The visuals were the draw.
Which is why everyone forgot about it pretty quickly
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 5 days ago:
It’s bizarre how much “stuff” there is
It’s not…
James Cameron spent a lot of money to make the first one, and wants to keep making them.
So the studio decided to just pretend that everyone wants more, and the entertainment media repeats it so the studio stays happy and tells them things.
The people don’t want, but that doesn’t really matter anymore. Enough will go see anything the media says is good, and just believe it’s good.
Lots of people are idiots, which explains a lot about capitalism
- Comment on Epstein puts my morality into perspective 6 days ago:
Only exception I got is global warming. We’ve never played this particular game before
I mean…
Anatomically modern humans have been around, what, 300k years?
Like you could grab someone from back then as an infant, raise them today, and they’d just be a regular dude.
The last ice age ended about 50k years ago, and that’s why we say civilization was finally able to start. But that ignores that humans went thru the same ice age cycle 4-5 times in those 300k years.
If all it took was “no ice age” then logically the chances of the first one being 50k years ago is pretty much zero.
Climate change is like the inevitable reset for humanity. We’re making it happen fast this time, but we can’t really be sure that’s unique either. It doesn’t even take us, just a supervolcanoe or asteroid.
Bright side is it makes it more likely humanity as a species makes it thru the next one. I think evidence shows we’ve been down to like 1,000 humans world wide 70k years ago? Maybe as little as 50 adults of reproductive adults.
But we’re 8 something billion now.
- Comment on Epstein puts my morality into perspective 6 days ago:
Even the next part:
world’s richest man does a Nazi salute at a political rally,
Don’t get me wrong, horrible and completely unacceptable.
But sure as shit is nowhere near the line of what’s happened with the last 100 years:
The Business Plot, also called the Wall Street Putsch[1] and the White House Putsch, was a political conspiracy in 1933 in the United States to overthrow the government of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and install Smedley Butler as dictator.[2][3] Butler, a retired Marine Corps major general, testified under oath that wealthy businessmen were plotting to create a fascist veterans’ organization with him as its leader and use it in a coup d’état to overthrow Roosevelt. In 1934, Butler testified under oath before the United States House of Representatives Special Committee on Un-American Activities (the “McCormack–Dickstein Committee”) on these revelations.[4] Although no one was prosecuted, the congressional committee final report said, “there is no question that these attempts were discussed, were planned, and might have been placed in execution when and if the financial backers deemed it expedient.”
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
In case anyone’s eyes glazed over instead of reading, two key points:
wealthy businessmen were plotting to create a fascist veterans’ organization with him as its leader and use it in a coup d’état to overthrow Roosevelt.
And even more importantly:
Although no one was prosecuted, the congressional committee final report said, “there is no question that these attempts were discussed, were planned, and might have been placed in execution when and if the financial backers deemed it expedient.”
Shit didn’t just get bad, it’s been bad.
And the way to fight it is an opposition party like FDR.
- Comment on Does trump know he cheats at golf? 6 days ago:
Oh yeah, it’s very much like “calm down” as in it always does the opposite
I blame South Park, they had trump saying it constantly last week:
- Comment on Does trump know he cheats at golf? 6 days ago:
That’s kind of the joke…
Everyone is acting like it’s normal that we’re running down the same checklist as the USSR did, it ain’t slow, it started before trump ever thought of running for president
- Comment on Does trump know he cheats at golf? 6 days ago:
Relax guy, that’s completely normal.
Every empire goes thru the same thing right before collapse. Rules don’t matter unless caught, and even if you followed the rules you might be “caught”.
So the norm for acceptable behavior becomes “anything that didn’t have immediate consequences”.
- Submitted 6 days ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 39 comments