Gorilladrums
@Gorilladrums@lemmy.world
- Comment on All of a sudden he thinks that it's a spectacular plan. 1 week ago:
Nobody is debating it. It’s literally in the scriptures. The only people who deny it are dishonest muslims who don’t want to admit their prophet is a pedophile and ignorant westerners who defend something horrific even though they know nothing about it because they have a white savior complex
- Comment on All of a sudden he thinks that it's a spectacular plan. 1 week ago:
Her father gave her as a gift to mohammad, he’s not exactly concerned about her
- Comment on All of a sudden he thinks that it's a spectacular plan. 1 week ago:
Shia and sunni also hate each other as well as everybody else
- Comment on All of a sudden he thinks that it's a spectacular plan. 1 week ago:
4 wives, but the quran explicitly says that muslim men are allowed to own, rape, and beat as many non believing women as they could kidnap and enslave.
- Comment on Red, White and Blue 1 week ago:
This thread is my daily reminder that Lemmy is an online echo chamber that’s completely out of touch
- Comment on YSK: Israel is ethnically cleansing Lebanon 2 weeks ago:
This is such a comically delusional and out of touch comment that can only be found in the bowels of Lemmy
- Comment on YSK: The CIA proposed a 9/11 style false flag attack on US citizens to justify invading Cuba 2 weeks ago:
Do you think 9/11 was a false flag done by the Jews? Normally posts like this should be removed because they’re clearly bigoted.
- Comment on YSK: The CIA proposed a 9/11 style false flag attack on US citizens to justify invading Cuba 2 weeks ago:
That’s stupid. This is something that’s undoubtedly positive that’s being painted as a negative by people who are naive. The one and only reason why we even know this was even a thing is because the US is a democracy with some degree of transparency. Even if its decades later, we can still publicly view, discuss, and criticize things that the government has done in the past because those documents were declassified and released to the public.
Most countries are not like this. There are a lot of instances like this that will never see the light of day until that regime collapses, and even then its successor might keep the secret going. For example, Turkey is STILL locking up the Ottoman archives relating to the Armenian genocide more than century later. There are so many evil plots and schemes made both in the past and present that we will probably never know about because they will never be released publicly due to the ruling regimes wanting to maintain their image. I wish there was more instances like this from the US and every country so we can see the good, the bad, and the ugly and get a real understanding of history.
- Comment on YSK: The CIA proposed a 9/11 style false flag attack on US citizens to justify invading Cuba 2 weeks ago:
Horseshoe theory in action. I had check to see if I was on a neo nazi website, but nope, we’re on the very left Lemmy where saying Jews did 9/11 is now considered normal
- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 2 weeks ago:
Does anybody else remember the good old days before the pandemic when anti-vaxers where a left wing phenomenon? It was mostly popular among the all natural hippies who were convinced that crystals and meditation could cure diseases and that all modern medicine was a scam by the all powerful and all elusive “big pharma”… It’s sad that anti-vaxers who went from clowns that everybody made fun to being a serious problem because a big chunk of society decided to go brain dead and old diseases are making a comeback.
- Comment on This Fall, Florida Students Will Be Forced to Take “Anti-Communist” Classes 3 weeks ago:
But is this not just a more sophisticated presentation of the No True Scotsman fallacy? You can’t dismiss every single attempt at communism with some variation of “that wasn’t real communism”. After so many attempts in so many countries over so many years, we have to accept that the idea itself is inherently flawed.
We have to establish a common standard that defines failure and success in an ideological system. You seem base your definition on perfection, where you think a capitalism is a failure because it’s an imperfect system while communism has never been tried because there has never been a perfect implementation of it. I disagree with this notion entirely because perfection can only exist in the abstract. Every system that has and will ever exist in the world is going to flawed. What separates a successful system from a failed system is how productive it is in practice.
I also don’t accept the premise that communism is the next in the evolution of economic systems. Society always has a bunch of competing ideas that all claim they’re the next big thing, however just because an ideology claims that it’s next in the evolutionary ladder that doesn’t mean that it is. Societal evolution is not defined by claims, but by the actual implementations that took place as well as their results.
As implied in my previous comment, I’m big on accepting history objectively. The statements you’re presenting go against this notion. I don’t like the idea of pretending that ideological claims are historically accurate or objectively true while dismissing the criticism against them as propaganda. If you have case to present to prove otherwise, please do present it. Otherwise, I have a hard time accepting communism as anything other than a proven failure.
- Comment on An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea." 3 weeks ago:
I mean that is the discourse. The central question is where the line should be drawn.
- Comment on An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea." 3 weeks ago:
That’s a very dishonest way of viewing things. Every society on earth has book bans if you go that far down the chain. While this is a concerning trend because parents shouldn’t have their child’s school remove books, it’s also disingenuous to pretend that is on the same level as a federal or state book ban. Actually, I don’t there’s even a county level or a municipal ban on any book anywhere in the country. We’re literally talking about community level institutions, and even it’s a very tiny number of them in the country and they are all facing significant push back nationwide. That is not at all the same as Saudi Arabia having a national ban on George Orwell’s Animal Farm or Iran having a national ban on The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie where it’s illegal to seek out, read, or posses these books and doing so may result in actual legal punishments.
- Comment on An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea." 3 weeks ago:
I think there’s a MASSIVE difference between conservative parents is some random rural town in Oklahoma removing a book because they’re paranoid that mildly explicit sexual content might corrupt their kids and the federal government banning books nationwide. We can and should be critical of the former, but we also have to be honest about the discourse and not pretend that its the latter.
- Comment on An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea." 3 weeks ago:
I disagree with this. It is a very, very big stretch to try and pretend that individual libraries and schools taking out books is the same as a federal ban. The former means you can’t access that book in that specific building from that specific institution, however, you can very easily and freely get it anywhere else. The latter means that you cannot access that book anywhere in the country and possessing it could result in legal punishments. While both of these situations suck, they are not at all comparable.
I also think it’s important to note that the vast majority of the book banning discourse is fueled by paranoid conservative parents in conservative areas who think that books containing explicit sexual content is corrupting their children. It’s stupid and worthy of criticism for sure, however, that’s still not the same as what you’re saying that it is, which is that the books being banned are covering up the things the government is doing.
I’m against these low level book bans as much as the next guy, but we have to be honest about what the scope and content of the discourse.
- Comment on An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea." 3 weeks ago:
This was found unconstitutional by a federal judge: ftrf.org/…/First-Amendment-Victory-in-HB900-READE…
- Comment on This Fall, Florida Students Will Be Forced to Take “Anti-Communist” Classes 3 weeks ago:
Communism IS a failed ideology in both theory and practice, and some of the most horrific atrocities in history have been committed following Marxist principles in order to achieve. That’s just objectively true.
However, I have problem with narrative driven education like this because you are guaranteed to have a lot manipulation and misinformation in there. History should always be taught objectively because the entire point of teaching it so we can learn from it. If the education is honest, how can we expect students to draw the right conclusions?
Education does play an important role in installing the right values, principles, and morals in the younger generations. However, it’s equally as important for the education to be unbiased, accurate, and taught critically. We can and should teach the flaws in communist theory, why communist attempts failed in history, and the atrocities committed in order to achieve it. However, we also must give an unbiased understanding of what the ideology is or at least supposed to be, what communist regimes ended up doing well, and an objective break down of our own history, flaws, mistakes, and atrocities.
The goal should never be to brainwash students into thinking communism is bad just because they’re told that it is. The goal should be to equip our future generations with accurate facts, critical thinking skills, and a broad understanding of themselves, their country, and the world so they’re prepared to face life in the best position possible. We shouldn’t fear facts, we shouldn’t fear criticism, and we shouldn’t use fear to teach. We want kids to today to reflect on themselves and their society and question things that they think are not right. That’s how societies improve and move forward. We can’t let these MAGA morons hinder the future of our kids or society’s progress because they’re insecure and ignorant.
- Comment on An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea." 3 weeks ago:
The US doesn’t have any banned books. People who think this tend to be the type who uncritically consume misinformation. There are no banned books on a federal or state level. The discourse around book banning stems from a few individual schools, school districts, or libraries in heavily conservative areas removing books because the locals don’t like their content.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 3 weeks ago:
People who talk like this tend to not interact with anyone, they just sit in their house all day writing comments like this
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 5 weeks ago:
They won’t go that far because they now have a vested interest in protecting pedophiles. They’ll just come out and say that being trans is illegal because it’s against god or something and that it’ll punishable by death. And guess what? They’ll get it away with it too just like how they’re getting away with this crap.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 5 weeks ago:
They’re intentionally focusing on the wrong 1%. Going after trans people is meant to serve as a distraction.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 5 weeks ago:
It should be the opposite. This is the perfect example of why the death penalty should 100% be abolished. Right now they’re going after driver licenses and bathroom usage, but the slippery slope is very slippery. It won’t take much for them to make being trans an illegal offense punishable by death.
- Comment on he forgor 5 weeks ago:
Controversial opinion The point of college is NOT to prepare students to be “work ready” if that makes sense. The point of college is to give you the critical thinking skills necessary to be able to learn, grow, and make decisions on your own as an adult professional. Whatever technical knowledge carries over to your job is just a bonus.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I’m willing to bet that it’s the latter almost every time. MAGA’s hatred for electric cars and sustainability is truly unhinged.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Okay, but it’s rarely hated for that. The hate fests always revolve around this weird assumption that this car is driven exclusively by incels and MAGA types, but that’s simply not true. Like sure its ugly and a bad product, but it’s not exactly unique in that aspect there’s a lot of other cars like that.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I never understood this weird hate boner that Reddit and Lemmy users have for cybertrucks specifically. It can’t be a moral position because they’re fine with regular Teslas, just not this one. It also can’t be about the ugly design because they’re fine with other ugly cars.
The thing is that I’ve seen a few of these out in the wild, and they’re almost always driven either by Indian tech bros or white finance bros. I’ve never seen any right wing types drive these like so many people here seem to think. In fact, the right wing types have this weird vendetta against all electric cars and they intentionally go for the gas guzzling pickup trucks. Which this hate boner even more baffling. It’s like people are mad for the sake of it.
- Comment on A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions— Backlash against ICE is fueling a broader movement against AI companies’ ties to President Trump. 1 month ago:
I don’t necessarily disagree with you here, I also think that no generative LLM is worth paying for, let alone a subscription with such a ridiculous price. However, I can still at least understand the appeal for a certain niche subset of people who constantly do the few stuff that a generative LLM like chatgpt excels at.
- Comment on A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions— Backlash against ICE is fueling a broader movement against AI companies’ ties to President Trump. 1 month ago:
They’re extremely helpful, just not at a professional level. They can help a student proof read an essay or a content creator come up with a script, but they can’t help you code an app from scratch or give you a medical diagnosis.
- Comment on Praise Be 1 month ago:
Yes, the sahih hadiths explicitly state that mohammad married Alisha when she was 6 and consummated the marriage when she was 9.
This marriage was justified in the quran via a verse 65:4, which virtually all the credible islamic tafsirs agree that it justifies child marriage and pedophilia.
- Comment on Praise Be 1 month ago:
Pedophilia has always been a part of Christianity. Mary was 13 when she gave birth to Jesus. Joesph was in his 70s. It’s the basis of the religion. At least Christianity tries to hide it by pretending that she was virgin and her child was actually from god. That’s better than, say, islam, where mohammad just outright marries Aisha when was 6 years old and pretended that allah told him its halal.