TheFriar
@TheFriar@lemm.ee
- Comment on Australian police beat an opposition politician so badly that she might lose an eye -- simply for being at an anti-genocide protest. 3 weeks ago:
lol what?
I will say there is a problem worldwide, thanks to the level of discourse on social media, with people having much more shallow understanding and much more “punchy” takes without any shred of nuance (like your take). That’s not an “American left” problem. The death of nuance has eroded the entire level of discourse regardless of ideology. Worldwide. It’s why a take such as yours is even debated and not thrown right away as a trash, shallow, meaningless take.
You can ignore 95% of what I said and refuse to engage on any of those points while continuing to repeat a weak, nuance-free take with zero basis in anything anyone else can agree is happening outside of someone misunderstanding
- Comment on Australian police beat an opposition politician so badly that she might lose an eye -- simply for being at an anti-genocide protest. 3 weeks ago:
Are you conflating the Democratic Party with the “American left?” That would be exactly where your problem lies.
- Comment on Australian police beat an opposition politician so badly that she might lose an eye -- simply for being at an anti-genocide protest. 3 weeks ago:
Are you conflating the Democratic Party with the ”American left?” They are most definitely not the same thing.
- Comment on Australian police beat an opposition politician so badly that she might lose an eye -- simply for being at an anti-genocide protest. 3 weeks ago:
I mean, I def get what you’re saying. I do. But do you really have anti-genocide Americans saying something about “Americans should lead this movement?” Because that’s an insane take I can’t imagine you’ve really run into in the wild.
The US is the worst perpetrator of colonialist violence, no doubt.
“I wasn’t personally the one who bombed you” is not an excuse for Israelis so it’s not one for Americans either. You guys fucked half the world and now you want to move on and leave it in the past so you don’t have to take collective responsibility.
What if I flipped this and said this is the exact rationale Israel is using against the population of Palestine? The population who’s been too young to have anything to do with anything Hamas has done, but they’re getting punished for it?
My point isn’t that the US has no blame. I don’t think you can actually find a US leftist who believes that. And if any US leftist is throwing blame all over the world without recognizing the history of the US? I mean, they’re beyond stupid.
My point is…why subdivide us further? The left is being repressed all over the world while fascism takes root once again. And your biggest gripe is…people who were born into a place? We should not be finding ways to take the high road over each other. Because there is a global rise of fascism while an active genocide takes place. And you’re here—if I can borrow a phrase—moralizing. To a T. You are claiming your biggest problem is with other people who agree with you, but who aren’t as pure of heart as you? You’re the real anti genocide crusader because ____?
Why. Why are we constantly using our morals and ideologies as cudgels against other people who would agree with us if we weren’t actively trying to find differences between us? We, the global working class should not be doing the work of the ruling class. And finding reasons to hate and belittle other working class people for generalized reasons beyond their control is very much doing the work for them.
So please stop. We have the most powerful tool of communication and global community at our fingertips and we’re using it to further divisions among the working class. When we could so easily harness it and mobilize a general strike that would cripple the ruling class in a matter of days. But this kind of moralizing you’re doing that is so common online (because corporations made social media and gave us an avenue to wear our ideas like patches, crippling three entire generations because we can’t see past that way of thinking) is the only thing stopping us.
- Comment on Socialist megacorps 3 weeks ago:
c/SocialismIsWhenCapitalism
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 4 weeks ago:
“Google is making it easier for Google to pry into your personal data.”
“Water is making it easier for water to make you wet.”
- Comment on ‘Martyrdom or Bust:’ Texas Man Caught Plotting Terror Attack Through Roblox Chats 4 weeks ago:
The list of previous searches on his iPhone included “Which month is april in islam,” “Festivals happening near me,” “are suicide attacks haram in islam,” “ginger isis member,” “lone wolf terrorists isis,” and “can tou kill a woman who foesnt[sic] wear hijab.”
lol of course he’s a fucking idiot
- Comment on 'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community 4 weeks ago:
You mean three weeks into summer? We started our summer with a massive heatwave where I am.
- Comment on Trump May Launch Wireless Phone Brand 5 weeks ago:
The word “could” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence
- Comment on How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest? 5 weeks ago:
I’m in one of the bluest. Our police and FBI are not “blue.” American spy forces and “committee on anti-American activities”-ass motherfuckers are not kind or just, no matter the voting tendencies of the populace.
How many decades have we seen far right terror groups overlooked for anti-capitalist leftists? The left threatens the status quo, the right fortifies it. The blue and red dichotomy is the status quo. The democrats support the genocide in Palestine. Going against that status quo makes you not safe from government crackdowns, the party in power is completely irrelevant.
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 1 month ago:
You guys can’t think there are seriously paid bots on lemmy. There are like 10,000 users. It’s basically a niche message board. Reddit is a valuable target because it has millions of users. Facebook, instagram, Twitter. These places are being astroturfed. But lemmy? I honestly don’t believe it. It doesn’t even have a core of users in any particular country. The small user base is spread all over the world. It just isn’t a target of these campaigns.
- Comment on Tesla customers in France sue over brand becoming 'extreme right' 1 month ago:
I feel like we all very, very clearly knew it already.
- Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. 1 month ago:
Yeah, well there are a ton of people literally falling into psychosis, led by LLMs. So it’s unfortunately not that many people that already knew it.
- Comment on Neo-Nazi group ‘actively seeking to grow in US’ with planned paramilitary training event 1 month ago:
When neo Nazi terror cells are actively training for acts of violence and making open calls for new members, the dystopia is no longer “boring.” It’s actively murderous and hateful.
- Comment on Silent Hill f Release Date Revealed 1 month ago:
I’ve only played SH2. What was the problem with ascension?
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 1 month ago:
I’m dating this person and we were watching YT and she didn’t have any ad blocker up and I was fucking blown away
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 1 month ago:
Road rage 5000 initiate
- Comment on Could You Prove You’re a US Citizen? 1 month ago:
“Would?” This is what’s happening.
- Comment on Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions 1 month ago:
I mean, at least the chat bots are always nonviolent and are restricted from encouraging people to do any harm. Doesn’t mean these people can’t (un)reason around it. People read the Bible and think it’s telling them to bomb clinics and hate their neighbors somehow.
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 1 month ago:
Oof. I weep for people who actually talk and think like that lol all good
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 1 month ago:
lol tough room
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 1 month ago:
Not if you study the blade. Like me.
- Comment on You Can’t Make an Omelette without Exploding Several Billion Dollars’ Worth of Eggs 1 month ago:
Oh, sorry, you misread. I said “other angle.”
Because…yeah. I want it plastered all over. He looks so fucking stupid and is so goddamn inept that I’d like to be able to display the richest man in the world’s undeniable Nazi salutes. Because…we should. Don’t you agree?
- Comment on You Can’t Make an Omelette without Exploding Several Billion Dollars’ Worth of Eggs 1 month ago:
Yeah but I just meant that when he turns around, the second one looks less doofy and contorted. I thought someone behind him would’ve been filming on their phones, I’m just surprised there were no phone videos from anyone over there. I wanted to see someone’s from that other angle. It’s weird there was only one video of it, I figured those assclowns would be relishing in having such a “le epic” moment recorded.
You can just tell that he was thinking “I’m gonna do it! It’s gonna be such a master troll!” So he overthought the first one and it’s almost so lacquered in false confidence while the second one he just kinda doesn’t overcommit, if that makes sense.
I fully agree, it was 100% a Nazi salute. Both of them. I just wanted to see another angle on that second one.
- Comment on You Can’t Make an Omelette without Exploding Several Billion Dollars’ Worth of Eggs 1 month ago:
Because there were people in the crowd behind him
- Comment on You Can’t Make an Omelette without Exploding Several Billion Dollars’ Worth of Eggs 1 month ago:
I meant from the other angle, facing the camera
- Comment on You Can’t Make an Omelette without Exploding Several Billion Dollars’ Worth of Eggs 1 month ago:
Why are there no videos of the second Nazi salute he did when he did the two Nazi salutes? He turns his back after the first Nazi salute and Nazi salutes the flag behind him and I want a better video of that Nazi salute the Nazi did.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 month ago:
How was the second one “so bad?” It had incredible narrative, more in depth gameplay, challenging and coherent themes, depth of storytelling, it took risks that a lot of people didn’t like, but you can’t say they were done poorly. They were just challenging for people. And that’s good. The same stories told with the same character arcs following the same hero’s journey is boring. TLOU2 challenged you with the characters making choices you wouldn’t, it challenged you with co placated character arcs that saw well-loved characters turn into the villains, while the villain of the story became the one to end the cycle of violence…it was incredible. That worldbuilding, the design, the voice acting, the mocap acting, the more varied fighting styles, the expansive world…I mean, shit, I really do want to know what you thought actually classified as “bad” about that game. It pissed people off. But that does not make it a bad game by any stretch of the imagination.
- Comment on The New York Times Just Published Some Bizarre Race Science About Asian Women 1 month ago:
Wait a second:
it’s hard for apple to manufacture devices in a country with robust labor rights.
Robust labor rights? The US?
We have child labor making a comeback here. It’s not that far fetched to imagine children working in hypothetical US factories if things keep going the way they’re going.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 month ago:
Has seriously no one mentioned The Last of Us? That’s crazy.
I think the second should be included.
As well as red dead redemption 2.
The storytelling is just top tier. Better than literally almost all media made today.