masquenox
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- Comment on Work from home 5 hours ago:
Nicely done.
- Comment on If Batman were real today, he'd go after the CEOs of companies, not gangsters. 5 hours ago:
If Batman was real today, he’d be Donald Trump.
That’s what these (alleged) “super heroes” really are… idealized, ubermensch-esque metaphors for the actual power wielded by the rich and privileged.
In fact, I’d say that Batman is the ultimate Objectivist wet dream - he perfectly personifies the fascist (as Batman) and the capitalist (as Bruce Wayne) in one person. Even Ayn Rand’s creepazoid ancap sugar-daddy “heroes” didn’t manage that.
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | AI 20 hours ago:
They are perfectly on point with the whole “flooding the world with infoshit” thing… though, as the recent collapse of Israel’s media coddling shows, it seems that it’s not working as indented.
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- Comment on Defendants in Panama Papers Trial Who Laundered Money For the World’s Billionaires have Been Acquitted 1 day ago:
Colour me surprised.
- Comment on What if Tyrannosaurus Rexes moved and walked like chicken do? 1 day ago:
I have no idea why people think chickens look stupid when they walk… to me, the way they walk just looks like the way they walk. And the prospect of a T-Rex being that alert and agile is pretty terrifying.
- Comment on Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw 2 days ago:
Of all the celebrity billionaire parasites this one is the one I hate the most. At least Elon and Bezos has the decency to show us what scumbags they are… they don’t call Gates “No.1 Sugar Daddy To The PR industry” for nothing.
- Comment on Elon Musk Openly Advocates for Overthrowing the Government of Bolivia, The Country with the Largest Lithium Reserves in the World 2 days ago:
tech has nothing to do with him being a piece of shit,
We don’t call tech bros tech bros because they’re technical. We call them tech bros because they are pieces of shit.
TV Tropes has the best description of them.
A Tech Bro is someone connected with the technology and business industry; cultivating an image of intelligence mixed with money, counterculture attitude and social savvy. Whether they are actually hip, business literate, anti-authority or even intelligent in any form depends on the individual. Their goal is to charm investors into funding their project, so some degree of false presentation is necessary. Typically they are young men in their twenties and early thirties, insisting on casual clothing, shaggy hair and Perma-Stubble. Some of them are keen on partying and getting up to wacky hijinx, and are easily distracted during business meetings. Their speech is a blend of Technobabble and corporate buzzwords designed to attract investors, self-promoting at every opportunity. They see themselves as leaders, even visionaries, and they want you to know it.
And Apartheid tech bro up there is their god.
- Comment on Elon Musk Openly Advocates for Overthrowing the Government of Bolivia, The Country with the Largest Lithium Reserves in the World 3 days ago:
Apartheid tech bro saying exactly what an Apartheid tech bro would say.
- Comment on YSK: Using dairy milk after being tear gassed or pepper sprayed doesn't provide more relief and has slightly increased infection risk. Use water or saline instead 5 days ago:
Not sure about that paper - it recommends ocular irrigation (with water) for OC gas… the exact thing you mentioned hurting so bad in your first response. The thing to remember here is that a lot of the discourse on this doesn’t distinguish between the use of a liquid to flood particles away from skin and membranes through it’s kinetic action (possible with CS gas and very necessary with white phosporous) and relying on the chemical properties of the liquid itself to bring any kind of relief.
- Comment on Study: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think. The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy. 5 days ago:
This study is bunk.
- Comment on Impossibly thin fabric could cool you down by 16-plus degrees 1 week ago:
If we can recycle single use plastic into this, then great.
They won’t - they’ll just use “Recycling!” as a pretext to continue business as usual… which was the whole point of “Recycling!” in the first place.
- Comment on YSK: Using dairy milk after being tear gassed or pepper sprayed doesn't provide more relief and has slightly increased infection risk. Use water or saline instead 1 week ago:
The capsacin is dissolved in an oil,
That only counts for OC gas (pepper spray) - most anti-dissent chemical weaponry doesn’t contain capsaicin. Milk won’t do shit for CS gas, for instance.
Considering how many different types of this shit there actually is and the fact that they can mix them up pretty easily regardless of what the law actually says makes a one-size-fits-all solution pretty difficult.
- Comment on This is going to set back medical trust for years 1 week ago:
What you are alluding to is no longer activism
The libs on here are really good at demonstrating that they know absolutely nothing about activism in any shape, way or form whatsoever - but are still willing to feign expertise on the matter.
I guess heckling antifa from the sidelines back in 2016 gave you lots of practice in that, eh?
- Comment on This is going to set back medical trust for years 1 week ago:
That is not what they’re saying.
This is what they said:
Activists don’t need the personal information of people they disagree with. Terrorists do,
This is not a case of somebody saying something smart but just wording it terribly. It’s no different than idots who spout “only cowards wear masks!” It’s something only somebody that has no familiarity with actual activism - ie, no familiarity with the actual stakes and risks involved in real activism work - would say.
- Comment on This is going to set back medical trust for years 1 week ago:
Activists don’t need the personal information of people they disagree with.
Speak for yourself. If you believe that intelligence work is beneath you, the other side has already won.
- Comment on This is going to set back medical trust for years 1 week ago:
The people that are desperately clinging onto the hope that this is any kind of victory needs a reality check.
In the extremely unlikely scenario that he actually gets jail time they’ll be high-fiving him all the way in - and you better know that any parole hearing he’s going to get (which will probably be sooner rather than later) will be staffed by people who think exactly the same way he does.
Hierarchy is the bedrock of reactionary politics - and it doesn’t get any more hierarchical than the (so-called) “justice system.”
- Comment on The EV industry can’t shake its human rights abuse problem 5 weeks ago:
The EV industry
can’twon’t shake its human rights abuse problemFTFT - unless capitalism has suddenly started to not work like capitalism.
- Comment on Joe Biden spreads more insane Zionist propaganda at a graduation speech 1 month ago:
saw pictures of them tying a mother and daughter in a rope, pouring kerosene on them, burning them,
I guess the Israelis were too busy posting pics of their soldiers sniffing underwear they looted from the homes they destroyed in Gaza to remember posting these images, eh GJ?
- Comment on We may clown on him a lot but it's genuinely quite dystopian how much power Elon Musk has. 1 month ago:
the rest are white supremacists
Sooo… the vast majority of the US political establishment?
- Comment on We may clown on him a lot but it's genuinely quite dystopian how much power Elon Musk has. 1 month ago:
which is exactly why we gave up on monarchy
We didn’t give up on monarchy. We guillotined the fuck out of it.
- Comment on Texas power prices briefly soar 1,600% as a spring heat wave is expected to drive record demand for energy 1 month ago:
Bookmarking this for the next time white supremacists here in good ole’ South Africa peddles the “privatisation is the only thing that will fix our electricity problems!” bullcrap.
Thanks, Texas!
- Comment on A literal depiction of how capitalism invades all aspects of life 1 month ago:
Religion indoctrinates you into replacing reason with faith in your earliest formative years,
Capitalism indoctrinates you into replacing reason with consumerism, individualism and classism - and let’s not forget capitalism’s alter ego, fascism… which adds the white supremacism, militarism, nationalism and misogyny. And it does this long before you hit puberty.
Religion, on the other hand, is a mixed bag - it can be used to to support the above, or it can be used to teach that capitalists should be chased out with a whip woven out of horsehair (or something).
So no… I’ll take religion and I won’t look back.
- Comment on A literal depiction of how capitalism invades all aspects of life 1 month ago:
which is at best just a protection racket / cult of control.
And capitalism isn’t this because… ?
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 month ago:
That is the extreme
No. It isn’t.
Being pro-capitalist is extreme… which means being liberal is extreme by default - it has merely been so normalized for you that you don’t actually see how batshit insane it truly is.
Its like saying someone is not right unless they are against any social program or public property of any kind.
Do you require me to explain to you what left and right actually mean? I’d be happy to do so - and I can guarantee you that it will be perfectly painless.
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 month ago:
I think this is us convervative/liberal.
Yes. It is.
It doesn’t matter where you are… liberalism is purely a right-wing ideology - there has never been anything “leftist” about it. It’s very easy to check for yourself - simply try and find an anti-capitalist liberal.
You’re going to be looking for a long, long time.
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 month ago:
“Conservatives” are just liberals either openly flirting with fascism or simply are fascists pretending not to be fascists. They don’t hate their fellow right-wingers (yes, liberalism is right-wing ideology) - they are goading their fellow liberals into either joining them, or, at least, remaining quiet while they hand more and more power to fascists.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Right… someone dared to be overtly anti-genocide - oh the horror!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Russia wants to ban Wikipedia - the US wants to ban TikTok.
Something tells me the mass-surveillance toy they hoped the internet would turn into isn’t working out the way they had hoped.
- Comment on How did we get humans on the moon in 1969 and are still struggling to get the Starship rocket to launch properly? 2 months ago:
Well… since you put it that way - I’ll just have to concede.