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- Comment on Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App 2 weeks ago:
You’ve made a potential error in underestimating just how horrible some peoples’ lives are and how filled with hatred they are over that fact.
What fact? People’s lives are horrible BECAUSE of ICE. They’re so horrible that I considered that nobody would be “on the fence” because either you drank the Fear-Of-Crime Kool-Aid or you are horrified at what ICE agents are doing to children and poor people. The entire reason there are people who don’t think ICE needs to be abolished right now is because Fox News and other right-wing grifters have pumped out propaganda making it look like there is a “crime wave” like it’s the Reagan Era, and people living in the Suburbs not knowing what the outside world is like. Not only do they choose to portray a crime wave, they have to do it, because otherwise people would see their president as the power-hungry maniac he is rather than a savior of order. No riot is actually making people miserable, only the police-reported, sensationalist coverage of protests.
This is really what drives so much of politics in the world–disgruntled people with no future who choose to hate others who have nothing to do with it.
That’s just the American Suburbs. I hope American states can secede to change this. Meanwhile, in Vietnam, there is a high-speed rail being built. This is not driven by disgruntled people, people with no future, or people who choose not to hate others who have nothing to do with it. Neither is Iran defending itself from an imperialist regime, nor Australia having their left-wing Labour party completely outdo the right-wing Liberal party. America is the villain here.
- Comment on Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App 2 weeks ago:
All of a sudden, so many things are “not protected speech”. I find it tempting to be as ignorant as a Republican, but I’d certainly be caught off guard in that case.
- Comment on Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App 2 weeks ago:
PR for who? Who is on the fence about ICE?
- Comment on Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE - The motivating force behind American career fascism would appear to be wanderlust 2 weeks ago:
and from there to mugshots of the 9/11 attackers. Though the narration was inaudible, I believe that 9/11 was cited to justify the deployment of the men who appeared onscreen next
No way they’re still worried about 9/11. That was over 20 fucking years ago.
- Comment on YSK: Condé Nast Parent Company is a Major Owner of Reddit, You Should Avoid their Publications (Wired, Ars Technica, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue,...etc) as Much as Possible. 5 weeks ago:
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- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 2 months ago:
If you’re talking about YouTube, that place is already hell for video creators. Many organizations, like PragerU, were already funded by fracking companies to make their videos, and they’d have an easier time covering the costs, or convincing people or the government that something else caused the cancer. The internet needs a socialist overhaul, really, and I can’t find anything else that doesn’t spawn new problems.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 2 months ago:
I should’ve been on here instead. I legitimately thought that Anarchists, Communists, &c could make a difference being on there. Now I get people deliberately blocking accounts that aren’t even fascist, and being concerned with “bullying” instead of actually solving real problems. BSky has upper-class liberals talking about D&D, whining about how laws aren’t being followed correctly, cheerleading American imperialism, making unfunny jokes, and claiming that radical politics came from 4chan rather than legitimate political grieviances. All sorts of suburban slime. I really should’ve been elsewhere.
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 2 months ago:
Back when asbestos was banned, everyone trusted the government. Nobody trusts the government anymore because of its constant foreign wars, corrupt candidates, and human rights abuses. We cannot do things like mandate vaccines and ban cars if the very government that would enforce that ban is this tyrannical and shitty.
- Comment on Climate-denying conservatives after every year for the last decade has been the hottest on record [Day 105] 3 months ago:
Trick her into giving you all her money. This seems like prime scam real estate. Get some olive oil, jack up the price, and tell her you’re selling “essential oils”. Or scare her by making her believe you’re God incarnate. Or kill her and take her wallet lmao
- Comment on Blobfish 3 months ago:
I thought that the Grandma Blobfish quest from Half-Genie Hero would age badly, but I didn’t know how badly
- Comment on Which game is it? 3 months ago:
Terraria
- Comment on "Your body, my choice:" Hate and harassment towards women spreads online 7 months ago:
They include the phrase being directed at them within schools or chanted by young boys in classes.
Young boys are following the misogynist Pied Piper and all the parents are just letting it happen. FFS
- Comment on What has Critical Theory actually achieved? 7 months ago:
Thank you for answering. The question was in such a primordial state that I had to post it here, since I couldn’t find many of the words. I have now seen that some branches of Critical Theory have been used to design a theoretical deliberative democracy that could be used someday, and not have as many problems as today. There is also work by very new authors to use Critical Theory to answer “What is to be done?”, which I wondered was possible.
- Comment on What has Critical Theory actually achieved? 7 months ago:
Well, has it solved global conflicts? Has any president or other great leader been influenced by Critical Theory? Has there been a successful government program or popular revolution based on Critical Theory? Has Critical Theory solved problems of hunger, or any resource shortage? Has Critical Theory made laws easier to understand and more fair? Things like that. I keep hearing about it, and altho some right-wingers say it’s evil, other people have more confusing answers. I’m a more classical Marxist, and I’ve read through some of it, but I can’t understand if it would help the proletariat towards revolution, or just well-being in general.
- Comment on What has Critical Theory actually achieved? 7 months ago:
Bitch, words have wildly varying meanings. What does “embolden” mean here? What does “communication” mean here? Is this a religious thing? The transcription process of DNA can be described, as can the movement of planets, and what causes fire to burn and extinguish, but for some reason this is too esoteric for me to understand because of “the system”. What is this “system”? What isn’t this “system”? Is this the Anything-But-Class theorizing that Parenti was talking about?
- Comment on What has Critical Theory actually achieved? 7 months ago:
How? I’ve read a bit about it, but I’m not exactly sure what you’re describing.
- Submitted 7 months ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 20 comments
- Comment on No further questions your honour 9 months ago:
Standard Daily Mail fare here.
- Comment on Some Feminist Tips 9 months ago:
The joke is that anti-feminists usually end up being overweight pedophiles and Nazis. I thought the community was for jokes; is there some hidden rule that wasn’t shown?
- Comment on Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now Obsolete 9 months ago:
Immeasurably great reporting. This was painful to yet, but a blessing to know.
- Submitted 9 months ago to [deleted] | 9 comments
Some Feminist Tips
